14 JANUARY 1893, page 21

Current Literature.

Temple Bar makes an excellent start in 1893. The January number contains the first instalments of two new serial stories, ."Diana Tempest" and "Graham's Romance," which promise......

The Monthly Packet, Now Published By A. D. Lines And

Co., maintains its fairly high literary level. The most prominent paper in the January number is Miss Helen Zimmern's "Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi," an interesting study in......

A. Treasury Of Dates.*

IT seems in accordance with Philosopher Square's "eternal fitness of things" that a review of a ":Dictionary of Dates" should open with a date not to be found in its pages.......

The Antiquary (elliot Stock), Although It Is Expressly...

be "a magazine devoted to the study of the past," has now become so interesting that the ordinary—if he happens also to be extraordinarily curious—reader will find a vast deal......

The Newbery House Magazine Threatens To Become—at Least,...

trifle too dull and heavy. At all events, we have found in the January number only two things to interest us,—a well-written sketch of the Italian priest-patriot, Ugo Bassi, and......

The January Number Of The Argosy Is Barely An Average

one. The minor stories are rather slight. There is really no end to "The Artist's Romance," and, for that matter, very little in the way of a beginning ; and "The Strange Story......

The Outstanding Featuro Of Atalanta For 1893, To Whose...

poration with The Victorian Magazine we recently alluded, is Mr. R. L. Stevenson's new story of "David Balfour." It is a sequel to " Kidnapped ; " indeed, the basis of it is the......

Both The Law Quarterly Review (stevens And Sons), And The

Law Magazine and Review (Stevens and Haynes), thoroughly sus- tain their high reputation as organs of the legal profession, in which, however, well-informed laymen will find......