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Hutchinson Times.
As one reads the Minneapolis Journal's
Sunday morning issue, it makes him wish
that The Journal would get out a morn
ing issue every day In the week. It cer
tainly leads the other papers of the twin
cities In the matter of live news and en
tertaining correspondence from all parts
of the world.
A Wholesome Verdict.
The verdict of the "jury in the action
charging the editor of Collier's Weekly
of criminally libeling Judge Deuel is
not only a -just one, but a mighty whole
some thing. Collier's Weekly said that
Judge Deuel, occupying a place on the
civil bench in New York city, was a
disgrace to the state every day that
he sits upon the bench" because of his
connection with Town Topics and his
profiting: by its blackmailing ventures.
It is worth something to have a jury
po promptly fix upon the exposure of
official rottenness the seal of its ap
proval and to have judicial authority
grant to the author of that exposure
complete immunity from any penalty
because of it. Locally it^ought to have
quite a valuable result in ridding the
bench of a conspicuously unfit man.
Town Topics and its side issue, "Pads
and Fancies," have revealed a good
many human weaknesses and frailties
during the last six months in localities
where they were not supposed to exist.
Some good will doubtless come 'of it,
however, when people learn that repu
table publications are not spying upon
people's private conduct and are not
looking for stories of moral delinquen
cy. Occasionally some well-considered
mention of such things becomes neces
sary and exceedingly profitable in its
general effect, but nothing is more
marked with respect to the best grade
of daily newspapers than their improve
ment in the method of handling news
of this character, and their tendency to
publish as little of it as possible.
Chinese merchants at Canton are pro
testing against additional taxes imposed
by a government that wants to go into
the railroad business. In this' country
the money for the roads is taken out of
our hides without our feeling itperhaps
because the air is so dry.
Cuba's Gift to Alice.
Cuba is going to give Alice Eoosevelt
a $25,000 wedding present. Of course
there will be objectors an'd the accept
ance of such a gift by the president's
daughter Will be made the occasion for
some carping and envious criticism.
Nevertheless it is a very graceful thing
for the Cubans to do. They not only
owe a great deal to the United States,
|iji but a great deal to the president peir
sonally for his fidelity to promises made
by this country to Cuba. The president
stood for Cuban reciprocity against bit
ter opposition' and largely to his in
fluence is due the fact that our pledges
made or implied to the commercial in
terests of Cuba have been kept. When
the vote was taken in the Cuban sen
ate, General Clsneros, the most implaca
ble anti-American in Cuba, expressed
columns mere than any St. Paul paper.
daily average ciroulation of The Journal in December was
67,927
The circulation of The Sunday Journal la
63,162
Minneapolis Merchants Use The Journal Most, EVERY DAX.JU,-
THE WEEJ S, because it gives them most results.
THEY KNOW CIRCULATION VALUE.
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that the bill providing for the appro
priation he passed by acclamation.
This gift is also to be taken as a
token of Cuba's good will toward the
United States and will operate toward
the establishment of relations of great
er confidence and esteem between thei
island and the big republic.
Reports from the tropics state that Dr.
Dowie is improving: rapidly. The medical
situation in Chicago would be merely
commonplace and unromantlo without
Dowie.
Again the Patterson Contract.
The city council appears to be deter
mined that the Patterson Incandescent
Light company shall have its contract
price, whether there is aw for it or
not. Last night it passed a resolution
employing the company from day to
day at the price named in its recent
bid. This arrangement is pending an
appeal by the company from the deci
sion of Judge Brown in the mandamus
proceedings. The company is supposed,
under this arrangement, to take an ap
peal to the supreme court, and the only
advantage we can see is that the coun
cil will get a construction of the city
charter at the joint expense of the
mayor's personal purse and the light
company's corporate purse. The weak
ness of the arrangement is that it does
not limit the company to any particu
lar time in which to perfect its appeal.
Alderman Hertig endeavored, to have
a reasonable limit-May 1fixed, but
the majority of the council were not
with him on this proposition, nor on
th at to divide the question and name a
price per day in the resolution differ
ent from that named in the bids.
The mayor may agree to this reso
lution. If he does, the council will say
that there was no question between ik
and the mayor except that of the con
struction of the charter, but should he
veto it, the council evidently has enough
votes in hand, to pass it-'over his veto,
and the Patterson company will have
as good an arrangement as if it had a
contract. Why should it hurry an ap
peal? And why should the city council
be a mere bystander when a construc
tion of the charter and an interpreta
tion of its rights under it are in ques
tion? Are the lighting companies so
integral a part of the city government
that their counsel take charge of the
matter of ascertaining wh at are the
powers granted and withheld by that
instrument
For a very human and lovable book,
Senator Hoar's "Autobiography" is likely
to hold a place of favor on the book
shelves for a good many decades.
The Packers' Santa Clans.
The apparent attempt of the packers
to poison the public mind in the case
now pending, by making Christmas
presents to reporters, will not material
ly affect the case, since it is not being
tried in the newspapers. But it goes to
show that the packers are not so sweet
and innocent as they would have peo
ple think. They took originally the
high and mighty ground that they were
being persecuted, that the tremendous
machinery of the federal government
had been turned upon them in an effort
to crush them to make a political holi
day. Mysterious hints and then broad
intimations were given out that Mr.
Garfield had come among them and oT
tained confidential information and that
on this confidential information they
had been indicted. They published a
letter written by the president to his
attorney general, which they claimed
showed that the president had.sent the
commissioner -of corporations to them
to worm their secrets from them, under
promise of immunity, and then had
played up the department of justice to
indict the packers.
W have not heard lately so much
about the claim of immunity, probably
because Mr. Garfield has been present
every day in court and becapse $he gov
ernment let it be known that at the
proper time he would take the witness
stand for/the governments"'-So far as
the president's letter is concerned, it
seems to be an eminently judicial state
men to the effect that if the special
grand jury in Chicago finds indictments
against the packers it will be because
plentiful evidence of violation of the
law has been presented to them. Noth
ing more colorless could be said by a
judge in charging a jury.
Now the counsel for the packers are
found sowing money among the report
ers for the Chicago papers, and the ex
planation is that Judge Brown "of
counsel" is merely throwingout his
customary line of Christmas prese*3a.
It was the presidenL's^HTn^to^pnMn^
some letters, and he has given, the pack
ers a Roland for- their Oliver.. Mean
while the case will continue to be triCS
on-the law and the facts. i"-
"Every law looks blue to-4he- man" who
wants to break it." "No government
could long exist where very* man was
his approval of the gift and moved his own lawmaker." "-^You do not for a birds.'y^
moment suspect Senator Aldxioh *t these
lofty sentiments, governor Folk said
them at Boston.
Evidence for Puce Food Laws.
Senator Nelson will be able to answer
Senator Gallinger's inquiry about Wor
cestershire sauce to the satisfaction and
enlightenment of congress, when he has
received the correspondence in the case
from Commissioner Slater of Minne
sota.
During the debate on the national
pure food bill this week, Senator Gal
linger brought up the case raised by
the National Druggist, and treated at
length inTheJournal recently. All
he knew was that Minnesota's commis
sioner had barred a standard brand of
Worcestershire sauce from the state,
because it contained salicylic acid, and
on that information he was opposed to
granting similar power to any national
authority. Senator Nelson had* no fur
ther information, and could only say
that if the product was so barred, it
was done under provisions of our state
law.
It will interest the senators, perhaps,
'l%0 know that the manufacturers were
shaken by Minnesota,^ action out of a
rut, and that they reformed their meth
ods of manufacture. They are now
making the sauce without tho use of an
injurious preservative, and with the
same success as before. It will also be
of interest to know that the manufac
turers repudiate the attack made on
Commissioner Slater. Their letter to
him should be offered in the senate as
an exhibit. They not only disclaim
knowledge of the attack, but thank him
for his fair and considerate treatment.
He never barred them from the state,
but gave them notice to comply with
the state law, and allowed them the
necessary time to change their methods.
Instead of an argument against pure
food regulation, the Worcestershire
sauce incident is good material for the
advocates of an effective national law.
"Why should I resign?" asks Depwo.
Of reasons there are one or two
You're tired and need rest
Tour work is a jest
But, Chauncey, we leave it to ywo.
The Rate Issue.
Senator Bailey of Texas, the man
who originated the idea of the federal
constitution, tho he assures us he did
not personally write it, has taken a
day off from his constitutional guard
ianship to look up the political plat
forms. As the result of this examina
tion, which appears to have been done
in a slovenly manner, he reports that
the democratic party demanded rate
legislation in two platforms before the
president mentioned it.
What are the facts The republican
platform adopted at Chicago claimed
credit for having passed laws which
would still farther protect the people
against unjust discriminations in
freight charges. The democratic plat
form made at St, Louis a month later
denounced rebates and demanded an en
largement of the powers^ of the inter
state commerce commission to the end
that the shippers of tho country may
have prompt and adequate relief from
the abuses to which they are now sub
ject in the matter of transportation. In
asmuch as the platform was silent on
what constituted those abuses except
that it denounced rebates, it is a fair
inference that rebates were the abuses
to which it referred* The president
when he took the matter up with con
gress and the country, put life in the
issue by making it a straight uontest
between those who believed that the
making of rates was a private matter,
and those who believed that the time
had come for the exercise by congress
of its sovereign power over domestic
commerce.
So far as parties are concerned, the
issue was made by neither of them. It
was suggested by the interstate com
merce commission in its reports, it was
propagated by shippers' associations
and vitalized by the president's mes-
It is fortunate that this was the case,
because it makes it possible for the just
men of all political parties to rally to
the support of the president on an is
sue which is strictly one that has not
been warped by persistent partizan mis
representation or made the football of
flamboyant party "claims."
It seems that Depew was mistaken
about the senators not being glad to see
him. Still Depew should not plume him
self too much on the rush made for him
in the corridor. Senator Morgan was
making a speech on the floor at the time.
Poultney Bigelow's publishers are
pretty hostile toward the senate for being
so slow about sending Poult, to jail. They
are prepared to spring a bastile edition
of his complete works at a day's notice.
There is a suspicion that what Rogers
"don't know" about the system is more
important than anything Lawson has dis
closed.
The United States, says an exchange,
consumed more sugar last year than any
other nation and paid more for it. It
sweetened the sugar trust.
Colonel Mann may wield a "trenchant
pen but he certainly made a mistake in
tickling a mule's hind foot with a pitch
fork.
I
Mr. Hughes is going abroad for a
month. He may, perhaps, drop in on
Andy Hamilton and take his pulse.
The poultry show was a great success
but the United States senate's Poultney
show was rather a sad affair.
The poultry show hen gets the ribbon,
but the old reliable barnyard fowl is
saving the country.
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T^ie" view may be beautiful from* the
eighteenth story, but the fire escape looks
pretty good too.
No"" invitation to Sir Nicholas Long*
womb's wedding for Tillman!
The st*aw hat is chirping and chatterS
iug ats nest "TOUter the eaves.
Southern IndianaReports a few blue-
THi M1NWSAI^
"-NJJB TOO" AND- CHAUNCEY
Harper** Weekly.
Why should the New York lefislature
call upon Senators Piatt and Depew to
resign? The Qualified citizens of this
state went into the voting booths, com
muned with their consolenoes and their
God, as the law Gireots, and requested
them to serve as their representatives in
Washington for six years. They, in turn,
with right hand* upraised, solemnly prom
ised to do so. Why now should they be
asked to break faith* they had changed
In character, purposes, methods, or any
other" way, there might be some excuse
for the proposed action. But they haven't.
They are the same old sixpences. Ab
solutely nothing new has developed re
specting Senator Piatt. The voters knew,
as well when they ejected him as when
he had finished testifying the other day,
that he made a practice of taking money
from corporations and using it to per
petuate his own and his party's power.
True, they were not aware that Senator
Depew was in the employ of the Equit
able but they did know that he was
drawing a salary from the New York
Central and had represented it for years
in the Albany lobby. Why haggle over
extra pay from a second corporation after
having confirmed, indorsed, and ap
proved acceptance of a retainer from
one? No, the senators haven't changed.
It is the people who behold a new light.
But with their eyes wide open, with full
knowledge of the kind of men they were
choosing, they themselves brewed the
juice which they now find so disagree
able. Let 'em stew in it, we say.
"We guess they will,' anyway. That most
delightful of cynics, Mr. Piatt, is utterly
impervious to criticism or assault of any
kind whatsoever. He likes his club, and
is going to continue to hobble in and
out at his own sweet will. Mr. Depew
is more sensitive, It was not the public
alone that was deceived in him. He
fooled himself along with the others. Ho
thought he was good enough to be presi
dent once, and got a lot of votes in a
republican convention, too. Probably he
won't be a candidate again, but he knows
he is just as good now as he ever was.
Moreover, he is going to be even better.
After seven years of nomiiial service in
Washington, he announces that he is
about to begin his "real work" in the
senate. This is well. When one gets to
be 72 and has had a preliminary canter
of seven years presumably of relaxation
at the expense of his constituents, it is
time to get ready to begin to commence
real work. Bless the man! Like some of
the others whom we might designate by
name, he does not even yet realize that
anything really serious has happened to
him. It will blow over. Hie can live it
down stills That is his feeling. Of course
he can't, but there is no harm in his
trying. He will be disappointed, tho,
when he gets down to "real work." There
will be nothing doing. He has been so
busy with his corporate work for seven
years that he has never amounted to
as much as a hill of beans in the senate.
And he never will. But he won't resign.
Not much! Neither will Piatt. Where
would they go? What could they do? No,
brethren, true patriots, especially those
elected by the people for the corporations,
sometimes die, often marry, hut never
resign.
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CIVIC ACTIVITIES
Waseca, Minn., is advocating the aboli
tion of the special water board and the
return to council administration of the
city system. Under both systems there
has' been a constant deficit for ten years,
but under the council administration it
was larger, which may account for the
anxiety to return to that form of admin
istratlon.
Kenosha, Wis., on the other hand,
claims that her water system has re
turned a clean profit t'p the city every
year for the past decade.
Wausau, Wis., claims to be producing
light from the public' plant at $38.42 per
arc lamp, agains,t f55", the, last, Offer of
private concern,1
actually paid a private company.
The citizens of Atlan'ta werV astonished
recently at' a recommendation of a com
mittee of the council to sell the city water
plant. All of tho daily newspapers op
pose it.
A SENATOR IN THE OPEN
Nebraska State Journal.
Senator Burkett, the first Nebraska
senator to be chosen thru an open nomi
nation by the state convention of his
party, has written a letter to a railroad
employee in which he declares:
"The public feel that they want some
body with governmental authority to
stand between them and the railroads as
an arbiter in the great controversies that
come up between the two. I want to be
perfectly frank with you and say to you
that the admissions that the railroads
have made themselves in the evidence
that their own officials have given in
regard to rebates, etc., makes me believe
that the government should have some
body possessing proper authority over
them as this arbiter."
STUDYING THE LAW
Kansas City Times.
Suppose the claim Of the packers is
true, and that Commissioner Garfield in
duced or forced them to give evidence
that they violated the antirebate law.' If
their testimony was true why should it
not convict them? If the evidence is not
admissible, then the countrv could not
afford to pass a law for publicity in the
affairs of trusts, because a trust might
show that Jt had spent $100,000 to cor
rupt a legislature and say. "You cannot
punish me because I gave the evidence
under compulsion of the law."
OUR BRILLIANT CONGRESS
Nebraska State Journal.
The artists of the country are trying
to have the duty on foreign paintings re
moved. China, Turkey, Persia, New
Zealand, Sierra Leone, the Bahamas,
Fiji, the gold coast "of Africa, and the
United States are the countries that levy
tariff on art, the duty In the last-named
country being the highest of all.
FOOTBALL VS. TRAIN WRECK
Chicago News.
President Hadley of Yale says that only
a man with sporting blood can appreciate
football. Presumably, then, such a
highly organized man would be in his
glory if he were to witness a tram
wreck.
MOTHER KNOWS
Atohison Globe.
There isn't as much mystery to some
people's lives as there is to the little
brown paper package on the top shelf
of the kitchen cupboard.
LET US HAVE PEACE
Atchison Globe.
When good nature is noisy it Is almost
as disagreeable as ill nature.
"EVOLUTION OF A GIRL'S IDEAL"
A little girl one morning paused in play
A woman rich and fair had come that way
And as she fondly gazed, I beard her saj:
"Oh, might I be as beautiful some day."
A maiden at that myBtic tryStlng place
Of brook and river, came with hopeful face
Turned towards a height made splendid by a
name,
And, with youth's fervor, cried. "Oh, for her
fame
A woman paused for rest. 'Twas noon's bright
hour
Wealth, beauty, fameall three were proving
power
That quite o'eMame, till thought leat of an
other.
"Dear Lord." she, whispered, "might I be ai
mother."
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EOGEESS THRU PAIN: THE
THEME OF A NOVEL OP
NEW YOBK LIFE, BY ELLEN
GLASGOW.--''The Illumination of
Laura Wilde" would not make
a bad explanatory subtitle for
Ellen Glasgow's latest noyel, The
?ife.
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ELLEN GLASGOW, 5
S Author of "The Wheel of Life." 1
tvmxmx.v.*tS&xx,m%w%,msiS.Tt/xx'M&v%xxx. Wheel of Life, a story of life
in New York. The story turns
upon the saving of Laura Wilde, a poet
of fine ability and delicacy of nature,
from marriage to a man of the senses
sensuous. The saving is thru a literal
mental illumination. It is worked out
thru anguish of soul and body it is
progress thru pain.
Arnold Kemper is a man of wealth
and accustomed to the ways of ultra
rich, tho he himself has not yet ac
quired the distinction of the adjective.
has been married and divorced when*
he comes before the reader, and, be
sides, he has had an affair with an
opera singer. loves the "creature
comforts. A good dinner is essential
to his happiness. Automobiles appeal
to him, much more strongly than auto
biographies, no matter how intensely in
teresting the latter may be. Indeed, it
is doubtful whether he has ever read an
autobiography. This man, whose in
terest can oe reached only thru this
senses, meets and becomes interested in
Laura Wilde, who has lived a retired
life among books, toow and then writing
oetry
Maft $80"' the'last prica
but wi^h a thirst for a taste of
It is this thirst for life that at
tracts her to Kemper. The attraction
of each for the other seems to ripen into
love an engagement follows then
illumination, pain, progress.
There is nothing in this to suggest
"The House of Mirth," but the reader
of both unavoidably falls to making
comparisons, or contrasts. The resem
blance goes little farther than the fact
that in both appear characters from
among the frivolous rich#or the would
be frivolous rich class, and the lesson is
the same in each. In "The House of
Mirth," however, such characters and
their frivolity make the whoie story
in "The Wheel of Life" they take only
a minor, tho an important, part. Laura
Wilde is not a Lily Bart in any respect.
Even Kemper is a man of more depth
than most of those in "The House of
Mirth," and Roger Adams, the true
"hero" of "The Wheel of Life," ed
itor of the International Review, is so
far removed from the men of Edith
Wharton's story as to be antipodal.
is not an ascetic, but a genial, sane,
lovable man of the kind that keep hu
manity in equilibrium, a man who has
found that all life is forfeiture in one
way or another, and that the biggest
thing in it is sometimes to go with-
out." Gertie Bridewell, nearest like
Lily Bart in character, is possessed of
wealth and sufficient sanity to keep her
judgment clear, tho she chooses to float
with the current she is able to recog
nize the better part, from which, in
choosing a wealthy husband, she has
cut herself off. Speaking of Roger
Adams, she says:
"Do you know there's really something
strangely lovable about the man. I some
times think," she concluded with her
fantastic humor, "that I might have mar
ried him myself with very little effort
on either side."
"And lived happily forever afterward
on The International Review?" queried
Laura.
"Oh, I don't know but what it would
be quite as easy as to live on clothes.
I don't believe poverty, after all, is a
bit worse than boredom What one wants
is to be interested, and if one isn't, life
is pretty much the same in a surface car
or in an automobile. I don't believe I
should have minded surface cars the least
bit," she finished pensively.
"Wait till you've tried themI have."
"What really matters is the one great
thing," pursued Gerty with a positive
philosophy, "and money has about as
much relation to happiness as the frame
to the finished pictureall it does is to
show off to the world. Now I like being
shown off, I admitbut I'd like it all
the better if there were a little more
of the stuff upon the canvas."
The lesson, after all, is much the
same as that "The House of Mirth,"
but here it is put more positively, in
Miss Wharton's book one is told chiefly
the way that happiness cannot be
reached. Here the novelist both warns
against the futile way and points the
true way.
Miss Glasgow has constructed her
story well. The parts fit nicely to
gether. A first there is some halting,
some apparent effort to make her mean
ing clear, but she soon falls into the
swing of the thing, and thereafter the
story flows on smoothly to the end.
Her' style lacks the brilliancy of Miss
Wharton's, but she has made a tale
that appeals more strongly to the finer
human sympathies the reader would
like to know characters such as these
are, whereas those of "The House of
Mirth" are actually repulsive. Cer
tainly "The Wheel of Life" will take
a leading place in the fiction of the
year.
Donbleday, Page & Co., New York.
$1.50.
'FROM SERVITUDE TO SERVICE''
is the title given a volume of lectures
on the history and work of southern
institutions for the education of the
negro. The institutions discussed and
the lectures follow: "Howard Uni
versity," by Professor Kelly Miller
"Berea College," by President William
G. Frost "Tuskegee Institute," by
Professor Roscoe Conkhng Bruce
"Hampton Institute," by Principal H.
B. Frissell "Atlanta University,"
Professor W E. B. Du Bois "Fisk
University," by President James G.
Merrill.
American Unitarian Association, Boston
$1.10 net
SERMONS BY THE AUTHOR OP
"THE SIMPLE LIFE."The Gospel
of Life, a small book of sermons by
"Pastor" Wagner, preacnes the gospel
with power and charm. The reader can
not escape the fascination of the ad
dresses contained therein, and it is
matter of interest
The Rummagings, of a Busy Bookman
P. KIRKWOOD
put that life in them that take* hold,
upon the reader. savs:
How many times, while preparing Sun
day's sermon, have I walked the busy
streets flfied with hastening crowds, With
the sounds of toil or of idle vanities,
hearing at every step, in the murmur
of men and of things, the words of the
text I was meditating, vibrate within
me. This text, once in possession of my
thought, found everywhere the most
varied and unexpected commentaries. It
found illustrations in scenes of popular
life, in words fallen from the conversa
tion of passers-by. I saw it glare from
the posters on the walls, leap up in sparks
from the hoofs of horses, ring under the
hammer of the blacksmith the stones of
the highway cried it aloud to me.
Sermons written, or composed in the
above way are the kind "The Gospel
of Life" holds. They have been re
written from memory, but are still fall
of the life of today, while preaching
the life that persists from today into
the far hereafter.
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ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS
DEAD.Messrs.* L. C. Page and com
pany Monday received a cablegram
from Bournemouth, England, announc
ing the death of Robert Neilson Steph
ens, who has been on their list of
authors for several years.
Mr. Stephens will be remembered as
the author of some eight or nine ro
mances, brought out by this house, best
known among which are perhaps "An
Ene my to the King," (which was dra
matized and presented by Mr. Sothern),
"Philip Winwood," "Captain Raven-
shaw,'
and "The Flight of Georgiana,'
Sle
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vto be told by the
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Defective Page
author, in a preface, how he acquired
the material for his sermons and wh at the situations at times are strained, the
Km
"The Bright Face of Danger"
his
last work.
For many years Mr. Stephens had
been waging a manly fight with the
cause of his death, consumption, and
had lived abroad for several years, in
the hope that change of climate might
be beneficial.
Jtt is worthy of note that, under the
circumstances, he wrote such vivid ro
mances, bright with life and laughter,
full of movement and action, that no
reader could possibly guess the truth.
Like Robert Louis Stevenson, he stead
ily put aside his own condition, and
devoted himself to the very last to his
chosen work.
The sale of Mr. Stephens' books has
already reached over the 400,000 mark,
and they will delight readers of ro
mantic fiction for years to come.
AN ESTIMATE OF SIDNEY
LANIER.Edward Mims has prepared
a short biography of Sidpey Lanier
that is of exceptional interest in that
it places special emphasis upon the early
years' of Lanier, the years of which
least is known. The book is one, there
fore, that will be read greedily by stu
dents of American literature. Professor
Mims has very properly rseserved his
estimate of Lanier's poetry for his
final chapter. There the reader, know
ing the life of the student, confederate
officer, lawyer, musician, university lec
turer, poet and man of letters, is better
able to "judge whether the estimate is
impartial and correct.
Professor Mims asks the question
whether Lanier "succeeded in writing
oetry that will stand the test of time.
shows that the poet had "some
of the necessary qualities of a poet"
a sense of melody, ideas, a healthy
mysticism. Yet he lacked in power of
expression. This lack, the author ^it-
tributes to want of time to revise.
There were also temperamental defects
lack of spontaneous utterance, a tend
ency to indulge in fancies. Neverthe
less, says the author, he sometimes rises
above all his limitations "and does
work that is absolutely unique, and
original, and enduring. has done
enough good work to entitle him to a
place among the genuine poets of
America.''
Professor Mims' estimate of Lanier,
together with his revelations as to the
poet's early life thru manuscripts and
other material placed at his disposal
by the Lanier family, makes his book
one of peculiar value and interest.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston.
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OF NO IMPORTANCE.Two men
were standing together on an east river
ferryboat when one pointed out a third
man with the remark:
I can't recall his name at this mo
ment, but he writes for a number of
the magazines."
His friend looked at the stranger with
much interest.
"Oh, one of our 'frenzied finance'
captains, is he?" he asked.
"No, he"
"Writes up trusts and things, then!"
"No "Oh, then he's a prize fighter or an,
actorhe is rather husky-looking."
"No, no! He's just a plain author
writes stories."
"O^h! the friend exclaimed, the look
of interest suddenly dying out of his
face.Harper's Weekly.
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"THE PROFESSOR'S LEGACY"
is a German-English story by Mrs. Al
fred Sidgwick. Professor Elsler is a
distinguished scientista professor in a
universityloft a widower with an only
child, a little grl. His reputation at
tracts a young Englishman who beeomes
a student vundcr him and then a helper
in his scientific work. The Englishman
and the child become fast friends.
There 4s a fool aunt, a sister-in-law to
the professor,( a brilliant pianist and
concert meister, and a goodly number
of other people, all more or less inter
esting. The action of the story is lively,
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outcome doubtful but it comes rifffefc
in the end and everybody is happy is
the full attainment of desire'except the
fool aunt, and she fares better than she
should. A .pleasant story for a raiaX
day, or a stormy night. W. R. K.
Henry Hult & Oo., New York. ILM.
Sketch of Joseph Jefferson by Francis
Wilson.Joseph Jefferson, one of the
best-loved American actors, is the sub
ject of the leading paper to the February
number of Scrlbner's Magazine by
Francis Wilson, the well-known actor,
who knew him for many years. These
reminiscences are full of anecdote and
story, giving Mr. Jefferson's opinions
about the arts of acting and painting,
and his own recollections of distinguished
men in many vocations. The article tn
this number deals particularly with Rip
Van Winkle^its origin and development
as a play, with amusing anecdotes about
Mr. Jefferson and his experiences while
playing it. There are also pleasant
glimpses of Jefferson as a painter, and
his views and preferences for various
artists.
The amazing success of "The House of
Mirth" still continues, and the readers
of it will be interested in Edith Whar
ton's story In this number, entitled "Tho
Hermit and the Wild Woman"a charm
ing phantasy with a deep significance.
The Inside history of the Chinese boy
cott
against American goods is" toTd in
Thomas Millard's article on "The New
China."
These and other articles and stories
make the number one worthy of special
attention.
Country Life in America for February
contains as its leading feasture "After
Tarpon with a Camera," by Julian A.
Dimock, illustrated with twenty-one of
his remarkable photographs. This tells
of the thrilling sport of photographing
a tarpon while he is making a leap of
from nine to twelve feet. "The Boston
Terrier," by Sherwin Hawley, tells us of
a distinctly American breed that has
reached a high standard of perfection
his cost and his points of character. In
"More Winter Flowers," by J. N. Gerard,
we learn of plants that bloom out doors
in the northern states from December to
March without any protection whatever.
Arthur Huntington Gleason in his "Rug
Making Community," tells of the two
sides of the arts and crafts mo\ement
as it appears in a Maine village the prac
tical and the astethicweaving and dye
ing the rugs. "How I Built My Own
Country House," by Julian Burroughs,
tells of a little home on the Hudson
that cost $1,760 and how the problems of
building and decorating were sohed.
These are only a few of the good things
the number holds.
Entertainment for February.Llppln
cott's Magazine for February opens with
a novelette by Jennette Lee. called "One
Way of Love This is an interpretation
of a man's life. When the man meets
with a disappointment at the outlet of
his career, the scales dip so far weighted
by his grief, that it seems as if he must
go under. But an older man's experience
and advice save him. The real action of
the story is placed in Chicago, where the
man adopts newspaper work, and there
he finds the woman who becomes his in
spiration. Leading the shorter fiction of
the month is "In the Strong Man's Bor-
ders," by Frank Saville. a romance of
the rescue of a girl from a fate worse
than death. A paper of seasonable Inter
est is on "Early Opera In America, by
Ruis Rockwell Wilson and an agreeable
Italian sketch. "An Umbrlan Idyl," Is by
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton. This is a
chapter from her forthcoming \oIume on
foreign travel.
LITERARY NOTES.
"Mind-training" is a statement of a
"practical system for developing self
confidence, memory, mental concentration
and character." It is by Victor G. Rocine
and the Human Science school, 130 Dear
born street, Chicago, is the publisher.
"The True Doctrine of Prayer" is the
title of a new book by Leander T. Cham
berlain, president of the Evangelical Alli
ance of the United States with a foreword
by Dr. Huntington of Grace church, New
York The look which has just been
issued, has attracted a great deal of at
tention among ministers for its rational,
philosophical and scientific study of the
subject of prayer.
"Cranford. a Play," dramatized by Miss
Marguerite Mermgton from Mrs. Garfcell's
novel, was one of the successes of the
holiday season. The play, by the way.
was first brought out in the columns of
a well-known woman's magazine in aft
expurgated edition. Certain objectionable
features, such as the scene in which the
Cranford ladies indulge in brandled
peaches, which were omitted in the
chaste colmuns of the journal, are re- g.
stored in the book.
The n*w edition of Tennyson's Tn
Memoriam." with th author's own not**,
which will be published at once by Th J,
Macmillan company, will excite great ht
terest among students of the poet.
The Macmillan company announce that
the date of publication of Eden Phillpott's
new novel. "The Portreeve" Is post
poned from Jan 18 to Feb. 8 The un
familiar word that serves a. the title,
by the way. signifies the chief magistrate
of a port or maritime town, *w
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