Mrs. Oliphant's new story, "Sir Robert's Fortune," is the feature
of Atalanta at present ; it promises to be one of the best of her essentially Scotch novels,—and that is no slight praise. The January instalment is a good study in Northern character— or rather characters ; and in some of its predecessors there were descriptive passages in which Mrs. Oliphant positively scaled—as no other writer can scale—the heights of prose Wordsworthianism. This number of Atalanta also contains an instalment of a serial story by "Maxwell Gray," and a number of interesting articles, including "Garibaldi in London" and "a singer's" experiences as "a debutante," from which last one is glad to learn that, "on the whole, the pleasant element predominates, while disagreeables often partake so largely of the ludicroe.s as to lose half their power to wound."
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