1 DECEMBER 1883, page 21

Current Literature.

GIFT BOOKS. The Wigwam and the War-path. By Ascott It. Hope. (Blackie and Son.)—Mr. Hope has searched among the treasures of the past history of the American Colonies, and here......

Mr. F. M. Crawford's "doctor Claudius."* Carlyle Was Fond Of

talking about a certain Ram - Dass, who had "fire enough in his belly to burn up the sins of all the world." Well, there is fire, or rather "go," enough in this one- Doctor......

Which The Great French Novelist Has Mingled Fact And Fancy

in a very happy fashion. We feel sure that the lad who makes his home among the wild birds on the Breton cliffs is a real person ; but he is skilfully idealised, and his story......

The Shoes Of Fortune. By Hans C. Andersen. With A

Biographical Sketch, by Kenneth It. H. Mackenzie, LL.D. (Hogg.)—The tales, of course, we need not criticise; but we may say that the illustrations are not unworthy of them. They......