The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-03
Some New Books
and Magazines

C7RO the collection of the West Chess
| ter State Normal school, Professor
IT q. NJ. Phillips, the principal of that |
III school, has selected and the Lippin-
colts have printed in neat |
pamphlet for private distribution a num-
ber of Historic Letters which will !
possess much interest for students
of American history. These letters
chiefly relate to actors and Incl
dents connected with the Revolu-
tionary war, among the writer's be-
ing Benedict Arnold, Generals Gates,
Pickering. Miffin, sullivan. Irvine,
Wayne, Putnam, Schuyler Greene, La
fayette and Washington, but there are
also letters by General Winfield Scott, |
General Mcclellan, President Taylor and |
Jefferson Davis in which the great trag-
cdy of the Civil war is foreshadowed. |
The compilation Is sufficiently valuable |
to put the public under distinct obligl-
tions to its compiler.
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Just what grievance clyde Fitch has |
against the Four Hundred is unrevealed |
TO US in his grouped correspondence ana |
conversations purporting to represent on |
inside view of "Thc Smart Set" Chicago: |
Herbert s. Stone & co.,. But il is evil |
dent that Mr. Fitch considers human ma |
ture rather worse at the upper end of |
Fifth avenue than in the lower Bow |
duces to us are either llbertines or
would-be libertines ami the women !
with one or two exceptions, unfaithful |
wives or wives to whon fidelity is not u
matter of choice 50 much as of circum-
stance. The smart sct' may be bad in
many particulars, as a set; but il Is
against human nature to argue that its
members individually are hopelessly de-
PRAYED.
Among the almanacs compiled by the
larger publishing houses none has at
tanned a higher standing than the Chi
cago Daily News Almanac and Political
Register, the fourteenth issue of which
is now in print. This publication supple
ments the usual statistical Information
given in volumes of its kind with ency-
ClopaediC treatment of the live topics of
the year as, for example, the annexation
of Hawaii the eastern war; deep water
ways from the lakes to tide water: Alaska
with its gold fields and boundaries; do
mestic commerce; the Cuban revolt; the
Venezuelan dispute: the international
monetary commission; the timber supply
ana the coal strike of 1897.
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A description with vivid Illustrations of
the real Klondike. the beginning of lIlr-
old Fredericks latest novel which is en-
titled Gloria Mundi" and the anony-
lllouS ConlilpullOll tonllHuilS lHt itliid-
tion of the history of an imaginary war
with Spain which involves us also with
England and Germany and in its Irst
great land battle results i'm q few hours
in the loss of 100000 lives, are among the
contents of the Cosmopolitan this month
which especially attract interest. The
Cosmopolitan continues TO be the most
vital of our magazines.
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In "Lo-to-kah' Werner Il. Reed exhib-
tied an artistic comprehension of the at
mospheric and color possibilities of the
Southwest which is now again in evil
dence in his Tales of the Sun-land"
These eight sketches are of UNEQUAL
merit but all are true to the locality of
" vhich they treat and exhibit consplcu-
ously the romance of a region which, but
for it's early history might be regarded
as a hopelessly barren field for the nov-
elist.
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