28 APRIL 1888, page 22

Current Literature.

With one exception, the non-Scotch articles in the April num- ber of the Scottish. Review have a belated look. It is virtually impossible to say anything fresh about Darwin,......

The Maid And The Monk. 3 Vols. By W. Stanhope.

(Sampson Low and Co.)—The scenes in this decidedly "romantic chronicle" are laid in the time of Henry VIII. Most writers think that the license allowable in handling historical......

Superior Cookery. By Mrs. Black. (w. Coffins, Sons, And Co.)

—Mrs. Black, who superintends the West-End Training School of Cookery at Glasgow, and has already published some works on the art and practice of cookery, now adds this treatise......

A Bird's-eye View By Mr. Besant.*

To the recently past year, 1887, Mr. Besant, who is, of all popular writers of the present day, the most sympathetic, and the most thoroughly in touch with the various needs,......

Some Time Ago, The British Quarterly Review (the...

which many will regret, if only on account of the excellence of the short literary notices that used to appear in it) and the Con- gregationalist were incorporated in the......