Edinburgh Review, October, 1863. (Longman and Co.)—A number which must
be pronounced uninteresting. There are four articles of that able common-place character to which readers of reviews are so well used. If any one wants a short, clear summary of what there is to be known about Queensland, the cadastral survey of Great Britain, the Royal Academy, or chinchona cultivation in India, hare it is to be found ; but if he happen not to care a straw about those subjects, and to object to be instructed on them, he had better leave these papers unread. Unfortunately, too, the reader looks in vain for brilliancy, even in the essays in which it might fairly be expected. The cut-up of Phillimore's " Reign of George III." is heavy, while the flimsy paper on Bolingbroke makes one painfully recall the days when Macaulay wrote biographical notices for the Edinburgh. The piece de resistance is a careful analysis of Mr. Austin's "Lectures on Jurisprudence," and there is a really valuable article on the "Colonial Episcopate." The recent case of "Long v. the Bishop of Cape Town," has exposed the anomalous and powerless position of those dignitaries, from which the writer does not, indeed, suggest any practicable means of escape ; but it is something to let the public see clearly the true state of the question. To know the, difficulty is to be half-way to its solution.
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