Literary Notes

Mr. George Du Maurior's Trilby now ■nnning in Harper's Magazine, is being called by the critics the strongest novel of the old-fashioned sort that has been printed for many years. To admirara of Thackeray it recalls the manner of that great novelist ; and its illustrations. drawn by the wrlter, are in delightíul harmony with the text. - Harper & Bros., New York. Professor Joseph LoContc will con. tribute to the April Popular Science .Monthly an illustrated article entitled New Lights on the Problem of Flying. He describes the action of a bird's wings in havering, poising, soaring.and sailing, and shows that Professor Langley's recent experimenta on the acroplaue have made human íligat a much nearer possibility than It has ever been toefore.- D. Appleton & Co., New York, X. Y. ■"The American Academy of Political and Social Science is doing a good work in studyiug the subject of social and political economy, especially of the United States. . . . It would be well for legislators especially, to join the American Academy of Political and Social Science, that they may inform them68 upon important questions and their hearing upon the prosperity of the people they propose to serve.1'- Am. ciid. of l'ol. and Social Science. Sta. tion D., Phila.. l'a. What is the cause of the enormou decreaae in immigration during the past - This is a question which is anawered by Dr. Senner, the United States Commissioner of Immigration at New York, in an article entitled "How We Restrict Immigration" that will appear in the April number of the North American Review and in which precautions taken by the Federal -jrities for barring out undesirable immigrants are fully doscribed.- N, Am. lieview, New Vork. N. Y. The wise men of the Massachusetts Legislatura, wï.o aie wrestllng with ijieproblem of municipal su ff rage for women, would do well to read the article by Edward Porritt in the April number of the New England Magazine, on "Women in English Politics," showIng that women in England have long had the rights which American women are now asking for. This article WÜ1 bo read with unusual interest by all who have at heart the political advancei„ ut of woman.- Warren F. Kellogg, " Park Square, Boston. The April Atlantic Monthly contal ns aeveral papers whicli ought to be read by all who should be well informed on ijuestions of the hoor. Among such papers may be mentionad A. Lawrenoe Loweü's careful and eritical article on the question of popular votins upon laws as at present jiracticed in Switzerland and upon its possible application to this country- "'The Referendum in Switzerland and in America:" William 11. Thayer's S me Iwuea of the Present Italian risis."' a brief history of Italy since i -170 : and Joseph L. Brent's suggestive paper "War'i üse of the Enginea of leacP.'-_HouLhton, Mifrtin & Co.. Boston. March, 1804. Edward Bellamy tells a singularly intoresting- story in his account of "Howl Wrote 'Looking BaekwariT" in the April Ladies' Homo Journal, and adds to the interest by deseribing how the idea ■of Nationalism first occurredto him. Not less personally interesting is Mr. Will. iam Dean Howells in the fifth art iele of his literary autobiography, "My Liter.ary Passions. " Madame Blanc, under her iiom de gmrre of "Th. Bentzon," straightens out somc "American Mistakes About French Women." The llev. T. De Witt Talmage points out what are the chief "Enomies of Our tlappiness": Edward W. Bok answers the peculiar quostions of "Four Uncertain Young Woraon" ; whilo allthrough the other articles runs a peculiarly readablc and popular quality. The Journal is published by The Curtli ruhlishing Company of Philadelphia, for one dollar per year, or ten cents per copy. _________