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The Mfirch Magazines. Tlu: Marcli number of Scrt'bncr opens with anothor of the profusely illustratod and exceedingly interesting " Great South " papers, by Edward King, Among tho Mountains in Western North Carolina, the illustrations by Champney making one long to pack his " carpet bag." The Credit Mobilier (anonymous) is a powerful exposé of the wholesale swindling operations of tliat now infamous "Ring;" Dr. Chas. S. Robinson has a paper on The Women of tho Arabs Í The Autobiography of an Athcist (Mili) is anonymous ; Earthen Pitchers, by Rebecca Harding Davis, and Katherine Earle, by Adeline Trafton, are continued ; there aro other stories, soveral poems by well known authors, and well fillod and readable minor departments. Sckibn-er & Co., New York. - The Atlantic Monthly has a continuation of its several seriáis : Prudence Palfrey, by T. B. Aldrich ; Mose Evans, by Wm. M. Baker ; and Baddeck and that Sort of thing, in which the writer, C. Dudley Warner, roaclics Baddeck. Among the other papers are : How Owen Brown Escaped from Harper's Ferry, by Ralph Keeler In a Market Wagon, by G. P. Lathrop ; Lite in the Backwoods of Canada, by H. B. K. : John's Trial, by P. Deming ; A Medioeval Naturalist, by J". H. A. Bone ; Aborigines of California, by Stephen Powers ; a sketch of Ealph Koeler, by the editor (Howells) ; Poems, Notes on Literature, Art, and Musïc. H. O. Houohton & Co., Boston. - The Eclectic has a list of selectiou6 ooveriug its usual broad field. The most noticeable paper is.perhaps, tho f uil lecture of Prof. Max Muller " On Missions," delivered at Westminster Abbej-, Dec. 4, 1873. Spring Floods, by Turgenielï is concluded, and another 3erial story commenced, Far from the Madding Crowd, byanew writer, but which critics diversely credit to George Eliot, McDonald, and wo don't know who else. There are, also, in tho long list, Sir Edwin Landseer, by. Miss Thackeray ; Dreams, Visions, and Ecstacies; Henry Thoreau, the Poot-Naturalist, What to Believe in Science ; The hadow of Death, by the author of " John Haliax ;" Florence ; Confessions of Doctors ; Glaers, etc. The number is embellished with a ortrait of Bichard Anthony Proctor, of whom he editor contributes a sketch. E. E. Peltojj-, 08 Fulton street, New York. - The Lady's Book is well filled in its several epartments : the illustrations bcing numerous id good, the stories readable, and the pages deoted to doraestic topics instruotive. L. A. Goey, Philadelphia. - St Nicholas sends out a gem number, both i illustrations and contents. The ffrst paper is n article on Edward Jenner, by Clarence Cook, lustrated by a fine engraving of the statue of enner by Monteverde ; Miss Alcott has a story, oses and Forget-ine-nots, beautifully illustrad ; Donald Q. Mitchell sketches Gulliver, the illiputians, and Swift; Eobert Dale Owen picures his own boyhood ; Noah Brooks has a seade story ; the seríais " What Might Have Been xpected," by Stockton, and "Fast Friends," iy Trowbridge, are continued, and, well, this is nly a tithe of the heap of good things between s covers. Sceibner & Co., New York. - The Nursery is a perfect number both in ictures and print. Every iour or five or six ■ear old ought to have the mouthly reading of it. ohn L. Shoeey, Boston. - The Cathohc World tías: John Stuart Mili, he Farm of Muiceron, The Little Chape!, Philsophical Terminology, Lato Home, Grapes and horns, The Religious Policy of the SecondEmïre, Grace Seymour's Mission, The Principies f Eeal Being, The Jansenist Schism in Holland, A Looker Back, A Block of Gold, Vigil, and iterary Xotes, Catholic Public atiox House, Warren Street, Kew York.