22 DECEMBER 1883, page 20

Mr. Besant's New Novel.*

WE recently referred to Mr. Walter Besant as one of the two novelists of the day who are at once realistic and romantic, Mr. Clark Russell being the other ; here is a new story......

Don John Of Austria.* We Have Observed With Some Regret

an apparently authoritative announcement to the effect that the publishers of Don John of Austria do not intend to issue a popular—and it was also to be hoped an easily......