Literary Notices.

"A Victorian Anthology," edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman, has just appeared from the press of Houghton, Mifflin and Co. ($2.50). It contains "Selections illustrating the editor's critical Review of English Poetry in the Reign of Victoria." The work is carefully compiled and valuable as a reference book.

From the same publishers we have also received "A Singular Life" by Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. It is an interesting account of the courtship of Mr. and Mrs. Ward at Andover. As an autobiography it is excellent but as a novel it is decidedly stupid.

Mr. Oliver Herford has done some charming illustrations for Joel Chandler Harris' last book "Mr. Rabbit at Home." The text is characteristic of the author and is only saved by Mr. Herford's excellent drawings.

Messrs. Frederick Warne and Co. have issued a story of adventure, "The Desert Ship" by J. B. Burton, author of "The Hispaniola Plate." The scene is laid in Colorado Desert and the story is well worth reading.

Books Received."The Life of Nancy," by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., $1.25. "The Golden Age," by Kenneth Graham, Stone and Kimball, $1.25.