The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-23
AUTHORS AND PuBLIsHERs:

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masterpiece Of modern euphuism.
shakespeare's plays have been transla.-
ed into the Armenian language, and the
translation Will soon be published in Rus
S,a.
The fourth volume of Professor Nc
Masters History Of the People Of the
United Statcs' has just been issued by APP
pleton & co.
Mrs. Maxwell Scott, Of Abbotsford, mas
written biography Of Mary. queen Of
Scots, under the title, The Tragedy Of
Fotherlnsay."
Surgeons publishers in London have
sod about lO0,OOJ,OOJ Of his sermons. About
ifth of them has been taken IN America
and Australia.
James Creelman is in Marietta o., at
work on a historical novel suggested hy
Count Tolstoi during a visit to Toistoi at
Yasnya Polyana.
The English novel readers do not like
the abolition OF the three-volume book.
Tho type is small and paper bad in the
new One-volumC.
Sardou's new revolutionary play, Louis
XVII" Is based on the story Of one of the
persons who claimed TO be the Dauphin,
son Of Louis XVI.
Some Of the poems by Nj Lowell, which
are 20 appear in the forthcoming cOllec-
ton made by Professor Norton, have
never been printed.
President Fdure, of the French republic.
is a bbliophile, ana has u fine collection Of
rare editions, and he spends thousands
every year adding to it.
"The Story Of Bessie Cos;rel" will le
the title of the new story Mrs. HumpkIy
~.
in "Cornhill Magazine
a new volume of Lowelrs poems is am
nounced. 1t viii contain all his later
poems, including the one on the bust Of
Grant published in Scribncr's, in 1892.
\ continuation of Or. Samuel Gardner's
history OF England, containing a history
of the commonwealth and The protectoratc,
is announced by LOngmdns, Gecr IL co.
Rev. Stephen Craig, in sermon
preached Sunday, in New York, said: II
believe that Henry George. in his Prog
ress and Poverty has given us Gods lat-
est thought"
Tasso's tercentenary Is to be observed
at Rome by an oXh.bttlon Of manuscripts,
relies and works relating to the poet IN
the convent of SAINT Onofr!o, where he
died, April %, 1895.
intended to emulate the Chap-Rook, is
coming out in Philadelphia. This Is
"Noods-a Journal Intime." TO be conduct
ed 10y young men of promise.
Du Maurler sti!l gets many letters in ev-
cry mail from American women telling
him they have read "Trlby" and areIcon-
WINGED that there Is a strong bond OF mys-
teal friendship between them and him.
William Ross Wallace wrote the famous
, lines:
THE hand that rocks the cradle,
Is the hand that moves the world"
/ But a good many people have said some
thing like 1t In prose.
/ Arthur Waugh says that Ian Maclaren
/ the Scottish fiction writer, who has come
| into notice during the past year through
one or two clever books, is already suffer-
/ ing from the big head, and talks as If he
was the novelist of the pcriod-ne plus
ultra.
ON Forest street. Hartford. Conn. in
/ close propinuuity, live Mrs. Harriet
/ Beechcr Stowe, Mark Twain, Charles
/ Dudley Warner and Richard Burton, the
/ poet. who Is now at work on a series of
poems ON everyday sights and scenes.
/ Burton is the literary editor Of the Hart
/ ford Courant
George L. Cpton's book on the standard
| operas, their stories, their music and their
composers, written in flowing, unteCh-
nical English-"descript!on, not criticism
lis indorsed by the best reviewers as in
valuable to the general reader, as giving
n clear understanding OF operate works
1t is published by A. G. McClurg q Co.
The new edition of Mr.. Kiplings In.
dian tales which is now on the Macmillan
~
he has just completed. The edition is ;c
be In two volumes, each of these volumes
including beside the new stories some OF
the earlier Indian talcs-the soldier,
Three" Under the peodars." "BlacB
and White etc.
\ talk with the author OF "Trilby,
George Du Maurer, wherein with IN,
same frank kndllness and good-fellowshiI
that have made "Trilby" the most popu
lar novel OF the pcr,ol, he tells the story
Of his adventurous life, and how he he
came an artist and. later, a novelist. an,
how he draws and how he writes, win ap
pear with portraits and other pictures, II
McClure's Magazine for April
The Harpers have used over 1900 ream.
of white paper Cabout 100 tonsl PRINTING
Du Maurer's "Trilby," to supply the sur
prlsng demand. This too, since las
August, whom the first edition was printed
other particulars about the publication %
"Trlby" are that $4,000 yards OF musli'
have been used for covers and 3,00o0CO su
perRc,al inches of sold leaf FOR the cove
decoration, and - tons OF binders boarl
have been used.
New York will ut last have lirst-clas,
free public library, IL the plan to consoli
date the LenoN and Actor libraries and q
conjunction with the Tllden part OF $1,000,
900 found one great collection, material
ICES The consolidation will give II
brary of 10000 volumes, of which 96O,O0
are In the Astor library and 10000 in III,
LenoN, the remainder being books fron
Mr.. Tlden's and other private collections
A new library building will be constructe,
on the site of the LcnoS library.