Show LITERAlLY NOTES The longpromised Life of Agasslz by Jules Marcou is at last announced for immediate publication M Marcou is the only surviving European naturalist natur-alist who came with Agassiz to this country and he was closely associated I with him both In Europe and America I as pupil assistant and friend The book brings out very clearly the iden tity of Agassiz both in its personal and in its scientific aspects It goes very fully moreover into the details of timework time-work of Agassiz though treating it from the point of view of a critical and dispassionate observer Correspondence Correspond-ence journals and personal impressions impres-sions of various sorts are freely drawn upon and no pains have been spared to render this the definitive account of the great naturalist I ExPresident Benjamin Harrison will discuss The Presidential Office very comprehensively in his This Country I of Ours series in the forthcoming February Ladies Home Journal He will detail the provisions and methods of electing a chief magistrate and will have much to say bearing upon the eligibility eli-gibility of a president for reelection will give his views as to the length of the presidential term and express rather decided opinions relative to the annoyance to which presidents are subjected from < officeseekers The article ar-ticle is practically based upon experience experi-ence and observation and is very timely time-ly General Harrison believes that the fears expressed by the framers of OUB oonstituiian that the power of the office of-fice is such as to enable an ambitious Incumbent to secure an indefinite succession suc-cession of terms have never been realized rea-lized In practice the popular opinion has limited eligibility of the president presi-dent to one reelection The January Dumber of the Progress of the World Magazine is as usual filled with crisp uptodate and instructive In-structive articled in its department of Scientific and 1 Mechanical Progress a very Interesting description is given of the electric pubw that has come into i I use in Germany The article on Mechanisms 1 Mech-anisms of Compressed Air shows the varied uses of that wonderful power I at the present day and a paper by Dr I S Millington Miller describes some hypnotic experiments just made that prove the existence of a marvelous magnetic influence between two widely separated persons The next volume in Macmillans series ser-ies of Illustrated Standard Novels will be Disraelis Sybil I The second number of the American I Historical Review was published on January 11 One of its most important and interesting features is the publication publi-cation of the first instalment of the Diary of Richard Smith member of the Constitutional Congress covering the doings of that body from September I Septem-ber 12 to October 1 1775 and from December De-cember 12 1775 to March 30 1776 Most of the information which it gives is I not to be found in the printed journals of the Continental Congress and has never before been made public Other Important documents printed in this number ate the petition for the first colonial bishopric 1786 and Lincolns nomination to Congress 1846 The 20Sth volume of Littells Living Age opens with the issue of the weekending week-ending Jaruary 4 The beginning of anew a-new volume Is an excellent time for I the beginning of a new subscription especially when as in this instance it includes a neW3 lower price For 1896 the subscription price will be 6 Good news truly to its subscribers and to all others who appreciate and enjoy 1t 0 = h + a bJLLcaUL4 the best of choice ai literature should be without it The Authors Journal for January is enlarged to 24 pages Its feature article is by Sir Walter Besant and Is an analysis of The Public Taste in Fiction Effects of Literary Competitions Compe-titions is a general head for a discussion discus-sion by Edgar Fawcett General James Grant Wilson Robert E Bonner editor of the New York Ledger and Hamlln Garland other articles are British Authors all for Peace The Duty of Writers by the Editor To Living Authors poem by Hunter MacCul loch Hall Caines Use of the Bible Bliss poem by Seymour A Oakley The Advisability of a Nom de Plume by E Livingston Gravy The Merciless Merci-less Reader by Fanny L Fancher etc |