CURRENT LITERATURE.
Messrs. Chatto and Winclus have now drawn a very clear line of demarcation between their two well conducted magazines, theGentle- man's and Belgravia. The one is given up almost entirely to papers more or less informative, the other in an equal extent to stories, serial or completed. Almost the sole fault to be found with the numbers of these magazines for February is that this line is too strongly and clearly marked. Some of the solid papers in the Gentleman's Maga- zine—say, Mr. Farrer's on Burmah and Mr. Fox-Bourne's on "A Standing Army "—might have had one of the stories in Belgravia, each as the clever and comic "A Hailstone Competition," sandwiched between them. There is not a really poor paper or story in either magazine, however. Mrs. Tytler'e story in Betgravia promises to be a good one ; and "The Papaloi," in the Gentleman's, is an account of the sanguinary fetish-worship of Hayti that is full of ghastly power.
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