11 OCTOBER 1879, page 20

The Hundred Greatest Men.* [second Notice.]

THE second of these portfolios of the " greatest men" con- tains the portraits and lives of architects, sculptors, painters, musicians,—Phidias, Praxiteles, Leonardo da Vinci,......

Some .papers In The Magazines.

TUE most readable, as well as the best, paper in the a:ntent- porary is Colonel' Osborn's, upon the present policy in Afghani- Stan, an unhesitating and most forcible......