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August, we have received :— Among magazines and p

Tinsley's 3fagazine.—Pa1t 2 of the Etcher, containing speci- mens of the work of Messrs. E. S. Chattock, E. L. Montefiore, and C. P. Slocombe, respectively, in copies of etchings of Hampstead Heath, a portrait of Sir Moses Monteflore, and some Hastings fishing-boats preparing for sea.—The Nautical Magazine.—Science Gossip, containing an interesting account of the oddities existing among sca-birds.—Part 3 of 0142' Native Land, which is again devoted to Thames scenery.—Part 2 of an illustrated large-quarto edition of Longfellow's Poetical Works. (Camell.)—Part 16 of the Magazine of Art.—Part 52 of Cassell's Library of English Literature. —Cassell's Family Magazine.—The Leisure Hour.—Good Words, con- taining the first of a series of Scandinavian Sketches, by J. C. Hare.— Social Notes—Tile Month.—Part 1 of an Illustrated Book of the Dog, by Vero Shaw (Cassell), with a well-executed coloured plate of the celebrated bloodhound belonging to Mrs. Humpbries.—Part 1 of The Holy Land, a series of illustrations on atone from the original draw- ings by David Roberts, R.A., with short, historical descriptions by the Rev. G. Croly. (Cassell.)—No. 16 of the new series of Tales from Blackwood, containing "The Wreck of the Strathmore," "Hero-Worship and its Dangers," "Annie and her Master," and "A Feuilleton."— Chambers's Journal, which contains a curious paper on the habits of American ants—All the Year Round, containing interesting articles on " Regimontal Insignia," and "Superstitions among German Soldiers."—Part 8 of the Fern Wortd.—The Melbeurne Review.—Tbe Princetown Review.—The Interno,tionallleuieto.—The Atlantic Monthly. —The Midsummer Holiday number of Scribn.et"s Monthly, a capital number, profusely illustrated.