Literary Notes

"Protection and Free Trade To-Üay, at Home and Abroad, in Field and Work shop," by Robert F. l'ortcr, is the title of an excellent pamphlet on this all absorbinjr topic of free trade vs. protection, issued by Jas. R. Osgood & Co., Boston. This paper is ono every business man can afford to take the time to read and can afford to buy for the valuable information contained therein. For sale l)v Shechan Co., price 10 cents. The Quiver for April opens with an illustrated pocm, "The Proud WavesStayed," by George S. Outram. The usual nuinber of papers of a strictly religious tone go to make up the nnmber, and these are alternated with stories both lonp; and short. The Quiver stories are a boon to careful parents, for they give the younfr people ofthe famüy all the amusement they want, while at the same time their moral teaching is unexceptionable. The Quiver has made lUclf a necesslty in every chrietian household.- Cusell & Company, Limited, 15 cents a copy, fl.50 a yi'.-ir in advanuc. The naval dtïrl between tlic "Kearsargi;" and the"Alabama" will be the war feature of the April Cestarj'. There will bc three papers, profuBdy illustrated, - the lir?t, "Lifc oa tli 'AUbama,' " writtcn bjr oue of the cfeV rtf that famouscruiser, cOntaWinff the author's opinión of his efflcerB ancfsliiprrlaie?, an account of the two years' cruiso, etc. ; another paper is ty the tii-st ofllccr of the "Alabama," Lint. KH1; nd a third is contributed by the siirgcon of the "KeHrSitrge," Dr. Brown. The story of the "Monitor" and 'Mi-riininc" tight, -wrltten by particiD!tnt8, iva onc ot-the most popular war features of the Céntnry, and it is thoimht that these narratives will be fotind fully as intpresting.