The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer

LITERARY NOTES.

The thirteenth volume of the Cosmopolitan begins with the May number, and it starts upon its new year in charge of its new editor, William Dean Howells, a striking portrait of whom appears in the magazine. The Cosmopolitan is peculiarly fortunate in securing the editorial services of a man of Mr. Howells' literary attainments and experience. An examination of the table of contents of Mr. Howells' first issue seems to justify the confidence placed in his editorial ability. James Russell Lowell, Frank R. Stockton, Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Henry James, Professor H. H. Boyesen, Hamlin Garland, John Hay, Sarah Orne Jewett, Professor Langley, of the Smithsonian, Thomas Wentworth Higginson and W. D. Howells himself are among the contributors. The illustrations in this issue are by such well known artists as E. W. Kemble, Frederic Remington, F. S. Church, Walter Crane, William M. Chase, C. S. Reinhart, Dan Beard, George Wharton Edwards, Wilson de Meza, etc.

Harper & Brothers announce the following books as nearly ready for publication: The Letters of Samuel Johnson, edited by G. Birkbeck Hill; A Voyage of Discovery, a novel of American Society, by Hamilton Aide; The Technique of Rest, by Ann C. Brackett; The Heresy of Mehitable Clark, by Annie Trumbull Slosson; and Flying Hill Farm, a story for young people by Sophie Swett. They also announce a new and revised edition of William Black's In Silk Attire.

Walter Blackburn Harte, in the Dodley's Corner in the May New England Magazine makes a plea for the reading of books, especially on the ground that the best and most brilliant writers have not secured a place in periodical literature. He takes Ambrose Bierce, the California story-teller, and pays a glowing tribute to his genius.

Mrs. Anne Thackeray Ritchie's new book, The Light-Bearers, comprising her papers on Tennyson, Ruskin, and the Brownings, will soon be published by Harper & Brothers. The volume will be enriched with portraits and numerous illustrations.