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LATE MAGAZINES, ETC.

9 Cassells Family Magazine" for Deem
Der (Cassell & Co., London and New York.
| is most attractive issue. The novel, and
always interesting, Gatherer" department
is even of more scientific and industrial in
| terest this month. The serials continue,
and in addition are illustrated articles, as
| follows: ''An Alpine Village Story - " The
| Garden in November; - THE Early Home
| of Florence Nightingale" by Edward Brad
bury; Dicks Wife, story; Loose
Strife" a poem: "Bypaths of Commerce"
| by Rev. a. T. auckland. There are papers
| also by The Family Doctor ;" the illus
| trated Fashion article; How / Got My
Telephone for Nothing EmpIoyments;
| and A Boston Society"
| The Christmas number of g" The English
| Magazine" Macmillan & Co., London and
| New York, is a superb issue. Its pages are
doubled, and its engravings are twice the
| usual number in supply. Many of them
are full-page illustrations, and all from the
best artists, and are executed in the
higher style of the engrayers
art. The text matter is full, and so
varied that we hesitate TO give space for
recapitulation of the papers stories and
poems. 1t certainly challenges the admira-
ton of any who examine the volume and
testities to the determination of the pub
4iShtio " lllSAhC llllS CnGdp Il
formidable rival to its American contempo-
raries.
The ' Sanitarian for December, pub
lished at lib Fulton street. New York, has
for its leading topics Contagious Dis
eases Propagated by Rags, and the Neces-
sity of Distinction" by w. NJ Smith,
Health Officer of Port of New York; "The
Action of Disinfectants on Microzoords,"
by A. w. Blythe. +. C. s., etc; Influence
of Marriage on Cholera; :" Care of the
Teeth y 90 The Origin, Work and Pres
ent Position of the National Board of
Health, by Stephen Smith, NJ. D., New
York, etc.
Fords, Howard & Hubert, New YORK,
have issued an American revised version of
the " Book of Psalms" The readings and
renderings preferred by the American
committee of revision are incorporated into
the text, while those retained or adopted by
the English committee are given in an APP
pendix. 1t is printed in blank-verse style,
in large plain type, bound in flexible COW
ers, and will meet with popular favor for
general use.
The Magazine of American History"
for December has among its contents
Thanksgiving Day, Past and Present.
giving history of the observance, by
Charles L. Norton; The Campaign of
1S6l-62 in Kentucky, as Unfolded
| through the Correspondence of its Leaders,
How we Ran the Vicksburg Batteries y
"a Chapter of the Mexican War;" etc.
Published at so Lafayette Place, New
York.
The Christmas number of the " Book
Buyer issued by Charles Scribner's Sons,
New York, is the finest number yet sent
out of that publication. The object of the
q Book-Buyer" is TO keep its readers intel
! ligently informed upon current literature,
| giving brief outlines or notices of leading
| publications as they are issued, notes about
authors, etc. 1t serves as a sort of encyclo-
pedia of new literary works and thoughts.
"The Culver" for December published
| by Cassell q Co., New York. publishes the
| first four chapters of The Heir of Sanford
Towers" a new serial story promising
much interest. Also three chapters of a
new serial entitled ''Oliver Langston's
| Ward written by Evelyn Everett Green
The various departments of the magazine
fully maintain their usual excellence.
The art Age" for November has
| beautiful Forbes photogravure of rocky
/ coast marine, by F. II. De Haas, n. A, and
a cattle picture by James NJ. Hart, n A.,
| in the December issue. The art Age"
| is printed in two colors. Twenty-Five cents
a copy. Turnure q Gilliss Brothers, pub
fishers, rs Fulton street, New York
idle Idyls )" is the name of small
volume of juvenile poems by George A.
Taylor, recently issued from the press of
| Goldstein & Co., San Francisco. The prin-
| cipal poem is entitled, The Last of the
Passedaways," being tale of Mono valley
and the Sierras.
The Keynote published at New York,
has donned an entire new dress, as a holt
| day present to itself and is now the finest
| in appearance, as it is one of the most ex-
cellent, journals devoted to art and music
| to be found in any land.
Gone, Brave One, Gone" is the name
of song and chorus by Walter A. Perry,
just published by Perry & Noble, New
| Bedford Mass. 1t is memorial tribute to
General Grant, and a very pretty piece
| Price, 40 cents.
The u Herald of Health" journal de-
voted to promoting a higher type of man.
hood, physical, intellectual and moral" is
| published monthly by NJ. L. Holbrook,
NJ. D., 10 Laight street, New York, at 81
! per annum.
Dio Lewis " Nuggets for December, at
hand, abounds in useful suggestions and
information, in the doctors well-known
style. Published by Dio Lewis Publishing
Company, New York.