CURRENT LITERATURE.
The Trustees of Posterity. An Address to the Junior Liberal Asso- ciation of Aylesbury, October 31st, 1883. By George W. E. Russell, M.P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board. Published by request. (II. G. Fisher, Woburn.) — An eloquent address, the key-note of which is a sentence of the first sermon which Mr. Russell heard in Harrow School Chapel, on the first Sun- day of his school life :—" Show me your ideal, and I will show you something of your life." Mr. Russell goes over the various elements of the Liberal's political ideal,—the love of liberty,—faith in progress. —respect for order,—the spirit of reverence,—the repudiation of con- ventional claims on his homage, such as the claims of mere rank and wealth,—the desire for intellectual culture,—the desire to diminish needless inequalities, and promote the equalisation of chances in life, —the promotion of physical health,—the dread of national aggres- sion,—the distrust of intellectual pride,—and the scrupulous respect for all true religion. Mr. Russell's address is terse, eloquent, and wise.
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