Literary Notes

The Chrietmos Book Bayer is eepscially attractive with its cover iu three colore and its nuinerous illuBtrations taken froin the inultitudesof new books or from old books prepared espeeially for the holiday trade. Quite lengthy notices are yiven of prominent books by well known crilics.- Charles Scribner' Bons, New York, N. Y. The leading article in the December Overland is.-ilavishly illustrated paperon " Flower and Seed Growing," by Ninelta Eames. This is a revelation to many people. Whole flelds of callas, acres f pampas plumes, pmilax seed grown by the pound, a regular plant for making attar of rose, the exportation of bnlbs of Mariposas and calochortus by the hundred thousand is described. - - Overland Pub. Co., San Francisco, Cal. The Christüias number of Ifarper's Bazar, published December llth, will be remarkable for the variety and entertaining character of its contents. There will be a story by Mary E. Wilkins, entitled "The Üiher Side"; a ptorv by Hezekiah Butterworth, entitled "No Koom in the Inn"; puems by Harriet Presoott Spofford, Elizabeth Bullard, and Margaret E. Sangster; and a Btrikiiigly beautiful picture by Rosina Emmet Sherwood, entitled "Before the Ball," with an aceompanying poem by Mrs. John Sherwi od. The leading subject of the month is, of eourse, the recent elections, and one of the most interestin;; personalices in politics, made more prominent than ever by his re-election, is Gn'ernor Williain R. Russell of Massachusetts. Governor Russell has in the December nnmber of The Forum an article on the. principies involved iu bis own catopaign and their bearirjg on next year's presidential election - this, of eourse, from a Democratie point of view. This article will be followed by one'from a Bepnblican poiut of view. -The, Forum Pab. Co., New Y.irk, .N". Y. For the ürst time in it. history Tlie Magazine of Art gives ts readers a colored frontispiece. It is an experiment and a success. The process is called Chromotypogravnre, and is the same is is nsed in the Paris Figaro Illustrí. "A Breezy Day," by H. E. Detmold, is the picture chosen for this color printing, and it lends itself admirably to the art. The opening article of the number i "The Mystery of Holbein's 'Ambassadorn': A Solution," by W. Fred Dickes. It is fully illustrated and very ingeniouuly reaeoned. "Wbere to Draw the Line : A Word to Student " is an interesting and valuable paper, containing also a portrait of the artist-author, T. Woolner, R. A. The letters of General Shernian no being published in the Cosmopolitan are unique; in fact, so far as the writer knows, they are the only letters ever written in the midst o' hostilities by a great general to his daughter. Perhaps the ariicle in the December number whioh will be read with the widest interest is that on Rapiil TranRit, by Captain Tiewis M. Haupt, which is illustrated by every conceivable snggestion that has been made upon rapid transit. Mrs. Burton Harrison begins a new novel, "The Daughter of the South," and another southern article is by a gentleman who was a Confedérate officer, entitled "Social Life in Ricbmond During the War." The Cosmopolitan, New York.N.Y. The December Eclectic is well 8Upplied with articles of interest on a wide variety of subjects. A paper 011 "The Demoralization of Russia " gives a remarkable picture of society rotten throughand through. Christie Murray completes his studies of Australian Life, and Frederick Harrison has a few words worth read ing on the Eternal Woman Question. A brief account of Austrian Life by Baronets Nyevelt will be read with interest. Mre. Bethatn Edwards makes a punjjent comparison of English and French, and there's a capital stndy oí Henry James. There are several short stories, brilliant poems, and short essays on a variety of topics, most of them pat to theinterests of today.- Published by E. R. Pelton, 144 Eighth-st, New York. Terma, $5 per year. The seful applications of science are especially prominent in The Pojiular Science Monthly for December. First comes a copiously illustrated paper, by Edwin A. Barber, on The Rise of the Pottery Industry,in the serie on American Industries. Mr. [P. D. Rose c ; tributes a description of the Type-casting Machines just coming into use, which bid fair to revolutionize the printing trade. Cuts of the two rival machines are given. Prof. G. L. Good ale's address on the Possibilitïes of Economie Botany is conduded, the topics considered being fruitp, timbers, fibers, fodder-plant, etc. There is an able essajby Prof. E. P. Evans on ProgreB an'l Perfectibiltty iii the Lowèr Animls. ■ Rev. .7. W. Quinfcy gives a striking exhortation to Breathe Pure Air. J. B. Mann has a sensible article on Silk Dresses and Eight Hour's Work that the cliampions of the workingnaen should ponder over. The editoiials deal with Ihe decline of popular héroes, political justice, and modern charities. New Yüík: D. Appleton & Company. Fifty cents a iiumber, $5 a year. EeleeUc Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science and Art. 1892 -48th Year. The Foreign Magazines embod y the best ihoughtB of the ablest writers of Europe. It is the aim of the Eclectic Magazine to elect and reprint all thei-e articles.which are of value to the American reader. The plan of the Eclectic incluiies Science, Religión, Reviews, BiographicalSketclu. -sHistoric.il Papen, Art Criticism, Travel, Poet ry and Short Stories, from the ablest wrilers in the world. The following are the names of some of the leading authors whose articlep appear in the pages of the Ecleclie. : Rt. Hl. W. E Gladstone, Alfred Tennyson, Professor Huxley, Professor Tyndall, K. A. Freeman. D. C. L , E. B. Tyler, Prof. Max Muller, Henry Taine, James Anthony Froude, Tliomas Hughes, Algernon CSwinburne, William Black, Mr-. Oliphant, Andrew Lang, Miss Thackeray, Thomag Hardy, Robert Buchanan, etc etc. The Ecleclie enables the American reader to kee-p himself nformed on the great que-tions of the day throughout the woild, and no intelligent American can afford to be without it. Terms. - Single coplea, 45 cents; one copy, one year, $5. Trial subseription f, r three montli,$l. The Eclectic and any $4 magazine, $8. E. R. Pelton, Publisher, 141 Eighth 3treet, New York. AÜanlic Monthly, 1892. Don Ursino, Mr. F. Marión Crawfoid's new serial novel. Studies of Marked Men.- On George Bancroft, by W. M. Sloane; ürestes A. Brownson, 1 y Parson.-- Lithrop; John Esten Cooke, by Thomss Nelson Page ; etc. An American at Home in Europe, by William Henry Bishop. Experiences in living in France, Spain, England, and Italy. Lovvell in London, a brilliant article by Mr. Henry James. Letters of Notable Men. Joseph Severn and his correspondents will be the first of this series. Studies of American Citiep. Descriplions of the cities which have the greatest influence on American life. Papers on Japan. A series of pic'uresque articles by Lafcadio Hearn. Improvement of Town Lile. Papers on Parks, Museums of Arl, Free Librariee. SingleNumber Stories are arranged for, from Sarah Orne Jewett, Octave Thanet, Ellen Oluey Kirk, Margaret Deland, Joel Chandler Harris, and othere. Educational Topics, especially the education of girls and 'omen, will be fully considered. Books that are talked of. Critical reviews by expert scholars in various departments. Terme: $4.00 a year in ad vanee, postage free; 35 cents a number. With new life-size portrait of Loweü, and also portraits of Hawthorne, Emerson, Lingfellow, Bryant, Whittier, or Homles, $5.00; each additional portrait, $1.00. 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