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IN 1877 Lady Dorothy Neville sent Mr. Mallock's New Republic to Lord Beaconsfield, who read it and replied: "It is a capital performance, and the writer will, I think, take an eminent position in our future literature." Mr. Mallock has written much prose and verse since then, but it would be too much to say that he has repeated the success of The New Republic. However, he has now offered for criticism a distinctly ambitious work dealing more or less with that very conflict between science and religion which has recently been dramatised, so to speak, in the last controversy, and death of Dr. St. George Mivart. need not remind our readers that the aim of Mr. Mallock's philosophical writings has always been to show that science, taken by itself, can supply man with no basis for religion. In his present work, which is addressed to those who identify Christianity with doctrine, Mr. Mallock seeks to show how the existence of religion is bound up in formal doctrine as human life is inseparable from a physical frame, and he affirms that "the only possible authority for supernatural Christian doctrine is a Church which is an inspired and developed organism. Such a Church cannot dispose of the cosmic arguments, which tell against all religions equally but these being set aside, and the need for doctrinal Christianity being granted, Rome appeals to the world, as a living personal witness, a belief in whose veracity will carry a reasonable acceptance of the whole doctrinal system with it." Mr. Mallock tells his readers in a foot-note that he suspended this work for a month or two in order to make that rendering, in English verse, of the moral philosophy of Lucretius, to which we drew attention when it appeared in the Anglo-Saxon.

THE unexpected death of Dr. St. George Mivart has a dramatic interest which will be felt by everyone who followed his recent remarkable controversy with Cardinal Vaughan. Great as were Dr. Mivart's scientific attainments and career, we think that he will be rememberedand that for a long time - for his strenuous, pathetic, illogical, yet noble attempt to reconcile the authority of his Church with the conclusions of his scientific conscience. Writing to a friend a few weeks ago, Dr. Mivart said:

The various articles and few books I have written have always represented my convictions at the time as accurately as I could represent them. My last work, The Groundwork of Science (John Murray), has undergone no ecclesiastical supervision, my convictions when I wrote it being almost fully what they now are. I have no more leaning to atheism or agnosticism now than I ever had; but the inscrutable, incomprehensible energy pervading the universe and (as it seems to me) disclosed by science, differs profoundly, as I read nature, from the God worshipped by Christians.

There is something tragically memorable in Dr. Mivart's long suppression of his doubts, their final outburst, his terrible break with his Church, and his death without sacrament, though assuredly not without honour.

AFTER the fiery sunset, a little breeze. Ten years ago Dr. Mivart wrote a simple tale of our time." It now appears in regular novel form under the title of Castle and Manor. Although high matters of faith are discussed by the characters, the story was written" without any didactic or controversial intention whatever, but was merely suggested by personal, social, and local experiences by the author." To which is added: "One or two persons who suggested certain characters therein depicted are no longer living, but as nothing has been said to their discredit, it has not been thought necessary to suppress them."

THE doctrine of perpetual copyright was felicitously upheld on Thursday by Mr. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) before the Royal Commission on Copyright, Lord Monkswell presiding. Mr. Clemens maintained that cheap editions of deathless books would be ensured, not extinguished, by perpetual copyright. Only one book in the world, he thought, had been fairly treated since the days of Queen Anne, and that was the English Bible. It enjoyed perpetual copyright, and this had not deprived the people of cheap editions. Mr. Clemens also pointed out that the number of books which would be affected by the extension of the forty-two years' limit to perpetuity would be very few-only sixty-five books in each year's output. Of these very few would survive a century—say, 650 volumes in half a million. "In America," said the witness (we quote the report of the Daily News), "when the number of slaves subject to the lash equalled the population of London to-day, a woman wrote a book which aroused humanity, swept slavery out of existence, and purged the fair name of America from reproach. The author is now dead; the copyright is dead; the children live and the book lives; but the profits go to the publishers." In the course of his remarks, Mr. Clemens told the Commission that his MS. was once taxed as 66 'gas works "-" that hurt me, that did."

THE first number of the Ruskin Union Journal gives evidence that the Ruskin Union, formed on February 8 at St. Martin's Town Hall, is already at work. Most people, we fancy, will think that this ambitious Union, which, we see, already claims to be a "national organisation," has been too hastily formed. We are quite doubtful whether it has in it the seeds of success. There seems no reason why the Union should not have been formed ten years ago, instead of springing to life in the mind of the Rev. J. B. Booth "after returning from the Memorial

Service held in the Abbey on the day of Ruskin's funeral." The present number of the Journal contains the correspondence read at the Inaugural Meeting, the address of the Rev. J. B. Booth, and some flowers of Ruskin's prose.

The Book of Book-Plates (Williams & Norgate), a new quarterly, in a brown paper cover, has just made its bow to artists and bookmen. The purely artistic book-plate, as distinct from the heraldic, is to be studied; and in the first number we have six designs by Mr. James Guthrie and others by Mr. R. Anning Bell, Mr. Edmund H. New, and others. The magazine will satisfy enthusiasts, to whom alone, indeed, it appeals.

THAT famous aphorism in David Harum-" A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog-they keep him f'm broodin' on bein' a dog "—is not without a good scientific basis, as a correspondent of the New York Nation points out. In his Inquiry into the Human Faculty, Mr. Francis Galton says:

The stimuli may be of any description; the only important matter is that all the faculties should be kept working to prevent their perishing by disuse. If the faculties are few, very simple stimuli will suffice. Even that of fleas will go a long way. A dog is continually scratching himself, and a bird pluming itself, whenever they are not occupied with food, hunting, fighting, or love. In those blank times there is very little for them to attend to beside their varied cutaneous irritations. It is a matter of observation that well washed and combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas. If animals did not prosper through the agency of their insect plagues, it seems probable that their races would long since have been so modified that their bodies should have ceased to afford a pasture-ground for parasites. That reasonable pain and discomfort stimulate thought is, of course, within most people's experience.

IN the Anglo-Saxon Review Mr. Howard Paul has a vigorous defence of Macaulay against his harsher critics. Here is a salient passage:

The despairing editor of a serious journal once said that the world was divided into people who knew what they were writing about but could not write, and people who could write but did not know what they were writing about. Macaulay combined knowledge with the literary faculty, and to Dryasdust the combination has always been an offence. Apart from detailed criticism, some of which is exceedingly interesting and important, the general accusation against Macaulay really resolves itself into this, that he overstated his case, and was too much of his own opinion. I do not think it altogether wise to deny that there is some truth in this charge. The proper answer is that the vehemence of Macaulay's Whiggery and the unqualified manner in which he condemns Marlborough and Penn are incidental defects of a very noble quality, the quality of moral indignation. . . . He had an almost passionate belief in the progress of society and in the greatness of England. For the opponents of the one and the enemies of the other he had neither toleration nor forbearance.

Mr. Paul's argument, which is well sustained, is not of course to be judged by a single extract. Speaking of the charge brought against Macaulay by Miss Martineau, that he had no heart, Mr. Paul quotes his description of St. Peter's Chapel in the Tower, where Monmouth was buried, as an example of Macaulay's perception of the tears in things. Here it is:

In truth there is no sadder spot on the earth than that little cemetery. Death is there associated not, as in Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's, with genius and virtue, with public veneration and imperishable renown; not, as in our humblest churches and churchyards, with everything that is most endearing in social and domestic charities; but with whatever is darkest in human nature and in human destiny; with the savage triumph of implacable