Literary Notes

Walter C. Dolim, the Prlnceton tíllete, will contri butean arlicleon "Training for Biys"' to tlie mitnber of Hurper's Yomig l'euple to be published February astii. The Rev. Dr. Deenis will contribute an article entitlgd "Diecoursing on the Humanities" to the nuinher of Harper'ê Uazar to be publiehed Feb. 28th. The sanie uumber will contain a story by Rose Hawthoriie Iathrop, and a poem by tlic Virginian poet, Charlea Washington Coleman. Professor Putnam's papers on tlie Moiind Builders will begin in the ut-xt number of the Century. The (irst paper is entitlcd " Prehistorie liemalns in the Oliio Valley," und will be followed In April by :i descriptiou of that extnior(Bnary monnincnt of mtiquity, the Serpent Mound. Ainong the pleasant features of the current number of Wide A wake are the opening clmpters of "Bony and Ban,'1 a ncw serial bjr Mary Hartwell Catherwood, "A Rabbit Kotind up" by Joaquín Miller, inotlier of Jessie Benton Fiéinont's "Will and the Way Stories" entitled "A Picnic Heat the Equator, and an account of the "Beautlf ui tëmlly Marshiill" by Francés A. Hiimphrey, illustrated by a portiait. Worthlnirton Conipany announce as their next New Volunn in their BabneT Libraiy "Aflaat in the Forest" ora voy age rtinong the Tree Topa by Captain May ne Rrid with Life of the Author by R. II. Stocld.ird. It is i ondel lul story relatlllK liow two brothers wlio went to South Amo ca in search of weultfa lieciime succs-tiilly settled, the olie in Peru and the otherin Brnzl] and who atterwards with tbeir fsmlliee went throogh innumerable slirrhiir ii'lventures. It is a most roniiiniii- bnok tliat. all sllöuld feat'. Professor John Henry Comstock, the eminent nataralist,beglns i:i tlieNewYoik Ledtter of Marcll 1, a series of slx articles on thei-tudy ofinsects, in whichhe describes, not only those insects which are useful to tlie (inner, but also, those wlnch destroy entile tieltls of graiD, cottiui mul rice, und riv:i; oichards, gardeii and viney'inls. He denionstriites liow it was scieiitifically determined that an nver:ij;r anoual loss 'of $30,000,000 has been occasioneel in the South by the cêuoD-wor! alone; and that an average hs per year, of ueaily $2,400,000, lias hei ii brnuifht about in the ipple erop ol IllinoU by llie ravages of the codlin motb. The series is profusely Illuítialed.