(Boston) for March.

EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN. _Critic_ for March 26.

COUNT LEON TOLSTOI. Madame Dovidoff. _Cosmopolitan_ for April.

GOODRIDGE BLISS ROBERTS. With Portrait. Charles G. Abbott.
_Dominion Illustrated Monthly_ (Montreal) for April.

LITERATURE AND THE MINISTRY. Leverett W. Spring. _Atlantic Monthly_
for April.

GEORGE ELIOT AND MRS. HUMPHRY WARD. Charles T. Copeland. _North
American Review_ for April.

CHARLES KEENE, OF PUNCH. George Somes Layard. _Scribner's Magazine_
for April.

ISAAC JUDSON POTTER, PUBLISHER OF THE YANKEE BLADE. With Portrait.
_Weekly Journalist_ (Boston) for March 24.

FICTION IN THE COURT ROOM. George Stewart. _Toronto Week_ for March
11.

T. W. HIGGINSON. With Portrait. _Weekly Journalist_ (Boston) for
March 31.

WHY BOOKS SUCCEED. Duffield Osborne. _American Bookseller_ for
April 1.

EUGENE FIELD. _Inland Printer_ for April.

WHAT IS POETRY. Edmund Clarence Stedman. _Century_ for April.

WOLCOTT BALESTIER. Edmund Gosse. _Century_ for April.

THE WIFE OF EUGENE FIELD. John Ballantyne. _Ladies' Home Journal_
for April.

MISTAKEN LITERARY SUCCESS. Wolstan Dixey. _Ladies' Home Journal_
for April.

POETRY AND ELOQUENCE. John Burroughs. _Chautauquan_ for April.

NEWS AND NOTES.

D. Appleton & Co. announce a Holland Fiction Series, introducing to
American readers the best literature of modern Holland. They have been
led to do this by the interest shown in Maarten Maartens' "Joost
Avelingh," which they published some time ago. A new novel by Maarten
Maartens will be included in the series.

Mrs. James T. Field is abroad with Miss Sarah Orne Jewett.

Daniel Lothrop, head of the D. Lothrop Company, of Boston, died February
18. He was born August 11, 1831.

Edward Augustus Freeman, the English historian, died of smallpox
February 16, at Alicante, Spain, aged sixty-nine years.

With the issue of March 11 the _Epoch_ ceased to exist as a separate
publication, having been merged with _Munsey's Magazine_.

Edward Everett Hale will be seventy years old April 3.

Rev. George Thomas Dowling, D. D., who has been pastor of the
Madison-avenue Reformed Church in Albany for nearly three years, has
offered his resignation, to take effect July 1. It is his intention, he
says, to devote himself for a few years to rest and literary pursuits,