THE1 OREGON , DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 87, 1904. 10 FLANAGAN CASE CAUSES FLURRY REPRESENTATIVE HOMES OF PORTLAND T Ml;, v &k - - JjjJSsSsgg RESIDENCE OK H. E. NOBLE. TWENTY-FOURTH AND "FLANDERS ST. With It high gambrel roof and massive (ton chimney, this honfe U attractive to any one visiting the city aa one of Portland' beat It beau tiful lawn add also to the appearance. Heated by W. O. McPherson Co. Richard Martin, architect. THE TWENTY-FIVE BEST NOVELS What Are They? Several Noteworthy Authorities Prepare Lists What would you select as the best 25 ifcrorks of fiction? The Journal published recently the election made by Rer. Thomas B. Gregory, whose reputation aa a man of wide reading and literary taeta entitle his Judgment to consideration. Opin ion will differ widely a to the merit of soma of the work named in Dr. Gregory" Hat, for It would be difficult to find two persons of Independent mind whose ldeaa would be exactly the aame on this subject. Several residents of Portland have been asked to prepare lists of what they consider the best 25 works of fiction, exclusive of poetry, and thay have compiled with the re Quest. For the purpose of comparison. Dr. Gregory' list hi republished. It Is aa follows: "Don Quixote, Cervantes; "LS Miserable," Victor Hugo; "Tristram Shandy," Sterne; 'The Vicar of Wake field." Goldsmith; "Pilgrim's Progress," Bunyan. "Paul and VlrtnlajBt Pierre; ''Robinson Crusoe." D Foe; "The Wand ering Jew," Eugeno Sua; 'Gullivers Travels." Swift; "Oil Bias," V Sage; "Pride and Prejudice," Austen; "Ten Thouaand a ."ear," Warren; "Old Mor tality," Scott; "Ivanhoe," Scott; "David Copperfleld," Dickens; "Jane Eyre," Charlotte Bronte; "Daniel Deronda," George Elliot; "Vanity Fair." Thacke ray; "On th Height," Auerbach; "War and Peace," Tolstoi; "Last Days of Pom pell," Bulwer; "Le Pere Gorlot," Balsac; "The Scarlet Letter," Hawthorne; "Ben Hur." Wallace; "The Leopard's Spots," Dixon. Thomas O. Greene prepared a Hat which he prefaced with tb following ex planation : "In the list of the best it novels re cently contributed by your correspond ent there are books such aa "Pilgrim's Progress." which, although work of Imagination, aoem to bo out of place in a catalogue of works of fiction. In the subjoined list religious allegories and personal memoirs are omitted. I do not claim that my list contains the very best IS works of fiction in all literature, for I have not real all the novel In the wwrld and am, therefore, not qualified to judge; but no lover of a good story wall told, which after all la the real test of a good novel, can fall to find wholesome pleasure In the perusal of these books. The first ten or twelve are set down at nearly aa I can remember in the order In which they were read, beginning at the "small boy period" with the first. Two of these hooka in the Hat are not to be recommended vlrginlbua puerlsque, but most boy read them at an earlier age than they are afterward willing to admit Th Hat might contain several more books, for In limiting th number to 15 I bar been compelled regretfully to omit on or two of Capt Marryatt' stories of the sea. that i incomparable picaresque novel "Gil Bins," and one or two other stories each of Scott, Dlckena, Thackeray, Hugo and Balsac." Mr. Greene' list la a follows: "Robinson Crusoe." De Foe; "Arabian Nights;" 'Tom Brown's School Days," Hughes; "Quentln Pur ward" and "Th 'Talisman," Scott; "Tom Crlngle'a Log." Michael Scott: "Tom Sawyer," Mark Twain; "The Three Guardsmen." Dtj mss; "Leila." Bulwer; "Henry Esmond" and Vanity Fair," Thackeray; "Jane Eyre," Bronte; "Cloister and the Hearth." Reade: "Pickwick Papers" and "Great Expectations." Dlrkens; "Mill on the Floss," Ellott; "Scarlet Letter," Hawthorne; "Notre Dame," Hugo; "Treasure Island ' Stevenson; " Pere Oeriot," Balsac; "Tom Jones," Fielding; "Decameron." Boccaccio; "Vicar of Wakefield." Goldsmith: "Don Quixote." Cervantes; "With Fire and Sword," Slenklewlcs. aim Chillingly," Bulwer; "Heart of Mid lothian," "Ivanhoe," Scott; "Cloister and Hearth." Reade; "Lorn Doone." Blackmore; "Jane Byte," Charlotte Bronte; "Adam Bede." George Eliot; "White Company," Conan Doyle; "Le Miserable," Victor Hugo; "Three Guardamen." Dumas-pere; "Gargantua and Pantagruel," Rabelais; "Don Quix ote," Cervantes; "On the Heights," Auerbach; "Scarlet Letter," Hawthorne; "Smoke," Turgenleff. The 25 works of fiction which are se lected as the best by Mark O'Neill are aa follows: "Tom Jones," Fielding; "The Advent ures -of Peregrine Pickle," Smollett: "Robinson Crusoe," De Foe: "David Copperfleld." "Th Old Curiosity' Shop," Diokens; "Ouy Mannejing." Scott; "The Leather Stocking Tale." Cooper; "Henry Eamond," Thackeray; "Tale of the Imagination," Poe; 'The Mill on the Floss." Bitot; "The Jungle Book." Kipling; Pantagruel." Rabelais; "Gil Bias," Le Sag; "Don Quixote." Cervantes; "La Petit Fadette," George Sand: "La Chartreuse de Parme." Beyle (De Stendhal); "Eugene Orandet," "Th Chousans." "In Quest of. th Absolute," Balsac; "Las Miserable," Hugo; "Jo seph the Second of Austria," Muhlbach; "Una Vie," De Maupassant; "Resurrec tion," Tolstoi; "L'Assommolr," Zola; "Urada," Ebera. Miss C. R. Trowbridge submits th following novels, restricting her selec tion to a single work by each author named: "Tom Jones," Fielding: "Don Quix ote," Cervantes; "Arabian Nights;" "Three Musketeers," Dumas; "Vicar of Wakefield." Goldsmith; "Vanity Fair." Thackeray: "Ivanhoe," Scott; "Pride and Prejudice.' Austen; "David Copper fleld." Dlckena; "Jane Eyre," Bronte; "My Novel." Bulwer; "Mlddlemarch." George Eliot ; "Westward HQ." Kings ley: "Lea Miserable," Hugo; "Resur rection." Tolstoi; "Scarlt Letter," Hawthorne; "Last of the Mohican," Cooper; "Lorn Doone." Blackmore; "Or deal of Richard Fererel," Meredith; "Kidnapped," Stevenson: "Cranford," Gaskell; "Prue and I." Curtl: "Plain Tales From the Hills." Kipling: Fram ly Paraonage," T roll ope, "The Cloister and the Hearth," Reade. Hon. Alfred F. Sears. Jr., Judge of the superior court of this county, has contributed the following selection, men tioning, however, that the bnoka are not named In the order of excellence: "Tom Jones." Fielding: "Trlstrnm Shandy," Stern: "Tal of Two Cities." "Mutual Friend." "David Copperfleld," Dickens; "Vanity Fair." "Henry Es mond," "Neweomea," Thackerny: "West ward Ho!," Klngsley; "My Novel." "Ken- C. E. S. Wood was asked to prepare a Hat, but through a misunderstanding his selections wer not restricted to pro fiction. "I have named the work which I should choose if my library were to be limited to 25 books," said Mr. Wood. "It Is simply an off hand list of th work which a man might select If he were to be left In solitude upon a desert Island." Although this compila tion differ from th other which have been received, in that it Is hot confined to works of fiction, it I none th less Interesting. The list follows: The Bible aa literature, philosophy and poetry; the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer; the drama of Sophocles and Aeschylus; Life and Sayings of Socrates, as given by Plato;, Roman literature, poetic and philosophical (s fine, but an echo from Oreece. For example. Virgil echoes Homer In his Epic, Theocritus fn his pastoral poetry.) Caesar Com mentarles: Plutarch's lives; speeches and sayings of Mohammed from the Koran The Arabian Nights: Sakuntnla: Teach ings of Gautama, the Buddha: Frols- sart's Chronicles; Morte d' Arthur; Dante's Divine Comedy; Mollere's plays; Bacon's Essay and Philosophy; Shake- spere's plays and sonnets: Olbhon's Borne; Green s History of the English People; Darwin's Descent of Man and Origin of Species; Heckel's Evolution; Century Dictionary: Cervantea Don Quixote; Walt Whltman'a poetry; any popular treatise on physics and astronomy. Readers of The Journal sre Invited to send In their own selections of the best 6' works of fiction, for publication. There Is wide room for legitimate dif ferences of opinion and th view of every Intelligent reader of fiction are of Interest. TWO FERN HILL MEN HAVE DEADLY DUEL fgeva.il map ten to Tie Joaraal.) Astoria. Or.. Aug. 27. John Adams of Knappa and James D. Brewer of Fern Hill, engaged In a shooting affray at the latter place last night, and as a re sult Adam Is dying and Brewer is se riously wounded. The two men accompanied by their families spent th day In Astoria and left for their homes on th night train. It I said that a dispute arose over a question a to the character of a woman la tho neighborhood in which they live. whvthy neared Brewer home, the 1st t.r Went Inside while Adam remained la the brush near th house. gtrewer appeared In th doorway with a Massfan In hi hand and Adams Opened fire with a revolver. Rrewer waa shot twice, once in the knee and In th leg near the groin. Adam rsoalvwd a, aaarge of shot in th abdoosaav " LOSES LIFE WHILE INSTRUCTING PUPIL (Jsarnsl ."pedal Berries.) Fresno, Cat. Aug. 27 'WhllO acting a a teacher of awimmlng, Fred Carpen ter, patrolman for the San Joaquin Power company, waa taken with cramps and sank to the bottom in 12 feet of water. His pupil. Miss Helen Dowle, a well-known young woman of this city, although she could not swim a stroke, managed lo keep above water until a boat arrived to sav her from going under. The drowning took place In a reser voir of the power company near here Carpenter and Miss Dowle. with several other, wr In bathing. Carpenter, who waa an expert swimmer, took Mlas Dowle Into deep water, when suddenly Carpenter said. 'Tv got a cramp," and th same Instant let go of Mia Dowle's shoulder snd sank out of sight His body, was recovered later. MOW vr TO rmi OOlTTaOTCBST TsJITW JLsVTff ATTomjnm xxatbd BET WE EM DISTRICT ATTOXHEY Ain la w y e Man; Elf HALE. If Justice William Rid decides the prosecution of H. C. Flanagan, charged with the larceny of 1100 by bailee, whoa case 1 now under advlee ment, shall proceed, it means that Dis trict Attorney John Manning la deprived absolutely of the privilege of laying or dismissing complaints in the1 Justice courts. Justice Raid ha already refused to dismiss the action on motion of Mr. Manning, whose appearance he refused to recognise, stating that though dis trict attorney the public proaecutor ap peared for the defendant Flanagan failed to . appear la a civil suit snd a clear case waa mad out and Judgment was given against him. Than cam th procedure which ha led to a clear cut issue between Mr. Manning snd Ed Mendenhall, admitted by his professlonsl brethren to rank a a leading criminal lawyer of the alate. Snavely appeared before Justice Held and made a statement of the alleged facts In ths case, afterward subscribing to an affidavit charging Flanagan with larceny by bail. Jutlc Reld Issued a warrant of arrest and Flanagan waa taken into custody Thursday night "Why didn't you com to my offlco if you had a legitimate complaint?" angrily demanded th district attorney of Attorney Mendenhall. "Because I am tired of having you try cases In your office and fixing them up there," as heatedly replied Mr. Men denhall. "Ever since you have been. In office you have arrogated to youraelf th sole right to lay complaints In the Jus tice court and dismiss thm there, when the atatuie glvea you absolutely .no authority there, except to act as senior counsel In the prosecution by virtu of your ofllc." After further discussion on th same plane, Justice Reld refused to dismiss the case, but permitted the defendant hla liberty on hi own recognisance, pending a further investigation. A num ber of leading attorneya ara keenly in terested In th outcome of th ease, all taking the aame stand a Attorney Men denhall. So far aa the reading of the code I concerned the language I plain. It la made obligatory on the court to luue warrants If he becomes satisfied from a statement of the case that a crime ha been committed. Section 15B4 of the codes provides aa fellows: "When complaint Is mad to a magis trate of the commission of a crime h must examine the informant on oath and reduce hi statement to writing, and cause the same to be ubcrlbed by him and alao take the depositions of any wit nesses that the Informant may produce in support thereof." As regards th action to be taken by the magistrate, provision I mad by Section 1686 In the following language. "ThreuDon. If the magistral be sat lsfled that th crime complained Of ha been committed. nd that thr Is prob ahla cause to bellev that the person charged ha committed It, h must issue a warrant of arrest." ARIZONA BANDITS KIDNAP YOUNG BOY (Journal Special Service.) Safford. Arls., Aug. 27. A cowboy reached Safford today with the news of the kidnaping of Thomas Warden, a 11' vear-old boy of the Black Rock ranch and hla subsequent recovery after a fight with th bandits. The foreman of the ranch and the cowooya were out on a roundup, with the exception of John Earl, who waa left In charge Of th ranch, and th Warden boy, a son of one of the men. Wednesday throe men rod up to th corral, bound Earl and attacked th house with rifle and captured Wardell. Earl later escaped and warned the ranch men. A posse of six was formed and took the trail, and the bandit were over taken Thursday evening. In the fight which followed, the outlaws, outnum bered and hampered by their captive, finally abandoned th child, dropping him on th trail as thsy fled. The ban dits escaped. SHERIFF ACCUSED OF ASSISTING MOB (Journal Special Service.) Savannah. Oa., Aug. 27. Two sor geant before the court of Inquiry ap pointed by Governor Terrlll. to In vestigate the circumstance surrounding the death by burning at the stake, of the two negroea Will Cato and Paul Reed, who were convicted of the murder of th Hodge family, have testified that th sheriff told them to let th mob have the negroes. The militia on duty to protect the prisoners from the mob carried empty guns, and before Captain Hitch deemed the time had arrived to order them loaded, the attack was made and the guards all overpowered. Sheriff Kendrlc la accused of collusion with the mob by Captain Hitch, and nearly 1 all the non-commissioned of ficers and privates. LANDIS'OF INDIANA AT SAGAMORE HILL Mourns 1 Special Berries.) Oyster Bay, Aug. 27. Congressman Lucius N. Lltauer, who haa been a gueat at Sagamore Hill, left thla morning on an early train. Representative Landls of Indiana la hare today to tell the presi dent the political conditions in th Hoosler stat. 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