The September Magazines

exchanges are on our table claiming notiee : Scribner's Monthly has in illustrated paper3 : ! Huuting the lliile-Daer in Colorado, by J. H Mills ; The Engadine, by Gen. Geo. B. McClellan ; To South África for Diamonds, by W. J. Morton; G-limpses of Western Farm Life, by Manrice Thompson ; and, A Spool of Thread, by Charles H. Clark. Other papera have single ïllustratioiiS, - the little pocm, " Reaily for the ]lido," one specially noticeable, eugraved by T. Cole fr ai a paintiug by VV. M. Chase. There are four chapters of Eggleston'a novel, xlix-lii, and chapa, iii-v of Falcouberg, by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyeson. Tbere are two complete stories, Eme Juuge Amerikaneriu, by Charles de Kay; and, Molly, by Julia Schayor. Charles ï Thwing has a paper on College Fellowship, Stephen D. Dillaye discusses The Transportation Question - favoriug narrow-gauge railroads, and another Thoreau essay ia unearthed, Nights and Days in Concord. Julia C. Dorr, Anna C. Brackett, James T. WcKay, and F. U. Fairfield are among the poets of the number, and the Dopartments are fllled with fresli and seasonable matter. Scrihner fe Cc, New York. Harper's Magazine bas in di&üuctively illustrated papers : Sheen - the Beautif ui, Beformed Wiesbaden, Thomas Bewick, and, A Spring Jauut on Staten Island. The iüustratious aro numerous and superior both in drawing and graving. There are chaps. xxviii-xxxi of William black's novel, Macleod of Daré, aud chapa, i-ív of Book Fourth of Thomas Hardy's serial, The Iteturn of the Native. Ab'm : A glimpse of Modern Dixie, throws considerable light on a dark subject. The School Mistress and Catarino Cornaro are in the essay line, and there are several complete stories, Mercedes- a Drama, Beveral poerns, aud readable editorial departments. Harper & Brothers, New York. The Atlantic Montkiy has iu fiotion: Tha Europoans, chupa, vii-ix, by Heury James, Jr., and, A House of Eutcrtaiument, i-v, by Horace E. Scudder. American i'inancea trom 1789 to 1835, by John Watts Kearney, and Primitive Comiuuuism, by Arthur Sedgwick, are tiniely papera, having a bearing upon live issues. Thomas Sergeant Forry discusses "Some French Novela," and Kionard Grant White has a fourth paper on "Americanïsms." Francis Lippitt tells the story of "Pope's Virginia Campaign, and Porter's Part in it," and William E. Apthorp gives "Additional Accompaniments to üach's and Handel" Scores." In poetry VVhittier has "The Visión of Echard," a:id Holmes, "The Silent Melody." In "The Contributors' Club" various topics are di&cussed and a iiumber of new books are "done for" ín "Becent Literature." Houghton, Osgood & Ou., Boston. The Catholic World has : The Mathematica! Harmonies of the Universa, Pcarl (the opening chapters of a serial story), The Bollaudiat Acta Sanctorum, The I'ombj of the House of Savoy, St. Paul on Mar'a Hifi, His Irish Cousins (a story), English Statesmeu in Undress (Lord Carlingford and John Francis Mnguire), Lope de Vega, English Tories and Catholic Education in Ireland, The Three Roses (a story), The English Press and th Pan-Anglisan Synod, and in pootry : Th Espoussls of our Lady, A True Lover, One t One, the Created Wisdom, and, Lac du Saín Sacrement. Cathnlie I'nblioRtion Society New York. The Eclectic Magazine has a raiied list o: solection. The leading paper, The Life anc Times of James Madison, is from the Qitar terly Review, and is a comprehensivo and philosophic survey of the eventful twenty-flve years succeeding the close of the llevoiutionary war. Among the other papers are : The Mystery ot Edwin Drood, by Thomas Foster ; Freeraasonry, its History and Aims, by Edward F. Willoughby ; Johnson without Boswell, by Williain Cyples : Lady Caroline Lamb, by S. E. Townsend Mayer ; What the Sun is made of, by J. Norman Lockyer; The Earth's Place in Nature, by the same wnter ; and chapa, xxiv- xxvii of Macleod of Dare, by William Black. There is a steel portrait of Honry AI, Stanley, accompanied by "Through the Dark Continent," by Keith Johnson and at biographical sketch. E. R. Pelton, New York. ■■ - ■ -