14 JANUARY 1888, page 21

We Were Much Pleased To Give Atalanta A Word Of

commendation when it entered on its new career ; we are even more pleased to note that its promise is being sustained. The stories and illustrations in the January number are of......

Into A Volume Ten Numbers Of A Periodical Which Has

been started by the proprietors of the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle for the preservation of a vast amount of curious matter in "lore and legend," terms which we find to be......

"the Story Of The Nations :" Ireland.*

A HISTORY of Ireland by a writer so well acquainted with the Irish character and colour as the author of Huffish, cannot but be welcome and desirable. Miss Lawless possesses all......

The Australasian Colonies. By Walter Hazel! And Howard...

report of inquiries made by two members of the Committee of Management of the Emigrants' Information Office during a four months' visit to Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand......

Gossips With Girls And Maidens, Betrothed And Free. By Lady

Bellaire. (Blackwood and Sons.)—Lady Bellaire holds to the old opinion that it is woman's principal vocation to marry ; but she is none the less desirous that every girl should......

It Is Evident, From The Variety And Excellence Of The

contents of the January number of Scribner' s Magazine, that its conductors mean it to be a formidable rival to the Century and Harper. The best articles are the most solid,......

Current Literature.

Time, which has undergone a number of editorial vicissitudes sufficient to justify its name, takes a new departure with the beginning of 1888, or, at least, enters on a new......