Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-12-09
LITERARY NuTss.

New England dialect stories. hef
nav hook. entitled seven Dreamers,
which includes some OF her best
wr-k. Is announced 10y Harrer
Rrotbe-S as nearly resiy f"r publ
cation.
The Forum. for November, lssh'
hss The following list of Rrlcie-;
Ths Government OF American Ut
i4s. Andrew D. White: Forinattve
Influences. Archdeacon F. W. Far
rsr: The Stability of the French Re
public. Jules simon: Family Stocks
in s Democracy. President {. W.
Eliot: The Burnaniiies, MaiorJ. W.
Powell: Pity, GeDuioe and spun-
ops. Frances Power CObhe; Dee
China Menace the World? Presi-
dent ". A. P. Martin; Armor Tor
War Ships, Commander F. NJ. Bar
ber: Notes OH Ghosts, Andrew
Lang: Speed IN Railway Travel,
Prof. K. II. ThurSton, City Growth
and Party Politics, William NJ.
Springer. s. year; 80 cents
copy.
why do American girls wish 10
Marry Abroad - Is tine QUESTION
which Mrs. John Sherwood will dis
cuss in the next nunber OF Harrer's
Bazaar. The saIne pumber Will con
tain an extravaganza by Duiheld
Osborne entitled "Panzy," and
practical article on "Tablesu1 VI
rsnis." by Mary Gay Humphreys
FEW BOOKS, BIT GOOD ONES.
Canon T. ". Farrar in December
Forum says; In the distant days
when / vas boy, bOoks-at any
rate ann, u sco o31lnpys in secluded
Mons-w--e NOT easily procursble,
We pc--e-s d but few ourselves, had
never heard o. circulating librarirs,
and saw only weekly nevspa per- Il
We .sw auy q; sll. perhaps the
modern schOolOoy. who reads half E
dozen ue.sspa pers. who = often fam
ilisr to boot with all the sI'orring
newspapers, and ali tine ''socie;y
newspapers. and all the literary and
religious journals, and sbo, besides
swimming every day In these rurDiG
waters OF popsiar journalism. may
serfeit and satists himself with
Scrsps, and tid-5iis, and shilling
shockers, and novels with green and
yelIoV hacks. snd sensational liters-
rure OF every possible description,
may be inclined 10 regard u with
pity as very benIghted beings.
think, on the contrary, that We were
distinct gaIners by not being hurried
under mountain loads 0f nonentity
and rubbish. We could yet hold Of
Sir Walter SCOTS novels, and Feui-
more Copper's and Captain Marry
att's, and had read them all and dis
eussed their characters among our
selves.
THE True STUDY or POETRY.
Cannon z. ". Fsrrar in Decem-
Der Forum writes: From early
years was fond Of poetry, and ]
owe an immense debt TO the poets,
not only because ! have found in
them them the greatest and best OF
u.n,.f f..an.rs u-bn varaala-I m tuG
or confirmed in me, the purest
truths on which il is possible Ia live
bot also D--cause they have illunIi-
mated many dark hour, aud added
fresh sunlight TO many bright one,
by noble lessons st to natural mu-
sic in noble words. They have
helped me to hang the picture gal
lery OF imae eiDation with lovely and
delightful sceue-, and 10 take ref
uge from any stsrm which might
beat upon NE from without in that
flood Of unquenchable sunshine
which they have kindled from
within.
The London rirncs says Of Sir
Walter Scptt's journal, the Amer j.
eau edition Of which has just been
published by Harper a Brothers:
Those who read It will clearly
understand what sir Walter scott
~as as man, and such a man ar he
II the more beloved the more iu-
timately he is known. He reveals
himself with perfect caBdOr and
completeness in his Journal, aud he
appears even greater in its pages
than in otner works from alis pen
which are prized as English classics
The Art Amateur for December
1850, is at once the beginuihg of a
new volume and d Christmas num-
f-er, Increased ia size both in the
paper itself and liz supplement
without extra charge. The coloFed
plates are exceptionally fine and in
clude; A Portrait Study by J. Car
roll Beck with. being a fac. simile Of
the first painting" IN oils of the
portrait Of Mr.. Colfiu, the artist.
This large supplement- j. probably
the most important yet issued of the
FIRST stage Of a portrait, showing al
IN. ~ II does, the grouping aud mr.