27 JANUARY 1872, page 21

A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing.*

AMONG the customary crowd of Christmas Books, there came to us this innocent-looking volume. Nothing, it seemed, could be more appropriate to the time. Private theatricals are,......

Highlands Of Central India.*

A MELANCHOLY interest attaches to the volume before us, by reason of the premature death of the gallant writer. Captain Forsyth was cut off at the early age of thirty-three, on......

Current Literature.

The Thorough Business Man : Memoirs of Walter Powell. By Ben- jamin Gregory. (Strahan.)—Mr. Powell was born in England, and taken in early infancy to Van Diemen's Land. In this......