The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-01
THE MAGAZINES.

SSAs "a SaebI 8OskBt8 0040S1xe 2o0ue9 which
exceilence touch the high-wster mark OF that
dne periodical There are two papers on Cali
fornia, one entitled ssThe Outlook in Southern
California," the other "The Heart of the Desert"
both BY Charles Dudley Warner, whose style
e as vfvacicus though more finished than when
Among the other distinguished contributors for
January are +, Anstey-he Of '.vice versa"-
who writes on London music halls, which are
Charles Egbert Craddock Miss Murfrec), who
begins continued story Of life in the Tennes.
see mountains; Thomas A: Janvier, with story,
smedley; Theodore Child, in Impressions of
Peru" Mr. de Blowits, better known as Max
O ,6 who tells how to become . journalist;
pessimisttc poem, "Atonemen..'
The frontispiece for February 10 an effective
i of na
Bailey Aldrich's most exquisite short poems.
Henry Lansdell, D. D., and Albert Edenfelt con-
papers on Finland. William Dean Howeils,
Christopher r. Cranch and Louise Imogen
Quincy have verse: Theodore Child, an article
and Edgar Everett Hale . story Lovers OF
Thackeray-and who does not love him-will
turn with delight to twelve original draw
Boudin." with comment By Anne. Thackeray
Richie. The sketches are IN the best style Of
Thacteray's witty csricsturs while the letter
ing several glimpses Of the literary society in
London during fhackeray's day.
Curtis, and sThe Editor's Study, s. william
Dean Howells. ara features of growing interest.
The Februry number Of Pod Lore empha-
sizes the fact that this magazine il not meant
for those to whom Bellamys Looking BACKYARD
or E. P Roes novels seem the perfection of lit
erary art; but rather for the few OF refined lit
srary taste The leading article 10 by Professor
Henry s. Paneoast on "old Age and the Poets''--
Il ant
that the difficulty 10 20 make choice. But of
all the Interesting passages cited, none better
sums the poets view Of old age than the stanza
from Herricks exquisite warning to Girls
sThat age 10 best which sthe first.
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse and worst
In the SECOND article on 1.-THE Destiny Of Mar
riage: Portia and the Caskets," John Phelps
tries to read some remarkably intricnte mean,
ings into the casket scene of the Merchant of
Venice These attempts. OF which lgnatius
most foolish. are always irritating to man
who does not pore over Shakespeare with mi
croscope, and thus lose his grasp OF the poet a
of the plays that Shakespeare wrote
in hot haste. and did not pause to weave riddles
from his works. not because he deliberately put
them in, but by an instructive genius, which
we worms who painfully crawl to the heights
men as they are; and life as il is, is full Of
morals But Nj. Fruit, who seems to give
Shakespeare credit for his own iaboroUs
as those using each word of the Bible
fetch are from the meaning of the wonderful
book OF the Hebrew religion. The number also
contains some clever literary studies by DR..
Morris Jackson, j., Vida D. scudder and DIR.
w. J. Role.
eleventh volume. This magazine, with the ex-
ccption of . leading article in each number by
q graduate, is devoted 70 the work OF under
graduates, and since it usually contains the
best serious thought of the university students,
Is fair index OF the condition OF the under
graduate mind. The best prose article In the
Issue in q sympathetic study of Cardinal New
mans poetry, by Richard Norss Loyett
Among the verse the following sonnet on
"a Head by Whistler" is far better than the
average undergraduate attempt:
ssee the long lashes droop-she doth not will
A mere chance loiterer like me should steal
The secrets of her eyes; yet do feel
Might those dusk lids open wide and still
There we're eyes wondrous. OF that sropic kind
In splendid Gains. or on the surge and swell
OF sudden fempests dsshefh dazed and blind:
When spaugiec su1nmer-srowth of JOY and pain
Lies nlirrored, and the spirits still lsgoons
Are may with loves tanarisks and vines;
Where through the siffed moon the slow snake
From purple bloom-cups jostling odorous rains
Al breath OF which the traveller raves and
swooua
The Atiaase Monthly for March IL. as usual,
rood example of New Engisnd's finest conserva-
tism The Atsaa.ic chooses articles because they
have literary value IN themselves, not because
they are written by an author OF passing notori-
ETY.. a successful railway president politician,
traveller. or prizehghter. In short. the Attdsffc
studjously avoids the sensational The last
number contains, for example, contribution
from such an able historical writer as
Francis Paykman. who treats OF the capture OF
Louisbourg by the New England militia; my
Schooling" O reminiscent fragment by James
Frcernan Clarke: and The Speaker IS Premier
by Albeit Bushnell Hart Harvard authority on
American constitutional history There Is an
instailmeut of Frank K Stoekton's clever story,
aThe House O: Martha" and Arthur T. Hadley
discusses .'Railrosd Problems OF the immediaie
Fut,,ren One of the most entertaining pieces
"a a gnes Repplier's pleasure. . Heresy. who,
in her wittiest STYLE lays down sound principles
NJ rrifirisme for some who have found fauit
with her sfrictures upon novels with a purpose
she holds that novel first aim 10 20 give pleas
ure
No matter how regularly ron read Csrreaf Ia
~rn,u-f each issue Is . fresh surprise with its
vopderfully iine selection of matter from the
magazines and periodicals. Some OF the best
editing in America il done on this monthly. The
Wsrch number lust out, contains = mine OF IN
farsstins reading which touches every phase OF
hnmsu life Among the more famous pieces u
. rnsnfssr from Smo,lett's .Roderick Random,
ana the brilliant description OF the tight In the
Soudsn from Kipling's Light that Failed