13 NOVEMBER 1886, Page 23

Yet another magazine for the same well-provided-for class of readers

is Harper's Young People (Sampson Low and Co.) A critic feels that the praise which he is bound to bestow on these carefully conducted periodicals cannot but be monotonous. The amount of labour and ability spent on them is quite beyond estimation ; and we can only wonder how it is provided and repaid, especially when readers get various non-literary advantages as a part of their bargain.