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The Feforuary Magazines. The followiug magazines for February are on our table : The Atlantic Monthly, with poems by Whittier, The Witch of Weiitram, a six page bailad ; by Longfellow, A Dutch Picture ; by E. C. Stedoian, Netvs from Olympia ; by Edgar Fawceit, S. M. E. Piatt, Celia Thaxter, and by Oliver Weudall Holmes, How not to Settle It (the PresiJeutial Question), humorous and charaoteriatio. In prose we have : Studies of Animal Nature, by Bayard Taylor ; Christmas Eve in a Sicilian Abbey, by Luigi Monti ; The American, chap3. XIX. and XX., by Henry James, jr. ; The Political Condition of South Carolina, by a South Carolinian ; Ont of the Question, parts I. aud II. of a comedy, by W. D. Howells ; and, Old Woman's Gossip, XIX., by Francés Anne Kemble. The " Contributors' Club " is a new and attractive feature ; Celia Thaxter's poem is set to music, and the notes, on Literatura, Art, and Music, are full. f4 a year. H. O. Houghton & Co., Boston. The Atlantic and Aequs, $3 75. - The Eclectic Magazine has thirteen selected papers from original leading periodioals, including; On Popular Culture, - an address byjohn Morley: Towards the North Pole, from Cornhill ; The Secret Chamber, Blacktoood; Automatism and Evolution, by Charles Elam, M. D., seoond paper ; Notes on the Turk, by Edwin DoLeon ; Charlotte Wemyss, concluded ; The Rings of Saturn, by Richard A. Proctor ; Henry the Fourth and LaBella Gabrielle, Temple Bar ; and the Fabuloug in Zoology, by Andrew Wiison. The Editorial tables are well filled, and there is a fine steel portrait of George Macdonald, with a brief biographical sketch. Í5 a year. E. R. Pelton, New York. With the Abous, f 5 75. - Scribner's Monthly has : Trout-Fishing in the Rangely Lakes, by E. Seymour, beautif ully illustrated; Winter on the Nile, by George B. McClellan, second paper, also illustrated John Romeyn Broodhead, by T. W. Chambers ; Nicholas Minturu, Holland's new story, chaps. V-VII ; Farmer Bassett's Romance, part I, by Saxe Holm ; White, of Selborn, by E. S. Nadal, illus. ; That Laas o' Lowrie's, by Fanny Hodgson Burnett, chaps. XXII-XXIII . " How do I know what is the Bible ? " by Tryon Edwards ; The Microscope among the Flowers, by Mrs. S. B. Herrick, with fifteeu illustrations by the author ; Farragut in Mo_ bile Bay, by Henry Baldwin ; How Mr. Storm met his Destiny, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyeson ; and several poems aud well-filled editorial departments. $4 a year. Scribner & Co., New York. With the Aboub, f4 75. - Si. N cholas is capital in picture, story verse, riddle, rebus, and enigma. The most noticeable features are : A Talk with American Boys, by Thomas Hughes ; Pattikin's House, a serial ?tory ir little girls, by Mary A. Hallock; The Peterkins at the Centennial, by Lucretia P. Hale ; His Own Master, VIII. and IX., by J. T. Trowbndge ; A Talk About Canaries, by Ernest IngerBoll ; Clever Joe, by Henry L. Williams ; The Artist Soldier, or True Story of Major Audre ; The Stars in February, by Prof. Proctor. The boys and girls will read every page. $3 a ysar. Scribner & Co., New York. With the Abqus, $4. -The üathalic World has : Fredenck Ozanam, biographical ; Amid Irish Scènes, II., sketchy and entertainiug ; A Story of the Far West ; Up the Nile : Three Lectures on Evo. lution, in which Prof. Huxley and his theories are handled without gloves ; Six Sunny Moutbs ; Dr. Kuox on the Uuity of the Church, critical and polemical ; Monsieur Gumbard's MiBtake, concluded; The Home; Life of some Eighteenth Century Poets (Swift Pope, Thomson, Gray, GoldRmith, and Cowper) ; Letters of a Young lrish-woman to her Sister ; Modern Melodists, and New PublicationB. f5 a year. The Catholic Publioation House, New York. We did not receive the January number.