29 JULY 1893, page 18

Recent Novels.* In Her Latest Novel, Miss Braddon Returns To

the motive of one of her earliest novels, which many of her readers have pro- bably forgotten,—The Doctor's Wife. In the new book we see how much of knowledge and craftsmanship......

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THE imagination of Goethe pictured the ice-age. " If a great cold," said he, " covered the larger part of North Germany with ice, when the water was of the depth of 1,000 ft.,......