CURRENT LITERATURE.
A Wanderer. By H. Ogram Matuce. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—The author begins with a poTan in honour of freedom, i.e., freedom from work. He has just got free from the desk, and celebrates his deliverance, and compassionates, not without con- tempt, the unhappy ones who are left behind. May he find the new state all that he believes ! But one has read and heard such utterances before, and found them sometimes end in disappoint- ment. After this come some notable descriptions of travel in Scandinavia and Germany, and some miscellaneous essays, the last, and most remarkable, treating of death, as giving experiences of the "valley of the shadow." This is a well written, sometimes powerfully written book, but not without an occasional ex- travagance.
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