The July number of the London Quarterly Review is notable
for the variety of its contents, which include "Education in China," " Bishop Fraser," "Miss Roasettra Poetry," " Louis XIV. and his Court," "The Service of Man, Positivist and Christian," and "The Origin of the Bible Christian Connexion." The writer of a care- fully prepared statistical paper on "Illiteracy in England," arrives at the conclusion "that the counties which are superior to all England are such distinctively rural counties as those which stand at the head of our list, whilst all the great School Board counties, with the exception of Middlesex and Surrey, in comparison, take a very inferior position." Mr. Cotter Morison's critic adopts the sensible view of Faa eat ab hosts docari, and "we may learn from Mr. John Morley and Mr. Cotter Morison to be faithful to a high calling such as men have never had but when it was given `of God in Christ Jesus.' " Is the author of the paper on Bishop Fraser quite justified in describing him, versatile though he was, as a "publicist" P This word is one that ie in danger of being, not soiled by ignoble, but spoiled by confusing if not conflicting, use. We have here a very good number of a Review that has a special mission, but does not permit itself to be run away with by that mission.
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