Literary Notes

The Popular Science Monlhly for June, 1890. The names of Herbert Spencer, President Andrew D. White, and Hon. David A. Wells, contributors to the Popular Science Monthly, are a sufficient guarantee that this is a remarkably strong nutnber. President White, in a paper on Tne Antiquity of Man and Egyptology, shows how Eyptian chronology has been cramped and twisted to make it agree with the belief that the first man was created four thousand and four years before Christ. Mr. Spencer, in his concluding chapters on Justice, carefully considers the sentiment and the idea of justice. Mr. Wells contributes Evidences of Glacial Action in Southeastern Csunecticut, accompanied by pictures of the immense bowlders thickly strewed over tbis region. Prof. C. H. Henderson has the fourth of his illustrated articles on glass-making. Mr. Barr Ferree's paper on Utility in Architecture deserves the tendency to subordínate us3 to looks. Under the title E lucation and Crime, Rev. A. W. Gonld maintains that there bas been most inurease of punishment forcrime where there is least education. There is an illustrated descriptivo article on Tin and lts Xative Land, by M. Brau do St. Pol Lias ; Mrs. Fanny D. Bergen contributes the third install. ment of her animal and Plant LoreD. Appleton & Company, New York. Fifty cents a number, $5 a year. The American public is happy in having the first laugh over Alplionse Daudet's new Tartarin Btory. A translatiuii usually appears either simultaneously with, or subsequently to, the publication of the original work ; butin the case of "Port Tarascón : The Last Adventures of the Illustrious Tartarin," the translation by Henry James, beginning as a serial in the June iiuinber of Harpers Magazine, will be published complete before the French public can share in enjoying the immense drolleries of the original. A distinguished Frenchman, Vicomte Eugène Melchior de Vogüö contributes to the same number an account of what he saw durini; a trip "Through the Caucasus." ïhe short stories are by bright new American authors, George Hibbard, Matt Crim and J. Hopkinson Smith. There is an article on the "Fürst Bismark," with portrait by (ieorge M. Wahl. Charles Dudley Warner in Editor's Study and W. D. Howells in the same discuss topics of great interest. .Hurper & Brothers, New York. The Jennets-Miller Magazine for May is as full as ever of its interesting and instructive contributions tothe subjects of dress, etiquette, physical culture, etc. Mabel Jenness continues her articles on "Physical Culture," and begins a new series on "The Significance of Architecture and Decoration." "Fashion and Fancy" contains illustrations of new and attractive spring cortumes for all sorts of occasions and people, comprising in an eminent degree both beauty and common sense. $2.50 per annum. Jenness-Miller Pub. Co., 363 Fifth-ave, New York. The Forum Extra for May contains two articles on the tariff; one by exspeaker, G. Carlisle, and one by RepreBentative W. C. P. Breckinridge, should be read by all desiring trustworthy information upon this inuch vexed question. There is no question of the present time which ia so imperfectly understood as this, and these articles should be widely disseminated. Five cents a copy. Fifty cents a year. The Forum Pub. Co., 263 Fifth-ave, New York. Mr. Albert Shaw, who yrote the paper on "Glasgow, a Study in Municipal Government," in a recent Centary, will have an equally timely paper in the June Century on " London Polytechnics and People's Palaces." This article will be accompanied by a frontispiece portrait of Walter Besent, with other portraits and illustrations by Joseph Pennell and others. Walter Camp, one of the best experts in the country, will have an illuslrated paper on " Track Athletics in America." The Century Co., New York.