Literary Notes

An invention that bide fair to work a revoliition in printing, namety, typecasting machines, will be described in the December Popular Science MonthJy, by P. D. Ross. A ent of each of the two forme will begiven. These machines are used by several of the largeBt newsppers in the United States, and have been ordered for a number of others.- ]). Appleton & Co., New York, N. Y. The December Forum will contain an article by Governor William E. Russell on the Significance of the Democratie Victory in Massachusetts and its bearings on next year's campaign. The same number wül contain an article on "Degradation by Pensions- The Protest ofLoyal Volunteers," by Lieut. Allen R. Foote, founder of the society of Loyal Volunteere.- Pnblished at l'nion Square, New York.N. Y. i The A'alion of Nov. IS Bays of a book recently printed by the Register Publiehing Company: "A valuable contribntion to political Bcience is made by Prof. F. M. ïaylor of Albion Collega in hifi Doctor's thesis entitled 'The Right of the State to be.' The problem coneidered by Prof. Taylor ia the theoreticaljustificationfortheuseof forcebyone or more human beings ia controlling the acts of othere. He planta himself finnly on the solid ground that the ceiitral conception in all ethical, political, and social philosophy is the concrete individual per&on. All good is weasared ultimately by reference to thiB standard. The right of the individual to free Belf-determination being original, primordial, and essential, every act limiting this right demands epecial justification. The State is not a metapbyBically necessary social entity, not a natural organism, nor an independent persoa, but a group of human beings existí ag in certain relations to one another. Their is no State-consciousness, no ' group-psychology,' but cnly the psychology of individuals as determined by their relations to the group. At the same time, there is a jaral order which is absolute in the sense of not being relative to the opinión or will of any thinking subject. The Bolution reached by Prof. Taylor involves the principie that to every person belongsthe prerogative of rule, and that among a number of perBons the prerogative of final authority belongs to the fittest. As persons ceting collectively are better fitted to exercise authority than isolated individuáis, the right of the State is established. We cannot here under(ake to criticise this solution, bot must dntent ourselves with saying tbat it is developed with great ability, and that it is preceded by an admirable examination of the other theories that have been propounded." A great magazine. The Ceutury's Programma in 1S92. A New "Life of Columbus." Articles for Farmers, etc. That great Aroerican periodical, The Century, ia going to outdo its own uni i valed record in its programme for 1892, and as inany of its new features begin with the November number, new readers sliould commence with that lame. In this number are the opening chapter of "The Naulahka," a novel by Rudyard Kipling, the famous author of "Plain Tales froni the llills," written in collaboration with an American writer, Wolcott Balestier. It is the story of a yoong man and a young woman from a "booming" Colorado to-wn.who go to India, he in search of a wonderful jeweled necklace, called "the Naulahka" (from which the story takes its name), and she is a physician to women. The nove. decribes their remarkable adventures at the court of an Indian 1 maharajah. Besides this, The Century will print three novela during the year, and a great number of short stories by the best American story-writers. Ttte well-known humorist, Edgar W. Tïye ("Bill Nye") is to write a serieB of amusing sketches which he calis his "autobiographies," the flrst of which, VThe Autobiography of a Justice of the Peace," is in November. This number also contains a valuable and suggestive article on " The Food-Supply of the Fnture," which every farmer should lead, to be followed by a number of others of Great Practical Value to Farmers, treating especially of the relations of the Government to the farmer, wbat ït is doing and what it ehould do. This series will include contributions from oflicers of the Department of Agriculture, and otber wellknown men will discnss "The Farmer' Diecontent," "Coüperaüon," etc, etc. A celebrated Spanish writer is to furnish a "Life of Columbup," which will be brilliantly illustrated, and the publishers of The Century have arranged ■with the managers of the World's Fair lo print articles on the building?, etc. One of the novéis to appeai in 1892 is a Story of New YorL Life by the author of "The Anglomaniacs," and the magazine will contaia a great deal about the metropolis during the year, - among other tbings a series of illustrated articles on "The Jews in New York." In November is an illustrated tion oí, "The FUyex' Club," foundod by Edwin Booth, and one of the feature of the eplendidlv illustratE ChriBtmag (Decenóber) tiumbr s mi anide on "The Bowery.' To get The Century send llie yaarly Bubscription price ($4.00) to the Cení nry Co., 1Tnion Square, New Y'ork. X. Y.