Literary Notes

How the moon looks when viewed through the great telescope of the Lick Observatory (the largest in the world) is shown by reproductions of photographs in the July Century. Professor Edward S. Holden, chief astronomer of the Observatory, has prepared a brief paper describing the principal features exhibited in these views. By the aid of a series of lunar photographs, now being taken, it is expected to settle definitely the vexed question of changes on the moon's surface. - Cent. Pub. Co., New York. The fiction in Ilarper't Magazine for July will include the opening chapters of a new novel, entitled "Au Imperative Duty," by W. D. Howells; the continuation of George du Maurier's remarkable romance "Peter Ibbetson," illustrated by the author; "The Episode of the Marques.de Valdeflores," a characteristic story of foreign life in New York city, by Thomas A. Janvier, illustrated by Smedley; and a curiously original sketch entitled "Dad's Grave," by J. Elwin Smith, a new Canadian writer.-Harper & Brothers, New York. Life in the open air and adventures afloat and ashore make up a large part of the ('osmopolitan Magazine's con" tents for July. Trout Fishing in the Laurentides, the Diamond Fields of South África, Ostrich Farming in California, and Country Life in Honduras, are descriptive titles of some of these profusely iJustrated open air papers. In addition, Elizabeth Bisland describes London Charities in a paper illustrated frora pictureEque photographs and character tudies; C. C. Waddie tells the history of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union; James Grant Wilson writes of the daring achievements of Lieut. Cushing and General Custer, the boy héroes of the war and navy of the Union; and Lieut. W. S. Hughes describes the world's progress in the building of submarine war vessels. - The Cosmopolitan, "ew York. The twenty-sixth volume of the Magazine of American Hiitory opens with an exceedingly bright and beautiful July number. The frontispiece of the current issue is an admirable portrait of Sir William Dawson, the Canadian geologist and educator of werld-wide fame. The editor contributes the leading article giving a graphic account of the history and work of The Royal Society of Canada, of which Sir William was the first president, with portraits, among ita pertinent'illustrations, of the Marquis of Lorne, who founded it, and of Lord Stanley, its present honored ■ president and patrón; the text also includes some delightful descriptions of the early historical features of the city of Montreal. The second paper, The Fairy Isle of Mackinac, by the graceful writer, Professor William C. Kichards, is handsomely illustrated with picturesque summer scènes. Published at 743 Broadway, New York.