Cassell's Saturday Journal. (Cassell and Co.) — The Saturday Journal always supplies
an abundance of entertaining reading. Perhaps we might say that their " fictionists " (a hideous but not inconvenient word) are slightly sensational, as their humorists are unquestionably cynical; but we can nevertheless be interested by the one and amused by the other. Mr. Frank Barrett contri- butes " Between Life and Death ; " Mr. G. E. Spencer, "Calamity Jane ; " Mr. Barclay North, "Jack Gordon, Knight-Errant;" Mr,
John Berwick Harwood, " The Lady Egeria ; " and Messrs. C. H. Montague and C. W. Dyar, " Written in Red." Of course the interviewing element is not forgotten, twenty-six eminent persons, Lord Wolseley, Mr. Henry Irving, the Astronomer-Royal, Mr. John Morley, and Sir Edward Hamley among them, being found " At Home." A literary "Chamber of Horrors" is provided in a series which bears the title of "Celebrated Catastrophes." The mis- cellaneous contents are past describing. These twelve hundred pages—for there is a net result, after deducting advertisements, of nearly that—give about as much for the price as is to be found anywhere.
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