Show 1 LITERATURE j Atlantic Monthly TheJanuary number of the Atlantic opens with an unusually interesting table of contents It begins with the firpt two chapters of Charles Egbert Craddocks new serial In the Clouds which shows the same strong touch and remarkable descriptive power that have distinguished her other novels of Tennessee Ten-nessee life This is followed by a paper ofl The Free Negroes of Norrh Carolina Caro-lina who were free during the slave regime by Mr David Dodge who writes most entertainingly of this little known olass The editor of the Atlantic M r Aldrich has a very bright short story called Two Bites at a Cherry which ry only Mr Aldrich could t have written Dr Holmes has a paper in the I the Jew Portfolio series A Cry from Study full if pleasant reminiscences and pungent humor The Political Consequences In England ot Cornwal liss Surrender forms the subject of a thoughtful article bf Mr John Fiske Highly interesting installments ofThe Princess CasamasSima by Henry James and Mrs OlipbantsA Country Gentleman arc also given in this issue Glaucus an exquisite poem by Edith if Thomas lines by the late H H and some verses by Julie a wecnerm furnish the poetry of thenumber The r cent Life of William Lloyd GarrisonS Garrison-S Poets of America and the lakt number LArt form the subject c fable f-able criticisms while the Contributors Club his four short discussions which are full of the stimulating thought and pleasant fancy that distinguish this MtvCLCdUfc department The number closes with the usual resume of books of the month I Houghton Mifflin d Co Boston I Harpers Magazine f Contents of the January number I Illustration for She Stoops to Conquer Con-quer frontispiece from a drawing byE by-E A Abbey Winter in Devonshire sketch Lucy C Lillie with thirteen I R i illustrations East Angels a novel part XIII Constance Fenimore Wool i son Lament a poem Harriet Prescott Pres-cott SpofFurd i Hunting a Mythical I Pallbearer Moncure D Conway i Domestic and Court Customs of Persia Per-sia tc G W Benjamin with sixteen i j illustrations Great American Industries Indus-tries IV A Lamp Full of Oil George R Gibson with sixteen illustra trations Sis a sketch Mary Tucker MagilJ With three illustrations Christmas Christ-mas with the Germans before Paris Archibald Forbeswith six illustrations She Stoops to Conquer Goldsmith with five illustratons by E A Abbey In the Marshes a poem Alice Comyns Carr with two illustrations Indian Summer a novel part vii W D Howells The Militia and the Army MajorGeneral George B Mc Clellan Unc Edinburgs Drownin Thomas K Page Editors Easy Chair From the Easy Chair to the Study The Andre Monument So AmericanA American-A Delicate Question AnsweredE Pluribus UnumMr Parnell Editors Study An Invitation to the Reader Some Recent FictionLiterary Centres A Word about Americanisms Some recent Illustrated Books Monthly Record of Current Events Political Intelligence Disastprs Obituary Obitu-ary Editors Drawer A Plea for the Fluctuating Female An Apology Anecdote An-ecdote of Josh BillingsHumors of the Bar Beyond the Gate Anecdotes of Tayler Lewis A Modern Bas BleuA Suggestive HintThat SausageA Childs Idea of Frontier Service New York Harper Brothers Salt Lake James Dwyer THE FIRST volume of the Personal Memoirs of U S Grant which was reviewedlin these columns some months ago has been received and is now being delivered to subscribers in the city by Mr F L Tripp the local agent The volume is fully up to the promise given in the prospectus We are glad to know it has had a large sale in Salt Lake |