12 APRIL 1884, Page 26

MAGAZINES AND SERIAL PEBLICATIONS.—WO have received the fol- lowing for

April :—Part 1 of Artists at Home (Sampson Low and Co.), the biographical notices in which are by F. G. Stephens, and the full- page illustrations photographed by J. P. Mayall, and reproduced in fac- simile by photo-engraving on copper-plate. The artists whose bio- graphies are given are Sir F. Leighton, P.R.A. ; W. C. Marshall, R.A.; T. Webster, R.A.; and V. C. Prinsep, A.R.A.—Part 1 of a serial reissue of Canon Farrar's Early Days of Christianity ; also Part 1 of a serial reissue of The Great Industries of Great Britain (Cassell and Co.)—Magazine of Art, containing interesting articles on "China Painting," and "The Lace School at Burano." The plate and wood- cut illustrations are of a high class.—L'Art.—Decoration.—Part 18 of Greater London.—Nautical Magazine.—Time, in which the story by Jean Middlemass is concluded, and a new one commenced by H. B. Vince.—Science Gossip, the interest and value of which are enhanced by the series of coloured plates now issued from time to time with it. —Mind.—Scottish Church Review.—Antiquarian Magazine.—Science Monthly.—Folk-Lore Journa Z.—Journal of Education.—Gentleman's Magazine, which records the discovery of "a shrimp nearly a foot in length."—Tinsley's Magazine.—Belgravia, to which Mr. Robert Buchanan contributes a humorous poetic suggestion in connection with vivisection, not very good as poetry, but embodying a suggestion which one German and one Danish physician have, we believe, already carried out,—that the vivisectional doctors should ex- periment on babies,—the former having fed his baby experimentally on the milk of a tubercular cow, and so produced scrofula; the latter having inoculated two or three babies with leprosy, fortunately without any result, good or evil.—Merry England.—Oxford Magazine.—Irish Monthly, in which Clara Mulholland commences a new serial story. — No. 1 of the Magazine of Music (Kent and Co.)— Colburn's United Service Magazine, in which Captain C. W. White makes another appeal to the public to take an interest in the "Re- organisation of the Army" queation.—Army and Navy Magazine.— Aunt Judy's Magazine, which opens with the first chapter of a new story by the author of "The Atelier du Lys."—London Society.— Irish Manthiy.—Chambers's Journal, a paper in which, on "The Curiosities of the Electric Light," is interesting.—Cassell's Magazine. —Good Words.—All the Year Round.—Part I. of Sunday Talk, edited by W. W. Tulloch, B.D. (Dunn and Wright, Glasgow.)— Letts's Magazine, in which Mrs. G. Linnams Banks commences a new serial story.—Sunday at Home.—Sunday Magazine.—Girls' Own Paper.—Ladies' Treasury.—Harper's Monthly.—Atlantic Monthly.