Messrs. Cassell and Co. have issued the first part of
a new shilling magazine, the title of which, the Lady's World, very fairly indicates its character. In beauty of illustration, and quality of paper and type, it makes a great advance on the ordinary lady's paper. The colouring in the first picture in it, "An Autumn Idyll," even although it is only the reproduction of a lady's costume, is exquisite. The fashion-pictures—pictures of fashions not only here, but in Paris, Vienna, and Berlin—are free from the woodenness that marks most things of the kind, and have, indeed, almost the reality of photographs. As for the letterpress, Mrs. Cashel Hoey contributes a short and characteristically graceful story, entitled "A Little Aver- sion ;" and the Rev. W. W. Tulloch a brief and appreciative sketch of the Queen in the Highlands. There are also fashionable notes, and theatrical notes, and musical notes, and notes about artistic needlework, and facts about ladies in the hunting-field, and instruc- tions as to the cooking of pretty little dinners, and what net. But it is decidedly the literary department in the Lady's World that needs "stiffening." The illustrations are already all that can be desired.
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