Literary Notes

Anua Katharine Green, authorof "The Leavenworth Case" and other "detective novéis," contributes to the August Wide Awake "An Entertainment of Mysteries," sure to cause much mirth everywhere. The ïuidsummer (August) WideJAwake carries a surprise in its beatiful new oover, wUcb is a radical departure from ali precedente. The desitrn is purely decorative, as a cover should be, rich in roso color and gold, on pale tea-green antiqueiinisli paper. Hou. David A. Wells closes his series of papers n The Popular Science Monthly," 011 "An Economie Study of Mexico," with au article in the August numberconsidering the attitude wiiich the United States should take toward that country. Havinii given us what is iccepted by the best informed as a generully accurate and approximately complete statement of the deplorable conditioii of affalrs which now exists in Mexico, Mr. Wells maintaina that. being partly responsible for this ourselves, we should assume the role, henceforth, of the generous big brother, and actively assist them in their strivings after botter things.