The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-15
MISCELLANEOUS.


ber of McClure's magazine has APP
peared, and is fully up to the public's
high expectations. 1T contains Miss
Ida NJ Tarbelps short life of Napoleon
which lately ran as serial through
the monthly numbers of the magazine,
together with $50 splendid portraits
and illustrations in half-tone. many
never before published. In addition to
the Hubbard collection of Napoleon
engravings, in itself the finest In the
world, a number of entirely new pic
lures have been secured by special per-
mission from living descendants of the
great Corsican. Read connectedly, in
this happy setting Miss Tarbelrs life
gains in interest. Not pretending to
present new material, she has made
happy resume of published facts con-
cerning Bonaparte, and has displayed
a fiuency of style and nice compre-
hension of the dramatic requirements
of Napoleonic biography which single
her life" out as, upon the whole, the
most satisfactory short life in print.
Mechanically, the number could not be
improved. 1t is literally, in all particu-
lars save tHe SoNSi, q Wv poVh ioi Nv
cents. '&~
French-reading Americans. In fact all
persons who take aninterest in literary
and artistic movements in Europe and
American. will greet with pleasure the
announcement that there is now pub
lished new magazine; printed entirely
in French, yet designed especially for
Americans. La Revue Ffanco-Ameri
caine is an illustrated monthly maga-
zine, the initial number bearing date
of June, 1885,, and presenting an ap-
pearance of artistic and mechanical
beauty seldom equalled by American
or English publications. 1t is announced
that masters of French literature and
the principal artists Of France will
alone be admitted as contributors. The
various schools and systems of art and
literature will be represented, and side
by side will appear the names of Toll
stoi, Goncourt, Daudet, Alexandra Du-
mas, Mirbeau, Clemenceau, Mallarme,
Bourgel, Barres, Severine, Hervieu,
Mendes, Alph, Allais, Grosclaude,
Courteline, etc, etc. Among the
vannes, Whistler, Hellue, For
ain, Caran d'Ache, while Princess de
Chimay will contribute articles on fash
ion, and Princess de Polignac on ar
tistic decorations. The Revue will not
be composed of extended, heavy studies,
but will contain short, vivid, vigorous
articles on subjects of universal inter-
est. The Revue Franco-Americaine will
be printed in Paris, its literary editor
known in America. The general Amer
ican agency is in New York, SO Duane
street.
The June Century is a number of
unusual excellence, its contents includ-
Ing not only a Continuation of the
justly celebrated Sloane Life of Ma
poleon, and the eighth instalment of
Marion Crawford's Casa Braccio, but
also ten other contributions of genuine
merit. William ID. Howells Supplies
one Of these, with his first part of the
"Tribulations of a Cheerful Giver;"
Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaera second,
with her engaging description of Bos-
tons magnificent new public library;
third is contributed by John Muir,
who narrates the interesting circum-
stances attending his discovery of
Glacier Bay; and a fourth, by DR.. New
man Smyth, has for its theme "The
New Old Testament. being review
of the old "oid" Testament in the
ampler light of the so-called higher
criticism. The others are worth look