7 OCTOBER 1882, page 20

The Magazines.

Two or three important changes are announced in the Maga- zines. Fraser, for example, with this number ceases to exist. It had been outstripped in the race, and of late years......

Current Literature.

POET1Y.—A Birth-song, and Other Poems. By William Freeland. (Jam' a Maclohose and Sons, Glasgow.) —This is a volume of fairly nadable verse; while scarcely rising above the......