Literary Notes

"A Seaport Without Stiips " (Sandwich, in Ken", England) is the subject of an artide whicfa Julián Ralph has wrinen and Charles Graham and Bert Wilder have illusirated, for the fourpage supplement to the nuinber of Harper't Weekly to he published June 4 J. G. JBrown, N. A., has wntten lor Harper's Young People an account of " Street Araba I Have Painted." A foHpage engraving froni one of the artist H characteristic paintings will accompany the article, which is to be published ín the numher for June 3. "The Con8umers League," a suggestion for concerted aclion by shoppers to relieve the hardships of saleswomen, will be contributed by Mary Gay Humphreys to the nuraber of 'Harper's Bazar to be published June 6. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, in the same number, will point out to the women the encouraging prospect for "the equalization of salaries" in the educational prolession, and Kate Stephens will explain in detail whaf'A Cliance for Colige Graduates" there is in the Enropean fellowship offered by the Association of Collegiate Alumnse to women graduates. Ilarper & Brothers, New York. Mr. Justin H. McCarthy, who has been for some years an enthusiastic student of the "period of the French Revolution, is about to publish the first instalment of the resulta of his researches. Since the appearance of Carlyle's work, more than half a century igo, a vast mass of information upon the subject has been steadily accumulating, and Mr.McCarthy's history ill be the (irst presentation of the French Revolution in the bght of the important new evidence. The work in two volumes, will be published In this country by Messrs. Harper & Brothers. The first volume is to be ready early in June. __