Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-02-05
SOME OF THE LATE MAGAZINES.

\ around digest Of information in 4
particular held. It's ten department
are we'll hlled Or February, and IL
, clude as special features an estimat
! OF Daudet and the pedag Jgical TYR
Dudd, Mead & Co.. New York.
In current Fiction the Atlanti
Monthly has thettwo best serials "
know OF In an American magazine a
present. "The Battle Of the Strong
by Gilbert Parker, the literary leade
OF Canada, and Caleb West" by I
HOpkinsOn Smith. Both Will bea
reading aloud and hold the Interes
Of young and old. While these stOr
les possess a wonderful amount o
dramatic power, they are absOlutell
clean 10 manners and morals. The
Atlantic for February is the most in
teresting number yet issued unde
its new management.
Scribner's magazine for February
Outdoes its previous record for new
| historical matter. Captain A. II. Ma
| han, United States Navy, continues
| the story of the naval campaign oi
1916 on Lake Champlain. Henry
Cabot Lodge continues the story OF
the revolution, including the second
congress and the siege of Boston. The
illustrations and variety are excellent.
Harper's for February has the first
Of series on social pictorial satire by
Du Maurier. Senator Turple brings
the status Of the Nicaraguan canal up
TO date. The second paper on the
City OF Stuttgart also appears,
"MuniciDal Affairs is large
quarterly published by the New York
Reform club, so William street. This
number is devoted TO mUnicipaliZa-
tion OF electric lighting and power.
Municipal Art, Relations Of City and
state, Greater New York a Century
Hence, Philadelphia Gas, Improved
Tenements, all by men who are au-
thOrlties, show the range of articles.
Aldermen, legislators and public
officials are interested In this publica-
tion as well as large taxpayers. The
price OF the quarterly Is only 81 year.
Single number % cents.
Two mOnthlies have appeared on
the Pacific coast and are evidence
that intellectual life and form OF ex-
preston are not extinct. The first TO
hand is the "Pacific Monthly" by
Marie Eva Bradford. 1t has variety
in matter aud illustrations and quite
an Ensemble" OF local color. 1t is be
sides a woman magazine, devoted to
those noble avenues of culture, the
the w. q. II. u. and suf-
frage movement. Address the pub
Usher at Pacific Grove. CAL, enclosing
10 cents for sample.
A more pretentious effort in the
line Of literary and critical publica-
tiOn is "The State" by Leonard
Fowler, of Tacoma. This monthly is
we'll printed and originally edited and
seems TO have the distinctly courage
Jus independent western flavor that |
lefies traditions and smashes fixed |
IDEAS. 1t Is not afraid to say that IT |
believes corporations and trusts are |
necessary and useful and that Mark |
Hanna was a good selection for the |
leOple Of Ohio to make, and that |
Theodore Durrant was entitled to |
ust as much prolongation of trial as
he could get. These are not popular
TO take and here they are
AIKEN so boldly and squarely and !
airly that they compel the reader to
hink and he realizes that here Is |
magazine that does not cater to his
trade" notions of right and wrong
The State" is TO be a conservative !
md intelligent expression of north
vest coast progress and at 81 year 1T
ought TO be taken even in these days (
u crippled finances and restricted in
Omes.
"The Partisan Monthly" for Feb
uary has one article that Is of great
alue-The Austro-Hungarian Crisis,
rom the "Revue de Paris" its illus
ratlOns, short stories and bOok-chat
re excellent. 1t is published at Car
o,,io han NJ, N,,I,
Every one who can afford it should
ubscribe for the New Time. The
est writer's of the age. brilliant
ditorials, striking cartoons, all
rinted on the best paper, one hundred
ages with not dull llne-such is
he New Time. Send US one dollar
Jr an annual subscription.
The Outing Magazine Tor February,
BILE and finely illustrated. The con-
hammock Lands. Australian Abort |
lnal Sports in Woodcraft, Modern S
&c Yachts, TObogganing, Winter !
York with The Camera, A Week with C
le Singhalese, The Revival of Fal- .
,nry, The Airedale Terrier, From
hicago to San Francisco Awheel,
The February number gives a
variety of reading for
intry weather. The features Of the
aiding 1898 bicycles are carefully
viewed and illustrated. The edi-
rial and record departments are in
resting and complete.
A change of publishers but the
me editor Is the substance of an an
in the February Midland
onthly, Mr.. johnson Brigham, hay E
x accepted the state librarianship
IS sold The Midland Monthly to al
ock company with Mr.. Brigham as
e editorial head.
The February Midland is full Of at
active reading. The chief literary
per Is "rhe Theories OF Octave
lanet and Other Western Realists." -,
Mary j. Reid, OF Chicago. Its q
irant's Life" gives new evidence Of
ANTS foresight in planning the ia r,