Literary Notes

President Seth Low, of Columbia College, and ex-Mayor of Brooklyn, contributes a paper to the September Century on "The Government of Cities in the United States," in which he considera what a city government ought to undertake to do, and what form of organization is best for its purpose.- The Century Co., New York, N. Y. The September issue of the Cotmopoh itan Magazine is a "vroman's number BO far as the authorship of its articlesis concerned, but the genoral interest of the periodical is sustained by the variety and timeliness of the topics treated. The opening article, on Edouard Detaille, is by Lady Dilke. and is profusely and beautifully ülustrated with reproductions of the famous artisfs most noteworthy paintings.- The Cosmopolitan Pub. Co., New York, N. Y. Honduras: The Land of Great Depth. By Cecil Charles. This book is written in a pleasing correspondence style and gives one a very accurate idea of a thousand things of inter-est and importance about this little known country. An excellent map of the country and valuable tables of statintics of the principie industries of trade accompany the work. It admirably reaches its aim, which is to inform one about and interest one in this country, and to serve as a practical handbook to any intending to mak e it a visit. - Rand McNally, & Co., Pub., Chicago and New York. The Forum for September, beginning volume XII., contains five articles on Present Problems in Education- "What an American Boys' School Should Be," by the Rev. Dr. A. Colt, Rector of St. Pflul's School, Concord, N. H.; "Ideáis of The New American University," by President David S. Jordán, of the Leland Stanford Junior University, California; "The Growth of Technological Education in the United States," by Prof. H. W. Tyler, of the Massachusetts Instituto of Technology; "A Review of the Higher Education of Women- The College for Both Sexes, The College for Women, and the "Annex,"' by Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, formerly President of Wellesley College; and "Physical Hindrances of Teaching Rich Girls,1' by Miss Charlotte W. Potter.- The Forum, 31 East 17th Street, New York. Littell't Living Age. The numbers of The Living Age for August 29th and September "th contain Pasquale de Paoli: a Study, Nineteenth Century; Robert Browning, and The Last English House of the Bearded Tit. Contemporary; Today in Morocco and The Diet of Great Men, National; Stray Thoughts in South África, Fortnightly; The "Field Naturalist:" the Rev. J. G. Wood, and Jenny Lind, London Quarterly; A Forgotten Race, and The Post-Office in China, Cornhill; From a Country Pareonage, Gentleman's; Statesman of Austria, .Leisure Hour; Iftar in a Harem, Temple Bar; Social Bath in the Last Century, Murray's; "Rua in Urbe," Spectator; with instalments of "The Blue Rose," "A Study in Grey" and "The Prince of Morocco" and poetry_ - Littell & Co., Boston, Publishers. The recent disaster in 1'ark Place, liew York City, is graphically illustrated in this week's number of Harper's Weekly. The "Whaleback Boats" are described by Edward Huntington Dwight, and several illustrationg, after photographs, are given of these new Vessels, which are probably destined to te the ocean carriers of the future. The lately invented submarine sentry is the Subject of an interesting aiticle by Xieutenant J. D. Jerrold Kelley. Grace L. Furnias, author pf that very I popular farce "A Box of Monkeys," contributes to the current number of Harper't Weekly a highly entertaining , story, entitled "The Society for the Suppression of Scandal." There is also the usual variety of interesting articles on the fashions, domestic economy, household management, etc. - Harper & Brothers, Xew York.