Literary Notes

The numbers of The Living Age for the weeks ending ]th, 24th and 31st of May contain the Catholic Deniqcracy of America, Edinburgh; Prince Bismarck, The English Conquest of Java, and The Newspaper Press, Nineteenth Century; Rotterdam and Dutch Workers, Ought the Referendum to be Introduced into England? by Prof. A. V. Dicey, and Matthew Prior, Conteraporary; Tavernier's Travels in India, Asiatic; The Young ( ■avour, and Conflicts of Experience, Macmillan; Miracle Plays, Longman'; Circuit Sotes, and the last of the Calverts, Cornhili; Talks with Trelawney, Temple Bar; A Surrey River, Blackwood; Light from the Talmud, Gentleman's; The Princess Bismarck, Good Words; The "Man in the Street" as Grammarian, Spectator. Littell & Co., Boston, publishers. A portrait of Murat Halstead, who regularly contributes a review of current events of the day to the Cosruopolitan magazine, appears in the frontispiece of the June number. This is followed by an article by the late Minister to Persia, Mr. S. G. W. Benjamin, on Farm Life and Irrigating in that remote and interesting country. Mr. Lafcadio Hearn contributes a study of the Half-Breed Races in the West Indies, and an extremely popular article, entitled Side Glances at American Beauty, by Eleanor Waddie, is illustrated with reproductions of photographs of some of the most beautiful woinen of the United States. The complete novel is, A Ghost at His Fireside, by Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton, with illustrations by Mr. Albert E. Sterner. Tne Cosniopolitan Pub. Co , N. Y. The Jenness-liiller Magazine for June is replete with interest forevery woman, and full of suggestions most timely and helpful. The paper on "Physical Culture" is devoted to a discussion of "Walkiag, Sitting, and Going Up8tairs." The article on "Fine Laces" is the best illustrated of all the valuable articles which have appeared on this subject. The fashion article is one no "sweet girl gradúate," qr young woman with "class-day" in anticipation should ovërlook, nor, indeed, any woman, young or old, who values the secret of artiatic taste and individuality in dress. Other interesting papers are "Brilliant People,"by Alice Ilgenfritz; "Wanted - a Home," by Mamie Hatchett Fairbrother, and poems by Mabel Haydon and Emil Pickhard. Address The Jenness-Miller Pub. Co., 363 Fifth-Ave., New York. The Norih American Review for June may be described as an international number in more senses than one. lts most prominent "feature" is a symposium on the question "Do Americans Hate England ?" One effective answer to the question is furnished by the fact that no less than three of the contributois to the rich and varied feast Bet before the reader are Britons. Mr. Parnellwrites incisively of "Mr. Balfour's Land Bill." The Marquis of Lorne finds a congenial theme in "Sir Charles Dilke's New Book" on "Problems of Greater Britain." What he has to say regarding Canada and the United States will command special attention. Mona Caird, who originated the famous discussion in England as to whether ornot marriage is a failure, contributes the first of two articles on "The Emancipation of the Family," presenting facts 'and drawing conclusions that will occasion general surprise. The symposium already rsferred to grows out of Goldwin Smith's paper in The Review for May on "The Hatred of England." The contributors are Col. T. W. Iligginson, Andrew Carnegie, Murat Halsted, General Horace Porter, Robert Collyer, General James H. Wilson, and M. W. Hazeltine.