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A NK\V HOOK.
"McLanghliu and Old Oregon , a
Chronicle : by Eva Emery Dye. Mc-
Olurg's 1900. " This is rather an exas
perating work. One who should take it
up for a story would be perplexed by its
lack of continuity : one who buys it in
search of new historical material is
irritated by an absence of dates or any
kind of exact statements. It reminds
one of the Highland preacher in one of
McLaren's storieswho so skipped about ,
from the seven trumpets to the devil
and his works , that his audience became
dizzy and fell into despair.
It is a book of the better class , fair to
look at and of irreproachable morals as
to grammar and that sort of thing. But
a book about Dr. McLaughlin really
ought to tell something about him. Half
way through we learn when he was born :
presently we are told whom he married ,
but nothing about when it happened :
and a thorough ransacking of the pages
in search of the date of his going to
Oregon reveals no clew that will locate
it within six years. Some of the chap
ters bear a date at their head , but such
a chapter may contain accounts of wide
ly separated events. The chapter en
titled "The death of Dr. McLaughlin"
is headed 1849 57 ; a lingering death , one
would think. It is thus described : "He
answered , A Dicu. It was his last word.
So he died. Peace be with him. Men
paused when they heard his funeral
knell , and women wept. " "This was
a good man , " they said , and so forth.
Good reading , but meagre data for a
biography of the doctor.
Many famous figures in early north
western history appear , but they are
jerked in and out of the pages in so
galvanic a fashion that the reader is
kept wondering at their sudden disap
pearances. Frequent mention is made ,
as is natural , of Marcus Whitman : the
man who , they say , made Oregon and
Washington United States territory.
Whitman was killed by Indians , whom
he was trying to educate ; pilgrimages
are made to his grave to this day. A
chaprer in this book is headed "The
Whitman Massacre , 1847. " The affair
itself is thus described : ' 'What is the
news ? " he asked. "Dr Whitman is
dead , " answered the priest. "Mrs.
Whitman ? " "Dead also. Killed by
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the Indians. " " And my child ? " "Is
safe with the captives. "
This can hardly be called complete.
The book consists mainly of dialog ,
and , what is worse , of dialect ; French-
Canadian , Trapper , Scotch , Henglish
and others , and both dialog and dialect
have a decidedly factitious air.
Perhaps this is why it is a chronicle
instead of either fiction or history.
A. T. R.
3000 A. D.
The estimable Ladies' Home Journal
in its December number , catalogs for us
to the extent of a full page , the pleas
ures which we may expect to enjoy a
hundred years from now. Strawberries
are to be an big as apples , peas the size
of beets , pansies a foot across , dough
nuts as big as wedding cakes , the five-
cent beer as big as a wash-tub and the
Homely Ladies' Journal as big as all
out-doors. * Flies and angle-worms also
are to be extinct , and horses nearly so.
We are encouraged to record some
guesses of our own in the same line.
We predict that in one hundred years
there will be no negroes in the United
States , except in Washington , D. O. ,
where they will own all the real estate.
Elsewhere they will have been extermi
nated , either by one generation's being
massacred or by the next being pre
vented from appearing.
The American Indians will form an
hereditary landed aristocracy of im
mense wealth and exclusiveuess ; be
side them the orders of the Cincinnati
and the Colonial Dames will be no bet
ter than common folks. They will be
a non-productive class , and will adhere
