The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-01

better in the matter of strikes than other
states because of the generally concilatory
attitude taken by employees and employers and
because of the smaller urban population The
bureau reports 1876 labor unions representing
forty -eight different employments. Included in
the report is Carroll Wrights valuable paper
on the value of labor statistics, reprinted
from the Engineering Magazine of November,
1888, and very interesting report by Mrs.
b. II. Shambaugh on the economic aud in
dustrial phases of the Amana society, or
The Community of the True Inspiration -
which has existed for forty six years in Iowa
county and owns $4,000 acres Of land, and
has nearly 1000 members, cultivating the
land, raising big crops and operating many
mills and factories, the output OF which Is
sold far and wide at a comfortable profit
The society is under board of trustees of
thirteen members chosen each year by popular
vote out OF the elders of the community
These make all the contracts and the affairs
OF each OF the seven villages of the society
are conducted by elders appointed by the
trustees Each member has free board and
dwelling and care in old age. The details
OF This organization make this one of the
most interesting features of the report
King Midas. BY Upton Sinclair. Illustrated
by G. M. Relyea. New York: Funk and
Wagnalls. Price. $1.20 net.
The heroine of this book has exceptionally
hard lines in her life. She was musical; had
stoudied the potential masters in Germany
and there was a new song on her lips every
morning. Beautiful and talented and viva
cious, Helen Davis had many lovers. She
outgrew the lover of her youth, with whom
she had grown up, and vas surprised when
in maturer years he declared his deathess
love for her Meantime young millionaire
came along to tempt her and under the
temptation of great wealth and social power
she murmured 'Yes' to his pleading, but
recoiled from the pledge, broke off the pact
and loved and married a man who proved to
have ruined the mother Of her first lover
The closing pages are strongly dramatic and
there are limitations that Helen, who encoun-
tered her early lover at the dealthbed of her
husband, ultimately found it easy to transfer
her affections to him. The text is accentuated
with bars Of music. the expression of the
heroines variable moods. The girl is thor
oughly human and the author is wise in max
ing her So. Being human, her lofty musical
ideals could not keep her from palpable weak
nesses at times. :
Abraham Lincoln and the Men of His
Time. BY Robert H. Browne, MI Two
volumes. Cincinnati: Jennings and ,Pye.
This biography eff Lincoln in two portly
volumes of 700 pages each would seem to be
story and gives the result of his observa-
tons and personal Investigations in such an
deliberate and original way that he
will no doubt find many readers. He lacks
directness and dwells too long on what is
hardly essential; but he relates the early his
tory Of the Lincoln family and of Abraham in
a very interesting way and sets forth the re-
suits Of his personal inquiries as to facts in
Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois. He is a
rnp our an StoeiaS nj cold
Abe in an attractive manner. He gives his
views on the men of Lincoln s time with re-
freshing vigor and candor. Buchanan. as a
statesman, "metaphysically, was cold: in
July Jere Black .:eould fire up to, fierce
heat on an abolitionist any time, even IN
January" His Characterization of other men
Of the period are equally expressive, and,
generally speaking, he seems to have under
stood them pretty we'll. ~z.- .,..-,.t
James Russell Lowell. A Biography.
BY Horace Elisha Scudder. Two volumes.
Boston: Houghton, Miffin & GO: M'nne-
apolis: N. Mccarthy Price, $3.50 net. Tor
sets. Portraits and illustrations and bibai
ography. =s ~-..e Ca:..a... L.. =
The publish rs announce this stthe only
full and defnitive life yet written of Mr..
LOVELY and it undoubtedly is, for 1t does
not obtrude upon the ground already occupied
by Professor Norton's Letters of James Rus
large body of letters ana papers of Lowell,
held by Professor Norton, besides much ma
terial of the kind, hitherto unused, in the
keeping of I4owells friends. This biography
is admirably constructed The reader gets
an intimate view Of Lowell poet, essayist,
editor Of the North American Review, Of the
Atlantic Monthly and professor at Harvard
college; and follows him through school and
college and his first literary ventures, to the
natural litterateur, the finished essayiSt, the
inspired poet, the highly honored American
citizen. One of the pleasant passages in the
first volume is the account of Lowell's first
visit to Europe, the details of which appear
in several delightful letters, full of wit and
pleasantly and information. But the reader
has even richer treats in the story of the
subsequent European trips, including the
English mission and sojourn. During the
war Lowell, as editor of the Atlantic, did
much political writing, but il did not muddy
the clear stream of his poetic inspiration. His
letter to Joel Benton, on page 1913 Of the
second volume, shows what fascinating
writer on political matters Lowell could be-.
In that letter he says January, 1870: 81
am no pessimist, nor ever vas. but
is not the Beecher honor dishearteningo Is
not Delano discouraging? and Babcock atop
Of him? What fills me with doubt
and dismay is the degradation of the moral
tone Is it or is not not a result of dem
by the people, for the people, or kakisto-
cracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the
cost of fools?' An interesting account is
given of Lowells Spanish experience when he
had the Spanish mission, and the story of his
last years is admirably related. IT. .
Woodland and Meadow. Out-of-Door
Papers Written on New Hampshire Farm.
By w. 1. Lincoln Adams, author of Sun
shine and Shadow" etc. Illustrated. New
York: The Baker and Taylor company.
Price, $780, 's
MI Adams has produced a book which can
hardly be surpassed in beauty and suggestive
and pleasing text holiday gift. 1t is a
charming tribute to the aesthetic and prac-
teal producing value of the New England
farm under intelligent management. The
photogravure illustrations, over sixty in num-
Der, reveal beauties Of woodland and meadow
and water which one is disposed to Iinger
over long Mr.. Adams takes US to northern
New Hampshire to Hilltop Farm, and the
reader will not regret the visit. He will see
New England sugar camp, take an early
morning ride, inhale the fragrance of the hay
field, visit the harvest field, stroll through
the richly colored autumn woods and behold
the winter aspect of the country side From
the descriptions it is easy to become enamored
of the New England farm where one can, on
very, little capital, comparatively, secure a
comfortable income and enjoy all the pleas
ure which fine scenery can impart~to the
lover of nature. ... -. r
United States Geological Survey. The
Geology and Mineral Resources of Portion
of the Copper River District, Alaska by
F. c. Schrader and Arthur C. Spencer.
"Reminiscences in the Cape Nome and
Norton Bay Regions, Alaska, 1900. BY A. II
Brooks, George B. Richardson, A. j. Collier
and w. C. Mendenhall. Washington: Gov
eminent Printing Office.
These geological surveys were undertaken