Literary Notes

The frontispiece of Cassell's Magazine representa a beautiful malden (tandiag iy the brookside, while an agile cupid tiyini; tbroagh the air ha alighted upon her ¦boulder and is whispering liis insidious ariimcnts into her not mi willl nr ear. A sensible paper called "An Emigratlon Made Easy " follows this. It shows the lack of work in Eujdandand the care witli which eoiigration to Her Majesty's Colonlee is reulaU-d The " Family Doctor1' tliis montb disiusses thequestion of "The Worth of Fish as a Food,'1 añil decides Unit i; is ;i verv gooil Ullng to eat at the proper time, but that it should never be enten at ntgbti " The Laud of Ice and Snow" is tiie titleof a paper on the sports and Industrie of Canada. "Employinents tor Guntlewoiueii " is a practical paper reoooamendlng romen to study dentistry and cliiropody. " Musical Histoiy as a Popular Study," U an illustrateü paper. Short storie8, seriáis, poemsand plenty of pictures ni ikc up the niuuber - CiMWlll & Company, $1.50 a year in advance. The public are alrcady awaie of the deatli of Professor Edward L. Youmans, the disUllguUhed founder, and, till ti is lainented decease, the senior editor of The Popular Science Mont'ily." This event w til involve no material ch.intje in the iiiiua}Li-inent or character of the magazine. Dr. W. J. Younians brother of Professor Foumans, bi'fiinning with the lirst munber of the Honthly h is been associated in the editorial supervisión dm 'mg its entire lile; lias shared In the shapiug of its policy, had a hand in the execution of the work, and for months at a time, especially during the past two yeais of the practical disability of his biolher, hus boine the subslantial burden of editorial responsibility. Feeling as sured that the iuterests of the magazine will be well cared t'ir, and its high standard maintained in his h;iuds the publislierstake pleasure in announcing that he will continue its m uKiiri'innt ; and that it will be niiirked, U horetofore, by broad views of science and adaptation to the wants of the general reader.