The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-08-02
MID-AUGUST.

&c Tompkins in Frank Lcslies Pop lar
Monthly for August
August, Sweetheart Of the Sun,
Summer work is nearly done.
While tine idle days are going
List thy ardent lovers wOoing.
Now the year is in its prime
Take thy brief vacation time.
Stubby fields are brown and yellow.
Pippins ripe are growing mellow.
Ranks on ranks of Ginning corn,
Jeweled by the dew OF morn,
Whisper in the evening airv
Like legion saying prayers
Farmer boys on loaded aims,
Harvest moons on gathered grains;
Tender hearts.a bit forloruer,
Summers turned another corner
The Henry Altemus Company of Phil
adelphia have printed little volume on
"rhe joys of sport" that has a great
percentage of hnmor tor book frem the
Quaker City. Ii is bv W. Y.sStevenson
aud hits fishing, fencing, boxing, athle-
tics. polo. cricket, billiards., rowing, etc.
His style of fun aud humor is rather ma.
tural and unstrained-hke honey i'm ( he
comb. The little Volume has illustra-
tious by Brill and is delightful summer
book.
"a State Secret" by b. NJ. Croker,
is readable summer novel published
by +, M. Buckles d Co., New York, in
their Century series, 1t has large types
and good paper. Price 90 cents.
Captain A. Won Brandis, L 0 east seth
street new York, sends us a copy of
his book on the Philippines, with
military memorandum book aud map.
There is a pronouncing Gazetteer and
geographical encyclopedia with a
vocabulary of the most used words. He
says. malay is for every tongue the
easiest OF all languages to pronounce
we'll enough TO be understood The
euthor is also TO bring out book" The
American in the Philippines"
The newest Edgar Allen Poe book is
life and criticism by Colonel John A.
Joyce himself the author of several
volumes and collections of poems. In
his preface he Gays this is an eifor to
get at the bedrock character of the man.
Poe possessed in his opinion the three
great elements that constitute the gen
uine poet-truth, pride and lunacy.
While the glo-y of the orator Is consol-
ing and immediate, the fame of
warrior as bright as his flashing sword,
the song of the poet is often inn
moral when the poor singer is for
gotten All these and thous-
and more are said by Col. Boyce
in his piquant way, and he believes that
poets are the direct descendant of the
Code, male and female, leading a dual
life, objective and subjective. He says
there was never a school or college that
made or graduated poet, and agrees
with Shakespear that "the lunatic, the
lover and the poet" are off the same
price Of cloth. The biography is
quite complete and seems TO deal out
absolute justice t6 the poet and all his
shortcomings. The origin of his most
iamous works is traced and i'm conclusion
is given the Italian poem that it is
claimed was the original of the Raven,
or that the Raven was the original of it.
The volume ts illustrated contains all the
masterpieces of Poe, and some fine
poems by Col. Joyce. OF one of these,
"Retrospection, he says: "Poe
was a master Of language and rythmical
construction, but he wrote nolpoem like
this composed in memory OF my first
sweetheart" Some readers may want
10 see the volume on account OF il con-
! tanning this poem by Joyce, who alsC
I prints his own "Love and Laughter" =" o
which he says: at is philosophic ser
mon and II will be repeated on the lip'