23 JANUARY 1869, page 18

Nigel Bartram's Ideal.•

THE leading idea of this clever and original tale is one which, when we think of it, appears so likely to have been brought out in the fiction of the day, that one wonders how......

Essays In Defence Of Women.* 0..); The Title-page Of This

volume is an appropriate passage from an essay by Steele. Sir Richard, although terribly plagued by women, and especially by the exactions of his dearest Prue," always spoke of......