The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-22

1t Is ampllfied by Mr.. Tuttle's own ideas
and predictions on the currency ques-
tlon. Needless to say. he believes free
silver will win.
AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS:
Tolstoy is dangerously ILL.,
Grant Allen is dramatlzing "The Wo-
man Who Did" 7'"'S
Romanticst Stanley ]. weyman is pub
l.cly interviewed by Robert II. Sherard,
in the July Idler.
Hall Caine's new novel, "Unto the Third
and Fourth Generatlon,"' has begun in
Munsey's Magazine.
Critic William Winters forthcoming
Shadows Of the Stage" Is described az a
history of the stage in America.
Beginning with the July number .he
Cosmopolitan Magazine viii be sold az u
cents per copy, or 81 year.
Professor william p. Trent. Of the Uni
versity OF the South. has written vol
ume on Southern Statesmen Of the Old
Regime
Jose de Heredia, the Creole sonnetecr.
who has just been welcomed into the
French academy, celebrated his advent
among the lmmortaS by u eulogy of L,t
MARITIME.
Robert Bridges and w. J. Courthope are
rival candidates for the chair OF profess
sorshp of poetry at oxford. which Francis
Turner Palgrave IL about to retire after
n decades incumbency.
The dramatic story Of the rise Of the
Tweed Ring" to such power that It was
able to steal over $li. 900, 600. and then OF Its
complete EXPOSURE and overthrow. VIII Ii
told In McClures Magazine for July.
The famous Molly Mcguire movement
In the caai regions of Pennsylvania is
dramatically summarized In the current
Scr!bner. TIE great railroad strikes o!
1877 are also Described. with Il very tell
Ing picture of the great roundhouse siege
In Pittsburg.
Mrs Rebecca Harding Davis new story,
Or Warrick's Daughters" which Will
begin In the first number of Harper's Bn-
gar for July. opens in Pennsylvania I'M
mediately after the Civil War. The scene
Will later shift to the picturesque region of
the fair southwest.
Richard lie Gallienne has been added to
the staff OF department editors of the Cos
mopolitan. Mr.. lie Gallienne will write
each month Il brief critical or light phiio-
sophical article such as those now con-
tributed by Agnes Repplier. II. II. Boye-
sen. Andrew Lang and /. Iangwill
The publishers Of McClure's Magazine
announce. to begin with the July number,
a reduction of price to 10 cents copy and
81 year. They explain that they are
able TO make a magazine of the highest
quality at this price. and that they propose
TO give the public the benefit of this abil-
ty
DR.. Burggraeve. professor of medicine
in the University of Ghent. Is SO years old,
and in active practice as Il physician. He
has written n book on longevity. and Is
now seeing his "Reminiscences" through
the press. He smokes, drinks wine, and
takes his little glass of gin.-New York
Sun.
The Chinese quarter in San Francisco
is introduced into literature in the cu'-
rent Century by Chester Bailey Fernail
1.-The Gentleman in the Barrer' is the pre-
cursor, 1t Is whispered, Of series of
Chinatown stories. They should be en-
titled pig Tales" the Philadelphia
Record thinks.
McClure's Magazine for July will con-
tain an illustrated article by Sir Robert
Ball, professor Of astronomy i'm the Uni
vcrsity of Cambridge. England, showing
how recent scientific discoveries tend to
bear out early speculation in favor of the
existence of life on other planets than the
earth. The same number will contain
also some very interesting Stevenson mat
ter.
Nine Recamler's correspondence has
been put up at auction In Paris. II EN-
braces u number of live letters written to
her by Lucien Bonaparte. Bernadotte,
Massena and Benjamin Constant The
letters of Prince Augustus. of Prussia.
who wished to marry the famous beauty
If she would obtain u divorce from her
bankrupt husband. are not among the
collection.-New York Critic.
Engelbert Humperdlnck. the oddly
named new Wagnerian star of Germany,
and his fairy opera of "Haensel and
Gretel" are discussed in the current
Strand Musical Magazine. HumperdIncl.
has written two other fairy operas. as well
as u drama, The Kings Children" which
Is shortly to be produced. The magazine $
frontisplece is a portrait of Tschaikowsky,
who contributes June" Barcarolle.
"State Supervision for Cities" is the sub
ject of Il paper by Professor John r. Com
mons, just issued by the American Acal-
emy of Political and Social Science. 1t IS
an argument In favor of establishing n
state municipal board TO be composed Of
the governor attorney general. auditor
and from six to ten unsalaried citizens.
The duties Of this board would include rer-
ommending the suspension or removal of
officers. the auditing of the books of the
city officers, the approval of financial
measures. the investigation of complainas
and abuses and the conducting of the civil
service examinations.
The Proofsheet suspects that the making
of a dictionary Is u larger undertaking,
both financially and with reference to the
actual labor involved, than most persons
imagine 1t says the composition Of the
types for the Standard dictionary cost
about sd.75 per page; including proof read
Ing, about Sll per page. The alterations.
including revising by proofreaders. cost
s26 per page. The amount of composition
was about 50.0O0.000 ems. AS 1t was neces-
sary to keep about $50 pages az xlOlE.
lnches) continually In type over 1900
pounds of type were used. To hold the
matter In type at one time 1900 galley were
required, and there was an average of
forty-seven persons employed in the COM
posing room for two and half years.