22 OCTOBER 1870, page 17

An Incompetent Critic.* Mr. Saunders Has Spoilt A Good...

He has neither the knowledge nor the critical discernment requisite for the task he has selected, and if the volume possess any striking characteristic, it will be found in a......

Bessy Rane.*

MRS. WOOD'S success in the third rank of novelists is due mainly to the cleverness shown in her plots ; in the work before us we think she fails. We say we think advisedly, for......