5 NOVEMBER 1870, page 22

The Contemporary Review.

THE Contemporary, as at present managed, seems likely to run its rivals, the half-crown monthlies hard. It addresses, of course, a somewhat graver class, but the absence of a......

M. Victor Hugo's "by Order Of The King."* The First

thing that strikes us in this book is the extraordinary English in which it is written. We do not set this down to peculiar ignorance or want of skill in the translator ; for......