30 JANUARY 1892, page 7

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......

The American Siberia.*

THERE is certainly no denying the aptness of the title Captain Powell has given his book ; put for the alternate scorching heat and intense cold of Siberia, the semi-tropical......