The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-09

write so rapidly and Il he would take
more care, he might yet achieve some
| thing enduring i'm literature. He has
many Of the requisite qualities ana quail
iications.
There have been many handbooks on
physical culture but Health of Body and
Mind" by T. w. Tophaln, NJ. D., pub
llshed by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle) oc-
cupes a place all its own. IT consists
Of an intelligent discussion of hygiene
from the standIoint of the most wide
spread needs of the American people and
| follows this with a series of simple but
helpful exercises I'm home athletics with
directions which, If faithfully followed,
| Will save many a doctors bill. The
| book should be in the hand of every
| young person.
In the Forum this month, among other
articles, ex-Secretary Carlisle points out
what he concoives to be dangerous de-
| fects of our electoral system Surgeon
| General Wyman cduces some lessons of
| the latest yellow fever epidemic, Profess
| sor j. Laurence Laughlin grows excited
| over the subject of currency reform, Ed
| win i. Atkins considers whether Amer
! leans can produce their own sugar and
Professor Il. w. Hopkins gives his views
of England's attitude toward the Indian
| famine. The number is a strong one.
o.
For the Love of Torita" is the title
| piece in an interesting collection of tales
| of the mesas by Charles Fleming En-
! bree which Hei bert 5. Stone & Co., 0f
| Chicago, have put irto one of their char
ecteristically striking bindings. The tales
| themselves are arOn attic of the south
western plains and impregnated with the
| literary atmosphere Of Spanish-America;
| but they are as nothing compared with
| the gorgeousness of the front-page cover,
in lemon, purple, gilt and white.
o
| st. Nicholas this time has an cXcep-
| tionally interesting array of features, in
| cludtng the opening chapters Of a serial
| story of pirates and buccaneers by Frank
| Il Stockton, a paper by George KEENAN,,
| the Siberian explorer, describing his naf-
| rowcst escape, a Stoddard story. Whit
| comb Riley poem and oh, We don't know
| how many other bright and readable
| things for young and old. St. Nicholas
is certainly the model chldren's maga-
zine.
In "NIany Cargoes" CNew York: Fredk.
| n. Stokes &C., for sale i'm Scranton by
NJ. Nortom W. W. Jacobs has embodied
| the salt air, the whimsicalties and the
peculiar humor and romance of the sea
| better than any predecessor i'm this un-
| crowded field. MANY Cargoes" is a bod
| quet of short sea tales, most humorous,
all Jolly and sprighuy and, to lands
! men, fun Of the fascination of the un-
| familiar
| Nothing neater for little folks has APP
peared this season than Jupiter Jingles, ,"
! by Annette Stratford Crafts, Chicago:
Laird and Leo in which the charming
legends of the Grecian mythology are
done over into simple rhymes, some hui
morors, some GrotCsQue, suited to the
fancies Of the little ones. Pictorially,
also, the book is a delight
The first half of a description Of a
mythical war with Spain; several Cuban
| Photographic sketches and the conclusion
of Julian HawthorneS series of papers
on the famine in India stand out prom
| inently among the contents of the No
| Nember Cosmopolitan. The war with
| Spain sketch is especially readable.
|
The November Pocket Magazine has a
story by Frank r. Stockton, Struck by
| a BoOmerang," one by w. w. Jacobs,
one by Ed Van Zile and several other
choice bits of poetry and fiction. 1t is
a good thing to take with one on a
journey, for its contents are always real
literature,
"The Story of Lafayette's Wife," "The
| Need for More Dry Docks" an article
| showing the impractical of govern
| ment ownership of rauways, and the
| usual complement of fiction, poetry end
| miSCCllany-theSe describe the November
| Homo magazine. 1t is a good dimes
worth.
| The first of Charles A. Dana's war rem
| iniscences, a paper describing EdisOns
| new plan to mine iron ore by electricity
| and a selection from Mark Twain's forth
| coming diary Of a journey around the
| equator are notable things in this month 5
MClure's, which also has some virilc fic-
| ton,
| Godcy's for November has 80 pages Of
| well-ChOsen Thanksgivin fiction, and
among several illustrated descriptive ar
ticles, a most timely paper on Hawaii by
John r. Musick. Mr. Musick regards our
| Pacific ward and coming colony as a YER
| liable terrestrial Paradise.
| If pictures can make a magazine go
| BlakCly Hairs Metropolitan will 90 with
n rush. It is chock full of them and
they are for the most part good pictures
| too.