Current Literature.
It is really remarkable how the editor of Temple Bar manages to keep up with the time in its demand for fiction without neglecting the interests of his original clientele that......
Annuals. Yet It Contains A Great Deal Of Entertaining As
well as of instructive reading; and some of the lighter articles—such as "New Old Maids" and "Anglo-Indian Boys "—may be read with more pleasure when they are seen in the yearly......
A Rather Well-worn Topic Treated In A Somewhat Fresh Style.
The writer seems to be a Scotchman who has settled in the United States as a Presbyterian minister. These sketches were originally addressed to the students of Yale Theological......
The Magazines.
THE Contemporary begins with a strongly written statement of the comparative progress of Mahommedanism and Christianity in India, the writer's conclusion being that India will......
As We Had Occasion To Note Some Falling-off In St.
Nicholas during 1887, it 113 both a duty and a pleasure to chronicle a decided recovery in 1888,—at all events, if the year may be judged by the February number. There is......
Cassell's Family Magazine Has So Decidedly A Character And A
constituency of its own, that all one needs to consider when a new number appears, is whether the character is sustained in such a way as to satisfy the constituency. This may,......
John Bull's Army, From A French Point Of View. By
Hector France. (Whittaker and Co.)—M. Hector France quotes on his second page the well-known saying of General %gem:0 :—" The British infantry is the most redoubtable in Europe.......
Memoirs Of The Princesse De Ligne. Edited By L. Perey.
Trans- kited by Laura Ensor. (Bentley and Son.)—This is, on the whole, a readable translation of a very delightful book ; but we fear that we cannot say much for the workmanship......
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