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Cassell's Family Magazine (Cassell and Co.) is as varied in

its contents as usual. Of course there is fiction, but not in excessive quantity, and a large amount of other matter, useful and readable. In these days, when so many are emigrating, we may mention "A Lady's Experience in the Intermediate,"—i.e., the "second class" in one of the Atlantic steamers. The experience seems to have been favourable, and the money saved at not too great an expense of comfort. After what has been said of the gambling among the saloon passengers, it is quite possible that for some the intermediate might be safer. There are other practical papers of a more general application,—" Papers by a Family Doctor," for instance, "Chit-Chat on Dress," and a vast miscellany which goes under the comprehensive title of "The Miscellany."