16 NOVEMBER 1889, page 41

Current Literature.

GIFT-BOOKS. It is always a pleasure to review volumes of such sterling value as the annual issues of Good Words, edited by Donald Macleod, D.D., and the Sunday Magazine, edited......

Two Tales By Mr. Henty.*

WE are inclined to regret that in the first of these tales Mr. Henty has chosen to walk "where the fires smoulder under treacherous ashes." He does, indeed, his best to walk......

Grettir The Outlaw.*

MR. BARING-GOULD tells us in an interesting preface how be made acquaintance thirty years ago with the" Saga of Grettir the Strong," painfully labouring out the meaning by help......