The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-08-24
AMONG THE MAGAZINES.

On and after the issue of the next
number OF The Bookman (Which will be
the first of a second volume) the date
of publication will be changed TO the
25th instead of the 18th of the month.
This change Is made to bring the date
Of publication at the same time with
the majority of magazines and the
date of issue will as usual. anticipate
the date upon the magazine. The next
number. therefore. published on Aug
25. will be the September number. but
as this would seem to omit entirely the
August number, 1t will be called Aug
ust-September. II will not be a double
number. for subscribers for the year
will receive. notwithstanding this
change, twelve numbers.
The publisher Of the Mid-Continent
Magazine, F. c. Nunemacher, Of Louis
vile, KY, announces its suspension in
a manly card that will gain for him
many friends. After frankly explain
ing how 1t came about that a suspen-
sion was necessary, he adds: "The
publisher congratulates himself upon
having been able to make the arrange
ment for the sending to subscribers, In
lieu of The Mid-Continent, so excellent
publication as the Scribner's Maga-
Zine. which he feels sure will be satis-
factory to all In every respect, and In
retiring from the field as a magazine
publisher, desires to express assurance
OF his appreciation of the kind interest
which has been manifested in The Mid
Continent and regrets that the cir
cumstances necessitated its discontinue
ance. All just claims against The Mid
Continent Press Will be paid in full
upon presentation"
II Il Il
The latest issue Of Clap-Book has In
n an amusing satirical essay in verse
by Etta DEXTER Field, entitled "The
Wooing OF Penelope: an Incident of De-
pravfty In Five Acts" which Ia too
clever to be spoiled by an ATTEMPTED
synopsis. In the same issue Arthur
Waugh commlains Justify OF the ten
dency OF reviewers to deal out superla-
ffves OF praise or censure, and incident
ally INDUCES himself in this whack at
the newspapers: ITO a great extent
the modern editor IS responsible for the
situation. In the rush Of daily Journal
ism. where half hundred paoers must
please to live, the temptation to be
smart and sensational is undoubtedly
1ns.etent. Just as political reports and
Na1e loathsome stories OF the law courts
dIWlsV. 10 CdNn Tne popular t3Ste. De
wrought In with spIashes Of brilliant
color. so. too. the literary criticism
must. tt r. supposed. deal in fiaehv ef-
fects. 1ampb.7ck and lightning Never
the'ess. in this the editor Undertakes i,,s
public. From perpetua'ly pronouncing,
with Carlyle. THAT his clients are most
ly fools. thu edtto- comes at last to
cater for fools alone. Ry far the larger
proportion OF those who-are sincerely
Interested IN literary movements has
wit enough to see that N Ia being mere
ly hoodwinked and insulted by the in
cessert surerlatfve. As rule the rem
titations that have been made and
marred by newspaper comments have
never reached the higher class cS read
ers at all These are slower to believe.
and harder to change. when once ffhey
have believed. After few di~anpnire-
meD'ts. born Of hopes engendered by
eulogv. after a few discoveries Of the
injustice of Condemnation. they cease
to read the offending PAGERS at aM, and
trim TO others in which they find more
discerp~nent and greater ,mpartias1ty.
The SEQUEL r. the deaAi1 of the journal
q frng Of almost nnonthly occtirrence
tr The HISTORY Of the modern press. The
Tdtt0r. therefore. has greater responsi-
billy, for tlae tone wasfch ise sets msnt