The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-13

II never was their child, but an evil
spirit seeking admission to their hearth
stone In order to work them mischief
and ruin. Hence, It is thrown into the
street to be gathered UP by the dead
cart. No power could induce them to
give 1t proper burial in the family rest
ing place for the. dead. That would
mean Its adoption by them, and what
sane Chinese would adopt an evil spirit
into MS family? This Is the theory, and
TINS is the way they argue and act; and
the dead cart, with its freight, is the
rearful result. Evidently such treat
ment Kills many young children who
uhder other circumstances would re-
cover ana the results of this supersti-
tion are great enough to fully account
ror theory of willful infanticide."
10 the ordinary reader it will prob
apiy appear that the difference between
Mr.. Norman and Mr.. Holcombe touching
THIS point Is one of name rather than
fact.
AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS:
Charles A. Dana's book, 1.-THE Art of
Newspaper Making" is announced.
Gertrude Atherton call Boston .the city
OF anaemic virtue and emasculated vice."
"Ouida," according to one report, is
penniless and all her property has been
sold for debt.
Mrs. Wards "Marcella" is in its 18th
edition in London, which means that the
10th thousand Is now on sale.
Harper & Bros. have brought out a well
come paper edition Of George MacDonald's
ANNALS of Quiet Neighborhood."
Miss Braddon, thank heaven, intends to
write no more novels. She has already
given to the world more than fifty works
Of fiction.
Madame Sarah Grand Is getting better,
and Is spending some time in Paris, where,
1t Is said, she Is gathering material for an
other book.
The 10th volume of DIR. Furness's vari-
Drum edition Of Shakespeare "A Midsum-
mer Nights Dream" Is about ready for
publication.
A volume of poems dealing chiefly with
Egyptian subjects Is soon to be brought
out by Miss Mathilde Blind. She calls the
book Birds of Passage"
A cloth-bound set of Harper's Weekly
from the beginning-January, 1851 to 1888
inclus!ve-3 volumes, sold at Bangs & Co.'S
auction room in New York on Thursday
for sll5.G2.
The first series of the "Chimmie Fadden"
papers Is now in its 18th edition. Mr..
Townsend, the author. will bring out
longer work, "A Daughter of the Tene-
ment," in the fall.
Miss Glider publishes in the Critic OF
April 6 an amusing refuta don of a story
in the Philadelphia Times about the down.
fall and decay of Clara Louise Kellogg. the
'once gifted songstress."
Tolstofs new story is called Master and
Man" 1t describes with pathos and sim
plicity the way in which a commonplace,
money-loving man sacrifices his life IN q
great storm to save that of his servant.
The American Jewess is the title of
new magazine hailng from Chicago. A
portrait and biography of Mrs. Solomon,
president of the National Council of Jew
ish Women, is given, while DR.. Emil q.
Hirsch pictures 1.-The Modern Jewess."
Current Literature says of Iesat Nassau,
a new life of Christ: This new life of
Jesus is a wonderful volume, one of the
most important religious works that has
appeared for many years" 1t is written
by Peter F.. Anna +. and b. +. a. Man,
reoy, Russians, born in Jerusalem.
Lord Wolseley's book on Napoleon, which
will appear this spring, is confined
to the last disastrous years in the active
career of the Emperor, 1929. The author
claims that Napoleon failed in the mission
he set for himself and that he was beaten
at his own special game Of war.
The May number of Donahoe's Maga-
zine Is to contain an article by Augustin
DAILY on his methods of preparing Shakes
pearean play for the stage. Rev. John
Talbot Smith. of New York. will contrib
ute for the same number of Donahoes an
article on Augustin DAILY himself.
Copies of the first two-volume edition of
Bryce's American Commonwealth" are
not only scarce, Notwithstanding the fact
that it numbered thousands of volumes.
but are increasing in value. A short time
ago. at one of Bangs & Co.'S sales, it
fetched $l1 volume. The three-volume
edition has sold as high as $3.50 for the
set.
G. p. Putnam's Sons announce for early
publication "Dr. Izard," new romance
by Miss Anna Katharine Green, the au-
thor of 1.-The Leavenworth Case" Marked
Personal" etc. This story is described as
quite distinct in character from the au-
thor's previous books. OF Miss Green's
several romances nearly 10000 copies have
in all been sold.
Francois Coppee's drama, Pour la
Couronne" CFor the Crown'D, which has
scored such hit at the Odeon In Paris, is
to be seen in New York next autumn.
Francois Coppee will cross the Atlantic to
see the production. The play. which Is in
five acts, deals with military treason. A
son is driven, through sense Of his duty
to his country and his love for it, to kill
his father. The scene is laid in the Balkan
mountains.
Librarian Spofford. of the Congressional
library, reports that during the year 1894
62, 1862 copyrights were entered, against 5S.-
956 for 1S93 and that Al, 20S copyright pub
lications of all kinds were received. OF
the publications received, about 1900 were
books, 1900 musical compositions, 10000
periodicals and 5000 photographs, while the
remainder We're made up of dramatic COM
positions, engravings, chromos, prints,
designs, maps and charts. There has been
steady increase in the international copy
right.
Max Simon Nordau, whose remarkable
work entitled Degeneration" is such
savage attack upon all Europe upon Wag-
ner and Zola, lbsen and Maeterlinck,
Tolstoi and Wilde). is of Jewish extraction
and was born at Budapest nearly forty
six years ago. He began in 1880 to prac-
tive medicine in Paris. where he still re-
sires. OF his many books only two, be-
sides Degeneration" have carried his
name beyond the German and Austrian
frontiers. One of them is Conventional
Lies of Society,"" suppressed in Austria
and Russia ever since its first appear
ance, and "Paradoxes," its worthy COM
panion. In Degeneration" DR.. Nordau
has undertaken to prove. in a scientific
and elaborte argument, that a large per-
centage of society, In consequence of cer-
tain nervous conditions, has developed q
taste for the inferior in art and music,
and the depraved and even filthy in liter
ature, and that the artists, composers and
authors who furnish the supply are NOR
ally and mentally degenerate.