CURRENT LITERATURE.
• Fraser. (October.)—This is not a good number of Fraser. There is no article of conspienous merit, and the majority of the paper] are distinctly poor. Mr. Kobbel gossips pleasantly over the devotion of Englishmen statesmen to partridge-shooting, the reason for which, we imagine, is that moat English statesmen have been, by training, rich country gentlemen, but he has nothing very new to say ; and the paper on the "Failure of Altruism" is rather washy, though one thought in it, that Comtist Altruists, with popular force behind them, would soon help on natural selection by " shooting the weak ones through the head," is a striking ono, and might bo true, were it not. that conscience is too strong for logic. Karl Blind's attack on the " Mountain Prince," Prince Jerome, adds little to the reader's knowledge; and "Afghanistan, its Races and Rulers," is little more than an article for a cyclopoedia. The paper on "The Cost of a Foreign Policy " is vigorous and clear, but Fraser under its now management is not yet a success. It lacks the first condition, attractiveness to readers.
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