Literary Notes

Hirc is the July num'bcr of Our L'ittle Ones and the Nursery, chock full of pretty picturea and nice little storles for the wee ones. How mama will liavo to read these little storiea over and over BgaJn for little tootsy wootgr. Iiut tbey iiitiike Iw.v happy iiid -t-c-M-h ]ur the ways of lifo. Cret one for your little glrl or boy only $1.50 a year. Hon Cairoill I). WrifiHit wlll discuss The Valué oí Btattetlcs in the AuRiist l'Dpul.ir Science Monthly, explalning Ihiw tables of figures should be iscd. and ghorwing i iicy ure sometimeB made to glve (atoe evldance. Outing for July eoutalns ;i wealth of beautiful Illustratlone and [nterestfcttg anieles upon Bport, past imc and travel. The record departments are also vèry complete. In liis aa-tdole, ent il led Fniin PetlOh tu Hygiëne, to appear in Tlie Popular Sdence Monthly tor August, Dr. Andrew i). AVhitc presenta e terrlblr picture n' tie revagee jí erptdemlcs in the Unies wfcen prayerg and processlona were the only meaos relied upon to to check thcm. Tlie ]iul)lislic;-s ni Dnting made no die bonst vlien they aniionnccd Uiat John Beymour Wood'a greal story "ii.-u-r.v s Career at Yalc," would de' ï --i-ii t i de milllon, and Outing for July addltlonal chapters oí tasetoatlng picture ol American college Ufe, .■mil :i wr.-.iMi of rlchly 11lustrated artlcles otftction, sport, travel, etc. "Teaching in Both Dontlnents" is the liili' erf ,i. carefully prepared volume ly E. ('. Grasby, vliich i.s inbrodneed to Amcrlciin readers liy Prof. W. T. Jlai-i-is, whldh -win ]■ pnibllahöd by the CaaseU PubiWhlng Co. It is a iMlli.i,r;uv' KlUll.V of SCllOOl BJTS itin in connection wlth thoee ol othea nations. "In this boolk," says Prof Harris, "we have the rare opporlun Ity of seeirng our odur.-it ional system as it appears to ano of our largeniiiidcd cousiiis trom the opposlte Hide of the -varld," ;ind, be udds, "tlic vciy Intelligent criticism ol Mr. Qraaby Wlllbe read wlth piofit by our teachers nii.l nehool dLrt'Ctors." .lust ix'fore her bereavemeat, Lady M.icilcinald. wldOW of the late SilJohn Macdnnnld, COfflapleted (i'st .■nubil ou.s Uterary tfoii In aaerlee nf artielea tor The Lafllee' Home Jouraal, the first of wliich wil] appear in th" Augugri Qumber oiifi.ii perlodlcal. i.-isi glimmer, Lady Maedonald, -wlth a party ot Mande, traveled In her prlra-tecar Uhroogh the moei plcturesque paria o Canada, and In a dellgntfully frcsii manner ahe describes her ezpeni-iu-cs on tiii.s trip, In theee articles to Aviiich she lias glyea the titie of "An l'nconvontional Holiday." A Krlea of beactlful Ulatftratloaa iurnibed by Lady Macdoaald, wlll acompany 1li' urticles. An admirable fiill-pag jyortralt of Olivor WoiKlell Holmes formn the frontÜqtiece of tbe July Arena. A critlcal paper by Gcorffe Stewart, D. C. L., LL. D., the well-lknown editor andcritic of Quebec, treata of the life and literary labora of Dr. Holmes, In a mannor at once Beholarly and aibeorbinly taterest-lng. I'robably the most notablo papor in iliis issue In Edfcar Fawcett'a "I'lutocracy and Snobbery In New Yoirik." in n the vealmnnK tolble, and evils of hlpli life in the metropoli aro boWly dealt with in a ïiKistc.riy marnier, vblle Prof. Buchaniui's cloatalg paper on "Revolutionary Meaauresand Neglecte3 Crimea" strikes boMly et very evlla which Mr. Pawcel i mi vividiy deplcts.