Literary Notes

McClure's Magazine for March will contain full-page portraits, from recent photographs, of President-elect McKinley and his mother. A thrilling chapter of secret war history will be related in McClure's Magazine for March by Gen. John M. Thayer, formerly United States Senator from Nebraska. It is an acount of a night he passed alone with Secretary Stanton in the War Office when the later was expecting that President Johnson would attempt to dispossess him of his office by force of arms. The new Congressional Library in Washington has been cornpleted withi the time limit, and at a cost of only 6 cents a cubic foot, includingdecorations The cost of the gigantic municipal buik ing in Pliiladelphia, which was begu in 1872 and is only now being completec bas already been $1.00 a cubic foot. I the March Century, the librarían, A.ït Spofibrd, while William A. Coffin, th art critic, will write of the decorations There will be twenty-six illustiation in the two articles.