Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1892-06-09
MAGAZINE NOTES.

MAGAZINE NOTES.
"Poitics make strange bedfellows,"
but that incongruity is slight compared
with the curious assortment that are
gathered this month between the nom
partisan sheets Of the North American
Review. We find the reverend Dean Of
Westminster, Archdeacon Farrar, dis
GUESSING the extension of Westminster
Abbey, in close proximity to Ouida who
writes Of "The Penalties Of Well Known
Name," in way to almost reconcile
humble obscurity with its lot. Ouida
evidently writes from the fullness of a
bitter experience of the impertinence Of
prying public. 1t would be interesting
to know if she ever associated the charac-
ter OF her books with The character of the
public whose interest and curiosity they
excite. Mrs. Browning who, for instance,
bore quite as well-known a name as
Ouida did not have to pay quite SO heavy
a penalty for the luxury Of greatness.
Among other contributions to the June
North American is vigorous article by
Murat Halstead. "a Silver Senator Re-
viewed" Prof. R. l.. Garner writes of
"What Expect to Do In Africa" A
great deal of interest has been taken by
the public in the curious studies made by
Prof. Garner OF the language of the apes.
These experiments asrecorded by himself
in two recent numbers Of the Cosmopol-
itan have shown some patience and orig
inality, but for all that we are not yet
prepared to award Prof. Garner the crown
Of martyrdom, for which he is clamoring
in advance, solely upon the strength OF
his intended journey to Africa Many
men have intended to go to Africa and
good many have gone and also returned.
Prof. Garner seems to be almost melted
to tears by the picture he draws Of his
own noble disinterestedness in being
willing to forego the comforts Of civil
lied life, the endearments of home, and
the blessings Of health and plenty" to
plunge into the jungles OF Africa, to study
the speech Of the apes.
Nothing about his equipments is too
Insignificant, if he has invented it, to
elicit his own enthusiasm from the cage
woven of steel wire, in which he is to
make his unique and marvellous" ex-
periments, to the rubber canteen of his
Gown Device" from which he will squirt
ammonia into the admiring eyes OF the
approaching tigers, nothing is mentioned
but to be praised. Among the many
things which Prof. Garner assures US he
will do while he is in Africa nothing is
perhaps SO interesting as the promised
photograph that he will take with his
kodak of the natives, dancing in their
SINS" Only second to it in pathos is the
description he gives of himself sallying
forth into the wilderness attended by
the prayers Of earnest friends" with
my life in one hand and my equipment
in the other" lettering under the weight
OF the steel cage, electric battery, kodak
camera, phonograps, rubber canteen, and
the rest Of that remarkable parapherna-
liza which has been gotten up at his "own
expense" Ia their Desdemona to thrill
at the prospective danger to this oyer
burdened hero, or do "the endearments
OF home" point to her capture at least,
being an accomplished fact? Theabsurd
egotism Of all these claims would not be
so palpable, except that we have been
taught, by such men as Darwin and Tyn-
dali, to expect from the true man OF
science the most perfect modesty, the
sinking OF self and selfish motives alb
solutely in the search for truth. Prof
Garner illustrates new phase of the |
morbid passion for notoriety as devel-
oped by modern life. The interest that
might be felt in his work is sunk in dis
gust at the antics of the poseur.
The Cosmopolitan Magazine has
showed decided change and an i'm
provement under Mr.. Howells' editor
ship in the last two numbers. That for
June opens with clever burlesque of the
Philadelphia upper set, by Jauvier, CAPT.
tally illustrated by de Meza. Another
excellent drawing illustrates a poem
by Maurice Thompson, called, "a
Woodland Mood" There is an ideal
quality about this and all the best
OF Kenyon Cox's drawings that
makes them especially fit for the illus
tration of poetic subjects. There has been
a noticeable falling off in quality in the