Literary Notices.

The Christmas number of McClure's Magazine is at hand. The number presents the following attractive table of contents:

"Madonna and Child," Frontispiece.

"Abraham Lincoln." II. Life in Indiana-Removal to Illinois-Flatboatman and Clerk. Ida M. Tarbell. "The Love of the Prince of Glottenberg." A Story. Anthony Hope. "Madonna and Child in Art," Will H. Low. "Chapters from a Life." I. An Autobiographic Paper.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps."The Understudy." A Story.

Robert Barr."The Heroine of a Famous Song." The true story of "Annie Laurie." Frank Pope Humphrey.

"A Point of Knucklin' Down." A Christamas Story. Ella Higginson.

"The Sun's Heat," Sir Robert Ball.

"Hall Caine." Story of his Life and Work, Derived from Conversations.

Robert Harborough Sherard."Neighbor King." A Story.

Collins Shackelford."Through the Dardanelles,"

Cy Warman."The Earliest Portrait of Lincoln." as M. Cooloy, Herbert B. Adams, Justice Brown, Justice Brewer, J. C. Ropes, Murat Halstead, Francis A. Walker, Charles Dudley Warner, and others.