3 MARCH 1888, page 21

Current Literature.

Book-Lore : a Magazine Devoted to Old-Time Literature. (Elliot Stock.)—This is the sixth volume of this very readable magazine. It does not, we see, rigidly limit itself to the......

The Health Of Nations. A Review Of The Works Of

Edwin Chad- wick, with a Biographical Dissertation. By Benjamin Ward Richard- son. 2 vole. (Longmans.)—Mr. Chadwick was a most industrious worker and most prolific writer. Dr.......

Of Significance. Esmerald Thorne, A Successful Physician,...

an accident to his carriage, and we have here related to us his experiences after death. He is a man who in life has taken no heed of things not temporal, and launched into the......

*** With Regard To The "essays And Poems" Of Mrs.

Owen, reviewed in our last issue, the editor wishes us to state that the line on the over-length of which we commented last week, has, by some mistake, been misprinted in the......

A Peep Into Western China.*

CHINA becomes from year to year of more weight and importance on the political chess-board, as well as in the arena of capital and commerce, and we may assume that the circle of......

The Missing Rubies. By Sarah Donduey. 3 Vole. (bentley And

Son.)—This is a readable story of the old-fashioned sort, a story of honesty discredited by false accusations, villainy triumphant for a time but ultimately punished, and love......