6 SEPTEMBER 1884, page 23

The Magazines.

THERE is nothing very striking in the Magazines this month. There are, of course, many papers on the conflict between Lords and Commons, but we perceive little in them that has......

Current Literature.

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Edited by Francis James Child. Parts I. and II. (Houghton and Co., Boston ; Henry Stevens, London.)—Mr. Child has been long known as a......