CURRENT LITERATURE
THE MINOR MAGAZINES.
The Expository Times for March is a good average number. The reviews of books, especially of" foreign theology," are careful and to the point. The notices of minor literature under the title of "Books of the Month" are also judicious, but they are marred by what is the weakness of the magazine as a whole,—a tendency to scrappiness. The more miscellaneous papers keen up to a high standard of excellence, though some strike one as " properer for sermons." There is genuine scholarship in "A Wave of Hyper- criticism," by Professor Manen, of Leyden, which is the second of a series. "The Rationale of the Atonement," by Dr. Taylor, vicar of Winchcombe, is also well worth reading, if only as supplying evidence of the changes that come over theological thought within a short time. "Does not McLeod Campbell, he says, "come nearest to the truth when he points to the thorough- ness with which our Saviour identified Himself with the experiences of the sufferer who wrote the twenty-second Psalm ? " And yet the McLeod Campbell here identified with essential orthodoxy was deposed in Scotland for heresy !
The Argosy for March is disappointing. It is composed almost entirely of stories. None of these can be said to be very re- markable, though there is some tragic power in "Titian Vercelli;" and in " A Disconsolate Dragoon" selfishness is exposed and punished as it ought to be. There are one or two good stories in "Booksellers and Literature," but the ostensible subject of the article is dealt with in far too superficial and scrappy a fashion.
Middlesex and Hertfordshire Notes and Queries, a quarterly
piblication edited by Mr. W. J. Hardy, continues to do very good arclueological service. The latest number contains quite a host of valuable notes—for the most part commendably brief—on Such subjects as "City Church Bells," "Parish Registers," and "Hertfordshire Cricket," a warrant, with facsimile, by Oliver Cromwell, and an article by Viscount Dillon on "Charles L at Charing Cross."
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