CURRENT LITERATURE.
British Quarterly Itevieiv. July. (Redder and Stoughton.)—The first article in this number tells the story of reform in Japan. The writer has more belief in the genuineness and thoroughness of this movement than is felt by some persons not ill qualified to form a judgment, and we may hope that he is in the right. His narrative is certainly interesting in a very high degree. If all, or oven a con- siderable part of what Japan Igo done within the last quarter of a century stands the test of time, we have a phenomenon that nothing in history can match. Belles lottres are represented by two critic- isms of poets; one on Longfellow, 'howling the "Puritan element" in the poet's thought ; the other judging, with a severity that is possibly a little in excess of justice, the " fleshly " tendencies of the verse of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. llossetti's groat offence lies not so much in what he wrote himself, as in the detestable school of poetry to which he belonged. There is a contribution to Biblical apologetics in "The Hittite and the Bible" which deserves the attention of 'stu- dents. Music is represented by the essay on "Bach and Ilandel," and polities by two articles on "The Situation in Ireland" and "The Ministry and Parliament."
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