Show LITERATURE AMERICAN NEWSPAERS IN t8S4 From the edition of Messrs Geo i P Rowell Coa American NEwspaper NEws-paper Directory now in press it I appears that the newspapers and I pero icals of all kinds at present I Issued In the United States and I Canada reach a grand total of 13 402 This ie a net gaiii of precsely 1600 during the last twelvemonth and exhibits an increase of 5618 over the number published gust ten years 11 since The increase in 1874 over the total for 1873 was lf3 During toe last year the dailies have increased in-creased from 1158 to 1254 tbe weeklies from 9062 to 10 028 and the monthlies from u99i to 1499 The greatest increase in the western west-ern states Illinois Tfor instance I now shows 1009 papers in place of last years total or 994 while Missouri Mis-souri isfluea 604 instead of the 523 reported in 1883 t < J > ther leading western States also exhibit a great percentage of increase The total number of papers in New York State is 1523 agaiuac 1399 in 1883 Canada has shared in the general increase FRANK LESLIEU DAY MAGAZINE The May number contains some particularly notable articles and is altogether most interet g and edt jm > gA Dfceodltor TTjSeVVitfc Tal mage DD has two articlesThe Arctic Martyrs and The Great Freshetswhich are of profound interest in-terest and admirably illustrated Cathedral of Our Savior Moscow Love andLife in Norway A Summer Sum-mer Holiday Abroad The Pianoforte Piano-forte Ancient and Modern etc are prominent features of the number num-ber There are renal and short storiep essays sketchep etc by Rev E Barras33 Miss G A Davis Alfreti n Hervey T L Meade 1 Alex Patten and other celebrated writers poems of great merit the Home Puloit with ssrrnon ty Be Talmage and miscellaneous artIcles artI-cles entertaining and replete with information Mrs Frank Lesliec publisher 55 and 57 Park Place N Y |