Fraser's Magazine.—May. (Longmans and Co.)—Mr. A. J. Wilson, while contributing
valuable facts on the finances of Egypt, of which he takes a pessimist view, argues strongly that if we touch the country at all, we must lay hold of it with an armed force. Mr. H. A. Giles gives us a quantity of new information about Chinese fans, which are of every kind, from the embroidered fan, with beautiful embroidery, quaint inscription, and thirty-two bones, to the Hang, chow fan, sold because it is black to Europeans and coolies, they being so low in morale that even contact with black cannot make them worse. There is the commencement of a new translation of the "Iliad," too literal and rough-hewn for our taste ; a pleasant sketch of the early life of Dr. Aildn, Mrs. Barbauld's brother ; and a thought- ful paper on the "English Church of the Future," which is to be more secular than at present, and less strictly organised, the writer holding that the idea of a divine system of polity is dying out in ecclesiastical as in mundane affairs ; and a very curious diatribe against America as seen in Colorado. It is not the place, the writer says, for Englishmen, all advantages being neutralised by the lawless- ness and anneighbourliness of the people, who have no reverence or- tenderness for age.
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