Literary Notes

Henry M. Stanley's real name is John Rowlands. Noah Brooks bas writtenan articie on Stanley for the February number of St. Nicholas, whk-h will be illustrated with :v new portr&it of the explorer, maps, etc. In this articie Mr. Brooks says: "Stanley was born in Wales, near the little town of Denbigh, and his parents were so poor that when he was about three years oíd he was ent to the poorliouse of St. Asaph to be brought up and educated. When he was thirteen years old, he was turned loose to take care of himelf. Young though he was, he was ainbitious and well-informed. As a lad, he taught chool in the village of Mold, Flintshire, nd North Wales. Getting tired of this, he made his way to Liverpool, England, when he was about fourteen years of age, and there he shipped as cabin-boy on board a sailing vessel bound to New Orleans, n the promised land to whicb o many British-born youths evertnrned their eyes. In New Orleans he feil in with a kindly merchant, a Mr. Stanley, who adopted him and gave him his name; for our young hero's real name was John Rowlands, and he was not Stanley until he became an American, as you see. Mr. Stanley died before Henry came of age, leaving no will, and the lad was again left to shift for himself. Young Stanley lived in New Orleans until 1861, when he was twentyone years old, having been born in 1840. Then the great civil war broke out, and StanW went into the confedérate anny." "The Story of a School '' ík the simple title of an articie by the late Prof. James Johonnot, to appear in the February " Popular Scienre Monthly." It is an account of the remarkable success achieved in conducting a normal school according to natural methods, arranging the subjects of study in their order of dependenee, teaching science by observation, language by using language, mental and moral philosophy objectively without books, and with no marking lystem, rules of discipline, or distinctíve religious exercises. The J. C. Ayer company send the n ewspapers bound volumes of 21 of their ]889 almanacs, each in a different language, a curious collection, and interesting at least to students of comparative philology. In another column we print the adyertisement of that sterling and reliable paper, the New York Mail and Express, and we wish to commend it to our readers as in the broadest sense a national newspaper, most carefully edited, and adapted to the wants and tastes of intelligent readers throughout the entire country - north, south, east and west. It is a thoroughly clean paper, free from the corrupting, sensational and demoralizing trash, miscalled news, which detiles the pages of too many city papers. Sample copies are sent iree. Peach-blow cheeksand rosy lips, deep blue eyes and curly auburn hair, are poesessed by the lovely girl whose face adorns Hood's Sarsaparilla Calendar for '89. It may be obtained of your druggist free. Mrs. Foote, who is the wife of a civil engineer, hasspent most of her married life in the mining camps of the west. Her reputation before the public was first made as an artist, and it is interesting to know that she ia now almost the only Century artist who draws directly pon the wood block. Twenty years ago the design for every wood engraving was drawn directly upon the wood by the hand of a draughtsman. Today, the artist makes his picture upon anything he pleases, and in any eize, and the camera transfers it to the wood Ylock. Mrs. Foote still makes her original pictures in just the size they are to appear, and generally upon the wood, but the art department of The Century always transfers the drawing by photography to another wood block so as to preserve the original.