The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-10
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.


BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.
Maurice l.. Muhleman, deputy assist |
ant United States treasurer, has taken |
advantage of the recent widespread inter- |
est in currency topics to prepare a re- |
vised edition of his book on the Monetary |
Systems of the World" and thereby has !
performed a useful service. The volume |
presents II careful and authoritative study |
of present currency systems and statis- |
tical information relative to the volume |
of the worlds money, with abstracts OF
various plans proposed for the solution of
the currency problem in the United States. |
The American statistics in this edition |
have been brought down to the close of the
last fiscal year Dune 80, 1886 and the sta
tistics of other countries to dates as nearly
corresponding thereto as possible. The
book is vertable encyclopedia of finan
cial facts, so carefully edited and ndeXed
that one can find in moment the infor-
nation to which he wishes to refer. We
can recommend the volume to all persons
who wish to put themselves in an attitude
to discuss financial problems knowingly.
(Cloth. 2S9 pp., 81, published at 1S9 Broad
way, New York, by Charles II. Nicol
An interesting attempt to idealze the
noble red man furnishes the inspiration
for half dozen quite out-of-the-ordinary
tales by Werner H. Reed, which are pub
lished in Il handsomely illustrated volume
under the appropriate title, "Lo-To-Kah.'
Mr.. Reed has in the course of an extended
acquaintance with the Ute Indians
reached the conclusion that the superna-
tural is as much a factor in the thoughts
and lives of the copper-sknned savages
as 1t IS among the more civilized pale
faces, and so he gives us weird stories of
Indian hypnotism, ClairvoyanCe, and other
phases of the occult that make the red man
out a good deal more of student and
| philosopher than has generally been sus
pected. Whether this effort will carry
| conviction in an chronological sense may be
| doubted but as fiction it is wholly fresh,
picturesque and interesting. (Cloth, 23O pp.,
81; published at % Park Place, New York,
| by the Continental Pub. Co.
| Mcleod of the Camerons" by NJ. Ham
| ilton, forming No. 2O7 of Appletons' Town
and Country library, is powerfully drawn
| study of hereditary insanity. Mcleod,
| the central figure, is a Scotch soldier, of
| admirable qualities both mental moral
and physical, but doomed by nature to
| enact a tragic role. He dare not marry
| the woman he loves because in his veins
| he carries the blight of inherited predis-
position to Madness and at the last,
victim of forces beyond his control he
|
the struggle against his evil destiny This
| is but a sketch of the theme of a novel
| that has in it some of the strongest de-
scriptions, brightest and most natural dla-
| logue and keenest insight into human ma
ture of the books that we have lately read.
| 1t is from its nature a somber story, deal
| ing mainly with the shadows of life but
for all that it is well worth reading In
| the same library appears ARRESTED" a
| novel along conventional lines by Esme
Stuart.
In "The Fault of One'' (publshed by the
| Lippincotts) Efe Adelaide Rowlands
gives a spirited if not an important pic
| ture of a good-hearted man in the process
| of being buncoed into marriage with q
clever adventures, who deftly plays on
his sympathies until she lands him. tires
| of him, proceeds to elope with a more
fascinating fellow and is restributively
| and very conveniently drowned on the
way, leaving the model husband free to
contract more pleasing alliance.
The first number of the American edition
of The EXpositor has appeared under the
editorial auspices of Rev DR.. Cuthbert
Hall and in the business direction of
| Dodd, Mead a Co. The Expositor is a
theological magazine issued simultaneous
ly in England and America, the English
edition being in charge of Rev w. Robert
son Nicoll, who also edits the English
Bookman. OF the nine principal papers
in the number before us, all are contrbut-
ed by Europeans including such eminent
theoogians as the bishop of Derry, Prin-
cipal Fairbairn, Professor Cheyne and
Professor KONG. but in the department Of
book reviews, which occupies one-fourth
of the magazine, American brains comes
out conspicuOusly. These reviews are by
Professors Stevens, of Yale; Ely, of Wis
consin, Brown, of Union, and Fisher, of
Yale and by the American editor Dr.
Hall. The EXpositor will undoubtedly
prove of interest and value to students of
theology Of all shades of prediction and
belief.
In its February issue the Home Maga-
zine makes announcement that while it
wishes to retain a general circulation and
to do so will cater to miscellaneous tastes
it will in future aim to be especially a
magazine for commercial travellers, and
a kind of literary clearing house for the
bright anecdotes and snappy ideas of the
grand American army of trade mission.
aries. The purpose has merit in 1t.
"Evry Month";" the "woman's magazine
of literature and music" presents for Feb.
ruary a more than ordinarily interesting
and varied array of contents. Its voca
r and Instrumental music selections are al
ways tuneful; its portraits of persons OF
I note are timely and up to date and there
. is much in the accompanying letter text
: not to speak of the fashion cuts, to in.
: terest women.
r A citation of some of the subjects men
toned on the title page of Guntons maga
$ zine for February will perhaps be the fair
est way to indicate that numbers merit
practical Versus Metaphysical Econom
f les" Is a plea for common sense in eco
t nomic discussion; THE Decline of Cob
| denism" is a recognition of the fact thai
} free trade In England is becoming obso
/ lete; "Wakers Contributions to Econom
[ les" is just appreciation of the public
services of the late Francis A. Walker
| "An Indictment of Organized Charities
| objects to the tendency to make of chari
f ty distribution a more or less mechanical
Y science, which does not study to preven
5 but merely to alleviate distress; and IL
= 1.-THE Convict Labor Problem ways ant
. means are pointed out to keep convict!
. busy without serious inj.ry to free labor
e The number as whole is an eXceptionallS
/ strong one,
4 "Hypnotism and Its Practical Relation
/ to Crime and the Courts" is the title of
= paper in the February number OF Th,
Hypnotic Magazine which would repay
5 perusal, 1t is by Clark Bell, the editor @
= the Medico-Legal Journal, and il masses
f together in brief compass a good deal o
t expert testimony on the subject in ques
/ ton.
SCANDAL NOT WANTED.
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