Show LITERARY NOTES william adsan howells has watten a new farce entitled A letter of introduction which is to appear in the january number of harper s magazine it is attractively actively att illustrated by W T A unique experiment will be tried in the february aary issue of the ladies home journal the entire number has been contributed in prose notion and verse by tho daughters of par as a proof that genius ii hereditary the work f thirty of these daughters will be represented these will comprise the daughters of thackeray hawthorne dickens imore cooper horace breeley clr gladstone president harrison will iam den howells Ho walls senator Jn gallo dean bracley of vi julia ward howe general aberman beuer con davis and nearly a score of athers each article poem or story printed in this number has been especially written for it and the whole promises to 1 a a successful result of an idea never before attempted in a magazine abs tbs irrigation ago for january ast 1st comes out in a new and handsome dress thia is the first time the age has been printed aad bound in its own office and the result is aba handsomest class jour nal in the west As usual this journal is crowded from cover to cover with interesting te and valuable matter for everybody interested in irrigation |