9 FEBRUARY 1895, page 26

The February Number Of The Quiver Is, Truth To Tell,

a poor and limp one ; indeed, the general character of this magazine at the present time suggests the necessity for such a transformation as has recently been made in its......

By Far The Most Notable Thing In A Good Number

of the Bookman is another interesting little chapter of autobiography from the pen of Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson. It is in the form of a letter to an American friend. It states,......

The Boy's Own Paper Indicates No Falling Off. There Is

no magazine in existence which keeps up so steadily to the standard of excellence and variety its conductors have placed before them. The most notable features of the February......

Current Literature.

Harper's Magazine has made a most promising start this year. Mr. Hardy's new story is evidently to be very interesting, and at least one of the characters in it, Jude Fawley,......

Mr. George Gissing's New Novel.*

FIFTEEN or twenty years ago, there was a vacant place in English fiction, waiting for a competent writer to fill it. We had novels of high society, written sometimes with know-......

However Much One May Disapprove The Principles Of The Editor

of the Humanitarian, Mrs. Victoria Woodhull Martin, there is no. denying the enthusiasm and vigour with which it is conducted or the excellence of many of the papers which......

The New Number—a Very Excellent Number It Is—of The United

Service Magazine, contains quite a number of seasonable papers, such as Captain Pasfield Oliver's "The Expedition to Mada- gascar," Colonel Maurice's "The War between China and......

The February Number Of The Gentleman's Magazine Is One Of

average interest only. The most interesting of the contents is Mr. John Kent's russet-coloured idyll—rather too full of dialect perhaps—which bears the title, "The Genesis of a......