6 OCTOBER 1888, page 18

An American Soldier.*

THE Alexanders of Ballochmyle are an ancient and honourable- family of Western Scotland. Their present head is Sir Claud Alexander, Bart., formerly M.P. for South Ayrshire. In......

Three Novels.*

A PERSON who has written a good ordinary novel should not on that account rashly conclude himself capable of undertaking a historical one, because the gifts requisite for this......