THE SCBA'NTOK TRTBtrTTE-SATUIlDAT MCHNTTTCK ATHIL 18, 1896.
WORLD OF
RECENT FICTION.
In "The Damnation of Theron Wars'
(Chicago: Stone & Kimball) Harold
Frederic has given us one of the strong
est novels of the year, with Its colors,
however, mostly drab and its llshts
not nearly so prominent as its shadows.
Ji is a good specimen of that modern
realism which delights to seek out the
weak spots In human nature and elabo
rate uaon them until one would think
there were nothing but weakness, noth
ing but (allure, nothing but deteriora
tion In life. To be sure, the authors of
these depresslngly accurate transcripts
reply to criticism that they simply hold
the mirror up to nature, and are re
sponsible only lor the fidelity with
which they calr-h and hold the reflec
tion In the glass. Vet It la a sugges
tive, tf not an incriminating, coinci
dence that the glass Is rarely poised
before human nature at its best. Almost
without exception the mirroring re
flects it at its worst. Perhaps the bad
Is more picturesque and more fascinat
ing than the good; at all events, In
realistic novels, it Is more common.
We cannot, with the time at our com
mand, present an adequate synopsis of
Mr. Frederic's book. Its story In. how
ever, thus hinted at rather than dis
closed by Mary Abbott in the Chicago
Tiroes-Herald :
doing with hlk wife to a small villas)
culled Octavlus a small Itinerant Method
ist minister, with a ood oratorical gift,
apparent or say tcuiiorury sincerity, and
deep love for his uneventful but sweet,
self-denying wife. Theruu Ware falls un
der the influence i.f a. Unnuin I'athollo
priest und a Itoiiiuii i.'nlliolic woman, rieh
ami imbued with u io.e tor music, the
Clreek spirit and artistic taste. New, ex
citing, pusslon-vomiielltng. Theron begin
with seeing the oillee of extreme unetlon
adminstereel to a dying workman, and be
comes fascinated by Roman rite, and the
romantic episodes with which the life of
a Koman priest is surrounded. Romantic,
that Is compared to Theron's Methodist
sparaltles of living and dearth of ritual.
Little by little he withdraws from his
own religion, gaping, as lie Koes, at the
delightful vlstus opened to him by friend
ship with a scientific writer, a learned
priest, and a beautiful woman of ad
vanced tendencies.
The woman herself is badly scumbled
In the drawing. .She. behaves badly, and
has no clulm to be as Indignant as she
afterward becomes with Theron. Let her
disgust be what it may at his conduct,
she leads him on, and long after she has
voted him a bore and a nuisance. Sho
even offers to kiss him one dusk, when he
was and she knew it given up to strong
excitement under hitherto unknown press
ure. The great scene is that In which Theron
Strays to the door of Cella's house, and is
led by her to her boudoir, or den, where
She has surrounded herself with all sorts
of accessories most Intoxicating to a man
of Theron's temperament and innocence
of accessory. Brought up on a farm,
companion of slaving, hard-tinted Meth
odists, Theron Is In ken by an exquisite
woman, with whom he Is already fascinat
ed, Into a room tilled with bewildering
luxury of hanging and ornament, ,tnd
then maddened by voluptuous music,
heard for the tlrst time In his life. The
novelist may put words of disgust and
condemnation into Cella's mouth, at the
end, and upbraid him by that organ, for
his many backslidings and faults of dis
loyalty to his humble home, wife and
church. He can never excuse Cella for
her wanton deliberation in leading the
poor soul on to what might have been
his madness, as well as his ruin, that
night. And artistic value Is lost when
Theron Is made to appear the fool, in tint
eDlsode. Naked statues, seen for the tlrst
time under those auspires, gleum at the
confounded gazer: pictures delight his
senses: Incense Alls his nostrils. He
made comfortable he Is Just out from a
lit of Illness on a divan, and his ears
are tilled with the ravishing sounds of
Chopin; the "Fourth Prelude," the "Blxin
Nocturne," the "Seventh Waltz."
A beautiful madonna gazed nt him from
the wall. "He looked from the madonna
to Cella. Beyond the carelessly drooping
braids and coils of hair, which blazed be
tween the candles, he could see the outline
of her brow and cheek, the noble contour
of her lifted chin, and full-modeled throat,
all pink as the most delicue rose leaf Is
ulnk. airninst the cool lights of the altar."
ilut that. was not all, nor half. Cella left
him, stunned, dreaming, and returned
In oxaulslte Greek dress and played
some more. She sang lullabies and bal
lades that sent his senses swirling. ne
Yirouirht him benedictlne to drink when
he was faint the first upproneh to wine
he had ever made. And perfidy to his
wife boiling beef, and his church full
drawling, nasal psalm singers!
Again, some days later, Cella let him
make love to her; he did not know it, but
she did. He becomes desperate, follows
Cella to New York, wither she has gone
with the priest, Father Forbes, on an ex
pedition resembling very much an elope
ment. And here comes one of the most
touching episodes of the book. Theron.
besides himself, with love excitement, the
memory of her voluntary kiss tinging and
inHumlng his passion, pursues her, and
tells his love," utterly Ignoring the fact
that her other lover (as he can but sup
pose) Is with her.
It Is here that the Circe casts him off,
coldly, brutally, calling him, at the
limit of the passion which she had de
liberately Invited and excited, a nuis
ance and a bore. The character of this
woman, we are moved to say. Is not
satisfactorily drawn. It is brilliant,
picturesque, one might almost say
damnable In Its fascinations, but not
convincing. If such women exist out
side of novels, we do not know It. Much
more true to life is Mr. Frederic's pic
ture of Theron's wife nn honest farm
er's daughter, common-place but cheer
ful nnd unsuspicious one of those
models of uneventful domesticity who
are content to go through life, perform
ing In the background the function of
servant and helper, without any wish
to shine. Methodism Is full of such
good, clean-minded, unobtrusive
preachers wives, and It Is, by the way,
to the credit of the cloth that the min
istry of Methodism boasts few Theron
.Wares.
Mr. Frederic Is like to get a double
Biied hornet's nest about his ears by his
Impartial administration of realism to
holies. The
Catholic Father Forbes whom ho sets
as a foil to the weak, vacillating, sus
ceptible and utterly unseasoned young
Methodist parson, Is a picture that few
Catholics will relish. Fair, fat and sy
baritic, a lover of good wine and an
epicure, he presents to every one of
Theron's principles an embodied an
tithesis. The picture of the first meet
ing of these two men upon what might
be called controversial grounds al
though, to tell the truth, Theron was
too dazzled to do much controverting
Is a significant one. Theron had called
on the priest, somewhat Impusively, to
borrow some books that woud elucidate
the character of Abraham, concerning
whom he wished to write. The priest
fell to talking with him, dreamily,
retrospectively, over his, after-dinner
cigar, and soon had led the conversa
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LETTERS.,
tion far away Into the realms of philo
sophic mysticism, where he spoke
monk, other - things of the "Christ
myth." and cave utterance to this
thought: "The earth was just as round
in the days when people supposed it
to be flat, as it is now. Bo the truth
remains always the truth, even though
you give a charter to ten hundred thou
sand separate numskulls to examine It
by the light of their private juugmeni
and report that It Is as many different
varieties of something else.' The con
trast la shuroly drawn throughout the
book between Father Forbes" sleek ma
terialism adapting itself gracefully to
worldly ends under the essentially pa
triarchal system of Catholicism and
Theron Ware's hecticsensuous enthusi
asms which carry him to moral wreck
In part at least because of the facility
which Methodism offers for putting
Into pulpits men who are as babes In
worldly guile and in Intellectual bal
last. "The Damnation of Theron Ware"
has Its weak points. It will receive se
vere criticism. It enters hasardous
ground and cannot escape the risks of
that audacity. Ilut it is. we repeat,
one of the most consummate studies of
human nature in some of its weaker
aspects that has been printed in many a
day. One, after reading It, ran unhesi
tatingly place Mr. Frederic among the
foremost of American novelists, we
should say not second even to Howells,
because he is more virile and more
brave.
!! !l II
Ever since we read George Glsslng s
"Sleeping Fires" (New York: D. Apple
ton & Co.) we have been wondering
why he wrote it. . Qlsslng is a man of
talent rising almost to genius. His
command of the language is ready and
firm; he hat the knack of sketching dis
tinct portraits with a few bold strokes,
and there Is an artist's nicety of per
ception In his coloring and his posing:
and yet with all these merits pleading
In his favor, we cannot for the life of
us come to a decision why he wrote
"Sleeping Fires." What was the mo
tive of it? What is the good of It?
Wherein lies the satisfaction of It?
The story, apart from Its occasional
charming descriptions of Grecian scen
ery descriptions which rise Into form
as cloud, sky or mountain with hardly
the semblance of an effort is almoBt
totally devoid of Interest. There is a
bachelor who in lilu day had been a
blade; a wealthy widow who had once
rejected him because her very proper
parents painted his moral record a
shade or two blacker than It really was,
whereupon she gave herself to a rheu
matic baronet who fortunately soon
had the good taste to die and lastly, a
fossilized old antiquarian with a young
man In tutorial tow who turns out.
shortly before- he, also, expires, to be
the bachelor a own son. Haehelor and
widow are brought together, the sleep
ing fires glow again and the curtain
falls with every assurance that the past
will be burled In the expected Joys of
the future. That is all. Not very
satisfactory or very Important, you say!
Well, that's Just what we have been
thinking ever since we laid the book
down, and that's why we cannot make
out why a genius like Glssing drools
his time out on such commonplace stuff
as this.
II II II
Two novels In paper covers await us
In the Llpplncott Select series. One is
called "Mrs. Itomney," by Rosa Nou
chette Carey, and, to save time, we will
look at it through our New York name
sake's spectacles:
Tears, sad. pensive looks, headaches cul
mlnatlng In due course In a distressing nt-
lacs, or nervous fever, followed In turn
by a "reconciling kiss." and a second
honeymoon "among snow mountains and
Swiss valleys," such are the ingredients
and evolution of the story which Rosa
Nouehette t'Hrey unfolds under the title
or ".Mrs. Konmey." Catherine, sometimes
colled Kitty. Romnev Is a tearful "little
wife," with a shadow-strewn past, Slio
has the misfortune of havinir. until oulte a
lute stage in thc.story.. a weak father and
s. wickcii motner. tne latter a woman of
hysterical excesses of evil, which on one
occasion drive her Idiotic husband to
crime. This In one reason why Catherine
has headaches, and poses In loose,, cling.
Ing draperies of soft stuffs. The other rea
son is that for motives of her own she
fancies she Is obliged to conceal the
dreadful reality from her husband, at the
same time confiding In her husband's
brother, Oliver. The consequences of this
strange situation lead to innumerable mis
understandings. The author has. how
ever, succeeded lu smoothing out all the
wrinkles from the texture of her plot by
menus of the '"reconciling kiss" referred
to above.
The other Is by Adeline Sergeant and
has to do with "The Failure of Sibyl
Fletcher." Sibyl was a well meaning
young girl who went In for art. and
that sort of thing. She Imagined she
was in love with a young man who
was something or a dlletantte and a
dude; but after the failure of her ca
reer as an artist she meets a robust,
passionate, unlettered man who storms
his wooing like some Norse viking
and the reaction from art to nature car
ries Sibyl cuptlve. It should not be In
fcrrcd from these words that 8ibyl did
anything improper. The sanction of
marriage saved her from that. But In
the drawing of her character Miss Bar-
getint shows rather prettily the Inevit
able limitations of what Matthew Ar
nold calls the eternal feminine.
MISCELLANEOUS.
When Charles A. Dana Included Mc-
Clitre's T.ife of Abraham Lincoln In his
list of the twelve best bonks, he as
surcdly made no mlRtake. He put it, If
we remember correctly, seventh on the
list; but we are not so-sure that It
ought not, at least among Americans,
to go next after the IJible and Shakes
peare. We know of no other biography
which so clearly brings home to ores
on, Hv raailtil-u the human nuntllliin nt
mpoifj and puts into such Interesting
reller the comedy and the pathos of his
boyhood days as dues the first Instal
ment of this Life, now handsomely pub
lished In library form, which Includes
the period from lSOT to 1836.
Although one might have Imagined
before Miss Tarbell set to work upon
this taski that the collection of Lincoln
anla had been exhausted, the sequel
effectually disproves such . theory.
Npt only, has she gleaned a considerable
mass -of Interesting new material upon
the subject, in the form of anecdotes,
recollections, old manuscripts and the
like, together with very many absolutely
new portraits both of -Lincoln -himself
and of the -persons and scenes among
whom his epic life was passed, but she
has also given' a final determination
to several points of really great import
ance. She has established,for Instance,
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that Abraham Lincoln was a direct
descendant, of the Lincoln of Hlng
ham, Mass inheriting from that re
spectable ancestry a spirit of adven
ture, patriotism and shrewd Yankee
thrift These Massachusetts Llncolns
were people of con sesra race, most of
them. "One." says Misa Tarbell, "was.
a member of the Boston tea party and'
served as a captalrx of artillery in the
war of the Revolution. Others were
privates In that war. Three serS ed on
trie prig 'Hazard' during the Kevotu
Uon." Levi Lincoln, a great-great-grandson
of the Samuel Lincoln who
was one of three brothers to settle In
Hlngham between 1635 and 1645, having
come from the- west of England) -"was
one of the minute men at Cambridge
Immediately after the battle of Lexing
ton, a delegate to the convention in
Cambridge for framing a state consti
tution and in 1781 was elected to .the
continental congress but declined to
serve. He was a member of the house
of representatives and of the senate
of Massachusetts and was appointed
attorney general of the United States
by Jefferson; for a few months pre
ceding the arrival of Madison he was
secretary of state, and In 1807 he was
elected lieutenant-governor of Massa
chusetts. In 1811 he was appointed as
sociate justice of the United States
supreme court by President Madison,
an ofUce which he declined. From the
close of the Revolutionary war he was
considered the head of the Massachu
setts bar."- Levi Lincoln and Abraham
Lincoln were directly related. - '
Another point established by Miss
Tarbell Is that the immediate ancestors
of Abraham Lincoln, especially his fa
ther, Thomas Lincoln, were not shift
less people nor "poor white trash." The
present biographer believes that for
purposes of contrast the poverty of the
Llncolns had been too frequently over
drawn. "There Is no attempt made
here to deny the poverty of the Lincoln
household, says Miss Tarbell In her
Introduction "but It Is insisted that
this poverty was a temporary, condi
tion Incident to pioneer life and the
unfortunate death of Thomas Lincoln's
father when Thomas was but a boy.
Thomus Lincoln's restless efforts to
better his condition by leaving Ken
tucky for Indiana, In 1816, and after
wards, when he had discovered that his
farm In Spencer county was barren, by,,
trying his fortunes in Illinois, are suf
ficient proof that he had none of the
Indolent acceptance of fate which char
acterizes the 'poor whites.' " ,
- Indeed, the handsome volume Is full
of new points. Its text reads like a ro
mance and its portraits and other illus
trationsthere are 160 in all would
make a connected story even If there
were no words. The enthusiastic re
ception which this Life has command
ed Is a happy proof of the vitality of
the American public's continued inter
est In the greatest human being who
has walked this earth since the founda
tion of our government.
II II II
An Interesting pamphlet rather ob
scurely entitled "The School of Poll
tics" reaches us from Charles H. Kerr
& Co., 56 Fifth avenue. Chicago. It is
written by E. Hofer, "member of the
Eighteenth General Assembly, Salem,'
Oregon," and Is a determined plea for
the better legal safeguarding of the
American primary system. The propo
sition laid down by Mr. Hofer at the
start is that "In the perfected nominat
ing primary every member of every
party should have a direct vote In the
choice of every candidate whose name
appears on the ticket of his party."
Upon this text he says:
Bosslsnv Is today the dominant force In
our politics. Bossism is government
through the worst agencies and at the
largest expense possible. It Is the result
of two controlling forces In American
cities. One of the forces springs from
the ambition of prominent and wealthy
men to have the honors and per
quisites of official, lire without go
ing to the trouble to ask their
fellowmen to confer those honors. They
want places on commissions, boards, con
sulships and foreign missions. They
sometimes attain to the position of state
chairman, national committeeman, or del
egate to national and state conventions.
For all this they are expected to pay. The
second force that goes to make bossisra Is
the appetite of the office-seeking class.
They want offices for what there Is In
them. ' The wealthy partisan for honor
and the enterprising for revenue strike
hands. But there is another mun needed
to carry their force Into effect. It Is the
boss. Sometimes the boss Is himself a
candidate for a lucratlvo ofttcc, but sel
dom for honor. Most frequently the boss
iu too corrupt and must engage In prac
tices too risky to be available for public
office, but he is frequently appointed to
positions of honor and emolument after
the party battle Is won. Such are most
of the collectorshlps, police commlsslon
ershlps, superintendent of public Institu
tions, and postmasters In larger cities.
But the great public offense of bossism
Is the conversion of the policeman from a
peace guardian Into a protector of gam
blers, prostitutes and ward politicians, the
transformation of the courts from Instru
ments of Justice into compounders of
crimes, and the changing of banks from
places for safe-keeping public moneys In
to organisations for wholesale defalca
tions. In smaller ways the corrupting
ramifications of bossosm extend to the
humbler Inhabitants, the laborers, the
draymen, the street sweepers, undermin
ing public sentiment and public virtue
In a manner dangerous to the liberty and
conscience of 'the people. Once in a while
a nest of corruptlonlsts Is unearthed by
chance and dragged Into the courts, and
unable to defeat the laws entirely, heavy
fines are Imposed. The bosses or their
creatures make a "raise" among capital
ists or bankers, and again go to work
to restore their fortunes out of the public
service. As many of the weak banks are
debtors to the public treasury in large
sums and the strong banks make a great
deal of money out of manipulation of the
taxes nnd public warrants, they become
the conservative bulwark of bossism In a
political campaign. When It Is remem
bered that the same bosses, beginning In
the primaries, make the United States sen
ators and through them make the federal
courts, where these same bosses handle
the receiverships of the wrecked banks
and corporations, it will be seen that
bossism Is today the dominant force In
American public affairs. The business
man and private citizen who remains
away from the primaries, or allows his
nunie to be put upon the slate or delegates
as a guaranty of good faith and respecta
bility to enable thugs and boodlers to han
dle the county convention, can see Just
how he contributes to the upbuilding of
public morality and good government in
the name of his party.
Self-government by the people Is on
trial. The people want the best. The
masses have no interest in anything but
good government. When they vote at the
polls they do not knowingly vote for cor
ruption and extravagance. They do not
knowingly and Intentionally put bad men
In office. The theory of a people's gov
ernment does not embrace the idea of the
enrichment of the few nnd the Impover
ishment of the many. ' Yet that, is what
our government is tending to become
more and more. During the past few
years of depression and hard times, the
salaries of the official classes have not
been diminished. Congress after congress
has appropriated over a billion of dollars,
and even the expenses' of the Supremo
and Retail City and Suburban Representative Business Houses.
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their millions of profits yearly In spite of
the distress of the farmers and laborers
who had te- buy their sugars and oil. They
have donated millions -to the great col
leges, and Stanford has alone plaited a
eolosaal university on the Pacific coast.
Bat its catalog are not filled with sens
of .toil, or the farm, but with the children
ef- the already -wealthy. These universi
ties, unless placed on a democratic basis,
will only widen the chasm between capital
and labor. The combination in American
politics, between corporations, capital and
corruption, makes a mockery of the pro
position that all men are created free and
equal, and imposes on the masses all the
oppressions possible under the old feudal
ism and all the. galling' Inequalities be
tween man and man practiced by any
landed aristocracy. Unless the people
can win back the right to delegate their
authority and enforce representative re
sponsibility from, the first Inception of
the primary, or, caucus, te the highest
nominating convention, and office-holders
In general, w shall see built up in our
country a plutocracy consisting of wealth
ana power gained oy corruption, ana
trampling under foot the last vestige of
the liberties of the people.
8o long as the primaries are left open to
manipulation of Interested parties there
will be no separation of city, county,
state and national government. Even the
school election la made to contribute Its
quota of spoil to the machine, and teacn
trs are appointed and traded luto plae
by means of the political "putt." 'The city
primaries are packed to secure county of
fices and state appointments. The federal
patronage is used to build up the heelers,
who In return are to help make a slata
In the contest for state offices and legis
latures. So wheels revolve within wheels
until the ordinary citizen la amased at
the confusion and Intricacy of the politi
cal machinery which he is supposed to
manage. But the main wheel that drives
all the vast and complicated mechanism
of American politics is the unprotected
primary. We protect the ballot-box, the
treasury, the courts and some minor de
partments of government from selfish at
tacks of interested parties. '- But we leave
the primary, the source and mainspring of
all our political-procedures, to, the con
trol ok me governing ciass, wno are in
terested not in the governed and still less
In good government. We all understand
that the bosses are not In politics for their
health, that their business Is polllcal trick
ery and rascality; yet we expect the men
they nominate to be honest. Everybody
knews where the serpent of evil, lies, but
no one ha been able to scotch it.
. With our local, county, state and general
elections all Inter-meshlng and often held
at the same time, the manipulation of the
primary becomes five-fold more Important
to the man who has his living to make out
of politics. . When he Is left to place his
own estimate upon the Importance of his
service, Is it any surprise, whether honest
ly or dishonestly, he places It sufficiently
high? If he sets In motion the wheel that
drives all the other wheels in the mill of
politics the primary why shall he not
take sufficient toll? When we have re
formed the primaries so that no man shall
govern us without the consent of the
governed, when we haye. separated local,
state end federal - elections so that one
boss cannot, by manipulating one set of
primaries and nominating convention,
control our affairs from the school
district to the president's appoint
ments, then can we be said to have a self
government by the people, and not until
then shall we be able to have henest of
ficials. When the sheriff who draws the
Jury and the Judges on 'the bench no lon
ger owe their places to the machine, we
may be able to convict the man who has
worked the machine to corruptly enrich
himself and others. Even though local
and general elections be held separate av
to time, so long as the present primary
system prevails, they are held under one
machine and the people get but little ben
efit from voting at different times for
state, city and school officials. We must
either abolish the present delegate con
ventlon and primary, or we must safe-
ftuard it by laws as stringent as the ballot
aws, provide for holding the primaries at
public expense and have a direct vote of
all parties for their choice of candidates
at the same time and place.
' II II II
"A History of the American Tariff"
(Chicago: Charles H. Kerr ft Co.) Is
an opportune production by Eugene C.
Lewis. It treats of the period from
1789 to 1860 and. gives a handy sum
mary of historical facts, but does not
argue either for or against protection.
A portrait of ex-Governor McKlnley
adorns the title page;'-'
II- u.'Jt -
"How to Live Well on Twenty-five
Cents a Day" (New York: J. S. Ogilvle
Pub. Co., 57 Rose st.) contains a series
of good dally menus, with cost figured
down to 25 cents a day for each plate;
also, many valuable hints and helps for
housekeepers, all by Mrs. Geslne
Lemcke, of the Cooking college, Brook
lyn. .
LITERARY GOSSIP.
A History of the Warfare of Science
with Theology In Christendom is the full
tlte of the Important work by the Hon.
Andrew D. White, which is to be published
Immediately by D. Appleton & Co. In this
book the author "simply tries to let the
light of historical truth Into that decay
ing mass of outworn thought which at
taches the modern world to mediaeval
conceptions of Christianity, and which
still lingers among u most serious bar
rier to religion and morals, and a menace
to the whole normal evolution of society.
My belief is that In the field left to
them their proper field the clergy will
more and more, as they cease to strug
gle against scientific methods and con
clusions, do work even nobler and more
beautiful than anything they have here
tofore done. And this Is saying much. My
conviction Is that science, though it has
evidently conquered dogmatic theology
baeed on biblical texts and ancient modes
of thought will go hand in hand with Re
ligion; and, that although theological con
trol will continue to diminish religion as
seen in the recognition of 'a power in the
universe, not ourselves, which makes for
righteousness,' and In the love of Qod and
of our neighbor, will steadily grow strong
er and stronger, not only in the American
Institutions of learning but in the world
at large."
II II II
Mrs. Everard Cotes (Sara Jeannette
Duncan) has sent from her Cclautta home
a novel of social and official life in India
called "His Honour, and a Lady," which
represents this popular author's most fin
ished and successful w.ork. The serial
publication in England was secured by W.
W. Astor for the Pall Mall Magazine, and
the interest which the story has aroused
in the course or its serial Duplication in
dlcates Its decided success when it ap
pears in book form. The story differs
from most Anglo-Indian 'novels In that
the native life Is not made conspicuous.
It does not depend upon the strangeness
of its characters and curiosities of man
ners and customs for Its Interest, though
these are touched upon, but rather upon
an adroit analysis of motives and a very
curious Interaction of characters relieved
by the author's unfailing humor. This
novel will be published with Illustrations
by D. Appleton ft Co.
A disruption has occurred In the Chi
cago publishing Arm of Stone & Kimball.
Mr. Stone retires and Mr. Kimball de
clares that he will move the firm's effects
to New York, which he deems a better
book mart than Chicago. The Chap-Book,
too, will be transplanted. It is an Inter
esting periodical, of real although uneven
merit, and its dainty conceits have won
their way Into the esteem of thousands
of book-lovers. Although purposely some-
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Baboook, G. J. A Co., 110 Franklin.
MINE AND MILL SUPPLIES.
Seranton Supply and Mach. Co., 131 Wye.
FURNITURE..
Hill A Connell, 111 Washington.
CARRIAGE REPOSITORY. '
Blums, Wm. A Boa, 633 Spruce.
HOTELS.
Boran ton House, near depot,
MILLINERY A FURNISHING OOODB,
Brown's Bee Hive, 324 Lacka. '
, City and Suburban. "
ATHLETIC GOODS AND BICYCLES.
Florey, C. M., 333 Wyoming. -
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Quaiter A Fersyth, in Peon.
what affected and faddish. Chap-Book
nevertheless had substantial merit. The
list oMt eontrrbotors Is notable one.
Including ueh emrant writers as Thorn
Bailey Aldrlch, Rtcsard Henry Stoddard,
Buaene Field, Hamlin Garland. Julian
Hawthorne, Bliss Carman. LeuUe. Imo
gen Gulney. and Louise Chandler Moulton
among the, American names, while Ed
mund OeMe. Israel jlangwlll. John David
son, William eVharp. Kenneth Grabaroe
and other Kngliah writers of note have
been represented by prose and verse. Brad
ley. BrSgdon.CpjBby, Hazenplug-and many
Other .original ,ail interesting draughts
men have made pictures. It is due to
Stone A Kimball to nay that they have
done more than any other young firm to
make books neat and attractive to the
eye. The-mecbanlcal get-up of their vol
umes has- been without exception ex
quisite. Mr. tftone. it Is said, will remain
In Chicago and start a new bi-monthly
magazine somewhat on the Chap-Book's
lines.
U II II
AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS:
James Barrle has written a new play.
Robert Buchanan will father still an
other monthly, the New Review.
"Madame Sarah Grand's" real name
turns out to fee Mrs. Haldane McFall.
The Appletona are to publish, and that
shortly, a new volume of poems -by Rud
yard Kipling.
A popular biographical sketch of "The
Pope, Leo Xll," Is In the press of Fred
erick Warne Co. It Is by no less a per
sonage than Justin McCarthy.
The scene of Charles K. I.ummls' new
story. "The Goldfish of Gran Chlmu," Is
laid in feru. i tin plot concerns tne sea re n
for a burled treasure.-
A new wrtter of Scottish fiction Is to he
introduced. His name is Neil Munro, and
his initial volume is to appear as "The
Lost Pibroch, and Other Shelling Sto
ries." 'Max- Pc-mberton's next long romance will
be a story of life In Venice in the Middle
Ages. He Is also engaged upon a series
of stories of life In I'aris during the reign
of Louis XV for the Strand Magazine.
, English literary circles are much ex
cited concerning the identity or the au
thor of "Regeneration." who has so ably
replied to Max Nordau. Beth Herbert
Bpencer and James Bryce have been sug
gested by certain reviewers..
Last year -foreign authors contributed
two-thirds of the presentable fiction pub
lished In this country reciprocally, our
authors contributed less than 1 per cent
of the fiction published abroad. Publisher
J. Selwyn Talt, in the New York Evening
Post.- , -
Di 8. Weir Mitchell has Just put the
finishing touches to Ills new story, "Hugh
Wynne (Free Quaker; Sometime Brevet
Lieutenant Colonel on the staff of His
Excellency, George Washington." The
time of the story covers a Derlod of exact
ly thirty years, from 1753 to 1783, and deals
largely with Whig Quaker and the social
lire or Philadelphia In the eighteenth cen
tury." Six Jewish works will be published dur
ing this spring by the Mucmlllans. They
are: "Jewish Social Life In the Middle
Age,'1- by Israel Abrahams; "Aspects of
Kabolnlc Theology," Dy Ur. 8. Schecter;
"The Jewish rTayer Book, ty the Kev. a.
Singer; "The Return of the Jews to Eng
land." by Luclen Wolf: "The Jewish
Race," by Joseph Jacobs, and "Jewish
Ethics, by the Rev. Matinee Joseph.
The "Memoirs and Correspondence of
Oliver Wendell Holmes," edited by John
T. Morse, jr., Is now announced ror May,
Mr. Morse has enjoyed the heartiest aid
and co-operation of Dr. Holmes' family,
so the biography comes to the nubile with
the stamp of the fullest authority and au
thenticity. Thi letters are largely to
James Russell Lowell. John Lathron-Mot-
ley, Mrs. Harriet Beeeher Stowe and Miss
Mary Phelps.
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for the Heart and Immediately pro
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lief inside of twenty minutes and firmly
believe tt was the means of saving my
life."
If your heart flutters, palpitates or
tires out easily. It is diseased, and treat
ment should not be delayed a single
day. Dr. Agnew s Cure for the Heart
relieves almost Instantly and will ef
fect a radical cure. Sold by Matthews
Brothers.
Nothing Succeeds Like Success.
The success of the Speer N. J. Wine
company in producing an extra qunllty
of Grape Brandy 1b marvelous. They
reiy alone on the grape for body and
flavor, and hence there is a wide and
growing demand for this Brandy which
rivals the old brands of Cognac. France,
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Old Climax Brandy and his Old Port,
five to fifteen years old. For table use
their Clarets, Hautemes, Burgundies
and P. J. Sherry are unsurpassed. For
tne sick room, hospital and Sacrament
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gists.
The Nickel Plate Road controls the
dining stations on Its line and they re
ceive unsnntea praise.
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WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER.
Rogers, A. B., 216 Lackawanna.
BOOTS AND SHOE3.
Goodman'! Shoe Store, 433 Lackawanna.
FURNITURE.
Barbour's Home Credit House, 425 Lacka,
CARPETS AND WALL PAPER.
Inglls, J. Scott, ill Lackawanna.
' GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Osterheut. N. P., 110 W. Market.
Jordan, James, Olyphant,
Barthold, B. J., Olyphant
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER,
Snook, S. M., Olyphant
PAINTS AND WALL PAPER.
Wink. J. C. tli Penn. -
. TE Ac COFFEE AND SPICE.
Qiand Union Tea Co., in 8. Mala.
a ymii isiiLfLMBSjaasauaka'
What io
Castoriu is Dr. Samq el Pitcher's prescription for Inflinter,
and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance.
for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor OO.
It is Pleasant. Its fjruaranteo is thirty years use by1.
Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and
allays Fcverishncss. 1 Castoria prevents vomiting Sour.
Curd, cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic Castoria relieves
Teething troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency.
Castoria assimilates the Food, regulates tho Stomach
and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Casl
toria is tho Children's Panacea the Mother's Friend
Castoria.
"Castoria is an excellent medklne for
children. Mothers have repeatedly told me
ef its good effect spaa their children. "
pr.CC Osgood,
: Lowell, Man.
'Castoria is the best remedy for children
of which I am acquainted. . I hope the day
is not far distant when mothers will con
sider the real interest of their children, and
use Castoria instead of the various quack
nostrums which are destroying their loved
ones, by forcing opiam, morphine, toothing
syrup and other hurtful agents down their
throats, thereby sending them to premature
graves. Dr. J.F.Kixchklox,
Conway, Ark.
Children Cry for
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PIANOS
" At a time whett' many 'manu
facturers and dealers are making
the most astounding statements
regardingthe merits and durability
of inferior Pianos, intending pur
chasers should not fail to make
critical examination of the above
instruments.
E. C. RICKER
General Dealer In Northeast
era Pennsylvania.
New Telephone Exchange Building. 116 1
Adam Ave.,
amsKaiei oatds a nllahlt,
th pormt drun
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For sale by JOHN H. PHELPS,
6pruoe8tneet, Seranton Pa.
Compladon Presemd
OR. HCBRA'S
VIOLA GREAf,!
Remove Preeklu, Ptmpka,
par . Molei. 6lsslihtd2
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stores the sUn to Its origi
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nlexlon. ganerlor to all fnp
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VIOLA SKIN SOAP hpit iMearms u
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rival for tha nunerr. AUwlutrtr fort ta4 ntllralalj natt
otad, Al dratirlita. Prise 25 Cents.
G. C. BirTNERo. CO., Toledo, Q,
For sale by MATTHEWS BROS, and
JOHN H. PHELPS, Seranton, Pa.
FLORAL DESIGNS.
Clark, G. R. A Co.. 301 Washington.
CATERER.
Huntington, J. C, 808 N. Washington.
GROCERIES.
Plrle, J. J., 427 Lackawanna.
UNDERTAKER AND LIVEltT.
Raub, A. R., 425 Spruce.
DRUGGISTS.
McGarrah A Thomas, 300 Lackawanna.
Lorents, C, 418 Lacks;. Linden A Weak.
Davis, a. W Main and Market.
Bloe, W. S Peckvllle.
Davtes, John J 106 S. Main.
CARRIAGES AND HARNESS.
Blmwell, V. A., 516 Linden. . .
PAWNBROKER.
Green, Joseph, 107 Lackawanna.
. CROCKERY AND GLASS WARE,
iUrdiic,XXa.,SllLifikawaBaa.
It is a harmless substitute)
Castoria.
Castoria is so well adapted to chOdrea ',
that I recommend It as sspcrkc to any pro
cription known to me." '
n. A. ABCxxa, M. D.
' tit So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. T.
" Ottf phytietant In the ehUdren't depart
meat have spoken highly of their expnicace .
in their outside practice with Castoria, and-'
although we only have among oar medical
supplies what is knows as regular prodncbv
yet we are free to esafest that the meriti
of Castoria baa won as to look with favot
Bponit"
TjjrrrxB Hoarrrix ajtd DnumaT,
Pitcher Castoria;
whit, new vees rtv.
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For sale by MATTHEWS BROS. anJ
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-. BROKER AND JEWBLBH.
Radln Bros., 133 Penn.
DRY GOODS, FANCY GOODS'
Kretky, B. H. A Co.. 114 B. Main. .
CREAMERY
Stone Bros.! 103 Spruce. 1
BICYCLES, GUNS. ETC
Parker. B. R-. 121 Spruce.
Spruce. . .
NO ROOMS. "1
DINING 1
Caryl's Dining Rooms, 505 Llndtn, 1 :
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TRUSSES. BATTERIES AND RTJBBE3
,- 1 OOODB. ' vv, '.,
Benjamin A Benjamin, Franklin A Spsus
MERCHANT TAILOR.
Roberts, J. Wi, m N. Mala;
PIANOS AND OROANBk , - "... .
Stella, J, Lawrence, M Spruce.
DRY GOODS, CLOTHING. BHOEaV
HARDWARE. '
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