Good Words, September (Isbister and Co.)—Here the current novel is
Mr. Payn's " The Last of the Barrens." Among the other articles, nothing, to our minds, is more interesting than the chapter out of the autobiography of Mrs. Howitt. This venerable lady, now in her eighty-sixth year (an excellent portrait is given of her), writes as pleasantly and as vigorously as ever. The first recollection she gives us here is of the jubilee of George III. (in 1810). Her reminiscences of her education (which was very much her own work) are particu- larly interesting. Mr. H. R. Haweis continues to treat of "The Religions of the World," dealing this time with " The Religion of Egypt." In " The Harvest of the Heather," Mr. James G. Bertram gives some interesting statistics about the vast increase in the rent of Scottish shootings.
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