Literary Notes

Miss Grace Dean MeLeod, a young Canadian author, is contributing to Wide A wake a really remarkable series of stories froin Acadian Old-Folk Lore, which she gathersfrom original sources. "The Kuduskak Giant," in the Marcli number, is a starlling illustration of truth stranger than fiction, and Kit Carson is the subject of a notable and intímate article by Jessie Benton Fremont. The peculiar relations of Kit (ai son and General Fremont in the old pioneer days give this recital unusual interest. A fine and turprising portrait accompanies ILie article. D. Lothrop & Co. Boston. Dr. Albert Siiaw of Minneapolis givea in the March Century one of liis most important papers. It is entitled "Glasgow; aMunicipal Study." Major Powell, Director of the Geological Survey, begins a series of three papers, illustrated with maps, on the subject of Irrigation. I-lis first japer is "The Irrigable Lands of the Arid Región." Professor Fisher closes his very timely series of religious papers, the last one being "Revelation and Faith." These papers have a direct bearing upon the discu3sions now in progress on creed revisión. Century Co., New York. Chauncey M. Depew in the characteristic pose of an after-dinner speaker was the subject of a full-page drawing froui life, by T. de Thulbtrup, published in Harper's Weekly, February 26th. Professor William M. Sloane, of Princeton Univeruty, contributes 'an article on "College Athletics." The history of army unifornis in the United States, from Kevolutionary times to the present, is the subject of a four-page supplement. The article is from the pen of Henry Loomis Nelson, and is adequately 'illustrated. Harper &, Brother, New York. Mr. Xathaniel P. Langford's book. "Vigilante Days and Ways: The Pioneers of the Kockies. The Makers and Makiog of Mantana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming," is welí worth the attention of all interested in how the Great West was built up. The book is f u 1 1 y equal to Kendall'u noted "S.mta F(' Expedition," and occupks a field p.8 previously untouched as did that classic of forty years ago. Illustrated. Two voIb. Sold only by subpcription. Cloth,$6.00. Agentswanted. J. G. Cupples & Co., Boston. The March number of the "Magazine of Art," has an excellent frontispiece in photogravure of Charles Jacquet) ''The Return of the Flock- Moon-ïight," one of the best examplesof Jacque's poetic brush. It remioda one of Millel's "Sheepfold," another fall page illuMratiou is an engraying on wood of "A Germán Lady," Sir Thomas Lawrences portrait of Queen Victoria' mother, the IJuchess of Kent. The opening number, ''Current Art," contains a number of good engravings froin some of the best pictures recently exhibited in London. Cassell Pub. Co., New York. 35 cents a number, $3.50 a year, in advance. Van Phou Lee's reminiscent volume of his young life in the Oriënt, "When I was a Boy in China," which D. Lothrop Company have just put to a new edition, has been placed upon the Reading Course of the Chautauqua Young Folks' Reading Circle. Grant Allen's 'Common Sense Science" has also gone intoanew edition and has been reduced in price from $1.50 to $1.25. A study of the character that is developed by the many phases ofour modern life is the main-spring of Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull's new novel, "The Oatholic Man," just isBued by D. Lothrop Company. Many questions affecting daily needs and duties are treated in its pages under the guise of definite fiction. D. Lothrop Co., Boston.