Show LITERARY NOTES In the Century for July the lighter material ma-terial is of a sparkling outofdoors char acter and naturally takes precedence in i attractiveness at this season The opening paper by John Burroughs on Wild Flowers is profusely illustrated andis likely to set many a young woman and summer boarder to botanizing another i an-other by W J Henderson on The Sportsmans Music giving pictures olive o-live game birds and recording the musical notes of their songs appeals more to the other sex A third paper by Talcott Williams treats of Animal Locomotion Locomo-tion in the Muybridge Photographs with a lot ot drollv fascinating picture exhibiting in progressive series familiar phenomena not fully seen before in i naturea mule bucking and rearing I pigeons flying horses galloping and leaping leap-ing athletes jumping and throwing ballplayers players batting etca paper which is in i the nature of an excursion into a new world A humorous story yet not without with-out a serious conclusion is Sister Tot hunters Hart by H S Edwards with attractive genre picturesby Kemble to which there is a foil in Mr Boyesens pathetic Crooked John in which the writer returns to the Norwegian fie d oi Gunnar and his other early successes To these must be added Stocktons Hundredth Manbione of the most individual of American fiction writers The Lincoln history closes up the Kansas Kan-sas troubles and discusses their corollary the LincolnDouglas Debates Inter eating and hitherto unpublished letters by Lincoln and Greeley aro given Bowing Bow-ing with becoming humility like good Americans before thecommon fetich the humorist readers who are interested in Lincoln will yet notiail to see how necessary neces-sary to a knowledge of the President is ito it i to know the political soil and atmosphere which made him whathe was At the same time the conviction that Messrs Nicolay and HsyKwar5 tne custodians of I much cMhsmost personal and intimate I iBside history of Lincolns Administration Administra-tion may well stimulate the impatient curiosity of the public The veteran historian his-torian George Bancroft adds to the historical his-torical value of tho number by recounting reAn Incident in the Life of John Adams to which there are added portraits por-traits of Adams and Oliver Ellsworth The war paper is of unusual intere3t comparing The Struggle for Atlanta The poetry of THE CENTUKY embraces from month to month many new contributors con-tributors and a large range of method This month it is contributed by Edith M Thomas the late E R Sill William H Hayne Kate Putnam Oagood Juliet C Marsh William Struthers the late Sidney Lanier and Gertrude Hall Other subjects discussed in the number num-ber are A New Era in our History Reform in Municipal Government College Expenses The Metropolitan Spirit Labor and Capital Christian Chris-tian Union from a Baptist Point of View American Students in Germany Ger-many Photography and American Art etc |