Literary Gossip.

Henrietta Street , Covent Garden . With such a firm as this as publishers , and such a well-known and justly popular author as Miss Helen B . Mathers as editor , there can he no doubt that the future prosperity of this already prosperous magazine is assured . The November issue of The Burlington is on a parity with the best of its shilling contemporaries . The contributions are brightcleverand variedand we doubt not they will find a host of interested

, , , readers . We understand that one of the features of the December number will be a highly entertaining Christmas story from the pen of Mr . Horace Weir , the ingenious author of " Newspaper Romances , " and other works . The story Avill be entitled " One Winter ' s Night . " Some of its incidents are said to be both original ancl dramatic .

Messrs . Chapman and Hall are about to issue in three volume form a new novel by the editor of The Burlington . Miss Mathers' " Story of a Sin , " from Avhat Ave have seen of it in the magazine named , is brilliant as to style and unique as to plot , and , in our opinion , ranks with the best of the many good works Avhich have emanated from the same pen . We predict a second and a third edition for this novel .

The Bepwters' Magazine ( 80 , Fleet Street ) , edited by Mr . Edward J . Nankivell , F . R . H . S ., is , as its name implies , the organ of the reporting profession . It is printed in phonographic characters , ancl contains much that will interest not only the profession to which it is devoted , but shorthand Avriters generally . The get up and general appearance of the magazine are in every sense excellent .

The November issue of The Phonographic Monthly is , as usual , an excellent one . A very interesting paper relating " Personal Recollections of Thackeray , " illustrated with a good portrait of the brilliant novelist , is one of the items , and comes from the clever pen of Mr . Edgar Wallis . Mr . Horace Weir contributes a fascinating story called " Snowflakes ancl Sunbeams , " ancl Mr . T . Broadbent Trowsdale furnishes an article on " The Shropshire Peasant Countess . " There are poems from the pens of Dr . Ryley RobinsonF . R . G . S . ;

, John RoAvell Waller , F . R . H . S- ; and John Brent , F . S . A . ; besides other meritorious contributions in prose , ancl a number of Avell executed illustrations . The magazine is phonetically printed , and the editor may Avell be proud of it , for it fairly surpasses many of our old established and popular monthlies .

The publisher of The Phonographic Monthly ( Pitman , 20 , Paternoster Row ) is issuing a Christmas annual in shorthand , containing a budget of stories ancl sketches from well known pens , and a host of capital illustrations . It is wrapped in a very tastefully designed cover , and is styled , " All in the Downs , " from the title of the opening article , a well Avritten story in the manner of Messrs . Besant and Rice . Among other specially attractive features are a novelette written by Mr . Horace Weir , ancl a very entertaining and appropriate article on " Christmasticle Customs . " This unique annual ought to be extensively circulated among the numerous Avriters of phonography to be found in alt our great towns .

We have received a copy of The Fan , the newest thing in society papers . Its contents are "spicy " and the illustrations good . Judging from the earl y numbers , we think it should do well . The Stage , a new organ of the dramatic profession , shows evident signs of a healthy vitality . Its criticisms are both sound and honest , and its Aveekl y information relating to plays and players is written in an interesting manner , and is fully abreast with the times . ' The acting of amateurs is not treated in an indulgent spirit , but still , for all that , the notices bear the stamp of courtesy and discrimination , and there is a palpable absence of those brutal " slatings "