The Magazines For March

Ihe .clecttc has thirteen well selected articles, tlie most noticeablo being : Montenegro, by Edwnrd A. Freenmn ; Rieheliou, from Temlc Har; Science and Art, Utility and Beauty, by the Kight Hon. W. E. Gladstone; Why Have Anímala a Nervous System, by II. Charlton Bastían ; and the Unseen Univeme. ïliere are three more chapters (XXII.-XXIV.) of Her Dearest Foe, by Mrs. Alexander , tlie VUI. paper of Germán Home Life - Men; and the conclusión of Jonathan, by 0. ü. FrazerTytler. The illustration is a fine portrait of President Barnard. Thore is a poern by Geo. Viacdonald and another by Swiuburne, witli well-n'lled editorial departments. J5 R. 1'klton, New York. Scribner's Monthhj opens with a fine and a finely illustrated papor on Trinity College, Hartford, by W. C. Brocklesby. The Child3arden, also illus., by EUward Eggleston, showa an appreciative study of the Kindergarten aystem of Froebel. Truro Parisli, by W. P. McCarty, is a readable paper, and so is Honore Balzac, by Albert Rhodes ; and Wilson, the Ornithologist, by Dorsey Gardiuor. There are two more cbapters (VilI.-IX.) of Philip Nolsn's Frieuds, by E'lward Everett Halo, 'and chapters XXII.-VII. of Gabriel Conroy, in which Bret Harte characteristically mixes up his characters. There are a number ot poems, but none above the average, and the old Cabinet, Home and Society, Bric-aBrac, and other departments. are specially good. Sceibnise & Co., New York. The Atlantic opeus with The Legend of AraCceti, a lengthy (magazine) poem, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and has other poema by Celia Thaxter, - Keverie; by Oliver Wendell Holmes, - "Ad Araicos," 1829-1876 ; by Annie B. Aunan, - At Sunset; by Edgar Fawcett, - Wild Boses ; and by C. P. Cranch and A. B. Grote. John Fiske has his second paper on The Unseen World ; Erasmus W. Jones tells of The Welsh in America; Francés Anna Kemble the VIII. of Old Woman's (Joseip ; W. D. Howells the IX. ot Private Theatricals, in whicb. Mrs. Farrell and Easton reach a crisis. The State and the Bailroads, by Charles Francis Adama, Jr., will be found instructivo, and the soft-money men will revel in the pages of "Money and lts Substitutos - Commerce and its Instruments of Adj ustment," by Henry C. Carey. H. O. Houoüton & Co., Boston. The Catholic World haa: A Sequel to the Gladetone Controversy, the seeond of a series of papers upon that absorbing topic ; The Friends of Education, a defense of the position of the Catholic Church ; Prussia and the Church, bringing down the story of the long rehgious struggle in the Prussian kingdom to the latest dates ; Anti-Catholic Movements in the United States, a trenchant review of the know-nothíng and other popular outbursts against Catholocism ; Louh Lateau before the Belgian Boyal Academy of Medicine, St. Jean de Luz, The Searoh for Oíd Lace in Venice, are You My Wifö, chap. 13, A Story with two Veraions, poetry, reviews, etc. The number complatas the twenty-second volume. Catholic Publication House, New York. St. A'ichohu it i scarcely neofcssary to say is a capital number, both in illustratioDS and text. The more attractive papers are : Whittier's Pressed Gantian, - a real gem ; The Boy Emigrants, by Noah Brooks, in which the bufialoes stampede ; the conclusión of Bayard Taylor's story of Jon of Iceland ; The Festival of Tapers, by Charlea Dudley Warren ; and, but why try to enumérate. Buy it for your wideawake boy and he'll thank us for tha advice. Sceibneb & Co., New York. G. W. Carleton & Co., of New York, wiil publi8h in a few days, the first monthly number of a new periodical, entitled Record of the Year- being a sort of a reference scrap-book, or record of nearly every important event during thO month worth preserving ; together with a careful selection of the choicest current miscellany, all properly indexed. The first number will contain a fine steel portrait of the late raillionaire, William B. Astor. Will be edited by Frank Moore, famous as the projector of The Rebellion Record. This curious and original work will be gladly welcomed, we think, by all classes of readers. Godey's Lady's Book has íresh and seasonable fashiun plates, and a readable list of papers. Almost a centenarian, bnt as vigorous as a youth. L. A. Godet, Fhiladelphia.