7 JANUARY 1882, page 31

The Magazines.

TrEE Contemporary has the best papers this month. It would be difficult to state the case against peasant-proprietorship in a more amusing or more striking way than Lady Verney......

Two Books On America.*

IF American ambition lay in being talked about, Americans ought to be happy now-a-days, for the books concerning them continue to multiply ; and the tone of criticism is......