6 FEBRUARY 1864, Page 23

CURRENT LITERATURE.

Annis Warleigh's Fortunes. By Holme Lee. Three vols. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)--Any one who knows how well the author can write, who has, for instance, read " Sylvan Holt's Daughter," will lay down this book with absolute pain. It is an ill-judged attempt to meet the taste of the day by sensation incidents, and therefore a lamentable failure. The plot is confused, dull, and preposterous; while in the effort which the plot costs her, the author seems to have lost the power which she undoubtedly possesses of depicting forcibly given moods of mind.