CURRENT LITERATURE.
The Dublin Review. April. (Burns, Oates, and Co.)—The present slumber of the Dublin Review is not at all lighter than moat of its pre- decessors; its subjects are generally abstruse, and the treatment of them does not make amends for their want of attractiveness. Such topics as " The Witness of Heretical Bodies to Mariology," and " St. Leo's Dogmatic Letter," demand readers of peculiar tastes, and we should think that those who are most interested in patristic theology might be repelled by the heavy sneers with which the Dublin spices its articles. The sketch of " St. Jerome," however, makes a truly interest- ing paper ; there is some clever writing in the paper on "The Duke of Wel- lington's Despatohes ;" and " The First Age of the Martyr Church," though solid, is not ponderous. Some cariosity will be excited by the article in the Dublin on "The Ritualists." If any people have a right to be surprised and indignant at the assumption of the name Catholic by a small section of the English Church, it must be those who have always appealed to that name as deciding the controversy between Rome and England. However, though the Dublin says that the writings of the Ritualist school are enough to make Catholics angry, the article is rather moder- ate than otherwise. This is certainly not the prevailing tone of the Dublin Review, and we aro, therefore, all the more pleased. When the writer of that article talks of filling pages with grotesque quotations from the works of the Ritualists, he can hardly remember that similar pages might be filled from the writings of his own school. Witness the account of a Papal Zouavo who is called a young soldier of Christ, and compared to Saint Louis, because "it was his practice whenever he fired his piece to say a Hail Mary for the poor soul which he might be the means of sending into eternity."
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