... TlE11 MAGAZINES FOR JINUARY. Tur 1IJ-oen'j TlTforhl mtay now be pronounoed aa undoubted success. Not only are the papers which it contains various as regards the topics touched upon, but they are invariably well considered nnd gracefully writ-ten. The illustrations are also as charmingr as Could he imagined. It is long since woe lave seen anvything better than the drawings which accomelnny ...

... FAASION D VAJZTIZSa General Sankey has arrived at Kingstown from England. Colonel and Mrs Maillard have a'iv'ed at Kingstown from England. Major and Mrs Paton have arrived at EKingstown from En2gland. Major F H French has arrived at lKings- town from England., Lieutenant Scott, 24th Regiment, has ar- riyed at Kingstown from England. Lieutexant Woodgate, 24th Regiment, has *orrived at ...

... MAGAZINES FOPL JANUtARY., - The Nineteenth Century, is a most interesting number. It opens wvith an able artivle on Progress of Cremation, by its great advocae, Sir Henry Thompson. He deals with the sigu meat against crimnaticn derivedfrom the impus - aibility of detecting poison in. the deadif the system were adopted.. His propsal is that no bodjtl crimated withojat thee consent of a medi- ...

... Dll NATIO AND L UIESIC.' INT'1ELLCE N-CGE. !It has been stated in certain quarters that the huge ,andience assembled at Covent Garden Theatre on Boxing night seized upon every occasion, when the police were mentioned, to exhibit animosity towards the force, and to show sympathy with the opponents of law and order. No more inaccurate statement could well have heen published. On the colitrary, ...

... Di tHE - - .S0E SIOAL A . .i- - ETA - L -- l ;The eiglih Uo.f theisreeiawas ivel - | ?? the theatre of'6lie DabliA Societ Iousdj Kildare-atrctt, eommefcfing, saa theafterpoo. | recitals do, at four oclock. There wa a-crowded attendance. The programme *as a yepetitisis of that ef the previous recital--namely, that of she 19th December. This is a moat excellent plan. T seieconrwopportunity thuus ...

... ROMANTIC STORY Q;F A ONION OF FIFTY AND TWENTY-FIVE. [ A telegram from Brainerd,- Minn,: to the New ,York Herazld, relates -the following picturesque love 'story:AThe uyiet marriage of Mrs Mafgda- lenra Schwartz ?? Robininon, a young man, is thc seauel tse-ne of the most romafitic -:exp'e- riences in local knowledge. When Brainerd- bid fair in the early days to some time be a' town a ?? named ...

... BR6Uo I WVrIT OTHER BALLADS OF THrE Ims NlGN OP TRmnoxt. By T. Duncan Craig, D.D., Dublin: Sealy, Bryers, & Walker. BALLADS, these, that ought to be in every Protes- tant home in Ulster. The first of them, Father Mlearty's MidnightDrive, narrates a realincident. Pathos that moves to tears is in The Old Squire's Death ; They are coming home to-morrow-I am goingz homne to-night. And llruno ...

... FASHION AND VARIETIBS. _ _ _ v _ * . ~ . THE COURT. Osborne, Monday. The Queen weat out this morning, accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice. . The Hon 1D Plunket, M P, has lef6 King.- town for England. Captain Willoughby, 4th Dragoon Guards, Mrs Willoughby, and family have left Ringstown for England. I Major and -Mrs G. V. Hamilton have left Kfngstewn for England. Captain and Mrs ...

... FAXXON AND 'VARIZ& | Lady Carew has left Kingstown for Eng- land. Lady Arabella Brooke has left Kingston'n for England. Captain Arthur Broolke;- R N, has left Kingstown for England. Colonel and Mrs Wynne have -left Kings- town for England. -Major F H French, R A, has left Kings- town for England. Captain Wilman, R I Rifles, has leftbKings- town for England. Colonel and Mrs Bayley have left ...

... A BEARTS DAOfE IN MONTANA. A ?? of the New York San, who writes from Fort Custer, confesses that we ain't, maybe, quite so, slick at spinning yarns as those fellows in the woods of Maine and Pennsylvania; hut there are more bears to the acre in some sec- tions of the Big Horn Mountains than in any place on earth. He goes 'on to describe what he saw while with a hunting party of three ...

... | THE PLAN- OF CApAIGN,.r* ?? . The author of -this curious bit of fiction has attempted a task which is at once impessible and courageous. She has tried to weave an absorbing , rooance out of the threads of contemporary poli- r tics, and she has laid the scene of the story in ?? and among a class of whose social habits she has yet to learn the mere ahabet. The re- I sult is a novel which, ...

... FASHION AND VARIBTI'Z. VICEREGAL COURT. Their Excolencies the Lord Lieutenant and the Mar. chioness ot Londonderry gave a dinner party last even. ing at the Viceregal Lodge. at which their Serene High. ne see Prinee and Princess Edward of Saxw-Weimar were present. The following had the honour of receiv. ing mnvitations:- Dowager Countess of Shrewsbury, Earl of ClomAnel, Hon C F Bourke, Hon W ...