CURRENT LITERATURE.
The Home-rule agitation is proceeding at a rate which positively takes the breath away. Fortunately the oppposition excited in resistance to it is even more impressive than the support given to it. Here, in the new number of the Scottish Review—in some respects the most varied that has yet appeared—we have an article demanding a domestic Parlia- ment for Scotland, and proposing the establishment between that country and the Imperial Parliament of "relations similar in principle to those that exist between a State of the American Union and the Federal Government, or between any State of the Dominion of Canada and that Central Canadian Parliament which meets at Ottawa." Lord Rosebery and the other Liberal Peers in Scotland, who are largely responsible for the appearance of the
Some.rale movement there, will scarcely be delighted, though they ought not to be surprised, to learn that "In the Scottish Parliament there will be two Chambers. Hereditary Chambers are at a discount in this age, and there is a decided objection to vest any power of legislation in irresponsible men. The Peers of Scotland must, there- fore, take their places as commoners." Professor Clark Murray con- tributes to this number of the Scottish Review a valuable article on Sir William Hamilton, regarded both as a philosopher and as a man. There are other excellent papers on "Burton's Anatomy of Melan- choly," "Recent Novels," and "The Life of Longfellow." An English translation is published for the first time in the Scottish Review of "The Mesmerist," a powerful story by Ivan Targenieff.
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