CURRENT LITERATURE.
British Quarterly Review. April. (Hodder and Stoughton.)---This is an unusually good number. The place of honour is occupied by Mr. IL T. Dale's very able article on "Congregationalism." There has been some rather wild talk about the " Stannard Case," and Mr. Dale makes more than one point successfully. As might be expected, he declares against trust-deeds. Are the Congregationalists generally with him ? We observed lately in a book on "Religious Liberty cud Worship'' a very stringent form for such deeds set forth for use. The earlier part of the essay seta forth very vigorously the Congre- gational theory. The weakness of that theory is the went of cohesion. Every one }IRS aright to construct his own creed, and many do it, with the result of endless divisions. Another article is entitled " Independ- ency and the State," and will repay perusal. The "Irish Land Ques- tion" is a serviceable summary of the subject. It would be well for some ono to deal with the question of what is to be done with the owners who bold under the Parliamentary titles of the Encumbered Estates Act. And there arc, we fancy, more than a "few, insignificant ex- ceptions " to the rule that improvements on Irish estates are made
by the tenant. The Fitzwilliam estate is not insignificant. Of literary articles, we have one on " Mr. Hardy's Novels," claiming for him the throne left vacant by George Eliot, another on "Dr. Schlie- mann's Dios," and a :third on " The Masora." An article of practical value on " Osr Salmon Fieheries," and another, somewhat out of its proper place, we think, renewing the attack on the profession of architects, make up the number.
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