The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-12-01
LITERARY NOTES.

| TIE December Atlantic contains the closing chap
ters of Mr. Howellss and Mr.. James's stories, which
for months have been such notable features of This
magazine. An article of peculiar interest just
in view of the trial of Guiteau is that upon Britsh
State Assassins and the Defense of Insanity" by
james W. Clarke. Miss Harriet w. Preston, one OF
the most delightful of American essayists, contrib
utes charming article entitled AT Canterbury
Mr.. Richard L. Dugdale continues his papers So
cial Science with one on the Origin of Crime in So
ciety.' very pleasant subject. but which
good citizens may very proftaby consider ''Socisl
lists in German University by Willard Brown, is
paper that will he read with little interest Civ
ing valuable Information in regard 10 the prevalence
and diffusion of socialist sentiments in The of
German culture. Mr.. hale Gannett Wells writes an
interesting and Instructive article Caste in Amer
lean Socetv. One of the -8tiaatic'S excellent short
is IIester's Dover by 5. y. L. E. VI. Other
interesting articles upon shakespeare and Rer
lioz.'' by Theodore Child; upon THE Hahitant of
Lower Canada" by Edward Farrar; and poem by
Edith VI. Thomas. The number contains the usual
excellent book reviews and the Contributors Club is
of more than ordinary interest. little essay
"Od Pewter showing the s1ifu touch aud tire sim
plicity which characterizes Miss Jewett's New Eng
land sketches. The ft}dHtic promises for next year
serial stories by Thomas Hardy, author of Far from
the Madding Crowd,'' The Return of the Native"
perhaps the iirst Of living uovests; by Mr. Bishop
the author of 'Detmod: Mr.. Lathrop. author of "A
Study of Hawthorne;' and by Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps. The other departments of the 8tkantic-es-
says short stories poetry and articles timely top
icswill be of the high order heretofore and
though the magazine does not offer its readers the
special attraction of Illustrations, its literary
tents excellent and varied that it commends
itself to the hearty favor of all who like and ap
preciate the best literature. HoUGHToN, MIFFLIN
& Co.. Boston.
ECLECTIC MAGAZINE.-The December number of
the Eclectic is just at hand and has the the following
varied and interesting table of contents: -Four Cen
turtles of English Letters" by Sir Henry Taylor
1.-The French and English Police Sytems - ''Thrawn
Janet;' Life in Medieval Venice" by j. Theodore
Bent; zone Faith in Many Forms;' Notable Assas-
sinations;' Hints to Dyspeptics;'' ''The Electric
Telegraphs," by DR.. A. H. Japp; 1.-THE Latter-Day
Saints they Are" by Edward A. Thomas; "Fic-
tion, Fair and Foul,' by John Ruskin; ITO Rose'
(poem) by Henry S. Leigh; 'sKth and KIM" by Jes-
sic Fothergil author of 1.-THE First vioin, chapters
XVI. to xviii; 1.-The Jewish Question:" by Gold
win Smith; 1.-The Victim of Virtue" by James
Payn; Fish Food and Physie," by J. Mortimer
Granville NJ. D. 1.-THE Decadence of Frenchwomen'' -
1.-THE Carrying Trade of the World,' by NJ. N. Null
hall; "Dante Gabriel Rossetti's New Poem :" AT
Murren, Switzerland;' Literary Notices; Foreign
Literary Notes; Science and Art; Miscellany.
Published by E. R. PELToN, 25 Bond Street, New
York. Terms, S. years single copy, 45 cents Trial
subscription for three months, 81.
BLOOMS Popular Edition of the Laws of Ohio, pub
lished by Messrs. Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati,
has already reached its fourth edition. The public
press of the State has commended this work very
freely, probably because it is precisely what the
editor himself needs in his business. The book is
written by who himself edited a newspaper for
over thirteen years, and while sometimes preparing
sketches of the law any given subject, conceived
the idea of going through the whole of the revised
statutes and thus to the people all the laws
of the State in condensed form, giving the general
reader very correct knowledge of what the laws re-
quire without the labor of wading through several
fl1atu bys Iinor
the annual volumes of session laws Canvassers are
wanted in every township and county of the State.
This is matter the people themselves should take
hold Of and some citizen of the township undertake
the work of supplying his neighbors. A commission
will be paid by the publishers to such will under
take it. good, energetic canvasser could supply a
township in a few weeks and find it profitable en-
ployment The book contains $50 large pages,
and is sold at remarkably cheap rates being only $500
in cloth binding, and 81 90 in leather.