Chambers's Journal. Fourth Series. (W. and R. Chambers.)-This old favourite
of the public has commenced a new series with the com-
mencement of the current year, and maintains its character. In one
feature-namely, light humorous papers, in which a slight but really funny incident is pleasantly told and not made too much of,-" Cham-
bers's " is still quite unrivalled. Very useful and amusing also are those papers which give the reader all the precedents for any of the social events of the day. Especially we would notice a paper in the number for February last which gives a neat condensed account of the Shakespeare jubilee in 1769, the gala of 1827, and the festival of 1830. In the novel which is now being published in instalments in the periodical under the title of "Lost Sir Massingberd" the editors are not very fortunate, which is to be regretted when the main object is to avoid over-solidity, the common fault of the magazines of the day.
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