6 FEBRUARY 1886, page 22

The Magazines.

THE Fortnightly is bright this mouth. The political article, "A Radical View of the Irish Crisis," is said to be by a most eminent Radical, and but that events travel so fast,......

Criss- Cross. By Grace Denis Litchfield. (g. P. Patnam's...

—As in "Only an Incident," so in Criss-Cross, Miss Litchfield takes up her parable against flirtation. Humphrey Davenant travels across the Atlantic in company with Miss......

Current Literature.

THE SCOTCH MAGAZINES.—In the new number of the Scottish Review, the most generally interesting articles are those on "The Scottish Peerage" (a good example of the historical......

Middle-class Education. By The Rev. J. B. Lee....

Lee has some very sensible remarks to make on the subject of " second-grade " schools. Himself the Head Master of one of those foundations which have been reconstituted on this......

The Chersonese With The Gilding Off. By Emily Lanes. 2

vols. (Bentley.)—Probably Englishmen know less of Malaya than of any other portion of the globe under British dominion or protection, save, perhaps, the West Indies. Who knows......