15 OCTOBER 1887, page 23

Current Literature.

Independently of an article on "The Afghan Boundary Com- mission," by " Asiaticus," which, though by no means uninteresting, has a belated appearance, there are three papers of......

A Borrowed Month. By F. R. Stockton. (david Douglas, Edim-

burgh.)—This is a charming little volume of some charming little tales by the author of that immortal piece of domestic humour, "Rudder Grange." These tales have not, indeed,......

The Papers In The October Number Of The Church Quarterly

(a number which, by-the-way, has almost too mach of a Jubilee look) that the layman will find most readable are Fifty Years of English Art" and "Shelley and the Shelley......

The Hour-glass, Vol. I. (a. G. Dawson.)—we Have To Notice

the first volume of this magazine, containing the numbers from January to September. To see the eight numbers, together costing two shillings in all, makes us sure that we were......

France In The Sixteenth Century"

FaeNcets DE &BREAUX, Sire de Vieilleville, whose life, lasting from 1509 to 1571, covered the greater part of the sixteenth century, and who served three French Kings—Francis L,......

The Best Paper In The New Number Of The London

Quarterly Review is, on the whole, one on Dr. Booting, who ia described as "the greatest and wisest man, the grandest character which [sic] Methodism has produced since the......

The Contents Of Mind Fur October, Though Inevitably...

varied, including, in addition to interesting "discussions" and notes —one note on cases of amnesia- is especially intereeting—papers on "The Physical Conditions......