6 DECEMBER 1873, page 22

Current Literature.

From Patmos to Paradise. By the Rev. John Cumming. (Black- wood.)—It is a pity that Thackeray, who, we believe, first set the example of 'these alliterative titles by his "From......

Reginald Bramble. A Cynic Of The Nineteenth Century. An...

biography. (Henry S. Ring and Co.)—Accustomed as one grows to the general dreariness of modern fiction, there is one particular kind of dreariness which never fails to......

Is It For Ever? A Novel. By Kate Mainwaring. (london

: Samuel Tinsley.)—If the author of this novel had reduced the inci- dents by one-half, and left out nine out of ten of her descriptions of dress ; if she had also made her......

Some Of The Magazines.

THE Fortnightly is full of good though not very interesting papers, the beat of them, perhaps, being that on "Free Schools," by Sir Charles Dilke, whose argument, however, seems......