The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-27

sxty-nine pictures appear in the cur
rent number of Golfers Weekly; eight OF
them are portraits of Gladstone at DIFF
ferent periods of his life and four have
other subjects but more than fifty are
of objects, scenes and individuals made
specially prominent and interesting by
the war with Spain. More than a month
ago Mr.. Hare, Of the Weeklys photog-
raphic staff, went, with two other jour-
nalists, to the camp of the insurgent gen.
eral Gomez with the first news of Amer
| lean intervention in Cuba. Mr.. Hare
wrote a description Of the trip and took
scores Of photographs; the first INSTALL
ment of his narrative, with about twenty
of his pictures, appears in the current
number; a double-phge picture of Gomez,
| in his hammock, chatting with his Amer
| lean visitors, is from a painting by Gil
bert Gaul, after one of Mr.. Hares pho
| tographs.
The Philistine prides itself on being the
sole remaining torpedo boat of the liter
AIRY squadron. In it's June issue it prints
| a steve Crane poem which Editor Hub
bard II be petitioned to explain; also
other L. '"' which more or less satsfac-
, torily e:..-...n themselves.
| The June Century has several features
of particular timcliness. Captain Mahan
contributes q paper describing the rea-
sons for the failure of the Spanish Ar
mada. This IS introductory TO a general
article on the Armada, Illustrated by
Varian, and written by William Frederic
Tilton. Emory w. Fem, who served as
a major in the Cuban army, recounts his
experience under General Garcia in an
article entitled "Ten Months with the
Cuban Insurgents" Mr.. r. O. Crowley,
formerly electrician of the Torpedo Di-
vision in the Conferedate navy, describes
THE Confederate Torpedo Service"
which he was largely instrumental in or
ganizing. Crowley laid the mine which
blew up the first gunboat ever destroyed
| by this means, Mr. Stephen Bonsal for
merly of the American legation a. Mad
rid, writes of Toledo the Imperial City
Of Spain" the illustration being by Jo-
seph Pennell.
The June ST. Nicholas performs again
the feat of finding novelty in the we'll
explored field of fiction for the young.
! There is a good balloon-stOry story for
stamp-COleCtOrs, history of the opera
bouffe kingdom of Yyetot, an account of
the humble bumble-bee one of Miss Wood
wards delightful ballads of Durley, a
sketch of the wonders a boy can accom-
plish with a jaCk-knife a queer "darky'
fairy-story, and newspaper reporters
adventure. Besides shorter features,
there are four serials ana the well-COn-
Quoted departments. The illustrations are
as good as can be made in a magazine OF
any class,
The June Scribner, though made up on
the eve of war, contains evidences of the
impending calamity in several clear and
serviceable war maps, which Were IN
serted after the rest of the magazine had
gone to press. Well-known writers and
artists will depict actual phases of the
war in succeeding issues. ARRANGEMENTS
have been made to cover the operations
by land and sea,
A convenient Spansh-Amorican war
chart has been issued by Lard q Lee. u
comprises between stiff boards good maps
Of the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards,
Cuba, the Antilles and the Philippine
Islands, with explanatory reading mat
ter.
The Rand-McNally War atlas comprises
lSlarge pages of maps covering every pos
sible phase Of the present conflict or any
likely TO grow out Of it, These maps are
carefully revised and offer the pest avail
able information in cartography,