CURRENT LITERATURE.
Temple Bar makes an excellent start in 1893. The January number contains the first instalments of two new serial stories, ."Diana Tempest" and "Graham's Romance," which promise to be exciting, if not even sensational. In the one, a dark conspiracy is being entered into against the nominal heir to a property ; in the other, the hero, tied to a limp fiancée, lands in Corsica,— Corsica, with all its amatory and tragic possibilities. The chief stories are much above the average ; thus "A Matter of Course" is a very pleasant bit of comedy. The miscellaneous articles are, without exception, informing and well written. "Gower Street and its Reminiscences" is as pleasant apiece of London sketching as we have seen for a long time : it is full of good stories, which have the rare merit of being, or, at all events, of appearing, fresh.
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