CURRENT LITERATURE.
Among the new starts just made by old magazines, may be noticed that of the Church Review, an organ of the American Episcopal Church, whose editor hopes to make it "the foremost religious periodical in the world." He will hardly succeed in this enterprise, unless he makes his magazine a little more varied and a good deal less chnrchy than it is at present. But we note two series of papers —on the lives of American Bishops, and the law of the Church in the United States—the like of which will probably not be found in any other magazine, and which are readable in any case.
The Asiatic Quarterly Review for January is not quite so varied or so authoritative as some of its predecessors, but at least three papers in it—Mr. Thornton's, on "Baluchistan and the New Indian Province"
(suggesting a modification of our Indian frontier, and at the same time an economising of our military force), Mr. Pedder's, on " Village Communities in Western India," and Mr. Wollaston's, on " Agricul- tural Banks in India "—are solid and readable. An unsigned article on the Nizam of Hyderabad's offor to contribute towards the defence of India, contains a significant hint that the Viceroy is waiting till the Princes of the other Native States follow the Nizam's example, "to deal at a single stroke with the collective sums of the Native States, and to make a formal announcement as to the intended application of these loyal contributions to the grand national object of national defence."
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