CURRENT LITERATURE.
The British Quarterly Review, January. (Hodder and Stoughton.) — The most interesting article, from our point of view, which we find in this volume is that which Mr. F. R. Conder contributes, on " The Industrial Resources of Ireland." His conclusion, backed up by a powerful array of facts and figures, is that "Ireland may safely challenge any European country north of the Alps for wealth in natural resources. She possesses in each of the three kingdoms of nature, in the products of air, water, earth and what lies under the earth, the chief of those treasures which elsewhere are not found together." Any statesman who could translate these possibilities into action would indeed have solved the insoluble. Curiously enough, the only mining enterprise which we have heard much about in Ireland is the quite unprofitable one of gold-seeking in Wicklow. Mr. T. A. Trollops, an expert in modern Italian politics, contributes an article of considerable interest on the subject of "Count Campello " and the present attitude of the Papacy. Mr. R. Lovett writes on Messrs. Westcott and Hort's Greek Testa- ment, and incidentally notices the arrogant article, so deplorably injurious to the tree interests of Biblical criticism, in which the Quarterly reviewer has defended the " Textus Receptus." 'Os, in I. Tim., iii. 16, the reviewer says, "is a nonsensical substitute, sur- viving only in two MSS.," "grossly improbable " and " impossible." But what are the facts, as thus marshalled by Mr. Lovett ? The " Codex Sinaiticus," the " Codex Alexandrines," and the " Codex Ephraemi " read 6s. "It is supported by the ancient versions, Memphitic, Thebaic, &c. AU the Latin versions read (pod.' Epiphanies, Theodore of Mopsnestia, and Cyril of Alexandria all support 8s. es(fs is absolutely devoid of first-class support There is no reliable trace whatever of its existence prior to the latter part of the fourth century." There is a very readable essay on the "Literary Clubs of Paris" of the seventeenth and eighteenth cen- turies. The other articles which make up an excellent number are "A Sketch of Individual Development," by Dr. G. Macdonald; "The Culdees and their Later History," by Mr. T. Witherow ; and " Richard Cobden," by Mr. William Clarke.
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