30 AUGUST 1873, page 19

Current Literature.

The Early History of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea. (Her Majesty's Stationery Office.)—This is a volume of papers drawn from the archives of Chelsea Hospital, and put together......

Gutta-percha Willie.* Tits Cleverest Child We Know...

has read this story through five times. Mr. Macdonald will, we are convinced, accept that verdict upon his little work as final. We confess it took us somewhat by surprise, and......

The Trial Of Sir Jasper: A Temperance Tale In Verse.

By S. C. Hall, F.S.A. (Virtue and Co.)—This is the best of the many stories which have been written, in prose and in verse, on the terrible subject of drink. Temperance stories,......

Miranda ; A Midsummer Madness, By Mortimer Coliins....

King and Co.)—Mr. Mortimer Collins has apparently set himself, as a task, the complete destruction of the fair amount of reputation which he has made. He has succeeded very......

St. John Nepomucen. By A. Ii. Wratislaw, Ma. (bell And

Daddy.) —The great Bohemian saint whom the Society of Jesus has elected its patron, under, of course, the Divine Person whose name it bears, has found biographers of the usual......