Show LITEEATUKU ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE No periodical ever came mor e rrooiptly into public favor tha n The English Illustrated Marjazin e the first issue of which gave it af 1 place and a name in the world 0 choice literature This circumstance circum-stance is the more remarkable fron the fact that it came at a time wher the reading world seemed abundantly abund-antly supplied with such excellent periodicals as now abound It is m easy thing to come into a field occupied occu-pied by Harpers Scribnefs Atlantic Atlan-tic and a half dozen others of equal or less merit yet the one mentioned above has found a place thao was unoccupied Only excellence could have done this for those who accept and approve magazines are learned and discriminating Thev do not buy and read because < it is fashionable to do so but because be-cause it is a pleasure and a profit and they are acute in their discrimination discrim-ination and intelligently eareful ir thEir discretion Number 2 of the English Magazine is just out and it is a worthy successor to the initia issue mentioned in these columns last month The illustrations number num-ber a score or more and while the subjects are full of interest the workmanship is of the very best 1 displaying the engravers art in the 1 highest state of perfection Among the contributors are Austin Dobson with an interesting paper descriptive descrip-tive of The Banqueting Home and Old Whitehall Bernard HBecker with an ilJustrated article on Brass Work in Birmingham J H Shorthorn The Little Schoolmaster School-master Mark T H Huxley Oysters Oys-ters and the Oyster Question concluded con-cluded Mid Charlotte M Yonge with three more chapters of The Armourers Prentices Address Macmillan Co 112 Fourth Avenue New York OUR LITTLE ONES The November number is cram full of the choicest and most wholesome whole-some matter for the juveniles who will find it entertaining as well as instructive There is such rivalry among the publishers of young peoples peo-ples literature that only the very best comes to the front Our Little Ones keeps abreast of the times Address Russell Publishing Company Com-pany 36 Bromfield street Boston Mass LITTELLS LIVING AGE The numbers of The Living Age for the weeks ending October 27th md November 3d respectively con t ain The Religion of the Paris Ouv tier British Quarterly Review The Rise and Fall of Amsterdam Contemporary Con-temporary Some things of Old I pain All the Year Round Lord JS eaconsnelQ s ljnarac er em pen aT Contemporary Life and Thought in France Contemporary The Expediency Expe-diency of Killing Eminent Men Saturday Review The Cause of the Weakness of French Negotiations Negotia-tions Economist Extinzb Miseries of Human Life Saturday Review Some Recent Biographies Fortnightly Fort-nightly Earth Movements in Java Contemp rary Some Reminiscences of Jans Welsh Carlisle Temple Bar A Chinese Martyr of Our Own Times Month Inez de Castro Sel gravia La Mascaret Saturday Review Re-view The Distance to The Sun Tim PS flherrv HoDBrs Penance iUtCPOj VJtJiJ oL I Argosy tne continuation of The I Wizards Son the conclusion of Poor Little Life anl Along the Silver Streak and the usual amount of select poetry Littell Co Boston arethe publishers pub-lishers MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY a The November Magazine Am rican History presents an exceptionally excep-tionally attractive table of contents The frontispiece is an excellent engraving en-graving from Trumbulls famous painting of the Evacuation of New I York never before reproduced The leading article is by Judge Advocate Asa Bird Gardner entitled en-titled The Last Cantonment of the vmioin Prmtinental A rmv of the Rev > hit nitlsslly written and is accompanied ac-companied by fourteen illustrations of rare interest of which the Official Of-ficial Map of the Cantonment now first given to the public and the fine portrait of Major John Armstrong engraved from a painting by Jarviq in possession of John Jacob Astor are among the most notable Tne second article is a valuable epitome of events in Europe concerning The Treaty for which the Army Waited by Theodore F Dwight Librarian of the State Department Depart-ment Washington with a facsimile fac-simile of the signatures from the original treaty A curious car ricature of Lord North from a rare English print occupies one page showing the strength of party feeling feel-ing that compelled him to resign his office as soon as the treaty was signed The editor describes the frontispiece in two pages after which we have the conclusion of Hon Charles Gayarres Ii Historical Sketch of Pierre and Jean Lafitte the famous Smugglers ofLouisiana The Journey of Madame Godin a thrilling story by Frank D Y Carpenter General Houstons Indian Life by Alfred DWilliams the second chapter of the Private Intelligence Papers of Sir Henry Clinton which begins to unfold its surprising secrets and some exceedingly ex-ceedingly readable sketches in the department of MiNORToPlcs which is becoming a most entertaining feature of the Magazine The other departments are all admirably filled with entertaining and useful matter mat-ter Publication Office 30 Lafayette Place New York City FRANK LESLIES SUNDAY MAGAZINE MAGA-ZINE The December number comes to us outwardly greatly improved by a new and very tasteful cover inwardly in-wardly we think the magazine is scarcely capable of improvement the present nuirtber brilliantly closes the fourteenth volume Religious Denominations in the United States is continued and What is I Swedenborgianisna is explained by Rev J C Ager There are articles ar-ticles on Buddhism and its Early Literature The Episcopal General Gen-eral Convention Sa3red Musicians of the XIXthCentury The Sha pira Manuscript of Deuteronomy The Kuights of the Temple Womans Vork in Germany etc etc Most of these are admirably illustrated There are sketches essays es-says poems and a rich departnent of fiction with the conclusion of the serial Mr Burkes Nieces and short stories by Eben E Rexford E F Gordon Gumming and other celebrated writers The editor T De Witt Talmage DD contributes a sermon and indeed the number abounds with interesting and edifying edify-ing reading Mrs rank Leslie publisher 53 55 ana 57 Park Place New York |