CURRENT LITERATURE.
The Dublin Review. April, 1875. The April number of the Dublin is not, unnaturally, so much occupied with the Vatican Conneil and its consequences, the anti-Vaticanist controversy raised by Mr. Gladstone, the interest of which has passed away for Protestants, that there are only one or two articles in it which are of interest for most readers. The "Irish Catholic's" letters which recently appeared in our columns are reproduced here, with some additions and illustrations ; Cardinal Manning has an article to himself ; Mr. Gladstone's reply to his an- tagonist is also criticised in a distinct article ; and Bishop Feeder's book on Papal Infallibility is elaborately discussed ; so there is Vatican- ism enough and to spare. However, there are two articles in different sections of the book called "Supernatural Religion " of ability and in- terest, and the second, on the controversy as to the early origin of the canonical Gospels, deserves the most careful attention on the part of any one who wishes to see what Canon Lightfoot has not found space or occasion to include in his replies to the author of Supernatural Religion in the Contemporary Review. This article appears to be written by a critic of the same order of learning as Canon Lightfoot; nor is there anything in the paper, we believe, beyond a single paragraph, distinc- tively Roman Catholic,—not of course that the author is otherwise than Roman Catholic, but that in discussing this question, the difference between the Roman Catholic and Protestant point of view is only just touched upon in the weight assigned to tradition. The paper on miracles and their antecedent probability is also interesting.
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