The Westminster Review, October. (Triibner and Co.)—The writer of the
first article in this number, after a brief and generally un- favourable criticism of the Irish Land Act, proceeds to propound his answer as to the English Land Question. He is for State proprietorship. The popularly accepted remedies—free-trade in land, abolition of
&c.—would, he thinks, aggravate the evil, by strengthening the sense of absolute proprietorship in the soil. "May not the law of entail," lw asks, "be the best means of maintaining the State's title to the laud ?" An interesting article is made by picking out the plums from the "Memoirs of Mr. Herrics " and the "Diary of Lord Ellenborough." The subject of Aristotle's philosophy is continued in a second essay, the writer dealing with his metaphysic and logic. Authors will certainly appreciate, and may possibly, we allow our- selves to hope, be benefited, by the vigorous language in which the writer of an essay on " Copyright " defends their right to the profit of what they have themselves created. The article on Dean Stanley is appreciative ; nor is it reasonable to complain that the writer presses Liberal Churchmen hard on the subject of their subscription to documents which they can but very imperfectly accept. The other essays in the number are,—" The Latest Bohemian Litera- ture," "The Internatiosal Medical Congress and the Progress of Medicine," " Womeu's Rights as Preached by Women," and "India and our Colonial Empire."
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