CURRENT LITERATURE.
Cloud and Sunshine. By Georges Ohnet. Translated by Mrs. Helen Stott. (Vizetelly and Co.)—These two love-stories are described by the titles which they respectively bear. In the first, a young musician wins the heart of an English nobleman's daughter. She leaves her home for him ; but the separation from her family is more than she can bear. We need not follow the story any further. It is enough to say that it is " cloud" indeed. Neither this nor the other story seams to us to have any very close relation with real life. But the second is sprightly and pleasantly told. "Aunt Ursula " has cherished for some twenty years the delusion that she had loved and lost a hero, and she bates, on the strength of her love, all military matters. War bad robbed her of the noblest of beings, and with those that follow the odious trade she will have nothing to do. How the delusion is terminated we need not say, bat it makes a pleasant, if not a very probable story.
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