Among other periodicals of the month, we have received : — Part
VL of Our Native Land, which is devoted to Ireland, and contains well-executed water-colour drawings, with appropriate descriptive letter-press, of Old Weir Bridge, and the Lower Lake, Killarney, and O'Sullivan's Cascade, on the opposite side of the lake.—The Magazine of Art, containing a concluding notice of the Royal Academy, and an in- teresting article on horses in relation to art.—Part 41 of Cassell's Library of English Literature.—Casselrs Family Magazine (with seasonable articles on the Highlands, cookery, and Cyprus).—No. 33 of Men of Mark, which gives portraits and brief biographical notices of Lord Napier of Magdala, W. Calder Marshall, R.A., and the Rev. Dr. Goodford, provost of Eton College.—The St. James's Magazine.— Charing Cross.—Science Gossip, the principal illustrated articles in which are "A Holiday round Dorking," "The Teratology of a Cabbage- leaf,"" The Birth of a Rotifer," and" The Brambles about London."—The current number of the Cheveley Novels (Blackwood), containing Part IV. of "Saul Weir."—The Foreign Church. Chronicle.—Mission Life. —Golden Hours.—The Leisure Hour.—The Sunday at Home.—The Sunday Magazine (which steadily improves).— Good Words (an unusually good number, with a readable article on "Lucifer Matches ").—All the Year Bound, in which Mrs. Hoey's story of " All or Nothing," is the lead- ing article in fiction.—Chambers's Journal, which is as replete as ever with articles of interest, and gives this month some curious instances of the use and efficacy of oil at sea, and of drolleries in advertising.—The Gardeners' Chronicle, which contains, in addition to the usual articles and notes on subjects interesting to those who take an interest in flowers, fruit, ctc., illustrations the grounds at Valentines and Devizes Castle.—The Nautical Magazine, which this month contains a summary of the hydrographical features of Cyprus and Sok otra, and an account of a new life-buoy raft. The Victoria liagazine.—Catholic Progress.—The British ;Vol kman.— The Family Friend.—The Animal World.—St. Nicholas, that well- conducted American children's magazine, which, as usual, contains some clever and amusing illustrations.
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