The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-02
LITERARY NOTES.

The August contents of the North Am,
eriCan Review exhibit the customary
strength and timely variety. The open
ing pages are devoted to consideration of
What the Unionists Have Done for Ire
land" from the pen of T. W. Russell, NJ.
r., secretary of the local government
board. A charming essay is that on
shakespeare in 1885," by Edmund Gosse,
while in THE Great Lakes and Our Com
mercial Supremacy John Foord presents
a paper of interest and suggestiveness.
The forthcoming work of THE Anglo
American Joint High Commission" is dis
cussed from an authoritative stand
point by writer who is content
to sign himself Canadian Lib
eral, and the Hon. w. A. PETER.
late United States senator for Kan
sas, furnishes the concluding portion
OF his article on THE United States Sen
ate" its privileges, powers and func-
tions, its rules and methods of doing bus
iness. "Graveyards as a Menace to the
Commonweal' are strongly condemned by
Louis Windmuller while the project of
THE English Speaking Brotherhood" is
brilliantly advocated by Professor Charles
Waldstein, late director of the American
Archaeological school, Athens. An i'm
portant and exceedingly timely paper is
that on distant POSSESSIONS by An
drew Carnegie. who vigorously declaims
u
particularly the Philippines by lhe
United States.
The topics considered in this months
| Forum range from the Spanish War to
| Spiritualsm. The table of contents Is
as follows: 1.-THE Spanish War and the
| Equilibrium of the World" Brooks Ad-
ans; 1.-The Anglo-American Commission -
| Edward Farrer; "Austria-Hungary I'm
| der the Reign of Francis Joseph"-(sec-
| ond paper, His EXcelluncy Albert Won
| Schaffle; New Constitutional Amend
ments," James Schouler; 1.-THE Develop
ment of the Policy of Reciprocity" Hon,
John Ball Osborne; THE Future of Great
| Telescopes" II. ]. ]. See "Our Need of
| a Permanent Diplomatic Service" Hon.
| George l.. Rives; How a Savage Tribe
| Is Governed" Major John W. Powell;
THE Repetition of History in Our War
| with Spain" 5. Leonard Thurlow; THE
| Problem of Immortality: Some Recent
| Mediumistic Phenomena" James IL.
| Hyslop; New Trials for Old Favorites,"
| Professor Brander Matthews.
| o
One of the most important articles in
the August Forum is that on "Our Need
of Permanent Diplomatic Service" The
| author Hon. G. l.. Rives, who writes
| with the authority and knowledge OF a
| former assistant secretary or state. re-
| marks very pertlnenlly mat the promi-
nent lawyers, the able editors, and the
successful manufactures who every four
years invade the white house, and crowd
every corner of the Office OF the secre'
;ary of state, would be the first 10 deride
the notion that they could change bust
ness places among themselves at a mo-
ment's notice. Yet every one OF then
Is serenely confident of his capacity to un
dertake a diplomatic post, the duties Of
which, often delicate and difficult mus
be conducted in a foreign country and
generally with people OF whose very Ian
guage he is ignorant Diplomacy require;
thorough training OF those who practice
II, II they are TO practice II successfully
and II IL no answer to say that hitherto
our diplomatic business has been pretty
well managed under the existing system
As Mr.. Rives points out, our diplomatic
negotiations with other countries haN'
usually been single; that is, third pow
er has not been involved. Now, however
the nation is entering upon period u
its history in which the United states WI
necessarily be brought into close and com
plex relations with all the other grea
powers OF the world; and nothing shor
! OF the most complete diplomatic serVic