4 APRIL 1885, page 20

Professor Hales On Shakespeare.*

WE must confess to a considerable amount of disappointment in reading Professor Hales's book. Learning and good-sense are there, it is true ; but there is wanting, except in two......

The Magazines.

WE have elsewhere noticed the paper of this number of the Contemporary, Mr. Matthew Arnold's " Comment on Christmas ;" and we confess we tire a little, important though the......