The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-04

s. Stone & Co., Chicago and New York
The author is II. :. Whigham, who
ought to know what he is writing
about, inasmuch as he is one of the
sClf champions of the day.
In these days of rapid history making
the man who desires to keep pace with
events has daily need of an authentic
and modernized atlas. There are sew
eral of these on the market now, out
Grams Universal Atlas. for which a
canvass is now being made in Scranton,
offers many recommendations which are
rot possessed by any other publication
of its class. An enumeration of these
would exceed the scope of this column,
but one feature especially noteworthy
is its series" of historical maps show
ing the successive geographical stages
of the worlds progress and develop
ment from the dawn of history to the
present. The maps showing the politi-
cal divisions of the present time are
| exceptionally distinct comprehensive
and accurate being revised to the first
of the present year There is also
mass of statistical, historical and sci
entIGc matter emitting the atlas to rank
as n regular encyclopedia of valuable
| information. We can recommend this
| publication unreservedlv.
| -O--
Since ]. l. {. Clarke took hold of it
the Criterion has lost some of its early
eccentricity but it has gained very no
| ticeably in Virlity. sanity and sub
stance. 1t is now worth while.
| d
| The cGntemporaneous thought Of the
| world is reflected from week 20 week in
the. Literary Digest with noteworthy IL
deity and skill. The man who reads
| this magazine and no other win still
| be well Informed.
| The American Kitchen magazine,
domestic science monthly, published by
| the Home Science Publishing company
| at 54S fremont street, Boston, fills what
would seem to he 4 long felt want in
| the home circle. It's recipes and sug-
gastions are more than ordinarily val
| liable.
Field and Stream, formerly published
at st. Paul, has now moved to New
| York, adopted the stendaId magazine
form improved itself both in contents
and appearance several hundred per
cent and offered itself To lovers of
sport and adventure. At a dollar
year it ought to win tremendous cir
| CulatiOn.
Golfers Weekly under the editor
ship Of Robert j. Collier is beginning
TO push TO the front in an interesting
manner. 1t has sent corps Of statt
artists and phot lgraphers To Cuba to
l,l,
accurate and authentic views of Cuban
field sciences, and a special section of
the paper will hereafter he reserved
each week so that illustrations received
late may be inserted in the regular edi-
tion.
Last saturdays issue of Harper's
Weekly was notable for an exception
ally striking frst-page plate by Rogers,
| entitled Cuba Libre.' 1t represents
cuba as personified 10y a maiden rObed
i'm the blue and white of the Cuban
flag, with the single star on her breast
She has been manaCled to a prison floor
and is wasted by ill-treatment and long
suffering. But now her manaCles are
severed and she stands erect, with up
| lifted eye and arms, invoking the
blessings of the good God above upon
her liberators. II is a wonderful bit Of
pencil work but not more notable than
the run of the papers illustrations,
which are both good and abundant.
| O.
one week Leslie's Weekly had the Gu
han flag represented In colors on its
cover; the next, the American flag, with
fine portrait of Fitzhugh Lee. Its is
sue for May represents Uncle Sam
beside a National Guardsman, both
armed and ready for the command, "On
TO Cuba" Leslie's these days Is giving
it's readers their fill of pictures Of bat
tic ships, coast fortihcations and other
apparatus of war but that is what they
want.
SHE DECLINED THE SEAT.