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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 29, 1896)
' "" UJi!JIfA?g?!BBrM THE COURIER. everything that works. Under these conditions how can there be a town and gown? Gown is the offspring of town. He works in Town'sa restaurants, milks his c"wb, curries Town's horses and his own brains at the same time. Town is the employer, the aristocrat aud Gown will And it difficult to complete his ed ucation it Town withdraws hip patron age. So it behooves him to keep a civil tongue in his head and show Town gentle manners. The last number of the ebraska Literary Magazine, published quarterly . by the English club of the state univer sity, has arrived. It is a magazine about as thick but wider than Harper'sMonth ly. Printed on heavy paper with wide margins the mechanical appear ance is worthy of its literary excellence. The frontispiece is a good likeness ofMrs. A. W. Field, who contributes an article on women's clubs. The ignorant and prejudiced can not claim the excuse of Buch adjectives since the appearance of Mrs. Bryan's and .Mrs. Field's article on women's clubs unless they count igno rance and prejudice more dear than twenty-five cents the price of the book. In t'A Word About Clubs." Mrs. Field gives the history of women's clubs and their formation and federation in thiB state and confederation with other states. She does not use a superfluous word but proceeds from the first word to the last only two pages in the logical development of her subject. It is only when I read over the sentence whose meaning must be grubbed for that I appreciate the directness, sim plicity and cleverness of Mrs. Field's and Mrs. Bryan's articles. A large idea frequently succeeds in throwing the youthful mind that wrestles with it as in the poem on page 143callrd Day Dreams. Those who try to get a vision of what the young man iB wrestling with see only dust and the champion's bleeding nose. It is a matter of regret that Mrs. Field does not sign her own name to her article and leave off the "Mrs." Mr. Field has nothing to do with "A Word About Clubs." I heard Mrs. Field talk in her university days long before Mr. Fields oratorical ability was 60 well known and May Fairfield was selected then as now when the school wanted a representative. When a married or un married woman signs her name to a check or o any kind of a literary pro duction she does so as an individual. It is as absurd for her to put Mrs. or Miss before it or, in the case of a married woman to use her husband's initials, as it would be for a man to write Mr. J. A. Brown a hundred times a day when it is necessary for him to sign his in fluential name. There are a number of women in this town who sign checks and productions daily and it is about time they learned to give the Missus a rest. Mrs. Bryan has accomplished what 6he advises other women to, in her essay on "Stumbling Blocks." This woman with an invalid mother and father and three little children to care for has by hoarding her minutes done as much reading since she was married as before when her eyes were fascinated by the number and vistas of the pathB a maiden sees. She puts tht ca6e of a club woman the centre of a home which she never neglects who has a hunger for intellectual food which if not partially satisfied will weaken her for service at home and she shows how she can learn and think by using her spare moments. t is the best statement of the case, its difficulties and its treatment, that I ever read. It is autobiographical and proves as the mathematicians say. It ought to bo printed in tract form and every club woman in the atate should have a copy. 8 a corrective of careless and futile thought it U better than the pamphlet called "Every Man His Uwn University or the Way to Get Even With Time." There are five poems in the magazine. Three of which deserve notice, or per haps it is more accutate to say they are going to get it. It is remarkable how students with a literary taste, generally quite correct, will drop into poetry. I thiuks youth intoxicates them. They see something before them that looks easy to fly in. In reality they are stand ing on the brink of an abyss They Jeap up but their wings do not work and they fall thousands and thousands of feet. When they come to they ere dazed. They do not know what hit them in what seemed like a flight but was to others' vision a drop. Professor Eagren's translation from the Swedish "Whence Came That Sigh in the Forest?'-" has the quaintness and the sympathy with chil dren of Hans Anderson's "Bilder Buchohne Bilder," as well as the slight awkwardness and foreignness of a literal translation. "Day Dreams" by John Cupp Lowe has a phrase-beauty but lacks coher ence. The charm of phrases like "foggy vales" and "music world" remains in the mind as Tennyson's do by their poetic completeness. But here is the poem: Some vague day dreams will haunt the misty morn Of life, like ghosts that stalk in foggy vales Before thechasteningsun has kissed away The low-hung clouds, and perfect day is born. The sailor's wife dreams of incoming sails. When landward blows the gale; and well she may. For that which starts the child's fantas tic dream, And makes the boys chase idle but terflies, Has kindled in her heart some dorm ant coals That blazed in other days, when Love'r sweet theme Attuned the music world with their two souls That sailed the seas beneath the vir gin skies: Each fruitless djy she strains her failing sight, And looks, and longs, and dreams again at night. From the fifth line slightly para phrased the poem reads: The sailor's wife dreams of incoming sails, when landward blows the gale; for the same thing which starts the child's fantastic dream and makes bojs chase idle but terflies (what is it?) has kinuled in her heart some dormant coals, that blazed in other da) s when Love's theme used their two souls (hers and her husband's probably, husband not specifically des ignated) to put in tune the music world. While the two souls were keying the world they were sailing the seas be oeath virgin skies: (To return to the sleeping Mrs. Sailor.) Each day she strains her failing sight and looks and longs, and dreams again at night. From the ninth line 'theimagery issquandered. Age and want are needed to teach Mr. Lowe temperance. A. time may come when his felicitous phrasing will have a better setting. Mr. Bixby can drive Pegasuses four abreast and hold one foot in his hand and never fall off till he gets ready but he has been in the ring a long time and the horses know his whip hand. Miss Prey's poem of th worn dream that in Anglo Saxon meant joy is satis factory. She has given her poem the abrupt movement of Beowulf. It is in genious but hints of a joyless pessi mism that modern university life seems to encourage. The stories, of which there are eight, are delightful. Three of them: "How John Found His HarnessStrap.""Whit ley's Wife" und "The Vigilante" are full of local color and good enough to be printed in any of the monthly maga zines. Mr. Newbranch's story of "How John Found His Harness Strap" pi e sents the hardest and dreariest side of the Swedish character. The story is founded on fact and Mr. Newbranch tells it with his accustomed directness. c 15. ' SW. mmmmm ALL THE MAOAZVBJS M OCM." - Review-Reviews Edited fcy ALBERT SHAW. REMteVErfS T1 ?5w dH"w dK . 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P LEATHER NOVgLT far Bummer tourists sad others. Repairing a Specialty. Old Trunks In Exoh&nge tor New Ones. niimnr. 1217 0 stseet. cum NOVELTBTa. power and sadness. These North Euro pean people look at the world through colored glasses because the sun on the snow dazzles their eyes. They lack a sense of distance. Something is wrong with the perspective. Ibsen's dramas are subjective, influenced too much by the hard conditions of life in a country where the Wiuters are twice as long as the Summers. A long residence in English green and daffodil fields would affect Ibsen's philosophy as surely as Nebraska's sun flowers will change Mr. Newbranch's hereditary views and ac quired philosophy or way of looking at things. It is all a question of environ ment the authors of Norway, Denmark and Sweden present the horrors of life Provence sings and dances. For the completeness of literature we need them both but let me be a Provencal. "Veni, Vidi" has the fascination of the correct solution of a puzzle. It proves that a character can be fully presented by the use of environment alone. Professjr Edgren's philological article "Evolution by Metaphor as Illustrated by Sanskrit and English," is a simple statement of an abstruse subject. It is foxy of tho Professor, though, to make his subject seem so simple. He flatters his readers by making them think they might do it themselves. Whereas phil ology requires more judgment and learning to the square inch than any other science. The miscellany under the heading "Shavings from Several Shops" is cafe noir or a sip of Cogjac after a banquet. S.B.H. rQlSTrnSBWlBBSBS'tMLlltisM- uJalHlBBiwBJSn55BLfHi,EB Time Reduced great Rock Island Route Runs their gbillips Pullman Excursion Cars to on their fast trains. Examine time cards and see. that we are nearly TWO HOURS quicker than any other route Chicago to Los Angeles. The Phillips excursions are popular. 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