Randolph Coyle, Assistant United States Dis trict Attorney, died at Georgetown, January 4. Mr. Coyle was born in Washington forty-seven years ago last September. When quite a young man he was appointed assistant clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, and held that position for some years. While still clerk of this court, he studied law, and graduated from the Columbian University Law School, and soon after resigned the Supreme Court clerkship to become secretary of the Mexi can Claims Commission, when it was formed. He remained secretary of the commission as long as it was in existence, and after its labors were con cluded he was appointed, some twelve years ago, an Assistant United Slates District Attorney under Judge H. H. Wells. He was a very thorough and careful lawyer, and a close student. It was he who framed the indictment of Guiteau for the murder of President Garfield.
Olivia," by Frederic M. Bird; " With the Wits (illustrated by leading artists).
The Atlantic Monthly for January, 1891, presents an interesting table of contents, made up as follows : " Noto : An Unexplored Corner of Japan," I.-V., Percival Lowell; "A New Univer sity Course," Cleveland Abbe; " The House of Martha," XIV.-XVII., Frank R. Stockton; " Com pulsory Arbitration," Charles Worcester Clark; "Snowbirds," Archibald Lampman; "Two Phi losophers of the Paradoxical," first paper, Hegel, Josiah Royce; " In Darkness," John B. Tabb; "Felicia," XIII., Fanny N. D. Murfree; "A Plea for Trust," Lilla Cabot Perry; " An Inherited Talent," Harriet Waters Preston; " Individualism in Education," Nathaniel Southgate Shaler; " Kis met and the King," Florence Wilkinson; " Boulangism and the Republic," Adolphe Cohn; " The Lesson of the Pennsylvania Election," Henry Charles Lea; " A Swiss Farming Village," Sophia Kirk.
REVIEWS. The Surrogate, a new law magazine, pub lished in New York, is, as its name implies, de voted to probate law and matters of especial interest to executors, administrators, trustees, guar dians, etc. The editor is John L. Branch; and the first number is certainly attractive in appearance, and contains much interesting matter regarding the Surrogate's Court of the City and County of New York. We wish the new venture every success. Rudvard Kipling contributes the complete novel, "The Light that Failed," to the January number of Lippincott's Magazine. Kipling is attracting more attention at present than any other living writer. His force and originality have taken the world by storm. "The Light that F'ailed" is this brilliant author's first novel, and fully justi fies the expectations he has raised by his remark able short stories. The other contents are : " In an Old Garden," by Eben E. Rexford; "The New Spanish Inquisition," by Julian Hawthorne; "Christmas Gifts," by Ruth McEnery Stuart; "I Remember —," by Francis Wilson; "Perver sity," by Charlotte Fiske Bates; "The State of Washington," by Moses P. Handy; " Anacreon tic," by Daniel L. Dawson; "The Road Move ment," by Lewis M. Haupt, C. E.; " Friend
Scribner's Magazine for January opens the fifth year and ninth volume of a periodical which from its first issue was a popular success, and which has continued to grow rapidly in public favor. Its prospectus for 1891 contains the names of a number of contributors who are unrivalled in their special fields, — men like Henry M. Stanley, James Bryce, Sir Edwin Arnold, and Robert Louis Stevenson. The readers of the " Railway " and "Electric " series will be glad to know that a similar series on * Ocean Steamships " is promised. The issue for January contains a number of striking features, — first among them Henry M. Stanley's article on the " Pygmies," which is entirely dis tinct from his book, and written since its publica tion expressly for the magazine. Other features are Sir Edwin Arnold's second paper on " Japan," with Robert Blum's remarkable illustrations; the first of a two part story by Frank R. Stockton, in his most amusing manner; one of a group of illustrated papers on Australia (marking the be ginning of an Australian edition of the magazine); and practical articles on modern fire apparatus, and the game of court tennis.
The first instalment of the selections from Talley rand's long-expected Memoirs is the most striking
