7 MAY 1898, page 25

Current Literature.

THB MINOS MI■GAZINEB. Almost all the articles in the new number of the Economic Review are on subjects which are popular as well as politico. 'economical Of this character are......

Falklands. By The Author Of "the Life Of Sir Kenelm

Digby." (Longmans and Co. 10a. 6d.)—To the scholarly loiterer along the by - ways of English history this is a delightful little book. The clever, well-read author almost......

John Sebastian Bach. By Sedley Taylor, M.a. (macmillan...

Cambridge.)—This is the reprint of an interesting lecture, put together from Spitta's biography of the musician, on Bach in relation to his work as a church musician and......

Robert E. Les And The Southern Confederacy, 1s07-1870. By...

Alexander White, M.A. , Ph.D., D.D. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)— This book, with its excellent series of portraits and maps, con- tains a full and interesting account of the American......

The Development Of Australian Literature. By H. G. Turner...

A. Sutherland. (Longmans and Co.)—Under this rather ambitious title Messrs. Turner and Sutherland have collected their stray essays on a number of Colonial writers, with......

Contributions To The Early History Of New Zealand. By T.

M. Hocken. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 113.) — This jumble of undigested memoranda on the early settlers of Dunedin by a local doctor is, we fear, likely to prove of very......