The October Magazines

The principal illustrated papers in Scribner's Monthly, are : Notes on Salmón Fishing, by A. ö. Wilkinson, superb iu pictures and readable aa a romance; Beds and Tables, Stools and Candlesticks, by Clarence Cook ; Massachusetts Afcricultural College, by E. H. Libby ; and the Bride oí the Rhine, by Geo. E. Waring, Jr. Philip Noland'a Friends, by E. E. Hale, is continned, as is That Lass o' Lowrie's, by Fanny Hodgson Burnett; The Man who lost his Name is a characteristic story, by Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen ; In and About the Fair, is by Donald Q. Mitchell, and there are other interesting articles, two or three readable bits oí poetry, and well-filied Editorial Departmeuts. The number completes th XII. volume. Scribuer & Co., New York. In the Atlantic there are : The Battles about Atlanta, by O. O. Howard ; Neighborhoods of Jerusalem, by Charles Dudley Warner ; Old Wornau' Uosaip, XV., by Fanny Kemble, full oL personal incident ; The American, XI., XII., by Henry James, Jr. ; Oliver Twist, by Edwin P. Whipple ; A Librarian's Work, by John Fiske; Characteriatica of the International Fair, with other storiea und sketches, and poems by Aldrich, H. H., G. P. Lathrop, and Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt. H. ö. Houghton fc Co., Boston. The Eclectic has a very fine steel portrait of Dr. Philip Sohaff, with seventeen well-seleoted articles besides the Editorial departments and notes. The leading papers are : Modern Philosophy on the Probable Age of the World, from the Quarterly Review ; Rusaia m Europe, by Arthur Arnold ; Society in Italy in the last days of the Roman Republic, by James Anthony Froude ; Sketch ot a Journey across África, III., by Lieut. Cameioa ; Woodworth's Ethica, by Lealie Stephen ; and Her Dearest Foe, by Mrs. Alexander, concluded. E. R. Pelton, 25 Bond Btreet, New York. The Redpath Lyceum is not exactly an October magazine, bat its lista of lecturers, readers, and concerts and dramatic troupes, with por traite, critical notices, etc., make it a welcome and readable painphlet. Messrs. Hathaway & Pond, present managers of the Lyceum, offers for the coming season a good hst for lyceum and lecture association committeos to select froin. Boston & Chicago.