The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-22
Minor Mention
Here is a dainty little book and delicious

Here is a dainty little book and delicious
little story by Ellen v. Talbot, entitled THE
Courtship of Sweet Anne Page" (New York:
Funk & Wagnalls company. Price 45 cents),
telling what shakspere did not tell us, but
only limited at, of the romance Of Anne Page
in 1.-The Merry Wives of Windsor" in the
form of Annes diary, which Is charmingly
Elizabethan in STYLE ~
A. c. McClurg & Co., Chicago 215 Wabash
avenue, have given the public some very in
teresting reading in Down Historic Water
ways" by Reuben Gold Thwaites, secretary
OF the Wisconsin Historical Society, who re-
lates incidents of a canoeing trip of 600 miles
upon the Fox, Wisconsin and Rock rivers
which run through very picturesque regions
largely historic, and sufficiently withdrawn
from the pressure of obtruding settlements to
enable the canoeist, as the author says, to
see the country practically as 1T was in pio-
neer days, in state of unalloyed beauty.
The author recalls the historic associations
at each point on the journey. His descrip-
tons of the scenery are so fine and realistic
that the reader finds himself yearning for a
seat in the canoe and ready to share all the
hardships of the trip, even the difficult opera
ton of getting the canoe under numerous
barbed iron fences. The book is Illustrated.
D. Appleton & Co., II Fifth avenue, New
York, have published In Love in Its Ten
derness; Idylls of Enochdhu' (price 81,
series of tales full Of the richness Of Scottish
sentiment, for from that rugged country have
come many of the most beautiful and touch
ing love songs Of the world.
Funk & Wagnalls, New York, have pub
lshed very impressive tale of old Palestine,
entitled ''The Sandals based upon the sup
posed acquisition by a Roman soldier of the
sandals of Christ when his clothing was di-
vided among the Roman guard on Calvary.
| The soldier gave them to a Jewish maiden,
| who, after many interesting incidents, gave
! them to the mother Of Jesus. A love story
is embodied in the tale. Price As cents.
Under My Own Roof Is a decidedly clever
! book by Adelaide Rouse New York. Funk &
! Wagnalls company. Price $1.33), who beguiles
| the reader through 290 pages Of delightful
| humor wit and practical wisdom and tells
| how she, newspaper woman and author,
| "fat and forty emancipated herself from
| the trammels Of urban life and, after a tre-
mendous amount of planning, succeeded in
getting house to suit her. an old maid, for
| all her life The fact is that this latter
solve was, in the course of time, abandoned,
I and the lady made very sensible marriage.
! The details of her antenuptial life under her
/ own roof are positively irresistible.
Campbell's Soil Culture Manual for 1902
| fully explains the treatment of the soil Of
| semi-arid regions after the Campbell method
I which has produced most favorable results
I without irrigation, the process being pulver-
izing the sell surface to prevent evaporation
and leaving the surface in the best condition
to receive the downward percolation of
melted SHOWS and rains. H. w. Campbell
| Holdredge, Neb.
1.-The Political Freshman''is a ddacttc story
4 by. Bushrod W. James philadelphia: Bushrod
| Library who details the career of young
! man who went forth to reform the world by
the application of the principles of justice and
truth: to which he adhered in spite Of efforts
of various interests to divert him to the
/ championship of sordid interests. The youth
4 became senator and a success. He escaped
sthe wiles of beautiful women and Amarried a
/ treasure Of wife.
Houghton. Mif1in & Co., Boston, have issued
/ a very excellent handbook in DR.. w. j.
| Rolfe's "a satchel Guide for the Vacation
Tourist in Europe The volume is in dress
of red and gold and is supplied with railway
and other maps and embodies all necessary
information about places, transportation,
/ hotels, value of moneys, weights and meas
ures, travellers calendar of festivals, pilgrim
/ ages, fairs, ETC. The ''Satchel Guide is
satisfactory in every respect. Price, s1.50.
For sale in Minneapolis by Nathaniel Me-
i Carthy.
Miss Jeanne G. Pennington has gathered
/ from the writings of Maurice Maeterlinck,
Joseph lie Conte, Victor Hugo and Horatio
Dresser clusters OF their best thoughts and
assembled them in dainty book form under
the title Good Cheer Nuggets (New York: