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Current Literature.

CHRISTMAS .AND NEW-YEAR'S BOOKS. Life in the Red Brigade, by ft. M. Ballantyne (Routledge), contains a collection of papers describing the life of a London fireman. Another......

Burckhardt's "cicerone."*

THAT sceptical question of the mocking Frenchman, "Si un Allemand pent avoir de l'esprit?" must often suggest itself to the reader of modern German literature. The criticism,......

Lady Bell : A Story Of Last Century. By The

Author of " Citoyenne Jacqueline." (Strahan and Co.)—The author of "Citoyenne Jacque- , line " has not succeeded so well in this, her second attempt at repro- ducing the manners......

Aunt Ann's Stories. Edited By Louisa Loughborough....

was aunt to seven children, and these are the stories she told them. The most notable feature of the stories is that they are all taken from the French, and though (as is the......