IRISH HUMOR, THE DECAY OF. _The Spectator_ 383 JEWS, THE HEALTH AND LONGEVITY OF THE. By P. Kirkpatrick Picard, M.D., M.R.C.S. _Leisure Hour_ 540 JOHNSON, SAMUEL. By Edmund Gosse _Fortnightly Review_ 178 LAUREL. _All the Year Round_ 804 LITERARY NOTICES: The Correspondence and Diaries of John Wilson Croker, 136—The Story of My Life, 139—Our Great Benefactors, 141—Life of Mary Woolstonecraft, 141—Principles of Political Economy, 142—A Review of the Holy Bible, 142—The Young Folks’ Josephus, 142. True, and Other Stories, 281—Noble Blood, 281—Prince Saroni’s Wife and the Pearl-shell Necklace, 281—Dr. Grattan, 281—The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book, 281—Katherine, 281—White Feathers, 281—Egypt and Babylon, from Sacred and Profane Sources, 282—The Hundred Greatest Men: Portraits of the Hundred Greatest Men in History, 283—Eve’s Daughters; or, Common-Sense for Maid, Wife and Mother, 283—A Review of the Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, 283— The Elements of Moral Science, Theoretical and Practical, 284—Episodes of My Second Life, 423—A Historical Reference Book, 424—Bermuda: An Idyll of the Summer Islands, 425— Elements of Zoology, 425—The Reality of Religion, 425— The Enchiridion of Wit: The Best Specimens of English Conversational Wit, 426—The Dictionary of English History, 568—Personal Traits of British Authors, 569—Italy from the Fall of Napoleon I. in 1815, to the Death of Victor Emanuel in 1878, 569—Harriet Martineau (Famous Women Series), 570— Weird Tales by E. T. W. Hoffman, 571—Jelly-Fish, Star-Fish and Sea Urchins, 712—Origin of Cultivated Plants, 713—The Adventures of Timias Terrystone, 714—The Secret of Death, 716—Greater London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places, 717—Russia Under the Tzars, 851—The French Revolution, 853—Louis Pasteur: His Life and Labors, 855—At Grammar of the English Language in a Series of Letters, the Sign of the Lyre, 856—Working People and their Employers, 856. M. JULES FERRY AND HIS FRIENDS _Temple Bar_ 753 MACPHERSON’S LOVE STORY. By C. H. D. Stocker _Leisure Hour_ 790 MAN IN BLUE, THE. By R. Davey _Merry England_ 277 MASTER, A VERY OLD _Cornhill Magazine_ 601 MASTER IN ISLAM ON THE PRESENT CRISIS, A. INTERVIEW WITH SHEIKH DJAMAL-UD-DIN AL HUSSEINY AL AFGHANY. _Pall Mall Gazette_ 849