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The Waters Of Hercules.* Tux Romantic Charm Of Fatality Has

not lost its spell in fiction, although we have fallen upon matter-of-fact and material days. Human nature is still stronger than fashion, and we love mystery, the inevitable,......

Current Literature.

Chambers's Journal, September (W. and R. Chambers), besides its instalment of Mrs. Oliphant's " House Divided Against Itself," sap- plies its usual variety of readable articles.......

A Lost Son, And The Glover's Daughter. By M. Linskill.

(T. Fisher Unwin.)—The two slight, quiet stories in a somewhat minor key Which this volume comprises, partake of the nature of moral tales or novelettes rather than of regular......

Good Words, September (isbister And Co.)—here The Current...

Mr. Payn's " The Last of the Barrens." Among the other articles, nothing, to our minds, is more interesting than the chapter out of the autobiography of Mrs. Howitt. This......