The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-11-18
e was impatient Of slow intellectual growth.


she was impatient Of slow Intellectual growth.
DIE VII & knowJeEgt Tor llse IL a.oA1
and OF bearing the priyatioEs and lonely OBJ
scurity#of the earnest scholars life, and sac
rlnced mourning glory for the heeting glory OF
| an hour. Buff she miss ed the literary fame
she coveted. her life was By no means fail
ure, but had Its beauty and me aniEg of which
no uncertain reflections have come down To
us. To those who knew her she was an In
teliectual stimulus, a SOURCE Of inspiration
ana many Ives were enrlche by her ilflu.
encs. But Margaret Fuller's influence OF.
American literature has long been oyeresti-
mated 1t is a sentiment, growing out of her
sad ending, and not from actual merit
MISS Fisher thinks Emerson Sin many re-
spects one 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. It pushes into the
remotest corners of the intellectual world
It gathers up all the ideas that attract it. AMI
ns rssa s
lrg In anything like plan or consistency.
Never was mind more fatally lacking in
logical power than Emerson's. He utters half
truths with tho force of whole truths. He
makes sweeping cancellations on INSULT.
Gent data. He never sees the whole truth at
once he sees only fragment Of 1t. 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 brings
another fragment Of truth into prominence,
and he at once forgets what he has seen, and
falls into equally extravagant valuation OF
that which now absorbs his attention. Hence
those almost tncomprehensible oscillations
from idealism to materialism, from the Wild
est or fanciful speculatioas to the sternest
OF scientific truths, and practical shrewdness
as serviceable as that of any day laborer
who earns his bread and butter by it-from
the most extravagant laudations of Sweden
borg to the warmest appreciative sympathy
with Montaigne." OF Whittier this author
says: mo American poet has so thoroughly
infused his own personality into his work
as Whittier. In all that he has written, and
he has written much, prose as we'll as poetry,
there is distinctively individual note, quick.
~ recognizable to the lover of Whittier, anc
endearing him more and more to the poet as
ne learns the rarity and 1neness CT it, There
was IN him 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
tra1l1t1es and human doubts, and a faith in
God as simple and unQuestionable as little
ch1lfs; nervous sensitiveness almost fas-
tidlous and yet so sane and tender q 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 to best emphasize the spirit
Their extract or comment, and will only re:
peat that this volume is valuable and charm
Ing book. Chicago: A. g. Mcclurg Co..
Invisible Links"-By Selma Lagerlof.2
This is a, series Of complete short stories by
hat ne &rS~e ><S~1.-
ling It is their first translation from the
Swedish into English. They reveal Swedish
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 yet they
are not cheerful or satisfactory stories. They.
recite In the main stories and scenes Of hum
BILE life which often end abruptly and unsatis-
factorily TO, the reader. Eut withal they
show pathos and fantasy, weird origin
ality, and fine word painting that hold tho
reader by their SPELL (Boston: Little, Brown
& Co.. :,
: From the Macmillan company, New York,
we have new and handsome edition of Ham
lin Garland's short stories, entitled, "Main
Travelled Roads," The stories are: "A Branch
Road, up the Coolly," Among the Corn
Rows" "Fhe Return of the Private, )" "Under
Days Pleasure" mrs. Ripley's Trip" and
Uncle Ethan Ridley" Mr.. Garland is seen
at his best in these short stories. He is a
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 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
of the best stories of the book Is Under the
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 o.: 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, "a nd
elegant in their literary construction.
From Dana, Estes & Co.. Boston, we have
several boys books, which will rob the eyes
Santiago with Sampson, ""Captain Tom, the
5Priyateersman," by that prince of stcry-teu :
ers, James Otis; 1.-TWO American Boys in
Hawaii by G. w. Browne, which is not only
a live story, but gives sketches of the country
and the people. As 1t Is our country, now
every wide-awake boy will want to know all
about 1t. Then comes THE Minute Boys Of
which the incidents Of the PARKWAY 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 1@How
Tommy Saved the Barn" will welcome further
news from the crippled Luke, the motherly
little Garry, and the lively Thomas. This Mr.
Otis has oblig.ngly given. and he tells In his
characteristic style of the adventures that the
city waits had the following holidays on the
deacon's hcspftable farm. The mfschievous
and Boosting Joey Ramsdelf makes his ap-
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.
Literary Notes.
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