The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-05-01
LITERARY NOTES.

a sample COPY of tho Rand. McNally indcxcd
pocket map OF this state has just come TO hand,
containing the official figures Of the census OF
1900. Tho map is 2lX2s inches in size, and Is
printed from perfectly engraved plates. every
line being clear and distinct, every word plain
and readable. The railroads accurately 10.
Gated, and all lakes, rivers creeks and other
natural features given. Accompanying the
map is and original compilation OF stats.
tical matter combined with rcadyrcercncc
index. showing in detail the entire railroad sys.
tenn; locating correctly all counties county seats.
towns villages, ETC.; designating the branch or
particular division Of railroad on which each
station is situated specifying moncy.ordcr. post
Office and telegraph stations and naming the cN-
press company or companies doing business at
each point.
American County Life is the title Of new
monthly magazine Doubleday, Page & Co. will
publish early in the autumn. 1t is expected to
interest every one who cares for outdoor mat
ters OF any sort. Liberty II. Bailey. who as
editor of the Cornell Nature Bulletins, author,
professor, and practical farmer, has done more
than almost any other person to promote interest
in outdoor matters, will edit it. The publish.
cis claim that it is going to be the most
beautiful magazine the Observation-Disclosures
it has the most beautiful subjects, and no pains
original charm.
D. Appleton & Co. have in preparation nota.
bic series of nature books. supcrbly illustrated in
colors by lithographic process. The new edition
OF Frank NJ. Chapman's ''BirdLitc,' with sew.
cnty.hve plates OF our common birds in their
natural colors, reproducing Ernest Seton.Thomp.
sons drawings; Professor John Henry Comstock's
'lnsect Life with its fine pictures of butterflies
md oth hpr
works OF Familiar Trees and Familiar Flow
ers'' particularly valuable
'.Thc Woman's Book of Sports" by ]. Parmly
Parct, published by the Applctons, is practical
guide for amateur sportswomcn. Golf lawn ten.
MS, sailing, swimming, bicycling and skct.bal
have each their chapters, and each game is
treated from the elementary standpoint. 1t is
thoroughly illustrated with half-tonc rcproduc-
tions of instantaneous photographs showing the
correct and incorrect methods in the different
sports.
Characteristic of the rise of Everybody Maga
inc TO most prominent place among the 10
cent monthlics. is the novel of Revolutionary
days in the Carolinas by Mrs. Sara Beaumont
Kennedy, running in its pages. In many
respects 'Joscclyn Cheshire promises to be the
most noteworthy historical novel in several
years. Doubleday, Page & Co. will publish the
book RcSt month
second edition IF Howard Suthcrland's
charming California idyl1 ".Jacinta," is to he
brought out by DrcXcl Biddlc, the Philadelphia
publisher. Uniform with this book will he
"Bigg's Bar collection OF humorous klon-
dyke ballads by the same author ''.Iacna"
is a return to the old ballad school, wherein a
tale is told in verse: the Klondykc verses
the only ones of the kind on the market today
An earnest plea for the preservation OF Niagara
from the cncroachment Of commercial and manu-
featuring interests, so far as these may iniurc the
beauty of the greatest natural wonder OF America,
is made in the Outlook's magazine number for
May by Miss Mary b. llart. The article Is
accompanied by illustrations which add to the
point of the authors remarks about the injury
already done TO the beauty OF the Falls.
Edgar s. Macay has added to his standard
"IIistory Of the United States Navy" third
volume, bringing the work down to the present
time, and OF course rceounting the exploits Of
sailors during the Spanish war and in the
recent troubles in China. This history has been
officially adopted for use at Annapolis. 1t is
published by d. Appleton s. Co.
The London and Bath of Beau Brummell's
time form the background for ''The Curious
Courship of Kate Poins" a brilliant romance
o, the regency, written by Louis Evan Shipman,
and to be published shortly by d. Appleton 4
Co.
Iovecttcrs seem to be the order Of the day,
and particularly timely, therefore, is the new
edition of Ills Letters" by Julien Gordon,
thor of "Mrs. Clyde and "a Puritan Pagan"
It will be brought out by d. Appleton Co.