Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-11-07

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religious periodical that kept her half
starved. Alas, at what sacrifices do
we get literaturew
The Hookman for November con-
tains a short article on political
oratory by Harry Thurston Peck,
that is readable and just. He refers
to Mr.. Bryan's convention speech as
rhetorically correct and exactly suited
to the minds of his hearers. His re-
marks about Blaine also show fine
discrimination.
Kate Douglas Wiggin has shown the
critics that she is one of the great
masters of American fiction. Her
"Marm Lisa" is the most hopeful evil
dence that fiction can be made the
most useful form of the art of express
sion. Fiction shall yet do for educa-
tion what Uncle Toms Cabin" did
for abolition, and "Ten Nights in a
Bar-Room" did for temperance
arouse the moral sentiment Of the
nation.
Two-volume editions are now quite
fad. 1t would seem as though two
volumes are about ali of one author
that an ordinary reader can utilize.
The bestOand greatest authors have
their writings comprised in one
volume. The American Publishers
Corporation, 80 Sixth Ave-, New
York, has a series of two-volume sets,
at 81 each. They include nearly all
the great writers.
N. Y. Mail and Express: We have
no hesitancy in advancing the opinion
that "Mrs. Cliffs Yacht" will be re-
garded as Frank r. Stockton's best
long story by those who hearts are
young enough to enjoy tale of thrill
ing adventure, and whose Of humor is
sufficiently keen to detect the thous-
and and one subtle flashes of wit
which cause the pages fairly to
tremble with sparkling vivacity.
Whoever has read 1.-THE Adventures
of Captain Horn" will be quite ready
to enjoy "Mrs. Cliffs Yacht" by the
same author, Frank r. Stockton.
Mrs. Cliff is more real than any real
personucan be to those who formed
her acquaintance on the memorable
cruises to the coast Of Peru and back
in the first book, to which this kind
of sequel The new book is hand
somely illustrated from the press of
Scribner's, New York.
Philapelphia American: A new and
ambitious poem by Thomas Bailey
Aldrich would, once upon time, have
been an event. Are the days of the
giants over forever? Where are this
generations Bryant, Poe, Lowell, Long
fellow, Emerson, Holmes, Whittier? A
group of EHglishmen look down from
the wall overhead; they walked and
talked before our eyes only few short
years ago;where now shall we find our
Newman, Manning, Darwin, Hurley,
Tyndall, Spurgeon, Bright, Carlyle,
Tennyson, Disraeli; Ruskin and Glad
stone, the two latter living, but on the
borderland? 1t is as though the GEN.
tury has passed its prime and its intel
lectual glory is on the wane. Material
progress; is one glory of the Elizabe-
than and mid-Victorian mind-work is
another.
Scribner's for November opens with
panther Shooting in india" an
illustrated paper on Lithography, a
paper on Alaska, and a number of the
highest class short stories and articles
on live topics. The Christmas num-
Der will contain rich color printing
and wonderful array of seasonable
literary matters. For 1897 full an
nouncement issued in very dainty and
attractive form may be had gratis up
on request from the publishers. We
commend Scribner's as the highest
development of literature and letter
press in our country, and shall be glad
to help introduce it in as many of
our family reading circles as possible
at the lowest clubbing price. 1t is
undoubtedly the best of all 25ct. mag
azines now reaching our book table.
The Macmillan Company announces
volumne entitled "Guesses at the
Riddle Existence" by Prof. Goldwin
Smith. In his new volumn the ques-
tions raised are chiefly ethical or re-
ligious. These papers are the work
Of a man who reads all the best that
recent thinkers have to offer and
passes a criticism on IL ina pungent
or keen, incisive style, distinctive in
aim, brilliant in execution, yet never
open to the charge of irreverence or
of want of tenderness in dealing with
the creed in which the writer himself
was reared and which is still that Of
men who are the salt of the earth.