The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-24

that large need for its new-fangled no
tions in textual arrangement and in
| frankness of criticism which its project
ors evidently fancy they perceive among
the people remains to be seen. The first
impression made by II is that II repre-
sents rather a fantastic fad than coup
d etat in Biblical criticism.
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The Cosmopolitan for March has several
features worthy of note. In the opening
| article William Il. Curtis presents an In
| forming article describing government
circles I'm China. A few pages later a. &.
Crawford reviews the Dreyfus case and
explains In detail why he thinks that Cap
tain Dreyfus is Innocent Following that
Richard Harding Davis contributes
powerful little story hinging on the woes
and wrongs of Cuba and at the finish Eidi-
tor Walker, signing In Alexandrian fashion
| for more worlds to conquer, declares his
purpose to attempt the construction OF a
| universal language. This, with the usual
Milling, makes, we should say, a generous
dimes worth.
One of the First American prospcctors
to reach the pay dirt of the Klondike was
William w. Stanley of Seattle, an old
time argonaut who had been through the
mill in California, Colorado and heaven
knows where. He left Seattle March g.
1896, got to the gold fields in time to cx-
perlence an Arctic winter, when tenn
perature OF 10 degrees below zero was
| considered mild and balmy, and returned
the next summer bringing back as the
result or about three months actual work
at the gold fields dust and nuggets worth
| sll2OW and titles to property from which
| II is estimated that S15,000000 will yet be
! taken. Mr.. Stanley has written and Laird
& Lee, Chicago, have published a book,
| called "A Mile of Gold. or Strange Ad-
| ventures on the Yukon which embodies
| his experiences in the frozen North and
| 1t is by all odds the most readable Klon-
| dixie publication we have yet seen. Its
| pictures of mining hardships are not
colored: the style Is simple, the writer
| obviously candid and the truthfulness of
| his narrative evident
%
1.-THE Story of Evangeina Cisneros"
told by herself, with aid from her res
cuer, Karl Decker, and bit of rhetor-
| ical condiment served up by the singulary
versatile pen of Julian Hawthorne, comes
| to us in pleasing guise from the Conti-
mental Publishing company, New York.
| The book, ii is explained, is issued as a
| benefit for the fair senorita, who al
though now enjoying freedom in land
where the Spaniard is persona non grata
has yet a slight need for something ad-
| ditional. namely. cash. The subject mat
ter of this book is composed in about
| equal parts of horn-blowinG for the New
| York Journal and of the customary sym
pathy for Cuba; but there are portraits,
| Illustrations and appendices narrating
/ points in Cubas history which give value
| to the volume additional to that impaired
/ by the somewhat overworked story Of
| Senorita Csneros.
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1.-The Unseen Hand" by Lawrence L..
| Lynch, Chicago: Laird K Lee; "a Fiery
Ordeal by Tasma New York d. Apple
! ton & Coz; and THE Unjust Steward
/ by Mrs. Oliphant philadelphia: j. v.
! Lippincott & Coz represent some OF the
minor fiction of the day. OF these the
| first is a highly melodramatic story of
mystery and crime, the second a romance
of life in Australia in which the problem
/ of getting rid of a disagreeable husband
is work out on lines different from the
ordinary, and the third homely tale of
/ quiet life with II conspicuous moral to it..