CURRENT LITERATURE.
CHRISTMAS BOOKS.
Leavesfi-om the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands (Smith and Elder.) —The Queen's book appears in a very handsome quarto, copiously illustra- ted with engravings on steel and wood. These are all, with scarcely any exception, good of their kind. A special interest attaches, of course, to the Queen's own sketches, which are, for the most part, given in fac- simile. Two chromolithographs represent the sitting-rooms of the Queen and the Prince Consort at Balmoral. The colour, which is judiciously employed, gives the impression of life very well. Of the Journal itself we have long since expressed our opinion ; on tho present occasion we need not say anything more than that its present shape is worthy, but not more than worthy, of it.
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