Show Literary Notices The figures 490 appear coii pic lou lyon the back of the AortA American Renew for March This venerable jieriodical now well advanced i ad-vanced in its seventj firth year retains tains all 1 the freshness aud Vitality of I youth The latent number is specially speci-ally noteworthy on account of most important discussions on two questions I Boos of the greatest moment t the people of the United States The Gladstone Blame cuntrovfry free trade or protection which attracted M > much attention in the January is ue of The Ret l and which was continued lj Representative Stills lls in the February number is now taken up by Senator Morrill of Vermont Ver-mont who replies t 11 Glad stones arguments in favor of free trade or Icrhap greater Int tat this time are the two articles on ii fie Limitations of the Speaker fhljr contributed byfcjicaker Reed J ra1 and exSpeaker Carlisle As a supplement sup-plement t Senator Morrillii article arti-cle there Is an interesting paper by Samuel W Mendum secretary of the United Question Clubs Unit Club of Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts on The Question CIulw arid ths Tart Many readers will Urn with eager attention t see what 11 Edward Bellamy has t pay on Looking Backward Agan wherein he replies ti the criticisms of that much read and mach tis cussed bojk whch General Francis Fran-cis A Walker contributed t the < Jfmhy for February The fculjectof 1 electric Iightirjgl3 ag In treated by I George Westing house Jr Justin McCarthy IP writes of Coming Men in Eng lurid Colonel Ingersoll furnishes Pmll of his answer to the qucs tiiii Why am I an Agnostic Agnol < Mr Susa Young Gates a daughter i mf the late Brigham Young in Family Life Among the Mor 1101 mons enters a plea In behalf of polygamy and describes the dom estic the rotations of the late heal of Ionon Church A lively emil Inly charctrtc arlclo on Lively Journalism i from Ule vivacious pen of Max pD The subject of Irrigation is ably handled by General Xelson A Miles In a paper entitled Our Un watered Empire Mr Phlncas T Jtarnums Ideas as f What the Pair Should Be form the leading article in the Notes and Comments 11 Barnum makes a suggestion ta the Worlds Fair committee which he says is equivalent t taking SlOJOOOJ out of his own pocket OthertimeJy articles In this Otlertmcy aricle department depart-ment arc Life Insurance in the United States The Papistical Power in Canada and Heresy Hunting The numbers of IiUells Living Alt for 22nd February and let of March contain A Hanoverian Mar nags Edinburgh Sir John Hawk wood and Italian Coudottieri Quar tcrj The Ascertalnmont of Eng list and The Xaturall t on the Pmpas Nineteenth Century In the Buys of the Dandies Jllacktcood J Sanuel Itichardson GentSemtmt The DeJine of Goethe and Horace Wlpls Letters Bar Ltter Teple holland Bar 1ollnd Hou Iou turriry flost 511 Guests Lrfngmans b Host ut C Bunyans Use 8 of eree Siecfata gl bbe Calculating En a InfiUCn term The Epidemic of Infuenz Yau wIth His Uncle ant her wit Unco us Ir Grndmotber and Epl Wyn0 and poetry LILISU Boston ace the i LIl |