The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-11-29

LaHm you are gong 70 save @UlTnelI
a whole lot OF trouble" a young
man does not have to De smarter than
his father to profit by his experiences
when they are narrated to- him in the
way Of frank confessions Of mistakes
and kindly suggestions.
Small, Maynard Company Boston.
publishers. Price $3.50 Sold by
Patton Bros. salem ore.
a Yellow Novel
Eagle Blood" novel by James
Creelman. the author Of The War with
Spain" is one Of the new school Of
fiction in which a descendant Of a
thousand earls sets out or is set out
/ to marry a wealthy Americaneuse.
Here the monotony is illuminated by
I flashes like a marriage under hypnotic
/ influences, service in the Philippines.
assassination of the manager Of a
great yellow journal in his office. and
rescue Of a pretty girl
The millionaire's mother trying 10
marry her daughter 20 the English
Lord who has been discovered work.
ing on an American newspaper as
reporter very properly fails and the
hero IS safely wed to the American
girl who is petite. patriotic and per.
sistent
Mr. Creelman with news instinct
never permits his story to lag. He
has done the best piece Of fiction in
this line which seems 10 do the Amer
lean plutocrats from Chicago and New
York up brown. A popular novel Of
this sort Is Julian Ralph's Million
airess"
Published by the Lathrop Publish.
ing Co. Boston. Mass Illustrated
and sold at $3.50 Trade supplied at
Salem Ore. by Patton Bros.
The spenders.
This Is another novel in the same
line by the same publishers, in which
the American millionaires all come
out ahead and the bankrupt European
aristocrats all come to grief The
characters OF old Peter Bines and his
grandson who own numerous produc-
tive minds in the intermountaiu region |
are very attractive.
The author Is a young man who |
has evidently seen life I'm the west as
a newspaper reporter. and the gate to |
literary effort seems as wide open I
from the journalistic pasture-lands as
ever before. Most OF the novels Of the |
day seem 20 be written by newspaper I.
workers or women In fact women I
are monopolizing the front seats in |
producing fiction quite as much as
they DO in school teaching
In the Spenders we have reproduced |
the New York fast set who have to
hump themselves 10 get rid OF their
dollars. and the scenes depicted are at
times as exciting at the WaldorfAs.
toria as they are in the opening chap /
ters when old Peter settles with a
widow friend of his son for couple .
of millions. The Chicago pork.pack-
ing millionair has the usual amount OF
space.
These novels are typical OF the times
and when considered as a group re-
feet the life OF this age quite as com
pletely aas Thackera pictured the
day OF the Three Georges Sold by
Patton Bros $3.50.
The Philosophy Of Dispair
DIR. Jordan, the head OF the Stanford
school has tackled a subject that
needed tackling and has come ut on
top OF his subject Healthful and
beautiful optimism, is the keynote and
the whole work is fun OF gems OF ex,
preston, original and culled from the
fruits OF labors in the widest fields
OF culture. He has done needed
task. In laying bare the rotten and
decadent philosophy Of the Omar
Kaykyam style Of poetry. but he is
mistaken in attributing pessimism 20
irritation, or depression or failure Of
the nerves" The nerves are no moro
than other telegraph wires and il is
the message We charge them with
produces dyspeptic philosophy. That
must FIRST be created by
mortal mind and is not part OF Gods
eternal truth and love Dig deeper.
doctor, you have not yet got 10 the
bottom. But your book is full Of beau
.lul propositions that will help any
one 10 see life more correctly. We
hear you sing the true note when YOU
say: Nowhere is the sky so blue,
he grass so green. the sunshine so
bright, the shade so welcome, as right
lere, now today. Other skies are
bright TO other men. Today is your
lay and not mine. the only day we
laye. The day In which to play our 4,