CURRENT LITERATURE.
The British Quarterly Review. July. (Hodder and Stoughton.)— This number is remarkably deficient in literary interest. Not one of the eight articles deals with any topic of the kind. Still, they are mostly of sterling merit and interest. The freshest, perhaps, is that on " Dr. Curci's New Translation of the Gospels," where, however, the subject of translation is quite subordinate to the more interesting topics of the relation of Church and State, modern miracles, &c. Father Curci's views are worthy of careful note, not only as an ex- pression of liberal Catholicism, but for their intrinsic value. The essay on "Religion and Morality" discusses, with ability, a burning question of the day ; that on " Inspiration " approaches a difficult subject, from the stand-point of liberal orthodoxy. It is to be hoped that the doctrine of verbal inspiration, so perilous to all real defence of revelation, will not long survive its abandonment by the organs of orthodox belief. "The Two Nations and the Commonwealth" is a review full of interesting information of the " State of England " question, written in what is, on the whole, a hopeful tone. The writer of " Evolution Viewed in Relation to Theology " is prepared to re- concile with revelation scientific theories, even when they go so far as the hypothesis of a " lower plane of humanity." The other articles are " Irish Land Reforms," " The London Water Question," and "The General Election and its Results."
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