10 FEBRUARY 1894, Page 26

The Monthly Packet has of late undergone some changes for

the better, in the sense of becoming more vivacious ; but it retains certain of its old features, such as "Cameos from English History." Mr. Stanley Weyman is now the vogue as a historical romancist, and so his new story, "My Lady Rothe," of which we have in the February number the second instalment, but upon which it is too soon to pronounce a judgment, will be accounted the most notable of its contents. But the miscellaneous papers are also very good,—more particularly "Among the Brigands," and an enthusiastic story told by Miss Tynan of a descendant of the Earls of Desmond who happened to visit her.