Literary Notes

Parents of girls will be especially interested in a practical arliele on "What itCosts to Dress a Daughter," which Mre. Mary C. Hungerford contributes to the current nnmber of Harper's Bazar, published Marcli llth. Harper Bros. New York, N. Y. The Massachusetts Prison System" is described by Ihe Kev. Samuel J. Barrows, editor of the Christian Register.in the Match New Englajul Magazine. Mr. Barrows lias served on the Prison Commission, and is thorouglily acquainted with the subject. The article is well 1lustrated from photographs taken specially for the purpose. New Kngland Pub. Co., Boston, Mass. The current issue of The Eclectic opens with an incisive paper on the needsaml te-ndenciesof modern education. by Prof. Mahaffy, one of the greatest of all contemporary scholars and teachers. Madame Darmesteter utes a fascinating paper on the social aspects of medioeval life. The discuseion of an important question by Mr. George Aliller in the article called "Female Brains and Girl's Schools" is racey and timely. Puhlished by E. R. Pelton, 144 Eighth Street, New York. Terms, $5 a year. In The Popular Science Monthly for March Prof. C. Hanford Hemlerson completes his illustrated account of The Glass Industry, describing the gradual advance of glass-makins; in America rom 1800 to 1880, and the immense tride it has taken since the introduction of natural gas as foei. Considerable light is thrown upon the problem of irrigating our Western lands in an illustrated article on Artesian Waters in the Arid Región, by Kobert T. Hill. New York: D. Appk-ton & Company. Fifty cents a number, 85 a year. Señor Castelar, the eminent Bpanifth statesman, is the writer of the article on the city of Madrid, which appears in the last nutnber of Harper's Weekly, published Mareh 8th. ThisiB the nineteenth paper in the uurivalled serius on the "Capitals of. the World." The same number of the Weekly oontains ;i double-page engraving of Cleveland and Harrison on Inauguration day; views of the Columbian exposition, includiiii; pictures of the Horticultural Building and of the ]-quimaux at the fair; and other attractive and timely illustrative features. . The Century for March contains an unique feature in an account from the manuscript of Captain Thomas Ussher, E. N., of ''Xapoleon's Deportation to Elba," in which is given a familiar account of all the circumstances of the trip, and a careful report of Napoleon's frank cointnents on men and events. The article is preceded by a portrait and a short sketch of Captain Ussher, who was the officer iii charge, and the frontispiece of the magazine is appropriately an engraving from the bas-relief of Napoleon by Boizjt, which was the property of Joseph Bonaparte, and is now in the posËeesion of the Fennsylvania Ilietorical Society. The Century Co., New York, N. Y. The March number of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science is distinctively a flnancial number. The principal article isby Mr. HoraceWhite, editor of the New York Evening Post and discusses the question of "National and State Banks." Thia is followed by papers by Hon. A. B. Hepburn, Oomptroller of the Currency, on "State and National Bank Circulation f by Congressman M. D. Harter, of Ohio, oa "American Banking and the Money fiupply of the Future;1' by Congressman J. II. Walker, of Massachusetts, on "The Banking System, Old and New;" and by Congressman Henry Bacon, Ohairtnan of the House Committee on Banking and Currency in the Fiftyeecond Congress on " The Basis of Éeourity for National Bank Notes." In adiiition to these live papers on finanial Bubjects, this number also containa b. report of the speech by Hon. V. L. Trenholm, Ex-Cornptroller of the Currencj, and by Hon. Michael D. Harter, before the Academy at its meeting on Janua-ry 12. The other papers in this number are "The Surplus Gains of Labor;" by Prof. 3. B. Clark, of Sinith College;" Consumera' Surplus," by Prof. Alfred Marshall, the English economist, and "CompuSsory Voting," by Judge John Broomall.of Media, Pa. There are, as usual, Book Eeviews, Personal Notes and Notes. A supplement sent with this number is a translat ion of the Conetitutional and Organic Lawa of France, with an Historical Introduction by Prof. C. F. A. Currier, of the the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.