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Of magazines for May, we have received the University Magazine;

the Gentleman's Magazine, to which Mr. George Augustus Sala contributes an article on the late George Cruikshank, Mr. Wedmore one on "Restoration Comedy and Mr. Irving," and Mr. Walford one on Lord Northington ; the " Table-Talk " is also more than usually in- teresting, containing some lively anecdotes; Temple Bar; Belgravia, containing Mark Twain's "Fables and their Sequels ; " a rather heavy number of London Society; Tinsley's Magazine, which is, as usual, mainly devoted to fiction ; Men of Mark, containing photographs of Mr. Frederick Goodall, R.A., Viscount Sandon, and Mr. J. Scott Russell ; the Cheveley Novels, containing the conclusion of "A Modern Minister ;" Part I. of the Magazine of Art (Cassell); Part 37 of Cassell's Library of English Literature; a more than usually inter- esting number of the Nautical Magazine; the Argosy, in which Mrs. Henry Wood's novel is continued, and which also contains a seasonable artitfte en thOrkney and Shetland islands ; Charing Cross; the St. James's Magazine; the Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology; the Practitioner; Hardwicke's Science Gossip; the Law Magazine and Review ; the January, February, March, and April parts of the Journal of the National Indian Association (Kogan Paul and Co.); tho Irish Monthly ; Mirth, which improves ; Sunday at Home; the Sunday Magazine; Good Words ; Golden Hours; Mission Life, the principal article in which is a memoir of the late Bishop of Lichfield ; the Gardeners' Chronicle, with a beautiftil coloured plate of choice auricnlas ; the Victoria Magazine ; Scribner's Monthly, which is more profusely illustrated than usual, and contains an interesting article on "Our Pets and Protectors;" Lippincott's Magazine, the twti illustrated articles in which' are "A 'Mountain Holiday," and "In Roumania Land ;" St. Nicholas.