6 JANUARY 1894, page 30

Current Literature.

Some Minor Arts as Practised in. England. With many illus- trations. (Seeley and• Co.)—Five authors contribute to this singularly attractive volume. Mr. C. H. Read writes on......

The Post - Office London Directory, 1894. (kelly And...

big enough to contain, say, all the literature of Greece that has come down to us, continues to grow still more huge year by year. (A convenient arrangement gives, we see, to a......

Scottish Fairy And Polk - Tales. Selected And Edited By...

Douglas, Bart. (Walter Scott.)—It is a pity that Sir George Douglas should have prefixed to his excellent and extremely in- teresting collection a portentously long......

To Gipsyland. By Joseph And Elizabeth Pennell. (t. Fisher...

could be sure that two such artists as Mr. and Mrs. Pennell would be in their element in recording with combined pen and pencil the Romany. Mrs. Pennell describes with......

The Riviera: Etchings And Vignettes. By A. Amsted. With...

by the Artist. (Seeley and Co.)—Round About Snowdon. Thirty Plates. By T. Huson, R.I., R.P.E. With Notes by J. J. Hissey. (Seeley and Co.)—If Christmas has its draw- backs, we......

The Magazines.

IN the Nineteenth Century the most readable paper in not a very strong number is Professor Huxley's obituary notice of Pro- fessor Tyndall. It shows the literary faults of its......