CURRENT LITERATURE.
The new number of Chambers's Journal, beginning a new volume, is a very strong one, in point both of the excellence and the variety of its contents. Mr. Grant Allen begins, under the title of "Market Value," what is evidently to be one of the most ambitious and may be one of the best of his stories. Mr. Allen is always fond of eccentric and essentially cosmopolitan char- acters, and his clientele will therefore revel in Douglas Overton, alias Arnold Willoughby, alias Albert Ogilvie Redburn, seventh Earl of Axminster, who elects to "vanish into space like a burnt-out fire-balloon," and thus by getting rid of his position to ascertain his own market value. The short stories which appear in this number of the journal—such as Mr. McDermott's "The Girl from Madeira" and Headon Hill's "The Secret of the Ball Cartridge "—are also very good. Recent events of different kinds give certain articles—such as "St. Andrews," "Not Proven," and "Sir 'Walter Scott's Familiar Letters "—a decided opportuneness. Among the more notable of the miscellaneous articles are "Perth on the Swan River" and "Remarkable Applications of Elec- tricity."
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