Mr. Bram Stoker is a barrister, was for many years in the Irish Civil Service, and then for about a quarter of a century manager to the late Sir Henry Irving. He has been literary, art, and dramatic critic on several papers and has written nine successful novels, the weird and powerful “Dracula” being the best and most famous of them. “May I be permitted, instead of praising any of the many good books published during the year,” writes Mr. Stoker,