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The English Illustrated Magazine. (Macmillan.)—The volume for the year ending this month of September shows no falling-off either in literary matter or the illustrations which are the speciality of the periodical. A novel, " Sant' Ilario," by Mr. Marion Crawford, running through the twelve numbers, and another at half the length, "The Better Man," by Mr. Arthur Paterson, make up the fiction. In the excellent series of " Glimpses of Old English Homes," we have Chiswick House and Berkeley Castle ; while there is a separate paper on " Moated Houses," by Mr. W. W. Fenn. " Gwalior," " A Peep into the Coal Country," and "Charles Dickens in Southwark," are among the other papers. We must not forget Mr. W. C. Green's interest- ing papers on "Homeric Imagery," appropriately illustrated, as indeed are all the others that have been mentioned. Mr. Swin- burne's beautiful poem of " Obin " occupies the first place in the volume, but no one has had the courage to realise with the pencil the poet's conception of the child with his Eyes where gdnidsht shames the sun, Woven ona.wnanorstTisligrleplZin Radiant darkness, lustrous gloom,' Godlike childhood's flowerlike bloom."
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