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Current Magazines.

The Pansy. edited by Mrs Alden, t"Pansy")
and published by d. Lothrop s. Co., is one of
those juvenile publications whose pictures and
attractive Mrs. Alden has the happy faculty of
inculcating a religious moral without making her
stories offensive
Godey's Lady's Book has secured Miss Rose
Elizabeth Cleveland as contributor, and the
January number opens with the first chapters of
a story from her. This old established magazine
still fills place in the line of what may be
called feminine literature which none of its sue
cessors and rivals has yet reached. Published
in Philadelphia.
The new plan adopted by Lippencott of pub
fishing no serial stories makes tn magazine
very attractive TO a large class of readers. The
January number contains complete novel en-
titled Sinfre," by Julian Hawthorne. Sidney
Luska, Austin Dobson, Walt Whitman and Ed
gar Fawcett are among the contributors to this
number. which also contains Miss Rose Elizabeth
Cievelands poem. "Tbe Dilemma of the Nine
teenth Century" of which mention has been
previously made.
The Magazine of Art for January (Cassell &
Co.. is even more attractive than usual. A run
ming commentary on the Clarke collection of
American paintings. by Charles DeKay. forms
the opening paper. 1t is followed by article
on English decorative needework. by Richard
Heath. cart in the Colonies" and ..Hoghton
Tower" all accompanled by engravngs. The
four portraits of Sarah Siddons curiousiy
unlike the representations of that great actress
usually gwen to the public beautiful tinted
photogravure after Jacquet forms the fronts
piece.
A new essay in fiction is story written con-
jointly by Mrs. Olphant and 7. B. Aldr,ch
the first chapters of which appear in the Janua-
ry number of the Atlantic. The literary style
of these writer's is unlike that the result of
their united labor will be read with some curios-
ity. Paul Patoff," new story by F. Marion
Crawford, also begins in this number. Agnes
Repplier has an interesting paper on what chill
dren read, which it will profit parents to consid-
Philip Gilbert Hamerton continues his pa
pers on French and English. Edith M. Thomas
has an essay on men and trees which, like many
of her prose articles is rich in poetical sugges-
tion George Frederic Parsons considers the re-
lation of the saloon to society. and tells truths
concerning the matter which seldom find their
way into conservative publications like this mag
azine Mr. Parsons holds that there is no sub
ject of half the Importance TO the
Nation that this is and that it
is not the politicians, nor even the liquor-deal-
ers, who are to blame for the continued power
and arrogance of the saloon but the indifference
of the people, the unenlightened state of public
opinion.
Modern socialism," he says. (which infects
the whole labor question: would lose half its
strength il the saloon were abolished. 1t is,
indeed, duty which rests primarily with labor
itself to attack this evil: for without the incul
cation of self-restraint, the workingmen
never realize their hopes of progress, nor will
their organization prove fully effective until
they employ it to foster sef-help in their own
ranks. and to train themselves to the conscien-
tious performance of duty"