12 MARCH 1892, Page 24

"The Wrecker" continues the leading feature of Scribner's Magazine. After

reading the March instalment, one wonders how- much—or, rather, how little—there is in it of Mr. Lloyd Osbourn& as compared with Mr. R. L Stevenson. The mad outbreak of Mr. Bellaire at the close seems absolutely Stevensonian. The other contents of this number are essentially commonplace,—in- chiding even the late Mr. Lowell's last poem, on "A Brut of General Grant." The most generally interesting paper is "The Water Route from Chicago to the Ocean." The illustrations are exceptionally good.