Literary Notes

Tl Nfew Bngland Magazine gives a warmer welcome to the younger American poets than any of its older ooim.prtitors, and the Nocember issue is as interesting in this regard as ajiy oí the preeeding numbers. It contains poeons by Richard Hovey, the oif 'lAnmoelot and Guinevre," y.o well reeeived by the critics upon it recent publicación; T. Torrey Dommer, Allen Eastmnn Cross, Mary Clark Hirntingtom, WHliam P. Andrews and others. Harper's Young People for November lst, beginning the fourteenth voluirae of that uurivalled publicatiom, will be a doublé nuraber af 32 pages, and wñll oomtain an unusually rich variety oï attraotlonB. Xoteworthy amiong its contents will be the openLnig chaptera rf a new seria;l by KirU Mumroe, entitled ■Raftmates," a sto ry of the Miseissippi River, appropriately illutsti-ated. Boys who havo read Mr. Munroie's earlier stories of advent nrf will need na Introductlon to this tahe, whlch te the la test otf the faniioue "Mate" series. Ttue Arena has been teraied the "Review which da res, in ccmnter-distinctioin to tl many reviews which cater to popular tates, to be a leader of th'ought and a defender of the oippressed." In 1893 TWe Arena wil! present th'e best thoraght of the ablest live and progressive tliinkers of the age. rVjr exatnplc, the December Arena, which commraces a new volume, will oontain iapers by Napoleon Nay (gran.dis.oin oí the gneat Freneli Marshial), Dr. A. Niclolsan, D. D., une ni Bngland'e greatest Shakespeariau schölars; Dr. Lyma-n Abboit, D. D.; Bish'oip J. 1. Spaldinii-, Helen Campbell, ProHessoir Swing, T. V. Powdérly aind oithers. Messrs. D. Appletoe & Oo. will publish imnnediately a striking volume by W. H. Davenport-Adams, entitled Warriors1 ol the Ofeecemt. This story oí Orential magnlflcence, oi littering campajig.nK, fatalistic heroism, and the pilla ge ■: the inarvolons riches of In dia, by the Sultans ol ühazni and their killcwers, comies to the reader like new talea al the Ai-ubian Niglits. Here we ni-ay reaid the explo-its of Mahmud. Timur the Tartar, and the Gread dloguls. Ir is a splendid hut little known chapter on' history, and Mr. Adam's graplik-, vivid style clothes liist oi-y with the ga.rb of romanice. Maiiy who read the dazzling recordé o: sbah Jaban, The True Star of the I Faith. ar Auranyzib. the Conqueror of the Universe. will find a new would pe-nied tto thean in these pictures of magnificent Orential deepotlsm. 'l'liis x'olunie will be unifoirm with Pictures troon Roiman Life and Story (illu.strated), by Piof A. J. Church, wtía has added a lKok of remarkable Interest and permanent merit to his sketches oí Roman civilization.