Show LITERATURE There will be published in the Magazine American History for February as a matter of unusual historic interest the complete minority report of tho famous electoral commission of 1S77 which has never until now been given to the people of the United States The history of this remarkable document will be found in the same number of the magazine from the pen Judge Charles Coxvley also an engraved en-graved copy of the great historic painting of the commission which furnishes exact portraits of all the distinguished persons In attendance mASK LESLIES POPULAR MONTHLY Richard J Hintons finely illustrated paper on the great Colorado Desert and a delightful descriptive and reminiscent paper upon Historic Haunts and Homes in New York by Felix Oldboy the late Colonel Jnhn F Mines are the leading features of Frank Leslies Popular Monthly for February This midwinter number has an exceptionally briliant list of contributors con-tributors including besides the two sil ready named Rudyard Kipling Mrs E M De Leon George C Hulbert Douglas Sladen Louis Engle A L Rawson David Ker Etta W Pierce Lucy H Hooper Joel Benton J Carter and Captain W W Webs the range of timely subjects covered cov-ered is wide and the pictorial illustrations are of surpassing excellence LITTELLS LiVING AGE The numbers of The Living Age for January Jan-uary a and 15 contain English Realism and Romance Quarterly Unpublished Pages of Popys Diary Ktnctecnth Century Excursion Excur-sion to Paris by Thomas Carlyle New Re elsie A Somersetshire Valley Rational Tho Egyptians and their OccupatiousBIadf wood The Journal ot Richard Here and the English Sparrow Gentlemens Tureno Temple TSar Lord Edward Fitzgerald and a Gentlewoman of the Last Century Ilclaravfa Thackerays Portraits of Himself Him-self Jurrnjs Colors of the Stars Clinic Tiers Tall Girls und the Food of Vanity Spectatiir with Danovitca a Russian Romance Ro-mance Captain Ludwigs Jump The Linguist and poetry Littell fc Co Boston are the publishers |