The January: parts of the many magazines issued by this house are as deserving ever of all the commendation we have given so frequently tw their predecessors. The Family Magazinehas liberal allowance of fiction, the chief places being taken by the instalments of the two serial stories, which promise delightful reading to all who follow their course. Amongst the many interesting miscellaneous papers is the first of a series In Parliament Assembled," in which Mr, Alfred 8, Robins, the well known London correspondent of a lending provincial daily newspaper, gives clever sketch of some "old parliament tary hands." With sketches by Mr. F. C. Gould, and reproductions of photographs, the puper is well illustrated. Another paper worthy of note is one by. x lady, vances A. Gerard, describing "*Student's Day atthe?"..-al gallery." In the Quicer, in addition to " good deal of interesting literature of a religious tone, is & paper "The Lust of the Weavers," which conveys good idea of the associations attaching, to the decaying silk industry in the Exst of London, which was founded by the Hugenot refugees. 1Vork is well up to the standard, but the part that has been sent us is disfigured by the binder having eared lessly duplicated the issue of one week, the succeeding week's number being omitted, Cassell's Saterday Journal is as venerally interesting as ever, 'The popular character of the periodical' is well sustained, A perusal of the article on How fast can people speak?" the result of a chat with the 'Prince of Shorthand Writers," Mr. 'T. A, Reed, reminds us that there are some speakers in' Shanghai whose public utterances would test the capabilities of even that gentleman to record to their own
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