The February number of Harper's Monthly Magasine, which, by- the-way,
is now published by Messrs. Osgood, Mcllvaine, and Co., is a very good average one. Both the stories and the miscel- laneous articles are well worth reading. Among the former, a high place should be given to Miss Mary Wilkins's pathetic little tale of the days of witches and witchcraft, " The Little Maid at the Door." Of the miscellaneous papers, Mr. Horatio Bridge's
" Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne," Mr. Sheldon's " Old Shipping Merchants of New York," and Mr. William Archer's "The Royal Danish Theatre," are, in different ways, admirable. Miss Amelie Rives cannot, however, be congratulated on her play of " Athelwold," a tragedy in which loyalty to a woman and loyalty to a Sovereign contend with the usual result. It is heavy and, in parts, stilted.
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