Current Literature.
The most interesting article in the Atlantic Monthly is Mr. G. P. Lathrop's account of the "Hawthorne Manuscripts." There is scant piety to the dead in publishing what was......
The Story Of Chief Joseph. By Martha Perry Lowe. (lothrop,
Boston.)—Chief Joseph is, as was shown a few years ago in the North- American Review, an interesting Indian, and his story deserved pre- servation in prose and in such......
Letts's Illustrated Household Magazine Is A New Venture,...
to perform a useful function. It is to be "a complete encycloptedia of domestic requirements," telling us where we are to live and how, what we are to eat and drink and how we......
Juvenal, Persius, Martial, And Catches. An Experiment In...
By W. F. Shaw, M.A. (Kegan Paul and Co.)—The question whether it is desirable to render these four poets (or, as Mr. Shaw in one place calls them, "these amusing writers ")......
Victor Emanuel (the New Plutarch Series), By Edward Dicey...
Ward), is in every respect an admirable biography. It is written with spirit, fairness, and knowledge. That Mr. Dicey was- the very man to write such a book those were aware,......
Holidays In Spain. By F. R. Mcclintock. (stanford.)—thie...
contains some account of the tours made in Spain by the author, and, we believe, his wife, in 1880 and 1881. He was so- delighted with his experiences, that he is anxious to......
Essays In Philosophical Criticism. Edited By Andrew Seth...
B. Haldane, with a Preface by Edward Caird. (Longmans.)—That this collection is not unworthy of the memory to which it is dedicated, would probably be felt by its contributors......
Three Recruits, And The Girls They Left Behind Them. By
Joseph Hatton. (Low and Co.)—This is a vigorous novel, in the best style of the author, who can tell a rattling story literally well enough, and can paint villains and heroes of......
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