The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-11-05
LITERARY NOTES.

The Doubleday e Mcclure company has
in prc|s a novel Of adventure, the scene
OF which is laid in ireland, by William
OBgien, member Of uar.iamCnt from
Cork. 1t is called "A Queen Of Men"
Mr.. Cy Warman's "The Story of the
Railroad" the new volume the story
OF tho West Series" Mr. Max's Pembar-
toms new romance "fhc Phantom
Amy" and Miss Fowlcr's novel, Con
cerning Isabel Carnaby," which has been
so successful in England, Will be published
before the end Of the month by ID. APP
Dlctun & Co.
That color photography has come to
stay is very evident. The Doubleday q
Mcclure company alone has on it's lists
three books each with forty or fifty coli
ored plates made by this process ana the
astonshingly lifclike results which can
thus be given at low cost are a sufficient
guarantee that this method of illustration
must be rcckoned with i'm any forecast OF
the future of illustrated books.
Hczeliiah Butterworth Will publish
shortly through the Doubleday & Nc
Clure company south America" his.
tory Of the struggle for liberty in the An
dean Republics, Cuba and Porto Rico.
1t is said to be the first connected history
ever written of this tropical and sub
tropical America, and Mr. Butterworth
prepared himself for the task by two eX-
tended journeys through South Amer
ica
Frank Leslcs Popular Monthly for No
Vember is the initial number in the now
and improved form Of this longtime fav-
Orite illustrated family magazine, with
a handsome cover in colors and gold. It's
price is reduced to ten cents. one dollar
per annum. This is unquestlOnably a wise
and popular move on the part of the
publishers; and the return of Mrs. Frank
Leslie to the cdtorship Of the magazine
assures for II a future as brilliant as it's
past has been prosperous.
The Doubleday & Mcclure company has
just issued a copyrighted translation of
RostaEd's famous "Cyrano de Bergerac.
which seems to be on the point Of turn
ing the literary world on this side of the
Atlantic as completely upside down as it
has done I'm France and England. Hardly
had the book been published when sec
ond edition was required an edition de
luxe on large paper, uncut ana deckle-
edged, with illustrations printed on Japan
paper, and bound I'm blue cloth with the
French heur-de-lys, Is to appear imme-
diately. The translation is by Miss Ger
trude Hall.
The issues of The Youths Companion
for the four weeks of November will con-
tain a number of unusual features. Frank
R. stockton VIII contribute a humorous
paper Some of My Dogs" Rudyard
NipllnE's new story, THE Burning OF the
Sarah Sands" will come out IN the Mo-
vember 10th number; Lord Dufferin will
relate some of the sensational experiences
Of a pleasure trip i'm war time i'm my
First Cruise" I'm the issue of November
nth, ana to the THANKSGIVING number
November 2D Mary Il. Wilkins will con-
tribute a glimpse of the good Old times
in her sketch of "a New England Girl
Seventy Years Ago"
Archibald r, Colquhoun, author of the
recently published work on China in
Transformation" contributes to the
| North American Review" for November
"A most important article entitled, "1he
/ Far Eastern Crisis" in which he deals
with the sequestration of the Chinese
| Empire at the hands of the despotic and
military states of Europe. China, how
ever, Mr.. Colquhoun points out, Is a
world necessity, and the status of the
United States as mistress of the Philip
pines and of the Sandwich Islands i'm