CURRENT LITERATURE.
The London Quarterly.—Perhaps the most interesting article its this number is that on " National Education at Home and Abroad." It reviews a large part of the subject, and leaves us in a somewhat more hopeful frame of mind than we sometimes are when we compare what is wanted in this respect with what has been done.. There is a certain controversial character about "The Uncertainties of Science," and still more about "The Antiquity of Civilisation." As to the latter, no doubt many hasty and even absurd claims of excessive antiquity have been made for various remains discovered.. Still, we cannot think, as the writer of the article seems to think, that all that has been discovered can be reconciled with even the widest interpretation of the Mosaic chronology. Not to speak of prehistoric man, where did the Negro seen so early in Egyptian monuments get his distinct type ? The theory of a non-Adamic man is still more repugnant to orthodoxy than the largest extension of human. chronology. The great German Reformer is vindicated in " Lather and his Critics " ; another essay expounds " The First Principles of Early Methodism." The other articles are "Spain," "The Church. Congress," and " The Pauline Doctrine of Union with Christ."
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