Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1893-06-22


through the June number of the Cent
ury. The opening article is an account
of the pleasures and perils of cruise on
the Florida coast, by Lieutenant Hem,
the English naval officer, who, in 1886,
sailed the Galatea against the Mayfower
for the American cup. Caught on a
Lee Shore" is written in the phlegmatic
manner of a hardened English traveller,
who finds nothing dramatic in danger
and nothing out of the common in es-
cape. The accurate sincerity of the mar
rative gives it reality in spite of an entire
lack OF the enhancements of style or del
icate observation. Without the shadow
of doubt, Lieutenant Hem is the man
to whom
ga primrose by rivers brim
A yellow primrose was to him
And it was nothing more"
But for all that it is easily conceivable
that this unsensational sportsman would
be better man with whom to be caught
on lee coast than one whose manli-
ness was more deeply overlaid with ar
tistic sensibilities, and this assurance
gives him an attraction as companion
even by the proxy OF print.
Jaccaci, himself an illustrator, contri-
butes thoroughly interesting paper up
on Daniel Verge Urrabieta, whom he
calls the ''Father OF Modern Illustra-
tom. The work Of the magazines in
familiarizing the general reader with the
better representations of modern art is
contributing more than any other one
source to the education of the masses of
our reading public, as in modern times
the French people alone have been edu-
Gated to an appreciation OF distinctions
in pictorial art
The White Islander" by Mrs. Cath
erwood, is the first installment of dark
and bloody. tale of Indian life, after the
manner OF Cooper. If the author sue
ceeds in interesting her readers in hero
she calls Henry, it will be a fresh con-
quest over human prejudice.
Theodore Roosevelt tells some droll
stories OF the friends of his cowboy days
on the plains For their foibles he
still feels brotherly sympathy in spite
OF rather startling difference in ethical
code. The man who gave up lying in
wait in the under-brush to shoot his en-
i. envy because, like as not, in the dark he
might shoot some perfectly innocent"
man who was coming for his foeman' 8
wife, showed gentlemanly considera-
ton that could scarcely have been ex-
pected "In Cowboy-Land" is illustrat-
ed by two drawings that do not show
Remington at his best.
Writing to Rosina,'' is brought to a
timely close in this number of the mag
azine'
This month the article of the 'Notable
Women" series is written by Edmund
Gosse. with Christina Rossetti for sub
ject. The article would have been more
attractive if Mr.. Gosse had given us the
material for a personal judgement in
stead OF urging his own admiration for
Miss. Rossetti's work. There is a streak
OF perversity in human nature that
makes us reluctant to bend the knee I'M
der the coercion of strong adjectives. In
the ideal biographical sketch the writer
maintains the appearance of cool re-
serve while the reader is incandescent.
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The June Overland, in the vivacious
department headed "Recent Fiction, .
calls attention to fresh evidence of Bret
Harte's long absence from the scene OF
his old inspiration. In his last book he
more than once speaks of the "scarlet
peoples" that cover the mesas of Califor.
MIA. This is an extraordinary alteration
for man who once knew the country
like the face of his mother. Even a SUI
perficial car-window acquaintance with
the golden-sheeted plains is enough to
leave lasting impression upon the trav-
eller's memory of the flower so closely
associated with the land OF sunshine an d
gold-dust.
An announcement has been made that
the August Harper will contain story
by Negro woman, the wife of preach
er OF the same race. This is one of the
very first written contributions to fiction
by Negress; but if she succeeds in trans
ferring to paper the charm of oral MARIA
tive, Uncle Remus will soon find himself
out of job,