Literary Notes

The January Review of Reviews, in its "Prógress of the World'1 (editorial) departtrient, discusses present problems in public health administration, munii-fpa! reform in the United States, the rnovement for deep waterways from the great lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, the Nicaragua Canal question, the proposed arbitration of the boundary dispute betwcen Venezuela and GreatEritain, the prospecta of civil service reform, the cnángo in the Canadian Premiersbip, the disposition of English visitorsto instruct Americans, and the recentaction of the American Federation of , Labor ; amongforeign topics receiving treatment in this department are the Armenian question, the war in China, the approachinfí Parliamentary contest in Great Britain, and South American afiairs. - The Review of Reviews, New York. Some of the contents of the January Forum are: "Are Our Vioral Standards Shifting?" an article calling attention to some of the interesting and significant changes in the attitude of the public rr.ind on many important subjects, by Professor Albei't BushneilHart, of Harvard; "The Humiliating Report of tbe Ktrike Commission, by Mr. H. P. Robinson, editor of the "Railway Age," who criticisos the Report very severely; "Is the Existing Incomo Tax Unccnstitutional?" by Mr. David A. Wells, the well-known economist, and "The Anatomy of a Tenement Street, "by Alvan F. Sanborn, who describe3, after careful and continued observations and resideace in a typical tenement street. - Forum Co., Now York. An old-fashioned sea story full of interest and adventure, with a strong love motivo, is begun by W. Clark Russell in tho January C'osmopolitan. "Ouida" succeeds Froude, Gosse, Lang, andother tiistinguished writers with an instalment of the "Great Passions of History "series which has been appoaring in the Cosmopolitan. A discusSion is aroused by Mr. Edward Bok's article on "The Young Man and Tho Church," which will consume tons of ink bef ore it is set: ed. Just preceding the famous Charcot's death he prepared an article for Tho Cosmopolitan on Pasteur, to be nablished after Pasteur's death. But Charcot has diod first, and so with the consent of Charcot's executors, the