Literary Notes

The fifth paper in The Popular Science Monthly's illustrated series on The Development of American Industries since Columbus will describe The Manufacture of Wool. It will appear in the June number, and the writer is S. N. Dexter North, Secretary of the National Association of Wool Manufacturera, and special agent of the Eleventh Census.- D. Appleton & Co., New York, N. Y. "Glad Spring," by George Wetherbee, is the subject of the frontispiece in the Magazine of Art for June and is a graceful and typical bit of out-of-doors. The opening paper is by M. H. Spielmann and is devoted to the recent exhibition at the Eoyal Academy. Berkeley Castle ia the subject of a most interesting paper by Percy Fitzgerald, which is profusely illustrated. Then we come to an article on Cassell's famous International Shakspere. S. Bing, the wellknown expert in Japanese art, gives the first of two papers, Hokusai, with illustratione, while Frederick Wedmore discusses "The French Revival of Etching," with reproductions from some of the best-known masters of that art. There are copious notes, giving full accounts of the progresa in the art world during the past month, and, altogether, the magazine is up to its urual high standard.- CassellPublisbingCornpany, 35 cents a number; $3.50 a year, in adTance. The June number of Harper'i Magazine contains the opening chapters of "Peter IbbetfiOL," a novel written and illustrated by the celebrated artist, George du Maurier. This story is onè of peculiar psychological interest, and being Mr. Du Maurier's first effort in the field of romantic literature, ita publication ■will prove to be one of the chief literary events of the year. Louis Frechette, the famous Canadian poet, contributes to the game number a picturesque description of "The Royal Chateaux of the Loire," accompanied by numerous illustrations drawn by C. S. Reinhart and others. Henry Loomis Nelson writes a tinaely article on "Town and "Village Government." Theodore Child, in his ninth article on the Spanish república of South America, describes an inland voyage of 1350 miles, "Up the River Paraná." Walter Besant contributes the firet of an important series of papers on London. He gives an entertaining account of the last days of the Roman occupancy of the city, and of the probable nature of the catastrophe by which the memories of its former prosperity were so utterly buried. Excellent fiction by Charles E. Craddock and Sarah O. Jewett, poetry, and the editorial department are all of a high degree of merit and interest.- Harper & Brothers, New York, N. Y.