Literary Notes

Prominent among the many excelent features of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for May we notice : "On the Spot," the firstof a series of personal reminiscences of an artist at the front in the rebelion of '61-65, "Medical Education in France," anda Brazilian article, "The Revolt of the Fleet" by Cecil Charles. - Frank Leslie's Pub. House, (Department B) 110 Fifth ave., N. Y. City. The Overland Monthly for May takes a look wider afield than is sometimos the case with that representative magazine. It travels from Egypt (a delightful paper on the present state of affairs in that enchanted land. by Jeremiah Lynch) on the east, to Sinarapore on the west,- this last in the flrst of a series of papers by the new editor, Mr. Rounse veile Wildman, on life and letters in the Malay Península, where he was United States Consul for a number f years.- Overland Pub. Co., San Francisco, Cal. At the World "s Fair last summer no oreign exhibit attracted more attenion than, probably no other attracted so much as, the Javanese village. In spite of the interest then taken in the gentle little brown-skinned residente of the rush-matting-and-bamboo village, many people will be surprised to know that the population of Java is 23,000,000. How the Javanese live, and what their island home looks like, will be desoribed in the May Harper's Magazine, with illustrations of typical houses, vegetation, and men and vomen - Harper Bros., New York. The womanly Bidé of Queen Victoria is picture! exceedingly well- and appropriately, too, in this the month of her seventy-fifüi birthday- in an article in "The Womanly Side of Victoria," which Artlmr Warren contributes to the May issue of The Ladies' Home Journal. Mr. Howells' literary biography under the title of "Literary Passions'1 holds the interest ?urpriBingly well. The editor questions whether all tbia clamor about this be ing "vvoman's century," consists of sketches, with portraits, of Mrs. Edward lCverett Hale and of Miss Nancy Bailey, the vvonderful woman indexer of England.- Published by the Curtis Pub. Co., of Philadelphia, for ten cents per number. The May Arena closes the ninth volume of this leader among the progressive and reformative reviews of the English-speaking world. The table of contunts is very strong and inviting. Amóng the important social and economie problems discussed are "The First Steps in the Land Question," by Louis F. Post; "The Philosophy of Mutualism," by Professor Frank Parsons of Boston University Law School ; "Emergeney Measures for Maintaining Self-Respected Manhood," by the Editor of The Arena. The Saloon Evil is discussed in a symposium. One of the strongest papers on Heredity that has appeared in recent years is found in this issue from the pen of Helen H. Gardener.- Arena Pub. Co., Boston, Mass. The foreig-n policy of the United States receives special attention in the department "Progress of the World" of the Review of Reviews for May. The advantages to be derived by our limpie from the construction of the Nicaragua Canal, from our commercial position in the Pacific, and from usingPearl Harbor as a naval repair and uoaling station are clearly outlined. The part played by the British Bermu. das as a base of operations against the United States during the Civil War is recalled as an object lesson to those statesraen who seem over-fearf ui of any polioy looking toward the annexation of Hawaii. The proposed income tax is discussed in its various bearings by the editor. Objections to the measure are rigorously stated.- Review of Reviews. New York. In the May number of The Eclectic the conclusión of W. H. Mallock's "Fabián Económica" is followed by an interésting paper from The National Review, by Leslie Stephen, on "Luxury. " Railway Development at Home and Abroad" gives careful statistics as to the comparative área, growth and valué of railroads all over the world, and the reasons for these f acts. "The New Eirenikon" pleads for reason in religión, and is one of the most valuable artices in the number. A timoly paper in view of the recent change of English ministers is H. W. Massingham's "Old Premier and the New." The number closes-with a half dozen lichter articles and sketches, among them a story by the author of Ships that Pass in the Night. "- Published by E. 11. Pelton, IH Eighth Street, New York. Terms, $" per year. With its first issue oí January last the unrivalled eclectic of foreign literaiure, L:t e'-l's Living Age, entered up on a new (its sixth) series. As no continued articles were carried over into this year all subscribers commencing with that date will possess a work complete in itself and forming an invaluable compendium of the world's choicest literature. The price of the magazine, which has been the favorite in thousands of American homes for half a century is $8.00 a year, but as a special inducement, to any who desire to make a trial subscription, the twenty-six numbers, forming the first half of the year, 1894 (January to June inclusive), will be sent for $3.00. To any one remitting six dollars in payment for the nine months, April to December inclusive, the thirteen numbers forming the first quarterly volume of 1894 will be sent f ree.- Littell & Co., Boston, are the publishers.