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Current Literature.

Lyrics and Idylls, with other Poems. By Edmund Clarence Stedman. (C. Kogan Paul and Co.)—Mr. Stedman has selected, we aro told, for this volume, "those poems which ho desires to......

A Japanese Romance.* Tee Customs And Opinions Of A Nation

will always be best illus- trated by its own writers, and can hardly be otherwise accurately known, even by observant travellers with every opportunity of anukingura; a Japanese......

A Modern Greek Heroine.*

Tin reader of A Modern Greek Heroine will certainly have a surprise. A quotation from a " Cretan poem," with which the author has artfully adorned his title-page, will have led......