Literary Notes

The issue óf Harper's Weekly dated December 19 will be the special Christmas number. It will contaiu a stroug and picturesque story entitled "The Ghost of Captain Brand," by Howard Pyle, with two full-page drawings and five illustrative headbands by the author. A war-time picture by the late Charles S. Reinhart will Ilústrate a characteristic story entitled "A Contraband Christmas," by Captain Charles King. W. D. Howells will contribute a "Life and Letters" article on the subject of Christmas for which drawings have been made by Edward Penfleld. John Kendrick Bangs will write of "The Ghosts that Have Haunted Me," and there will be seasonable drawings by Fredric Remington, A. I Keiler, Peter Newell, Lucius Hitchcock, and W. Hatherell. In the Jannarv number of Harper's a paper entitled "Science at the Begining of the Century," by Dr. Henry Smith Williams, will be an important contribution to the history of nineteenth-century civilization, and will be followed by other papers showing the pregress of scientific discovery during the last hundred years. These papers will be fully illustrated. _______