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text is instructive, while it is thrilling in
the story of rare adventure.
"Farnelrs Folly" is anovel, by the popu-
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MAGAZINES.
From d. Appleton e Co. New York, We
have the Popular Science Monthly for
March The contents are fully up to the
standard of this leading American science
journal. Among the more prominent pa
pers are: Science in Politics. by +. W.
Clarke The Darwinian Theory of JUS
tice,n by Professor Romanes Medical
Expert Testimony" by DR.. Hamilton :;
How Fungi Live in Winter, by b. D.
Halsted, Sc. D.; Cholera and the Modes
of its Propagation By DR.. Max Won Pet
tenkoler = A Project in Industrial Educa
ton by Franklin II. North The Pain
less Extinction of Life, by-Dr. Richardson;
Fish and Fishing in Chinese Waters" by
NJ Maurice Jametel: I" The Accurate Meas
urement Of Time by Thomas B Wilson;
The Chemistry of Cookery by w. Mat
tieu Williams A NaturaIist's Excursion
in Dominica, by Or. Fr. Johow; English
Experience with Cancer, ny II. p. Dunn !;
Superstitions About the Dolphin. by Dr.
Biedermann. The usual editorial depart.
ments, which are conducted with lli@h ubl
ity, are as full of interest as is usual.
The Atlantic Monthly" for March
(Houghton, Miffin IL Co, Boston, is Il
number replete with choice articles. and
among the leading ones are these - The
Prophet OF die Great Smoky Mountains"
by Charles Egbert Craddock; " The Cn-
solidation Of the Colonies by Brooks
Adams Madame hiohl, Her Saloon and
Her Friends, b. Kathleen o Meara; The
Brown-Stone Boy" by William Henry
Sill; "a Marsh Island by Sarah Orne
Jewett; 81 The Head of Niobe,' by William
II. Hayne The Mother of Turgeneff,H by
Clara Barnes Martin; "a Country Gentle
man." by NJ. O. w. oliphant; = Time in
Shakespeare's Comedies" By Henry A.
Clapp; =" The New Portfolio by Oliver
Wendell Holmes" Two Historic Arueri-
cans " Miss Thomas Poems" Carlyle
in London"
From the publishers 80 Lafayette Place,
New York, we have the North American
Review for March, The papers in this
leading Review of the continent are: Flu
ture Retribution,h by Archdeacon F. W
Farrar e" The Moral Aspects of Vivisec-
ton, by Prof Noah X. Davis: Buddhist
Charity" by Prof 7. Max Muller ::
1.-The Revival of Sectionalism,r by Murat
Halstead Mind in Men and Animals,
by George John Roranes The Use and
Abuse OF Titles, by President D. c. Gill
man; Speculation in Politics, by Judge
John A jameson; Railway Land Grants,
by John W Johnston.
"Casselrs Family Magazine for March
is at hand from Cassell Il Co., New York
and London. tits freely illustrated. In no
magazine of like size do we know of any
such variety of matter being presented. We
have story and science, poetry and music.
art and fashion, physiology, astronomy and
social philosophy, home decoration and lit
erary criticism, fable and fact, geographic
sketches and Horticulture, labor debates, ed
ucational articles and law guidance-all
this within the compass of a few pages but
every one of which is rich entertainment.
From Macmillan & Co., London and
New ork, we have " Macmillan's Maya
zine" for February. Its articles are of
are: " The Life of John Eliot" by John
Morley; On all Old Song" by w. H
Lecky; "A Canadian Holiday" by Fred
crick Pollock; The City Companies, y
"Village Life in South America" Lord
Tennyson's Beckett A Milhonaire's
Cousin Chapters wv; Review of
| the Month"
The March number of "Cassells Maya
zine of Art New York. contains an arti-
Gle by Helen Zimmern upon " Artists
Homes in which the residence of Frank
Holl, South Hampstead, is described and
engravings of the principal rooms given.
Rev +. G. Brown furnishes another lecture
upon THE Early Sculptured Stones in
England p" which is accompanied with nine
| illustrations. These and other contents
will prove of interest to the reader.
The "St Nicholas" for March is fine
number of this interesting magazine for
the young people. New stories are pub
lished, and the illustrations are profuse
and attractive. An interesting story is
given from the pen of Lieutenant Frede-
rick Schwatka about The Children of the
Cold" an account of the habits and modes
of living of the young Eskimo. Century
Company, New York.
I. S. Packard, sos Broadway, New York,
has commenced the publication of
monthly magazine intended for study and
instructing of shorthand writing, based
upon the Munson system, and which sys-
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