CURRENT LITERATURE.
GIFT-BOOKS.
A Pair Claiimant, By Frances Armstrong. (Blaokie and Son.) —This book comes in the guise of a "gift-book" and in the company of others of the same kind. It calls itself, too, "a story for girls." It is undistinguisbable, however, from the ordinary novel, except, indeed, in more than average merit and interest. Miss Armstrong must, we think as we read, have had another " claimant " in her mind. We have even the "tattooing " incident, though turned, so to speak, topsy-turvy. (Mr. Bethune, by the way, must surely have been very much out of his senses to tattoo her initials on his daughter's arm, unless he had a vision of the future.) The story is very brisk and readable indeed, but it is only right to say that the " girls " for whom it is meant should be out, or nearly out, of their teens. For one with anything of the " babe " in her, it is certainly too strong meat.
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