4 JANUARY 1890, page 32

Current Literature.

GIFT-BOOKS. Readings for the People. (Religions Tract Society.)—The aid of colour is sometimes brought in for making the illustrations. The frontispiece, a nest of young birds......

The Magazines.

Blackwood has this month, of all the magazines, by far the most readable paper. It is called "In the Days of the Dandies," and contains the reminiscences apparently of a man of......

Miss Meredith. By Amy Levy. (hodder And Stoughton.)— This...

the work of a skilful pen, a conclusion at which the present writer arrived before he had noticed that it came from the hand that wrote "A Minor Poet " and "Reuben Sachs." Elsie......

The Tower. Etchings By C. R. B. Barrett, M.a. (catty

and Dobson.)—Mr. Barrett begins by giving an engraving of the Tower from a manuscript of the fifteenth century. Then follow thirteen full-page etchings, not perhaps of the first......