10 OCTOBER 1885, Page 22

CURRENT LITERATURE.

In the September and October numbers of the Scottish Church there have been some good literary papers, particularly an article in the one on "Victor Hugo," and in the other on "Scotch Literature in the Stuart Period, James I. to James III." It is always good to relieve heavy papers with humour ; and both humour and animal- spirits are to be found in "To Norroway o'er the Faem," which ap- pears in the October number. The latter also contains a lucid paper on the appalling Scotch mystery of Teinds ; while an appreciative sketch, "Among the Good Wesleyans," shows that, the editor does not con- fine the scope of his magazine to Scotch religious phenomena. There is a characteristioally vigorous paper, presumably from his pen, on "The Church and-the Elections," the burden of which is the advice addressed to Churchmen-of " Organiae,.organise, organise."