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LITERARY NOTES.

AMONO the many attractive pictorial features of the Easter number of LIKE may be noted a full-page half tone cartoon by C. D. Gibson, full pages by Hanna, Toaspern, Gilbert and Gibson, and a beautiful deco rative border by Attwood. illustrating an Easter ser mon by E. S. Martin. Among the literary features are a short story depicting a characteristic phase of college life, several short humorous sketches, and numerous poems by well-known writers, all in LIFE'S best vein. THE April issues of LITTELL'S LIVING AOE con tained among other papers of striking and timely inter est, Mr. Gladstone's pamphlet on the Eastern question which has so aroused the attention of the English people; Max Muller's "Literary Recollections"; Francis de Pressense on the "Cretan Question'': Leslie Stephen on " Gibbon's Autobiography"; and a reply by Sir Frederick Pollock to the article on the •• Hidden Dangers of Cycling," which appeared in a March number of the magazine. The publishers have purchased the serial rights to the publication of " In Kedar's Tents," by Henry Selon Merriman, author of "The Sowers." Mr. Merriman's style is direct and forcible, and his humor is delightful. THE April number of SCKIBNEK'S MAGAZINE ap pearing at Easter time is always particularly bright and attractive, both in contents and illustrations. Four of the cleverest draughtsmen in line work — Raven-Hill, Hatherell, Linson and McCarter — illus trate with breezy character sketches Lewis Morris Idding's unconventional article on " Ocean Crossings." Even veteran travelers will find here some things that it is good for them to know. The hints about steam ship fees are eminently practical. A brief paper by W. E. D. Scott, called •• Bird-Pictures," gives some of the latest advances in the art of stuffing birds in a lifelike manner. "In Mr. Howells's "Story of a Play " there is a great deal of amusing characterization. A new character is introduced as a woman " who seemed to turn the sunshine into lime-light as she passed." "ARMENIA and its People," written by a refugee, and illustrated from photographs recently taken in the country, is the title of an unusually attractive and timely article which appears in the May number of the NATIONAL MAGAZINE.

SPECIAL features in CURRENT LITERATURE for May are illustrated articles in addition to the pres ence of pictures in some of the regular departments. In the " Editor's Symposium," Mr. Cable gives his readers more of patriotism than of mere literature, "Crete and Cuba," " The Patriotism of Ideas," and "Cosmopolitan Patriotism " being some of the subjects he discusses. The fiction is represented by ex tracts from the much-talked-of recent publications, Ibsen's play, " John Gabriel Borkman," and Olive Schreiner's " Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland." THE May number of HARPER'S MAGAZINE consists of a variety of interesting contributions. There is an article on " Cross-Country Riding, "by Caspar Whit ney, with illustrations by C. D. Gibson. George V. Smalley, who for so many years acted as London cor respondent for the " New York Tribune," contributes a paper on " English Country-House Life." I)r. Henry Smith Williams discusses the "Geological Progress of the Century"; and in "The Hundred Years' Campaign" Professor Francis N. Thorpe pre sents a study of American political history. IN his article on the " Principles of Taxation," in APPLETON'S POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY for May, the Hon. David A. Wells traverses the right of Gov ernment to stimulate special industries by means of bounties, and discusses the limitation of the ¡»wer of taxation to articles exclusively within the territorial jurisdiction of the taxing power. In this number, also, Prof. W. Z. Ripley discusses the stature of the populations of Europe as related to race and other factors, and the history of the " Bubonic Plague " is told by Prof. Victor C. Vaughan, who also considers the conditions that contribute to its spread, and pre sents the results of the latest studies of the bacillus by which it is supposed to be engendered. McCi.URE's MAGAZINE for May gives a version of the story of the pursuit, capture and death of J. Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Lincoln, which promises to be the first really full and accurate one. It is written by a relative of Colonel Baker and Lieutenant Baker, the detectives who organized and led the pursuit, effected the capture, and disposed of Booth's body after his death. General Carl Schurz reviews the second ad ministration of Grover Cleveland. The article is em bellished with a new portrait of Mr. Cleveland, taken for this special use. The story of General Grant's rebuffs and disappointments in his first efforts to get employment in the war is told by Hamlin Garland, from new documents and material. This number also contains a series of life portraits of Daniel Web ster — the "godlike Daniel," one of the few great men who looked every inch of their greatness.