The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-11-04
WEAPREAIlA NATIONA AFRO. AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS

no Uncertain reflections have come down to
US. To those who knew her she was an in
and many Ives were enriched by her infiu {,
encs. But Margaret Fuller's influence OF. {
American literature has long been oYeresti-
mated. 1t Is q sentiment, growing out Of her
sad ending, and not from actual merit
d Miss Fisher thinks Emerson In many re-
sPects enc Of the most interesting characters
In American history. But when she comes
to view Emerson as level headed thinker
she sums him up admirably when she says {:
The fundamental characteristics of his mind
is an Unsuitable curiosity. 1t pushes into the
remotest corners OF the intellectual world.
Il gathers up all the IDEAS that attract it, AMI
the result is heterogeneous collection that
interests and stimulates, but Is utterly lack
ing in anything like plan or consistency.
Never was mind more fatally lacking in
logical power than Emersons. He utters half
truths with the force Of whole truths. He
makes sweeping generalizations on Insult
once; he sees only q fragment of it, but he
views II at so close range that the fragment
assumes the proportions Of the, whole to
him, and he falls into extravaganza when
he describes it. Another point of view brin2si
another fragment Of truth into proIniISace,g
and he at once fGrgets what he has seen, and
falls into equally extravagant valuation Of
that which now absorbss his attention Hence
those almost incomprehensible oscillations
from idealsm to aterialism, from the wild
est or fanciful speculations to the sternest.
Of scientific truths, and practical shrewdnessS}
as serviceable as that of any day laborer
who earns his bread and butter by it-fronl
the most extravagant 1audations of Sweden
borg to the warmest appreciative sympathy
with Montague. Of Whittier this author
says: No American poet has so thoroughly
infused his own personality into his work
as Whittier. In. all that he has written, and
he has written nNah nc VIC oc
there is distinctively individual note, quick.
$ly recognizable to the lover of Whittier, ant.
endearing him more and more to the poet as
ne learns the rarity and fineness Of 1t. There
was In him a remarkable blending of the Qua
.ker severity and chasteness with the poets
susceptibility and passionate love of beauty:
q tolerance wide as the world for all human
frallittes and human doubts and a faith in
God as simple and unQuestionable as little
child S; "a nervous sensftiveness almost fas-
tidlous and yet so sane and tender love
for all simple, homely joys-so restful a.
calm, sought and kept amidst all the poetic
OSCILLATIONS OF fiery spirit" She quotes large
~ from his poems sto best emphasize the spirit
OF his work. We have not room for fur
Iner extract or comment, and will only re-
peat Lnat this volume Is a valuable and charm
ing book. Chicago: A. G. McClurg &Ico)
invisible L1nks"-By Selma Lagerlof.
This is series of complete short stories BY
the author Of the famous book, COSTA Ber-
ling. It is their first translation from the
life and thought, and are made deeply inter-
esting by fine descriptive scenes and Incl
dents that illustrate and make deeply i'm
pressive the stories recited And vet thew
are not cheerful or satisfactory stories. They
recite IN the main stories and scenes of hum
Bile life which often end abruptly and unsatis-r
factarily to the reader. But withal they
G hnN mo- hos foro
atty, and fine word painting that hold the
reader by their spell. Boston: Little, Brown
& Co.. &7.
From the Macmillan company, New York,
we have new and handsome edition Of Ham
Travelled Roads" The stories are: "a Branch
Road, up the Coolly," Among the Corn
Rows, The Return Of the Private "Under
the Lions Paw "The Creamery Man.
Days Pleasure" Mrs. Ripleys Trip and
Uncle Ethan Ripley" Mr. Garland is seen
at his best in these short stories. He is
lover of nature. and he writes entertainingly
of field and forest and stream, and the people
and the life in the rural districts. The Inter
Ocean has charged that Mr.: Garland in Rose
Of butchers S Coolly'' has done injustice to the
innocent child life IN rural homes, but these
short stories give wonderfully clear brief de-
scriptions of home life upon the farm. One
Lions Paw" which reveals not only the hard
laborious life of the farmer and the farmers
wife and the farmers boy, but illustrates a
type of the generous man in the person of Mr.
Council, and OF the mean, grasping man in
Butler. But the stories are all good They
are true to life, excellent in moral tone and
elegant in their literary construction
From Dana, Estes & Co., Boston, we have
several boys books, which will rob the eyes
o.. American boys of sleep. They are: COT
Santiago with Sampson" Captain Tom, the
Privateersman," by that prince Of story-tell-
ers, James Otis; 1.-TWO American Boys in
"a live story, but gives sketches of the country
and the people. AS it is our country now
every wide-awake boy will want to know ali
about it. Then comes "The Minute Boys OF
Bunker HILL" by Edward Stratemeyer, in
which the incidents Of the far-away time
which were so potent in their bearing upon the
liberties of the present great nation, are SO
we'll delineated as to make every historical
fact doubly interesting Then, and last, an
other bright little volume from James Otis,
entitled, Christmas at. Deacon Hackett's."
Those Of our young readers who read How
Tommy Saved the Barn" will welcome further
news from the crippled Luke. the motheny
little Garry, and the lively Thomas This Mr..
Otis, has obliglngly given, and he tells in his
characteristic style OF the adventures that the
city waits had the following holidays on the
deacon's hospitable farm. The mischievous
and Boosting Joey Ramsdell makes his APP
pearance again, and is the cause Of most o.
the troubles that ensue. But all ends we'll.
and the deacon is repaid as before for his
generosity. q 80 Ii
@ Literary Notes. =.s
Ia Mtths Land is the title Of handsome Chi.
cagb magazine edited by Frances A. Woods.
which makes its first tissue with the October.
number. 1t SIS designed for children and makes
an attractive appearance.
4 Richard Whiteing, the author 81 that popular
book, No. Is John Street. is writing series Of
Paris, which will be printed In the Century
Magazine during the coming exposition year.
Unusual interest attaches to the Thanksgiving
(November) number of the Pail Mall Magazine
for It's large and increasing circle of American
readers. One Of tho contributors. William Arch
er, has shown deep interest in American subjects.