11 MAY 1889, Page 25

Miss Yonge's magazine, the Monthly Packet, continues to com- bine,

with as much success as heretofore, fiction, history (lay and ecclesiastical), religion, and literature. Of the three stories now running, "Truth with Honour," "Lost in the Finding," and "Agatha's Vocation," we like the second the best, on account of a certain amount of almost unconscious humour which tempers its earnestness. The Hon. Eva Knatchbull-Hugessen's paper on Addison's criticism of Paradise Lost is a really admirable piece of work. We cannot speak so favourably of the sketch of Viscount Dundee, given under "Cameos from English History," painstaking though it is as a record of facts. It is all light and no shade.