21 OCTOBER 1882, page 17

Books.

A SHORT HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE.* A BOOK of this kind, dealing with a large and varied subject within narrow limits, and intended chiefly to subserve educa- tional......

All Sorts And Conditions Of Men.*

THE dissolution of the literary partnership recently ter- minated by the death of Mr. James Rice, lends additional interest of a melancholy kind to the remarkable novel which......