Literary Notes This column gives an overview of the current events in art and literature.  Among other topics discussed in this column, there are notes discussing the Holiday issue of <cite>Harper's Weekly,</cite>, the tendency of other papers to reprint items from the <cite>Saturday Press</cite> without giving due credit, Horace Mann's,Wendell Phillips's, and Bayard Taylor's lectures, a discussion of the death of Robert Burns's youngest sister, and a discussion of Thackeray.  The column also includes an overview of several current issues of English magazines and their contents.