Literary Notes

At the World's Fair last summer no foreign exhlMt attrac-ted more attention than, probably no other attracted so much as, the Javanese villag?. In gpite of thp interest then taken in 1he gentle Uttle brown-sk'nned residcnts of the rush matting and barnboo village, many peop'e wlll be tw piS3d to know i h:it 1 he population of Java is 23,000,000. How the Javanese l'.ve, and what their islanrt home looks like, will be desribed in the May Harper's Magazine, with illus trationa of itypical liou;e?, vegetatfon, and men aii'l wömen. ïhat the present is ihe era of cheap magazines anti books is einphasized by the latest proposition made by Blue and Gray, the dirtinotlvely patr:otic American magaz'ne putillshed at Philadelphia. 'Ihis publ:catin recently recluced lts price from S2.50 to $1 a year, and now anndunCes a BpecteJ new edition of General Grant's "Memoirp," in one large cloth volume, whl;h they will supply to their patrons for $2.00, including one yeara suVs-ription to Iilue and Gray. This seems like the aeme of cheap literature. Grant's "Memons" occupie-s a unique place in American letter?, and wouia have sold by millions inEtead of hundreds of thousands, but for its otlglna'y high priie- $7.00. St .Nicholas is to add another seri'il to its atlractions for the presen! year, which have Included Mark Twain's "Tom Sawycr A!)i-o:id,' and Rndyarfl KipUng'e störles of the Jungle. It is announced that the April number w!L eontain the iirst chapters of a serial witten and illustratcil by Howard Pyle, the author of "Robin Hood" and ''Men of Iron." It is called "Jack Ballister's Fortunes,'' and deals with Mie in America durlng the early colonial days. Throus-h the treaehery of in uncle, Jack Ballister, a sturdy Bnglish lad, and licii' ;i .'i mail estáte, is transported to America, and sold in the Virginia colony as a redpmptioner, or bonrï-servnnt, for seven years. The story ík a Ion.? on(, and -vill run lor more than a year.