6 SEPTEMBER 1879, page 16

Books.

THACKERAY.* WE are glad to welcome the almost simultaneous publication of Mr. Trollope's criticism on the great novelist and. of the splendid and costly edition of Thackeray's......

The Life Of Charles M.athews.*

THE title of this book raises expectations which are far from being fulfilled,—and this, perhaps, not so much that the per- formance is indifferent, as that the title promises......