Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1893-01-19
MAGAZINE NOTES

toward biographical sketches in The New
Year number. OF the five. papers OF this
sort, ''The story of Millet's Early Life"
by his younger brother, Pierre Millet, is
the simplest and most interesting
Elizabeth stuart Phelps without the
Ward writes an article in loving memory
of Whittier, but her grief for the poet is
SO fresh that the paper has some OF the
pAinfulne<sof an encounter with one still
shaken with sobs. The article on "Crusty
Christopher" John Wilson, covers
ground familiar to everyone in the least
conversant with the literature of the last
generation, but the capital portrait which
accompanies the slight sketch adds
reality to one OF the most vital figures Of
his time
1.-THE Reward Of the Unrighteous," by
George Grantham Balm, prettily illus
trated by. Wenzsll, is also the reward Of
the unworthy, as the story is too slight
and commonplace to deserve it's attrac-
tive setting.
The third installment of "Sweet Bells
Out Of Tune" shows Mrs Harrison at
her cleverest. The very smell Of New
York seems to pervade the air of the
chapter in which she describes the pro-
eress o. the bridal pair through the down.
town streets; and the Aowery gayety of
Fifth avenue on a sunny spring afternoon
is laid In With an equally bright sure
touch. In spite of the deepening clouds
above the fair heroine, the story is gay
in tone and her troubles, at this point,
are pleasantly endurable to the welI-en-
tertained reader.
Lippincott's novelette, this month, "a
Pacific Encounter" by Mary e. Stickney,
is the best they have published since,
John Grey" The scene of the story is
laid on steamer on its way from Panama
to San Francisco. the story ending just
before the arrival of the boat at its destin-
alton. The story is amusing and the
tropic coloring of the sea and islands
makes pleasant background for the ZEN
counter"
The idea Of the "Diary OF Nervous
Invalid" by E. L. Bynner in the January
Atlantic, is very good the selfish exac-
tions OF the woman who is sick lin her
mind-and the pathetic martyrdom of
her family is extremely life-like, bnt
whether even her selfishness would drive
quite so many people to untimely ends or
whether any woman, even a hypohon-
driac, could be quite so obliylcus of the
hideous portrait she drew of herself, is
another matter. In satire of the sort
to which this ''Diary of Nervous In
valid" belongs it is necessary for the
writer to use the most delicate self-re-
straint in making his points without en-
phasising them; for art is Independent of
emphasis, and its effects can only be in
1ured by recourse TO so weak a method.
1t is unwise for the writer to allow for
the stupidity Of his readers !. it is better
Tor him to draw as suhtly fine as he can,
and leave the doits mystitied, if need be
his meaning will be taken by those whose
recognition will be worth having; but
more than that, his instinct will tell him
that he has chosen the better art.
OF a very different sort is . slight
sketch by NJ. E. NJ. Davis. called, "a
Heart Leaf From Stony Creek Bottom"
One feels that from the material no
daintier, prettier effect could have been
drawn. Its sIightness is like tina. Of a
young girl, and fitting as an expression
OF passing phase
I'm Wintery Wilderness" by Frank
Boiles, Is piece of careful work, first in
observing nature and later in chronicling
the effects observed. Since the DAYS of
Thoreau, we have all learned to use our
eyes to more effect, and there is some
danger Of its turning into a purely me-
chanicai exercise:
That child" said my friend Of small
departing visitor, "has nearly driven me
out OF my senses. She asked me If the
register had not been changed in this
room, and in my surprise l admitted it,
and said: WHY, Edith, you are very
observant.' For the past hour she has
been steadily observing, until am be-
side myself"
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