Literary Notes

Volume XXVIII. of Harpers Bazar opens brilliantly in January with the beginning' of Maarten Maarten's striking and flnely iilustrated novol, "My Lady Nobody, " a story which has Holland for its background, and some charmingly real peoqle for its dramatis persona. Marión Harland will contribute a characteristic short story, entitled "A Fin de Siècle Prodigal, ' and Harriet Prescott Spofford a piquant tale, with a whimsical New England heroine. - Harper and Brothers, Publishers, New York. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge contrïbutes to Harper's Magazine for January a vigorous article, entitled "Shakespeare 's Americanisms, " which contains reassuring and comforting doctrine for those who employ colloquial forms of speech. Among them are ex ampies of the use of "guess" and "flre out" and others.- Harper and Bros., New York. Oolonel A. B. Ellis's paper, On the Origin of Weeks and Sabbaths, shows that while weeks of various lengths have existed among different peoples they have all been intended as subdivisions of the lunar month. Among moonworshiping tribes, sabbaths at first occurred monthly. The Jews did not have a weekly sabbath until after their captivity at Babyion. Prof. James Sully takes up in his Studies of Childhood the idea of self , of the past, of God, and others that young philosophers puzzle over. H. C. B. Cowell writes in School Ethics, poinring out ways in ■which practical teaching of this subject couldbe added tothe theoretical. - New York : D. Appleton & Company. The Janurry Arena is especially interesting to women who have the cause of Woman'a Progress at heart - and the Woman's cause is the cause of the whole race and the progress of civilization itself - on account of the remar kable Symposium Discussing The Age of Consent lavvs in the different States of the Union, in which eight of the most prominent advocates of social purity take part. Among those who contribute to the discussion are Aaron M. Powell, editor of the Philauthropist; Francés E. Willard, president of the White Ribbon movement; Helen H. Gardner,author of "Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?", and the Editor of the Arena and others. All friends of higher morality will find this number of the Arena invaluable.- Arena Pub. Co. Boston,' Mass. The Eclectic Magazine enters the fifty-second year of its existence with the usual carefully chosen variety of articles "Christian Socialism"- a leadir.g article by the Duke of Argyll- discusses the socialistic qualities of tbe Christian religión. The second part of Sir Evelyn Wood's "Crimea" is no less than the former installment. A timely interview treats of the Japanese Conflict- And After." Perhaps the most forceful essay in the number is Max Muller 's fine statement, "Why I -ani not an Agnostic. " There are se venteen articles, all by the best writers, selected from the January number of the Eclectic Magazine.- Published by E. R. Pelton, 144 Eighth Street, New York. Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for January, is really a holiday number, with regard to both to the character of its reading matter and its richness in illustration. The leading article, "St. Andrews and Andrew Lang," by Mrs. Leicester Addis, a charming account of the University career and literary Ufe of this versatile author. In the way of picturesque travel and exploration, there are "America's Egypt" (Yucatán), by Mme. LePlongeon; "Finland and the Finns,'' by Herman Montague Donner; and "A Dash into Pine■apple Land, "which is southeastern Florida. Littell's Living Age For 1895. The success of this sterling poriodical is owing to the fact that it enables one, with a small outlay of time and money, to keep pace with the best thought and literature of the day. Henee its importance to every American reader. It has al ways stood at the head of its class, both in the quality and quantity of the reading furnished; and in fact it affords, of itself, so thorough and complete b compendium of what is of immediate interest or permanent value in the literary world as to render it an invaluable oconomizer ot time, labor and money. In the multitude of periodicals of the present time, - quarterlies, monthlies and weeklies, - such a publication has become almost anecessity to vory person or family desiring to keep well informod in the best literature of the day. For 1895, an extraordinary offer is made to all new subscribers; and reduced clubbing rates with other periodicals are also given by which a subscriber may at remarkably small cost obtain the cream of both home and foreign literature.- Littell & Co., Bcston publisbers.