26 MARCH 1864, page 20

Current Literature.

The Foreign Enlistment Acts of England and America. By "Vigilans." (Saunders, (Alen and Co.)—It is not merely because he is no lawyer and misapplies every precedent he quotes......

The Records Of 1863. By Edward West. (edward West.)—froro...

to pillar letter-boxes nothing escapes Mr. West's muse. He even censures crinoline, and declares that as "The mountains towering so high When e'er the King was near, Were swept......

The Diary Of A Dutiful Son. By Thomas George Fonnereau.

(-John Murray.)—Mr. Lockhart thought so highly of this little work that although printed only for private circulation it was reviewed in the Quarterly for March, 1850. He also......

Host And Guest.*

THAT " animals eat and man dines" is a proposition so undeniable in a general sense as to verge on a truism, and yet so diffuse in its terms as to render it a dangerous fallacy......