The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-09

his throbbing phantasies of a perturbed
| brain might seek some more respectable
| vent
The magazines for February as a
rule are devoid of startling contents.
The chief feature of the Chautauquan
| is a Vividly drawn study of DIR. Park
hurst by Andrew c. Wheeler, better
known to the reading world by his
pseudonym, "Nym Crinkle." The new
| Magazine of Travel opens it's second
number with graphic study of historic
Charleston, with admirably done half
tone views of the principal attractions
Of this venerable South Carolina city.
Another pleasing thing in this number
is a yarn by Eli Perkins, in which that
droll humorist explains when and how
he first parted company with his verac-
ity. The February Cosmopolitan is a
| superior all-round number, good in IL
Illustrations and in text, but no single
article predominates. Preference is
| given by the publishers to contribu-
| ton by General Lord Wolsely on What
China Should Do" The general-who
| Is nothing if not conceited-thinks
China should get some English COM
mandant, not necessarily himself, to
equip the nucleus of u Celestial land
force and show the pigtails how to fight.
That done, he thinks China would soon
| become the greatest power in Asia, IL
not in the world. Another readable
thing in the Cosmopolitan for adults
not subject to the shivers, is Julian
Hawthorne's description of the imple-
ments of human torture used in evan
gelizing the inhabitants of medieval
Europe. McClures for February is
given over largely to recollections of
Robert Louis Stevenson, but has many
other contents of live interest The sec
ond number of the Forum library, pub
lished quarterly, is given over to a
discussion of the question: "Do the
Professions Pay?" Leading doctors,
lawyers and preachers are of the opin-
ion that they do, more or less John w.
Keller, editor of the New York Re-
! corder, speaking for newspaper workers,
is almost the only one who finds the
available rewards in his calling ut
terly insufficient for the energy and
agony expended in its discharge. That
sprightly little fortnightly, the Chap
Book, the mission of which is to intel
| lectually reclaim Chicago, greets us,
| among other things, with a picture of
| Gene Field, drawn by himself; and the
conclusion one derives from it is that
the uncrowned laureate of the stock
| yards is not nearly 50 pretty as is his
poetry, and especially his child's verse
| AS for Town Topics, which reaches us
| occasionally, and which We read when
| nobody is looking, that clever, satiric
and sometimes Sardonic weekly gossip
| journal is continually interesting and
| intermittently naughty-although we
| must say it behaves very well these
| days compared with what it used to do.
| The Humanitarian for February offers
as its frontispiece a portrait of Robert
| L. Porter, recently chief of the Eleventh
census. In subsequent article Mr.
Porter. eXpatiateS on the magnitude of
the United States resources and Incl
dentally pays his respects to the news
papers which criticized his departments
not altogether satisfactory work.
AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS.
Paul Bourget is yet young, hardly 42.
The title of Barrie's new novel will be
Sentimental Tommy"
Anthony Hope is engaged on a sequel
to The Prisoner of Zenda.'
Miss AmeEe Rives Chanler Is still among
the quick, and is in New York with a new
novel.
The author of 1.-THE Silence of Dean
Maitland has written the Lays Of the
Dragon-Slayer."
The first two volumes of the Barras'
"Memolres of Napoleon" will be published
in April and the last volume will appear
in August.
Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton is writing
book of stories and a book on travels
abroad which will be published in Boston
at the close of the year.
Rider Haggard works off 1000 words
day in writing his stories and Stanley
Weyman never writes over 1000 and con-
| siders that a good days work.
The new Strand Musical Magazine, of
London, edited by Il. Hatfield, contains
a budget of music from Sir Arthur Sulli-
van, Wilhemj, Ignace PaderewsN and
others.
The memoirs of Marshal Canrobert, Of
| Adolph Theirs and of Marshal MacMahon
are in preparation for publication at Paris.
The MacMahon Memoirs will appear in
four volumes.
The portraits of Beatrice Harraden,
without her mortarboard hat, are much
the best. They show an intellectual con-
fusion Of her top hair and u decidedly
more bralny head.
"Trilby TableauX" are the latest. A
new dress material has been chrstened
Aubrey BeardSley will blossom out as a
rival to Du Maurier in a,"Story of Venus
and Tannhaeuser" This Bunthorne of
modern art has been neatly satirized by an
English rhymer in the following recipe
for Beardsley caricatures:
Take of Swnburne's ballads three
Choose the most erotic--
Let them simmer in pan,
STEPPED in some narcotic.
To this mixture he adds some other dis
agreeable things, including Green Car
nations" and
| when a scum
Thick and green Is on 1t,
| Throw scene from Maeterlinck,
And one hot Richepin sonnet;
| Crate some cankered Dead-Sea fruit,
| And withered flowers of passion,
Drench with sauce Schopenhauer
Mixed in latest fashion;
Add paradox or two
(See they're Oscar Wilde-ish); .
Sprinkle in some draughsmanship
Absolutely childish:
And when all these things you've mixed
In hotch-potch baleful.
Chinese white and ivory black
Dash in by the pallful.
Take the mixture off the fire
When 1t is well heated,
Put 1t in the sink to stand
Till 1t grows quite fetid.
Pour 1t in a tainted mould,
Like to nothing human,
Gbnt and hold