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The February number of '. N cholas is a capital one, botii in contents and illustrations. It opens with a charming little poem by Bryant, Cost of a Pleasure. Amoug the stories are : Bianca and Beppo, a tale of the middle ages, well told by J. S. Stacy and ülustrated ; Fast Friends, chaps. V.- VI., by J. T. Trowbridge; How the Heavens Feil; by Rossiter 'Johnson, illustrated by H. L. Stephens ; Nimpo's Tronbles, by Olive Ahorne; How Jainie had his own way, by Miss Mary X. Frescott ; and What Might Have beeii Expected, by Frank B. Stockton. Aside rom the stories there are attractive articles on various subject, iucluding, Velocity of Light, Wood-Carviug, A Moose Hunt in the llaine Woods, with poems, riddles, pantomime3, picture tories, ifcc. St. Nicholas has made haste to imed itself in the affections of the youngsters, boys or girls. Ï3 a year. Sceibnee & Co., New York. - St. Nicholas and the Arous, $4 25. The February number of the Atlantic Monthly ïas an attractive bill of fare. Among the papers are : Naples under the üld Regime, a chapter of autobiography by Robert Dale Owen, and which will be welcome to all who read Mr. Owen's series in the Atlantic of last year ; A Gambrel Koof, by Lucy Larcom ; Prudence Palfrey, by T. B. Aldnch ; A Chain of Italian Cities, by H. James, Jr.; The Anti-Slavery Convention of 1S33, by John G. Whittier; Over Illum and Ida, by William J. Armstrong ; Baddeck and that sort of Thing, by Charles Dudley Warner ; Sheriff Thorne, by J. T. Trowbridge ; Moae Evans, chaps. V.- VIII., by W. M. Baker ; A Bailad of the Boston Tea-Party, by Oliver Wendell Holmes ; and, Recollections of Agassiz, by Theodore Lyman. $4 a year. II. O. HcrtJQHton & Co., Boston. With the Aegus $5. - The same publishers also send us the weekly numbers of Every Saturday, the pages of which have lost uothing in interest or value under the new regime. íó a vear. The February number of the Catholic World has among other articles : The Principies of Real Being, Dante's Purgatorio, The Epiphany, Grapes and Thoms, Öpiritualism, The Farm of Minceron, Grace Seymour's Mission, The Jansenist Schism in Holland, An English Maiden's Love, Our Masters, and, A Looker-Back. $ó a year. Catholic Publication House, New York.