The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-27


tcle on "The Position of Judaism" re
denomlnates the literature OF the day as
thoroughly anti-Chrlst'an.
The Bookman says: "As It is about
time for the popular taste to take new
direction, we venture to predict that Max
Nordaus, Degeneration will speedily sup
plant 'Trilby' as topic Of general inter-
est. 10y
Another copy of Robert Browning's first
book, Pauline" has been recovered. 1t
fell into the hands OF Jesse Jaggard of
| Liverpool, who promptly sold 1t for f80
| This II the ninth copy now known to be
| extant.
Elsenach, the site of the Wartburg the
scene of the singers battle, and the We
| nusberg has been selected as the place
for the Richard Wagner museum. A Ber-
lin merchant has given 10000 marks OF the
$1,000 that We're needed.
1t Is auspicous for the cause Of good
citizenship that Mr.. Cary's Life of
George William Curtis" was one OF the
six books most In demand during Feb
ruary In twenty representative American
cities.
| Despite its passion, despite its satire.
despite even Its eloquence," says the out
look, Henry ID. Lloyd's Wealth Against
| StHTlOHWeVltH III NV HoSt poWeii"i
| book on economics that has appeared in
this country since Henry Georges Prog
ross and Poverty"
| Jose de Echegaray's "El Hijo de Don
Juan" (The Son of Don juan, one of the
chief modern dramas Of Spain. has been
translated by James Graham Roberts
| Brothers.. This Spanish lbsen Is now G3,
and he has written fifty dramas Since his
| forty-secOnd birthday, Lopas de ln Vega 5
laurels are threatened.
| 1t Is good news that we are soon to
have novel of adventure from Frank
II. StocNtons unique pen. 1t Is called
| "The Adventures of Captain Horn,' with
scenes laid mainly In South America and
| Paris. Mr.. Stockton has been engaged for
two years upon this story. which IL said
| to be different from anything he has
| done thus far.
John Lane the publisher of the "Yel-
| low Book" and father OF the English De-
cadcnts. has deserted The Bodley Head
for Il brief American sojourn. According
to him Aubrey Boardsley has been merely
playing the buffoon. Said Mr.. Lane to a
New York reporter: 81 consider Boards
ley to be the modern Hogarth. His fierce
satire on the absurdt!es and morbid fan
c!es of Oscar Wilde and his adherents has
! done more In my opinion to dlscredt them
| and to minimize their influence than any
| other factor previous to Wilde's appear
ance In a police court
Another book of Napoleonic memoirs is
announced by the Appletons 1t VIII en-
| body the recollect!ons Of an aidc-de-camp
| of Napoleon, the General Count dc Segur.
| who saw much service under the empire,
and is said to have put great deal OF in
| teresting anecdote into his narrative.
The same publishers are to bring out Mr..
Danas book on 1.-The Art of Newspaper
Making" The editor of 1.-The Sum-" in
his address on Journalism, has shed bril-
liant light upon his craft, and this volume.
giving his ideas at length, will be valu-
able work on its subject.
The anonymous Joan Of Arc series in
Harper's has been attributed by some to
| Mark Twain; but there have been guess
ers that Miss Anna Dickinson is the auth
| or. The New York Tribune thinks that
Joan's temperance In popular literature,
the revival of her name upon the lips OF
| readers other than special students, syn
chronizes with the swelling of the Ma
polenic tide. The latter represents one
current, the maid Its antithesis. Napoleon
speaks for the purely sophisticated side
of the French genius. Joan Is the type OF
her nations saving grace and the mysti-
cal envelope in which she survives Is
identified with the healthier impulses of
the French spirit. The contemporary Ma
poleon mania signifies nothing In the
growth of France. On the contrary, 1t is
a mania and nothing more, superficial
frenzy over a character which speaks for
the material history of France. Joan CT
Arc will become something more than the
heroine of q cult, for she was inspired by
a spiritual fervor, and 1t Is a spiritual in
spiration which lives in her name.'