CURRENT LITERATURE.
The Dublin Review. April. (Burns and Oates.)—The theological element is not so overpoweringly strong in the Dublin Review as in old days, and, for the general reader at least, the improvement is considerable. The articles on " Western Sussex " and " Methods of Historical Inquiry " are both, iu their respective subjects, excellent ; and there is some value in the essay on " The Genius of George Eliot," though we cannot admire its somewhat turgid eloquence. In non-controversial theology, wo may notice an ingenious speculation by Bishop Clifford, of Clifton, on " The Days of the Week, and the Week of Creation." The Bishop adds to the now familiar conception of Genesis as being a "Psalm of Creation," the theory that it was written with a special view adverse to Egyptian notions. These notions connected the idea of certain divinities with various days of the week. These days are connected in the Mosaic cosmogony with natural phenomena that are quite diverse. Other articles are " A French Study of Christian Womanhood," "The 'Corpus Missal,' and its Probable Date," a pungent essay entitled, " Ritualism, Esti- mated from Within end from Without," " Catholic Missions in Central Africa," and "The Russian Church : its History and Present Organisation."
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