Literary Notes

There are several salient features'of the Jan. Ladies Home Journal which' gives it a special interest. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmate begics his work as one of the editnrs and opens his new department "Under My Study Lamp". The ascensión of the new editor-in-ohief, Mr. Edward W. Bok, is also formally announced. "Side Talks with Girls" is a well-conceived new feature of confidential talks with young women, giving bright little hints on the subject iris enjoy reading about. Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, Maud Howe and Katharine B. Foot supply the fiction with the best chapters of their novéis vet printed. Amelia Blooiner, of the "Bloomer Costurne" fame, has an interesting letter on the costume whicfa bears her name. Mrs. General Clister tells whát she would do "II I Were a Man," while Lee C. Harby, Margaret Sangster and Eben# E. Rexford, supply the poetry. One 'Dollar a year. Published at 433435 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. In the January Century, the next to the last installmenl of "The Life of Lincoln" appears. This installment contains a graphic account of Lincoln's last day and bis assassination, also a chapter on the assassins and a description of the mourning pageant. The frontispiece of this number of The Century is a portrait of Prof. James Bryce, the author of "The American Coinmonwealth." A notable paper is Amelia B. Edwards's account of the recent very exiraordinary discoveries at Bubastis, in Egypt. A very full installment of Jefferson's Autobiography gives some amusingtales of the early adventures of theauthor. Henry James, has a fully illustrated paper on Daumier, the famous French caricaturist. The secondof the "Present Day Papers" is by Kev. Dr. Dike, and has to do with "Problems of the Family." Incidentally some startline statistics with regard to divorce in the United States are presented. Another ofTinaothy Cole's engravings of the Old Masters is given - the artist chosen beins; Andrea Mantegna - with accompanying articles by Mr. Stillman and by the" eiigraver himself. Among the Editorials is one on the care of the Yosemite Valley, followed bv three open letters from visitors on "Destructive Tendencies in the Yosemite Valley." Century Co., New York. The Popular Science Monthly for January, 1890, opens with an article by Edward Atkinson on "The Future Situs of the Cotton Manufacture of the United States." "Public Schools as affecting Crime and Vice" is the subject of an essay by Benjamin Reece, wbo brings figures to show that as illiteracy has been diminished crime has actually increased. Herbert Spencer bas recently defined his position on the nationalizing of land in a cont.roversy with Prof. Huxley, Sir Louis Mallet, and others. This correspondence is now printed in the "Monthly " under the title "Letters on the Land Question." In " Two and a Half per Cent " an account of the decline in the rate of interest, is given by George Hes. The " Irrigation of Arid Lands " in the far West is described by Henry J. Philpott. Besides Mr. Atkinson's article, there is an account of " The Rare Forms of Orchids." Also an illustrated article on " Palm-Trees and their Uses," by M. J. Poisson ; and another on "Birds with Teeth," by Otto Meyer. New York: 1). Appleton & Company. Fifty cents a number, $5 a year. Mrs. Castle has selected and arranged and Rev. Mr. Clark bas prefaced wilh an introduction and a helpful talk, a unique and highly accepted collection of daily readings of especially prepared for tlie hundreds of thousands of members of the societies for Christian Kndeavor. lts titje, " Aids to Endeavor" gives assurance of its worth." D. Lothrop & Co., Boston. Thecontents of the Forum for January are: The Tariff and the Farmer, by John G. Carlisle, ex-Speaker of the house of representatives, which is an argument in answer to Senator Collum's recent article in The Forum to show up the "home market" theory, and that what the farmer buys is made dearer and what he sells is made cheaper by the tariff. Pre-historic man in America, by Major J. W. Powell of the Smithsonian Institute, who denies any scientific evideuce of an American people precedïng the Indians. The Ethics of Marriage by W. S L ly the eminent English essayist-proof that the Christian marriage is the basis of civilization without regard to religión Woman's Place in the State, by Prof. Goldwin Smith, an argument against woman suffrage by a writer who formerly favored it. Bemocracy in England, by Henry Labouchere, M. P. editor of (London) Truth, who traces the recent progresa of the people in securing political power. The Problem of Air Navigation, by Prof. R. H. Thurston of Cornell. A scientific review. Abuses of the Veto Power, by Col Frederick A. Conklin. Magnetism and Hypnotism, by Dr. J Charcot, of Paris. The Wrongs of the Ute Indians, by George T. Kercheval. Horace Greeley's Cure for Poverty, by Kodney Welch of Chicago, who explains just what a western farmer's chances now are- how he must be a ekilled laborer but cannot get a commonlaborer's pay. Forum Pub. Co., New York, a e$ year. J