Atalanta. Edited by L. T. Meade and John C. Staples.
(Hatchards.)—This "Magazine for Girls" keeps up the high character which it has already established. Both letterpress and. illustrations are excellent. Of the more serious kind of contriba- tions, we have twelve papers contributed to the "Reading Union," among them being critiques on Lord. Tennyson by Mr. Courthope, Matthew Arnold by Professor Dowden, W. S. Landor by Mr. Traill, and Charlotte Brontg by A. Mary F. Robinson. The "Reading Union" is meant, we may explain, to supply a stimulus to healthy and useful study. Essays are written on the subject of the month, a modern English author ; and there is an annual essay on some subject which takes in a way the papers of the year. The prize-winning essay for the year is printed, and is a. thoughtful production. (May we hint our objection to having the photographs of the prizewinner and the prowime accessits given ? This personal element is made too much of.) In fiction we have Mr. W. E. Norris's tale of "Miss Shafto," itself no small matter, for it takes a good place among the novels of the year. Another serial story has been contributed by Mr. J. T. Trowbridge, "Adventures of David Vane and David Crane ;" and there are miscellaneous papers, short stories, sketches of Nature, Ace., with a great variety, of subject. The illustrations are excellent, and may fairly compete even with those of American rivals.
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