PAMPHLETS AND LECTURES.—COH English Law be Taught at the Universities?
By A. V. Dicey, B.C.L. (Macmillan), an inaugural lecture, asking a question which the Vinerian Professor naturally answers in the affirmative. His contention is that the student of English Law wants guidance as he did not want it in earlier days, and a systematic teaching which he cannot get in chambers.—Dr. Frances Elizabeth Hoggan publishes three papers on Medical Women for India (J. W. Arrowsmitb, Bristol), advocating an excellent cause. There never was a clearer ease of a real demand and an adequate supply, if only the two could be brought into relation with each other. -7—The New Godiva : a Dialogue (W. Isbister), speaks plainly on the subject of purity and standards of morality generally. We cannot bind ourselves to all that is advanced in these pages, but we may say that it is well worth considering. Let us state from our cern point of view what we believe to be one cause (and deabtlees, also, at the same time, an effect) of a debased morality, and that is the detestable tone of sentiment about the morals of men which is to be seen in many of the novels written by women that it is our painful duty to notice in these columns. That a man is necessarily a profligate in his youth seems to be an article of faith with them.—We have received three additional numbers of Present-day Tracts:—Modern Materialism, by the late Rev. W. F. Wilkinson ; The Authenticity of the Gospels, by Henry Waco, B.D. ; and The Mosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch, by the Very Rev. R. Payne-Smith. (Religious Tract Society.)— State Socialism and the Nationalisation of the Land, by the Right Hon. Henry Fawcett, 19.P. (Macmillan), is a reprint in a cheap and accessible form of an article which appeared in the July number of Macmillan's Magazine, and which was noticed by us at the time.— Mr. W. W. Bean, in his Notices of Various Errors and Omissions, (5,0 (Simpkin and Marshall), appears to make out a very serious case against the "Parliamentary Return of Members of the House of Commons, 1213-1874." More than fifty pages of mistakes is a very serious matter, and Mr. Bean is not more than justified when he says that to issue a document not com- plete, accurate, and trustworthy" is a scandalous waste of public money.—The Parliamentary Reformer's Manual, by John Noble, is a "revised edition 'of 'Representation, Population, and Taxation,' based upon the Census of 1881, and the Latest Par- liamentary Returns." It is published by the London and Counties Liberal Union, 12 Walbrook. The strange anomalies of our repre- sentative system have been stated over and over again, yet it is well to repeat them. A thing has to be repeated a good many times; before it makes its way into the publics mind. After all, there is no stronger example than London. The City and the nine Parliamentary boroughs have a population of 3,462,350. This should give them seventy-ono Members, instead of twenty-two. A third of the Income- tax, and half the Customs are paid within their borders. What this should entitle them to who can say ? Mr. Noble's pamphlet is crowded with significant facts.—A monograph by Dr. Augustus Merriam, The Greek and Latin Inscription, on the Obelisk-Crab in the Metro- politan Museum, New York, will repay perusal.
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