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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.
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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.
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and Sweden present the horrors of life
Provence sings and dances. For the
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"Evolution by Metaphor as Illustrated
by Sanskrit and English," is a simple
statement of an abstruse subject. It is
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his readers by making them think they
might do it themselves. Whereas phil
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