St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-07


No, sir; that well-dressed gentleman with
the plug hat is the janitor.'
"Who are your
II am the proprietor here Lincoln Jour
nal
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
How 1t st. Paul has kindly
circumference of Stan
LOOKS" ley Waterloo, and the
success that he wins in
the world Of the pen is always source
OF qualification to his friends here. Time
has lost for him none of that quiet sense
OF humor best known to those who were
his lntimateS, and now publicly evil
denced in his book ''How 1t Looks
laughable hit at the English of every
day. The English We Use" has for
some time with capital cartoons) been
sprlghtly take-off on the editorial page
of the Chicago Mail. The whimsical
effects produced by the practical illus
tration OF such sentences as Her Breath
Came in Short Pants" He Travelled
by Rail-" I'm His Cups" etc. were so
entertaining in newspaper form that
Mr.. Waterloo has now preserved them
i'll book, and. without original intent
to do so, now offers them to a public
that can enjoy a hearty laugh at its
own expense. BretanOS, Chicago.
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The Few authors have
yet attempted a pen
McVeys. delineati0n of life as it
is in Western town
(not city)-a prairie village or a hamlet
by the woods. We have been surfeited
with long-drawn tales of New England
villages, and New York towns, and
Connecticut school districts. So much
of this has been given that a foreigner
unacquainted with the country would
judge that outside of these favored
spots life was without color, interest
or purpose-that tragedy and comedy
found no resting place in the
central and the Western kalf of these
United States. Mr. Kirkland. in 1.-The
McVeys" (Houghton, Miflin & Co., Bos-
tom, with all this precedent behind
him, has had the courage to take a
plunge into Western life and to find
there something to hinge story upon.
his work is crude, unnaturally long
and unwholesomeIy full of a dialect
Isolated, if used at all, and no more the
English of the West than Choctaw is
the speech of DR.. Holmes. Still, Mr..
Kirkland has written pure and in
some fashion fairly accurate novel,
aiming, as 1T does, to touch the pulse of
western life. Eastern readers who
wade through its many pages will have
at least one erroneous impression re-
moved from their mindS-that our
prairie towns are inhabited principally
by buffalo and that the Christian relig-
ion has not yet passed the Allegheny
mountains.
American Indiana-A Redemp,
ton From Slavery.
Common Volume XII. of Ameri-
canCommonWealths, by
Weaiths. j. L. Dunn, Jr., author
of MasSacres of the
Mountains. With map, 16mo, gilt
top, S1.25. Mr.. Dunn is a resident Of
Indiana, and thoroughly familiar with
its history. By adequate knowledge
and literary skill he is peculiarly COM
petent to treat the subject broadly
of the series, which has been
well stated by competent critic: "The
books are not mere state histories; they
are something much more and very
much better than that. They are at
temyts to embOdy what is most distinct
ana peculiar i'll the political life and
history of each state, and to show how
that has contributed to the develop
ment of the whole. The widespread in
terest awakened in the past of our ma
ton will find much to satisfy it in these
volumes, for the design is original and
the execution excellent" HoughtOn,
Mitf1in q Co., Boston.
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The Seven wandering
tOWn-dWellerS, eniOV-
Septameron. Ing seven days in the
byways and hedges of
the country, sitting down to seven
plates, and then dreaming over seven
pipes, told, once upon time, seven
tales, and these form The Septameron,
David Mckay, Philadelphia). Seven
tales of summers outing-gOod, bad
and Indifferent.
BIowning's 1t is something of
question, writes ArlO
Retort. Bates in the October
Book Buyer, whether
it can have been very easy task to
gather those chiefly useless facts and
dates which it is the first function of
biography to preserve. A Boston COM
piler of birthday bOoks-or was it cal
endarS?-whO wrote few years since
to Mr.. Browning asking when his wife
was born, received the rather curt reply
that he had never felt it necessary to
inquire when his wife was born and did
not know. OF course this particular bit
of information may not have been forth
coming because Mrs. Browning was
older than her husband, but it has been
stated that he was in no way inclined to
be over-cOmmunicative of biographical
details.
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Painting This work is the
fourth in the series Of
in Oil. art manuals by the
same author. Nine
teen thousand copies of her books have
been sold to art workers in this country
and in Europe.
She tells what she has learned from
is thoroughly practical.
Everything is described infinitely and
clearly. Nothing is taken for granted.
The limitations of the art and the limi-
tations in the aid which the student
should expect to receive from others are
stated with great precision. Robert
Clark & Co., Cincinnati.
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The The series of Yale
lectures on the Sunday
Sunday school by Ill. Clay
Trumbull have been
School. put in book form for
preservation and the
enjoyment of the Christian world out
side of Yale, to which they are yet new.
John d. Wattles, Philadelphia.