The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-08-28
LITERARY NOTES.

Ainslee's magazine, beginning with the
| October issue, is to be doubled i'll size
| sold for 10 cents and converted into
competitor of the Smart Set.
A description of ...reaching by Core.
| spondence," contributed to the September
Worlds Work by Russell Doubleday, Is
| in effect study of the International Cor
| respondence Schools and therefore of To-
cal interest.
Ralph Connor's new Glengarry stories
two delightful sketches of boy life In q
| field which he has already made fa-
| mous--form one Of the most attractive
features of the September number OF
| Leslies Monthly.
.The World Today" the rechristened
| Current Encyclopedia, now aiming to oc-
| cupy a field similar to that of the World S
Work and the Review of Reviews, is evil
| IDENTIFY prospering. The September Issue
equals in interest, variety and scholarship
any yet published.
| In the September issue. John Gilmer
| Speed describes the methods and pur-
poses of the much mooted beef trust. in
an article entitled 1.-The Beef Trust and
the Public" He gives a very thorough
| meaning of the reasons for the trust and
| it's relations to the general public.
Lovers of the works of Robert Louis
| Stevenson will read with interest an ar
| ticle in Harpers Magazine for September,
entitled ''In Stevenson's Country" by
William Sharp. Mr. Sharp was a devoted
| friend of Stevenson's, and he writes with
| informing sympathy of the places the
| novelist loved and made immortal in his
books.
of 10 'c Nv T optc
| Edwards the novelette, with which the
September Smart Set opens, is a charac-
ter study at once distinctive and strong
The analysis is subtle in its revealment
of a womans nature Another story of
especial worth but in lighter vein is '"rhe
Shining Gloss" by Gertrude Lynch. in
which the psychology of beauty's attitude
toward itself is most cunningly and clear
ly portrayed.
Among the scientific men who went to
the West Indies on the Dixie relief eXDe-
dtioan. for the purpose of studying the
phenomena of the eruptions of May 7-S.
were Professor Robert Il. Hill, geologist
United States geological survey, and Is
rael C. Russell, professor of geology in
the university of Michigan. The results
of the Investigations of these two gen
tlemen are to be published in the Sep
tember Century.
Walter A. Wyclloff the author Of "The
Workers" begins new series in the
September Scribner's dealing with the
conditions which surround the wage
Garner in England He studied the
question at first hand last summer, and
his conclusions will surprise many stu
dents of social questions. The picture
that he draws of the laboring man in
London is much brighter than the Amer
lean idea of him.
A. Radcliffe Dugmore the artist
sportsman and photographer of out door
life. Is at present in the Maine woods.
On his return he will contribute series
of elaborately illustrated articles on
camping, fishing and hunting to Country
Life in America, for which magazine he
is now engaged to work exclusively. His
entire collection of marvellous photo
graphs of birds, wild flowers and native
animals, including some three thousand
negatives, has recently been purchased by
Doubleday, Page & Co.
William Allen White has got into the
game again, and takes the leading place
in the September McClures with an ar
ticle on "Cuban Reciprocity. a Moral Is
sue." in which he speaks his mind about
beet roots and insurgents and the admin
istration policy--which, incidentally, hap
pens to be Mr., Whites policy, too. Short
ly after he and Mr.. Thomas Patt had
had their says about each other last win
ter, Mr.. Whites health gave way: and
this Is his first magazine article for six
months. To Judge by the style of It, how
ever. Mr. Whites convalescence Is now
complete. 1t has the familiar vim and
dash, which give promise that from
henceforth there will be something do
Ing pretty regularly in the line which the
Emporia editor has made his own