Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-07-15
THE JULY MAGAZINES.

! THE JULY MAGAZINES.
la perfection OF press work and
originally Of Illustrations We must
award the palm to Scrlbners. Two
notable papers are on the great Eng
lisb painter Turner aud the greatest
OF English poets Browning. The
editorials treat of the growing power
of the west in politics anl reform in
education. The August issue will lie
the great fiction number and lovers II
magazines will await its appearance
with anxious pleasure.
That semi-literary and seml.dlmes-
tic, GOdey's monthly, has a happy
variety. Music in America is contin-
ued, with an excellent picture and
sketch of DR.. Smith, the author of
our sweetest ballads and songs. Fora
ten cent magazine this is Il decided
success. Few persons know that this
Is Americas Oldest magazine, having
now began the l33rd volume, or the
1893 consecutive number. 1t numbered
among its earliest contributors the
first fruits of such men as Edgar
Allen Poe, Oliver Wendall Holmes,
n. p. Willis and othors of their day.
1.-THE Philistine of East Aurora, n.
Y, is an ambitious monthly climber
with many sharp thorn and more of
sweetly fragrant blossoms. Ebert
Hubbard has hard task cracking his
whip as rlngmaster of the clowns of
the literary circus but he never fails
to make us laugh and the clown to
dance, which is sufficient reward out
Of the platitudes of American author
ship, that we may have even this di-
version.
OF course, Mr., Ebert Hubbard has
heard that his especial object OF I'M
palation, the only Edward Box,
author, imprimateur, and circulator
Of the Ladies Home Journal, has been
dined by English arlstocracy and of
fered $4,000 a year and London
residence to become editor of the Pail
Mall Magazine. This is an acknowl-
Judgement thai American people are
not alone in admiration of Mr.. Bok's
greatness.
"Amercian Homes" of Knoxville,
Tenn, is beautiful architectural
publication with engravings and de-
tail plans of the most modern styles
Of dwellings and business buildings
and interiors. The homes of the
American people are not the most
beautiful in the world. The middle
classes take not so much real comfort
as in some other couutlres. But the
spirit equality, the freedom of
relationship between the sexes, the
approachability and hospitality Of
homes of the middle and
poorer classes, is not equalled any
where in the world.
McClure's is richest In art features
and papers on Kipling and Lincoln.
Altogether 1t is wonder of dime
periodicals.
We pray the oh, Lord! Deliver us
from the picture advertising Of the
Sterling bicycle in all the magazines.
1t is positively indecent and is not
allowed In the pages of the cleanest
publications. The attitude Of the
two female figures is devoid Of mod
esty and shame and serves no good
purpose except to attract attention.
II should not sell bicycles.
VIM. d. Howells in his Life and
Letters" department of Harper's
Weekly has discovered in Paul Law
renee Dunbar, an African American,
a poet of the nineteenth century, who
deals with the homely phases. Of the
life OF his race as no one has done be-
fore him. Heretofore the white race
has written the Africans poetry and
song, has presented him IN negro
But education is assert
ing its influence and the American
black race will be heard from. In
oratory Booker Washington has won
the front rank. Ia fiction Dumas
after Dumas has been the peer OF the
novelist and now Mr..
Dunbar has written melodies in
that will drive all the Saxon
poachers of the colored literary field.
"Outing" for July is an ideal sum-
mer number. 1t opens with valuable
article on "The Trottlng and Pacing
Champions of Today" by E. b. Aber-
crombie. This is profusely illustrated
with portraits of the equine wonders
which promise to this season shave
the two-minute mark. The fiction Is
unusually strong, including Two
Handicaps," fascinating story OF