CURRENT LITERATURE.
The Westminster Review, July. (Triibner and Co.)—The first article in this number deals with the subject of the blasphemy laws.. It is temperately written, and certainly exposes various inconsistencies in legal expositions of these statutes. The conclusion to which the writer comes, that the laws should be repealed altogether, is one to which we do not feel inclined to assent. It is scarcely satisfactory to say that "no one need look at these blasphemous' publications unless he chooses." The writer can hardly be aware of the militant character which these attacks on Christian belief have assumed. They are literally " offensive." They are not things which can be ignored. They make themselves felt just as blows are felt. There is an interesting retrospect of the Corn-Law-Repeal movement, and an article, written from the point of view of a person acquainted with the subject, on " Compulsory Compensation for Agricultural Improvements." The other articles are " Lord Chancellor Hatherley," "Classic Conceptions of Heaven and Hell," " Wallenstein in the Drama;" while, in the "independent section," the subject of the " Payment of Members and Colonial Corruption " is discussed.
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