22 NOVEMBER 1884, Page 20

CURRENT LITERATURE.

GIFT-BOOKS.

The Mystery of Beechey Grange. By the Rev. H. C. Adams. (Griffith and Farran.)—The "mystery " is not of much account. He mast be a very inexperienced reader who fails to perceive that Mr. Graeme, the steward, is other than he seems. The main incident of the plot, a wealthy man inviting a number of guests, from among whom, viewed in the freedom of a disguise, he will choose his heir, will not do more than pass muster. The " padding " of the story is sufficiently good. An old lieutenant tells stories of the sea. There are cricket-matches, and boating expeditions, and other adventures, which test, in one way or another, the true metal and the false. The theatricals might, we think, have been omitted with advantage.