CURRENT LITERATURE.
Commentary on the Cruelty to Animals Act, 1871. By the Hon. Bernard Coleridge, of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Reprinted from the Zoophilist. (Printed for the Victoria Street Society.)— Mr. Coleridge has made a very careful study of the Act commonly known as the Act for Restraining Vivisection, and tells us with admirable lucidity just what it does and what it does not do. Mr. Coleridge's general opinion is that the Act is tolerably effective to restrain amateur vivisection by obscure practitioners; but that it has no effect at all, except by interposing the necessity for a certain amount of trouble, in preventing vivisection, however painful, by regular physiologists,—who are, of course, the persons who alone are likely in the general way to undertake experiments of this sort. Mr. Cole- ridge's commentary on the Act of 1876 ought to be widely known.
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