11 NOVEMBER 1882, page 24

Current Literature.

The Expositor, for October and November, 1852. (Hodder and Stonghton.)—This admirable periodical keeps up its interest with complete success. In every number there is something......

Mr. Stevenson's Stories.* The First Thing That Strikes...

of Mr. Stevenson's New Arabian Nights, is that he is tasting two pleasures at once. Every great novelist has a style of his own, and we soon learn to think each appropriate to......

The November Number Of The Gentleman'8 Magazine (chatto...

is a remarkably readable one, presenting that happy combin- ation of fact and fancy which has marked it since it entered upon its new career. There is, perhaps, a trifle too......

Florence Illustrated.*

A supno3 book of the "gift" or de lica..8 order, which is not .simply a splendidly-printed and richly-illustrated edition of a favourite author, should resemble a thoroughly......