CURRENT LITERATURE.
Kilcorran. By the Hon. Mrs. Fetherstenhaugh. 2 vols. (Bentley.) —The author of "Bound to Win " must look to it, if he does not wish to be beaten by a lady in his favourite field,—the hunt. Mrs. Fetherston- haugh describes hunting and hunters with such spirit, oven such en- thusiasm, that without much literary gift, as far as wo can see, and certainly, we should say, without any literary practice, she achieves a success. But we are bound to say that the black mare "Kiltane" interests us more than her mistress " Lili " Fane, who strikes us as being quite an impossible creature. Nor is the author at all consistent in drawing her. Such a girl, for instance, could never have made snob a speech as is put into her mouth in -Vol. IL, page 63. As for her lover, Mr. Trench, he is a personage with whom we are very familiar, and of whom we are heartily tired. Tall and dark, with his "occasional reek• less look in his deep grey eyes," and a way of "setting his mouth when things went contrary to him," and made interesting by mysterious hints of a wild, even evil past, he is a hero in no way either admirable or original. On the whole, It must be allowed, speaking of the minor characters of the novel, the author's mon are better than her women. This is a good sign for the future, for which, unless we are mistaken in thinking that she has written little before, there is good hope.
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