Current Literature.
GIFT-BOOKS. Mamma's Black Nurse Stories. By M. P. Milne - Home. (Black- wood and Sons.)—Negro folk-lore, when told with the gestures and in the indescribable jargon peculiar to......
Prince Starbeam. By A. E. Waite. (tames Burns.)—no Doubt Mr.
Waite, in Prince Starbeam, wishes us to understand an allegory of the sufferings and final purification of the Human Soul. As a fairy-story it is too long and diffuse, and......
Tales And Legends From The Land Of The Tsar. Translated
by Edith folk-tales. There is, indeed, a certain difficulty in identifying them sometimes ; the Russian tale-teller is not happy unless he can put plenty of meaningless padding......
Recent Novels.*
THERE are months of good and bad novels, just as there are months of good and bad weather; and the October of 1890 may be regarded with satisfaction by the meteorologist of......
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