The November Magazines

Ilarper closes lts fifty-seventh volume with a nuuilier rich in ïilustiations and tezt. The iliustruted papers are : A Free Kindergarten, by Miss F. E. Fryatt ; Old Flemiah Masters, by K. Maaou ; ïhe Naw Sequoia Foresta of California, by John Muir ; Wild Babies, by Homy V. Elliott ; aud The Sea Ialaud, by S. G, V. Benjamin. In iiotion, Maclaod of Dare, by William Black, ami Tlie Keturu of the Native, by Thomas Hardy, are contiuued, and in complete stories ; Melauie, by Clara F. Morse; Angeliiiue's Xovüiate, by Kate l'utnam Osgood ; and The Thousaiid-aud-Third Night, by G. 1). Carrow. E. P. VVhipple has a brilliant paper on llufus Choate, I'rof. Tayler Lewis au essay on Tho Power and Pathos of Eurípides, aud there are half a dozen poems and well-füled editorial düp;irtinents. Harjver fe Brothers, New York. Tlio Atlantic Mmithly haa three Ihoughtful aud tiiuely papers, discussing subjects now promiuent before tlie public : The Nutionals, their origiu aud their aims ; l'residontial Electious(orratherthusystemof Presideutial Electora and the proposel substitutes) ; aud, Oppressive Taxaüou of the Poor, - the last by Brooka Adama. The Star in the Valley, by Charles Egbert Craddock, is a capital story, aud is the ouly article 111 liction except. the opening chaptnra of a new serial by W. D. Howells, The Lady ot the Aroostook. The other paper are : Home Liïe of the Brook Farm Assoeiatum, h ; Floreuce and St. Mary of the Flower, i, by Charles Eliot Norton ; Some Iiecent books of Travel ; An Impressionist at the Paris Expedition ; Ainericanism, by Richard Grant White ; and the gossipy 'Coutributors' Club. There are poems by W. W. Young, Edgar Fawcett, W. W. Story, "Roba di Eoma;' and Harriet Prescott Spotford. Houghton, Osgood & Co., Boston. Scribner's Montdy opena a new volume (the XVIII) with a number full of promise. The ïllustrated papers are supeib in their illustratious, drawiug, engraviugs, and printing beiug ahke superior. There is tirst a fine port'ait of Henry VV. Longfellow, drawn by Wyatt Eaton and eugraved by T. Cole, followod by a sketch ot Longfellow aud bis lionie, by K. H. Stoddard, with twelve ilhistrationa. The other illustrated papers are : Johuiiy Reb at Plïy, by Allen C. Redmond; Picturesqne Aspects ot Farm Lite in Xew York, by John Burrpughs; A Night with Edison, by William H. Bishop ; aud Chambly Fort, on the Kichelieu River, by Henry Sandhani. There are three chapters (viii) of Boyesen's soiial, Falcouberg, and the tirst seven chapteis of a new novel, Haworth, by Francés Hodgson Burnett. The Apparition of Jo Muren is a story by Noah Brooks ; and James Uichardson writea of Our Patent System, and VVhat we Uwe to it; and Edward Eggleston ot I'arson8 and Parsons. Celia Thaxter, Biet Harte, John Muir. Dora Eead Ooodale, aud ethers have poems. Holland writea of " The Magazine" and "Greeubacks and Green People," nnd his eo-editors have readable departinents. Sonbuer & Co., New York. The Catholie ffürrfha: Memoiisot Cteoriaua, Lady Chatterton ; Art Sonnets, Two Madonnas ; Pearl, chao, vi, by Kathleen ü'Meara ; l'he Heights of Fourvieres ; Dr. Newman and Dr. Pusey ; The Protestant Element in English Poetry ; A Day's Lesson (poem) ; Ballymurry, a story above the average of magazine stories ; Some Barriers between Labor and Capital ; Cauova ; Krom an Irish Couutiug-House ; Plain Chant in lts llalation to the Liturgy ; aud New Publicadons. OnHiolk: l'nblication Society, New York. The Eclectic Magazine hus XIV seleotious irouj leading foreign periodicala, and in additiou aii editorial sketch of Rev. Dr. William Adama aocompanied a tina steel poitrail, literary, art aud scieuce note), etc. Auioug the papers aro : Giordano Bruno aud Galileo Galüei, Quarterly Review ; Frenen Home Lifo, ïii, The Idea of Home, lilackwood ; The New Principie oí Industry, by George Jacob Ilolyoake ; Age ot the Suu aud Earth, Cvrnkiil; The Poetic place of Matthew Aruold, Spectator; Cyprus, by it. llamilton Lang, late lïritish Counsel at that Island ; Brockdeu Brown, the American ïïovelist, by George Barnett Smith ; Macleod of Dare, chaps. xxxilxxxv,. by William Black ; The Flantin Museum at Antwerp ; Chiid's Play, and The Speakers of the Housa of (Jommona. K. R. Pelton, New York. St NichoUu inaugurates vol. VI with a capital uumber, - in pictures, story, sketch, verse, etc., etc. Artist snd author aud printer have vied with each other as in preceding numbers. Among the long list ot articles we may name : A Boy's Service, by Elizabeth Underhill ; Who TolJ, by Sarah Wiuter Kellogg ; Towed by llail, by J.S. Buuoeil; A Jolly Fellowship, ciiaps. i and ïi, by Frank B. btockton ; The Most Thoroughly Educated Youug Lady in Mies Xeal's School, by Hope Ledyard; Monkeys and Dogs to the Front, by M. M. D. ; Frank B. Stockton (biographical sketch ot), by E. N.; Half a dozen Housekeepers, chaps. i-iii, by Kathurine D. 8mith ; and The Voor Relations, by Paul Fort. The literatura of St. A'tcholas is a healthy tonic. Scnbnor & Oo., Xew York. The Nursery presents a number peifect on every page. Such pictures as "Father is Commg," The Zebra, The Greyhound, Pixie and Pussy, and the Sunday Shirt Series, with the accompanying stories, whether in Terse or pfDse, will open both the eyes and ears of the four year old (more or less). Every child ought to have it. John L. Shorey, Boston.