The September Magazines

The following magazines lor September hav been on our table and elaiming a uotice lor some dayB : The Athmtic Monthhj has: A Glimpse oí Contemporary Art in Europe- II.- by W. J Hoppin ; Two Weeks' Sport on the Coulonge River, by George W. Pierce; Honest John Vane- III.- by J. W. DeForest, in wliich " Honest John " finds that an honest Congressraan is of no possible account at Washington ; President Jefferson's Chief Measures, by James Parton; Gunnar, a Norse Eomance- III.- by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen; My Experience of Community Life, another interestiug chapter of the autobiography of Robert Dale Owen ; The Summer's Journey of a Naturalist- III.- by N. S. Shaler; The Shore House, by S. O. Jewett ; and for poetry : Frost-Work, by T. B. Aldrich ; A Poem Served to Order, which the reader need not to be told is by Oliver Wendell Holmes ; The Best, by Louisa Bushnell; and, The Rhyme of Sir Christopher, by H. W. Longielow, - legendary and characteristic. And then the usual pages of notes on Literature, Art, and Music. Jas. E. Osoood & Co., Boston. - Scribner's Monthly has for its leading illustrated papers : A Cruise Among the Azores, by S. G. W. Benjamin, seven illus. ; Central Park, twenty-one illus.; aud The Birds of the Poets, six iUub., by John Burroughs. The continued papers are : Arthur Bonnieastle, Holland's powerful story, to be concluded in one more number, and which haa already reached its crisis, - one illus. ; An Episode of Fiddletown, Bret Harte's Bret Harteish story, - one illus. ; and Modern Skeptics- II.- by Augustus Blauvelt. The other papers are : " The Liberty of Protestantisra " - a response to an " Orthodox Minister," by W. W. Faris ; Edward Eggleston, by Washington Gladden, with portrait ; Baum, the Cornet Player, by Albert Webster, Jr.; The Scholar in Politics, an address by Whitelaw Beid; and, A Fan Study, by Noah Brooks. The poems are : Caro Nome, by Kate Hillard Spiritual songs from the Germán, by Geo. Macouald ; A Holiday, by E. D. Hice ; A Heartong, by Samuel W. Duffield ; and, A Midsummer Idyl, by D. W. Brownell. " The Topics of leTime," " Old Cahinet," and other Departments are well filled. Scribseb & Co., Now Tork. - me t.cicctic Magazme ñas mineen paper elected with a discriminating judgment from ie leading foreign periodicals, together with n editorial sketch of the late Chief-Justice hase, accompanied by a rery fine steel porait; Literary, Science, and Art, Notes, etc. 'he more noticeable papera are, perhaps : Lecures on Mr. Darwin's Philosophy of Language, y l'rof. Max Muller, III. ; Marriage in France, from Blackwood ; The Brontes, Cornhill Maga'ne; The Planet Mars, also from Cornhill; aniel O'Oonnell, Mactnillan's Magazine ; 'he Weather and Sun, by Richard A. Proctor ; nd Manzoni, by Macmillan. Too Soon - a ovel - by the author of " Patty," is ooncludad. n all respecta a readable number. E. E. Pelón, New York. - The Aldine is freighted with good things oth in pictures and literature. Mr. A. F. Bruner has three magnificent views in the Rocky ouutaina : a full page of Clear Créele Canon, a arge picture of the Snowy Range of the Sierra adre, and an interior view, with peak on peak round. "The Blue Bird " is an exquisite picure by a French artist ; " Brookside Willows " beautiful sketch by John Howe ; " Sleeping alace" and "Sleeping Beauty" companion nctures by Dore, showing magical skill and euiu8, besides others which may be classed as things of beauty." Mrs. Julia C. Dorr opens ie nuraber with a fine poem, " Rena, a Legend Brussels." The stories and lesser articles will be read. James Sutton & Co., 58 Maiden ane, N. Y. - Godey's Lady's Book has a fine steel píate, In Trouble ; " extensión, colored, and working ashion plates; the continuation of Marión arland's capital story, Carrying Weight ; with ories by Ino Churchill, S. Annie Frost and ;hers, household recipes, etc. Godey knows iow to make a good magazine for both the oudoir and work-room. L. A. Godey, Philaelphia. - Our Young Folks has three more chaptera Trowbridge story " Doing his Best," in hich Jack Hazard gets handsomely out of his rouble growing out of his going to the menagerie ; another installment of " A Morning with the Jimmyjohns," by Mrs. Abby Morton Diaz ; with a heap of other good things both for the boys and girls. J. R. Osoood & Co., oston. - The Nxirsery though placed at the foot of ie list shouid rank as No. 1 in a family having any llttle one or ones - say from three to six years old. lts pictures and print are always beautiful, and its contenta instructive as well as amusing. John L. Shokkt, Boston.