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Stories And Pictures. By Isaac Lobb Perez. Translated By...

Frank. (Bickers. Gs.)—This is a novelty, or nearly a novelty, in English literature,—a translation from the Yiddish. The stories are eminently characteristic ; but an English......

Current Literature.

THE COLONIAL CONFERENCE. The Colonial Conference: the Cobden Club's Reply to the Pre- ferential Proposals. (Cassell and Co. 3d.)—In view of nest week's debate on the question of......

The Life Perilous. By Carlton Dawe. (hutchinson And Co....

Carlton Dawe gives a horrible picture of the Spanish Inquisition, and the reader, as the book proceeds, will become more and more astonished that the date of the story is 1750,......

Novels.

THE BURNING TORCH.• Miss MONTRESOR can always be relied upon for a straight• forward story without ellipse or obscurity ; she tells it fluently and at some length, as though she......

Readable Novels.—the Bachelor Girls. By Keble Howard....

Gs.)—A story of two young women who soek fortune in the ways of literature and art, but find it else- where.—The Glen o' Weeping. By Marjorie Bowen. (Alston Rivers. Gs.)—This is......