Literary Notes

The seriáis in Harper's for 1888 aro to bo by William Black and W. D. Howells. Mr. Chamberlain, it is suid, will write a book on his American trip wheii he returns to England. Mrs. Frank Leslie intends to arrange for the publication of a American newspaper in the City of ttexico. In Rolert Louis Stevenson's "Chapter on Dreams," in Suribner's for January he will teil of sonie of the phantonis which disturbed his boyhood and tfave hún the bent which I has made him a WTÜet 'i rDiiiances. Sister Francés SI. Clare, bister tiimvn as tho Nun of Kenmare, has written and Belford, Clarke & Co. have published a littlu work with the title "Anti-Poverty and Progress." ltitiin the nature oL a reply to the landtheories of Henry Gebrge, with special to bbe oase oí Dr. MoGlynn. Swinburne, who oontribute to the AthenBBum a rather enigmatic littlo poem headed "May, 1S"," will liave in tho Ninetecnth Century for January an article called "Dethroning Tennyson." ]t, Beta forth that ho hasbeeu Intrusted vrith the papera of a lady languishing 111 llauuill asyhnu wiio devpted many ye ais to proving tbst Tcniiyson'a I poems wero written by Darwiu. Mine. Limouzin wül shortly givo to the world a volume in whidi slie will put all hoi encunes in tho plllory. The book ill be I called by its ambitious authoress "ljes ChatiI ments," unlcss tho hsin oí Víctor Hugc I chooso to object to such a profanatlon, and il I will no rloubfi prove to future chroniclers anc I historians a curious if not valuable "human I document" concerning men and inanners un ' tier the third reiiublic.