22 JANUARY 1876, page 21

Current Literature.

The Age of Pericles. By W. Watkiss Lloyd. 2 vols. (Macmillan.) —This is the work of an industrious and well-informed scholar, and, what is more to the purpose in the case of......

Squire Harrington's Secret. By George W. Garrett. 2 Vols....

Tinsley.)—One would think, after reading this book, that Mr. Garrett bad never written a novel before. The incidents are of the most familiar kind (we mean familiar in novels,......

False Beasts And True.*

PHILANTHROPISTS have been accused—with what justice we will not now stop to inquire—of indifference to the well-being of any creature save man. Great animal-lovers have, on the......