CURRENT LITERA_TITRE.
By Virtue of his Office. By Rowland Grey. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—" Rowland Grey" has not repeated the success of " Linden- blumen " and "Sunny Switzerland." Her new effort—we say "her" without hesitation—is more ambitions, for it is a connected tale of some length. There are merits, as there could not fail to be, in the style and thought ; but it lacks, to put the matter briefly, a raison d dire. We are glad to make the acquaintance of such persons as M. Jules Malet, the cheery French teacher, and others of the persona of this little drama. Bat the story has really been told too many times before, and we see no compensating freshness of treatment. There is no reason, however, for the writer to be discouraged. She has simply made an unlucky choice. The writer of such an admirable little sketch as "The Antwerp Postman" (one of the tales in " Linden- blumen ") must have a career before her. It is a curious mistake, and of a kind that women are certainly more liable to than men, to speak of a man being the heir.apparent to a dukedom when he has an elder brother living.
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