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Current Literature.

The History of Leicester in the Eighteenth Century. By James Thompson. (Hamilton, Adams, and Co.).—Time affects strangely the interest of many things. We care little or nothing......

The Princess Clarice : A Story Of 1871. By Mortimer

Collins. 2 vols. (H. S. King.)—" I like Dreamshire, I like Idlebridge." This is the con- fession of faith with which Mr. Mortimer Collins begins his novel. And Dreamshire and......

Mr. T. T. Lynch's Sermons.*

No one can read without emotion the simple preface with which Mr. Cox introduces these Sermons to the public. No more pathetic story of pious courage was ever told. All who ever......

Poems By Thomas Hood. Again Illustrated By Birket Foster....

) —Here are thirteen poems, most of them of the serious sort, which, being Hood's, we are, of course, glad to see again ; and here, also, some engravings after Mr. Birket......