The new number of the Quarterly Review is rather dull.
Neither of the two political articles, "The House of Lords" and "The Local Government Bill," though carefully written, is in any way striking, and even "The History and Reform of Convocation" does not call for special comment. There is an interesting historical essay on Admiral Coligny. Ramsay's " Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century," which was some time ago noticed in our columns, has a paper devoted to itself both in the Quarts* and in the Edinburgh. "The Game and Game-Laws of India " is valuable; but the most seasonable article in the number is "The Chinese in Australia." The author takes to some extent the Chinese view of this difficult question. He does not despair of a pacific and satisfactory solution, and among other hints he throws out, is "the arresting the stream of Chinese emigrants at its sources, namely, Hong Kong and Singapore, by local legislation."
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