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Show ' MAGAZINES. SLtf .JTDON Ql'ARTERlT REVIEW. The January isstue of th above, reprinted by the Leonard Scott publishing pub-lishing company, 41 ; Barclay Btreet, New York, cives bright promise for the year. The opening paper is entitled en-titled "The Renaissance in Italy and in Eogland." ThQn follow: ! "Scientific Lectures their U3e and abuse;" "Bohlieman's Myoonx;" "Maroh of an English Generation through Lite;" "Sir Krskine May's Democracy in Europe;" "A .French Grille on Goethe;" "Railway Accidents;" "Lord Melbourne;" 'The House of Commons and the Obstructive Party ;" "The Meeting of Parliament." The periodicals reprinted by the Leonard Scott publishing company are Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and the London Quarterly, Edinburgh, Edin-burgh, Westminster and British Quarterly Reviews. AIAaUUN'E FOR M ASCII. Harper's Magazine for March offers even stronger attractions in its read i ng matter than in its many beautiful .lustration. In the field of fiction this periodical stands easily first with serial stories from two such novelists as William Black and Thomas Hardy. Miss Constance F. Woolaon contributes a very humorous short story entitled "Morganatic Matches." Another short story, "Squire Paine'n Conversion," U one of Rose Terry Cooke's sharpest delineations of New England life. The number opens with an attractive attrac-tive illustrated paper by Martha J. Lamb, under the title of "Bute and Society in Washington," and fur-n'uhet fur-n'uhet a picturesque review of social life in the optional capital. Among the illustrations is an excellent portrait por-trait ofdeorgo Bancroft, tho historian;' also, there is a portrait of the oldest officeholder in Washington. Turn ing from society to nature, we have in Mr. Edward Abbott's "Grand Manan and Qucddy By" a striking descriptive piper, with some very effective pictures by Briclier. An 1 important series of illustrated paptra on old l''ieinisb masters is begun iu this number the lira! p-ipur being about (..Htenliu Malay., thu luiuuiio " blacksmith" painter cf Antwerp, ifouaehcld Art is represented by au intereriliog paper on "fret-sawing and Wood-c.-mug," by Juhud Wilcox, with i even teen equisilu engravings. A picturCEque feature peculiar tr cur American educational mat milium is treated in C. Thwing'e paper on "Summer tichools," with eleven illuutralioua. H. H. Stoddard can-tributes can-tributes a very dramatic poem. "In Alsatia," the scene being laid in a quarter of London know by thai namo. The poem is illustrated by Fredericks. A remarkable and exceedingly interesting paper is contributed con-tributed by B. Phillipu, bastd upon ii collection of thirty-three unpublished unpub-lished letters of Washington Some of these letters are ot historical importance, im-portance, and they all throw a new tight upon the most prominent figure in American history, . "A Glimpse at Some of our Charities" is concluded in this number, with a review of the asjociatei efforts that are boing made for the employment, education, and pro teclion of women. Anna C. Bracket!, in a brief paper, entitled "A Triad ot Superstitions," vigorously attacks somo veteran maxims about early rising, Satauic work for idle hands, and the value of memory. Charlotte Adams, the author of "Christinas in Venice," in the January number, contributes an equally picturesque article on "Venetiun Tapestries." The Editorial Departments are full . of timely and valuable inibrmatiorj, including a capital Editor's Drawer. U.irper fc Brother, New York, James Dwyer, Salt Lake. ETERNAL PUNISHMENT. The March-April number of the North American Review will contain a discussion on the Bul'jec. of Eternal Puniahmeut, written ly six of the most prominent clergymen in tho country, ropresenliug as many secta. DABYLAND. The February number of thia little magazine for the nuraery, is as attractive attrac-tive and interesting for the little people, peo-ple, as its predecessors. Published by D. Lothorp & Co,, Boston. |