Show LITERATURE Mrs Frances E Lanignn the wife of George T Lanigan the brilliant newspaper writer will hereafter be Mr Boks chief associate in the editorial management of The Ladle J Home Journal Mrs Lanigan lias been for years successfully connected with nowspnper work and she is said to be I one > of the cleverest women journalists in the country TAN THE FOOL or THE OLD DEAD THE THREE SMALL DEVILS Also A LOST OP PORTUNITY and POLIKTJSHKA By Count Leo Tolstoi Illustrated New York Charles L Webster Co Price Si This i Is the initial volumo of a series of translations from tho Russian which will embrace twelve stories by Tolstoi Unlike some of the authors later works these stories show him at his best They were written to teach the middle and lower classes of Russia some great moral truths such as temperance mora honesty patience humility These truths Tolstoi impresses upon his readers not through political discussions or dissertations which would often fail to interest but they aro manifested entirely through the actions of his characters Wonderful pictures of Russian life are given strange Russian superstitions and Russian folklore are brought to his aid and occasionally the occsionaly supernatural is used to help impress his readers with the moral which the tale is Intended to point As mere creations of fancy these stories must take trst creatons rank EXOINEERIXO MAGAZINE The November number of the Engtnetr ing Magazine is perhaps entitled to rank as the most notable indus rial publication of the year in tho periodical fluid Mr Ed ward Atkinson of Boston the distinguished authority on fireproof construction con tributes a very able paper in which be sets forth the lessons to be learned from the awful disaster in Park Place New tlo and this is followed by Mr Andrew Car negies striking criticism of the offensive scheme of British commercial federation federaton against the world The complete table of contents embraces eleven leading articles by distinguished writers several of them being artistically illustrated As usual the editorial departments aro filled with matter which is timely perti nent and written by persons who are in touch with the worlds progress They relate to architecture civil engineering civi electricity mining and metallurgy me chanics and popular miscellany Published from the World building New Publshed MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN DISTORT The November Magazine of American Ills tory is full of interest It opens with an illustrated paper on Judge Charles Jonn son McCurdy and His Home in Lyme Connecticut written by the editor Judge McCurdy was more or less a public charac ter for nearly half a century and his career is associated with historic WIh events of the first importance Dr Pattons terse and scholarly study follows One Hun dred Years of National Life the Contrast Between 1739 and 1880 which all readers will find useful and informing Hon Hora tio King contributes a pleasant anecdote General Holts Unexpected Reply kiev Dr Stakely discusses tho Introduction of the Negro Into the United States In tonneouon witn me great topic or the wih hour tho Worlds fair appears a charming article entitled The Fashion forJLearuing In Queen Isabellas Reign The printing of this magazine is adellght to the eye the type paper and general effect is far ahead of any periodical of the age THE CEXTUUT The feature of the November Century which ia likely to attract the most attention is probably the new novel attenton ahka by Rudyard Kipling and Wolcott tJalestier the latter a well known Ameri can now living in London This is Mr Kiplings first experience in collaboration colaboraton and tho story is not only international in authorship but In plot It opens on the bridge of an Irrigating ditch in a western state and at the close of the first instal meat there is already an indication of a change of the scene to India The motive of the story is the quest of an American Nicholas Tarvin for a celebrated necklace of jewels which bangs round the neckof an I idol In the province of Rujputann and which he has promised to bring back to Mrs Mutrie at Topaz Colorado in order to obtain her Influence in behalf of the town he is booming Edgar VV Nye contributes to this number the first of several of his autobiographies the present ono being the Autobiography of a Justice of the Peace which is illustrated bv Komble A paper on the San Francisco Vigilance Committees by William T Coleman derives timeliness from the course of current events In that city and unique interest from the fact that Mr Coleman was chairman of thn committees of 18511856 and 1S77 the operations of which are recorded in this article for the first time over tim Signature of Mr Coleman Cole-man Incidentally Mr Coleman discusses questions of ethics and policy involved in j the recent lynching at New Orleans which act he compares unfavorably on points of orderliness and responsibility with the California methods of procedure The article is illustrated by careful drawings from contemporary data and includes par traits of Mr Coleman and of James King oi William whose murder led to the organization of the great committee of 1856 The poetry of the number is by Edith M Thomas Florence Earle Coates Elizabeth W Fiske Harret Prescott Spofford Ore ito Key Bell James Herbert Morse Syl vester Baxter Edith Wharton Owon Innsly and Archibald Lampman The de Eirtment of BrioaBrac is renamed In Lighter Vein and Includes poems by Pat rick J Coleman Charlotte Perkins Stetson i Stet-son Edward A Oldham Margaret Vande grill George E do Steigver Charles Henry Webb and George Towner TAKST Perfectly charming is the November number of this delightful magazine The I hastiest glance convinces us that this is l the magazine to put into the hands of our young people Its Pansy S C E All Along the Line and The Little Card continue elevating and inspiring as ever and Way Stations a further account oi our dear little friends who were twenty minutes late Is begun as well as Margaret Sidneys Little Paul and the Friable School Most fascinating in baby simplicity sim-plicity and tenderness is What Made Baby Lagh in Babys Corner D Lo throp company Boston are the publishers |