14 MAY 1864, Page 23

The Englishwoman's Journal. March, 1861. (Jerrold and Sons.)— The Englishwoman's

Domestic Magazine. (S. 0. Beeton.)—We have been very much struck by the common sense and absence of prudery which distinguish the first of these periodicals. In the March number there is a very interesting paper, for instance, on "The Hereditary Trans- mission of Qualities," in which a very interesting subject is treated at once with freedom and delicacy. Nor can we omit to mention an essay on children's books called "What Shall the Children Read?" We heartily agree with the author as to the mischievous character of the modern novelettes, ahd the superiority even from a moral point of view of the good old stories of "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Cinderella," which fixed on the imagination by means of their incidents some one little simple lesson such as a child can fully comprehend. The Domestic Magazine, on the other hand, is of the established character. Instalments of tales, elaborate histories of the toilette, and coloured prints of the fashions will afford the ladies an agreeable expedient for the destruction of time.