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From the Century Publishing Company,
New York, we have the Century Maya
zine" for March, with profuse illustra,
tions and a choice table Of contents in
addition to the regular departments
and reviews, as witness this tempt
ing list of titles among Others "The
New Washington, Henry irving" by
J. r. Sowse 1.-The Next Presidency" by
Wayne MacVesgh; "0ur Public Build
ings in America" by Richard Grant
White "Count Won Moltke," by Helen
Zimmerin ; The Suppression of Pauper-
ism," by d. MEG Means Byron at the
Cell of Tasso," by Mary S. Wilmington
"Iu Primeval Wood" by ]. Vance
Cheney How Love Looked for He'll,
by Sidney Lanier Notes on the Exile of
Dante" by Sarah Freeman Clarke ga
Hunt for the Nightingale" by John Bur-
oughs, and several short stories and the
two serials now running.
The Manhattan Magazine" Temple
Court, New York, is at hand for March.
1t is freely and handsomely illustrated
and admirably printed, and makes up one
of the best of the periodicals of the coun-
try. The leading papers are: Dart
mouth College" by B. B. Valentine
Transformation, by Harriet Prescott
Spofford "a Farmers Sorrow, by Sarah
Orne Jewett; "Our Forests and Tree
LORE" by Laura G. Holloway "What
Came of Kit of Mackerel," by ]. H.Wal.
WORTH; "A Walk in Winter" by C. C.
Abbott; Rafting on the Allegheny" by
w. w. Howard What Will Become OF
Egypt" by W. w. Loring (Pashs) 1.-THE
Myth of Fingars Cave" by Cove White
house; thinking Cymbals, "by Edgar Faw-
cett; Creation or Evolution" by George
Ticknor Curtis /; and the usual editorial
departments.
The "North American Review" for
March go Lafayette place, New York, is
upon our table. The contents are of usual
interest. The leading papers of this ster-
ling review are entitled sis our Civiliza-
ton Perishable ?" by Judge ]. A. Jameson
Agricultural Politics in England" by
William E. Bear; ga Defenseless Sea.
board, by Gen. H A Smalley "Neither
Genius nor Martyr" by Alice 81. Rhine
1.-THE Story of Nomination, by w. o.
Stoddard Literary Resurrectionists, by
Charles T. Congdon How to Improve
the Mississippi" by Robert S. Taylor !;
The Constitutionality of Reputation,
by D. Fl. Chamberlain and John S. Wise,
NJ C.
The February number of "The Maya
zine of Art, published by Cassell & Co.,
New York, has as frontispiece an engrav-
ing of Lemoch's, ''The Orphan" An ar
ticle upon Algiers, with illustrations finely
executed More About Venetian Glass )"
"The Artist in Fiction :" The Insti-
tute," referring to the new British In4ti-
tute of Art; Sculpture at the Coincide
Francois, etc., are among the noticeable
parts of the number.
"The Platonist, edited by Thomas NJ.
johnson, Orange, New Jersey, has in its
February number these content, "The
Symposion or Banquet of Plato ;" "Kabal.
istic Doctrine of Spirits, by Eliphas Levy !;
"The Platonic Doctrine of Ideas" dis.
sertation by Thomas Taylor "Jamblichos
on the Mysteries, a new translation by
Alexander Wilder; "School of Philosophy
il Phil idelphia, Pa" "The American
Akademe.
The Modern Age" for March has these
contents "The Story of a Genius" by
0ssip Schubin 4" The Kronprinz's Home !"
"Nissa, by Albert Delpit "The Fehm.
gericht," by Louis Barbe "a City Church.
yard, ~ by Lewis Morris "Under the Pal
metto Flag" by La Duffus Hardy; Seven
Year Sleepers +" "Frau Ante" by Adal-
bert Meinhardt etc.
"Phono, or Bridal Veil Lancers, is the
name of new piece of music by l.. Won
der Mehden. It is said to be the best OF
the Lancers put forth by this composer.
The title-page is adorned with view OF
Bridal Veil Falls. Yosemite Valley. Pub
lished by A. l.. Bancroft Co., San Fran
cisco. Price, so cents.
"Cassell's Family Magazine, " for March,
is at hsnd, and contains fifty pages of orig
inal and selected reading of very inter-
estine character. Published by Cassell &
Co., New York.