CURRENT LITERATURE.
Messrs. W. H. Allen and Co. have purchased the monthly magazine, Knowledge, from the representatives of its founder, the late Mr. R. A. Proctor, the astronomer, and it is now edited by Mr. A. Cowper Raynard, who, like his predecessor, is an expert in astronomy. If one may judge from the January number, there is to be no falling-off in the magazine with the change which has taken place in its management. Its contents are varied and excellent, and the work of editing is obviously done with great care. The first paper is "Hazel and Filbert," one of those genuinely scientific and yet thoroughly popular papers by Mr. Grant Allen, which make his admirers regret that he should ever wander from his proper path into melodramatic fiction, or fanciful politics like his "Revolt of the Celt." Mr. Mattieu Williams writes on "The Chemistry of Soap ;" and among other papers specially worthy of notice, are "The Health of London," by Mr. Macdowall, the socio-political diagrammatist ; "Notes on the Spotted Salamander," by Mr. A. J. Field ; and a posthumous paper by the late Mr. Proctor on " Strange Feats of Calculating Boys." We are glad to observe that the conductors of Knowledge mean to exclude from it papers dealing with politics and religion.
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