20 JANUARY 1877, page 21

Forty Years' Recollections.*

THE reader of Mr. Mackay's. Forty Years' Recollections will notice in them one blemish,—an egotism, which is none the less notable that it is essentially unconscious ; a......

Poetry For Children.* In A Wise And Thoughtful Preface, Mr.

Palgrave explains the pur- port of this selection. It is intended, he observes, for children between nine or ten and fifteen or sixteen years of age, and is meant for their own......

Current Literature.

The British Quarterly Review. January. (Hodder and Stoughton.) —An interesting essay on the "Letters of Julian"—the tone of which con- trasts very strongly with what a religions......