CURRENT LITERATURE.
Sudden Death; or, My Lady the Wolf. By Britiffe Skottowe. (Swan Sormenschein and Co.)—This is a telling sensation story by a skilful hand that is capable of something more than a sensa- tion story. The experienced reader guesses very early what the key to the riddle is ; but the catastrophes are accumulated with considerable eye for a plot, and there are only about twenty pages (during the second visit to Devonshire) where the story hangs fire and the reader feels that " padding " has been furnished. From a literary point of view, much the best thing is the study of Nellie Tottenham as a child. After she is grown up, she is naught. But sensation is the essence of the tale, and we refer to the study of Nellie Tottenham as a child only to show that the author is capable of something more than a clever sensation story.
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