27 MARCH 1875, page 19

Books.

MR. SPENCER ON THE POLITICAL ORGANISM.* . THE essays in this third volume of the revised and collected series betray no falling-off in Mr. Spencer's acknowledged power of......

The Story Of Valentine And His Brother.* At Least A

quarter of a century must have passed since Mrs. Oliphant first charmed us with her first novel. Her hand, how- ever, has not lost its cunning, and the story before us is in......