Literary Notes

In his article, entitled From Fetich to Hygiëne, to appear in The Popular Science Monthly for August, Dr. Andrew D. White presenta a terrible picture o the ravages of epidémica in the times when prayers and processions were the only meane relied upon to check them. - D. Appleton & Co., New York N.Y. Dr. Andrew Wilson, F. Ii. S. E., contributes to the August number of Har per' Magazine a popular paper on that interesting but most vexing question o biology, "What is Inheritancs ?" J. H Eosny, one of the most brilliant of the new French writers, contributes a strikingarticleon the "Nihilista in Paris,' with graphic sketches from the penci of P. Renouard and in the Editor's Study William Dean Howells discusses among other subjects the question whether there is a tlecay in the morality of our liction, and, if eo, who is responsible for such decay. - Harper & Brothers, New York, N. Y. The August nuinber of the jVorli American Review wil] contain articles on the Jewish question, by Prof. Goldwin Smith, in which he attempts to show that antagonism to Hebrews in Russia is due to social and economie rather than religious causes ; on the Value of Naval Manoeuvres, by J. Russell Soley, Assistent Secretary of the Navy; on the Possibilities of the SteamYaeht, by Lewis Herreshoff, of the famous firm of yaebt builders; on Vampire Literature, by Anthony Comstock, Secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Vice and on the Scientific Basis of Belief, by Prof. R. H. Thurston, of Sibley College, Cornell University. - The North American Review New York, N. Y. The subject that no more than any other now holds the attention of the whole civilized world is Russia and the persecution of the Jews. ... In South America the subject of most moment is, of course, the struggle for popular liberty in Chili. ... In our country the question of immigration continúes to excite attention, and of special interest is an argument by such a man as Francia A. Walker to show that our population would have been as great as it now is without the immigration of the last fifty years and that the coming of large numbers of immigrants bas lowered our Standard of living. Since The Forum, for August treats of every oneof those subjects it may fairly be said to cover the most important topics of the month in the whole world. Forum Pub. Co., New York, N. Y.