The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-08 00:00:00

THE MAGAZINES.

The Cornhill.
"Philip is finished in this number with melo-
dramatic suddenness, and in the Round About Paper
the author discourses of his craft. " Romola" re •
veals a little more of the early Florentine life.
" The Crnize of the Sumter, from the Private Jour-
nal of an Officer," gives an interesting account of
one of the most skilful and daring expeditions of
modern times; and as Alpine travel has now become
an institution wiqa vacation tourists, its " art" is
here expounded for their edification. Under the
head of "The Climate and the Work" we meet with
a description of the difficulties and dangers encom-
passing an Indian Governor-General ; and A
House in Westminster" is the title under which we
find a graphic description of the missionary labours
of certain Sisters of Charity among the heathen of
that district. " There are dens in Westminster
where no respectable people dare go," says the
writer, " streets and alleys, where the houses are
built so close together that scarcely more than one
person can pass along at a time. Persons who visit
the poor in some of these localities choose days
and hours when the men are away from home;
They dare not go when they are there. Fights in
the streets, insults, brutality, drunkenness, swear-
ing, and brawling, and then all the children prat
fling and playing in the dirt, and stirring the
gutters round about, and looking on with their
round eyes ; and the geese cackling and the women
standing at the doors with their babies; and then,
perhaps, three or four people shrieking and yel-
ling, and rolling over and over in the middle
of the road : one need but go into the dens of West-
minster to see such things as these ; and one turns
away and comes out into the broad streets again.
glad to escape out of this Hades into which one had
strayed. But into this brawling grimy land the
quiet sisters pass without fear or hesitation; they
glide along like kindly ghosts of the living women
they used once to be; they enter the houses; they
stand by the sick patients ; people send for them
and they come. No one harms them, and the men
themselves, instead of ill-treating, respect them and
help them in every way."

Bentley's Miscellany.
This month Mr. Ainsworth relates the origin of
the Mansion House, and shows how the positions
of Tradescant and Herbert are becoming reversed,
the former appearing as the" Good child," the latter
as the " Tom Idle' of the tale. The second part of
the sketch of " The Two Brides" is given, and the
adventures of " Mossoo" among the aristocracy of
Leicester-square are continued. In "A Summer in
America" C:zptain Knight gives his impressions of
the Hudson and Niagara. Of the former, he says,
•‘ There are, I think, parts of the Rhine more
striking than any part of the Hudson, but nowhere
on the Rhine do you fiod the wild sylvan beauties
which adorn the Hudson's banks; the drooping
woods and rugged rocks, the quiet bays where the
still water reflects the overhanging foliage, are
characteristics of the Hudson which are wanting in
the Rhine—in short the banks of the European
river are more cultivated, and therefore less pictu-
resque than those of its American rival, to which,
on the whole, I should award the palm of superiority
in point of beauty." The Table Talk by Monkshood
treats of professional diners out; and the tale of
‘, An Arch wologist in Trouble" is based on the
assassination of the celebrated antiquary
inann• Winckel-

Colburn's 2V ew Monthly.
"Europe and America'' is the title of the open-
ing article in this number, which is based on a