19 APRIL 1879, page 22

Current Literature.

The British Quarterly Review. April. (Hodder and Stoughton.) —The feature of the number is naturally Dr. Freeman's article on "The Normans at Palermo." The subject suits him......

Aunt Judy's Magazine, For April. (george Bell And Son.)—"...

Judy's" readers will rejoice to find that Mrs. Ewing has resumed her story. The scene between the old Irishwoman of the coffee-stall and the hero, is full of the humour of the......

Dr. Ward On Free-will.*

IT is one of the striking characteristics of the favourite psy- chology of the day, that it does not merely deny the old philo- sophical assumptions on which the true ideal of......

Arrows In The Air. By The Rev. H. R. Haweis,

M.A. (C. Kegan Paul and Co.)—Everything that Mr. Haweis writes is fresh and full of thought. His works hold a place of their own in the literature of the day ; and we believe......

The London Quarterly Review. April. (wesleyan Conference...

article in this number is the first, a review of the proceedings of the Missionary Conference at Shanghai, written, it is evident, by one who knows his subjects. and holds......

Food, And Its Preparation. By Mrs. W. T. Greenup. (bemrose

and Sons.)—The writer of this little book (which is a transcription of some lectures given to girls at Sheffield) says truly that books on cookery are very abundant now-a-days,......

The Religion Of The Africans. By The Rev. Henry Rowley.

(W. Wills Gardner.)—A great amount of information on the subject' of African beliefs and superstitions is to be found in this interesting and valuable little book. It may also......

Through The Church Porch. By E. Warden. Edited By The

Rev. W. Andrew, M.A. (William Poole.)—It is unusual to meet with a volume of sacred poetry not largely dogmatic ; and women, though less prone to dogmatism than men, are by no......