Literary Notices

Literary Notices. Tobacco: lts effects on the Human System. By Dr. Wm. A. Alcott. 10 mo. 150 pp. Fowler .& Wells, N. Y. Paper 25 cents. It shows the effects of tobáceo on the teeth, o the voice and on the special senses; also its effect on the appetite and digestión and how it leads to various diseases. The book has had a wide circulation and has helped many in reform. Studies in Biorapliy.edited by Titus Munson Coan. G. P. Putnam's Sons, N. Y. Paper, 16 mo. 280 pp. 25 cents. This volume belongs to a series of reproeentntive essays on questions of the day entitled "Topics of the Time." It gives the latest and best thought ctilled f rom the leading reviews in England and on the Continent. Of the series this is number two, and it deals with historical characters. From the English reviews are biographies of Leon Gambett:i .Jonathan Swift, Miss Barney, Samuel Wilberforce, Lord Westbury and Bishop Wilberferce, Geo. Sand and some of the literary Bobemians. This latter article from Blackwood's Magazine gives us a vivid insight of the wild, disordered lives of the short and oftentimes brilliant careéis of the young hackwriters in the cities of Paris and London. The other selections are equally entertainin and afford us a cheaper means of getting wisdom on the subjects treated than to take the portly reviews, swelling with much we do not care for.