Literary Notes

An aj-tiele on "Árebíitecture at the at ttoe "VVorld's Colamblan Expodltion" iin tiiie August (Vntury willl deBCTibe the Electrit-ity and the Mining BuïdJnge. T2i auttew of the artilc. Mr. Htnry Van Brunt, Ie one arcfrttecte of tlue iormer buir.dias. Mr. Bok lias sueceed'ïd im unearthu!í a quantlity of uiiiiiil!'isjied material by Henry AVaril Beectoer, wliith wiïl shortly by publWied as a series of artit-le.s in T1w Laidieé' Home Jo-urTiai. -The matiea-Sal .ite especlally valunble e.'nce it d'nis wü!i a range of topii'.s lio !i varlt'd iind titaéfy, and wV.l advaii-i', ior tfaie flrst time In print, tJie great preaebjer'a vtewá on a munbcr oi' Budh üateresttog questimis as haairriage, home ■government, womnn in publte and private llfe:, politics, etc, ete. Mr; Bok has gecured the eo-operntioíi o: Mrw. peeeher and Professor Eülinwood. Mr. Beeeher'e private reporrer, rái .th;' editi'ng . the material. Tfoere iis a fitti.ns Instaace of natural select ton ;,n the contributorn oí of Bummer talks Jn tlhie August Wi-de .-vake. Saivyer Downs, one of the best piractical botanista, tells liow to bota:iu:ae, i'ro.'. ('liarlos E. Fay of tlie peripatetic Appalaehains te:is ub li'uw no; to pret lost in tlie wood-, ("aptaim Julius A. Palmer, Jr., a.n actanowledgied nautk-al authority, tells tlie d 'i: fe ronce betwcen starboard ajïd port, Wiillis Boyd Allen, the vetOran camper, tells lioiv to make a fiire, imd Criarles M. Skinner, a veritaible "globe trotter," tells liow to take a walk'.ms toiur. Xot one of tlliewe brlietf papers but is fu'.l of real STiKgeetWe anl practica! advice.