CURRENT LITERATURE.
True to the Prince. By Gertrude Bell. (Digby, Long, and Co.) —Enthusiastic admiration for William the Silent, produced by perusal of Motley's "Rise of the Dutch Republic," is evidently the raison d'are of the amateurish historical novel, entitled True to the Prince, the scene of which is in Holland, and the date between 1567 and 1575. How people talked in those days we do not know. But as we suspect that the author's attempted repro. duction of the language of the period bears no more resemblance to the real article than does heraldic botany to any known plant or flower, we think she would have been -wise to leave the matter to the reader's imagination, instead of trusting to her own j and advise her to confine herself to plain, every-day English in any future work of the same kind that she may undertake.
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