Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-08-10

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Moro ..nd nv, ! wac y tla ii
the reyiewe. bpols having :" ~
90 imprint. They ,trc, 4 rttc. ~,
covered. but many OF taem are : - /
ana there comes occasionally la'a'
cation us pretsutioas in tAe El"'sos =
bidding and as not be ~ qua " "hN
name OF author as any pF'al5l ny
where. The distance ot al! = ~,
Chicago is coming RAPIDLY to tAe tS'''-
as publishing center ~ = p@o'-"
ing. naturally, Que OF the ttra' t@N'
ters as well. Some strong men IN tle
world Of letters, men who nave az
really done striking wor.; all wac W..
be better known vita eaea year til''1
passes, are included in the Chicago
group.
The personal character the sur
roundiugs, the particular style %
effort of the Chicago Literary eon-
tingent should not be without Interest
No Que OF the group, probably Is Deter
known than Eugene Field Wonder
fully versatile in his work, Il writer 81
/ dainty versa. teller Of stories that
touch the heart and ruthless deltneator
| of what is the weak or vicious TRAIT u
the pompous among Philisttnes IL was
inevitable that he should make 3.
reput ttion. The fact that he has had
newspaper column, in which 70 m
dulge his grotesque fanctes' ing
..Sharps and Flats" column Of the
Chicago News, has assisted greatly IN
securing for him the recognition nc
deserves. He has done work outside
the newspaper, but OF this work the
public has yet seen little. When there
appears by-and-by something which
will make people say that there i au
American Hans Christian Anderson, It
will be book OF short stories BY
Eugene Field. He may like othel
work he has in hand better, but non'
will do more to make his fame where
fame counts for something.
Opie P. Real, Of The Arkansaw
Traveller, humorist, story-ielIer,
giant in figure and a little child over
the beautiful, Is another ChicaEoan
whose name may be a national POSSES
sion. Who has not rend his story o
Len Gansett" has missed reading on,
American novel which is a photograph
OF life ia one part OF the country and I
tale which somehow reaches the heart
1t has man and woman in IL. When
Theodore Winthrop died in battle TIN
man who might have been the Ameri
can novelist went down. There hayt
been shores of American novels, ;
called, written since then, but say
one or two reminders in the work o
/ DeForrest nothing until Opte Reat
! began to write which even sugge5ts'
the outdoor American yiri!ity o
John Brent" the real America
, whom we recognize with his love affair
John McGovern, editorial writer o
the Chicago Herald, has written on
novel, strong one, but Of the cit
. purely, IN John Treniworthy.
McGovern is the Chicago Carlyle
His sentences are like stones from
, sling, his thoughts above precedent {
i, present fashion. He is in n litcrar
group what Ingalls, Is in the Unite
States senate. He is student, has
brain, and is what, perhaps, the ma
whose name is used in the smile ml
I not be, a crusader. He must be heal
) from, for he is power naturally. {
1 a newspaper less bold and just thu
a the newspaper on which he writes,
q its editorial tone, he would be aImo
d a bull in china shop. He is at hon
r where he is, but there cannot be
i only field.
e L. j. McPheIim, dramatic critic
: the Chicago Tribune, Is one Of Il
e Chicago writer's who should do mo
y work for the magazines. He can
9 wonderful work "a choice poem,
o review which will command atteutio
n a dramatic story he cares 10
: so, but he doesn't often care to do
If Scourged, he would make mar
It swiftly. -Ex.