6 MAY 1882, page 23

But Lends Itself Only Too Easily To Ridicule. What Could

be more judicious than the remark that " Every home should have some musical instrument ? " Why not have followed it up by the sugges- tion that if you can have but one, you......

The Magazines.

Tux Magazines are of interest this month. The Contemporary, for example, gives us an eloquent and able history of the deal- ings of the House of Hapsburg with the Slays of the......

Current Literature.

20schylus : Agamemnon. With Introduction and Notes. By A. Sidgwick, M.A. (The Clarendon Press, Oxford.)—There have been many editions of the Agamemnon, but none whioh, on the......

The Decay Of Modern Preaching. By J. P. Mahaffy....

—We are inclined to traverse Professor Mahaffy's fundamental asser- tion, and to contend that it is not preaching which has decayed, but the power of listening to preaching.......