24 APRIL 1875, page 22

The "encyclopedia Britannica" On American Literature.* Is...

Arthur Helps who, in his quietly paradoxical way, asserts that it is easier to praise those at a distance than those near at hand? " What ! prefer strangers to our own flesh and......

Ranke's History Of England In The Seventeenth Century.*...

IT is impossible within the narrow limits of a review to con- vey any adequate notion of the wealth of knowledge, the copiousness of illustration, the discriminating estimate of......