The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-05
..The New Economy"

ny Lawrence Gronland. Cloth, PIP. 1854. Price.
2,.Z6, Herbere s. Stone & Co., Chicago. st.
faul book AMI Stationery company. p.
ferhaps the most Interesting chapter
IN this book is that on 1.-THE Trust and
democracy" i'm the course of which
Mr., Gronland> says: 1.-The democracy
which our fathers established here a
century ago was nothing but political
oemocracy-that is. in political af-
fairs they abrogated the personal will
of the king Of England and substituted
Tor 1t the fmpersonal authority Of our
people. But nothing of the kind was
then done, or has ever since been done,
III the economic sphere. which after all
is the fundamental sphere; it may
rather be said that there we have ret
rogressed. gone away from democracy.
For We, are literally living under an
economic absolutism. In economic, in
dUstrial matters the divine right of
kings to rule has been changed into
the divine right of plutocrats to rule
Indeed, can. anyone deny that our
moneyed men have acquired complete
control over all the business of the
whatever for the welfare of the peo-
pie. and without any accountability at
all to the will Of the people?"
In spite Of this charge, Mr. Gronland
fully appreciates the value of indus
trial organization, but argues against
it's subversion into an Industrial abso-
lutism
'.The Wire Cutters"
$l.50. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.. Boston and
New York. ST. Paul Book and Stationery
company.
The story of ''The Wire Cutters" pre-
sents somewhat novel feature to the
readers of fiction, in that the action
turns upon the birth marking influence
in picture of a divorced and detested
husband. The scientific possibilities of
the story are not great, but are,
nevertheless, sufficient to make a foun-
dation for an excellent plot.
: The title of the book finds justifica-
ton In the conditions existing in Texas
when the government lands We're being
sold and fenced off with barbed wire
to the increasing destruction Of the cat
tie that were often thus barred away
from water and pasture. To relieve
this condition of affairs little bands
of cattle owners would sally out and
cut the wires, sometimes in the midst
of Shower of bullets
But these are but the externals Of a.
delicatelg, yet. firmly. constructed inner
story. The character and career of
Francis Deerford, the child marked by
the picture Of his mothers first hus-
| band, furnish the real theme of the
novel.
The Smithsonian Annual
Embracing report of the United States Ma
t;onal Museum. Government Printing Office.
Washington, d. C. Cloth DID. 1907 ex.
elusive Of plates.
This report Of the United States ma
tional museum for the year ending June
30, 1896, is a library in itself. The con-
tents areu divided into two parts viz,
the report of the assistant secretary of
the Smithsonian institution. who is, by
virtue OF, this position. the executive
head Of the national museum; and the
papers describing and illustrating the
collections. {
The many Illustrations add much to
the interest and value of the book. and
the appendices are an excellent source
of reference.
''Through the Turf Smoke"
By Seumas MacManus. Cloth, PIP. 1884, Double
day e Mcclure Co.. New York St. Paul
Book and Stationery company.
To illustrate the nature of these
sketches of Irish peasant life and folk
lore one may well reproduce
that passage in az the first story
which describes the cause Of the
first familySroM in the house of Thady
Rooney and his wife MOllV~whO had