5 APRIL 1862, page 24

Current Literature.

As might have been expected, the American "difficulty" has spawned forth a whole mushroom brood of pamphlets of various degrees of merit. Seniores priores : in the foremost rank......

The Magazines.

TEE Magazines for this month are unusually good. Fraser contains one paper so excellent, and in a literary sense so valuable, that we have endeavoured to answer it in a separate......