13 APRIL 1889, page 22

The Portfolio, April. (seeley.)—mr. Loftie's Paper, On "...

Abbey" in this number deals with the "Coronations," and is particularly interesting. But perhaps the most noticealika paper in the number is a curious description and......

Mr. Froude's Romance.* The Historical Materials Out Of...

Froude has con- structed this sombre romance are to be found in the first volume of his English in Ireland (see pp. 455-464). John Puxley, of Castletown Berehaven—the prototype......

The Scots Magazine, Into Which The Scottish Church Was...

developed, is this month weak in fiction and strong in general articles. Of the contents of this number," Church Music in Early Presbyterian Scotland," and the first of a series......

Current Literature.

There is no very remarkable article in the April number of the Magazine of Art. The nearest approach to such is Mr. Ford Madox Brown's " Self-Painted Pictures," and that......