Literary Notes

An artiele by Austin Dobson, llustrated by Henry Sandham and Alfred Danrson, will be the opening paper in the June Century. It is entitled "A Literary Ramble, along the Thaiuus from Fulham to Chiswick;" and the paper contains a : "timt'ly" map of tbo Universlty course. : Charles Dudley Warner takes liis readers to Newport in the June instalment of "Their PITgrlmage" (Harper's Magaztne), ' and the attractions of tliat resort are ' lighttully mlnffled witli locial and ! mental scènes in his ittrnctive style. C. ' S. Reinharfs clever illustrations ' pany the ehapter. One of the most interesting, but one of the most unfamiliar portraits of Benjamin Franklin is the fine bast of the celebrated French soulptor, Houdon, which . is now in the Metropolitan Museum of New York. Kenyon Cox lias made a drawing from thls bust, and Whitney's engraving from the drawing will appear as the frontispiece of the June Century. " The Magie of a Voice," n novel by Margaret Russell Macfarlane, which Messrs. Cassell & Company have in press, is a story of country life among tho higher classes of Meclenburg. lt is a musical novel and the characters are drawn from life. The nuthor's style is simple and direct, and the story lias a special interest on account of the inforination it gives in regard to the manners and customs of a type of Germán society rarely presented to tlie novel reader. The series of Great American Industries in Harper's Magazine is continued ' in the coming nuniber by an artiele on Sugar. The subject is most thoroughly handled and copiously i llustrated. The aiithor, R. R. Bowker, has gathered material from the most eminent and recent authorites. Beginning with a brief history of sugar, he shows its enormous production at present, describes the Louiaiana plantations and their work, and the mysterious processes of the great reflnerles. Beside the sugar-cane, sorghum, beet, maple, and glucoss sugar are carefully treated. The wouderful chemistry of sweets is unfolded as well as thesecrets of candymakinsr. The paper is a compendium of valuable inforination. TheJMay number of the Inlaad Architect and Builder is unusaly attractive and valuable. The leading articles aro retniniscencesof the late architect H. II. Richardson, who ranked at the head of his profession in the U. S., written by P. B. Wight, and a practic il illustrated essay on brickwork, by George Beaumont. ReporU of the Nebraska Saté Convention of Architects and of the Cleveland meeting of the National Engineers' Society are given, besides building news from over one hundred western cities. Araong the illustrations are the new Court House at Madison AVis., the West Chictgo Club House, a design by Architect Beman for aGrant memorial, and several well-deslgned resideuces by prominent arehitcets. Architects and others Intcrested in bi;i',ding will llnd the Inlaiul Architect and Builder profltaBle reading. The current number of The (uiver has for its frontispiece a children's May party. The Queen of the May Leadfl tüe group, and cliniting to her is a basliful maid-inwaiting, who wulks slowly along with her tinger in her niouth. Opposite tMi is a picture of "The Martyr's Child," accompanied by a poen from the pen of John George Watts. Thtl is followed by an Interectlng paper on the "False Prophet8 of the Past." Atnong the dcscriptive artides Is "Navydom in the North," by Mis. G irrett, and -'A Curious Cliurch History." The articles tliat have a more decldcdly Suinl.iy coloring are "The Resurrection MiracltC" by Rey. Horatius Bonar, D. I)., "Bible Stiidy for Teacher,11 "What Heaven la like," The öcienct! of Bllence," and "The Sorrows of Chrlsfs Prienda,1 There is more than the usual supply of poetrr and pictures - Cassell & Company, f 1.50 a year. The volume of "Ueprescntative Poems of Living Poets," which has been oinjf throngli the pruss of Messrs. Cassell tfc Conipany tor some nionttis past, will be ready tor publicaton on the Ü4th of this inonth. There have beon some delayl in the publicaron of this volume, but they were delays tliat the public will protlt by as they arose fioui tlie ereat cate that has been taken in the maljng of the book. There are eighty poets, EnglUh and American, representad and there are two humlml and ninty-uight poema. These cover even hundred and twjlve p:iK(-'Hexcluslve of introdnctioii, Preface and Indexes. Sucb n large book and om tlmt is intended for a standard I i te ra ry volume nci'ds a ;real deal of cure in lts manuf.icture, and tlie publishers have spared no pains to iiiiikc it as handsome tjpographically as it tt iinportance in contempoiHiy literature (iemands. The bonk will be published slmultaneously in Ehigland and America and ita appearance In lbo foriner country is as eagerly awultcd as it ie liere.