Literary Notes

Readers of the July number of Ilarper't Magazine will find in tbesecond instalnientof Daudet's "Port Tarascón" a complete realization of theanticipations aroused by the first chapters. Among the Mther illustrated papers in the same number of the magazine, are Howard Pyle's quaint account of "A Famons Chapbook Villain" who flourished in the early part of last century ; "Texan Types and'Contrasts," by Lee C. Harby, describing certain phases of lifeand manners tiear the Mexican border; a paper on "Social Life in Oxford," by Ethel M. Arnold, with portraits of fome wellknown celeorities at the University ; and Dr. Henry Lansdell's narrativo of a journey through "Baltic Russia." L. E. Chittenden, whose article in the May number of the magazine attracted so much attention, continúes his reminiacences in an article entitled "Treasury Notes and Notes on the Treasury." Robert S. Peabody writes of "Architecture and Democracy." The recent revival of Paganism in Italian literature is des' ribed by Frank Sewall in "Giosue Cardutci and the Hellenic Reaction in Italy." Besides Mr. Aldrich's poem, "Thalia," which occupie the place of honor in the magazine, thereare poems by William Bharp, Matthew Richey Knight, and George Edgar Montgomery . In the editorial departments, George William Curtis writes of the value of criticism, of Bome aspects of art in America, and of the chance which has taken piare in the observance of our Kre:tt national lioliday ; William Dean llowclls replies in a good-natured manner tn eer' ai u iriend crides; and Charles Du Jley Warner mak es ome iuteresting BiippoBition regarding the place which womeu will choose to ocoupy in the coming "dual form of uoverniaent." Harper & Brotbers, New York. The July number of the Cosmopolitan Magazine devotes itself largely to fiction, travel and sports. A new southern writer. Roben Yulee Tooinbs, of Georgia, comes to the front with one of the most spirited sketches of southern life yet published. Julián Hawthorne presents a curious study of the Boston girl, asking of her in his page, "Was it Typical V" EleanorShermanThackara, a daughter of Gen. W. T. Sherman, appears for the first time in the literaiy world in a discussion of "Th ree Greac Philadelphia Training SchoolB," and Mrs. Roger A. Pryor considera the constitutijn of American society in an interesting way. "Trout Fishing in Lake Kdward " and the actual experiences of "Trapping a Grizzly," will interest the hunter who proposes to roam the mountain-ridges during the summer. $2 40 per year. The Cosmopolitan, New York. The Forum for July contains : Forinative Influences, Prof. John Tyndall; A Short Stndy of "Hamlet," James E. Murdock; ÓbstaclestoCivil-.Service Reform, Walter M. Ferriss; The Waaes System, Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott; A Defense of the Veto Power, Edward C. Mason; The Art of Gerrymandering, Walter C. Hamm ; Modern Eclipse Problema, Prof. David P. Todd; Perplexities That Canada Would Bring, A. R. Carman; The Newspaper of the Future, Noah Brooks; Gunpowderand ItsSuece88orí=, Commander F. M. Barber; The Newer West, Richard 9. Hinton. New York: The Foru m Publish:ng Co., 253 Fifth Ave, $5.00 a vear. The new serial, called "Felicia," by Miss Fanuy Murfree, sister to Charles Egbert Craddock, opens the Atlantic for July. The very title, "The Town Poor," gives one a sufficiently clear idea of what Miss Jewett's clever pen makes of euch a subject This, with some chapters of Mrs. Deland's "Sidney," concludes the fiction of the number. James Russell Lowell's lines, "In a Volume of Sir Thomas Browne," and some verses on Wendell Phillips, represent the poetry, and there are also some charming verse at the end of Dr. Holmes's "Over the Teacups." Houghton, Miitlin & Co., Boston.