Literary Notes

Sarah Pratt McLean Greene contributes to the April Wide Awake a rollieking April Fool's Day story, with the enticing title of " Chollemyisies Johnsing's AÍflicted Holiday. Professor William T. Hornaday, of the Smithsonian Institution, will coutribute to llarper's Young People for March 31 at the first of a series of practical articles on taxideriny. Can women enjoy the sports of the field, and can they acquit themselves creditably in them? "An American Rosalind," in April Outing, comes as a pleasant surprise with her affirmative answer. The supplement to Harper's Weekly published April Ist will comprise an article on the new Episcopal Cathedral of Kew York, accompanied by illustrations of several of the designs submitted by different architects. Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi, of New York, publishes in the forthconiin}.' (April) Century a brief popular resume of the recent diseoveries of Pasteur. Koch, and other experimenters in the same field, both in Europe and America. The Century Magazine bas begun the publicatiou of a series of editorials (in "Topics of the Time") on financial .subjects. The seeond of these will appear in the April number, and is entitled "A 'Cheap Money' Lesson from History." The next number of Harper's Bazar will contain the opening chapters of a briüiant extravaganza by Howard Pyle, entitled "A Modern Aladdin, or 'the Wonderful Adventure of Oliver Munier," with characteristic illustrations by the author. Mr. Lorettus S. Metcalf has resigned ,he editorship of the Forum, after fifeen years of close confineuient to re'iew work. He is to be succeeded by Mr. Walter H. Page, an experienced ïewspaper man, who has been the "oruiu's business manager. 'The Athletics of the Ancient Greece,' n Outing for April, is interesting readng to every contestant and enthusiast of )resent-day athletic contests. The simlarity and difference between those conests and the ones of ourday, asbrought out in this article, is full of inforrnation and entertainment for the reader.