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It Is Possibly A Sign Of The Times, So Far

as magazine literature is concerned, that The Newbery House Magazine has been reduced in size, and from being a shilling, has become a sixpenny, monthly. It is better......

The Most Decidedly Outstanding Of The Contents Of An...

number of the Bookman is a criticism by M. D. Hay Fleming, an antiquarian in St. Andrews, of Mr. Lang's book upon the old cathedral and university town. It is one of the......

Professor Salmond, Of Aberdeen, Who Edits The Critical...

Theological and Philosophical Literature, has been able to secure the aid of the most accomplished of Scotch scholars—not to speak of Englishmen as well—in the departments which......

Among The Nine Decidedly American Articles In This Number Of

the Atlantic Monthly are Recollections of Stanton under Lincoln," "Hamilton Fish," and "Tammany Hall." The last deserves to be read by all who are in the habit of associating......

Oak/2/ns With The Pervigilium Veneris. Edited By S. G. Owen.

Illustrated by J. R. Weguelin. (Lawrence and Bullen.)— Catullus. Edited by Elmer Truesdell Merrill. (Ginn and Co., Boston, U.S.)—Mr. Owen's volume is an edition de luxe. It has......

Dante's Divine Comedy : The Inferno. A Version In The

nine - line metre of Spenser. Ry George Musgrave. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—There can be no doubt that Mr. Musgrave has handled this very difficult metre with great success.......

Current Literature.

The new number of Chambers's Journal, beginning a new volume, is a very strong one, in point both of the excellence and the variety of its contents. Mr. Grant Allen begins,......

The Monthly Packet Has Of Late Undergone Some Changes For

the better, in the sense of becoming more vivacious ; but it retains certain of its old features, such as "Cameos from English History." Mr. Stanley Weyman is now the vogue as a......

London Society Is Now Given Up Almost Entirely To Fiction,

and there is nothing to be said of the new number except that the stories in it are fairly good. The most striking is "Fascinating. Miss Vereker," in which there figures a......

With The Exception Of Two Serial Stories From The Pens

of Mar- garet Deland, and the writer who styles herself "Charles Egbert Craddock," the most notable of the contents of an excellent number of The Atlantic Monthly is a poem on......

The Humanitarian Will Be Allowed Even By Those Who Differ

toto cab ° from many of the opinions expressed in it, to be an interesting magazine, and not nearly so eccentric as might be expected from the fact that, as we learn from the......

The Boy's Own Paper Continues To Maintain Its High Standard

of excellence ; no more need be said of it. Jules Verne's new story of Claudius Bombarnac is one of the serials for 1894; it is full of mystery, adventure, and even humour,—of a......