26 JUNE 1886, Page 23

CURRENT LITERATURE.

Letters by the late Frances Ridley Havergal. Edited by her Sister, M. V. G. H. (Nisbet.)—These letters include a period of about twenty-seven years (1852-1879). They are characteristic of the writer's character,—so genuine, so humble, in the midst of so many gifts of soul and intellect. Miss Havergal did much Christian work, besides writing hymns which must be a permanent possession of the Church. These letters show her as she was busied in both these sides of her life, besides telling us something of her relations, always full of profit, to individual friends.