CURRENT LITERATURE.
The August number of Harper's Magazine is one of the best, as regards both variety and quality of contents, that have appeared
for some time. Mr. Theodore Child's truly Parisian lightness of touch is seen to the best advantage in a paper on "The Kremlin and Russian Art," which is not too flippant ; while, in her "Jupiter Lights," Mrs. Woolson promises almost to attain the high standard of her "Anne," which is one of the best novels that America has produced for the last quarter of a century. Another
article, which deserves, and indeed commands, attention, is Dean Lichtenberger's on "The Religious Movement in Germany." According to it, "for the great number [of Germans], religion has been replaced by the culte of the nation, of that nation which is in the act of bartering the treasures of science, poetry, and faith, through which it has been so great in history, in exchange for military and diplomatic glory, conquered by the sacrifices and ex-
posed to the vicissitudes that all know and which all prudent minds fear." Among the other articles that may be mentioned as exceptionally readable are "County-Court Day in Kentucky," "Westminster Effigies," and "Fifty Years of Photography." Mr. Du Maurier's comic sketch, entitled "Teutonic Satire," is exceptionally clever, although the central female figure is, as is too common with this artist, inexpressive and statuesque.
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