Literary Notes

Mr. Cable's reply to the crltics of hisnrarticle, "The Freedman's Case in Eqnity, ' was finished last May, but owing to its length it cannot appear intlie Ccntury till the September nuniber of that magazine. Mr. Cable's new essay on the Freedmen will be 'entitled "Tfle Silent South." A short story, most unique in the mantier of its narration, entitled " Pasquale's Picture," by Henry Blake FuUer.Jspub; touches a chord of true pathos, ;imi "ivcs i glimpse of humble Italian life, revealing in the tenderest way the characters of tho unsophisticated boatmeu of Murano. Yielding to the deuiand for clieap editions óf the most popular authors, Messrs. Fords, Howard & llulbert, the publishers of " On a Margin," by Julius Chamberí, Iiave just brought out an edition of that brilliant novel in paper covers. This graphic delineatioti of life in Wall street and Washington will have a large sale in its present form. The .Tuly Harper's has a pretty picture of the classic Pandora, by F. 8. Church. The August Harper's will have pictures of, anda story about, "A Modern Pandora, '' a tale of watering-place happenings, by Chas. L. Norton, ingenlously reproducing into modern clrcumstances the old Greek legend. In "A Trip on the Ottawa," Harper's for August will give au interesting account of a summer pleasure-trip through tho hemt of Onrada, -tri-ittcr by Mr3. Henry Sandham and illustrated by Mr. Ilenry Sandham, who has found his artistic field chiefly in the British provinces. The journey was from Ottawa, the parliamentary capital of the Dominion, down the river to iu mouth and past the Machine rapids to Montreal. One of the most curious sights of the journey was a visit to the Trappist monastery, where u colony of the monks exiled from France but a few years since has found refnge. This is said to be the strictest of all the religious orders, and the brcthrenare denied even the indulgence of conversation with one another. There is no corresponding order among the ladies. The New York Nation printed in its issue of June 25 a retrospect of the twenty years of ita existence which were completed with that number. The Nation was founded in July, 18(55, in recognition of the new order of things which was sure to follow the end of the war and the abolition of slavery. It at once espoused tbc cause of pure, unpartisau administration of the National Government; and the present condition of civil-service reform is owing to it more than to any other instrumentality. It has been conducted, In its twoleadiniriicpartments, Politieland Literature, by the same editora Irom the iirst number, and holds to-day, as for the past twenty years, the first rank iu each. It is the medium of the most thoughtful and cultivated discussion in the country - is, in fact, the only truly nationalistic forum, lts foreign conespondence is unrivalled, lts book reviews (by leadlng scholars of the country) possess the highest authority. Eaeli number contains a carefulnewsKuiam:iiv, and the bound volumes are prizcd as the best obtainable chronicle of current history. [24 pp., quarto. 20 cents a number; $3 a year. 210 Broadway, New York.