The October number of the Church Quarterly Review is a
remarkably interesting one, and that because the papers in it which are essentially or absolutely literary in their character are exceptionally numerous. Of these, three—" Ralph Waldo Emerson," "Boswell and his Editors," and "The Makers of Venice "—are especially readable, two of them being decidedly of the character of oases in the wilderness of what a writer in this Review terms "piping-hot publication." The author of the article on "Dr. Martineau's Study of Religion" is not a very subtle thinker, apparently ; but he is an earnest believer, and, although he writes from a pronounced Trinitarian standpoint, he is thoroughly fair as well as appreciative. An essay on "The Report of the Education Commission" may be commended for its careful analysis of that Report.
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