16 MARCH 1889, Page 22

CURRENT LITERA.TITRE.

There are good things in the March number of the English. Illustrated Magazine, yet on the whole it has a dull and spiritless look. But for the papers on" Leeds" and "Kensington Palace," and the conclusion of Mr. Stanley Weyman's carefully written story, "The House of the Wolf," we should have said it was decidedly unreadable. There is cleverness, of course, in Mr. Marion Crawford's "Sent' Maio," but it is not his best sort of cleverness. Rather singularly, Mr. Train's "Et Cietera," which is usually the weakest point of the English Illustrated, is this month almost the strongest. The two concluding paragraphs in it, on Irish " bulls " and the growth of Wordsworth's influence, are both bright and full of information.