29 SEPTEMBER 1883, page 21

Current Literature.

The contents of the fourth number of that new and energetic quarterly, the Scottish Review, are even more varied than those of its predecessors. Theology, for a wonder, has no......

A Daughter Of The Philistines. (david Douglas,...

are a family of the name of Hampton, who, having made money in the Far West (of the United States), naturally come to spend it in the East. There is a father, who is a vulgar,......

The Colthorpe Cousins, And Other Stories. By Annie Thomas. 3

vole. (F. V. White and Co.)—It is always somewhat of an annoy- ance to find what one had expected to be a novel of the customary length disintegrated, so to speak, into some......

The Complete Maclise Gallery.*

MACLISE'S portraits, and what publishers now-a-days term "the accompanying descriptive letter-press " of Maginn, are so well • Ths Mortis. Portrait-Gallery of "IlIasfrMvs......

Ten Great Religions, Part Ii. A Comparison Of All Religions.

By James Freeman Clarke. (Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., Boston, U.S.) The plan and purpose of this book are thus described in the preface : —" Instead of describing and discussing......

Lives Of The Princesses Of Wales. By Barbara Clay Finch.

(Remington.)—We have here three closely-printed volumes, giving the lives of Joan of Kent, Anne of Warwick, Katharine of Amgen, Caroline of Anspach, Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, and......

Scraps From My Sabrelasche. By George Carter Stent. (w. H.

Allen.)—Mr. Stent, who is known as the author of a Chinese dictionary, here presents us with a book of a very different and much livelier kind. It consists of his personal......