19 NOVEMBER 1892, page 10

Current Literature.

G IFT-BO OKS. The Heiress of Courtleroy. By Anne Beale. (Blackie and Son.) —We know pretty well what to expect from our authoress by this time,—a long but interesting story,......

Sandy Carmichael. By C. J. Hine. (sampson Low And Co.)—

Sandy Carmichael is one of the best stories we have read, dealing with the exploits of the English on the Spanish Main. The nar- rative starts with the flight of two of Charles......

Subjects, All With A Purpose, And All Well Illustrated. "

Short Arrows" is the heading given to those fascinating little para- graphs touching on innumerable subjects, and each of which enshrines. of course, a moral. " The Quiver Bible......

The American Claimant.*

THERE is some satire in this book, good-humoured and reasonably effective, and there is plenty of fun, the quality of which is beyond all question. Viscount Berkeley, hearing......

Money, Start In The Fall For A Certain Lake, Hoping

to recoup them- selves by trapping musk and beaver. There are four in the party, and the voyage up the river and the subsequent adventures are related by one of them. The whole......

The Bushranger's Secret. By Mrs, Henry Clarke. (blackie...

is certainly one of the best stories we have had of the Australian Bush, well told, with a good plot, an action always good, and rising into dramatic intensity at times. In......