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| magazine NOt1ceS.
Harper's Magazine for December, beginning
the htty-fourth volume. is not only an especial
| ly attractive number. from the beauty of its
numerous illustrations, but is also distinguished
| by the usual variety and interest of its con-
tents
The descriptive illustrated papers treat of
Genoa and its celebrities, living and dead; the
PHILIPPINE Islands; recent important ethno-
logical discoveries in Tennessee; and the social
life of the Knckerbockers of New York two
hundred years ago. Porte Crayon's illustrated
paper on Boys and Girls is in his characteristic
style.
Two of the illustrated contributions are po-
ems. The Book of Gold, by J. T. Trowbridge'
is Christmas story in verse. AT Two Score,
by T. B. Aldrich, while it is sufficiently per-
sonaI to be welcome to the poets many friends
is not egotistical, and will be read with delight
by all lovers of poetry.
The most important feature of the number
is Mr.. GlaGstone's letter, explaining his atti-
tude toward this country during the late war
There is a very large audience in America that
will regard with the greatest interest this COM
munication from Englands wisest statesman.
Mr.. Gladstone's letter is very happily followed
by timely poem from Bishop Coke on Eng
land and America
In fiction the number is brilliant r. d.
Blackmore the author of Lorna Doone, Alice
Lorraine, and The Maid IF Skier, begins a new
novel, entitled Erema; or My Fathers Sin. In
the current number of A Woman-Hater there
an exceedingly entertaining chapter touching
upon the subject of woman's higher education
Miss Thackeray's exciting story, Peat Fields,
is concluded. There are also In this number
four excellent short stories.
The Editors Easy Chair discusses Political
Mass Meetings, Newspapers and Orators, Our
Transatlantic Critics, and the Kitchen Ques-
tion, concluding with some suggestive hints as
to beefsteak and apple-pie. The other editorial
departments are we'll sustained.
The Christmas number of 81. Nicholas this
year will be that for December, which will not
be published until Saturday of next week. 1t
is to be full of good things, to the extent of 100
pages, with so illustrations. Mr.. Bryant tells
about The Boys of my Boyhood DR.. Eggles-
ton contributes a Christmas play, and Miss
Lucretia P. Hale Christmas story; Lucy Lar
com writes of the Poetry and Carols of Win
ter; Mr.. Trowbridge begins his serial, His Own
Master, and R. A. Proctor describes the Great
Bear as The Clock in the Sky.
T. Robinson Warren's Bay Shooting in Serb
aer for December the second of the series of
papers on American Sports, is in somewhat
lighter vein than Mr.. Wilkinson's Salmon Fish
ing. As the spirited outline illustrations sug-
gest, it is full of fun and anecdote but the hard
work of coast shooting is not therefore sighted.
Other humorous papers are Mr.. Quattys Great
Speech, by VIM, NJ. Baker with tempting
picture); and James T. Fields clever sketch of
Cyrus j. Muohmore, who is appropriately de-
scribed as A Peculiar Case. Charles Barnard
writes with interest of Toad Lane, Rochdale,
and its co operative stores. Donald G. Mitchell
describes the attractive and growing institu-
tion, Lafayette College, in well-illustrated
paper. Mrs. Herrick writes popular science
paper about Single-celled Plants drawing her
own woodcuts on the block. An American in
Turkistan is the title of an article from Eugene
Schuyler's new book, portraying with pen and
pencil the life of the ttle-vsited tribes of Wes-
terri Asia. The Tureo Russia difficulties give
a timely interest to this paper, and also to
Charles Dudley Warmers Saunterings about
Constantinople, few pages farther on. Our Di-
plomates and Consuls by Albert Rhodes, con-
tains some wise suggestions worth the atten-
tion of Civil Service refoImers. Mr.. Hale's Sc
rial, Philip Nolan's Friends is completed, and
That Lass O. Lowrie's is continued, Ovid SAM
my Craddock meeting with severe loss. This
number also contains the first installment of
DR.. Hollands new story, Nicholas Minturn, in
which Nicholas is presented to the reader and
also to Miss Larkin.
The poetry of the number is by Annie r.
Amman, Rose Terry Cooke, Mary E. Bradley
and Ellen M. 81. Gates.
In Topics of the Time Dr. Holland pays
tribute to the late DR.. George B. Bacon, and
writes of Mr.. Huxley's Visit, The Better Times.
and The Interest of Fiction. The Old Cabinet
has stanza under the title of Mystic, and dis
cusses the Philistine Egoism, Reform, Daniel
Deronda as a Vindication of Bohemianism,
The Best Society, etc. Bric-a-Brac contains
variety of amusing verse and sketches In the
other departments important topics are ably
and suggestively handled.
Among the noteworthy articles contained in
the latest issues of the Living Age are the
Present Aspects of the Eastern Question, by
Edward A Freeman, Fortnigh htly Review; Sec-
ular Change of Climate, British Quarterly
French Preachers, Contemporary Review;
Charlotte Bronte, Monograph, Part III, Mac
milan; When the Sea was Young, Part ii,
Cornhill; Sir Philip Sidney, Edinburgh Review;
Nenuphas, Fancy, Blackwood; The Ameri-
can Summer and American Society, Pail Mall
Gazette; Sixty-nine Years at the Court of
Prussia, Athen@um; The Planet Vulcan, Spec
tator; Quiet Girls; American watering
Place" Acquaintance; George Whitefeld, the
Famous Preacher; Secret Societies in China;
Christian Missions in West Africa, by a Negro;
A Straw-Plait Market; An Antquary in
Difficulty; The Luxury of Grief; The Friend
of the Hero, charming short story from
Blackwood; and instalments of serials by Geo.
Macdonald, Mrs. Oliphant and Sarah Tytler'
besides shorter articles, poetry and miscellany.
Among the attractions promised in Vide
A,cake for 1877 are Quinnebasset Girls, a serial
by Sophie May; Good-for-nothiug Poll, serial
for the boys, by Ella Farman; Child Marion
| Abroad, by VIM. M. f. Round, a true record
| of little American girls travels in Europe;
Daughter and 1, housekeeping papers of prac-
tical value, and other features of interest.
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