Atalanta. Edited by L. T. Meade and Alicia A. Leith.
(Hatchards.)—As a new venture which has achieved a very creditable success, Atalanta deserves a special word of welcome among the yearly volumes of magazines which call for notice at this time. It is the successor of the Girl's Own Magazine, and in some respects keeps on the tradition of another magazine which in its lifetime had many a welcome in these columns, Aunt Judy's. In point of illustration, Atalanta may fairly claim to equal, if not to surpass, all its English competitors ; it may well challenge com- parison with magazines from the other side of the Atlantic. As for literature, so much good work is now done in these periodicals, for which Archbishops, Judges, Generals, philosophers, and the whole human race are glad to write, that it is difficult for one to excel. Mrs. Molesworth contributes a story, " Neighbours ;" Mrs. Meade, " The Lady of the Forest ;" Mr. Rider Haggard, " A Tale of Three Lions ;" and Mr. Grant Allen, " The White Man's Foot." Fiction, therefore, is not neglected. But it is not pre- dominant. Among the other contents may be mentioned twelve papers written on modern authors, for an excellent institution,
The Reading Union ;" articles on the employment of girls ; and a specially good paper by Mrs. Arabella B. Buckley about pre- historic man, " The Professor's Dream of Ancient Days." Is the close resemblance between this and one of the poems in Mr. Canton's " Lost Epic " accidental ?
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