11 APRIL 1874, page 24

Sahara And Lapland. By Count Goblet D'alviella....

French by Mrs. Cashel Hoey. (Asher.)—A somewhat singular - love of antithesis has led our author to explore and to describe the torrid and the frigid zone, and he finds a......

Current Literature.

The Portfolio. April. (Seeleys.)—The chief illustration of this month's number is one of unusual excellence, —an etching by M. Brunet-Debaines, after Cuyp. The original is a......

Once And For Ever. By The Author Of "no Appeal."

3 vols. (Tinsley Brothers.)—This is a well-told story, which, without aiming very high, shows no little power of observation and of describing char- acter. " Passages in the......

Sermons Preached In Manchester. By Alexander Maclaren....

Maclaren's reputation as a preacher is already well established, and these sermons fully support it. They have little to do, f■ - ,r the most part, with ecclesiastical, or oven......

The Lighter Magazines.

Blackwood continues dull, but the customary political article is distinguished by moderation of tone and the absence of some of the offensive peculiarities which have recently......