Show THE m PEE? 0’ DAY— A LITERARY MAGAZINE ever will be' known As to the fitness of our nature for tlie deepest researches into the inighty volumes of undiscovered truth wTe‘ have tlie continual witness fwitli us Wc seem like a mine of jewelled thoughts when once the vein is struck and such a mine in fact we are for deity is hid within us waiting to be deveb oped while on every hand outside a living palpita ting universe of inspiration exists waiting to take hold upon us and connect our intelligence with the immensity of wisdom without "Then the Divine with in our nature answering to the Divine whisperings ‘without like blaze answering to ‘blaze gladdens again Like a mirror answers to the glances of tlie sun and forms one radiant glory with the messengers of light so sunlike inspiration glancing on any polished quali-ty'o- f our souls wakens a 'glory there and in that facuThus wc draw nigh lty of our being God is revealed: to ’Him and whether we seek to appropriate to ourselves his wisdom manifested in artistic scientific) or so called sacred truths He is always there answering to every call of our being for light or truth Thus through eternal ages must it ever he a boundless infinitude of truth ever present to answer the utmost requisitions of our infinite souls Endless unfoldings of art and science and-stilhigher developments of social and sacred truths must therefore needs take place mnd endlessly our race must rise from “culminating civilization” to “culminating civilization” and f H that without end Or ' ! - LITERARY KEYIEW DRA2IA TIC AND NO YEL LITERATURE Modern novels and the modem drama will rank on They hold about tlie same relative position in the domains of literature Indeed a vast quantity of novelettes and modern theatrical pieces cannot a par without a violent strain be classified in the catalogue j of literary works They are altogether unworthy of the dignified ' name of literature and they bear the same low comparison with high class damatic and novel writing It is true there have been many chaste and excellent dramas and many classical novels from the pens of accomplished writers of modern celebrity which most dcservingly rank as works of art Such though they form a new school of literature- are closely related to the high class drama and novel of the old school As we have said before works of rare quality of the new school are asdegitimate as producLiterature is essentions of art of the old school tially the same in all ages and art is eminently art in every variety of its transformations It may change its forms and phases— its character may be heavy or light constituting different schools of authorship but from the earliest to the latest legitimate writers it carries the elements of art and is worthy of its dignified title — LITERATURE — in every age and in every Works of art will class in a common family school relationship and it is just as Consistent to speak of domestic plays of excellent quality belonging to the new school as the legitimate drama as to speak of the legitimate drama of the old school In our thedistinctatrical reviews we shall aim to draw-th- e ive features as well as the general resemblance between the old classical drama and the new legitimate drama with portraitures of natural adistes and portraitures of that class of wliomHamlet said) “0 there and heard others praise be players that I have seen-and that highly — not to speak it profanely that neither having accent of Christians nor the gait of Chris tians pagan nor man have so strutted and bellowed some of nature's journeymen bad made men and not made them well they imitated so abominably” What is illustrated in dramatic literature is also illustrated in novel literature The critical reviewer will always find that the one will strongly resemble the other If chaste and classical plays obtain public favor there wall be a corresponding demand for chaste and classical novels and if the sensational and trashy be popular in dramatic literature it will also be in ' novel literature We are certainly living in a more intellectual and reading' age than any proceeding one and yet tlib trashy and sensational in the drama and in the novel are the most taking and popular A of the reasons of this may be interesting In the first place the great peculiarity of this ago’ is seen in the voracious appetite of everybody for and sensational effects The public could never endure nowaday to travel by stage coaches and the good old rumbling road wagons of good old slow rumbling times would be most intolerable Tlio ' big palpitating world which has fever on the brain and thepulses of which beat about six hundred to the minute would 'die of ennui if put into a road wagon to- perform a days journey Wc must dash along on the new highways of iron that everywhere intersect each other in modern times The “ snorting horse ” must respond in loud breathing to our respiration and sixty miles an hour must be the speed of our locomotion to If the steam give to our pulsation its regular time engine be not exceedingly feverish and excitingly rapid we ourselves get feverish and impatient We only live in the railroad car when the excited atmosphere through which we madly dash brushes1 our heads into mops of tangled locks- and sift pecks of small gravel in our face There we live — then we are calm — then everything around is feverish but ourselves-ThThe homeopathic principle becomes applied fever off the engine draws out our fever — the excitement of the mad cars makes us serene and the public travel on the electric telegraph they to calni would make a tour round the world their nerves and pass away a leisure half hour Again who cares in this mad sensational age which cohsumear rur finer feelings about reading of a battle where there are only a few thousand slain It would not be enough to give zest to our breakfast Ten thousand would help our digestion — twenty thousand cut to pieces would make our coffee lueious fifty thousand smashed to atoms would make our morning’s meal delightfully re freshing and fit us for a comfortable days labors Pshaw ! the crusades were only baby's in warfare The could not endure to fight in steel y world stroke must cleave a man to the sword armorEvery chin and the more destructive our instruments of war can be made the nearer we live up to the sensation of the age What an exhilirating entertainment it would be to witness some daring rider leap into the saddle of the Niagara Falls If he hurt himself in the leap which of course he would wc should encore him to do it over again This reminds us of the encore which the public gave in our theatre to the Sepoy who mftdo his ascent from the cannons mouth ’Twould have added to the sensational effect if he had joined his pieces toge thcr when lie came down and been blows Here was a up again before an admiring audience proof that we in Salt Lake Uity are akin to other people We are living in the last days so it is said 'Now if the world would only hav the good taste to go off that I have thought ity birds-eyd'vie- sane-Coul- now-a-da- |