30 JANUARY 1892, page 5

Recent Novels.* There Have Been Few Better Judges Of Fiction

than Charles Dickens, and had he lived to read his grand-daughter's first novel, the veteran writer would have found pleasure in the • O.) Cross-Currents. By Mary Angela......

Sir Edwin Arnold's "seas And Lands."* The " Seas "

do not occupy much space in Sir Edwin Arnold's book. He gives fifteen pages to the passage from Liverpool to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, sixteen to the voyage from San Francisco......