CURRENT LITERATURE.
tion, adorned with some well-executed portraits, engraved on steel.
At the end, a brief biographical appendix is given. This contains some ninety names, the place of birth being given in eighty-four cases. We had the curiosity to see bow these were distributed over the United Kingdom. London produced a trifle more than a quarter, —twenty-two; Scotland, ten ; and Ireland, seven ; Kent, five ; Surrey and Devonshire, four each ; then came seven counties with two each, and twenty counties with one each. Ten could not boast one name. The ten are Westmoreland, Northumberland, Durham, Norfolk, Rutland, Monmouthshire, Lincolnshire, Cheshire, Dorset- shire, and Cornwall. But then copyright considerations kept out Mr. Tennyson, who would have represented Lincolnshire, a county which heads the scientific list with the great name of Newton. Doubtless, the others can show each their roll of worthies ; but cer- tainly London comes out well. No great writers were born in ancient Rome.
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