Literary Notes

The Quiver for July i here and au tot-ereeting number it is. The opening paper, "Our Own Hospital Suuday" must interest every cme whio lovea i-lnildren or who has a drop oí human kindness im his h-eart. "A Dincolnsiiirc JUiss"" is comtlmued and is followcil by am illustrated paper called "Au Old-World Corner" whSch descrübes the (luaint Dutch town oí .Marken. ■'(.)n]y a Qbfiftd" i the efcory pi a boy w!ho feit and sufiered with all the iaitvusity of a man. "Witli a Stepmother's Bleesillig" ba a short story, and we hnve the comclusüon of the two-part story, "Sea-Lavemder." - Cas ell Publieliing Company, 15 cents a copy. $1.50 a year ïn ad'vance. "The Rouawl-table" ie the name oí a new department wMcb hiis just been opened hi Harper's Youug People, and wlwch is to represen an association ol the same name, to whlch all boj-ïi aind girls who desire to beeome membe.rs may be. acümitted upoii their ap. plieatton, "witliout fee and without co'nditiions." A ma;iniik-e.nt copy of "The tory of the Geautennial Celebration of the In;uiguratiion oí George "Washington." destmed to be presented to President Harriscm, bas recently been on ex'hibttioin at tli-e office of the pnblishers, D. Appletoai & Co., New York. IC 5 ome of the earliest mimbers in the editkm- limited to one thousand coplee- of tliat great work, whicli elmoe its appearance has been so favor. ablj' raoticed, and will be the gift of Ban. ('oriielius N. Blies, a member, ■svith Hom. Abra.in S. Hewitt, oí the Publicatiom Committee. The copy ia richly boiwid in vellum, staraped in gold, amd resrs in a hands Oine dark moTO-co caee, which is liucd witl heavy whltE sa tin. Seven other books .similarly bound, and sent, one each, to the lïo'voniiin'iit s of Great ISriti.au, Spain, France, th.t Xetliei-Iands, anj swccdiMi, wliose representatives werj preeeoit at both the naugnration iu 1789 wad tlue celebration in 1889, anu' one to oirn State Department. The ■sevonth lias been pturchased by stanford WJiito, the airchiitect of the Washington Memorial Arch, and the designer of the cover of thie Memorial volume.