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Current Literature.

Temple Bar for July (Bentley) has two articles antithetically placed in close neighbourhood, "The Last of the Grand School of Connoisseurs" and " The First of the English......

Argo ; Or, The Quest Of The Golden Fleece. A

Metrical Tale in Ten Books. By Alexander, Earl of Crawford and Balcarres. (John Murray). —It would be ungracious to refuse the recreation of verse to a writer who has done so......

This Son Of Vulcan. By The Authors Of "ready-money...

3 vole. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Thero is plenty of matter in this story, of incident and of character. It can hardly bo said that there is a plot, if this means any complication......

The Gentleman's Lltagazine For July (grant And Co.) Has A

very in- teresting article by Mr. Hepworth Dixon on " The Three Emperors' Policy." He evidently does not believe in Russia,—she has great armies, but she cannot move them. He......

The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer. By Mark Twain. (ghetto And

Windus.)—This tale of boy-life on the other side of the Atlantic will amuse many readers, old as well as yofing. There is a certain fresh- ness and novelty about it, a......

An Exposition Of The First Twenty Chapters Of Exodus, By

S. R. Bosanquet (Hatchards), seeks to show " how, in these twenty chapters, God disclosed to the children of Israel the whole doctrine of religion ; from the Fall to the......