The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-30
LITERARY NOTES.

Ainslee's Magazine for February is
notable for an extraordinary varied table
of contents. Perhaps the most valuable
contribution is the character sketch of
Cecil Rhodes, by Allen Sangree. Harry
Thurston Peck. in an article on '"rhis
Decades Immortal Books" contends that
this Is the most sterile decade of the CEN
tury, holding that only two writer's of the
period will live "The United States Of
the World" by George Leland Hurter.
Is paper of great significance at this
stage of the worlds politics. The cruise
of the Wilmington UP the Amazon ID
vividly described by f. II. Coleman. while
G.. III. Payne tells of Howard Gould $
transatlantic cruise In the Niagara. The
weird color of Sable Island has never
been better convinced than in Gustav
Kobbes dramatic picture of this ocean
graveyard. 1.-The Autobiography Of a Ma
laria Germ" as edited by Theodore Wa
ters, is quite out OF the usual magazine
styler For stories "The Vindication of
Henderson Of Greene" by brand Whit
lock. is the best work this forceful writer
has yet done. There are also stories by
Opie Read, Edith Robinson, Howard
Fielding and General King.
Thomas b. Reed, in writing of the mod
ern trust, does not seem to regard 1t
either as an OCTOPUS" or bugaboo.
my notion" says he. sis that while
Providence and the higher laws which
really govern tho universe are, in mems
talk, much inferior to the revised stat
utes before they are enacted, they are
always found to be quite superior to
them after they are enacted. In fact,
nature abhors a monopoly as much as 1t
does vacuum" Mr.. Reeds paper on
"Monopolies" is to appear in the
Saturday Evening Post of February 10
is sugge stive discussion of the methods
of vast corporations. 1t discusses in a
striking and original manner one Of the
most pressing questions of the day.
February Century Is the one that will
doubtless attract the most attention.
This is the first instalment of hitherto
unpublished extracts from the private
diary of DR.. Il. Il. O'Meara, Napoleon
Bonaparte's physician at st. Helena. The
original manuscript of this journal in
eighteen little volumes, has come into
the possession of the Century company,
and is found to afford surprisingly
large amount of new material In the way
Of conversations with the exiled en-
peror. These talks with Napoleon' will
form an important feature of The Cen
tury during the year 1900.
A special feature has been made of late
i
Outlook, of single pages devoted each to
a portrait and sketch of some man prom
inently In the eye of the world at the
time of publication. The February maga-
zine number has portraits and sketches
of this kind, of Secretary John Hay.
whose management of international af-
fairs is Just now receiving such wide
spread applause, and of Mr.. T.. l.. God
kin, who has just resigned from the ed
itorship Of the Nation" and of the
Evening Post" of New York. G3 year.
The Outlook company, New York;.
Everybody's Magazine is the name of
comparatively new bidder for public
favor in the 19-cent field. 1t makes a fea-
ture of tin top short stories--the kind
that grip hold of ore-and of simple eX-
plantations of common things that ro-
body understands. For instance. i'm thu
February number We are told in "a re-
markably clear ana graphic manner just
how electricity Is generated, and how 1t
runs the trolley car. For IA purely scicn-
tific subject 1t has been treated with as
tonishng simplicity and brcvity. and no
one can read the article without interest
and profit.
Scrihner's Magazine for February. has
for its frontispiece a portrait of Donald
q. Mitchell, recently drawn from life by
a. !. Keller. This is printed in tints. ana
! is n striking likeness of the venerable
author of "Reveries of a Bachelor" II
is accompanied with ar article on 1.-The
Master of Edgewood," by Arthur Reed
kimhall, who writes on that gracious
and personal side of Mr. Mitchells long
literary career which is associated with
his farm and his friends.
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