27 AUGUST 1881, page 18

The Great Dilemma.*

THIS little book ' draws an effective and very striking con- trast between the Christian view of Christ, and all the vari- ous rationalistic views which explain away......

Mr. Gilbert's Plays.* Tin Pieces In Mr. Gilbert's Second...

are better than those in his first. They retain some of Mr. Gilbert's characteristic defects, touches of frivolity too frivolous even to be funny, touches of impropriety less......