Literary Notes

The American Geologist for Morch has a paper by Dr. Alexander Winchell which treats of conglomerates and conglomeritic appearances in granites. The Geologist maintains the high character, through not to high for the non-technical reader, with which it starled out. Alexander Black's "Story of Ohio," published by D. Lothrop Company, is finding the most practical of all endorsementg in the Buckeye State - use. The book has already been adopted in certain schools of the State as text-book or as part of the course of supplementary reading. The Pansy for March comes to our table freighted with pictures and stories for young olks from eight to twelve. It is certainly 8 charming magazine, with not a line of reading that the most particular of parents can object to. The subscription price is $1 a year. The publishers, D. Lothrop Company, Boston, will send a sample back number on receipt of five cents The frontispiece of the Magazine of Art for April is a fine engraving by M. Morse, one of the most sympathetio wielders of the graver in Paris, of Greuze's famous painting, " The Dead Bird." The original is in the possession of the Baronesa Nathaniel de Rothschild, who acquired it in 1880 at acost of L4,800. The opening paper of the number is from the gifted and careful pen of Mrs. Schuyler Van Renesellear, who writes of the famous American painter, Washington Allston. To the preeent generation, to whom Allston is but an honored name, Mrs. Van Renssellear's paper, with its admirable illustrations (rom his woik, wili be a revelation. Tlie notes are full, news and wide-reading in this number of the Magazine. - Cassell & Co. N. Y. 35e a number, $3.50 per year in advance. The April mimberof the Century will be devoed largely to celebrating the Centennial of the Inauguration of Washington in New York, April 30, 1780. Thecontents of the number will include "The Inauguration of Washington," by Clarence W. Bowen, illuetrated with views of New York ia 1789, the reception at Trenton, portraits.etc; "Washington at Mt. Vernon after the Revolution," by Mrs. Burton N. Harrison, with a number of intereating illustrations, and " Washington in New York in 1789," by the same author; "Original Portraits of Washington," by Chag. Henry Hart, and "A Century of Conptitutional Interpretation," by Prof. John Bach McMaster. Mrs. Harrison's articlee are devoted to the social aspect of the subject, and ghe will describe New York soeiety at the time of the first president. A hnndred illustrations will appear in this number of the Century.