Show LITERATURE Frank Leslies Popular Monthly For December opens with a very timely article called Another Bit of Turkey It has no reference to Thanksgiving but to the annexation Of Koumelia by the Prince of Bulgaria This unexpected I seizure of another bit of Turkeyand the events that have followed required explanations ex-planations In this article Mr Oscan yan formerly Turkish ConsulGeneral thoroughly versed In the system of Oriental Ori-ental rule gives a clear view of the Province and Its people as well as of Bulgaria liThe Shakers in Niskayuna I is a sketch from a lady of that curious community accompanied by a fine eries of illustrations The Story of Napoleon Bo apartes Divorce from the Empress Josephine is told by Noel Ruthven in a way to excite the readers warmest sympathy with the amiable lady whom a husbands ambition cornel p corn-el lled to descend from her throne Walter S Baillie describes and illustrates illus-trates a littleknown part of our hemisphere hemis-phere in his attractive Glimpses of South Brazil while Lieutenant Winder Win-der of the Navy carries us back to the days of Robinson Crusoe in his Rescue of the Trinitys Crewthe story of the crew of an American vessel lost on a rarely visited island in the Antarctic Ocean Ackroyds scientific article on Whirlpools and Whirlwinds explains the origin of those deadly forces in nature which so frequently compel us to record their destructive ravages The lighter elements in the magazine the fine illustration the stories by Mrs E B DufFey M Boutelle R C Meyers Laurence Germaine with the poetic and other miscellany make the number from every point of view extremely attractive Published by Mrs Frank Leslie 5355 and Park Place New York City 1 THE INDUSTRIAL SITUATION AND THE QUES li JN OF WAGES A Study in Social Physiology Phy-siology By J Schoenhof Author of Destructive De-structive Influences of the Tariff etc New York G P Putnams Sous This is the latest volume in the Questions Ques-tions of the Day series being issued i by the Putnams Mr Schoenhof is one of the foremost writers of the day on industrial in-dustrial topics j ho has made special studies of labor tariff capital and other problems and discusses them from the standpoint of thorough knowledge and intelligence rather than from the position posi-tion of a political partisan In the resent re-sent treatise he takes the same middle ground that it is wrong to denounce capital as cruel and oppressive and equallymeaningless to rail against labor as unreasoning The cause for the constant con-stant trouble between capital and labor is found in the fact that the latter from want of skill and knowledge to conduct enterprises to its own and sole benefit gives capital the power to appropriate to itself the profit share of organized labor Education and enlightment he thinks will cure the evil they being the guides to all great forward movements of society He takes a more hopeful view of the future as regards labor than most thinkers BONNYBOBOUGH BySIrs A D T Whltney author of Faith Gartneys Girlhood etc Boston Houghtou Muffin S Co bait Lake James JJwyer Price x150 Mrs Whitney is one of the few authors auth-ors of our day who writes many books and whose works are always readable She is a prolific writer and invariably gives us something that is worth buying buy-ing and reading She never descends to the ordinary and commonplace and does not resort to the padding process which spoils so many otherwise good stories spinning them out to unendurable unen-durable lengths as if books were valuable valu-able and entertaining in proportion to the number of pages they contain Bonnyborough is not wliat would be termed a brilliant work but it is one of those pleasant tales that leave a lasting impression on the mind of the reader and when the volume has been laid down at the end of its perusal it is with the feeling that you will take it up again when you want wholesome yet not exciting ex-citing or stirring entertainment for 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