Among the high-class magazines, the _University Magazine and Free Review_ takes the first place in English advanced literature. Independence of thought, freedom from conventional fetters, and boldness where necessary, impart a freshness and vigour to the articles of this publication, which we miss even in the best and most earnest literature of the day. It is _the_ Magazine for such readers as care for progressive thought in all or any of the main fields of discussion--the religious, the political, the sociological, the ethical, the economic, the literary, the scientific, and the æsthetic. It always takes the part of the weak and oppressed, and this Magazine has done much to call attention to indisputable evils. Contents of the APRIL No., 1897, Vol. VIII., No. I-- The Case Of Dr. Romanes, _by John M. Robertson_. Cardinal Manning, the Sceptic, _by R. de Villiers_. The Inertia of English Universities, _by F. R. Sarritor_. The Bible and the Child, _by Chilperic_. Tourgenieff, _by Ernest Newman_. Roden Noel, _by Karl Blind_. The Whole Duty of Woman, _by Geoffrey Mortimer_. The Blasphemy Laws, _by Fred. Verinder_. Martin Turner, _by H. J. Cressingham_. The Intellectual Movement in France, _by A. Hamon_. Periodicals, _by Walter Shaw Sparrow_. Contents of the MAY No., 1897, Vol. VIII., No. 2-- Bentley and Anthony Collins, _by M. W. Wiseman_. Roden Noel, _by Karl Blind_. Tourgenieff, _by Ernest Newman_. The Downfall of Olive Schreiner, _by X_. Marie Corelli and her Public, _by A. W. Stanbury_. Moral Instruction without Theology, _by F. J. Gould_. The Social Purity Hallucination, _by J. P. Gilmour_. Current Pseudo-Philosophy, _by John M. Robertson_. Slumland by Night, _by G. M._ William Blake and Modern Problems, _by Edward Willmore_. The Social Evil and the Moral Law, _by A. Macevir_. Periodicals, _by Walter Shaw Sparrow_. New Books. Contents of the JUNE No., 1897, Vol. VIII., No. 3-- Nietzsche's Indictment of Christianity, _by John M. Robertson_. An Ethical Excursion, _by Hugh Mortimer Cecil_. The Teachings of Thomas Hardy, _by Duane Williams_. The Tory Professor, _by Robert Duncanson_. Mr. Gladstone's Latest Postcard, _by Alan Stephens_. Usury and Thrift, _by J. Greevz Fisher_. A Specimen of Religious Journalism, _by Stanley Bruce_. In Extremis, _by Allan Laidlaw_. The Legitimation League, _by A. Goldwin_. Nancy, _by Ernest Newman_. New Books. THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, LIMITED, 16, JOHN STREET, BEDFORD ROW, LONDON, W.C. Just published, 10s. nett, PSEUDO-PHILOSOPHY _AT THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY_. By HUGH MORTIMER CECIL. _An Irrational Trio: Kidd, Drummond, Balfour._