The number of new contributors of any importance to the Magazine during this period was but small, yet the group which comes in to join the previous band is both interesting and amusing in various particulars. In the meantime a few recruits pass across the foreground whose reputations either do not depend at all on ‘Maga,’ or do so in such a moderate way that they acquire no general acquaintance with the world, though the writers may have done very good work in their day. Among the former class was the Rev. R. H. Barham, known in other regions as Tom of Ingoldsby, the author of the witty ballads dear to youth bearing that name. He had sent stray chapters on various subjects to the Magazine for many years, and was one of the correspondents of Mr William Blackwood, but he now for the first time appeared as the author of a serial story, taking the chief place in that department of literature so far as the Magazine was concerned with a novel called ‘My Cousin Nicholas,’ which has not, I think, survived except among those to whom the Magazine was familiar in the forties, now a much-diminished band. The second class may be well represented by Mr Eagles, also an English clergyman, and a long and faithful contributor, the author of many graceful disquisitions both on Art and Nature, some of which were republished under the name of ‘The Sketcher,’ which was his distinguishing title in the Magazine.