The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-30

calls attention to some Popular Fal-
lacies Concerning Mind Cure" DR.. s.
Millington Miller describes THE Build
ing of a Brain and there are other ar
ticles of equal interest covering vari-
Gus phases of the world Of mind and
spirit. To students of philosophy this
periodical will bring welcome knowl-
edge in accessible form.
AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS:
Robert Buchanan's new novel is en-
titled Lady Fitzpatrick"
Anthony Hopes latest a two-part nov
elette, "A Wheel Of Love" will appear in
Scribner's.
General Lord Woseleys "The Decline
and Fall of Napoleon" will be issued in q.
few weeks in London.
Justin Mccarthy the Irish journalist,
politician, historian and novelist, has also
written an article Of uncommon interest
on Lord Rosebery.
Mrs. Reginald De Koven will make her
literary debut with IA society novel, en-
| titled "A Sawdust Doll"
The Chicago society leader, Mr.. Hobart
| c. Chatiield-Taylor, has written n society
| novel concerning "rwo Women and n
| Fool"
An authorized life OF Madame Sara
| Bernhardt is being written by X. n. Sher-
| ard, the delightful biographer OF Io!a
and Daudet.
William Winter has in preparation two
| new volumes. Brown Heather and Blue
bells" and IA third series of his popular
Shadows of the Stage"
New York's new literary venture.
Chips" has scored an immediate sue
cess. The March number was out Of
print ten days after publication.
A complete manuscript volume. entitled
Letters to n Boy of Twelve" has been
discovered among the unpublished manu-
scripts of Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Beardsley Parsonage is described
| by the Chap-Book as the much-headed.
splay-eyebrowed, sunk-nosed puff Tipped
grotesque, gracile, freak-eyed type"
new edition of the Dictionary Of
| Terms. Phrases and Quotations, by Rev
Percy Smith and Helen Kendrick John
son. Is announced by ID. Appleton & Co.
Professor John Flske, at years of age
| had read Rollin, Josephus and GOdamith'S s
| Greece, and his eighth year saw him deep
in Shakespeare, Milton, Pope and Bunyan,
and he was familiar with Greek at 8 and
hal read most histories by his eleventh
year.
| 1t appears from statement in the West
minister Gazette that Carlyle is read more
than ever. The books which sell best the
publishers of his works say, are The
| French Revolution" 'Sartor Resartus,'
Latter Day Pamphlets" and Heroes and
Hero Worship
John Bigelow's forthcoming Life of
Samuel ]. Tiden" will contain an elabor-
ate genealogical record of the Tilden faml-
ly, running back to the sixteenth century,
which Mr.. Tlden completed only week
or two before his death. 1T was the last
effort of his pen.
Arthur Warren writes to the Boston
| Herald that Du Maurier refused Harper
& Bros offer of $500 for the serial rights
in "Trilby" and 20 per cent. royalty for
the book rights in America, and asked for
5000 cash instead. His mistake has cost
him from $4,000 to $4,000.
The late Professor William Minto's lat
est manuscript has been published under
the title of The Literature of the Georg!-
an Era" but it omits Burke. Crabbe,
Smollett, Goldsmith, Sterne and Lamb.
Professor William knight contributes Il
biographical introduction.
In list of authors the following are
those most frequently called for in the
twenty cities: Anthony Hope appeared
sixteen times in the list Du Mauricr, If
teen; Charles Dudley Warner, thirteen;
Hall Caine, ten; Ian McLaren, seven;
Conan Doyle, four; Marion Crawford, four
Benjamin Kidd, three; Sardou, two. These
statistics are compiled from the Book
man.
Andrew Lang predicts another HaG-
gard sensation in an anonymous romance
soon to appear as THE Jewel of IneZ
Gallon" Despite its Spanish sound the
story is largely Welsh. dealing with buc-
cancers, buried treasure and wild advcn-
ture, and suggesting in its general spirit
both Treasure Island and King Solo
mons Mines" 1t is, however wholly or
igina In its treatment.
| Degeneration" by Professor Max Nor
dau, the remarkable work which is at
tracing so much attention abroad, has
been published in this country by -. APP
pleton & Co. This brilliant analysis of
of the end of the century includes, says
the Philadelphia Record, an examination
of the decadence In France, the work Of
MaeterlnCk in Belgium, Magnetism In
Germany. lbsensm in the North and 9th
er aspects Of contemporary aestheticlsm
which are d!ssected by this pitiless critic,
who seeks in them all the sure symptoms
of disease. Whatever dissenting opinions
may be held on the various counts of his
indictment, the wonderful vigor and sa-
tire of the book will strike every reader