CURRENT LITERATURE.
That much both of the piety and of the theological culture of Scotch Preabyterianisin is to be found within the Free Church, requires no demonstration. Bat if it did, that is supplied by the high character of the Theological Review and Free-Church Quarterly, the fourth number of which is now before us. It deals from the stand- point of the expert's knowledge, and not of mere popular exposition, with "The Messiah in Isaiah" and "The Witness of St. Peter to the Sufferings of Christ." The most interesting paper in the Jane number, however, is Principal Robertson's on " Hindooism as a Miecionary Problem." In it, fall justice is done to the difficulties of this problem, notably to the subtle and accommodating pantheistic philosophy according to which, all the different religions in the world are bat different roads to the same goal, and all lead to it with the same certainty, and which "has as completely leavened the minds of the Hindus, and as thoroughly pervades their habits of thought, as the principles of Presbyterianism and the theology of the Shorter Catechism have leavened the minds and pervade the thoughts of the people of Scotland." The notices of books in this magazine are careful, and in every way excellent, hut they occupy too much of a rather limited amount of space.
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