Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1895-03-09

NN'lufi hllNtl W 'llt G1AHilNNf
Islands, In the Interest Of the Oserlan
Magszine.
Why has our country no literature q
present? When a Gould marries al
Italian count, and Vanderbilt gets
divorce, to run after an alsatial
strumpet
Harper's March nOtabiites are
sketch Of a coup de stat, in an early
Idaho territorial legislature; continue
tion of "hearts iusurgent," aud conclu
sion of princess AliDe," by Richard
Harding Davis. There is a solid article
on the New York common schools; alsC
on heredity. The drawer is as gooG
as usual.
The New England Magazine and tht
Overland Monthly came near being
perfectly expressed literary aud artistic
antipodes. Both are of high quality,
yet one comes from the stern, rock
bound Atlantic and the other from the
vast exotic Pacific. Both should be on
every reading table of culture.
Ronnseville Wildman continues
to give the "Overland" distinctiYely
crisp, and energetically Wild-Westish
impression. His "Sanctum talks are
original and invigorating as the "Notes
Ambrosial." Reared on the Atlantic,
rustling for grub In early Idaho, consul
late at Singapore, planted In Califor-
MIA, he is typicnl aIl-around Ameri
can.
Features of the New England maya
zine for March, dear to the hearts of
New Englsnders, must be such articles
as Massachusetts In the Civil War,
Northampton Association, The Ordi-
nance of17S7, The First Harvard Grad
u ,te Killed in the Revolution, Civil
War Envelopes aud Old Mill Street,
Boz ton. The Editors Table, by War
ren P. Kellogg, is serious and able as
usual.
Agnes Repplier, Andrew Lang, fran
,is Sarcey, HjAlmar Hjorth Boyesen, l.
Albion w. Tourgee and Ern-
,st DaudIet are contributors to the
March Cosmopolitan, whose names to
articles are always an assurance OF con-
iderable merit. The sensational nun
,er of the month is 1.-THE Beautiful
Models of Paris" illustrated. This
magazine maintains wonderfully at.
ractive features for is cents, or 81. SO a
rear.
Maynard, Merrill g. Co., New York
43 As and AZ East Tenth street pub
ish text books very completely anno'
ated, and supplied with vOcalbularies,
English, German and French master
pieces of literature. or those the book |
# job in blank verse by Jackson,
La Poudre Aux Ysux" by Eugene
Iabiche and ElwArd Martin, and
Harold" a German tragedy In five
.cts are fair specimens. Teachers
.nd students are interested In such
works more than the general Taader.
w. ID. Howell's poem, in society, Ia
Aarchl HsrpeTs, marks the highest
1olnt In his development as social re-
ormer. America has produced no
ligh class literary socialist but Howell.
His novels, snd his social studies IN
'Altruria," are famous around tIe
gorld, as text books Of the social Dem
leratlc revolution, that 10 undermining
nonaTchies, reconstructing republics,
md, 10 q certain extent. giving human
nature itself sn OVeThauing. Two SON
nets more striking and powerful In sz'
preston, have never been written in
our time,
George Hamiin Fitch, the scholarly
editor aud reviewer Of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, says of the Overland
"Il smReks Of tie soil, and
froul pioneer "reminiscences " the story
Of lhe period, II has the genuine nagoT
Ola lIfe thai ls ~ distincl from the life
Of the Fast, ~ lhs yegslallon aud the
oolOrng Of this coast aTe sci apart from
thoae " lhs older states east of lbs
It0okiss,n Ia one ssptsDee, hr Fllcb
has sEpFesssd tbs magsslDs's Platform,
snd showp . most thorough AppFsela'
lion of ibs maTh ~ which ~ editors
$40 simipg,
Literary features ~ lgs March foFspI
ass ~ lJllows Frederic Harrison eon'
ilnues his bnlllant sedas ou lbs Great
ylet0uss rdlsTs with "DbAFloils
liIoulsls Plaza IN Literature" lisilll'
t0g w, Nslis discusses lbs eoysl ~
,emsaos saa sgysplvfs, asllnlpk
aThs Tso l.lsfesl Types w Hlelie9"
Jobn 0llmef sl'ssd, sbg lslsly spsli
"a Wspk l0 asg 1pfk fhsalIss," 49,
inR ~ sls consecutive psTlpfplslisss
Gssly efillalAss ibg plays pisaetlsi Ab9
tAs sall,Is taklog EsIt w ibrit - piNlni