CURRENT LITERATURE.
Among American magazines, none has of late been coming more rapidly to the front than the Forum. Perhaps its editor is too anxious to make its title indicate its character ; the substance of the talk in it is of more importance than the style. Still, the articles in the April number are without exception readable. Thus, whoever wishes to inform himself thoroughly on some of the most important political and social phenomena of America, should not omit to read Mr. Henry Watterson's "Hysteria of Sectional Agitation," Monsignor Preston's "Socialism and the Catholic Church," and even Mr. Foord's "Could Mr. Blaine Carry New York ?" That indefatigable magazine writer, Pro- fessor De Lavaleye, tells us, in "Civil Government and the Papacy," that, in his opinion, Roman Catholicism will never become the universal religion, as "this high destiny can be reserved only for the primitive Christianity of the Gospel." In "The Union of English-Speaking Peoples," Mr. J. D. Champlin hints and dreams of, rather than directly advocates an Anglo- Saxon League of Peace, in which the chief places are to be taken by Great Britain and the United States. As, however, we must all become Home-rulers and Republicans by way of preliminary step, Mr. Champlin is not likely to live to see his dream realised.
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