8 AUGUST 1885, page 22

Four Novels.*

WE give the first place in a set of rather inferior novels by writers who are quite capable of better than third-rate work, to Mrs. Alexander's A Second Life, not because it is......

Remarks On The Magazdtes.

THE Nineteenth. Century for this month leads off with a reminis- cence of the "Metaphysical Society," by Mr. Hutton, "with a note by the Editor." The Society, which was born in......