CURRENT LITERATURE.
Green's Short History of the English People. Illustrated edition. By Mrs. J. B. Green and Miss Sate Norgate. Vol. III. (Mac- millan and Co.)—Mrs. Green's illustrations in this volume are marked by the same felicity in selection and wealth of material as in the former volumes. The pictures, indeed, are not in them- selves so attractive as some of the reproductions of the gorgeous colouring of mediaeval MSS. in the former volumes. But the interest of some—of the portraits especially—is very great. We can hardly believe, indeed, in that of James I., by Van Somer, which makes him look like a gentleman—which is not the case with other portraits of that Monarch. On the other hand, that of Colonel Hutchinson is just what we should expect of one who was thoroughly the officer and gentleman ; while a Judge of the time of Charles II., after Holler, looks the thorough ruffian one would expect in a companion of Scroggs and Jeffreys. In other lines there is an excellent representation of the Treaty House at Uxbridge, and of the magnificent public-house sign of the White Hart Inn' at Scole, in Norfolk.
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