16 MARCH 1889, Page 23

The March number of Scribner's Magazine has the air of

solidity rather than of distinction. It is evident that Mr. R. Louis Stevenson's "The Master of Ballantrae " will be his most ambitious and most serious venture in the field of fiction. Mr. W. B. Scott's article on Treves, under the title of "A German Rome," is brightly written and brightly illustrated, while a great amount of information has been packed into an article on "The Railway Mail Service." Surely "Some of Wagner's Heroes and Heroines" are a trifle too fleshy and Rubensesque.