CURRENT LITERATURE.
The Dublin Review keeps its place, to say the very least, among the quarterlies. In the April number, the ordinary, as dis- tinguished from the Catholic, reader has his interests specially attended to in a number of articles, almost all well written, on such subjects as "The Jubilee of Science," " The Empire Route to the East," "Mr. Herbert Spencer's Agnosticism," and "Darwin's Life and Letters." Not that the interests of the Catholic reader, on the other hand, are at all neglected. We have never seen a better exposition of the Papal policy in regard to one of the most difficult socio-political questions of the time, than in a paper here on "State Socialism." The publication of Father Gasquet's "Henry VIII. and the English Monasteries" has given Cardinal Manning an opportunity, of which he has not been loth to avail himself, to deliver a swaahing blow at the Malleus Monachorum and his associates, the character of which may be gathered from the concluding sentences :—" Upon the evidence of such wretches, the highest sanctity and the noblest intellects of England were blackened and martyred. But upon the oaths of such men no just man would take even the life of a dog." The notices of books in the Dublin Review are notable for their freshness and vigour.
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