5 MARCH 1870, page 25

Some Magazines.

Macmillan is full of good papers this month, and promises for April a poem by George Eliot of eight hundred lines. The special character of the magazine is telling in its......

The Scenery Of England And Ivales. By D. Macintosh, F.g.s.

(Long- mans.)—Mr. Macintosh deals with his subject in a way that will be un- familiar to most readers. He seta himself to investigate the causes which have made the varieties of......

Historical Gleanings. Second Series. By J. E. Thorold...

this volume Mr. Rogers "sketches" Wiklif, Laud, John Wilkes, and Horne Tooke. As usual, he is readable and lively, if not brilliant ; but the further he removes the scene from......

The Iliad Of Homer. Books With Preface And Notes. By

S. H. Reynolds, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of B.N.C., Oxford. (Rivingtons.) —This volume scarcely keeps up to the average merit of the very com- mendable series to which it belongs,......

CURRENT LITERATURE Memoirs of the Marquise de Montagu. By the Baroness de Noailles. (Bentley.)—We do not know who has translated this book. It has been rather carelessly done,......