11 OCTOBER 1879, page 21

Time University Magazine, For October, Is Brim Full Of...

and that is all we can say about it, for it is the single impression it makes upon us. We have read all the papers, with a certain enjoy- ment in their vivacity, and can......

Blackwood. (october.)—the Traveller In Syria Continues...

this time adds his testimony to that of the many ob- servers who have declared that there is a flavour or aroma about Damascus,--a flavour at once of mysticism and of extreme......

Macmillan. (october.)—mr. Seeley Continues His Thoughtful...

politics, essaying to show that the great parties have not held their dogmas continuously, but have repeatedly changed their policies. The Tories, for example, wore the peace......

Current Literature.

• Fraser. (October.)—This is not a good number of Fraser. There is no article of conspienous merit, and the majority of the paper] are distinctly poor. Mr. Kobbel gossips......

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......

The Cornhill Magazine, For October, Depends On Its...

padding being unusually devoid of interest, unless we except a terri- ble attack on the character of Burns, which ought, in Scotland, to call forth replies. We do not know,......