Magazines And Books

The Eclectic for January has a vaned and attractive table of contenta, an earnest that tho opening year will not lose in interest. Included in the sixteen selections trom leading foreign periodicals are : Virchow and Evolution, by Prol. Tyndall ; The Eighteenth Century, by T. E. Kebel ; The Story of Dorothy Vernon, from Temple Bar ; A Peep at the Southern Negro, by Arthur Granville Bradley : What is going on at the Vatican - a volee from Rome; The Sun in its Glory, by Richard A. Proctor ; The Heceut Developineut of Socialism in Germany and the United States, by Heury Fawcett, M. P. ; John Walter and the Birth of the Londou Timet, by William Bladas ; Macleod of Dare, chaps. XL- XLIII, by William Black ; The Chinese as Colonista, by Sir Walter Medhnrst ; and The Fear of Death. The embelüshment is " Woodland Vows," aud the Literary and Art Notes are, as always, readable. f 5 a year. E. R. Pelton, 26 Boud street, N. Y. See our Club list. The Catltolic World has : Rome' Recruits ; Art Sonuets : Pearl-chap. IX ; Italy and the Pope ; Two Famous Deans- Deau Stanley and Dean Jonathan Swift, of St. Patrick's, Dublin ; Epiphany (poem) ; Technical Educatiou ; From an Iiish Country House ; Felix Dupanloup, Bishop of ürleans ; Babette, a story ; The Year of Our Lord 1878, retrospectivo and historical, with reviews of the Berlin Congress, The Position of Englaud, General State ol Europe, Governments and Secret Societies, The Germán Catholics, l'ioneh Radicalism, The Papacy and the Civil Power. It is not too much to say that this is one of the ablest magazines published, and the Catholic reader as well as the general reader who would keep himself posted in Catholic progress and literature, will welcome its monthty visits. f 5 a year. Catholic Publication House, 9 Barclay street, New Yorlc. We are in receipt of Vick's Floral Guide tor 1879, a beautifully illustrated pamphlet of 100 pages, full of information for the florist and gardener. James Vick is a model seedsman and uo other grower sends out so attractive a catalogue. This one has a superb colored plate, - a " Group of Peonies." Seud five cents for a copy aud you will be fully equipped for the spring campaign. Address James Vick, Rochester, N. Y. - The Jauuary number of The Nursery is full of attractive picture, simply told stories, crisp sketches, and neat littlo poems. It ought to be in the hands of every four-year-old in the country. It is better than Mrs. Wiuslow'i soothing syrup or any other cordial. The publisher, John L. Shorey, of Boston, is the children's benefactor. 11.50 a year. With the Abous f2.60. -- Gardner AUia was formerly a printer in the (Jazette office, but for several years has been a resident of New York State. He acoidentally got a glass bead into bis ear about 28 years ago, and although an eifort was made by a physician to get it out, it remained there until last week, when a New York physician suoceeded in taking it out. During all these long years Mr. Allis'u heuring wasvery muoh aifected, and he is not a little pleased of being relieved of the little tornientor. - Kalamanoo Gazette. - A plpasant entertainment has been provided tor the ohildren at the State Public School this evening. Hon. James Burns, member of the Board of Control from Detroit, has sent 100 pounds of caudies to help it out. Part of the entertainment will consist of a magie lantern exhibition. - Coldwater Sentinel, Deo. 24. - President Hayes has pardoned from Jackson State Prison Edward D. Curtis, a resident of Grand Haven, who was genteneed one year ago to two yoars in State Prison for robbing the mail while employed as assistant mail agent on the Detroit & Milwaukea Railroad. - Theodore Pfeifer, the man who on the 17th of October last hid himself in the barn of an Ingham county merchant, named George J. Mills, and stole a pocket book containing $500 from Iris coat, has been sent to Ionia for 2 1-2 years, by the Ingham Circuit, while a man named Hait, for being bigamous, went to Jackson for one year. - Hon. J. M. Crossman, of Williams - ton, has gono to Salt Lake City with several car loads of apples. - Lanting Journal.