The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-19
Current Literature
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nyson Nicely. New York; st. Paul Book and
Stationery company.
When you have read through the six
teen chapters in this book you will
quite agree with the author that to
right a wrong you must first thorough
ly understand its nature. Indeed, you
will agree with him on this point be-
fore you read the first line of his treat
Use, which contains many nuggets of
information and advice. In the end, Of
course, it leaves one quite as helpless
to right the many wrongs as he was
before reading the book. To illustrator
The last chapter is on common sense
and opens with a definition of a rea-
sonable man. who, in the opinion OF
the author, gives due weight and in
fuence to all the facts which ought to
influence his decisions. "A man of the
opposite character" he continues, lis
one who takes up his opinions upon
slight, partial and Inadequate grounds
and then cannot and will not admit the
impression Of facts on arguments which
are calculated to correct these unsound
Deductions
Every man thinks that's the other
fellow" said one who had stopped a
heated argument on the question Of
national expansion to listen to the def
milton Of an unreasonable man.
So it is all through the book; there
are excellent definitions of wrongs and
suggested remedies that are superbly
reasonable but no one will own up to
the disease and will not therefore take
the medicine
"SOme Marked Passages and Other
StOries.v
By Jeanne G. Pennington, compiler of Don't
Worry Nuggets" from Epctetus Emerson
George Eliot and Browning; Fords. Howard
a Ihnr& Vnrlr- Do, =
Stationery compony. Cloth; PIP. PIG;
price, 81.
eff you cannot realize your ideal,
idealize your real" reads like an eff
fective prescription for discomfort. It
is the motto adopted by one Of the
characters in Jeanne Pennington's
Marked Passages" a volume con-
tanning nine stories illustrative of the
effect Of marking favorite passages in
books
The question as to whether or not
this is a commemorate custom is raised
in the prelude, when one of the char
acters asserts that the man or woman
who marks book is either a sentiment
taliSt or an egotist of the worst order.
A sentimentalist in supposing that his
or her personal interest in that partic-
ular thought could enhance it's value
TO others, or that his mood emphasized
In this way would necessarily arouse
the sympathy of some other reader
whom he has never seen and probably
never will see. An egotist, in taking
for granted that he alone of all read
ers would be likely to detect certain
beauty of expression or force of argu-
ment, and must needs pose as in
stfuctof and point out the way to 9TH
ers less discerning than himself.
Another protests: THE authors I
love most of all 1 have been introduced
TO by chance mark here and there in
one of their books" One feels like
writing on the margin Of the prelude:
1t is as natural to mark an impress
sive passage as it is to point to a beau
tlful scene. We lose half life's beau
tles by refusing to avail ourselves of
the eyes and ears of others"
''The Maine."
BY Capt. Charl1s D Sfgsbee Cloth. m 270.
price, a-50; the Century company; St. Paul
BOOK and Stationery company.
Capt. Sigsbee's personal narrative of
the explosion Of the Maine carries with
it double interest because it is an
absolutely first-hand, and therefore
authentic, story of the great disaster,
and in addition to this it is a graphic
picture of the conditions existing in
Havana harbor just before the explo-
sion.
The narrative is divided into three
parts, describing the reception at Ha-
vana, the explosion and THE Wreck
ing and Inquiry" The fine illustrations
are features of no small interest in
the volume, and the appendices. with
their technical descriptions, the find