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NEW PUBLICATIONS.
Magazine for January.

Hdqper's Magazine for January opens
with a frontispiece in tint, Illustrating a
poem by Margaret E. Sangster. called my
Golden-Haired Laddie,' y followed by the first
instalment of George du Maurier's new novel,
seFrilby," embellished with fifteen drawings
by the author. There are two other stories
IN the number which nave a serial character,
although they are complete in themselves.
Oneis "a Midsummer Midnight, y in Brander
Matthew'S s.Vignettes of Manhattan, and the
other is the second of William McLennan's
tales of the French Revolution, "As Told to
His Grace Mr.. Owen Wister contributes a
striking story of Western ranch life, called
"Balaam and Pedro" in which the principal
character is a highly-strung horse: There is
also a study of Nantucket, by Helen Camp
bell, called "The Ending Of Barstow's Novel,"
and this, with Thomas Nelson Pages short
story introducing the Editors Drawer
and a tale of San Francisco life, by Geral-
dine Bonner, completes the storytelling of
the issue. In spite of this strong array,
the impression of a fiction number is not
received. There is an important and
amply illustrated article on Egypt
and Chaldea in the Light of Recent
Discoveries by w. st. Chad Boscawen, in
which new light is thrown on the origin of
civilization. The centennial anniversary of
the first appearance of Napoleon in an inn
ated by an article, Captain Napoleon Bona
paIte at Toulon, " by German Bapst, illus
trated from a hitherto unpublished drawing.
Edwin Lord Weeks, in fFroin Ispahan to
kurrachee,o completes the narrative of his
journey by caravan across Persia, and
Eliminates it by some notable drawings.
Richard Harding Davis completes his
studies of English life with '"The West and
East Ends of London contrasting the high
and low life of the British metropolis. The
article is Illustrated by Frederick Barnard.
A strong essay on the cosmopolitan spirit of
the Hebrew is printed anonymously under
the title THE Mission of the Jews" julius
Henry Browne discusses "The Bread and
Butter Question" n the departments are
filed with the usual variety of comment,
light verse n humorous anecdote.
ssRFcCiuress Magazfness for January.
McClure's Magazine for January contains
among its interesting articles and stories a
full account of the Maxim gun, some hitherto
unpublished letters of Whittier's, an intimate
study of Jules Verne's home life, a sketch of
the heroic career of Francis Parkman by
Rev. Julius H. Ward, a thousand miles on
the engines of a "F1yer" by Cy Warman,
and short stories by Mrs. Louise Chandler
Moulton, l. Zangwill and Gilbert Parker.
Human Documents treat of Rider Haggard,
Jean Martin Charcot, Francis Parkman,
Duke of Argyle, Samuel Smiles, Professor
Huxley, Professor Tyndall, Max Muller and
others. "The Edge of the Future" a new de-
partment, will be Of great interest for the
january number.
Scribner,s for January.
Scribner's Magazine for January marks
the beginning of the fifteenth volume. The
first great fiction feature for the year is the
serial, John March, Southerner,' by George
w. Gable, the author of 'Old Creole Days.
This is the first long novel that Mr.. Gable
has published in many years. and is a most
dramatic story of of the new South. Serial
stories by j. NJ. Barrie and George Meredith
are announced to begin later. Another fea-
ture of this year will be q series of special
frontispieces selected by the eminent art
critic, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, to represent
the tendencies OF contemporary art. In this
number Manet,s s'Fifer" is the striking pic
ture chosen.
A new name in magazine literature, though
one of the best known and most popular TO
the general public, is that of John Drew
who contributes to this number his reminis-
cences of the everyday life of THE Actor"
1t is the sixth article in the series of "Men's
Occupations" and is deliberately illustrated
by w. l.. Metcalf.
The Honorable Robert C. Winthrop has
contributed to this number his "reminiscences
of "Websteris Reply to Hayne, and his Gen
eral Methods of Preparation
F. Marion Crawford concludes his pen
picture of Constantiuople with some of his
most brilliant writing, which is picturesquely
reinforced by the beautiful illustrations
which Edwin Lord Weeks has furnished
from his sketches made on the spot during
the past summer.
'sStories in Stone from Notre Dane,'' by
Theodore Andrea Cook, is a description of
those. grotesque figures adjoining the pinna-
cles and inches of the great cathedral, which
Victor Hugo has put into fiction as the fa-
miliarities of Quasimodo. The illustrations
are among the most novel and interesting
recently seen in this magazine,
Frederick Keppel has written an enter
tanning article about Sir Joshua Reynolds,
which is illustrated with reproductions of
some of the most famous portraits painted
by that artist.
There is a brief paper of interest to all
students Of sacred history in regard to the
Egypt" The author is A. L. Lewis, whose
paper on the subject before the Orientalists'
Congress two years ago attracted wide at
t%ention, and was subsequently. strengthened
by Investigations of Mr.. Flinders-Pe
There are short stories by George A. Hib-
bard and Bliss Perry and poems by Arthur
Sherburne Hardy. w. G.. Van Tassel Sutphen