Literary Notes

St. Nicholas for February i unc of th inot eharming publications oTer issuci from the Century Co. 's prea Ëdmund Clareooe Stalman contribuir i descriptiva poem, "Ilebe," to the Feb niary Century, whicli is illusliated h -('. Rutler ml Sidney Sinitli. In Cussell & Co's ñew Ratnbow serie Anne Bntdshaw writes " A CHmsoi Staln'and Georre Mannvllle Penn ooa tributes "Morgan's Horror. '' Surelv. the nauies will go 11 the books. Onr Little Ones for January U lilled full of pretty plcturcs, chiiriniiig little stories anti versea for the small one of the fuinily, and t stands nlmot alone in a field that is an excellent one, the entertaining- and training of our cblldren. It is onlv i.6O (jer year. Published by tlie rtfi?ell l'ul)lsliin Co., Boston. Man, Krom the tact that over 200 persons liivc bi'cii nanied as the author of tlie "Bunting Ball," Funk & Wagnalla argue that Interna) ovidence of inthOrshlp is wholly niisleadinu', whethcr that evidence 11 applled to modorn wrltingt, to tht: ofaeM' .-, or to the bible. This is a pretty big Inferencc to draw from ,i ritneH bonk, wbich i.s piuicssed a parody. The $1.000 ia lo bc awarded to the sucx-essful gue?ura in Maroh. From the pablkher Kichard A. Stalfled, 12 Bible House, Xew York, has been rcCeWed tlnee pieces of music, cutitlcd : Miksdo Waltz, by Coote, an unugement of the most takinjr aiis from Gilbert & Sullivan's late.-t opera; "Little All üiii " [The Chirusc leid ] bv J. P. Skclley.which is a iobk dMerlptive of bow this Chinese youth look au American biuiible bee to be a butterfly, and tbe ooosequenres of oatcbnpr and settin; down on him whirh is rcry l'iinny; also a new gOBg In tbe enlini'Mital line, " Mary, Darling, must ym leave me," by II. P, Danks, the author of " Silver Thieads ainong the Gold." The r'in:irkíible letter written by I-incoln to Onint just bafore the opening of tbe Wilclernesscampaign.closinx uitli the words, '-and now wlth u bravo iirmy, and i jiist cause, may God suxtain you," Is in le possesMon of Gen. Hadeau, and has Men reproduood in fau-similefor the Febniary (,'entnry, to accompany General Grant's HTtlcle, "Preparing for the 1derness Oampaigti.'1 (en. l'.adeau States ¦ lint Gen. (ram was "always Oftrelett abiut dis papers, and private or semiolllo.ial ones were often thrust into his loekets, where tliey reiuained for months. il .-ome tncb way Mr. LiDCOln-'a beauti'ul God-specd was mislaid. Geil. Grant md forgotten its existence, until, in 18G6, came acroM t ín my researches for my listory of liis Otmpnigns. 1I was so ilfü-ed at tlicdiscovcry, or recovery, that ie pave me the original letter -it llie ime." The Magazine of Art for February s a charmintr number, and is ushered In by a poeni from the pen of Austin Dobson. Ilustrated by the pencil of Randolph Jalderott. These two gentlemen have he 18th century spirit in perfection, and ne is only surprised that they were not of the njrè of powder and patch. The fir8t article is "Buckinfrham Palace," described ao vividly with pen and pencil as o open one's Repuhlioan eves vlth wonIer at so uiuoh royal grundeur. The iitre poem, "A Song of the Road," by R. j. Öteveti9on, brings him back to a cerüin simplicity and he is got well in hand or this work-a-dny world by the time he ïts read the story of "David Nenl's Strutrgles and Succêsses." Mr. Xeal is a íew Èngland man by birth, but he owes lis art education to Munich, of whose chool of paintine he is i worthy expolent. Cassell & Company, Limited, New fork, 35 cents a copy, $:?.fi() :i jresr In dvancc. IJic city of Ann Arbor Lus au opportunity (f it isn't too late) to aild to lts inhubitants, business and wealth by sccuring the T., A. A. & N. M. R. 15. shopg. But as heretoforc remaiked, t doepo'l seem to want to do so. At least not bad enough to make au eflbl. Porhupi it doesn't want the labortng men iu our midst. If uot, we shonld advise any holding au opinión of the kind to rcad what the liite Jolm G. Holland- most excellent authority says- of the laborer. Hero it is: "Labor is the honorable thiiig awong men. There is not a neatlv-;raded hiwn, a well-tralned tree that does notMell of it. It bnilds magnifteent citles, and creates navies, and britlges rivers, and lays railroad tracks, and infuses every part of the flyng locomotivo. Wherever a steamcr plows the waves, or the long canal bears the natlon's inland wealth; wlicrcvcv the wheat fields wave and the mili wliei'!turn, the laborer is the conqueror and the Icing. The newspaper, wherever it spreads its svlngR, bears the impress of toilers' hands. Sliould not the laborer be well-housed? Should lie not have the best wife and the prettiest children in the world? Shonld uot the man who prodnces all he can eat and wear be honored ? To U8 there ia more trne poetry iibout the laburcr'.s life aml lottlian any otlier man's under heaveu. It matten not iu what calline a man toiU, if he toils manfiilly, honestly and contentedly. The little tin pail should be a badge of nobility everywheic, and in the 'good time cominir, boys,' it wil! be."