The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-01-25
LITERARY NOTES.

The Home Magazine for February will
contain what promises to be one Of the
most remarkable magazine articles of the
| year. on Kelley and the Kelley motor.
The author, william Mil Butler. has had
access to the innermost secrets of kee-
| leys workshop and also to the records
| of the Kelley company. The result is the
| first authentic published account of what
| keeley really accomplished. keeley 1t VIII
| be remembered, was the man who
claimed he could develop enough energy
| out of a few drops of water to run the
machinery of the world for a century.
lie experimental % years, made $50 differ
| cnt machines spent half a million dol
| lars, and just before his death last No
vember, completed working model Ct
| an engine which he said was the realiza-
| tion of all his dreams. A large machine
| is now being constructed from this model
and with 1t Keeleys successors expect to
! revolutionlze the industrial world. The
| article Is illustrated from over a dozen
| photographs of keeleys different ma
! chimes, none OF which has ever before
been published.
The event of the literary year will be,
undoubtedly, the great novel upon which
| Count Tolstoy has been laboring in order
that he may devote the proceeds to the
transportation to Canada of three thou
sand Russian Quakers, 1t Is generally
believed by his friends that this work
will probably mark the conclusion of
Count Tolstoy's literary career 1t is a
profound study of the life of man and
woman, and treats of the three phases Of
love--that of the youth. that of the young
man, and that of the man in mature age.
The Cosmopolitan Magazine announces
that IL has secured the sole right of pub
lication.
Frt. -s,, fa,.
travellers, investors and others, devoted
entirely to Porto Rico, will insure a well
come for Porto Rico and Its Resources"
by Frederick a. Ober, the well known
traveller in the West Indies which is COM
ing from the press of d. Appleton & Co
The aim has been to produce work that
will answer all questions likely to arise
In connection with the acquisition and
| occupation of this new tropical possess
sion of ours, and to this end Mr.. Ober has
availed himself of every opportunity of
adding to his stock of information ac-
quired during the past eighteen years.
Among the revelations in Senator
Hoars article on -Four National Conven-
| tions" in the February Scribner's, is the
| true story of how Blaine lost his chance
| for being nominated for the presidency
| in 1876 by an occurrence when BristOw
visited the Blaine house to express his
condolences upon Mr. Blaine's sudden
/ illness in June. Senator Hoar also eX-
presses his firm belief in the absolute
| honesty of Mr.. Blaine, and Indignantly
repels the charges made against him
when he ran for the presidency.
Edwin w. Harden, who went with Ad-
| miral Dewey's fleet to the Philippines and
remained there until a month or two ago,
when he returned home TO make some
special reports to the government, VIII
| give in the February McClure's an ac-
| count of Dewey and all his operations in
Manila down to the present time. The
article will be fully illustrated, mainly
| from photographs taken during and soon
| after the battle at Manila by j. T. Nc
| Cutcheon, who was also with the fleet.
The managers of Barnum & Bailey 8
| greatest show on earth, which has been
| in the United Kingdom the past year,
have issued a handsome souvenir of the
| tour through England and Scotland i'll the
| form of map of the territory indicating
| the routes. The immense caravan was on
| the road lS6 days and visited II cities, re-
naming from one day to three weeks aC-
cording to the locality and travelled 1876
miles. The Barnum & Bailey show IS
now at the Olympia London, where II
will remain during the balance of the
winter season.
In the February numter of the Century
| General Shafter will tell the story of the
| Santiago compaign. and Lieutenant Hob
son will follow his account of the sinking
| of the Merrimac with q narrative of his