The Magazines for December.

The article presents an overview of magazines for the month of December. The novel "Foregone Conclusions" by William Dean Howell, will have been the most eagerly looked for. In the final installment of "A Rebel's Recollections" the most noticeable fact is that of the religious revival which passed through the Confederate army when all rational hope of success had been abandoned, and which excited a superstitious trust in Providential interference on their side. Scribner's for this month brings to an end the "Great South" series. This energetic undertaking is said, in the editorial notes to have cost the magazine publishers thirty thousand dollars. The papers are to be made into a subscription book for Great Britain and her colonies, as well as the United States; and Messrs.