24 DECEMBER 1864, page 20

Current •literature.

French girl, the daughter of a Parisian banker, and of the life of the family to which she belongs—and the plot of her novel is neither new nor probable. Jeanne's father has......

Cakes, Leeks, Puddings, And Potatoes. By George Beton,...

(Edmonston and Douglas.)--A clever little essay on the "Nationalities of the United Kingdom," by a Scotch advocate. It is not very deep but quite free from narrowness, and most......

Devoted To Prose And The Other To Poetry, Has Gone

on ,the time- honoured principle of selecting passages from the classical French authors, with a view to giving specimens of good French. This object he has effected admirably,......

Beautiful Thoughts From Greek Authors. By C. T. Ramage, Lld.

(Hamilton, Adams, and Co.)—These extracts are given in the original Greek with a translation, generally well executed ; but there is always a strangeness and incongruity about......

Christmas Books.

THE rapid growth of infantile literature involuntarily suggests the multiplication of the species. Children and children's books seem to be much in the same ratio as grown-up......

(smith, Elder, And Co.)—three Excellent Little Volumes...

dren. The language is studiously simple, and yet easy. The subjects are well selected. We have seldom seen works which attain better the very desirable object of introducing......