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The New Year brings with it at least two new popular magazines, The Windsor, published by Messrs. Ward, Lock, and Bowden, and The Minster, published by Messrs. A. D. Dines. The Windsor, as we gather from a somewhat too elaborate "foreworcl,", means to compete with the livelier magazines of the time—those which depend upon what are termed "art and actuality." "The dominant note of this magazine will be buoyant." The first number which, if not specially brilliant, is nevertheless good,' sustains this note fairly well. It gives adventure, chit-chat, portraits, and sketches of celebrities. We have the inevitable interview,—on this occasion with "Edna Lyall ; " the inevitable story of detectivism,—by Mr. Arthur Morrison, whose Martin Hewitt is undoubtedly the most formidable of the rivals of Sher- lock Holmes ; and the inevitable portraits,—here of the children of such "notable people" as the Princess Beatrice, the Duke of Manchester, Sir Augustus Harris, and Mr. Hamish McCunn. Mr. H. D. Lowry contributes the first of what promises to be an interesting series of papers upon "Unknown London," beginning with " The Mysteries of Walworth Road ;" " Brummel " writes on "The Philosophy of Men's Clothes ; " and Dr. J. E. Cooney dis- cusses the sufficiently "actual" subject, "Should Children be sent to Boarding Schools ?" Two serial stories make a good beginning in The Windsor, "A Bid for Fortune," by Mr. Guy Boothby, and "The Grey Lady," by Mr. Henry Set,on Merriman. The former already promises to be an exceptionally good story of adventure. It would not be quite just, however, to judge of the character of The Windsor Magazine by its first number.
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