Blackwood's Magazine for June. (Blackwood and Sons).— Contains the first
part of "A Woman-hater," a story the author- ship of which is not stated, but which, if style be any guide, is by Mr. Charles Reads; a good paper of the kind only met with in Blackwood, called a "Winter in a Northumbrian Watering-place ;" and a political article, consisting mainly of scolding at her Majesty's Opposi- tion, but indicating that Blackwood, which is occasionally apt to follow or anticipate a cue from Knowsley, does not object to the conversion of European Turkey into a congeries of autonomous States. What it does object to is to give any European Power the power of abutting us com- pletely out of the Black Sea. It admits that "the downfall of Turkey, and the disappearance of the Turk from Europe, would in themselves be an incalculable gain. It is the obscurity of the subsequent chapter of events which veils the desirable catastrophe from the imaginations of men."
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