31 MAY 1890, page 19

Recent Novels.*

SIR HENRY CUNNINGHAM is to be warmly congratulated on The Heriots, which is, so far, the most brilliant novel of the year ; a book of which it can be said—and higher praise of......

Books.

IT is impossible to doubt that Mr. Gore's essay on " The Holy Spirit and Inspiration " is one of the most important in this volume, probably that which, after the preface, gives......