Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-12-23


hall, corner Eleventh and Jefferson
streets, and on the East Side at tn e
City Library by Prof. Wood The lee
lures are free only costing $500 for
registration and printing, and credits
will be given for a degree as Bachelor
Of Arts, June, 1914 The great writer s
will be discussed at these lecture 3,
including Emerson, Carlyle, ThaCke-
ray Ruskin, Stevenson, Dickens. HavV-
thorne The first lecture was give
December 3. before fine audience.
The poetry in the Century Maga-
zine is little less fatally in the minor
chord than that appearing in the At
lantic Monthly The modern poet
should crack a smile or a bottle once
in while
The Century announces new novel
by w. j. Locke, Stella Maris," to
begin as serial in the January NUM-
Der. Locke may be termed the nam
milliner of modern fiction. His hero
ines are all correctly dressed The
Century is also to have Dickens am d
Napoleon features
Margaret Deland's novel, 1.-THE Iron
Woman" Is realistic fiction so far as
the descriptions of the ironworks go,
but not as to It's humnity. No such
amount Of buffeting back and forth OF
a heroine is posi- BILE between two inn
possible young men The play-side
Of the novel makes it possible to
dramatic it. For the stage it might
have values not appreciable as ii g
ton, on the theory that it is easier
to write good commercial success
in the way of play than to write a
great work of fiction. The literary
merit OF "The Iron Woman is up to
the authors high standards. There
are brilliant Displays of psychologist
fireworks. 1t will have a permanent
place in libraries Harpers.
The "Awakenin e." by Maud Diver
John Lane Co., New York, $13O), a
study Of possibilities, the union of
a high-Caste Hindu maid with an
equally hlgh-caSte Briton, leaves free
room for play of racial antipathie 3.
Back of all is an atmosphere of art
that is the double salvation of tn e
book.
The beautiful native bride, by her
tact her sweet disposition and good
sense brea ks down the prejudices that
for a time threaten to debar her from
entire to the English home. But love
always finds keys to unlock barre d
doors. The Indian wife proves an
Inspiration to the English painter H e
paints as never before, saves tin e
money to lift the mortgage from tn e
ancestral home left him by his un-
tainted ancestors.
Adrian Savage" by Lucas Male [,
is one Of those "bOth sides of TIN e
English channel" novels. 1t is both
French and English in tone and color.
Hence it is brighter than most pure1 y
English fiction, 1t has novel color,
the dictlon at times brilliant. Their e
are pages of flOwery composition over
which he gaudy butterflies OF rhe-
tOric hover and daily, while the e2S-
otto perfumes are inhaled by tn e
reader. There is more plot. more
action, more doing" than the aver
age "seller" at the bookstores afford 3.
Harper & Brothers, publishers.
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Rose Of Old Harpeth." by Mari a
Thompson DaveSs, Bobbs Merrill
company, indianapolis. ($1.25 net
A sweet love story for girls, a pure
New England idyl preserving muc h
Of quaint country life, in which tn Q
mortgage on the farm is paid off by
the right man, true love has its way,
and the power OF money fails to ac-
cOmplish It's ends. "Marryinga widow
are like getting a rose some other
fellow has clipped and thorned to
wear in your buttOnhole," is a samp e
Of the homely humor.
"Vagabond City" by Winifred
Boggs, Geo. P, Putnam's Sons, pub
llshers, New York ($1.35 nett, has
character sketches that will live. Mrs
Hobbs, Uncle William, and Miss Da l.
ton are carried along in the story
with a great deal Of broad humOr.
There is vagabond but no vagabon d
city. The vagabOnd hero is not a
hero at all, and his affinity and he
have long night rambles and rO II
down hill together in a way that di s.
closes an utter absence of the hI1-
mOrous concept on the part Of both
authors and characters. She tries to
delineate "risQue' situations, but rs
ignorant or inexperienced on imprO-
prieties Of that sort Her vagabOnds s
are not real people and the wicked
lady has to be killed off running her
down steep hill on bicycle. The
yagabond's bride is conception on 1 y
possible to one who has no actu al
knowledge of life. The authoress re-
minds one OF a person who tries TO
convey the impression that she Is
devilish and has not got out Of the