2 NOVEMBER 1872, page 22

Current Literature.

The British Quarterly, for October. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—This is not the liveliest number of the British Quarterly which has appeared lately, but it contains two or three......

Mr. Henry Kingsley's New Novel*

MR. HENRY KINGSLEY'S story-telling vein is very pleasant, if one does not get too much of it. There is a fresh, vigorous, uncon- ventional manliness of tone in his books, which......