28 OCTOBER 1865, page 16

Transylvania..*

A DAY'S extra labour would have made this book in its way almost perfect, but at present it lacks compactness, the compact- ness which is produced by artistic arrangement and......

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OUR MUTUAL FRIEND.* MR. DICKENS has, and always has had, one radical defect as a novelist,—that no characteristics of men and manners take hold of his imagination with force and......