The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-06
Copyright. 1897, by Mitchell & Miller.

well calculated to appeal to those who
are fond of Celtic traditions and anX-
ious to perpetuate a knowledge of old
time Welsh. customs. The price of The
American Celt is only 80 cents year.
Papers on the arbitration treaty by
Frederic II. Coudert and Professor Wool
sey and an able study by Professor
Schouler from constitutional grounds of
the conflict between President Cleveland
and the senate are the three most not
able articles in the current Forum, but
they by no means exhaust its interest.
\ paper by William Allen White on
Kansas, written in characteristic vein,
will be enjoyed and one by the author
of the Torrey bankruptcy bill explain
ing that poorly understood measure will
have educational value at a seasonable
time.
The opening as a serial of the last story
written by Robert Louis Stevenson, st.
Ives" makes notable the March number
of McClure's magazine. The Garland life
of Grant paper explaining the new
process of telegraphng without wires and
an article on Stanton in the war-of-
flee are some of the other special at
fractions which combine with the usual
features to make very readable num-
Der.
It's fine illustrations, numbering more
than 100, make valuable the current Cos
mopolitan OF the letter press the two
articles of most timely interest ana i'm
portancc are the editors own recipe for
restoring prosperity cine bond currency
plan to which we alluded editOrially
several days ago. ana n profusely illus
trated paper by eX-Postmaster General
Thomas L. James on modern methods of
lit,
usual quota Of short stories, serials,
poems, etc.
Next to the opening instalmcnt Of
Henry Seaton Merriam's new serial story,
in Kedar's Tents" which promises rare
entertainments the two most readable
contributions to the March Bookman are
the paper on James Fenimore Cooper,
which all of his admirers ought to read,
and the symposium on How to Write
Short Story" participated in by Rob
crt Barr, Harold Frederic, Arthur Nor
rison and Jane Barlow.
o.
on only one occasion did the late Edwin
Booth venture to produce a play of
American origin. That was more than 35
years ago. i'm New Orleans, and the liter
ary effort thus honored was a nvc-act
tragedy revolving about the dramatic
death of Thomas a Beckett 1t had been
written in two weeks by two amateurs,
c. IL, HOLSTER q Milwaukee lawyer, ana
John Denison Champlin, "A student in Mr..
HOLSTERS office; and 1t lasted on the
stage about one week. In the March
LOCKER on Mr.. Champlin tells the whole
story nnd II Is q most interesting con-
tribution to the annals OF American dra-
matte authorship. We wonder that II
was not made before.
o.
There is the ineXorable remorseless-
ness of fate in the dramatic writings of
Henrik Ibsen, ana In nothing that he
had ever previously written has he shown
so clearly the power Of the master as ia
his last drama, John Gabriel BoYkman"
(New York: Stone d EimbalD, II Is un-
necessary TO say that Ibsen's plays are
FOR the library rather than the stage
Their interest cannot be heightened by
artiiice; II stands out, in the bare text,
naked and glant-lite, with power TO grip
the readers very yitals. We cannot un-
dertake In the present space to make any
study Of John Gabriel Borkman;" 1t is
lbsen at his best and that precludes scant
analysis. But we advise all persons cap
able of digesting strong meat in ltera-
ture to read this play and gain from It
new comprehension of the seriousness
of moral law