Macmillan's Magazine. October. (Macmillan.) — This magazine came too late
for last week, but it deserves a separate notice. Profes- sor Masson's article on "London University, and London Colleges and Schools of Science" is highly suggestive, though written rather clumsily. One sentence in it at least seems to have been translated from the German, and we fear that Professor Masson is endeavouring to typify the confusion which he deplores by the style in which he describes it. In spite of this, however, the article ought to be read, and its con- clusions are indisputably sound. The next article, on the "Social Aspects. of German Protestantism," by M. von Bothmer, will conso`e many Englishmen for the Pan-Anglican Synod. A light and sketchy paper on "Eating and Drinking in America" makes up for the transla- tion of the "Symbolism of the Sublime," from Hegel's .7Esthetic. Yet Mr. Hutchinson Stirling, the translator, has done full justice to Hegel's chief characteristic. Very few Germans understand the original. We doubt if any Englishman will understand the translation. Mrs. Norton brings "Old Sir Douglas" to an end, and there are two other papers in the number, the one on "Brother Prince." the founder of the Agape- moue, and the other on "Surveying in Eldorado," which are thoroughly readable. On the whole, the October Macmillan is unusually good.
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