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The January Jlagazinot. Scribner's Monthly bas : Day Dreams, a poem by Hannah B. Hudson, illustratei by C. S. Keinhart; Norway and the Norsemen, by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, with uiue capital illustratious ; ïhat Lass o' Lowrle's, chapa, xvii.-xx., by Fanny Hodgson Barnett; Concerning Gheapness, by Charles Carroll ; Beds and Tables, Stools and Candlesticks, by Clarence Cook, with ten illustrations ; Liversrorts and Ferns, by Mrs. S. B. Herrick, with twelve llustrations ; John Burroughs, by Joel Ben;on, with portrait ; Ghosts (a story) by Isabella T. Hopkins ; The English Workingman's Home, by Charles Barnard, with bíx illustrations ; Papa Hoorn 's Tulip, by E. V. C. Meyeis, with eleven silhouette picturea ; A Winter on the Nile, by Gen. Geo. B. McClellan, first japer, readable, instructivo, and fínely illustrated ; Nicholas Mmturn, chaps. iii. and iv., by J. G. Holland', What our Churches Oost Us, by James Morris Whiton, a suggestive paser; poems by Holland, E. W. Gilder, Charles de Kay, E. H. Stoddard, H H., and Constantine ii. Brooks. The editorial depaitments, - Topics of the Times, üld Cabmet, Home and Society, Culture and Progresa, The World's Work, and Bric-a-Brac are well filled, the latter being amusing both in text and illustra;ions. The number ia full oi proraise for the year. $4 a year. Scribner & Co , "43 Broadway, N. Y. With the AitOUS, f4.75. The Eclectic Magazine has an excellent bill ot fare, selected with characteristic judgment froin a wide range of foreign literature. The articles are : The Arctic Eegions and the Eskimo, Bunsen and his Wife, The Laws of Dreams, Historie Phrases, King Henry's Hunt - a bailad, Secular Changa of Climate, Turkish Ways and Turkish Women, A Choosing, Charlotte Bronte - a Monograph, The Astronomy of the Future, Cardinal Antonelli, The Silent Pool, Forgotteu Jokes, Parrots, and A Eiver Song. The embellishment of the number is a finely executed steel portrait of ex-President Woolsey, of Yale College. The editorial department contains copious notes on home and foreign literature, scieuce, and art. $5 a year. E. E. Peltou, 25 Bond street, New York. The Eclectic aud the Abgus, Í5.60. Si. Nicholas is a capital number, both In picture and story, sketch and verse ; authorj, artists, and gravers having vied with each other to make it a welcome holiday visitor. The articles are twenty-five iu number besides the Letter-Box and Biddle-Box. The frontispiece, " The Minuet," engraved by J. G. Smithwick, accompanies a happy little poem of same name_ The most noticeable papers are : Katinka, a Eussian Story, by Kate Brownlee Horton, illus.; The Stars for January, by Richard A. Proctor, with superb illustrations ; His Own Master, chaps. v.-vii., by J. T. Trowbridge ; King Lonesome (poem), by Lucy Larcom ; Great-grandfather's Books and Pictures, by Horace A. Scudder ; The Modern and Medueval Bailad of Mary Jane, by Henry Baldwin ; Mabel and I, a Fairy Tale, by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen ; and Old Time Minstrels, by E. B. M. But space to enumérate in fails. Make your boys and girls happy by subscribing tor Si. Nicholas for 1877. f3 a year. Scribuer & Co., New York. With the Aaaua, $4.00. The Free Press makes its annual announcemeut for 1877, its noticeable features being "News, Story, Sketch, Poetry, Farm Talk, Household Topics, Correspondence, Chess, Puzzles, etc.," the latter topics nndmg space in the Suuday edition. It names as contributors to the the Agricultural Department, Prof. Garfield and Prof. Cook, of the Agricultural College, and Hon, C. K. Carpeuter, of Oaklaud Co. Mrs. J. P. Worstell, of New York is a regular and valuable contributor to the Household Department. A uew serial story by " Elzey Hay," a popular Southern novelist has just been commenced. Special attention is paid to the State News Department, anc the Local News Department and íb alwaya full and always enlivened by " M. Quad." lts editorials are pithy and its politics sound Terms: Daily, $10 60; tri-weekly, tb 30 weekly, $2 00. Address Free Press Compauy Detroit. The weekly Free Press and the Ab qus for f3.