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Current Literature.

English Student-Life at Peking. By a Student-Interpreter. (W. H. Allen and Clo.)—The author is quite right in thinking the "personal element" indispensable in a book of this......

A Man Of His Word, And Other Stories. By W.

E. Norris. 3 vols. (Smith and Elder.)—Mr. Norris has collected here some stories which, with one exception, the first, has been already pnblished in the Corn- hill Magazine.......

Kandhansalia : A Romance Of Hawdii. By C. M. Newell.

(G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—Kameham4 ha, the founder of a dynasty of kings, was certainly a remarkable man, the Napoleon of the Pacific, whose con- quests might have been......

Scaoor,boors.—the Evagoras Of Isocrates. With An...

Henry Clarke, M.A. (Swan Sonnensohein and Co.)- Isocrates deserves to be much more generally read. His Greek is singularly pare and graceful, and he throws a flood of light upon......