26 MAY 1888, page 23

Recent Novels.*

THE only previous work of Mr. Paul Cushing's which the present writer remembers to have read is Misogyny and the Maiden, a clever, brilliant, albeit somewhat fantastic and......

Current Literature.

History of Newcastle and Gateshead. Edited by Richard Wel- ford. Vol. III. (W. Scott.)—In this third volume, Mr. Welford carries on the history as far as 1640, when Newcastle......

Modern Hinduism. By W. J. Wilkins. (t. Fisher Unwin.)—...

of Hindoo Life. By Devendra N. Das, B.A. (Chapman and Hall.)—These two volumes should be read together. Mr. Wilkins, who is a missionary of large experience, limits his account......