5 AUGUST 1865, page 21

Current Literature.

Seleaggio, a Tale of Italian Country Life. By the author of Mary Powell. (Sampson Low, Son, and Marston.)—This is a disappointing book. If it really gave a clear and distinct......

The Magazines.

THE two stories in the Cornhill, "Wives and Daughters" and Armadale," always go on well, the weak chapters when they occur serving only as crust for the pâté, and this month......