The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-11-14
NOVEMBER MAGAZINES.

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by General Horace Porter on Campaign
ing with Grant" in which pen pictures
are drawn Of the great commander ex-
actly as he looked and acted in daily ac-
ises to be more interesting than any
thing yet published on this subject. DIR.
Weir Mitchell begins in this issue serial
story of Quakerdom in colonial days. A
third feature Of interest Is George i.
Parker's paper studying the almost model
municipal government of Birmingham.
The Labors Of Hercules done into anus
ing verse and made even more vivid by
humorous pictures constitutes an enjoy
able feature of st. Nicholas. The author
of the apt conceit is J. Edmund V. Cooke.
Much of the verse and story-writing in
this number very seasonably and grace
fully commentaries Thanksgiving.
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OF the thirteen papers In this months
Forum four deal with politics and since
the election have become ObsOiete-this
Is especially true of Speaker Reeds paper
entitled, "As Maine Goes, SO Goes the
union"-two treat of the Eastern ques-
tion with special reference to the future
of the Armenians, and the remainder deal
with miscellaneous subjects without JUS
;tifylng partic1ilarization. This Is evil
IDENTIFY one of the Forums OFF months.
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Rumor has 1t that the proprietors OF
McClure's Magazine and the Cosmopoli-
tan, grown weary of fierce competition
contemplate u cOnSoluatlOn. We 40 not
know what truth there is in the rumor.
but such move would hardly be well
coined by the public, since 1t would re-
duce by one the number of its readable
month starts kipling's new serial, Cap
tains Courageous described as STORY
of adventure among the Gloucester nsh-
ermen:" and the Cosmopolitan pads out
IL rather commonplace number with seven
short stories. somewhat below its usually
exacting standard.
The reader who opens his Bookman to
the essay or criticism signed by Professor
Peck is generally liable to find something
worth reading. both for its matter and for
its manner. The November installment
is not an exception to this rule. In 1t Pro-
political oratory which is both judicial
and expert. We like his fair treatment
of Mr.. Bryan, the secret of whose effsc-
tiveness as sneaker he explains very
partments Of the Bookman are worth
reading, too. They always are.
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Godey's tells how national campaisn
Is conducted, continues its biographical
studies Of Benjamin Franklin and In F.
e. Bray's paper entitled. 1--WE the Edi-
tor" gives a lively story of a journalist, $
life as the editor of daily in small
ought to read. 1t Will be better under
stood when we explain that Mr.. Bray 5
paper Is drawn from his own experience
as managing editor of the Erie Dispatch.
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In the current Looker-On, now. by the
way, reduced in price to ~ cents copy
and we'll worth double-John Denison
Champln makes an earnest and eloquent
plea for the American musician. If ar
gument could induce the art world to con-
slider genius in the same manner that 1t
marks off geography, Mr.. Champlin's pa
per would speedily give us Il regular
"a N nkp. llnnll,. sch
without the aid or consent Of any other
nation"
Another good number of the Home Mag
aZine has appeared: its most interesting
single feature being an illustrated paper
by Violet Etynge Mitchell describing a
number Of celebrated Freaks Of Nature,
such. for instance, as the "Siamese twins
in Colorado, Mother Grundy." in the
same state, the pivot Rock" the Dane
ing Bear" etc. The contents of this In,
terestng periodical are sufficiently varied
to crafty every reasonable and judicious
taste.
We have for some time had the Meta
physical Magazine, which covers from
month to month the newest developments
in occult. phiiosophic and scientific re-
search; and now, from Chicago, We have
the Hypnotic Magazine. devoted to an
investigation of the science of hypnotism.
it's uses and abuses and its therapeutic
possibilities. For November this latter
periodical prints. among other things, two
very readable and instructive papers. one
by Thomas Jay Hudson telling how he
became convinced of the truth of tele-
pathy. and one by DIR. w. Y. Smith on
"Hypnotism and Crime.'
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The Philistine again calls itself "a pc
riodical Of protest. and 1t warrants that.
1t credits to Nixon Waterman a declina-
tiOn blank which was mldewed before
Nixon was born: 1t gives space to lines
by Yone Noguchi which are tit to par
alyZe the Teutons and 1t Is as sassy" In
its back talk as 1t can be. But, then, 1t
probably scents another Dinner and Is
toning uD its nerve.