Literary Notes

Our August Pao8y has come with ita forty pages of boy and girl stories and piotures. We wish we oould lend it to all the young folks we know. But, what is better, send to D. Lotbrop Company, Boston, for it. The subscription price is $1 a year; but they will send you one number for five centi- it may be a back number. It is a veritable missionary. The contributors to the September number of the Forum are to be : the Hon. Thomas White, Minister of the interior of Canada; Mrs. Craik, author of "John Halifax, Gentleman "; Dr. Jessopp, the well-known English essayist; President Bascom, of Williams College ; Prof. Young, the astronomer ; Senator Ingalls, Andrew Lang, Prof. Cope, Bishop Coxe, Nicholas P. Gilman, and Prof. Winchell. In Harper's Magazine for September, the second and coucluding part of Howard Pyle's narrative of the freebooting adventurers who ruled the Spanish Main in the last century is devoted to the marooners, of whom Capt. Avary, Capt. Kidd, Capt. " Blackbeard," and Capt. Low were conspicuous examples. The authentic history of these pirates, whose very names made merchantmen tremble in their shoes, is eketched with graphic interest, and Mr. Pyle illustrateB the romantic scènes of that evil epooh with four drawings. St. Nicholas for September opens with a delightful frontispiece, by Mary Hallack Foote, illustrating "Tib Tyler's Beautiful Mother," a charming Ule of hfe at a seaside watering-place, by Nora Perry. There are several seasonable but inoffensive little moráis tucked away in the story, together with some dainty drawings by Albert E. Sterner. A paper that will interest boys is the article on "Christ's Hospital,"- the famous "Blue-coat School" of London,- where the scholars never wear hats, dress very nearly as the boys did when the school was founded, hundreds of years ago, and have many quaint and curious customs. Both girls and boys will be interested in the account, in E. S. Brooks's "Historie Girls" series, of "Christina of Sewden," who was much more like a boy than a girl in her nature, and was, in fact, crowned "King" of Sweden. "The Popular Science Monthly" for September gives the leading place to David A. Wells's third artiole on "The Economie Disturbances since 1873," which proves the most important and interesting of the series so far. Showing how all other causes of depression group themselves around the fundamental one of man's increased control over the forcea of Nature, the author considers the bearing from this point of view of over produotion, and of the charges in the relations of labor and capital as affected by the aggregation and consolidation of industrial enterprises. Under the heading, "Sleep and its Counterfeits," Dr. A. de Watteville describes lethargy, catalepsy, somnambulism, and various phenomena of hystero-epilepsy and hypnotism. Mr. George P. Morris gives a description of an attempt made by the Rev. Thomas Budd to found an industrial school in West Jersey two hundred yeare ago. In his paper on "Social Sustenatce," Mr. Henry J. Phillpot discusees the specialization of energies which is becoming the rule in modern industries, and gives particular attention to the fact that women and farmers re largely denied its highest development. New York: D. Appleton & Company. Fif ty cents a number, $5 a year.