Literary Notes

Tlie last of CusseH's National Library, is "Ewayi and Tales" by Kichard öteele, and "The Existence of God," by Fenelon. These 10 cent books b-Ing into everybody's rt'uch the cre.im of Engüsh lif.erature. "Spiden and tliüir Ways" is the title of a generously illustrated artic'.e to appear in the Oclober "Popnl ir Science Monthly." H is by M. Kmlle lilmchard, a French naturalist, wlio deal9 wit.li a j-'reat varlety Bf tlifse Intelligent little creatures in au exceedlngiy Intereitlag muniier. An especially striking paper, to aj)ppar in the Octoher "Popular Science Montlily," is "Man in Kulatimi to the Lower Animáis," by Prof. Edwin Emerson. The writer shows that Ur. Mark Hopkins's attempt, in lus "Scniptural Idea of Man,"' to wiaen tlie chasm betWeeii man anti the lower animáis is not juslifii'd by the f acts. Besides the series of full-pagt engravings by Timothy Cole of the greatest works of the Italian masters (the result of Mr. Cole's labora in Italy durin; tlie past four years,) the nextyear of The Centurywill contain a series of fujl-page engravinjís from original drawins by Mary Hallock Foote. These designs are the artistic result of a lnng residence in the far West, and tuey will include euch subjects as "'Lookiiiif for Camp," "The Coming of Winter," etc.