Scribner's Magazine offers a varied list of subjects for 1889. The 

 railroad articles, which have attracted so much attention, will be contin- 

 ued. The serial novel will be by Robert Louis Stevenson, and many 

 brief literary papers will be given by a number of writers. Art subjects 

 and illustrated subjects will receive special attention. Fishing articles by 

 well-known sportsmen are to be given. A remarkable article by froi. 

 John Trowbridge on photography, and a group of papers by eminent au- 

 thorities on electricity are expected to attract more than usual attention. 

 Altogether the subjects for the year are well chosen and promise to be 

 ably treated 



Garden and Forest, with its fine typography, remarkably good il- 

 lustrations, and general high standard of editorial management, will have 

 no trouble in interesting all its old readers and in drawing to it many 

 new ones, if it carries out the programme for 1889 laid down in its pros- 

 pectus. There are so many good things enumerated directly or indirect- 

 ly relating to the garden and the forest as in store for its columns, that 

 our page would be much too short to mention them all. Botanists will 

 be specially interested in the articles by Dr. Goodale on vegetable physi- 

 ology in its relations to the garden and forest, and the descriptions of rare 

 plants by Mr. Watson, with illustrations by Mr. Faxon. 



America, as a paper for lovers of good literature having distinct- 

 ively American characteristics, has met with remarkable success. It has 

 not vet finished its first volume, but has fully demonstrated its right to 

 the place it has assumed to occupy. It is a weekly journal of quarto Bize, 

 on tine paper, and with a corps of able contributors. The subscription 

 price is $3.50 a year. 



The Critic receives contributions from many of the first literary 

 writers of the day. It fills a place distinctively its own, and fills it with 

 marked ability. The criticisms of new works are thoroughly impartial 

 and marked by specially good judgment, and cover not only literary and 

 art subjects, but also science. Each number contains one or more essays 

 on literary topics of special public interest, original poetry, and other lit- 

 erary matters of general interest. 



Pringle's Plantae Mexieanae, 



DISTRIBUTION OF 1888, 



Includes about 300 species, mainly collected in the states of Chihuahua, 

 Nuevo Leon, and Jalisco. Lists furnished. 



Also, lists of a choice reissued set of 150 species (one-fourth discover- 

 ies of 1887) from the northern Cordilleras. 



ipecial 



C. Gk PRINGLE 



Vermont 



