23 FEBRUARY 1878, page 11

Novels With "bad Endings."

TT is not easy at first to understand the annoyance which a novel with a " bad ending "gives to the novel-readingpublic. That it does annoy them is certain, in spite of the......

The Catastrophe In China.

T HE fearfully graphic letter published in our columns last week, and written by Mr. Balfour, concerning the famine which began two years and a half ago in the thickly-populated......