The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-09
Some New Books
and Magazines

The Century for November features
paper on Andrcc's flight into the un-
known, writtel by an eyewitness to the
preparations ana the start, also an inter-
view had by Minister Terrell with the
Sultan of Turkey in which the latter
defended his Armenian policy; also the
beginning of a new serial by Mrs. Burton
Harrison entitled Good AmCricans;" and
the first instalmcnt Of a HOosicr dialect
poem by James WhtComb Riley eulo-
CYSTIC of the corsummate worldly Wis
dom and bOokiSh crulitiOn of "DoC Sifeys
down at Martinsville.' \ paper by Henry
Fairfield Osborn on Professor Edward
Drinker Cope and one by William II.
Ballou on strange Creatures of the
Past" with pictures of the gigantic saur-
ians of the rcptilian age as the eye of
science restores them from discovered
remains are also noteworthy among the
contents OF this exceptionally valuable
number
The humor of f. Anstey. like the de-
sire for olives is an acquired taste, but
for those who have succeeded i'm ac-
quiring it his latest publication, narrat-
ing the trials and tribuatiOns Of "Ba-
boo Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, r. A." an
Indian innocent in London, will come
with a measure of enjoyment not realized
since the appearance Of "Vice Versa"
Babuo's struggles with the English lam
guage are only surpassed in ludicrcus-
ness by his efforts so avert the matri-
mOnial stratcgems of the typical land
lady's daughter who fancied he was a
raiah I'm disguise. MeSsrs. Appleton &
Co. have done for the book mechanically
certainly all that its literary merit de-
serves.
The cowboy has been so variously and
so varicCatedly depicted i'm American fic-
tion that +. Hough must be credited with
a genuine service to sociological science
in having for the first time in "The
Story Of the Cowboy" (New York: d.
Appleton q Coz presented a study of this
distinctive type of western society clear
ly, fairly ami COmprehenslvely as he is
This book is not an idealization Of out
lawry but plain description in eoOd
and spirited prose Of conditions actually
to be encountered on the American 'front.'
Ter. It is moro interesting than an ex-
citing move! and what is more to the
point II does not convey to the readers
mind false or exaggerated impressions.
O.
Three numbers i'm the Applotons' Town
ana Country Library which will have
lively interest for confirmed readers Of
fiction are; "The Clash of Arms" a
rousing historical romance by John
Blundelle-BurtOn, which cracks heads
and smashes skulls every second para
graph; His Maje7ty's Greatest Subject"
by ;. $. Thorburn, a story telling how the
British many thoroughly subiugate In
dia, and "Mifanwy" by Allen Raine, a
charming love story set down in Wales
The ADpletons also issue in two vol
umes paper edition Of Georg Ebers his
torical romance, Barbara BlomDcrg,"
translated from the German by Mary j.
Stafford
To their books for home reading the
AppletonS have lately added "Uncle Sam's
Secrets by Oscar +. Austin, and "The
Han Of Shells" by Mrs. A. S. Hardy.
The latter explains in understandable
language all about sea shells, and the
former strings upOn a thread of fiction
a series Of important facts about the af-
fairs Of our national government which
every young land oID American ought
either TO know or 10 have within ready
reference, We especially commend this
book to the attention of parents who
desire to notify Santa Claus what to
bring to the juvenile element in the
household circle,
In cola Ebone2er," Chicago Laird and
Leo Opie Read has written a novel ex-
travagantly artificial I'm plot, stlted in
dialogue and fun OF other faults, yet
withal Accordingly interesting There are
touches Of sentiment I'm It and hints of
genius that somehow make sport Of the
evident blemishes and enthrall the read
cr's sympathy despite the protest of his
critical faculties. II Mr.. Read would not