3 JANUARY 1874, page 25

Nicaragua.*

AN alligator's head, emerging from the ripples of the San Juan, on the cover, and a jaguar, in a tropical forest, at close-quarters with a man, for a frontispiece, are promising......

Books.

PHINEAS REDUX.* THE rumour of Phineas Finn's return to the political world after his brief married life with Mary Flood Jones and his temporary exile in the Irish Civil Service,......