Litchfield enquirer., 1861-12-26
Magazines for January.

~Se~3AAAASS THE ATLANTIC is promptly on our table, and opens the new year with its promises more than fulfilled. A glance over the articles leads us to believe that better number of any magazine has never been issued for America. The follow ing is the table of contents:
 Methods of Study in Natural History, Prof. Louis Agassiz; Agnes of Sorsento, Mrs. Stowe; The True Heroine; Jefferson and Slavery, Prof. 4. D. White, of the University of Michigan Story of To-Day, "Author of Life in the Iron Mills" James Fennimore Cooper, George s. Hillard; Per Teaebras Lumina, Mrs. A. D. I. Winthrop; Light Literature, by Rev. D. A Wat son. Pilgrimage to Old Boston, Nathaniel Haw thorne Autobiographical Sketches of Strength Seeker, Dr. Geo. B. Winship; Fremonts Hun dred Days in Missouri, Wm Dorshiemer, of Buff | falo Birdofredum Sawin, James Russell Low ell; Old Age, Ralph Waldo Emerson Reviews and Literary Notices.
 Prof Agassiz, whose name is so we'll known to all students of Natural History throughout the country, will continue his contributions in | every nlmter of the ATLANTIC throughout the year, and from the first specimen, we are sure that they will be written in so popular and in- teresting style, as to make them as eagerly sought for by the general reader as the profes- sional student.
 What shall we say also to congratulate the thousand admirers of the old Bigelow Papers," in this new installment of the wit and wisdom of the gifted and versatile author. which is now presented them! Only buy and read! We can conceive of no more agreeable and well come present for the new year, to oae's self, or one's friend, than Q subscription to the best magazine in the country-The ATLANTIC | MONTHLY.
 Boston, Ticknor & Fields, Publishers. TIE CONTINENTAL MosrHLY-"Deyoted to Literature and National Policy" is the title of q new magazine, the January number of which is just issued.
 The opening number strikes us exceedingly favorably. Its tone is of the most manly, its matter the most varied and interesting. It is easy to see its great aim and labor is the ad- vancement of the glorious cause for which we are all engaged, and yet such is it's variety of matter, that it is no less entertaining to the gen. eral reader than instructive and thoughtful to the patriot
 Its opening article for January, is on " The Situation, careful and instructive epitome of the purposes of the rebellion up to the presen, time, and the means that are arrayed against it for its suppression; then dissertation entitled Is Progress Truth ;'' then pleasant sketch of the " Edwards Family" from its great found CT down to the present generation next "Son- net; ;' then " The Green Corn Dance," by John Howard Pay"s, author of Home, Sweet Home;' then poem " Resin tho Bow" "The Crave yard at Princeton'' '' "Among tho Pines :' {. The Lesson of the War ;'' " Ralph Waldo Emerson ;'' "Sprng and C,dipus :" "The Actress Wife :'' "Song of Freedom; ;" "Across the Continent ;'' hat to do with the Darkies;'' 1.-The Slave Trade in New York; Literary Notices and Edi- tors Table.
 Chas Godfrey Leland, formerly of the "knick- erbocker Magazinc,'' and more lately of s Eani- ty Fair,' is the Editor, and J. R Gilmore, Bos- ton, the Publisher-s
 PETERsos's Philadelphia Counterfeit Detector is on our table. It appears to be one of the best cf the kind, though it publishes the Winsted Ddilh bliS itS utiStcdbte. tFe could ma sale fUr any quantity of them here at Toe cents on the dollar. T. B. Peterson & Bros., 306 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. Publishers, monthly, sl a year.
 HARPER for January is also received, and Pat ton of Waterbury promptly distributes it to his numerous customers. The illustrated papers are "The Franconian Switzerland" and "History of the U. S.'Navy," with the portraits of distin- guished naval commanders. "Castle Pickney'' is poem of much merit. The stories are enti- tied "Penny Dexter" My Brier-wood pipe, and what became of it," "Mehetable Wesley '' "Courtship by character" "Hints for Travel ers," Trollope's Y" Orley Farm" and Thackeray's Philip" The Monthly Record" contains m admirable summary of the Message and the Re ports, and the "Drawer'' is like itself, inexhaus- tible of good things.
 For sale by Patton-the Waterbury Book Sell CT.