Literary Notes

In Harper's Magazine for September the second and concluding part of Howard Pyle'a narrative of the freebooting ndventurers wbo ruled the Spanish Main in the last ceiitury is devoted to the tnarooners, of whom Captain Avery, Captain Kkld, Captain "Bluebeard," and Captain Low were conspicuouscxamplcs. Tliu authenic history oi tbesc pirates, whose very names made merchantmen tremble in their shoes, ia sketched with grrphic interest, and Mr. Pyle illustrates the romantic scènes of that evil epoch wlth four drawing. The seriáis in ITarper's Magnzine are approaching ilieir close, the September instalment of Miss O'Meara'a Russian novel "Narka" belng within two parts of the conclusiou. Howell's story of Boston society, "April Hopes," which is now rambling deiightfully throngh the denouement of the betrothed lovers, Dan and Alice, wlll also end in the November nuniber. The f rontispiece to the September Harper's wlll be one of Alfred l'arson's beautiful illustrationsto Wordsworth's sonnet, the subject being " The lliver Duddon." The lust pnblications oí Cassell's National Library, paper cover, 10 cents each, are: "My Beautlfiil Lady, Nellle Dale," by Thos. Woolner, B. A. "The Banquet ot Plato," by Percy Bysche Shelly. "A Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding. "Rravi'ls in the Interior of África." bv