CURRENT LITERATURE.
The Modern Review. July. (James Clarke.)—This number has some very good papers. If the Review can keep up to the standard here reached, it will be a decided acquisition to our periodical litez a- tare. The first article is the first part of an essay by Professot Knenen,—a " Critical Method," one, we need hardly say, well worth reading. The Professor's stand-point in respect of miracles is to be noted :—" Without for a moment concealing my own conviction that there is not one single miracle on record which we can accept as a fact I would, nevertheless, place in the fore part of historical criticism the principle that miracles are possible." So far, so good. Nor mast we quarrel with Dr. Kuenen's conviction, but we question a previous statement. Ho says :—" The assertion that this exception in favour of Biblical miracles [the exception made by those who be- Hove in these, but reject all others] is justified by the greater weight of evidence in their favour, is so notoriously contrary to the fact as to deserve no serious refutation." The evidence for the Resurrection is exceptionally strong. Mr. R. Crompton Jones con- tinues the subject of " Synesius of Cyrene ;" and Mr. Robert Collyer has found the materials for a very entertaining article in the " Com- potes " of Bolton, from 1290 to 1325." Dr. Blake Odgers is confident that the internal evidence decides the question of the authorship of the "Eikon Basilike" against Charles. M. Albert Reville takes the view which seems axiomatic to French Liberals, but is so hard for us to understand about the duty of the Government with regard to the unauthorised religions associations. Professor Ranwenhoff, of Leiden, is more in harmony with English Liberalism, when he says, " Jesuit- ism is not to be met by laws and police. The only way of expelling it is to make the ground unfit for its operations." The other articles are the " Later Stone Age in Europe, " Some Tendencies of Modern Biology," and " The Twelfth German Protestantentag."
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