3 JANUARY 1874, page 29

From January To December.* "of Making Of Books There Is

no end," said one who himself wrote with no 'prentice hand, and who can scarcely be supposed to have suffered from a superabundance of manuscripts. Did he with prophetic glance......

The Magazines.

THE first and perhaps the only properly political article in the Contemporary, Mr. Fitzjames Stephen's second essay on Parlia- mentary government, we have noticed at some length......