_McClure’s_ pillory will present Abraham Lincoln next. Mr. Lincoln, being dead, can not say a word. * * * * * The Sons of the House of Putnam (_vide_ _Chip Munk, May 15_), are bringing out a serial, one part every twelve months. Quilp says that if the Sons would make it once in twelve years it would suit him as well. * * * * * There is in England a flourishing sect that believes we are now being punished for sins committed in a former life: the chief tenet of the creed being that this earth is Hell. The London _Echo_ seriously explains that the PHILISTINE is the organ of this peculiar religious denomination; but the _Echo_ is mistaken—the PHILISTINE is strictly non-sectarian. It believes there are hells which exist on earth, but fortunately only in isolated places—and further that the head devils in most of them are managing editors of daily alleged newspapers. * * * * * Advance announcements of the November _Scribner’s_ emphasize the good news that “The final part of Robert Grant’s _Art of Living_ appears in this number.” The December _Scribner’s_ ought to be pretty good. * * * * * Why Bliss Carman and Stephen Crane do not write for _Lippincott’s_ has long been a mystery to me. Some of their verse is bad enough. But the secret is out. They have only two names apiece. * * * * * Here endeth the First Volume. * * * * * [Illustration: THE NEW GODIVA.] New dames that “in the flying of a wheel cry down the past” take pride or shame in this: If she who raised the tax from Coventry scorched through the town this noon, no Peering Tom would risk his eyes—sated with stranger sights, in these swift days.