The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-18
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revival In the vicinity Of Mag's home,
Is the instrument OF the girls conver-
sion; unravels a number of domestic
tangles; witnesses Mags wonderful
heroism during an epidemic of yellow
fever which robs her OF both parents
and in the concluding chapter declares
his love for her and is accepted, having
first through her clear intuitive faith
been guided into a more perfect un-
derstanding of his own mission as min
lister. The unfolding of Mag's charac-
ter under the combined influence of
love, religion and awakening woman
hood makes In this novel a pleasant
contrast with the authors searching
dissection of Camden's mental and
psychcal processes. And the sketch
ing of the foreground, with its quaint.
half civilized trash whites" Is deft
and skilful. Upon the whole, the Lit
tie Sister" impresses one as being a
book fit to be admitted to the goodly
company of kindred creations which
owe parentage to Charles Egbert Grad
dock, which is praise ample. l.. s. X.
Two numbers in the tastily printed
Twentieth Century series of FRED
erck A. Stokes Co. have been received
through NJ Norton, Scranton. The
first is a collection of stirring sea tales
by that master pen-artist OF the sea,
W. Clark Russell entitled 1.-The Phan-
tom Death and Other Stories," and the
second is a virile and wholesome story Of
the Canadian Northwest by John
Mackie, entitled "The Devils Play
ground" The beauty Of this series of
copyrighted novels, apart from the mer-
itorious character of the fiction includ-
ed In 1t, is that the volumes are small,
convenient to be held, daintily bound
in silver-stamped buckram covers, and
we'll illustrated. They are just the
vacation.
From the same source Is received
Margaret Harriet Matthews Dame
Prism" story for girls which fulfills
all the requisite Of that difficult and
often-abused type Of literature. Dame
Prism pictures a number Of very In
teresting people, both young and old,
in distinctly human colors; is cheerful
in tone, effervescent with good humor
and wholesome animal spirits, but does
not neglect, in an unobtrusive fashion,
to teach a lesson now and then. The
charm of the book is emphasized by
sixteen full-page illustrations by Eliza
beth s. Tucker, which will aid the
younger readers to fix the books char
acters in their memories.
AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS.
Archdeacon Farrar is now Dean Of Can
terbury
Balzac's letters to Nine. Hanska are to
be published soon in book form.
Still another Napoleonic story is an
nounced (Merriam)-"The Romance Of the
Sword" by George Duval.
Poet John Vance Cheney has composed
a short play in blank verse bearing on the
adventures of Helen of Troy.
Henry James has nearly ready for publi-
cation a new volume Of short stories, to
be published by Macmillan & Co.
Count Tolstoi has just finished another
work, which is called priceless Wealth
and All the Trouble Attached to It."
NJ Korolenko, the Russian novelist, who
visited America in 1893, is about to publish
a volume Of his impressions Of travel.
A translation Of Madame Blanc's notes
on 1.-THE Condition of Women in the United
States" will soon be published by Roberts
Bros.
President Hyde, of Bowdoin, will have
ready for early in April his work, Social
Theology" to be published by Macmillan
& Co.
1.-The Way of Maid is the attractive
title of Mrs. Katharine lyman Hinkson's
first novel, which will be published this
spring.
A new edition of Professor Goodwin
Smiths "Oxford and Her Colleges" will be
illustrated with photographs of the va
rious buildings.
Mr.. Balfour's book, 1.-THE Foundations Of
Belief" published by Longmans. Green &
Co.. Is already in Its second edition. The
first edition comprised 5000 copies.
Alphonse Daudet will be chaperoned
throughout his London visit by Novelist
Henry James. Daudet intends to study
London as the scene, in part, of his next
story. "Soutlen de Famille."
NJ. Jose-Maria de Heredia, who is to be
formally received into she French Acad-
emy on May 30 next, was born 81 years ago
on the Island of Cuba. He was one of the
old group of "Parnassens,' and Is a
Creole sonneteer. He succeeds M. de
Mazade NJ. Paul Bourget will take his
seat in the academy on June 10 next. NJ
CASTOR Boissier, the Latinist, will prob
ably succeed the late M. Cammille Doucet
as perpetual secretary.
In his new work on Helpful Science"
St. George Mivart, who Is distinguished
by his recognition of a personal will and
intelligence back of all the phenomena Of
the material world, enters the psychical
field with a like insistance upon the reality
Of the human personality, upon the verify
and trustworthiness of the representations
In human consciousness, and upon the va
l!dity and authority Of the human reason.
Major E. G. Ross, ex-governor of New
Mexico and ex-senator from Kansas. is
gathering material for history of the
Impeachment Trial Of President John
son." The Little Senator from Kansas
played very important part in the trial,
and 1t was really his vote that saved the
president. In his history he will give
special attention to the justification to
the course of himself and those other Re-
publiaans who, as members of that i'm
peachment court, saved President John
son.
Lafcadio Hearn has unearthed q liter
ary Ell Dorado in Japan, although his
friends all thought he had buried himself
when he pushed his rovings to the Orient
and welded Japanese Yum-Yum. In
stead of that, this queer genius has won
more lustre from his peeps at unfamiliar
Japan than from his glimpses-r0mantic
and Provencal-colored-of Creole and
West Indian life. He is said by writer
in the Philadelphia Record to be the son
of an Irish father and Greek mother, the
former. q surgeon in the English army,
having won in a romantic fashion beau
tiful maiden in ono of the Ionian Islands
where he CHANGED to be stationed. Laf-
cadio was their second son, and when
lad was educated in Wales, with view of