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There Is A Great Deal Of Readable Matter, Although There

is no article of outstanding importance, in the now number of Harper's Magazine. The remarkable writer who disguises her personality under the masculine nom de plume of "Charles......

My Schoolfellows. By Ascott R. Hope. (biggs And Co.)—mr....

has written so much about schoolboys and schoolmasters, that it is surprising to find he should bo able to publish a volume, essentially of anecdotes, which has even the......

Living Sermons. By Mrs. Reaney. (nisbet.)—obviously Mrs....

advantage of the present season, at which folks of all ages, but especially the young, are expected to take an abundant supply of solid advice as well as other solids not......

If Africa Is As Interesting To The Public As Over

it was—which is, to say the least, very doubtful—then the most generally attractive If Africa is as interesting to the public as over it was—which is, to say the least, very......

Scribner's Magazine For 1890 Has Been Published In Two...

but not unwieldy volumes, It contains, in addition to innumerable short stories, several complete novels in serial form, of which "Expiation," by Octave Thamet, and the......

The Sixth Volume Of The New Edition Of Chambers's...

brings us down to Malta. The biographies in it are not perhaps, so notable as some that have appeared in earlier volumes, although canon linger gives a delightful sketch of......

Temple Bar, Which Never Falls Off, And Is Never Dull,

starts this year with three new serials, of which "The Three Brothers," by Mr. Norris, promises to be exceptionally good. "Love or Money" is the name of another and powerful......

May Hamilton. By " M. B." (biggs And Co.)—considerable...

especially in character-delineation, is displayed in this book, but it cannot be said to be the pleasantest that could be put into a girl's hand. May Hamilton is an interesting......

Good Words Makes A Most Promising Start For The Year.

Mrs, Oliphant begins a new story, " The Marriage of Elinor," which, although it would bo premature to pronounce a judgment at so early a stage, will, it is already clear, have a......

There Is No Very Remarkable Article In The New Number

of Oassell's Family Magazine, but there is an exceptional number of readable papers of different kinds, such as "The Memories of Milan," "The Coming Census," and " The Key-Note......

Among The New Sixpenny Magazines Which Have Seen The Light

with the New Year may be mentioned—and contrasted—The Ladder (Marshall Brothers) and Groombridge's Magazine (Groom bridgeand Sons).—The main objects of The Ladder, which is......