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Show Literary Xotices. Tile Y01U11' Companiiti presents its readers with a d iuiil Christmas number. It Is just out, and contain-no contain-no less thin seven complete storii-. Tliere is pirtun-, slory, poem and anecdote, all appropriate to the season. seas-on. llclford'i Magazine furnishes a really cli'ih-e selection of articles foi the holiday swis.ni. 10 currt-ni numlHr being mm of thcthest ever issiitsl bythe firm. It rank, amota-themnst amota-themnst pnnilriif the line lift of mairazint-s, and is thrrughly ilc strviug nf lii oral supiort on the irt of the resilini: jsiblic. Published Pub-lished atCS4-0 Broadway, If. Y. "A Hquire of Low Degree" Is the title of the latest novel published pub-lished by Appleton & Co , of Xew York, In connection .with their 'Town an I Country Luirary," the price being o I cents. The author Is Lily A. Loug, and from tho opening open-ing eha,iti r tu the rn'l tbe Interest of the re'adcr is nevt r once allowed to 11 g. It is n pretty story, graphically graph-ically told. - T2ie Christmas number oL Table TuXIsfull or the spirit of the hul day season. Its editor, Mrs. S. T. XI rer. has prenred for Its readers a breakfast, dinner and (Upper on Chrisimssday. Ix-sldt-sotlirrlunrhrs and many good tilings. Mrs. Itorer also provi les in this issue a "dinner "din-ner to rKt sixty cents for four persons." Prices aud everything every-thing in de-tail are given. As the merry sea-on dra-vs near the housewife will find Ta'Je talk a most able and practical assistant, by way of suggesting variety and aid in tli" prrpiritlon of delicious dishes. dish-es. Ttxi'c Talk Pdhlb bins-Co., 1S17 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa, Tiio OmmipoliUin for December is a welcome adiition to the month's stock of literature. The enitravingsart! numerous and not a whit liehlnd the previous artistic productions of this excellent miga-zine. miga-zine. Among tho choice variety of subjects are "The Pas-Ion Play at Oberammergau" (by EHzalietti uisranu. oueciions 01 lea-pots" lea-pots" (hliza Ruhatcali Scidmore), 'ITje Army of Japan" (Arthur Sherburne Hardy), "Field Marshal Vu Moltke" (James Grant Wilson). Wil-son). "Mrs. Pendleton's four-in-hand" f Gertrude F. Atherton), and 'The Birds of .N arareth." a poem by Ellztbeth Ackers. Murat Hal stead writes a review of current events, and "S-wial problems" nre hindMby E Iward liverett Hale. Tne Cutrmpottlan ofllces are at Fifth Avenue. Broadway and rwenty-llftli ijtreeLs New liork. "From Babel to Comparative Philology" Is thetitle of a chapter In Dr. Andrew D. XX'hlte's "XXVar-fare "XXVar-fare of Science," wlilih will open the January Jtipular Science ihnth'y. It gives the origin of the legend In regard to the great tower and the confusion of tongues, and also traces the early history of the belief that Hebrew was the only language lan-guage spoken by God and men before Btbel was undertaken. ThusecoaJ article in the series on "The Development of American Industries In-dustries since Columbus" will also appear. IU special topic is "Iron-Mills "Iron-Mills and I uddiiug-Furnaces " bclngapartof the subject of Iron ami Steel, which is U-iug treated Lv Mr. William Durfee. LlsT thC opening paper, it is copiously illu-traieJ. illu-traieJ. and much more readable tliau the tith would indicate. Prof Huxley will contribute an article under the title "Tho Aryau Question 'ind Prehistoric Man! "rhc3torago or Electricity" will be tocplalned in a fully illustrate,! acleby Prof. IJuel Bheklon, of tho Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. J |