5 DECEMBER 1891, page 9

Current Literature.

GIFT-BOOKS. The Magazine of Art. (Cassell and Co.)—Whether or no we can concede the modest claim of the Magazine of Art to " a unique place at the head of all serials devoted to......

A Story By Miss Bramston.*

Tuis story stands out among the crowd of books of a similar kind with which a reviewer is overwhelmed at this time,—so overwhelmed that it is difficult to preserve the power of......

The Fossicicer.*

THE plot of Mr. Ernest Glanville's Mashonaland romance is the hunt after a certain mine, a mysterious individual called " The Fossicker," and finally, and indeed chiefly, to......

Good Words, 1891. Edited By Donald Mcleod, D.d. (isbister...

Co.)—Two serials, by Mrs. Oliphant and Mr. Barrie, form, as it were, the backbone of Good Words. In the biographical and his- torical department, we have, amongst other good......