The Magazines.
THE most instructive article in the half-crown magazines of this month is'Mr. F. Scudamore's in Blackwood_OR the late Khedive. It is a_history , of Newfik's reign hy an......
The Best Features Of London Society At The Present Moment
is " Rita's " serial story of " The Countess Pharamond." Her characters are not at all likeable, much less loveable ; but such as they are, they are carefully drawn. There is......
A Handsome Volume Contains The Catalogue Of The Printed...
in the Library of the Incorporated Law Society, by Frederic Boase, Librarian (Spottiswoode and Co.) The Library is a little more than sixty years old, having been commenced in......
The Brethren Of Mount Alias. By Hugh E. M. Stutfield.
(Long- mans.)—We do not quite understand Mr. Stutfield's standpoint. Perhaps, as he is dealing with some developments of esoteric Buddhism and the mysterious Mahatmas, this is......
Philip's Popular Terrestrial Globe (philip And Son) Is A...
aid to the effective teaching of geography. It is clearly printed in colours, and furnished with proper mounting and stand. Globes are almost indispensable for an actual......
A Good Story By Mr. Brander Matthews, " Tom Paulding,"
is at present running in St. Nicholas, and there are in the February number some really good poems—remarkably well illustrated, too—of which "Crooked Dick," by Anna Robeson......
The Argosy Is Still Full Of Mrs. Henry Wood And
Mr. Charles W. Wood. Apart from both of these elements, the best thing in the February number—which is only a medium one—is a " superior " story of the " detective " sort, "Who......
The Atlantic Monthly Threatens To Become Painfully...
contains as large an amount of literary matter as ever. There are only two notably good things in the February number— Mr. Nathaniel Shaler's " The Border State Men of the Civil......
Current Literature.
The Idler, which is published by Messrs. Chatto and Windus, and edited by Messrs. Jerome K. Jerome and Robert Barr, is a new sixpenny magazine of fiction and jocosity, which is......
The February Number Of Harper's Monthly Magasine, Which,...
is now published by Messrs. Osgood, Mcllvaine, and Co., is a very good average one. Both the stories and the miscel- laneous articles are well worth reading. Among the former, a......
A Winter Cruise In Summer Seas. By Charles C. Atchison.
(Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—Mr. Atchison was compelled by failing health to take a holiday, and spent it—exactly two months in duration, he tells us—by journeying to South......
The February Number Of Atalanta Is A Fair But Not
a notable one ; it is, indeed, a trifle too academic. Still, it contains some very enjoyable papers. The illustrations of "Children of the Old Masters " would of themselves have......
Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, And Knightage. By Sir...
edition. (Harrison and Sons.)—This " Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary" does not need any com- mendation. More than seventeen hundred pages of the largest octavo size are......
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