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Show APRIL MAGAZINES. Wo have received from Dwyer the April numbers of the following marlines: mar-lines: ATLANTIC MONTHLY. A Midcight Fantasy is by T. B. i Aldricb, who sends Hamlet to Vero-j na, where he meets Juliet just re-; covering from a flirtation with llo-mco. llo-mco. They fall in love, and Romeo piqued leaves town, and wandering to ELninore makes the acquaintance of Ophelia, whom he soon, marries. So tho tragedies end in wedding-hells. wedding-hells. Allen B. Mugruder gives A Picco of Secret History, which relates re-lates to President Lincoln and the Virginia Convention of 1SG1. He shows that tho president was disposed dis-posed to pursue a peaceful policy, but was overborno by the radical governors gov-ernors of the northern states. Campaigning Cam-paigning with Max, is a war experience expe-rience uiTPftiblv written bv Colonel George E. Waring, jr. Whittier contributes con-tributes a poem, The Two Angels, and Aldricb three verses, Across the Street. There are also poems by Edgar Ed-gar Fawcett, Mrs. Bustick, James Maurice Thumuson, and gome pathetic pa-thetic verses, Calling the Dead, by Mrs. Piatt. .Roderick Hudson, by Henry James, is continued. Mark Twain's experience as ft Mississippi pilot is entertaining. Crime and Automatism, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, is an instructive p;iper, which deals with the rationale of crime ai.d criminals, and adduces some strong arguments in behalf ol the idea that tne most fright ml instances in-stances of crime are illustrative of a prevailing moral idiocy, a total lack in their authors of a restraining conscience. con-science. Lawyers, legislators and judges, as well as scholars, may gather some valuable hints from this article. eCRIBNEK's. The personal of the German parliament parlia-ment is the subject matter f a lively and instructive illustrated article. The Liverpool of America, by Edward Ed-ward King, presents some of the noted avenues, buildings and monuments monu-ments of that flourishing city. The Shakespeare-Bacon controversy is summed up in tnis number. "A Farmers Vacation" begins in this number with a description of Holland as seen through practical eyes, and conveys information about windmills, wind-mills, canal boats, butler and cheese. Holland's story of Sevenoaki is continued. con-tinued. B. F. Taylor furnishes a poem entitled the Psaim Book in tho Garret. Tnere are short stories and tho usual editorial and literary departments. de-partments. &T. NICHOLAS. As bright, clear, and smiling us youth. The publishers of this maga zine must exhaust, monthly, the powers pow-ers of the best artists in juvenile literature, liter-ature, engraving typography and press-work to produce the satisfactory satisfac-tory result which comes to the young people of America under the lit e of 6t. Xichctas, for there is nothing produced pro-duced in America or England that can be compared with it in any respect. res-pect. It is a marvel of beauty and a mine of interest. THE GALAX V. Besides the threo serial romances, the article which will attract general attention is that entitled "Ourcouu-try," "Ourcouu-try," by Alfred B. Street, in which the author, contrary to the usual ly acceptcd doctrine, says that the chief i features of the American character ' are already developed, and are likely to remain for a Ung lime tvh.it thev are to day. My ''Farm at the Five-mile Five-mile Stoue." u an interesting sketch Ot Robert Lennox's purchase uf tnirtv aensof land on what is now Fifth avenue in New York city. There are some short and entertaining sketches and the usual editorial papers. " rOrt'LAK SCIENCE MONTHLY. Among the contents are: The Tri-aiiglo Tri-aiiglo Spider, the Royal Institution and the Society of Art, the First Traces of Man in Europe, the Atmosphere At-mosphere in Relation to Fog Signaling, Signal-ing, on the Correctness of Phoiogni phy. Manufacture and Conveyance of i G-uupowder, Raiudrous on the Sea, i Science from the I'uipit, Sketch of t Dr. Joseph Fraunhofer, with a por- t trait, Editorial Tble, Miscellany, etc. i |