2 JANUARY 1864, page 44

Iron And Iron-workers.* •

THE somewhat unambitious title of Mr. Smiles's new work does scant justice to its multifarious and highly interesting contents. The book is a history of iron and the progress of......

Charles The Bold.*

EXHAUSTIVE histories, narratives extending over two or three thousand pages, are coming once more into fashion. A genera- tion impatient for brevity in all other matters has......