Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-08-07

" lEEl W.
family relation with the true German
instinct of au author who was student
under the immortal Froebel. AT last
na have & clean Cleopatra in an excel
,. ut translation from the German by
" ,ry J. Stafford.
Maynard, Merrill & Co., New York,
We put out a pretty edition OF
Eyaneeiine with notes explanatory of
tte geographical aud poetical terms
employ cd, as we'll az of any obscure
,.ssages not familiar to the present
neration. Few can realize without
scanning this excellent glossary, how
terms and places have grown archaic
even in the few generations siuce our
LOngfellow adorned the sphere of
letters. This number Of the Maynard
Euglish Classic series is illustrated
with a map of New Foundland, show
ing the site of the original Acadian 10.
cality, that gave occasion for this
pastoral poem, picture of Longfe'iow,
his home, biography. criticisms, etc.
"Iu Maiden Meditation" by A.. q.
McClurg & Co. Chicago, is pretty
gift volume that contains much that is
new and many gems that are old in
the domain supposedly Of womanhood,
for surely none other than woman
wrote book with such title and deal
ing with such topics as, After the Ball,
After Dinner, After Church, After a
Wedding. II is surely written by wo-
man, or whence those sarcastic mock
cries at the ruder sex? You will say
that ia just what woman would not
do. Her mind is poised at a different
altitude and she is trained to a different
attitude than that of cynicism toward
the opposite sex which prevades in
this booklet. And you will say pretty
nearly right. But it is most sweet
and wholesome booklet after all, with
a love affair lightly blown through its
pages like tliistle-down over meadow
fragrant clover.
August Harper's concludes Du
Mauriers' "Trilby." We must say we
loved her living and the thought OF her
death was inconsistent with this bright
being of the artists creation with pen
and pencil. To end the days of our
bright aud most womanly Of women,
inl6ction with moralizing over religious
matters with the wife Of an English
curate was sad use to put poor Trilby
to.after her dazzling career. But even
in that role so unbecoming to LIE Grand
Trllby, she is unique to the last and
must ever remain a resplendant star in
the world of letters where her creator
has moralized her. In "The Golden
House" Warner descends tosthe delini
alton of the gross and cavarie, In New
York society of the present generation,
where wealth panders to the sensual
under thin gauze of social refinement.
The reputation Of Harper's should ex-
clude this indefensible fiction that has
UCSu w taO AOWn
Topics"
1.-THE Village Rector" is the latest of
the admirable translation of Balzac
by Catherine Prescott WoJmeley, pub
lished by Roberts Bros, Boston. The
writings from this greatest of writer's
of fictions were first made known TO
the American public through the enter
prise of this publishing firm. In the
eighties, when an extended criticism
of his "Pere Goriot" appeared In the
New York Tribune and other leading
Eastern Journals, his writings were
popularized by the "Duchesse De Ian
geais" and other short stories that APP
peared In 1885. The same style of print
and binding has been employed
throughout the entire edition, the pres
ent being the 3lst volume. OF this
novel 1t need only be said that it ex-
plodes the old dogma of repentance
through good deeds for sins of the