CURRENT LITERATURE.
The January number of the Scottish Review errs, perhaps, in being too national. It contains an article on "Scotland in Times Past," by the Lyon King-at-Arms, and which takes the Duke of Argyll's "Scotland as It Is and as It Was" for its text ; an interesting paper on "Early Scottish Coronations ;" a review of the late Tames Grant's "Scottish Historical Novels ;" and a sort of symposium on "Univer- sity Reform for Scotland," in which Professor Knight and several other authorities take part. Professor Knight is advanced enough on two points. As regards female University education, he says :— "Let all our classes and all our degrees in Arts and Science be at once thrown open to women. It will do nothing but good to them, and to the male students; although I think that a special degree of their own will be found to be of greater use to the majority of women than the ordinary MA. degree now is,—a degree with a large number of options, and which may be taken in sections, and in any order of time, and open to all, wherever they may have been educated." To do away with the existing and scandalous inequalities in the incomes of Scotch Professors, Professor Knight suggests that there should be a common fee fund for each University, as well as an equal division of revenue, and that when a Professor has more than a certain mini- mum number of students, an assistant should be paid out of the revenue accruing from the increase. Of the non-Scotch articles in this magazine, we may take special notice of "The Panama Canal," which is a formidable addition to the recent attacks on M. de Lesseps, and a readable paper on "The Peasant in North Italy," by the Countess Cesaresco, which leaves us in doubt as to the future both of the peasant and of the petite culture in that country.
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