The London Quarterly Review. April. (Wesleyan Conference Office.)—The most readable
article in this number is the first, a review of the proceedings of the Missionary Conference at Shanghai, written, it is evident, by one who knows his subjects. and holds decided opinions about them. What he says about " Confucianism " and "Ancestral Worship" is specially note- worthy. An essay on " The Effects of Disestablishment in Ire- land" expresses the conviction that the result will be to make the Irish Church more Evangelical. The writer tells us, without any in- dication of disapproval,—" A clergyman in County Derry declared his disbelief in eternal punishment, and for several months afterwards his parisioners kept him out of his pulpit, by locking the church-gate against him." Was there ever religious zeal more bizarre? The only article which has even, in part, a literary character, is "The Life of Thomas Fuller," a review of Mrs. Bailey's excellent work. The other subjects discussedare,—" Dr. Cremer's Biblico- Theological Lexicon of New-Testament Greek;" a fierce attack on Mr. Heard's " Tripartite Nature of Man ;" " The Bishop of Porto's Pastoral " (a controversy between Romanism and Protestantism, of which Portugal is the scene) ; and " Rothe on St. John's First Epistle."
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