30 MARCH 1867, Page 21

CURRENT LITERATURE.

Half-Hours with the Best Letter-Writers and Autobiographers. By Charles Knight. (Routledge.)—The contents of this book are almost more miscellaneous than is warranted by the title. We skip from Pepys to Gray; thence through Thomas Bewiek and Mrs. Delany to Lord Byron; thence again to Laurence Sterne; presently back again to Shenstone, and then on to Thackeray. But if the reader will surrender himself absolutely to Mr. Knight's guidance, he will pass some half-hours which will be both pleasant and profitable.