CURRENT LITERATURE.
Mrs. Oliphant's pleasant serial fiction of "The Story of a Young Life," which is running in the Scottish Church, has been exceptionally interesting in the March and April numbers. In the latter, Mrs. Oliphant presents her readers with one of those effectively, though not melodramatically, sensational incidents with which she occa sionally brightens up even her quietest works. In the March number of this magazine there was an excellent article on the late Principal Talloch, evidently from the pen of a personal friend and ecclesiastical comrade, while in the April number there is a remarkable proposal for a Scotch Liberal Anti-Disestablish- ment Association. We do not quite see how such a scheme will work,—how, in particular, it will not "interfere with the party organisa- tion with which all Liberals more or less are connected ;" but the author of the suggestion is obviously both earnest and hopeful. The editor of the Scottish Church displays much judgment in his selection of light and bright papers. He should, however, beware of giving a too long-continued series of articles on a subject the reverse of light, such as " Universities." The articles themselves are good, but two, at the outside, ought to have been enough.
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