10 DECEMBER 1864, Page 19

CURRENT LITERATURE.

Dublin University Magazine. December, 1864. This number com- pletes Mr. J. S. Le Fanu's novel of Uncle Silas. No one can deny the power with which that mysterious character is drawn, or the interest which invests the conclusion of the story. Still some catastrophe which would have left the reader still in doubt as to the wickedness of the old man would, we think, have been more artistic. A murder in which he had two, if not three, accomplices is scarcely in harmony with his cautious hypocrisy. The first number of the new story of "Who is the Heir ?" which is something in the manner of Captain Melville, promises well. A paper on the family likeness in the styles of Balzac and Thackeray is about the most remarkable of the other papers.