CURRENT LITERATURE.
Sultan Stork, and other Stories. By W. M. Thackeray. (G. Redway.) —Mr. Shepherd—(for though no name appears on the title-page, we gather that it is he who has collected the papers in this volume)—is a well-known explorer of the forgotten or neglected remains of genius. In "Sultan Stork" he has found something which, if not exactly a treasure, was certainly worth exhuming. "Elizabeth Brownrigg," on the other hand, is but a very poor affair. The difference between its tedious length and the admirable parodies, so full and so brief, whioh Thackeray produced in later years, is surprising. We wish that the editor had followed Mr. winburne's hinted advice, and sup- pressed it. But then, of course, there would not have been wanting a resurrectionist to dig it up. Some of the other papers might, with no lore, have been left to the same oblivion. Others, as, e.g., the review of Carlyle's "French Revolution," are worth preserving. A full bibliography, extending to more than forty pages, is a feature of which we can speak in unreserved praise.
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