Show Literary Notes Wide AJcaic for April begins with a burst of Eater beauty and hope frontispiece by W L Tai lor Kaster OUtriugs i embodies the pirit youth and bloom I and gla 1 cesj while llr Butterworths pretty toiy The Pilgrims Kaster Lily will ba perused > with much pleasure J Khtes of the Smitluunian In titutlon under the title Wliala In a Name gins a brief hUtory of ho English founder of the famous nstltutioii at Washington with lirecjtiitraits tjailthou The M3icultl ofa Darhn by Men IB Walford Is an amusing tkcteli of the way a little sUter Iron her devotIon How Simon and Sancho aiiia helped Ute Itevolutiou is a lr tratu true historical story by Olive Risley Ssward ° Work and Play uy Mrs Fremont Is luotlicr true story of this number hovingu delicate wtmauf burl ito i-to energy and tucco9 Nervys Vicked bummer by I Lucia Chase Bell is 1 the kind of thing the children chil-dren read gulary The Fugitives o f Frtnch Cros is a pailietlc Vrcadlan < hajtrby Grace Dean McLeod Mrs Sallie Joy White has II eejond article on Newtpaper Vorkirs written for girls who in bud to become jourualUUMrs France A Humphrey has a pretty openair paper on fhe Kngllsh rimrje Mr Stoddardh wrial Gid Granger ii i a raj > ital Item The uung heio and heroine of Mrs Jathenvooda lOW serial JSony and lau have won Uie Interest of lints of readers The poinihof number ere i > y Judith M Tbonirs and Harriet 1nscolt Spollord and Imille JouKon the illustrations for Mn Sjwirunld are beautiful and Include a fullpize of the famous Xmali comet ° Men and Things t3 delightfully readable full of orig nnl anecdote anti remlukceucf IMe Altaic Is iMiblithed by I > Lothrop Company Ikuon Mita The April number of Frank Lea htt l > puar Monthly contains fully a doziii elaborately HluMratrd nr theirs any of which Is woifa buying the magazine for ° The Senate and Its Insiders 1 is dlscug in bright ofeipy style by FredericksDaniel in J nearly a score of j ortraits and vicWti a ceo in pa uy the text Wm Iltret Ballou descrlbts the Ten ntflCO Blue I groan region and its thoroughbred horse together with the historic home of ircldents 1olk anti Andrew An-drew Jackson The wonders of ElI nlO perfected phonograph and gniphophone are brilliantly Nit forth In Arthur V Abbotts paper en ItleJ A Voice from the Past with lire beet pictures that have vITUtn pulilUhed In roiinectlon witli thii subject An excellent ountoflhc Union League Club of Chicago with Its palatial new home Is furnlthed by Lieutenant Barfiett Alfred HGurnscys series o f historical IDlers on Frederick he Great is continued Sophie Vorlhiugton gives Icturetque Notes on Nuremberg Andrew d I Fuller studies The Domettlc Life of Irehitorlc Americans In heir iotterywan the celebration 1 01 uie new lomiiiuiion 01 japan 19 llustrated and ctscribed in an in cmtlng letter and the hittoty cf The Umbrella is i as enteilalmng as it is eea onable The thcrt steno anti poems of the number are by favorite magazine writers including Lury Hooper Ulla Wheeler Wilcox t 1 harks J Henry Webb Frances B Curry and others The magazine is published at 110 Fifth AnneXe Anne-Xe Tour A book which has excited con Iderable attention during the last few mouths I is entitled Marie Bahklrttefl ublUbed by Cassell Co of 104 6 Fourth Avenue New York It purports t 0 the Iiry of a young Russian artist and Is certainly a very unique production produc-tion I has already commanded an LXteiHvu sale and has been not Inaptly defcribed by Mr Gladstone Glad-stone the great EnglIsh ett mann man-n ht A book without a parallel Mario BashklrUHfl Is issued as a numler of the pof ular semimonthly semi-monthly Buiiihlnc perle by Masis Cassell Its price I 50 cents One of the novel features of nex i Summers meeting of tlie Chautau I qua Assembly is the training school fir University extension lecturers Tho design of the school IB to secure and train a cols of lecturers for Jnlverslty extension work Among those who will as it in the work o f this training school ore some of i the test public speakers of the day Further information may be obtained obtain-ed from Frederick StarrNewHaen Conu Registrar Chautauqua Thai ertity I Eabyland for ArU oicus with a ilcture reprctrcting the Little Iou8 < keeper and the number is aLso ludded with many otheramus CR illustrations The reading fa ai j find Ib waylnto every home I Publisher 1 D Lolhroji Co Boston |