Blackwood's Magazine .—May. (W. Blackwood and Sons.) —Blackwood - offers, besides
its stories, a paper on "Public Affairs," in which we note that Sir B. Frere is given up to the wolves ; a discussion on the French Republic, in which it is said to be wanting in great men —Gambetta being the only one—and in dignity ; while it has suppressed "society," and brought a new couche sociale, as yet with- out esprit, refinement, or clever women, to the top. Nevertheless, the writer, a keen observer, holds that the Republic is liked, and will live, unless a great soldier smashes it. The best paper, however; incom- parably is Mr. Scott's, on "The Pathans of the Indian Frontier." Mr. Scott was employed to survey the hills, and has a profound know- ledge both of them and their people, which he pours out in Blackwood' with perfect simplicity, and occasionally with great pictorial power Hemakes us know the clansmen's ways.
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