The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-19

1ence. The newspapers are much more
interesting just now than '"The Stand
ard Bearer"
''The Standard Bearer" by s. R. Crockett
$780, D. Appleton & Co. For sale by the
st. Paul Book and Stationery company.
"a Revolutionary Love Story.
The little volume entitled "a Revolu-
tionary Love Story" by Ellen Olney
Kirk, contains two short stories from
the pen Of the well-known novelist. The
title story Is apparently a true tale of
Revolutionary times: the other is an
cldfashioned English story. Both are
written in the manner Of 1880, and there
is nothing about them which in the
least suggests Mrs. Kinks ordinary
brightness, vivacity and insight. They
might-and what more danning thing
can the critic say?-have appeared in
the Pail Mall Magazine or the English
Illustrated! Perhaps they were written
great many years ago, before the
author had acquired her present ma
turity and insight. 1t is to be hoped
SO, for If Of recent origin they would
mark an amount Of decadence in the
work Of a graceful and original writer
which 1t would truly be painful to
contemplate. 5& So. f@;st
"a Revolutionary Love Story by Ellen
Olney Kirk. H. S. Stone. & Co. Chicago.
!, $1.25. For sale by the st. Paul Book and
Stationery company.
Newspaper people out of employment seem
to be numerous in the Klondike. Perhaps our
special writer's will so there Joaquin MILF
sends to The Land of Sunshine rather anus
ing account Of some of them. .s~,
We are fortunate In having fine neigh
bors" he says; newspaper men and artists
entertained and instructed. Men do not play
cards here as they did in California. But
there are newspaper men and newspaper m IN.
The camp is oyerrun with homeless fellows
going up and down claiming to be working
for this paper or that. They are too worth
less to provide supplies and too lazy to build
cabins and keep them in order. They are. a
numerous nuisance here. There were three
women of this sort who used to go up and
down the creek, booted to the thighs and
all girded and plumed like Jack the Giant
Killer. but they found other business. One
is good cook fora good company Of miners,
one is kicking high at higher salary in a
dance hall, and one has got married time
or two. Would that the other newspaper
tramps would find something better to do
than 'cousining' around from one mining
camp to another. L say this not only because
it is, right. but because the miners have
asked me to say it. No man is a real man
who shirks the task of packing his load over
the pass, where he can have every alternate
sack of flour for packing it over. and other
things In like way; or at least could last
sea. He may be talented and he may be toll
Grated, but he is at the same time despised."
There is another account of a visit to their
cabin made by newspaper woman:
Life Is not bit monotonous in a Klondike
cabin, much as you might imagine 1t. All
sorts of people call of all sexes and conditions;
more women than you would think: good wo-
men. bright and beautiful. with healihfGl
color from brisk walks in the keen cold. One
woman who sat watching Kreling. to his great
annoyance, as he cooked said, N. g.! It
would kill me to eat that He locked at her
moment and then said very seriously, No.
madam, 1t would not kill you. 1t might cripple
you for life. but it would not kill you. How
even be crippled And with great gravity
and deliberatlon he sat only two plates. Then
she left. THE Chapbook.
Five or six years ago most of our Amerl-
can colleges began to make a reasonable
change in the forms of their graduation ex-
ercises on commencement day, and in many of
them now little trace remains of the o.d-fash-
toned and tedious ceremonial lasting often
through an entire day, and consuming the
endurance Of the participants well as that
Of the auditors The aesthetic and sensible
instincts Of American women have. protected
the students at Vassar, Wellesley, and Smith
from such unattractive. wearisome, and profit
less proceedings, and nothing Of the kind
could we'll surpass in artistic impressiveness
the exercises and customs in vogue on class
and graduation day at these Institutions
Many Of the unique and beautiful ceremonies,
celebrated during this season at our colleges
for women are illustrated in Harper's Bazaar
for June H., and 1t may easily be imagined
that this striking series of pictures, repro
duced from photographs, makes particu-
larly attractive page.
Eric Mackay. the poet, died in London on
the first Of this month in the forty-seyepth
year OF his age. He the son of Charles
Mackay, also poet. and Miss Marie CoreIli
was his adopted sister. Mr.. Mackay will be
Letters of a Violinist," though he wrote
number Of other books, most Of them filed
with poems dedicated to love-The Critic.
Prof. Charles Eliot Norton is not favorite.
for the moment. or more would have been
said of his retirement from the active posi-
tion of lecturer on the Fine Arts at Harvard.
Only those who know Harvard realize what
its graduates to the outside world. It is
perhaps too much to say that Prof. Norton
bridge; the place is too big for that. But
for many years he has come nearer than any
other single personality to embodying the
ly the Harvard spirit" One. never felt
quite sure whether Prof Norton Influenced
the university or whether it was that by a
WONDERFUL SenSlIlVeueSS ne mad come to be
the spirit of the university made concrete.
Objections to such broad congratulations as
this will be made by every man who has
lived in Cambridge. Part Of Harvards in
dependence consists in each man having his
idea of what Harvard really Isl and rarely
did any one agree thoroughly with Prof. Nor
ton. He has been called by every class I'M
American. reactionary. kind Of Ruskin
manque. Hundreds of men took his courses,
in Fine Arts III. and W.. which were cs-
tensibly on--the history of ancient and me-
diaeval art. without ever consciously listen
ing to what was said. But the lectures would
not keep inside the lecture room. They were
in the whole atmosphere Of the place; they
formed kind of background to which the
new student learned to At his life. kind
of mental aristocracy, fastidiousness, an
assumption that beauty and delicacy were
things it was not effeminate to love. vg-
orous and unyielding independence of 1udg
ment, a democracy of feeling which comes
rather from feeling that there are inequali-
ties that can be bridged than from any con-
viction of equality. an emphasis constantly
laid on manners with the idea that in the
end this meant morals as well-all these were