LITERARY NOTES. The Christmas number of Harper's Magazine is beautifully illustrated, and has the frontispiece in color. Among the most interesting articles are : "How the Other Half Laughs," by John Corbin; "The Battle of Manila," by Lieutenant J.M. Ellicott; "The Rescue of the Winslow," by Lieutenant Ernest E. Meade, U. S. R. C. S. The stories are many and varied in this number, and include, " Old Captain," by Myles Hemenway; " An Esmeralda of Rocky Canyon," by Bret Harte; "How Santa Claus was saved," by Mary T. van Denburgh; " The Second Wooing of Salina Sue," by Ruth McEnery Stuart; "The White Forest," written and illustrated by Frederic Remington; "The White Heron," by Fiona Macleod; "The Girl and the Game," a foot ball story, by Jesse Lynch Williams; A Martyr's Idyl" by Louise Imogen Guiney; .' The Unexpected ness of Mr. Horace Shields," the last of the "Old Chester Tales," by Margaret Deland; and " A Fable for Heiresses," by Alice Duer. David Starr Jordan, the distinguished scientist and government commissioner to Alaska, opens the November Atlantic by giving the results of his official experience and scientific observation of the many errors of our management in Alaska. Other timely and forceful articles are: "The Intellectual Movement in the West," by Hamilton W. Mabie; "Wild Animals in the Yosemite," by John Muir; "Thackeray," by Henry D. Sedgwick, Jr.; and "The Relations between Art and Psychology," by Prof. Hugo Munsterberg. There are also several interesting short stories. The issues of The Youth's Companion for the four weeks of November contain a number of unusual features. Frank R. Stockton will contribute a humorous paper, "Some of My Dogs"; Rudyard Kipling's new story, "The Burning of the Sarah Sands," will come out in the November loth num ber; Lord Dufierin will relate some of the sensational experiences of a pleasure trip in war time in " My First Cruise," and to the Thanksgiving number, Alary E. Wilkins will contribute a sketch of " A New England Girl Seventy Years Ago." "The Market-Place," Harold Frederic's unpub lished story, has been secured by The Saturday Evening Post, of Philadelphia, and will appear serially in that weekly, beginning in an early issue. The scenes of the complete novel in the November issue of Lippincott's, " A Triple Entanglement," by Mrs. Burton Harrison, are laid mainly in Spain and England. J. Annoy Knox, in "The Petrified
Legs," revives and amplifies the Irish legend of Lough Neagh. "The Destroyer" is an allegory by Paul R. Heyl. Jessie F. O'Donnell gives an account of " The Horse in Folk-Lore." Paul Ward Beck describes " A Ute Funeral." "Fanciful Predictions of War" and "Our Soldiers' Songs" are the titles of two brief papers by William Ward Crane. Jane Ellis Joy has a little essay on "The Craze- for the Unconventional," and J. K. Wetherill, another on "The Golden Gift," which is imagination. Scrihner"s Magazine for November contains sev eral war articles, amongthem "The Porto Rican Cam paign," by Richard Harding Davis; " The Navy in the War," by Captain F. E. Chadwick; " Torpedo Boats in the War with Spain," by Jno. R. Spear; and " A Night Escape," by Stevens Vail. In going "From Denver to the Pacific," Walter A. Wyckoff reaches the end of his long journey across the con tinent as a day laborer. C. D. Gibson further illus trates phases of New York city life, this time deal ing with night. The stories of the number include "The Great Secretary of State Interview," by Jesse Lynch Williams, a newspaper story of a cub reporter, and " The Pelican," by Edith Wharton, a study of a type of woman lecturer. The leading features of the American Monthly Review of Reviews for November are : the editorial comment on the State and Congressional campaigns, an illustrated account of the work of the Y. M. C. A. in connection with the army and navy during the war with Spain, by Albert Shaw; an article on "The Newspaper Correspondents in the War," with numer ous portraits; Mr.Creelman's own story of his San tiago adventures; " Ouida's" "Impeachment of Modern Italy," with Signor Vecchia's reply; "The Nicaragua Canal in the Light of Present Politics," by Prof. L. M. Keasbey; and " The Nicaragua Canal and Our Commercial Interests," by Dr. Emory RJohnson. The Century begins its new year with a brilliant cover in color by the well-known Parisian posterartist, Grasset, who made the Napoleon poster for The Century. This time he pictures Alexander the Great on the famous Bucephalus. This is in con nection with the magazine's new historical serial on Alexander, written by Prof. Benjamin Ide Wheeler. Captain Charles D. Sigsbee begins his " Personal Narrative of the Maine." Paul Leicester Ford, begins a series of profusely illustrated papers on "The Many-Sided Franklin," the opening article dealing with Franklin's family relations. A new romance by Marion Crawford, is begun. It is a story of a young English knight in the Second Crusade, and
