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Current Literature.

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK. (Under this heading ice notice such Books of the week as hare not been reserved for review in other forms.] What is a Bounty ? By Lord Farrer. (Cassell......

Recent Short Stories.*

WE give the place of honour in a batch of collections of short stories—many of them of exceptional merit—to the volume entitled On the Edge of Empire, although in mere literary......