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Aunt Judy's Magazine for 1883. This year's volume of Aunt Judy's Magazine, containing contributions from Mrs. Ewing, Mrs. Molesworth, and other well-known writers, is, on the whole, a very good one. The serial story, by the author of the "Atelier du Lys," "Bride Picotee," is charming, simple, touching, and just what children will delight in. The other two serial stories are interest- ing, too, but in a much less degree, and they can neither of them be called natural. There are, however, many very lively stories, completed in single numbers ; the fairy-stories by L. Loben- hofer, and that by "Z. A. E. N.," being very pretty, fanciful little tales, and infinitely superior to the run of modern fairy-tales.
There are several capital little sketches of great men, and -many other valuable and instructive papers,—perhaps a few too many of the heavier kind, for a children's magazine, which, as the editors should be careful to remember, is intended for the hours of recreation, and not of instruction.
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