Show Literary Notices The January Babyland 1 Lcthrop Co Boston Mass will keep Use little folks in the best o humors There r several simple stories appropriate lo the fcasonand I the Illustrations are of an exceptionally exception-ally amusingcharacter The low I price of Babyland 50 ct per annum places it within the reach of all The title of the novel for January In connection with the O ice A Wee JJlirary I Passions Slave the writer of which i Richard Mho KIng Publisher P F Collier H < Warren Street New York ttft I TtiC Transatlantic the new Boston Bos-ton magazine will begin the new year magne Rubinstein number apropos of tie great Russian composers com-posers recent jubilee at SL Petersburg Peters-burg Besides an account of the jubilee celebration the number will contain extensive extracts from a recent autobiographical sketch of Rubinstein giving the mat strlk dte i log and interesting I Incidents In a life of which little has heretofore i been known also a remarkably line portrait of Rubinstein with a DC i prtrnlt simile of his autograph written Cej I Russian Still other features will compilation of articles the cause and effects of the Brazilian revolution a novelette by Xola entitled en-titled The Morrow of the Crisitj l which caused suppression of the French Journal in which It was originally published the preface of a new book wntteu by a Paris jour i I nallst to show that Jeanne dArc j was never burned at the stake and numerous shorter articles The horet music of the number will be n j lUtcrlUicmctit from Fingals Wedding Wed-ding by B M Colomer the work that forlSSa won the Roslni prim in Paris I I Tlie pular Svience Monthly for January I overflowing wit good thIngs This popular magazine I g deservedly takes a foremost place among the principal monthly publication and the present number num-ber calls for high praise on account I of its literary merit Tho contents of the number are a follow The Future Silos of the Cotton Manufacture of the tsg I by Edward Atkinson L1 D PhD Illustrated 1ublic Schools as affecting Crime and Vic by I Benjamin litter The Taoulst Religion Re-ligion by Warren G Benton Letters ou the Land Question liy Herbert Spencer Frederick Greenwood Green-wood Imf Huxley Sir Louis Mallet and John Laidler Two and a Half per Cent by George lies t The Rare Forms Orchids by J Dybowskl illustrated Irri gallon of Arid Lands by Hen J Phllpott PalmTrees and Their Uses by jr X PoIsson Illustrated A Harvest from the Oean by Prof C Morton Strahan Birds with Teeth by Otto JleyerThD illustrated The Effect of Cave r Life on Animal by Prof A S Packard The Chinese Theory 01 Evolution by Adele M Fielde Sketch uf Alexander Wilson with portrait Correspondence FarmIng Farm-Ing land the Tart A Remonstrance Remon-strance ele Editors Table Tel stois Confession S The Land Question f Pus Twentieth Birthday Birth-day of Nature Literary NuUces Popular Mleccllany Notes Pul lishcd by D Appleton < fc C 13 and o Bond Street New York In Ole Lades Roe Journal ol Philadelphia for January there are several salient features which give it a special Interest Rev T DeWltt Talmage begins his work a one of the editors and opens his new department de-partment opns My Study Lampin a manner that is de tined to make it ont of Ule most popular and widelyread pages in the magazine literature of today The portraits drawn of his early home and training and his mothers death are word pictures of singular bauty and striking power The ascension of the new editorinchief Mr Edward W Bk is also formally for-mally announced Side Talks with Girls is a wellconceived new feature of confidential talks with young women giving bright lIttle hints on the very subjects girls enjoy en-joy reading about Mrs A D T Whitney iUro and Katharine Kathar-ine B Foot supply the fiction Amelia Bloomer of the Bloomer Costume fame UDle famehas an Interesting letter on the costume which bears her name fr General Custe tells what she would do I I Were a Man while Lee C Harby Mir1 nret Sangster and Ebea E Rex I ford supply the poetry Closing with the twelve departments for I womens dally life which this magazine maga-zine sustains the number in zne St te nlmb every respect an excellent one and shows i df I what the publishers oiler for the very low price of one dollar a year Published r 433435 Arch Street I Philadelphia Pain Ihlldelpbi I In Circes Toils is the title ofn i Jo t complete novel by Meta ed Verc which appears in the January number num-ber of Belfords Magazine I will l jwnised with considerable interest inter-est The general contents of them I the-m zn comprise the following chapters all of which constitute most entertaining matter lot cnterlnlng reading matter I Andersonvllle and Olhcx war I Prisons II ind Hon Jefferto DavfcfBByoM Heli A oem by John Habbcrton After the Snow storm a poem by Herbert Baa I Cord A Child ef the Desert an apologue by Louise lyer Maiiri I gui > by E DeLancey Pierson Literature Lit-erature and Politics by Alfred 1 Peters t Blander a poem byCbas r bl1Chs Ilnder lotlri lllldffcth mm and rilKjf tons by T Johnston Evans An Interesting Client a dory by I Iallton Pott8ubldle hy John J Uume The Western llrad Situation by M L Scud der Junior Panama and Its People by Roger Ellis Bill Nyes Favorite Novel by nih Nyc Autobiography of Jefferson Davis Hen Jefienon Davis The Open Opn Door a poem M G McClelland J Walnut and Wine Edgar Fawcet 1 Princess Kissed Me a poem Re becca Cameron t Editorial Dengr m nt Andetitlvlllp ltd tftie F WarPrisons 1110 Jlohlaha Cfim and its Lesson Exit Royally The Next Question to b Settled Inter nt Tuu Cupyngni Again Passing Notes Reviews A Translen Guest by Edgar 6altu I WI1 Neer Consent by Dolores Mar bourg Book Notices and Books Received Re-ceived Publishers Blford k i Co Xew York The AbrtA American Ktriew for the present mont tomes out in exceUehtsbHpej JlJ I more than tan usually powerful number A due on Free Trade or Proieciim is fought between the Right lon W E Gladstone and the Hon James G Bane The subject i handled coniMcroble length and with eont > imma0 ability by the two distinguished btahSSn earned dltngbhe bt ame The military career of Genera Robert Lee t skilfully l handled by the lato Jefferson Davis Prof It II mumbo deals with The Border Bor-der Land Science in a comprehensive hensive manner and A Romance moner of Old Rome by Rodolfo Lsncl ftni jirhfejwjf of archeology lu theme the-me University I a welcome con trlbUiinn Tht < rerKrilnlllg items are Byr bho IWys rilIILf tou diaries T TUckerman How I Bcaime an Astronomer Camillc Flammariqn A Plea for Copyright I r J right Co jut med Ktaftyj I Womens Views Divorce t 8F cued by Mary A LIvermore Amelia E Barr Rose Terry Cooke Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Jennie June Notes and comments The Future Manufacturing by Prof Peter T Austen Troth About Female Criminal Marion Har land The Trick of Alliteration Herbert D Ward Quotation and Misquotation William I Mathews L Ll1 Published So 3 East Fourteenth Street 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