The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-03
AMONG THE MAGAZINES.

There are several notable pictorial
features of peculiarly timely interest
and also others Of an artistic flavor in
| the magazine number of the Outlook for
May. In the first class may be named
! that describing District Attorney Jer-
| ONES official home on the East Side of
| New York, and that on the king of
| Spain. who this month becomes king in
act as we'll as in name, by General
| Stewart l.. WOodfOrd, formerly United
| States minister to Spain. Art and mu-
| sic are respectively represented by an
I article on the great Spanish painter
| Sorolla. written by one Of his pupils
and illustrated by reproductions of
paintings and original sketches, and by
a thoughtful critical and personal arti-
| Gle on the work of Grieg by Daniel
| Gregory Mason. Western interests and
| commercial interests are brought to the
front in Ray Stannard Bakers THE
Commerce of the Great Lakes" which
| is as we'll informed as it is readable
and is made picturesque by dozen or
more illustrations relating to the ship
ping and commerce of the lakes. Arti-
| cles relating to the spring season are,
John Burroughs little out t-of-door essay
and poem called "A Spray of Arbutus,'
and j. Fl. McFarland's "a Story of
Some Naples" which is illustrated
with many exceedingly beautiful photo
graphs of trees and their flowers, talk
en- by the author.
The great feature of the May Nc
| Clure's is the first instalment of Miss
Ellen Nj. Stones account of her six
| months captivity among Macedonian
brigands. Miss Stone has risen splen-
! didly to an opportunity that every
| writer of adventure-true or fictitious
may we'll envy he. She has written
| rattling good story, which you will en-
joy whether or not you are interested
in foreign missions. In the most ap-
proved serial style the first paper is
concluded with the announcement by
the brgands to their captives, when
the first appeal for aid has failed, that
they have but nine more days to live.
Every incident is narrated with en-
thralling vividness, and yet with no
stretching after sensation. The best
parts are those which relate the ter
rible flight across the mountains i'm
mediately after the capture, and the
episode in the lonely shepherds hut
when the brigands disclosed their plot
to Miss Stone and Mrs. Tsilka. II is her
reticence concerning her own physical
sufferings and mental anguish in all
this that lends power to the narrative.
The brlgands themselves, ruthless and
Indifferent to their captives comfort as
they were could not refrain from COM
plimenting them on their pluck or
the remaining papers, that on the birth
of Mrs, Tsilka's baby, and the council
of the brigands to determine it's fate,
will be written by Mrs. Tsilka herself.
Edgar Fawcett's novelette, in the
May Smart Set, entitled 1.-The Vulgar
ians," is capital study of the intro
duction into swell society Of a western
young man and his two sisters after
windfall In the financial fortunes of the
| family. These vulgarians are not bad
at heart, only crude and in the first in
stance unconsciously purse proud. They
get over all of these drawbacks,
| thanks to the efficient tutelage of a
| conveniently disclosed young and SYM
pathetic widow in need of job.
The April issue of the Current En-
cyclopedia maintains the high stand
ard of excellence which this publication
! has established and, il possible, excels
1t. 1t is especially strong in its bio
| graphy OF the worlds workers and in
its portraits, maps and diagrams. We
know of no other periodical that COW
ers the field occupied by this one, and
we should not know what to do with
| out IT,