Literary Notes

The present high st.uulard of tlie Cur rent will be malntained, umi everv efforl will be made to Improve it from issue b KAISING AND MANAGEMENT OF POÜLTRY. Boston : Fublisheü by Cupples Upham & Co. Tliis book of 125 pages seeks to eatabHen the bestbreedsof fowls; thequalitiei of each as egg and flesh producers; theh care and proüt, and the great and Incrensmg value of the poultry interest to Immers and the country. The volume is made up of a phonographic report of the addressesand discussions of poultry breedei-s and experts, held in Boston last March borne excellent ideas and suggestions cnn be gleaned from its pages. E. G. Cheverton contiuues, in tlie Oarrei.t of September B, bis phlloaophlc studies "Al Nature's Feet," this particular paper discussing "Waste," howine that what is coniinoiiiy regarded as (ratte is economy. St. Nicholas for September baa .1 Ion.' and varled table of contenta, ono of the in.si attractlve features of whicb ia a fanciful tale by Frank H. Btockton, entlüetl " llio BattJe of the 'J'hhd Goüsins." - Orea Financial Sclicnie," by Sophle Bwett, is a very funny story -itli a vcrv íí'l moral. The moral is pointed at the lendency to Rpeculatu with other people'8 money and the loose ways of doing busiaem that solargely contribute to the constant emigration to Canada. The story relates with rare humor how a country boy attemptcd to emulate the great Wall street t-peculutors and met with disaatrous consequenees. In " Spiders of thu Si :,, " C. F. Holder contribuios an hrteregting Pper aboutcrabs and tl.. Mr mtiny curlous writes an entertalalng article on " Nlckname?," which is historica] rather than analytic, and shows how some very greal pci)ile wera known by some reiy qoeer names. The illustralions ara especially noteworthy this month, and include a luil pa;e engravinr direct fioni nal ure, by Elbiidge Kingsley, and 1 ful! page draw(Irawinii, Alfred E. Sterner; callod ' liy the Sea?1 W. H. ürake contributes tvfo lull paffe illustrations to " Drivcn Back to Eden, and there drawings by othcrs. R. H. Edmonds coneludes, in the ('urrent of September 5, bit lnf orming articlea on "Southern l'rogress," treating in the laat paper on the development of the iron industry in the south within the past ten year. Of greatest public interest nmong the contents of the September Ceiiluiy are Gen. Grant's artlcle on " The Stege of Vicksburg;" the forcible frontigpiece portrait, after a photograph taken wheu Gen. Grant was President (witli whicli s given a fac-simile of Uis tirt sign&ture on the array pay-account as "General Retlred ; ") and a coinmunication froin Gen, Grant, dated Wt. McGregor, ,)un whtch is printed with "Memoranda on tlie' Civil War," and in which he withdraws what was said by him in the Centurv February in regard to the conduct of "Gen. Lew Wallace and Gen. McCook at Shiloh." An editorial in " Topic of the Times'' explains why Gen. (Jrant'sarticle on Vicksburg ia printed without illustrations, and also that the subject wlll bc ivsumed, with piitures, :it anotlicr time. A supplemental article of greut Interest in the same number, is "A Woniiin's Dlsry of the Hiege of Vicksburg," wliicli givJs an Inside view of the bardkhipa ana ünxieties suftered by the besieged. The "M.-inorandaonthe Civil War," besicles Gen. Grant's commiinication, embrace, " Who Projected the Canal at Island No. 10?''l)y Gen. Schuyler Hamilton; "The Charge of Cooke's Cavalry at Gaines' MUI," " reply to Gen. Fitz John Porter, by Gen. Philip St. George Cookc, wiüi " Reeolleotions of a Participant in the Charge," by 15ev. W. H. Hitehcock; and a oontinuatlou of the discussion in regard to Gen. H ianregard'g Courier at Buil Kun," by M ijor Campbell Urown," Wenddl PhUBpg Gftrraon, Inan illustratcd paper dewrrbeá the Prudence Crandall perste ution uil 888, and the encouragement given by William Lloyd Garrison to the brave achoolinistreH who wUhed to edúcate "youngliidies of color." The article is verv migeeattvelr entltlcü "Conuecticut in the MiddleAges."