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"Sir. Til o mas Kecne at the JIarqnam
Grand.
The interest manifested by the people
of the Pacific coast in Shakespearean
plays, as indicated by the audiences that
have attended Thomas Keene's perform
ances, speaks loudly for their intelligent
appreciation of dramatic art. From the
East to the farthest West, from the ex
treme southern to the northern line of the
United States and through Vancouver
island his houses have been filled even
under the stress of bad weather. The
press everywhere have given him generous
welcome and spoken enthusiastically In
his praise. In San Francisco, his old
home for years, papers that "were critical
of him years ago have been brought to an.
admiration of the star no less than of the
man. He has been greeted as the first
actor of the American classic stage. A
San Francisco paper has spoken of him
in these words: "Keene is a survival and
a memory. He is the last of a great
school of which Edwin Booth was the
head. When Keene passes to that bourne
from which no traveler returns' he will
leave no successor on the American stage
to properly interpret the work of the mas
ter. There will be no melancholy Dane to
pace the gloomy halls of Elslnore; no
dusky Moor to doubt the fealty of women;
no crooked-back Richard to mock the
hopes of those who oppose an ambition
striding through treachery to a blood
stained throne. When Keene shall pass
to the other side, the curtain shall be rung
down on the creation?! of Shakespeare,
Bulwer and others and we must await the
coming of one not yet heralded." This is
full of a tenderly kind of appreciation of
Mr. Keene. In the five plays selected from
his repertoire, Mr. Keene will give the
best. The repertoire stands as follows:
Monday night, "Hamlet"; Tuesday, "Rich
ard III"; Wednesday, "Merchant of
"Venice"; Thursday, "Othello"; Friday,
"Hamlet"; Saturday matinee, "Riche
lieu"; Saturday night, "Richard III."
Mr. Keene's company, numbering 22, is
highly spoken of by the critical of other
cities, and includes Edwin Arden, a suc
cessful author and a star of smaller mag
nitude; Frank Hennig, with Mr. Keene
for years; Carl Ahrendt, Eagleson Lowell
and others; Messrs. Lawrence, Beaman,
Downs, and last, though not least, Mrs.
Baker, one of the veteran celebrities. To
the details of the stage Mr. Keene has
given his closest scholarly attention, intro
ducing several novelties in dramatic situa
tions, ignoring with the spirit of realism
many of the old and absurd stage tradi
tions of a past age. In all this Mr. Keene
has endeavored with great labor and cost
of brilliant costumes copied from old
chroniclers to reach perfection as far as
may be In a traveling company. The ad
vanced sale speaks well for the week, and
Mr. Keene's visit should be an event to
be remembered.
Xew American Opera.
The Pykc opera company will present,
commencing tomorrow evening, at Cor
dray's theater, the American comic
opera success, "The Tar and Tartar."
Tho book was arranged from one of the
most charming stories of me "Arabian
Nights," by Harry B. Smith, author of
"Robin Hood" and "Rob Roy." ,
The Pyke opera company is fortunate
in possessing a. very capable executive ad
ministration, both before and behind the
footlights. And Manager Cordray has. In
the first-place, perfected this organization,
and, secondly, has kept them together
during 'the past year, which has seen tho
disruption of many very much more pre
tentious companies.
The music is of a bright, harmonious,
tuneful nature, and contains soles, duets,
trios, quartets, ensembels and finales of
worth and brilliancy. It was written by
the late Adam Itzel, jr., of Baltimore,
whose greatest success was the "Trans
cription of National Airs" of all nations,
with which the opera ends, and which is
a fine piece of haimonlzation and or
chestration. In selecting the cast for this opera,
from among the artists of the Pyke opera
company, the greatest care was used,
hence all have made hits in their respec
tive roles. Laura Millard. Fannie Lid
diara, Louise Manfred, Al Leech, W. H.
West, Francis Gaillard, Harry R. Hanlon,
Arthur Boyce and James A. McGrath ap
pear in the principal roles. The cos
tumes and scenery are gorgeous, and were
imported by John F. Cordray from New
Yerk, where they were made from the
original scenery and designs. The chorus
and orchestra have been enlarged, and
under the direction of Richard Stahl do
splendid work in the concerted numbe.-s.
The production has been placed upon the
stage by George E. Lask, who directed
tho New York, Boston and San Francisco
presentations. The full cast includes:
Muley Hassan, the tar Al Leech
Cardamon, the Bedouin chief
Francis Gaillard
Yussuf, his companion W. A. Nilcs
JChartcon. the grand vizer W. II. West
Pajama. the court physician.H. B. Hanlon
Mokct. the sultan of Morocco.. .A. Boyce
Umpa, a slave j. a. McGrath
Alpaca, a Tartar princess ..Laura Millard
Farh.a, a professional beauty
Louise Manfred
Lambrequin, her friend Cora Lincoln
"Tar and Tartar." with its ccstumes,
scenery, artistic marches, graceful dances'
lovely music, -witticisms and fun wili
doubtless prove one of the most delightful
spectacles ever seen in this city.
The Xew Boy."
The sensation of London Is said to be
"The New Boy." It is sending a laugh
around the world. Even in far-away Aus
tralia, where the cherries grow Inside the
stones, it is the sensation of the year.
Tho plot is: The proprietor of a fashion
able school Is in love with a handsome
young "widow." He makes her the ma
tron, wills her his fortune, that she may
not marry again. He expects to marry
her himself. There is a boy in the school
who paints things red. The bullies make
him steal apples and play pranks, and
finally he is arrested while flirting with
the villain's daughter. After a lot of
dark-eyed lovemaklng, there is a discov
ery. The boy is really the husband of the
matron. He was a little fellow; he can't
help It. So they took him for a boy. The
scenes that follow the discovery make the
audience roar with arplause. The young
man has saved the doctor's fortune, and
every sentence in the play is a surprise
and a Joy. It will be seen at the Mar
quam next week.
Sadie Martinot.
Next week at the Marquom Grand a new
attraction will be presented in a very
pretty and popular comedienne, a clever
comedian, a good company and an amus
ing play. The star of the organization is
Sadie Martinot. The name is very famil
iar to all theater-goers. Sadie Martinot
has been one of the reigning favorites in
New York, and not only because of those
personal attractions which are so valu
able an advertisement there. She is an
actress. She has learned how to act un
der strict stage managers, such as are
hardly to be found today. Anybody who
went through dramatic work under Dion
Bouclcault is exceedingly likely to know
how to do it, if she has talent. And Miss
Martinot established the fact that she had
talent a good many years ago. She has
had plenty of experience since, and, as she
is Just in the best years of her life, she
should prove a strong attraction at the
Marquam. Mar Figman, who is a sub-
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star with her, is a comedian who has made
quite a success in. the East. The company
has many names which are well known,
and 13 altogether a strong one. The play
Is by two English authors, and Is called
"The Passport." The Eastern press has
all along praised it as a bright, clever
and entertaining wcrk. Miss Martinot
plays a young widow, who, not having
her passport, accepts the necessity of
passing off as the wife of a man she meets.
to get across the Russian frontier. The
man is married, and there arises very
funny complications from the passport
business. The widow's faculty for for
getting everything gets her into a great
deal of trouble.
At Cordray's Theater.
The large audiences during the week at
Cordray's theater demonstrate the fact
that it pays to give good values for
money. The company that Mr. Rlggs has
gathered together under his direction
shows evidence of careful stage manage
ment, and every play he has produced
gives prcof of work as to detail. The last
half of the week has been devoted to a
carefully produced version of "The Clem
enceau Case." Tonight is the last per
formance of this celebrated play.
The Tlttell Sisters on. the Road.
Tomorrow morning W. S. Ford, with
the sistere Misses Tlttell, surrounded by
an excellent company, will embark upon
a theatrical venture that opens with the
ir.cst encouraging prospects. The engage
ment commences in Hillsboro, Monday
evening, with "My Uncles Will" and
"Frcu Frou," and extends through Ore
gon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and
British Columbia.
Dramatic Notes.
Lotta Is spending the winter in Egypt.
This will probably be Denman Thomp
son's last season on the stage.
Frederick Warde's next tour as a lone
star will be managed by his son, Arthur
F. Warde.
Marie Burress has seceded from James
O'Neill's support, and will shortly marry
a rich Bostonian.
Kuhne Beverldge has sailed for Europe
at last. It may be some time before she
recrosses the "big drink."
Jane Hading will quit the Comedio Fran
caise for the Gymnase, where she is to be
starred and get 12,500 francs per month.
Hoyt's "A Temperance Town" is found
ed on fact. The subject was suggested to
Mr. Hoyt by Hon. Hiram Atkins, of the
Montpelier Argus and Patriot.
And now they call James Connor Roach
the legitimate successor of Boucicault on
account of the facility with which he
knocks together an Irish play.
Mrs. Brown-Potter is at present making
a profitable tour of the South, and as she
is of old Southern family her route .has
been accentuated by a series of ovations.
Fitz Emmett's new "Bubble Song" Is
said to be one of the daintiest and pretti
est he has ever written, and bids fair to
supersede his famous "Lullaby" song In
popular favor.
Yvette Gullbert, the Parislenne. neither
kicks nor turns handsprings, and wears
only one dress in an evening. They say
in London that she could do all her songs
In a sentry-box.
The comedians are all now bunched to
gether In the South Crane, Robson. and
Goodwin. Sol Smith Russell Is visiting in
"Minneapolis. " and will start In again at
Omaha, January 31.
Emily Banker, who stars this season in
the successful comedy "Our Flat," has
been a prominent member of nearly all of
Frohman's companies, and was one of the
highest-salaried artists in America.
The right to dramatize "Trilby" has
been given by Harper & Bros, and George
du Maurier to A. M. Palmer. The drama
tization will be made by Paul M. Potter,
and the piece will Introduced at an early
date.
Forbes Robertson will be Mme. Modjes
ka's leading man next season. In the
opinion of the Philadelphia City Item, the
lady makes a mistake In returning to the
American stage. Her best days have
passed.
Mr. Augustin Daly Is said to be organ
lng a third "A Gaiety Girl" company out
of American professionals. He gave $1500
to the Mercy hospital, Chicago, as a
Christmas gift, the result of a special
matinee.
Manager Hill, of New York, has a new
dodge. He says he will designate a night
on which only persons named Johnson will
be admitted to see "Too Much Johnson."
He is already sure of one Johnson family
party of 100. s
The soclo-professional reign of the great
Carmenclta, the dancer, is over, and she
is preparing to return to her home in
Spain. All her belongings were knocked
down to the highest bidder in New York
the other day.
Lily Langtry Is described as thinner
than she was when last in New York.
There is not much said about the Jersey
woman, by the way. With a falling away
in flesh appears to have come also a fall
ing away in public interest.
Mary Hampton, who is playing Rosa
mond in "Sowing the Wind," charges 25
cents for her autograph, and sends the
quarter to a hospital. This is a sensible
plan. The collecting bores are thinned
out and the hospital fund benefited.
An American playwright has prepared
a play which he calls "Blaine: A Trag
edy." The piece Is written around inci
dents in the life of the late James G.
Blaine. A manager has been found, it Is
said, who Is willing to risk the production.
An actor has been found who prefers
one-night stands. His name is Guy Stand
ing, and the reason he gives for the
strange fancy is that while thus em
ployed he has not time to realize how far
he is from his wife. She Is Isabel Urqu
hart. Henry Irving will devote next winter to
America, and Modjeska, having tired of
the polyglot on the continent of Europe,
will do the same. She finds it easier to
make money with one language in the
United States than with ten onhe Conti
nent. The Bostonians gave silver bonbon box
es on New Year's day at the Herald
square theater. New York, to mark the
100th performance of "Rob Roy." A min
iature "parritch" pot or a "quaich" would
had been more significant. Rob's reivers
had little to do with bonbons.
Magician Herrmann has sued the New
York Standard In heavy damages for libel.
The paper charged that Mrs. Herrmann
threw a tumbler-holder at her husband,
and that she was then put Into an insane
asylum. The American News Company is
made co-defendant In the libel suit.
The recent benefit in London for J. B.
Buckstone, 50 years an actor and 23 years
a manager at Drury Lane, realized 6300.
This amount is 2500 less than was ob
tained two years ago for Benjamin Web
ster. Tnis shortage is accounted for by
hard times In the English metropolis.
New York has set its face against re
vivals. "Love on Crutches" did not draw
at Daly's, nor "Esmeralda" at Palmer's.
The failure of M. B. Curtis to resuscitate
"Sam'l of Posen" drove him to nervous
prostration and a trip to Europe. He is
now trying to run the drummer on the'
Londoners.
Irishman (watching: gun club) Be jabers
'nd pwhat's the use 'n wastin foinc pow
der n shot on thlm clay t'Ings? Shure
the fall ud break 'cm, onyhow. Yale
Record.
OTTCil DIYOS.
Rest, asks the Thraciaa. wild in fight:
Best, asks the ilede. with quiver bright;
But rest, my Grosphus. Is not sold
For purple robe, or gems, or sold.
Nor llctor in the consul's train i
Can stay the spirit's piteous pain,
JCor wealth; nor drive the cares aloof
That flit beneath the paneled roof.
A man. where shines on humble board
The salt-box that his father stored.
Lives well, though poor; no fears molest,
Nor greed of gain, his nlshtly rest.
"Why strenuous, for our little time.
To compass much? Some other clime
Than ours, why covet? 'Wander why
From home? Ourselves we cannot fly.
Gladstone's Translations of Horace's Odes.
Note? oi) Late Boofe
"Baldwin's English Literature," in two
volumes, poetry and prose. Is intended
as "An introduction to the study of Eng
lish literature and literary criticism; a
guide to a practical acquaintance with
the best and most notable works in Eng
lish language, designed for the use of
schools, seminaries, colleges and univer
sities," by James Baldwin, Ph. D. The
two volumes contain more than 1000 large
pages of clearly printed matter.
Poetry When a book of the length and
pretensions of the present work on Eng
lish literature presents itself In a field
already well-filled with standard text
books and works of critical analysis, it
is necessary to ask in what way the new
comer supplements those that already ex
ist, or by what merit It is entitled to sup
plant them. Arrested by this challenge,
Mr. Baldwin's book falls to explain itself.
As a text-book, pure and simple, Shaw's
"English Literature" is .more concise,
logical and convenient: as a critical his
tory of English literature, Taine's brilliant
work is incomparably more vital and il
lumining. It is not that this work does
not contain very many interesting facts,
beautiful extracts and brilliant quota
tions; it is not that Mr. Baldwin has
not evinced great patience and wide
and varied reading; but all this counts for
little, as the whole has not been unified
by scholarly treatment. Whenever Mr.
Baldwin finds himself approaching a prob
lem in critical analysis, he retreats be
hind a pair of quotation marks and does
not emerge until the danger is passed.
It is conceivable that a book on English
literature, made entirely from selections
of poetry and extracts of opinions of
critics upon poets, might be of value, al
though, of course, in a less degrees than
an original treatise; but Mr. Baldwin
misses, by compromise, even this sort
of excellence. His work consists too
largely of his own opinions, definitions
and dicta to be accepted as a compilation,
and is wanting in the critical acumen that
enables it to stand on its own merits.
In the first chapter, poetry Is defined as
"That division of literature which ad
dresses itself to the imagination and the
passions, and whose primary object is
to please." As well define a horse as a
quadruped who casts shoes; it is true
enough, but no definition. Again, in
defining historical poetry, he says: "An
historical poem Is a metrical narrative
usually written to commemorate some im
portant public event. Properly speaking,
it is not poetry, for although it may be
constructed strictly according to the rules
of versification, it lacks those elements
which appeal to the fancy and the Imag
ination, and without which no real
poetry can exist." By this definition are
ruled out, as poetry, all of Shakespeare's
historical plays, Milton's "Paradise Lost,"
which was certainly "written to commem
orate an important public event," and all
such minor verse as Tennyson's "Charge
of the Light Brigade." To explain that
Mr. Baldwin does not mean what he says
is but a poor apology for a writer who
proposes himself as a guide to literature.
Mr. Baldwin Jia3 simply been led into
making -a definition. based upon the sound
of words, rather than the essence of
things.
The best feature of the book is the list
of works appended to each chapter as sug
gestions for collateral reading, and the
worst is the method used in dividing the
subject matter of the book. The natural
manner of treating the subject, a method
approved by common sense as well as by
all precedent, is to treat English literature
as a continuous logical growth; to treat
It so as to carry the student gradually
forward from age to age, allowing him to
absorb something of the atmosphere of
each period before he goes forward to the
study of another poet and another age.
In this way literary perspective is re
tained, as well as a cumulative impres
sion of the character, methods and genius
of each great poet. Mr. Baldwin's method
reverses all this. He classifies English
poetry not according to periods or authors,
but by dividing it all into what he calls
"historical poetry." "Story-telling poetry,"
"poetical romances," and so on, and to
each class he devotes one long chapter.
In the study of each successive division
the student is taken from Chaucer to
Tennyson, whose work in this way is
sown from one end of the book to the
other. It is easy to see that by thus sep
arating the work of a poet into arbitrary
classification, and giving a scrap under
the head of "lyrics," and a hundred pages
further on another scrap under the head
of "epics," is to confuse the student by
destroying in him all sense of continuity.
One who wishes to fcrm a coherent idea
of the genius of Shakespeare or Words
worth must hound his author through al
most every chapter of a work of over 500
pages in order to find just what he has
written, or what has been written of him.
Prose The second volume is given over
to a study of every form of English prose
composition, and the faults that mar the
volume on poetry are still distinctly dis
cernible, but much less offensive, because
the nature of the subject Is in Itself less
exalted, and therefore less subject to in
jury in treatment.
"Sweetheart Gwen." by William Tire
buck, dedicated to his sister, "The Critic
on the Hearth," is not the slop that the
title seems to indicate. A strong air of
veracity In the delineation of the boy's
feelings and impressions on his visit to the
farm in Wales, gives to the story interest
and reality. The style is of a homespun
plainness, but shot with threads of truth
that always shine, and light the whole
from dull commonplace. The story is
very slight, without incident or strong
human interest. Mr. Tirebuck seems to
have had little to tell, except, probably,
his own recollections of a Welsh farm,
but in it one surmises the capacity for
better work. It recalls the literal studies
of a young art student, who has not gone
beyond making a 'careful study of his
model. He has not begun to paint pic
tures yet; he may never make a compo
sition, but it is m his favor that he can
make a study that suggests a living thing
behind the canvas. This literalness ma
spring from sheer weakness of resource
in the writer, a lack of actual, or intui
tive knowledge of life, or it may spring
from an honest timidity, that makes
him keep a steady hold of facts for fear
of trusting too soon the wing of his im
agination. There is something appropriate about
the queer, intense green binding of Ibsen's
new play, "Little Eyolf," that comes as
the latest number of the "Green Tree Li
brary." It is an unwholesome color, and
yet It attracts the eye and holds it much
longer than would a commonplace gray
or brown. Poisonous things are given this
power of luring to make up for their na
tive ugliness. It is so with the play. It
attracts, while it repels, with a somber
kind of force that Is too erratic and mo
tiveless to be called power. The charac
ters are uncomfortable, ignoble sort of
people, and when, at the end of the play,
they resolve upon high paths of self-devotion,
the reader, who has seen them
veer from one passion to another in the
short compass of the play, knows that
such weathercocks will soon twist about
beneath the weariness of well-doing. What
possible good can come of writing, read
ing or translating books of this morbid
sort, has often been asked, butnever satis
factorily answered. The publisher, of
course, being a man of business, has his
reasons, which are justified by a ready
sale, and this "first edition on small pa
per," "limited to five hundred copies,"
will not long meet America's demands for
the latest imported woe. Ibsen has no
sense of humor. No man who looks so ex
actly like a jack-in-the-box could have.
This is his misfortune. But has he no
friend to tell him that an umbrella is a
hopelessly comic stage property to choose
for his characters to flourish persistently
through a harrowing tragedy?
One likes to laugh and be flippant after
reading "Little Eyolf." in just the spirit
that a child laughs when he has rushed
into a lighted room and slammed the door
upon the darkness peopled with spooks
and croque-mltaines.
Familiar as the past 13 years have
made us with the development of the
illustrated monthly magazines, the
yearly advent of the bound number
relmpresses the mind with the ad
mirable completeness of this great
modern cultivator. The man with a
snug library of his own, and access to
large- public libraries, as well as those
of his friends, can scarcely realize, by the
widest stretch of bis trained imagination,
what these monthy Issues are to hun
dreds and thousands of people, whose
lives lie beyond the reach of every other
intellectual pleasure and stimulus. The
standard of our magazines has been
steadily forced up to hold the Interest
of men who may, every day of their
lives, see good painting, hear clever talk,
and meet gracious women to bear, that
is, the contrast, though in a shadowy
way, with life at its richest; but this is
the measure, not the triumph, of the
magazine. To bring, month by month,
something wholesomely good into the
Uvea of those living in the isolated farm
houses, hamlets and villages of our coun
try, even of the West alone, places where
every art Is qualified by the hideous word
"amateur;" where good music, good pic
tures, gcod plays, have never penetrated:
where existence would be as bitter and
dreary as Hamlin Garland paints it, but
that good men and women live and die
there, without self-pity. This is success.
Long live the monthlies!
The bound volumes of Scribner's come
as a fresh reminder that 1894 must be
shelved. Looking back over a whole
year of a magazine gives a fuller concep
tion of the purpose, the editorial intent,
of the magazine and its distinctive in
dividual flavor .s much more apparent
than in a single number. The Scrlbner
seems a gentleman of moderate means,
with decidedly artistic tastes and refined
judgment. He is something of a connois
seur in pictures, with a fondness for quiet
gentlemanly sports, such as Ashing, for
example. In a sedate fashion he likes so
ciety, a pretty woman at dinner who
smiles at his pretended cynicism, and
does not take life too seriously, is the way
he likes It best. He has quite given over
trying to reform the world, or even New
York politics, and feels that things will
turn out much the same, whether he
exerts himself for or against free silver;
and yet you must not think him a sel
fish brute, for he has, as Stevenson says,
"a fine" turn for the affectjons," and feels
the beauty gf a noble act or a lovely
piece of nature as only an artist can
with his heart and his head at the same
moment.
It has been said that the modern school
of French novelists Is sex mad. "Dis
cords," by George Egerton, Is a fresh evi
dence of the same tendency In our own
fiction. It Is impossible to deny the force
and originality of several of the short
stories of this collection, reflecting sharply
some of the most wretched phases of hu
man destiny. All but the last story of this
series turns upon the wrongs of women
dishonored la and outvof wedlock. How
ever just theTealismj this, insistence upon
one fact alone is fal3e to the larger
truths of life. We all know that life is
made up of a thousand threads, and that
the relation of men and women in mar
riage is but one strand in the weaving;
it may become snarled and broken, yet all
is not lost a strong nature can make
of what remains a floor cloth for the feet
of the Most High. This is the phase of
life that needs insistence, we have had
enough of an enervated sympathy, with
wickedness and weakness, whose gospel
Is despair.
"The Poems of Henry Abbey," published
by himself, at Kingston, New York, are
well printed and substantially bound. In
the volume are to be found felicitous lines
and whole verses that run smoothly, but,
in the main, the collection is not above
the level of verse, printed in our orthodox
weeklies. In sentiment they are pure
more blameless, in fact, than in rhythm,
which, under stress, is subject to prose
lapses. Mr. Abbey has not inherited his
English in separate word-atoms, but in
neat little cubes of other men's cutting,
and these he has put together with some
degree of ingenuity. "The Lithe Wil
lows," "The Bloom of Youth," "The
Storied Nile," "The Fragrant Flowers,"
are nice little blocks, worn smooth with
use, but they are not the material from
which living or lasting monuments are
built. The poet, like the great quarrler
of Carrara, cuts out his own marble, nor
allows another man's tool to mar its vir
ginity. In the preface of "The Aeronautical
Annual," for 1893, James Means, the edi
tor, says: "This number of the Annual
contains not much that Is new, but divers
things which to use the words of an old
compiler "do now for their Excellency and
scarceness deserve to be reprinted."
The Annual begins with an interesting ac
count, largely In his own words, of Le
onardo da Vinci's studies on the flight of
birds, written almost 400 years before Lll
lenthal's present experiments in aero
nautics, and illustrated with reproductions
from Da Vinci's drawings. This is fol
lowed by a series of papers on the same
subject, by various writers, from Ben
jamin Franklin to Darwin, and the whole
is beautifully printed and, although bound
in paper, is an attractive volume.
"Lessons in Practical Penmanship and
Typewriting," by F. M. Payne, published
by the Excelsior Publishing House, New
York, is a concise manual of directions
and illustrated exercises for the student
of these branches. The aim of the book,
at which one must guess as there is no
preface nor introduction, seems less to de
velop extreme speed In the few than to
offer practical rules and suggestions that
will help the average young business man
to an improvement in his methods of pen
manship and typewriting. To the man
ual is appended a spelling list of 20,000
words, and a list of the proper forms to
be used In addressing the president of
the United States and others in authority.
"The Opposite House," by Nataly von
Eschstruth, translated from the German
by Mary J. Safford, has all the require
ments of the German romantic story.
There is in it a siren, a villain, a profu
sion of titles, a family feud, ancestral
halls, glittering uniforms, sudden and per
manent repentances, a blue-eyed maiden,
and, for the hero and heroine, love tri
umphant and a happy Issue out of all
their afflictions.
"The Great God Pan," by Arthur Mach
en. is a story of the unnamed and unname
able horrors wrought upon a woman by
the experiments of a doctor, learned in
"transcendental medicine." it is one
more experiment in the general direction
of "Frankenstein" with the usual stage
accessories.
Literary Xotes.
The Jenness Miller Monthly treats the
whole range of its topics in the current
number, besides containing many articles
and stories of interest.
"Oregon Legislators," is a work being
prepared by H. G. Mathies, containing a
i brief history of the state, a list of all of
ficial positions and emoluments and the
personal history of state officers, legis
lators, etc It will be an Oregon "blue
book."
A striking and finely illustrated novel,
by llaarten Maartens, begins in the cur
rent number of Harper's Bazar. Marian
Harland and Harriet Prescott Spoffard
also have short stories.
"Money and Bank Credits," by Henry,
W. Williams, is the leading article in the
"Annals of the American Academy."
Other articles on financial, social and po
litical questions make a complete number.
The January number of the Century is
already out of print, and a large Increase
has been ordered for the February num
ber. This is due to the interest taken in
Professor Sloan's chapters on the life of
Napoleon.
In Babyhood for January Dr. Oppen
helmer treats of lung troubles, and lays
stress upon the importance of teaching
children to use their lungs properly. A
valuable article Is an Illustrated one on
"Nursery Pastimes." Other Interesting
articles complete the number.
The new edition of Stevenson's complete
works will be in 20 volumes. It has been
edited by Sidney Colvln, under Steven
son's dlrection,and printed by Constable,
of Edinburgh. The author found special
enjoyment in this work; rewriting much
and bestowing his final touch throughout.
Mr. Percival Lowell, who has contribut
ed not a little to our knowledge of Japan
in his "Noto" and "The Soul of the Far
East," will soon publish, through Hough
ton, MIffin & Co., "Occult Japan: The
Way of the Gods," a book, on the Shinto
faith, and embodying the results of study
and personal observation.
Rudyard Kipling's "Jungle Book," pub
lished by the Century Company, has
achieved the distinction of being chosen
as one of the comparatively few books
published for the blind. An edition in
raised letters will soon be issued by the
"American Printing House for the Blind,"
with the cordial permission of the author
and his publishers.
Amateur journalism is pleasingly
handled In a serial beginning in the Jan
uary number of Harper's Young People.
It is entitled, "The Stutney Mail," and is
written by Sophie Swett, An article on a
minister's work among the street boys
of New York, is contributed by Rev. W.
S. Rainsford. Albert Lee's humorous
serial, "The Strange Adventures of Tom
my Teddies," is continued. Henry Cabot
Lodge writes of "A Day in the United
States House of Representatives." There
are numerous other articles of interest to
young people.
Some one has suggested that the superb
work, "The Art of the American Wood
Engraver," by Philip Gilbert Hamerton,
soon to be published by the Scrlbners In
an edition of only 100 copies, might be
well called autograph albums. The text,
which Is bound in a separate volume, will
bo signed by Mr. Hamerton and the pub
lishers, while the India proofs of engrav
ings will bear the autographs of such fam
ous engravers as Frank French, Henry
Wolf, Elbridge KIngsley, G. Kruell, T.
Johnson, H. W. Peckwell, E. H. De l'Orme,
W. B. Closson, F. S. King and ten or a
dozen others.
The title of the new book by Mrs. Ev
erard Cotes (Sara Jeannette Duncan)
which Is to be published shortly by D.
Appleton & Co. Is "Vernon's Aunt." It
was received with much favor on its
simultaneous serial publication in this
country and England. After her strong
and absorbing novel, "A Daughter of
Today," Mrs. Cotes again demonstrates
her elasticity by a return to the viva
cious humor which gained her first lau
rels. "Vernon's Aunt" Is a delicious story
of contrasting types and absurd misad
ventures. The sparkling descriptions of
the author are accompanied by most felic
itous illustrations.
The leading and absorbing article of The
Atlantic for January, is "The Survival
of the American Type." The author, John
H. Denison, takes as his text the kill
ing of Robert Ross at the polls in Troy,
N. Y., in March, 1894. He treats it in a
suggestive and strong way as the situa
tion that gave rise to the A. P. A. move
ment. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps gives the
opening chapters of a serial, "A Singular
Life." "The Genius of France," by Hane
lock Ellis, Is the first of the promised in
ternational series, and J. M. Ludlow con
tributes the first of the papers on co
operative labor. There are other articles
and stories worth reading.
A students' edition of Chaucer in one
volume has been prepared by the Rev.
Walter W. Skeat, of the University of
Cambridge. It forms a complete edition
of the poet's works, the text used being
that of the six-volume "Oxford Chaucer"
now in course of publication. It is sup
plied with all the help necessary for the
student in the shape of glossaries, and
contains also a life of Chaucer, an ac
count of his writings and of their early
editions, and a brief discussion of ,the
grammar, meter, versification and pro
nunciation. It will be published in Eng
land by the Clarendon Press, and in Amer
ica by Macmillan & Co.
Dr. Holmes' "Last Leaf," just published
by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., contains a fac
simile letter, which is probably the last
matter written by Dr. Holmes which has
appeared In print. The following extracts
seem peculiarly appropriate at this time:
"I have lasted long enough to serve as an
illustration of my own poem. I am one
of tho very last of the leaves which still
cling to the bough of life that budded
in the spring of the 19th century. The
days of my years are threescore and
twenty, and I am almost half way up the
steep incline which leads me toward the
base of the new century, so near to which
I have already climbed."
The taste for Napoleonic literature is
catered to in the January North Ameri
can Review in an article on "The Influ
ence of the Napoleonic Legend," by Al
bert D. Vandam, author of "An English
man in Paris." The other leading papers
are "Historic Political Upheavals," by
ex-Speaker Reed; "What Paul Bourget
Thinks of Us.", by Mark Twain; "The Fu
ture of Gold," by the director of the mint;
"The Military Systems of Europe and
America," by Lieutenant-Colonel William
Ludlow; "The Young Czar and His Ad
visors," by Charles Emory Smith, ex
minister to Russia; "Shall We Have Free
Ships?" by Edward Kemble, president of
the Boston chamber of commerce, and
"Our Trade With China," by Worthlng
ton C. Ford, chief of the bureau of statis
tics at Washington. There are other val
uable articles, and much that is interest
ing In the department of "Note and Com
ment." Books Received.
"Discords," by George Egerton. Pub
lished by Roberts Bros., Boston. Price,
1103.
"The Poems of Henry Abbey." Published
by himself, at Kingston, N. Y. Price,
$125.
Scribner's Monthly, two bound volumes,
for 1S91. Charles Scribner's Sons, New
York.
"The Great God Pan," by Arthur Mach
en. Published by Roberts Bros., Boston.
Price, $1C0.
"The Aeronautical Annual," edited by
James Means. Published by W. B. Clarke
& Co., Boston. Price, $1 00.
"Little Eyolf," by Henrik Ibsen: trans
lated by William Archer. Published by
Stone & Kimball, Chicago.
"Sweetheart Gwen." By William Tire
buck. Published by Longmans, Green &
Co., New York. Price, 50 cents.
Baldwin's English Literature, two vol
umes. Published by John E. Potter &
Company. Philadelphia. Price, 13.
"Lessons in Practical Penmanship and
Typewriting," by F. M. Payne. Published
by the Excelsior Publishing house. New
York.
"The Opposite House," by Nataly von
Eschstruth, translated by Mary J. Saf
ford. Published by Robert Bonner's Sons,
New York. Price, 50 cents.
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PORTLAND, Jan. 12. (To the Editor.)
I have read with interest the different
articles on salmon propagation, and hov
to preserve the salmon. Your correspond
ents have overlooked one great factor to
combat with, and that is the amount of
spawn the young salmon and salmon
trout consume. It is a well-known fact
to fishermen (rod and line) that you can
catch more salmon-trout with salmon-roe
than any other kind of bait, It is also
a fact that salmon, trout, chubs, suckers
and other kinds of fish follow spawning
salmon, and when the eggs are depoalted
they devour them. Millions of eggs are
consumed in this way each year in the
Columbia river and its tributaries.
The claim Is made that salmon do not
eat anything after leaving salt water.
I don't think the larger salmon do, but
I know the young, ranging from 3 to 12
pounds, will bite at salmon-roe, as the
writer and many well-known disciples of
"Walton can testify. It has been sug
gested by those who will not admit that
salmon eat after entering the river that
the young salmon devour the roe out of
curiosity. That may be, but the fact re
mains that as many as 80 to 100 young
salmon have been captured on a hook at
the end of a line, with salmon-roe for
bait, below the falls at Oregon City in a
day.
Why do the young salmon come up the
river if not to devour the eggs depositea
by the larger fish. The young fish I speak
of do not come up the river to spawn.
They have not arrived at that age. It is
claimed a salmon comes Into fresh water
every four years to spawn, and never re
turns to the ocean again. Some of them
do not, but a majority of them do, and
live to come back and visit the old
spawning ground again. After reaching
the vicinity of their spawning ground they
seem to rest for two or three weeks In
deep holes or eddies of the river, until
they are just ready to build their nests,
and then they emerge from their holes
and literally cover the rapids for miles,
in the clear and shallow waters of which
they can be seen from the river banks
by hundreds. They seem to lose all fear
of danger and will not leave the places
they have selected unless very closely ap
proached, and then they will persistently
return again and again unless actually
driven off and kept off. This Is the time
the salmon, trout, chubs and suckers get
in their deadly work and destroy the
spawn. The remedy for this evil seems
to be the hatcheries, which could and
should be established on different rivers
emptying into the Columbia and Willamette-rivers.
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