BIBLIOTHEQUE UNIV E RSELLE.
The March number of the Bibliothegue Universelle et Revue Suisse (Lausanne : Place de la Louve ; London : Hachette; 2 fr. 50 C.) is as usual full of excellent and varied reading. We may specially notice an article by hi. Albert Bonnard, written from the point of view of a Swiss Protestant, vindicating the policy adopted by hi. Waldeck-Rousseau in his Associations Bill, on the ground that the proposed legislation is far milder than that already existing in Italy, Switzerland. and Germany, and that while safe- guarding the right of legitimate association, it only imposes the minimum of legislative restrictions on convents and monastic establishments. Had it been proposed twenty years ago, declares M. Bonnard, the most moderate of Republicans would have pronounced it a timid measure. We may also notice a most interesting account of the Russian mission to the Court of Mei:wick. giving a vivid picture of the intellectual alertness of the Abyssinian Emperor, and the impression created on him by the mancenvres of the Cossack horsemen. Though the account of the forced labour in the Imperial quarries is not pleasant reading, we are assured that Menelek has greatly abated the severity of slavery in his dominions. Amongst other articles of interest we may mention a review of the work of Pasteur, and a critical survey of the present condition of Greece. Correspond- ence from the principal European capitals, an excellent scientific chronicle, political notes, and serial fiction complete an excellent number of a periodical in which entertainment and instruction are most happily blended.
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