12 JANUARY 1889, page 23

Current Literature.

Messrs. W. H. Allen and Co. have purchased the monthly magazine, Knowledge, from the representatives of its founder, the late Mr. R. A. Proctor, the astronomer, and it is now......

American Men And Women In War-time.* A Great War, Like

a great storm, reveals often through the gloom and the tumult, glimpses of grandeur and beauty never seen by mortal eyes in hours of peace. The fairest qualities in human......

The B/acklicfl Ghosts. By Sarah Tytler. (chatto And...

writer takes for her theme the misfortunes of a Devonshire family, the Endicotts of Blackball. The heroine, of course, is a daughter of the family, a strong, self-willed, but......