The English Illustrated Magazine makes, we are glad to see,
a stand against the preponderance of fiction which is the bane of some English magazines. What can be more deplorably disappointing in its way than to take up, for half-an-hour's amusement, a number, and find it filled up, or nearly filled up, with snippets of three or four tales, none of which one has seen before ? Mr. Austin Dobson condescends, and we are grateful to him for his condescension, to write a pleasant paper about "Changes at Charing Cross." "An Unsentimental Journey through Cornwall" is as entertaining as we should expect, and has, at least, two good illustrations,—" The Lizard Lights by Night," and "The Lizard Lights by Day." There are some good illustrations, too, in "The Belfry of Bruges," notably the drawing of the " Quai des Marbriers." We need not commend to the reader Er. Archibald Forbes's morsel of autobiography, "How I became a War Correspondent."
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