Literary Notes

TheNonb Americio Review for Jainary, is one ei the most important rumbars ever issued. The first flfty-four pages ere occupied by a diseussion on Fee Trade or Protection, in which the two sides oftheq'iestion areahleand brillianily presented by the Right Ilon. William E. Gladstone and the Hon. James G. Blaine. The recent death of Jefferson Davis lends particular interast ïn his reminiscpnces of General Robert E. Lee. Trof. B. H.Thureton, the wellknown director of Sibley College, CornellUniversity, writesof "The Bjrdtr-Land of Science" in a fascinating manner. An exceedinglv interee;ine article is "A Romance of Old Rome," told by RadolfnLanciani, Professor of Arcb;i;alogy in the l'niversity of Rome. In ''By-gone Diysin Boston" the Hon. Charles K. Tuckerman furnishes some highly entertaining recollectioos of celebrities of the olden times. Camille Flatnmarion, the famous French astronomer, narra' es how he beame interested in the study to which he has given his life work, and another Frencbman, Count Etnile De Keratry, points out the debt of the United States in regard to international copy right to France. Still another instalment is given on the subject of Divorce, the contributors this time being a'l women. Although with 8ome noticeable differenceg, there is subs'antial agreement between Airs. Mary A. Livermore, Mr?. Rose Terry Cooke, Mr?. Amelia E. Birr, Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelp? (Ward), and Jennie June. The Notes and Comments are interesting as usual. [$5 a year. 3 East 4th St., New York.] Mrs. Deland's Serial, Dr. Holmes's "O?er the Teacups," and the firjt installment of Mr. Frank Gaylord Cook's promised series of papers on "Forgotten Political Celebrities" make the Atlantic for Janusry a number to be remembetád. The "Forgotfen Celebrity" of Mr. Cook's initial paper is John Dickinson, the author of ''Letters from a Farmer of Pennsylvania." Another political artical, "The Unked States Peneion Office," by Gaileard Hunt, contains some suggestion as to the reform of the present pension systera. The hort story of the number is one of Miss Jewett's best New Esgland dialect ketches, called ''The Quest of Mr. Teaby." Agnea Repplier writes about ''English Loye-Songs." "A Precursor of Milton,' forms also the subject of an interesting paper. Mr. Aldrich's "Echo Sjng," in a most unusual and erracetul metre, and Miss Thomas's "Mens S ina," are lasting contributions to poetry. Reviews and the Contributors' Club close a able a numbar aa the Atlantic ha9 ever had. Houghton Miffin & Co., Boston. The Janury number of Drake's Magazine eontains for frontispiecs a picture entilled The.Village Milkman. The leading article is a riescription oL the City of Havana, Theo. F. Wolf, A. M , of Columbia College, describes Byrjn's ecbool-boy dys at Ilarrow, and relates many incident regirding the vouthful days of ihe poet. New iTearas obiërved in New York tbirty years ago, is treated by R bírt Morris. Drake's Q lacks, a leading feature of the Magazine, are always fu my. 0 ie Pjllar a year or ten cents copy - The Drake Publishing Cjm pai y, 21 l'aik Pow, New York City. The January Harper's has the following excellent' articles: The Russian general who gives an account of the 'Kussian Army" presents the Taar's empire in an altogether new light- even in this day of Russian "reveltions." Howard Pyle contributes the first of two papers on (' Jamaica, New and Old." The paper has been elaborately illustrated by the anthor. The "Two Phases of Ameiican Art," which Mrs. Lucy C. Lillie sketches, relates to the period from Copley to Cole, and the band of landscape men which follovred them, and tothe later period of the preRaphaelite school in this country. Anna C. Brackett has written an article entitled " A Woman on Horseback." Katharine S. Macquoid, the author of "At the Red Glove," etc, will teil the story of an inexplicable ghost. The title is "A Xight at Ouseley Manor," "The Philosophy of Chinese," a picturesijue during-dinner sketch by John Heard, Jr., gives an unusual insight into " the idiorn of Ah Sin." Elizabeth Stoddard, the wife of the poet, contributes a short story- "Polly Dossetfs Rule." The story of "Bartheiemy de Macarty's Revenge," which Hon. Charles Gayarre contributes is the record of an actual occurrence. Andrew Lang and Joseph Pennell join in contributing an ülustrated article on "St. Andrews." "The Centre Figger," a new short story by M. E. M. DaviB, appears in this number. George William Curtís has written for the "Editor's Easy Chair," an enthusiastic opinión upon " A ard of New Fortunes," by V. D. Howells. W. D. Howells has something to say in regard to comity in international criticism. A. B. Frost contributes a series of humorous articles on "Onr National Game," and in th 'Editor's Drawer," Charles Dudley Warner disousses the reasonableness of the chewing-eum habit. [Harper and BrotherF, New York.J The January Cosmopoütan has for its novel complete in one nutnber, St. Mary of the Angels, by Thomas A. Janvier. Other articles of interest are : Bouguereau, Artist and Man , by Carrol Beckwith. Columbia College, by Hyalmar H. Boyesen. Thrones That Will Totter Next, by Mayo W. Hazeltine Sugar Cane and Sugar Making, by WilliamH.Ballow. The Development of the Coat and Waistcoat, by Wm. Hamilton Bell. A Cruise Around A utieue, (In the Field Papers) by Poultney Bigelow. Famons Beautiea, by Elizabeth Bisland. Blenheim, the Famous, by Chas. S. Pelham Clinton. Romantic Story of a Great Corporation, by J. Macdonald Axley. Social Problems, by E. E. Hale. There are poems by Frank D. Sherman and William B. LeDuc. The illustrations are very profuse. $2.40 a year. The Cosraopolitan. New York. The Bookbuyer for January completes its sixth volume. Besides its notices of newest books and its usual departments this number contains a sketch of Capt. Charles Kine ; Literary Affairs in Boston by Arlo Bates; English Notes by J. Ashby-Sterry, and an extended notice of Marie Bashkirtseff's Journal, with illustrations. Notice is also piven of a Literary Prize Competition, four cash prizes boing offered for correct answers to thirty literary questions. $1.00 per annum. Scribner's Sons. New York. The first nuinber of the iirst volume of "Kate Field's Washington," a National Independent Review, published every Wednesday, and mailed to subscribera for four dollars a year, is at hand. The first number is bright, witty, and throws considerable side light on many interesting, society, literary, musical, dramatic, and political topics, at the National Capital. Says the "Judge," "Miss Field makes no claim to the ownership of the late Mr. George Washington, merely assuming to possess the city of Washington of the existing moment. She is a bright woman with vast experience as writer, lecturer, editor, manager, etc, and her weekly will be worth twice the money it costs." Besides the customary departmenls the Magazine of American History for January has a number of valuable articles. Among them we may mention. William C. Bryant in History, by the editor, Mrs. Martha J. Lamb. A Rare Picture of Early New York, by Dr. Thomas, HEmmet. Uncle Tom's Cabin and Mrs. Stowe, by Flornie Thayer McCray. Federal and Anti-federal, by Hon. Gerry W. Ilazelton. Impresa of Nationalities upon the City of New York, by Hon. James W. Gerard. Ralph Izard, the South Carolina states man by G. E. Manigault, M. D., and American Republics- Their Differences, by George M. Pavey. [$5.00 a year in ad vanee. Magazine of American History. 7J3, Broadway NewYork.]