Literary Notes

With this issue the fourtli volume of ie Forum is concludcd; and the numbttrs tat niake up tliis volume contain many f the most important uttcrmices on topics lat have been uppermost in the public llrtd, including Utlolei on the surplus by Speaker Carlisle and the llon. Win. D. Celley (more than 100,000 copies of each f whicli wcre published); tlie series of Books that Have Helped Me," whlch ias sufTiii'Stcd many similar autobioraphic sketches both in England and in je United States; the essays of Prof. J. 'eter Lesley, on reügious subjects from reverential scientitio poiut of view; ov. Foraker's defbnac of the Republican arly; Mr. JlaUtind's and Senator Coluitt's dicussion of the negro vote in the OUth, and the first two of the series of rticlfs on the Public School system from very important point of view.