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Maroziue Notices.


Tho leonard Scott Publishing Co. al Bar
CLAW Street N Y. y have sent us their reprint Oh
,ho March number of Backwood's Magazine.
The following are the contents: Lord Lyttons
Sneecbes; Automatically Daughters of
Priam; A Dog without Tail; The Abode of
soow-Zanskar; Alice Lorraine, Part XII;
The Prospects of the Session.
For the last thirty years the pages OF Black
wood have contained many contributions from
the pen of Lord Lytton, distinguished for their
excellence and versatility. The purpose OF the
first article is to make the readers of the maya
zine as familiar with the public as they may be
supposed to be with the literary career OF that
eminent author; and the recent publication OF
his speeches in Parliament has afforded the OPP
portunty of providing sketch of his political
life, of which the present paper is the first In
stalment.
The story of Andromache and the daughters
of Priam, here briefly told, gives occasion for
comparison of the treatment of captives in
Christian and Pagan times. In Illustration the
reader is presented witt. many striking con-
trasts from the ~Troades and Andromache OF
Euripiaas and the Andromaque OF Racine.
A Dog without a Tail is one of those fugi-
tive sketches-Little Etchlngs by the Way
side-for which Blackwood has always been
renowned.
Tn the Abode Of Snow we continue to fol-
low the traveller into little known regions of
the Himaliya, that vast continent OF noun
tains. compared with which the Alps are in
significant. The most recent maps give US no
help in tracing his route. 1t may be assumed,
with little fear of contradiction, that hardly
one of our readers has ever heard OF the prov
ince of Zsnskar, the subject of the present pa
per. The description of the unrivalled scenery,
and of the singular manners and customs OF
the inhabitants, will delight the reader with
their novelty and vividness.
The serial story, Alice Lorraine, is drawing
to conclusion.
In the Prospects of the Session, we have the
assurance that the interests of the nation will
he properly-cared for under the Tory admins
tration.
Littells Living Age, No. 1907 bearing date
March 9th, completes volume One hundred
and twenty four of this eclectic weekly. The
contents of this and the preceding weekly num-
Der are Sir Philip Sidney, by Henry Kingsley,
New Quarterly Review; Early Kings of Nor
way, parts III and III, by Thomas Carlyle, Fra
ser: The English Bar and the Inns OF Court
Quarterly Review; Religious Revivals in Medi'
aval Italy, Cornhill; Old Letters, Saturday
Review National Steadiness Spectator; Vaga-
bouds in Winter Time, The Tyranny of Moth
ers, and Egotsm, Saturday Review: the con-
clusion Of the Story of Valentine and his broth
er. from Black wood and instruments OF Three
Feathers by VIM. Black Fated to be Free, by
Jean Ingelow, and Alice Lorraine, by the au-
thor of the Maid of Skier. The usual choice
poetry and miscellany complete the numbers.
The Aldine for April (No. Is of the current
series certainly presents features of excellence
emitting it to something more than the usual
attention; part of them, too, in direction
which would six months ago have been some
thing of surprise to those who had merely
known it as an admirable exponent OF art. In
this issue, taking time by the forelock, 1t
springs to the front in topics and features con-
nected with the Centennial. There cannot be
other than most assured sensation, in the
Historical and Centennial Romance OF the
Revolution, which it commences in this num-
Der under the taking name of The Spur of
Monmouth, with the additional information
BQdG IL is WIllbSh Wy al P0hDioi "SSh'i oh>-
that the events to be portrayed have been pre-
served in the memories of eye witnesses up to
a certain period, and thence conveyed by one
who listened to their narratives-the whole be-
ing, as the writer phrases it, from personal
relations and documents never before made
public" But the Centennial tendency of the
.Aldine does not end here, there is full-page
picture of the Battle of Lexington, capitally
drawn by John S. Davis, and showing salient
feature of that memorable conflict, in man
ner equally blending force and judgment.
In other art features this number of the
Aldine is rich almost beyond the average The
Path of Duty, capital drawing by Davis,
after Merle, engraved with admirable effect by
T. Cole, some of whose exquisite work we
have already noticed; three views in Southern
Utah, the Narrows, Valley of the Babbling
Waters and Temple of the Virgin, all by
Thomas Moran. convey the scenery OF that
r wild region with great force and rare beauty
Joan of Arc at the Siege of Paris, and The
Partisan Men of September illustrate two very
different yet equally striking scenes in French
history; and a noble group of Gnarled Gray
Trunks, three fine views Of Wells Cathedral,
and pair of splendid Stag Hounds, make the
pictorial treasures of what we must again des-
ignate as a remarkable number.
In reading matter the variety and excellence
are equal. In prose, besides the new novel
already mentioned, we have another, and near
]y the LAST instalment of Lost Lillian Bracy
q sweet little bit called Dream Fairies, by x.
b. Reaux; brief story, Clochette. by Angus
Jus Won Bubna; A Gift from st. Petersburg.
II Cal ,n1a inf thaH oh
its of Authors, by Amanda P. Harris; and In
the North Woods, having mournful signif-
canoe as the last printed utterances of the late
artist, John A. Hows. In the direction of
rhyme we have a poem of beauty, By the
Dead, by Eben e. Rexford; sadder, and if
possible sweeter one, For Baby's Sake, by
Sophy Langton; sparkling Little Jack Frost,
by Chas. Sangster (the Canadian poet); Ice
Jewelry, by W. w. Bailey; and Lord Ronald's
Stag-Hounds, by John Hay Furness.