3 JANUARY 1874, page 31

Current Literature.

The Portfolio : January. (Seeleys.) — The Portfolio, which has now made itself a high reputation for art of the most genuine kind, puts forth for the coming year a programme of......

The Swiss Family Robinson. (warne.)—this Old Favourite...

sequel, which has been before published, under the title of "Willis the Pilot," and is, like most sequels, far inferior to its original. The cage, for instance, which Sir......

The Magazines.

THE first and perhaps the only properly political article in the Contemporary, Mr. Fitzjames Stephen's second essay on Parlia- mentary government, we have noticed at some length......

The British Almanac And " Companion For 1874. (company Of

Stationers.)—This very complete and useful volume keeps up its reputation, the Almanac containing the usual calendar and the in- formation about the Government, the Legislature,......

A Letter On The Right Of Appeal In Assistant - Masters. By

an Assistant-Master of Eighteen Years' Standing. (Birmingham: Josiah Allen.)—The "Assistant-Master" restates fully and forcibly the argu- ment on this question, which, indeed,......