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— The Atlantic Monthly for January is a very good number. 

 The article in it that is most likely to attract intelligent readers is 

 that on "John Stuart Mill and the London and Westminster Re- 

 view." Mill was the proprietor of that Review from 1836 to 1840, 

 and had as his assistant in the editorship a young Scotchman 

 named John Robertson ; and this article consists in the main of 

 letters that Mill addressed to Robertson during those years. The 

 letters are very interesting, not only as revealing certain aspects of 

 Mill's character, but also as showing the care with which he strove 

 to keep the Revieio up to a high standard, and also with what keen 

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 in it. Another article that is sure to attract notice is that on 

 '•Boston," by Ralph Waldo Emerson, in which the author traces 

 the historical connection between the character of the early settlers 

 and the moral and intellectual influence of Boston in American 

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 This article was written in 1861, but has never before been pub- 

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 James Russell Lowell, and expresses the opinion that Lowell's in- 

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 the beginning of a novel by F. Marion Crawford, and various 



other articles which we have not space to particularize. The 

 Atlantic's programme for 1893 is unusually varied and promising; 

 and the magazine is sure to have interested readers throughout 

 the year. 



— Garden and Forest for Christmas week contained, as its 

 leading illustration, one of a grove of hemlocks whitened with 

 lately-fallen snow, and in an .editorial ai-ticle the stateliness and 

 grace of this northern evergreen are celebrated. There are pic- 

 tures, too, of a rare orchid in bloom, and cultural directions for 

 growers of fruit and flowers. Mrs. Robbins gives a sketch of 

 Deering's Woods, Portland, in her New England Park series; Mr. 

 Jack adds some notes on his horticultural tour through Europe, 

 and M. Demontzey tells how he has tamed the torrents of the 

 French Alps by reclothing their basins with growing forests. 



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