CURRENT LITERATURE.
Chambers's Journal, September (W. and R. Chambers), besides its instalment of Mrs. Oliphant's " House Divided Against Itself," sap- plies its usual variety of readable articles. There is a short story, "Mr. L'Estrange," levelled against the abominable system of gambling which has been allowed to grow up in the smoking- saloons of some of the American liners. Then we hear about oysters, which it is satisfactory toknow are becoming a little cheaper ; about vine-growing in the South of France, about which, too, the news is good, the American vine-stocks resisting the ravages of the insect ; about the Canadian forests, and the chance of their being exhausted. It seems high time for systematic care. Altogether the number is very instructive and interesting.
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