Literary Notes

A curieus paper, entit'ed "The Antecham'oer of Cousciousness," will appear in the Jtarch Popular Science Monthly. The author, Mr. Francia Speir, Jr., has collected many cases which go to show tbat the human intellect is constantly active, even while we are asleep or otherwise unconscious of its doingg. One prize of $700 and one of $300 are offered by the Congregational SundaySchool and Publishing Society, Boston, for the first and second best MSS., suitable for Sunday-school books, either of fiction, biography, or history. These prizes ought to set a good many pens to work. Conopetition is open until My 15, 1888. Of course full particulars may be obtained by addressing the Saciety. North's Pniladelphia Musical Journal for February is at hand, and like previom numbere contains much of interest and value to musical people. In this issue the publishers offer to give away one fine upright piano and one parbr organ to the persons seading the greatest number of eubscribers previous to July lst, 1888. Here is au opportunity for some of our citizens to obtain a fine instrument without cost. Lery subscriber receives $2.00 worth of sheet music as a premium. Only $1.00 a year. Specimen copy and full particulars mailed for 10 centa. Address North's Musical Journal, Philadelphia, Pa. The March Century will contain the story of "Colonel Rose's Tunnel at Libby Prison," told by one of the one hundred and nine Union officers who escaped on the night of Febiuary 9, 1864. The successful construction of this tunnel, dug from a dark corner of the cellar of the prison, through fiity feet of solid earth, - the ODly tools being two broken chisels and a wooden spittoon in which to carry out the dirt, - was one of the most remarkable incidents of the war. Colonel Rose, to whose indomitable will and perseverance the suocess of the seheme was due, is now a captain in the lCth United States Infantry, and of the fourteen men who assisted him in digging the tunnel, eleven are still living. The narrative in the March Century. which is illustrated, fonns one of the untechnical papers supplementing the War series, and it is said to be one of the most romantic records the The Century has ever pnnted.