The Lady's World (Cassell and Co.) has, with the November
part, become the Woman's World, and is now edited by Mr. Oscar Wilde, who has already obtained for the magazine the support of a large number of ladies both of culture and of title. The change is undoubtedly one for the better, in the sense of the higher. Indeed, the dagger that lies ahead of the Woman's World in that its editor and his colleagues may aim too high, and become a college of lecturers of " The Princess " or Miss Agneta Ramsay type. In the fret number of the new series, Lady Archibald Campbell, of Pastoral Play fame, discourses on a congenial subject, "The Woodland Gods ;" the Countess of Portsmouth gives the genuine enthusiasm of femininity in "The Position of Woman ;" Mrs. Richmond Ritchie writes pleasantly, but not otherwise notably, of " Madame de Sevigne's Grandmother ;" Mrs. Jenne tells her own experiences—and her own hopes—in "The Children of a Great City;" "George Fleming" begins a serial story (on the qualities of which, however, it would be unsafe to pronounce as yet), "The Truth about Clement Ker ;" and "The Oxford Ladies' Colleges" are saccinctly described by a member of one of them. Mr. Oscar Wilde's own contribution to the first number of the Woman's World is a collection of " Notee," mainly literary. These are well written, and Mr. Wilde, in spits of the penchant he discloses for "the precious school," does not obtrude either his personality or his well-known views too much on his readers. " The Fashions," which usually occupy the first place in a lady's magazine, are here kept to the last, and are dealt with in a quietly written and businesslike paper. Altogether, the start made by the Woman's World is promising.
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