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Rh Holy Land." Jonathan Edwards' "Inquiry Into the Freedom of the Will," written in 1754, was regarded as authority in metaphysics, but it never was classed as literature. Then it may be remarked that they produced no songs or other music of note, while our Francis, our DeMoss family, our Heritage, our Parvin, our Yoder, and scores of others have published songs, enjoyed and sung from shore to shore, from sea to sea. They had no great lawyers to strengthen their constitution by the wise interpretation of their laws, such as we have had in Matthew P. Deady, W. Lair Hill, Lafayette Lane, W. P. Lord, and others who have graced the supreme bench of Oregon. Modern journalism was then unknown; and a Homer Davenport, with an annual income of $13,000—the highest salary ever paid a cartoonist—was not to be found among men.

To summarize we have among the Oregon books and authors:

POETRY.—Joaquin Miller, Minnie Myrtle Miller, James G. Clark, Ella Higginson, Col. Baker, Mrs. S. Hamilton, Samuel L. Simpson, H. H. Woodward, Lilian Blanche Fearing.

SHORT POEMS OF MERIT.—T. W. Davenport, John Minto.

HISTORY.—W. H. Gray, H. K. Hines, Frances