10 DECEMBER 1870, page 21

The Christmas Stories Appear In Their Usual Abundance. We...

already noticed a considerable number. Marmaduke Merry, the Midship- enon. By W. H. G. Kingston. (Bemrose.)—This is a tale of a kind which Mr. Kingston always writes very well.......

What Is Matter? By A Templar. (wyman And Sons.) —

The " Templar " discusses philosophers and systems with an ease and rapidity which defy our efforts to follow him. We must content ourselves with giving his conclusions, or......

De La Rue's Red-letter Diary And Improved Memorandum...

; De La Rue's Improved Indelible Diary and Memorandum Book, 1871; De La Rue's Improved Red-Letter Calendar, small, two sizes; Herring's Postal Secretaire. — These Diaries......

Current Literature.

CHRISTMAS BOOKS. Rome and the Campagna. By R. Burns, M.A. (Deighton and Bell ; Boll and Daldy.)—This is a handsome volume, handsome enough both within and without to take high......

Good Cheer. The Christmas Number Of Good Words. (strahan And

Co.)—Gideon's Rock is a tale of considerable power and pathos, which no one can commence without reading to its (somewhat unnatural and melodramatic) close. The story hangs on......

Mr. Swinglehnrst, Author Of A Book Called Germany And The

Rhine, complains of a notice of that work which appeared in these columns last Saturday. The writer of that notice—alas ! not young, as Mr. S. kindly supposes—seeing that title......