The Portland daily press., 1875-03-01

The London Quarterly ReVieao (known abroad
as "The Quartery') for January has just been
republished by the Leonard Scott Publishing
Co., Al Barclay street, New York. The west
ern gales, which retarded the steamers have
been the cause of the delay in its publication
here.
The Grevile Memoirs have been received
with such universal favor, that we experience
quite new sensation on reading really criti-
cal review of them. SuCh, however, is the one
before us, which not only points out the lack OF
taste, not to say good feeling, that places be-
fore the public, records of private remarks and
conversations, referring to people still living,
but in several instances impeaches the aceu-
racy of the facts given. The gauntlet is here
boldly thrown to the EdinbuTg ReUieao, which.
in the October number of last year. bestowed
unqualified praise on these Memoirs
In the Quarterly for October, there was an
article describing the Organization of the
Jesuts, the sequel to which, The Doctrines of
the Jesuits, is here given. The information
concerning these doctrines is taken from the
works of Father Curry, whose Compendium of
Moral Theology has been designated in Roman
Catholic seminares in all lands, as the manual
OF Moral Theology.~
The Life of the Prince Consort is another
work which is receiving high praise from all
quarters. In the present notice of it, we have
an account of the difficulties Mr.. Martin has
had to encounter, and the happy manner in
which he has succeeded in overcoming them,
besides an interesting summary of the Princes
character.
The English Bar aud the Inns of Court
begins with short account of the origin Of
Inns of Court, where young men who form
voluntary societies for the study of law estab-
lish themselves, but is chiefly devoted to des-
cription of the system of legal education in
England. and the changes in that system pro-
posed by the present government.
The Judicial Investigation of Truth is
long dissertation on the serious defects of Eng
lish law, with suggestions for new and per-
feet code, based on the conditions that while
law should be just and certain, it should work
in the shortest possible time and at the small
est expense.
Speeches Of Pope Plus TX. This is a review
of two volumes of speeches Of the Pope, collec-
ted and published by the Rev. Don Pasquale
de Francscis, and being written by Gladstone,
taius brief account of the condition of Rome
under the Papal and Italian government, of the
position of the Pontiff, and the circumstances
that have called forth his discourses
The number contains two more interesting
essays, one on Farrar's Life. of Christ, the
other on Friendly Societies
Nos. 1902 and 1908 of The Lining Age, for
the weeks ending Feb. 20th and 9th respec-
lively have the following noteworthy articles:
The Greville Memoirs from the Quarterly Re
uie,o; The Love and Marriage of Catherine de
Bourbon, CornhM; The Emperor of China.
Spectator; Popes of the Sixteenth Century, Our
| Own Fireside: Chinese Obituary Customs, Ce-
| lestiaL Empire-Shangtai; An Only Child, Sat
| srday Reuieao; Erasmus-his Character. Brit
| ish Quarterly ReUieoo; Saxon Studies, part V,
by Julian Hawthorne, Contemporary ReUieon:
The Convent of San Marco, part lV,-Savona-
rola as a Politician, Macmillan; A Vandal Ven
ice, Pail Mall Gazette; Early Retirements.
Spectator.
These numbers also contain instalments of
The Story of Valentine and his Brother, and
Alice Lorraine,-the latter by the author OF
the Maid of Skier, and both unusually good
serials.