Current Literature.
The Expositor, for October and November, 1852. (Hodder and Stonghton.)—This admirable periodical keeps up its interest with complete success. In every number there is something......
Mr. Stevenson's Stories.* The First Thing That Strikes...
of Mr. Stevenson's New Arabian Nights, is that he is tasting two pleasures at once. Every great novelist has a style of his own, and we soon learn to think each appropriate to......
The November Number Of The Gentleman'8 Magazine (chatto...
is a remarkably readable one, presenting that happy combin- ation of fact and fancy which has marked it since it entered upon its new career. There is, perhaps, a trifle too......
Florence Illustrated.*
A supno3 book of the "gift" or de lica..8 order, which is not .simply a splendidly-printed and richly-illustrated edition of a favourite author, should resemble a thoroughly......