The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-22
A Quaint, Old Volume, Which Heaps Abuse
and RidicuIe on John Law and His Glittering
Scheme of Finance.

in coffee, brandy and cocoa companies.
Land companies, fishery companies. min
ing companies, are booming merrily. Such
pictures are usually accompanied by the
word "Quinquenpoix." the name Of tbs
street upon which Laws Paris bank was
situated-the Wall street Of that day.
In another cartoon each playing card OF
a complete deck is illustrated with some
representative Of trade or social class
engaged in paying gold for wind. Again
the Spirit of Speculation, rotund nymph
Of dyke and windmill, rolls in g.: trium-
phal car across the PROSTATE body Of Com
merce. The Spirit is conducted by Folly,
Mdlle. Folie, may be recognized" adds .
note In French and Dutch, not only by
her ordinary attributes Ghe cap and
bells) but by. her whalebone hoop-skirt,
which is also folly Of the present day"
+ The gross vulgarity, rather than inde-
cency, that is still prominent In CONT
mental caricature, dulls the none-too lively
humor of these old time satirists. Invest
ors, in the Law shares, for example, are
shown gorged and nauseated with the
paper that they have been ravenously
eating. '~-4 ~ =
Interesting Early Maps. =
For no apparent reason elaborate maps
are included Of several Dutch cities and
their. environs. The cartography Is ex-
celent. Still another map represents,
lIlOT0 LIlo NllSSlSS1ppl VIII
ley from which Laws gigantic company
was to draw it's trade and dividends.
Minneap polls Is not forgotten on this COM
mercial map, although the city is merely
identified, with THE Falls of st. Anthony
Of Padua." Lake Michigan Is THE Lake
of Illinois, The Wisconsin river IS
"Riviere Ouisconsing.' st. Louis has
three pictured houses, but no name. Flor
ida, however, Is part of Wisconsin, and
Pensacola bay is few miles east Of New
Orleans. ------- = e. .','-~.-'-@'
Although nearly all the verses accom-
panying the prints are exquisitely en-
graved in Dutch script, some Of the jeux
d'esprits are French and one brief poem
is English. The British bard has been in
spired by a really artistic picture of a
masquerade ball. although the modern
reader can seen no direct connection be-
tween the picture or the poem and the
Mississippi Bubble t-s-s-
Following, naturally, the style Of Mas
ter Dryden, the English versifier cries:
Here may the Wandering Eye with pleasure See
Both Knaves and Fools in borrowed shapes
agree
How Lords. and Ladies' waOve their wonted
And walk with Jilts and Bullies side by side!
Here the vile Atheist, to the Worlds surprise,
Puts on a Bishops robe for his disguise
With lude and idle talk -profanes the same
And Mods his Mitre at some fav'rtte Dame
The Statesman that Commands his Princes Ear,
Descends to Harlikenos Jacket here,
And tho at Helm he shares the Mighty Rule,
In Masquerade submits to play the FOOL!
Rare Portrait Of Nine. Law.
Because of its rarity, perhaps, print
of Nine Law has been cut from some
print or book and pasted upon page
specially prepared by the publisher. This
picture Of Laws alleged wife was no
doubt intended as a malicious aliusion
to the scandal in his early life. The lady
is presumed to exclain, through French
couplets,
Neither wife am /, nor widow
Deserted by a wandering spouse.
But that unfaithful lover IS brought face
10 face with his traducers IN Whist =. I