Literary Notes

The Overland Montltly forFebrnarv lias an interesting article on " Bee Culture n California," and another by Capt. Huggins on the Indian Prophet. The Overland Pub. Co., San Francisco, Cal. The Biograpliical Sketch in the Book Buyer for February is that of George Edward Woodbury, critic, poet and magazine writer. The number is full, as usual, of interesting notes and comments on new books. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. $1.00 a year. Among the best articles of The North American Review for February. may be mentioned " A Deliberative Body," by Speaker Reed ; a paper on the '"Talleyrand Memoirs," bySir Charles W.Dilkei and "Xhe Silver Question Again," by Jesse Seligman. Ouida and Father Ignatius discussthe question, "HasChristianity Failed V' The whole number is a most aüractive one. Published at :; E. I4th St., New York City. Theableandscholarly contribution of Hon. John Jay, LL. D., entitled "The Demand for Education in American History " occupies the leading place and is the longest and most important article of the Magazine of American History for February. Mr. Jay says " our great authorities on history-teaching are agreed that rightly to understand, appreciate and defend American institutions, the trutj plan is to know their crigin and their history." Published at H?, Broadway, New York. Scribner's Magazine for February contains rich illustrations in very different manners -from the snow scènes of Mount Washington in winter to Mr. Blum's exquisite Japanese drawings. There is a series of interesting portraits of African explorers (several of them from the private collection of John Murray, Esq., the London publisher,and never before engraved), and artistic reproductions of paintings and sculpture of the Neapolitan school. The number is notable for such contributors as Sir Edwin Arnold, J. Scott Keliie, the librarían of the Royal Geographical Society, Frank R. Stockton and Richard llenry Stoddard. Charles ibner & Sons, New York City. Some curious, interesting and hitherto unpublished Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb cover the first sixteen pages of the Atlantic for February. Professor Royce's second "Philosopher of the Paradoxical" is Schopenhauer. He treats most ably Schopenhauer's place in the world of thought, and concludes his paper with a ringing passage of very great beauty. William Everett has an article on the l'rench Spoliation Claims, andTneodore Roosevelt, in "An Object Lesson in Civil Service Reform," tells about the work of the National Civil Service Commission for the last year. Houghton, Miftün & Co , Boston. Albion V. Tourgee has struck many valiant and trenchant blows in the cause of the oppressed, but none that will redound to his fame as will "Murvale Eastman: Christian Socialis.t" The chief focus of interest is Murvale Eastman himself, the manly, noblehearted, resolute young pastor of "The Church of the Golden Lilies," who studies the labor problem by driving a hörse-car and living with the men, going through a strike and a riot, with helpfulness to others and an avoidance of gloryfor himself, and finally sets his church uto a strange commotion by appiying the words of Jesus and Paul to every day life and church work, in salvation from the ills of time as well p.b eternity. Th i nk ing men and women will recognize the efficacy of the wellknown but badly neglected Golden Rule, and the practicable methodsof " hearing one another's burdens," incarnated in this wondrously vital and suggestive book. Prof. John Dewey has just issued a new book of some 250 pages entitled Quilines of Ethicg. Although ledging bis fmlebttdnesa lo o.hers, Prof. Dewey has hereg venan independent contril ntion to Ethical Science. The framewoik of the Outlinea is best given in the authoi's ow n wordB. It is "the concept ion ot' the will i the xpression of iU ■, and of cial 'leus; the notion of an objective ethical tvorld realized in Institntions whirli ;- il'. irJ moral ideal, theatre an.l impe ue te the individual; the notion of ! life asgrowih in freedom, a the individual findsand conforms to the law of li is social pi, cing.' A'tluiugh :m outline, it i-i intendi aii idea of the main methoda ui'.l probl ui contemporary E hic. Ir g n cle ir, wel! written account of th; fundamental ethical notions, a critiuul exitniliation of tlieui hihI a forcible telling forth of the author's owii conctugioua which shape a middle course between the cor.Bicting views of others. It will be i most h e 1 1 fi 1 1 guida book to Airther ethical readiriy' and vt-ry fcUCcessfull; prevent the student from losing his way in the masa of general writing there has 'oten on the itubjec-t of ethica. The book ljas been very oeatly ■■■f tastefully printed and bound by Tti Regisier Pab. Co., The Inlacd Pres, Ann Arbor, Mich. Price SI 5(1