Literary Note

Tlie tariff question is lo be thoroughly diacUMed In the Norlli American lleview. Frec Tnide nrgoruenU will apptiar in the September number, and Protection views in the Oefeober. Tlie ablcst writers on both skles have been engaged. Few peoplc are aware of the Important work now under way In Northern Mlnnesota, to gnard agalnst the daiigers of water and the inconveniences of lowwater in tlie Mississippi River. A number of lakes In that región are being connected into a reservoir S3Tstem, wliich isto collect and feed water as it may be required. A full account of this great ; gineering work is promiscd, wilh tive diagrams, in tlie September Harper's An anécdota! tricycling article, ; ly illuslrated by Josepli Pennell, will pear in the September Century. It records the inciden ts of a journey fromCoventryto C'hester, trcatinff of Iaak tiy, with itsquaint, old-fashioned inns, sequestered villages where tlie curfew still rings at sunset, the bicycle races at Derby, etc, etc. As Ut. Pennell ban expert and ; euthusiastlc wheelman, bis dozen or more pictures will have a special interest in the line of cliaracter sketches.