Fraser's Magazine. January, 1872. (Longulans.)—All who have read Homer will
think pages 120-122 in this number worth the price of the magazine. They contain Von Moltke's opinion, formed in 1837, when he was still military adviser to the Sultan, on the site of Troy,— an opinion formed, as he says, not from scholarship, but from military instinct. The founders of Ilium had hit on the place Von Moltke him- self would have chosen, and he describes the well-known objects with a sense of conviction seldom given to the mere scholar. There is a singular paper on "Political Prospects " which will interest Mr. Gladstone's enemies, its essence being that he is a man who, though a Protestant, holds the Romanist doctrines, and that he destroyed the Irish Church mainly because anti-sacerdotal ideas were absorbing it ; and that he will destroy Irish Education because it is " mixed," that is, not denominational enough for his views. The article is penetrated with that hot but repressed hatred which often imitates, even when it does not give, literary power. Its ultimate drift, we take it, is to express a suspicion that Mr. Glad- stone when driven to the wall will recover power by disestablishing and diaendowing the English Church.
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