Litchfield enquirer., 1861-05-02
New Publications Received at thf,
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BIAcKwooD's MAazzlsK for April.
 "Old Blackwood" the publishers assure us ip
 printed pufs which, for obvious reasons, VIC
 decline to publish, "is not unlikely to main
 tain its acknowledged position of pre-eminence
 from the earnest, hearty fashion with which he deals with whstever he takes up" It strikes u. "Blackwood" is getting to be stupid in it's old age, and but now and then brilliant paner or sparkling gem appear to remind us of Blackvood of yore and under the genial censorship of elori- ous KIT NORTH. The present number open. with stupid, pedantic rigmarole upon {. spont- aneous Combustion of which scientific sub;ect the author appears to have gathered his ideas from full deglutitiou from sods bottle. Then follows Italy: by Marc Monnier"-stol- en from Murray's Handbook; then poor rehas sh of Slang phrases picked here and there; the Life in Central Africa" by man who lived there sixteen years and ought to have died there: then "The World of Weimar" which is a world of nonsense; then another stage of that most stupid of all magazine trash that was ever foisted on long suffering Blackwood public then an autobiography of Patrick Gordon-as stupid as autobiographies generally are-and finally the number closes with "The Puniab in 1857" which without the pun is certainly the, and most intending job which the pre- sent age of readers have to encounter and over come in Blackwood.
 Leonard Scott & Co. also republish the Lon don, Westminster, Edinburgh, and North British Reviews.
 Price of one Review, $3 year. Price of the four Reviews, $8. "Blackwood" and the four Reviews, $1O.
 THE HOUSEHOLD JOURNAL FOR ApRIL.-We noticed at length this admirable Magazine last month. Its present number is fully equal to its past. Harthill & Co.,, Publishers, 20 North William St., N. Y. cts. per week, 13 cts. per month.
 THE, Coop CIrIzEN.-A new Temperance Magazine" conducted by Jas. E. Parker, 14s Asylum St., Hartford, Conn. Is promises to be good of it's class. 75 cts, year.
 CosMopoL1rAN ART JouRxAL.-The March number of this elegant quarterly reaches us, and is, as always, model of material beauty and well digested literary excellence. The present number contains handsomely illustrated paper on piano-forte making, and two or three very engravings. Published by the Cos mopoltan Art Association at 54S Broadway.
 THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY FOR MAY.-We have delayed noticing the ''Atlantic," sometime since received until we had read it. It opens with new story by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, which we understand will be given in consecutive num- bers through the current. year. It is entitled "Agnes of Sorrento' and is a story of love and duty, of joy and trial. Its heroine is young girl, born in a'Catholic country and educated under the influence of Catholic Institutions, and in the development of the plot, the author will undoubtedly illustrate the inauenees cf that creed npon the lues and character of its vetaries. So may expect brilliant and thrillingly interest ing story. A beautiful tribute to the Lights of the English Lake District follows next; . story "Pink and Blue" then; then "Pomegran- ate Flowers" Q Poem, and other papers equally interesting Ticknor & Fields, Publishers, Boston, Mass.
 ARTHUR's HOME MAGAZINE FOR MAY.-As usual, brilliant and interesting. Arthurs' is just what its name indicates, a 's Home'' Maga zine. S2 year-T. 8. Arthur & Co.,, Publish CTS, Philadelphia.
 HARPsR's FOR MAY.-Last but not least
 Harpsr's from Patton, Waterbury. An unusual
 ly excellent number, opening with amusing
 illustrated New England sketch, by "Porte Crayon,'' "Three Months in Labrador, illustra- | tod," several tales and an amusing Editors
 Drawer" Patton of Waterbury has it, and all ! the other periodicals.