12 JANUARY 1884, page 21

The Gentleman's Magazine Gives Us A Good Number. The First

instalment of " Philistia," by Cecil Power, is good. We shall be interested in hearing something of a young Oxford Socialist, as Harry Oswald promises to be. Mr. Grant Allan is......

The Portfolio.—there Is A Very Interesting...

criticism that has yet appeared—on the Cambridge performance of the Birds of Aristophanes. A curious chapter in artistic history is supplied in " Hogarth and the Pirates." The......

The Expositor.—dean Plumptre Contributes To This Number...

of "Ezekiel : an Ideal Biography,'] which exhibits charac- teristically his method of interpretation and illustration, a method at once ingenious and sound. Archdeacon Farrar......

Current Literature.

The London Quarterly.—Perhaps the most interesting article its this number is that on " National Education at Home and Abroad." It reviews a large part of the subject, and......

Belgravia This Month Is Certainly Strong In Fiction. Mrs....

Hoey begins a story which promises well. Another story, " The Wearing of the Green," is also opened, but we fear that the "Castle," and the "Nationalists," and other things of......

Rosmini's Book On The Roman Church.*

Tax English edition of this striking work, as we gather from the dedication and preface, is the discharge of a debt of pions affection on the part of Dr. Liddon. The book is......