CURRENT LITERATURE.
Vanity Fair Album, 1889. (Vanity Fair Office.)—The editor boasts with legitimate pride that the "Album "has not come to an end, as some prophets have predicted, "for lack of worthy subjects." " Worthy " is so vague a term, that the prediction may be safely disregarded. All subjects are worthy that possible readers may find it worth while to look at. In one sense, the obscuri viri are more appropriately represented in a volume of this kind than the men of note. All of us know the features of the leaders ; but as much of the work of the world is done by the followers, one is glad to be able to study their faces, as pre- sented to us by the artists who have made Vanity Fair famous. Obscure many of these fifty odd certainly are. Rowing men, pro- fessional and amateur, a cricketer certainly not of the first rank, University Dons who are not known in the world of letters, racing men, noble and ignoble, help to make up the crowd. Probably 'they were less insignificant at the particular time at which their portraits appeared. About July 1st, for instance, the captain of a ,IIniversity Eleven excites an_ interest which is- hardly main- tAined throughout the year. •
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