3 MARCH 1877, page 23

The Maid Of Florence: A Legend Of The Olden Time.

(Sampson Low and (Jo.)—This is, in fact, a terribly tragic story of the thirteenth century, and no more a "legend," in the ordinary acceptation of the term, than any novel of......

Through Persia By Caravan.*

"By the waters of the Vistula we sat down and talked of the historical wrongs of Poland." This is the first sentence of Mr. Arnold's work, and it will be inferred that it tells......

Current Literature.

The Year-Book of Facts in and the Arts for 1876, by James Mason (Ward, Look, and Tyler), is an annual publication of which we have before spoken in terms of well-deserved......

Which, Not Without, It Is To Be Hoped, Some Stirring-up

of shame and pity, we are often called to look upon. Two girls are the " heroines " of the story, if we are to use the word where there is nothing heroic. They are two quite......