The January Magazines

Scribner's Moñthly is brilliant both in illustrations and contenta. It opens with a poem, The Singer's Hills, by H. H, ; and following is, The Great Air Line to the Moon, illustrated, in which Frank E. Stockton tilts a lance with Jules Verne; Boudoir Prophecies, poem, by John Hay ; The Haunted House, poem, by Geo. MacDonald ; Eartheru Pitchers, chaps. VII. - IX., by Rebecca Harding Davis ; Irreparable, poem, by K. H. Stoddard ; Aunáis of au Enghsh Abbey, Part m., by Froude; Speech Making in Congress, by Albert Rhodes ; The " Christus," poem, by Julia C. E. Dorr; Glimuses of Texas - San Antonio, one of Edward King's "Great South" series, with thirty-one illustrations, and giving one the " Texas fever "; The Duke's Stratagem, poem, by John G. Saxe ; Charles Dudley Warner, a critical sketch by Thos. Weutworth Higgins on, with portrait; Katheriue Earle, V. - vil. by Adeline Trafton ; How Old Man Plunkett went Home, by Bret Harte ; Captain Mülicent, by Gail Hauiilton ; and readable notes in the minor departments, which by the way are not a minor feature in Scribner. $4 a year. Sceibnee & Co., 654 Broadway, N. Y. With the Aeous, $5. - The Atlantic Monthly has the opening chapter of Prudence Palfrey, a new serial by T. B. Aldrich, aud full of freshness and cnspuess. The Golden Wedding of Longwood, in the best vein of J G. Whittier ; Fox-hunting inEngland, by Geo. E. Waring ; The Two Homes, poem, by Bayord Taylor ; Lida Ann - an Adirondack Sketch (with no peculiar Adirondack Üavor), by P. Deniing; Changed, poem, by LouiseBushnell ; Baddeck and that Sort of Thing, i., in which Charles D udley Warner starts on a delightf ui or delightf ully starts on a summer excursión ; Mose Evans i., by Wilüam M. Baker ; In Kittery, Churchyard, by Celia Thaxter, poem; The Theory and Practice of Local Taxation in the United States, the first of a series of financial papers, by David A. Wells, and which legislators especially may read with profit ; The Valeni, a romance by H. James, Jr.; Evolution and Permanence of Type, by L. Agassiz, corrected but a few days befora his death, and expresing hi3 maturist views in oppositiou to those of Darwin ; An Old Year Song, by Oliver Wendell Holmes ; Literary, Art, and Music Notes, &c. The number gives guarautee that me jiiianiic is ío ue 1110 izuiniic bliii uuuer the management of the new publishers. $4 a year. H. O. Hougiiton & Co., Boston. Witli the Abgus, $5. - The Eclectic opens the year with a brilliant number. The steel engraving "Household Treasures," is superb, both in design and executiou. The contenta are gathered from the best foreign periodicala, and among them, perhaps most worthy of not, are : The Land of Moab, Petrarch- His Life, Times, and Works; Growth and Decay of Mind ; Autobiography of John Stuart MiU, Spamsh Life and Character in the Interior During the Summer of 1873, Pope as a Moralist, Pigeon English, Lafayette, English Dictiouaries - in which a high compliment ia paid to the latest Webster, Random Sketches in Natural History, Napoleon the First, and the coutinuatiou of Turgeneiff's novel - Spring Floods. The editorial department is also fresh and full of information touching literary, scientific and art matters. With this number in hand we can safely promise a year worthy the Eclectic'a reputation, and is not that enough p $5 a year. E. B. Pelton, 108 Fulton St., New York. The Akous and the Eclectic for $6.50. - The Nursery has pagos as briglit and cheery as ever, with beautiful pictures, clear print, and ust auch stories and poems as the children will read, and reading learn to read. It ought to be in every family where thore are little ones, and now is just the time to subscribe for it it. ïl.60 a year. John L. Shokey, Boston, Mass. With the Abgus f3.