is not too solid with fiction that is not too
trivial. It contains quite a number of useful " general " papers of different kinds,—as The New Treatment of Diphtheria," "Peculiarities of the Upper House," "The Pressgang and its History," "Uses and Abuses of Fiction," and "Bee-ranching in California." Mr. Leys's excel- lent and spirited fiction, "The Lawyer's Secret," is brought to a close in this number, which contains in addition a number of extremely bright short stories, including "The Redemption of Bill Sheriffs," which tells how a ne'er-do-well saves his soul by saving another's life ; "A Cracksman's Catspaw," which gives a new use for "The Pilgrim's Progress ; " and "Autumn Lovers,"
by Mr. E. B. Burgin, which is as pretty and genuinely idyllic a story of love, middle age, and courtliness as we have read for a very long time. The poetry in Chambers's Journal is invariably above the magazine average, and this is true of the new number. The writer of verses on the "New Woman" is, however, rather too kind to her subject.
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