20 JULY 1889, page 25

A Handbook Of Colloquial Japanese. By Basil Hall...

London ; The Hakubunsha, Tokyo.)—This is much the best work that has appeared on modern Japanese, one of those deceptive tongues of which the difficulties increase rather than......

Paris By Day And Night. By " Anglo-parisian." (ward And

Downey.)—The author of this volume describes it rather skilfully as "a book for the Exhibition ;" but there is comparatively little about the Exhibition in it, and it is not in......

Following Quotation From Goethe :—" A Novel Is A Subjective

epopee, wherein the author begs permission to treat the world after his fashion : the question therefore is, has he a fashion ? the rest will attend to itself." We suppose it......

Ghosts' Gloom, By J. G. Holmes (swan Sonnenachein), Is...

to Mr. Wilkie Collins, and in spite of a certain clever- ness which characterises it, can only be described as sensationalism in fiction reduced to farce. No doubt Caleb......