The August Magazines

The August numbers ot our magazine exchanges are all on our table. Harper't Magazine haa in ülustrated papers , The Golden Age of Eiigraving, by F. Keppel ; The White Sulphur Springs, by John Esten Cooke ; An Oid-fashioned Spa, by Clara F. Morse ; B;rds and Plumnge, by Helen F. Conant ; and, A Gümpse of Nature from my Veranda, by Gen. Egbert L. Viele. The two seriáis, Macleod of Dare, by William Black and the Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy, maintain their interest. The complete stories are : Auut Eunice's Idea, by H. H. Holdich ; Manuel Menendez, by Prof. C. Carroll ; and Jenny Gridley'a Coucession, by tha author of "Justine's Lovers." John Comprador, by Thomas Kuox, opena Chinese mercantile iife to the public. The poema are : Shipwreck, by Z. D.; WhoKuows? by Anna C. Brackett : In a Cloudrift, by Lucy Larcom ; A Summor-Day, by C. E. Brooks ; and The Cliffs at Nejypoit, by Ruth Dana. The editorial departments are wel! b'lled. Harper & Brothers, New York. The midsummer number of Scribner's Monthly is rlch in ülustrated papers. There are : A Seaport on the Pacific, by Mary Hallock Foote ; Sharp Eyes, by John Burroughs ; William Culten Bryant, by Horatio N. Powers ; Glimpses of New Eugland Farm Life, by Eowland E. Robison ; and " To South África for Diamouda," by William J. Morton. Four more chapters are given of EggleBton's novel, Roxy, and a new serial is commenced, Falconberg, by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen. Longstaff's Marriage, by Henry James, Jr., pictures Anglo-American Iife at Nice and Rome, and Our Tavern, by Frank R. Stockton, relates a Bummer escapade on this side the Atlantic. Among the pooms of uuusual leugth are : Off Scarborough, September 1779, by Bret Harte ; Meridian, by Mr. Stedman : Old Robin, by J. T. Trowbridge ; and The Puritan's Gueet, by J. G. Holland, - the last two illustrated. The departmeut8 are full of good and seasonable matter. Süribner & Co , New York. The Eclectic Magazine has a fiue steel portrait of Prof. Helinholtz, accompanied by a biographical sketch by Prof. J. Clerk Maxwell. The most noticeable paper, the one which will commaud the most thoughtful reudiiig, is isaid to be "Etemal Hope: A Beply to Mauy Critics, by Rev. F. W. Farrar." Amoug the other papers are : The Origin ot Flowers, trom Covnhill; Impressions of America, by R. W. Dale, Politica ; The Past, Present, and Future of Turkey, by His Higbness Midhat Pusha ; A Fiery World (Mercury), by Richard A. Proctor ; Meyron and Meyron's Paris, by Frederiok Wedmore ; Macleod o Dare, chaps. xx-xxlii, by William Black "Philochristus," from the Spectator; Johnson' Lives of the Poets, by Matthew Arnold ; an( A Romance by Rum-Light, from Vornhi! There are poemB : Companions ot the Roac by W. V. Story ; My Friend, by Arthur Holt and The Bailad of Imitatio, by Austin Dobson. The Literary and Art Notes are full am readable. E. R. Pelton, New York. The Atlantic Monlhly has : Ou Too Many by E. W. Olney, a capital story ; Mooushiue a charming little burletta, by Thomas Bailey Aldrieh ; The Kuropeaus, iv-vi, by Henry James Jr., and promisiug to be bis best ; The Stage in Germuny, by Sylvester Baxter ; The New Republic, and other Novel,- the other being " Sarcasm of Destiny," " Mirage,' " Through a Needle's Eye," " Lapsed but no Lost," aud " Dosia," - two American, two Engliali, and one Frencli ; The Moolid of the Prophet, by Chas. Warren Stoddard ; Growtl of CoüBCïence in the Decorativo Arts, by Henry Van Brunt; Reelfoot Lake, by N. S. Shaler John Buil, by Richard örant White ; New England Womeu, by M. E. W. S.; The Contributor's Club, cntical and gossipy ; and ín poetry, besides the burletta, Lancelot, by W. W. Young ; After-Life, by Christopher P. Cranch; Fesseudeu's (i arden, by Elizabeth Akers Allen ; and, Content, by Catherine J. Schiller. In " Recent Literatura " sovenü volumes come uuder the pen of the .critic. Uoughton, Osgood & Co., Boston. The Catholic World has : Dr. Ewer ou the Question, What is Truth ? Pansian Coutrasts, The Venerable Mother Mary of the Iucaruation, Mabel Willey's Lovers (a pleasant story), The Prussian Persecution exhibited in its Re8ults, " The Religión of Humanity," Pearl (the opening chapters of a serial story), Voltaire and his Panegyrists, and Breton Legend of the Blessed Virgin. In poetry there is: Wisdom, The Created Wisdom, On the Sumiuit of Mount Lafayette, N. H., and TJnconscious Facultie8. Ten pages are given to the review of new publications. Catholic Publication Society, New York. St. Nicholas has an attractive bill of fare. Of the many papers we can ouly name a few : King Cheese, versified from a story by Maud Christiana, by J. T. Trowbridge ; Rods for Five, by Sarah Winter Kellogg ; TJnder the Lilacs, chaps. xviii-xx, by Louisa M. Alcott ; The Emergency Mistress, a Fairy Tale, by Frank R. Stockton; The Moon froin a Frog's Point of View, by Fleta Forrester ; Dab Kinzer, chaps. ix-xiii, by William O. Stoddard ; and Oerty, by Margaret W. Hamilton. The illustration8 are numerous and spirited. Scribner & Co., New York. The Nursery 18 a perfect number, in picture, story, and verse: just the thing for the bright Eour year old boy or girl. John L. Shorey, Boston, Mass. The American Agriculturist is picked full jf U8eful and timely information for villager ind countryman, farmer, stockgrower, orjhardist, gardener, or florist. In the language )f the auctioueer, its list of good things is " too numerous to mention." Orange Judd ( Jompany, Ne w York.