CURRENT LITERATURE.
We commend the enterprise, as we believe in the earnestnese, of the conductors of the Westminster Review, who, in the sixty-fourth year of its existence, have changed it from a quarterly to a monthly magazine of the well-known type of the Nineteenth Century and Contemporary Review. It is probable that there is room in the literary world for a solid magazine, which ia the organ of a cause or of certain views, and not merely a platform on which rival speakers succeed each other. Bat we hesitate to say that the West- minster Review in its new form will discharge this funotion. The bulk of the articles in the April number, though dealing with somewhat heavy subjects of the day, such as Egypt, the Imperial Institute, and the Bulgarian struggle for existence, seem too slight and amateurish, although there is out.ofthe-way information, well condensed, in "Physic in the Far East," and argumentative force of the jerky sort in"The Protectionist Revival in Great Britain." But it would be unfair to judge the new Westminster by its first number.
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