11 OCTOBER 1890, Page 43

CURRENT LITERATURE.

GIFT-BOOKS.

Not by Bread Alone. By the Author of "The Occupations of a Retired Life." (Religious Tract Society.)—This is not a common book. The story is interesting, well planned, and well executed. The style is vigorous. There are passages of no ordinary beauty and eloquence. Here, for instance, are some sentences such as we do not often find in this kind of literature :—" To-day can never be better than yesterday to the man who dares not look forward to to-morrow. Divorced from the future, the past is as weird and terrifying as a shadow cast by no substance. Memory is never happy if she unclasps hands from Hope."