"Poor Lo " got scared and paid the money, But lingered after he had paid; "Why do you wait?" the lawyer asked, "Me want receipt," the Indian said. "Receipt! " the limb of law rejoined, "What know you how these things are done? Tell me the use of a receipt And I'll be pleased to give you one." The red man stood a moment, then With merry twinkle in his eye, lie said, " S'pose now me sick, me die, Me go to Heben by an' by; "The 'Postle Peter come an' ask, ' ()1 ' Simon, what you want? ' me say, ' Want to git in '; an' den he ask, ' You pay dat bill to Lawyer J.? ' "What den me do? Ilab no receipt, Me must go out to find you. Well — Me fool hab been — to find you den Me must go hunt all over h—." — J. A. Dreiss, in Tht Bohemian. LITERARY NOTES. The Rev. Samuel J. Harrows, D.D., the editor of the Christian Register, and a member of the Board of Prison Commissioners of Boston, contributes a paper to the February Arena on " Penology in Europe and America," that will be widely read by all who appreciate the value of educational work in prison discipline and reform as an important factor in the social problem. Dr. Barrows is one of the leading authorities in this country on the department of so ciology known as Penology, and this paper is the re sult of a year's travel in Europe, during which he visited all the representative prisons of England, France, Germany, Italy, Hungary and Greece. Two articles in the February Atlantic will attract especial attention. "The Study of a Mob,"' by Boris Sidis, a Russian, in which the data are taken from Russian life, and^' Russia as a Civilizing Force in Asia," by James M. Hubbard, which presents the other side of the shield General Lord Wolseley makes a most important contribution to the literature of the China-Japan war. In an article in the February Cosmopolitan, he dis cusses the situation and does not mince matters in saying what China must do in this emergency. Two other noted foreign authors contribute interesting ar ticles to this number. Rosita Mauri, the famous Parisian danseuse, gives the history of the ballet, and fimile Ollivier tells the story of the fall of Louis Philippe. From every part of the world, drawings
and photographs have been obtained of the instru ments used to torture poor humanity, and appear as illustrations for a clever article, by Julian Hawthorne, entitled, " Salvation via the Rack." Mr. E. V. Smalley contributes to the February Review of Reviews an interesting study of civil government in Manitoba, under the title, " Canada's Prairie Province." His account of the institutions of this little-known government on our northern border is extremely enlightening and suggestive. The ar ticle is well illustrated. The leading article in the February number of The Bostonian is entitled, " How Washington's Birth day was made a Holiday," in which Mr. Walter G. Chase has furnished letters from Washington Irving, Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips, Franklin Pierce, and others, as well as the original ode by Oliver Wendell Holmes which directly bore upon the subject. A murder and robbery committed in an expresscar on the Rock Island Railroad some years ago, gave the detectives oae of the hardest cases they have ever had to deal with. The Pinkerton detective story in McClure's Magazine for February is a history of this crime, and of the ingenious and patient methods by which the perpetrators were finally brought to ar rest and conviction. In an article entitled '-What is Gambling?" Hon. John Bigelow, in the February Harper's dis cusses an important constitutional amendment lately adopted by the people of the State of New York. The amendment indirectly affects horse-racing and pool-selling in other states, owing to the burning in terest in the subject. Whether it affects the twentyfive-cent rubber at whist and the church fair is a problem that Mr. Bigelow propounds in entertaining fashion. In Scribner's Magazine for February, Noah Brooks continues his group of papers on " American Party Politics," with an account of the typical vote of a party, as illustrated by the period from Jackson to Pope — the central idea being the rise and growth of the slavery problem. It is entitled, "The Passing of the Whigs." A varied and attractive table of contents is offered by the Popular Science Monthly for February. Chief among the important articles are "The Scrum Treatment of Diphtheria," by Dr.
