C URRENT LITERATURE.
THE NEW LIBERAL REVIEW.
The New Liberal Review, which is now in its sixth number, and whose views of the party "split" may be gathered from the concluding sentence of a note—" If the moderation of Mr. Asquith's tone is emulated by all sections, the Liberal party may yet tide over the South African difficulty intact "—is now an excellent and varied magazine. It is inevitable that partisan- ship should be exhibited in its pages ; when Mr. Yoxall writes on "The Empty Education Bill" he cannot cease to be Mr. Yoxall, and perhaps Mr. Alfred Kinnear may be excused when dealing with "Midsummer Politics" for summing up the political position by saying : "The Session, occupied principally in voting money to some one or something, will lumber to an inglorious and an unproductive end." On the other hand, there are other articles of a political kind which deserve to be read because their authors write with a certain amount of authority, —for example, Dr. Tyrrell, of Dublin, on "A Roman Catholic University in Ireland" and Mr. Stutfield on "The Key of the Mediterranean." But the New Liberal Review deserves a hearty word of encouragement chiefly for the high quality of the mis- cellaneous articles it contains.
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