The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-26


and the rate OF motion OF the sun have
been ascertained, there genuine knowledge
stops. The imagination then comes in, but
IT Is evident the sun will never reach the
little circle drawn in the sky toward which
the sun and planets are Fastening, for all
cosinte motion Is upon curve In the chap
ter on the pole star, 1t is shown by observa-
tons, since 1860, of the variations in the
rate OF approach to the earth by that body
that there is reason to believe the pole-star
must be a double star, whose two COM
ponents under the influence OF powerful mu-
tual. gravitational attraction, must be re-
volving In mighty orbit, approaching our
part Of the universe all the time, but held
in control by some cosmlc giant unknown to
US. The volume Is profusely illustrated,
showing the wonderful progress made In stel-
lar photography.
The Lady Paramount. BY Henry Har-
land, author Of The Cardinals snuff Box"
Price. 81. 50.
This is something more than "a pretty love
story" Call 1t something less tame than that
There is originality of construction and an
idylltc sweetness about It which are very
charming Some people might not like the
methods OF the Contessa di 4Samoaolo in re-
storing the heritage. in which she had life
interest to Anthony Craford. the ultimate
l. SohAS0E
they 'were certainly very romantic.
Angelot, Story of the First Empire.
By Eleanor G. Price, author Of ''The Heir
ess OF the Forest" New York: Thomas Y.
Crowell & Co. Price, $3.50.
The hero of this book, Angle Urban de la
Marniere, is not very Impressive young
| man, except for the tenacity with which he
held to his ardent love for Helene de Sain-
foy. The story is of his love and his fight for
the beautiful Helene against the machina-
tions Of one OF Nanoleon's generals, who, of
low origin. had risen by following loyalty the
| fortunes of 'the Little Corporal to the i'm
periol state The scene is in rural France
during the height of the glory of the first
| Napoleon. The author gives us an interesting
picture of rural life in Anjou. where lived
a group of noble families some sympathetic
with the unrest and plotting of the Chouan
| or discontinued element. Angels or Angelot's
| courtship of Helene Sainfoy was interrupted
| sadly by the girls noble father, but he had
serious objections to her marriage with Gen
! eral Ratoneau, whom he regarded as an up
start, and was incensed when Ratoneau
threatened to get the emperor to order him to
| give up his daughter to him in marriage Ra-
toneau vented his rage on Angelot and ac-
| cused him of plotting against Napoleon and
had him arrested, but Angelot escaped from
! his cruel captors by clever ruse, and after
his tempestuous love making having captured
Helene, the two were married under the most
! extraordinary circumstances mlngling Of
comedy and tragedy, with the ultimate extinc-
| ton of the wicked Ratoneau. The author
has lived long in France in the very region
| she so we'll describes. The picture she gives
of the life of the peasantry and nobility of
Anjou at this period is very interesting.
| The Carpenter Prophet. A Life of Jesus
| Christ and Discussion Of His Ideals. By
! Charles William Pearson. Chicago: Her
| bert S. Stone & Co.
The author of this book. an ex-minster
of the Methodist Episcopal church, who, hav-
ing found his religious and theological views
| homogeneous with the standards of doctrine
| of his church, like other ministers in his
position, has made a declaration OF principles
with g. great flourish Of trumpets about his
own discovery of the truth par excellence and
emancipation from the ''delusions' Of super
| naturalism. In this book, however, it is evl-
dent that, in his effort to demolish belief in
| the supernatural and a supernatural Christ.
MIR. Pearson has not succeeded in discovering
| any new argument. We have the dull re-
! Iteration Of the Ctterances of the Tubingen
school, the assumptions of the schools of Strauss
| and Renan and Kuenen and Wellhausen, and
the whole aggregation of anti-supernatural-
lists. The author thinks he disposes Of
| the supernatural by pooh pooling super
| natural events recorded In the Bible as
| illusions. The appearances Of Christ after his
death, he classes the effect of strong
| mental impressions. The case of Lazerus Is
an instance Of base fabrication on the part of
john. 1t and other related incidents in the
| life of Christ are but myths and legends
which somehow continue to be believed, in
spite Of the statement of Mr.. Pearson that this
/ scientific age rejects all reputed supernatural
| events. Scientists, however, believe or affect
| to believe, many mere hypothesis and as
| sumptions Of science as irrefutable fact To
| believe that the universe exists, as it appears
| to us, through the action of force, without
determining and directing agency back of it,
| is far more absurd than to believe on quite
adequate testimony handed down in writing
| for nearly two thousand years that Christ
| was crucifed, dead and buried and rose from
| the dead and appeared to his disciples and
several hundred others. Voltaire himself once
said that 1t was useless to make much head
way in attacking Christianity so long as the
| Holy Eucharist is celebrated, as that sacra-
| ment perpetuated belief in the life, death,
resurrection and ascension Of Jesus Christ.
| The antagonists of the supernatural in the
1 Bible would give the world, in place of the
| Christian religion, the treatise of Diodorus
| Chronos on THE Awful Nothing 1t is
noticeable that Mr.. Pearson is extremely
uncharitable to his late clerical brethren who
| cling, as he says, to childish illusions and
fables, while most OF them secretly repudiate
them but hypocrittcally preach what they do
not believe. This is a rather grave charge.
The Mississippi Bubble. How the Star
| Of Good Fortune Rose and Set and Rose
Again, by a Womap's Grace. for One John
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