The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05
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The Yellow Fiend. By Mrs. Alexander. |
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. Minneapo-
lis: VIM. Donaldson Co. Price, $l.oo.
Mrs Alexander, with her customary power |
OF delineating strong characters, gives us in
this novel, in old Ardell the mser WON
dertully good portrayal of worshtper Of gold, !
the yellow Fiend." Mrs. Pinnock, his |
housekeeper for twelve years. was kept on
the sharp hooks trying to keep down ex- |
penses to the lowest living rate. which was
u starvation rate and when Ardells grand
daughter, Madge Ardell, orphan. was sent
from Belgium to live with him, there was
sulphurous atmospheric high-spirited girl
with art aspirations, crossed and bullled ana
sneered at by the heartless gold Worshlper,
who even pocketed the few shilllngs she got
for her drawings Mrs. Pinnock, the house
keeper worthy soul, Madges only help.
Madge got along in her art studies, however,
but was unfortunate enough to fall IN love
with a man who had courted her, conceallng
the portentous and ugly fact that he mad a
wife and child living. Madge, in great grler,
broke off the engagement, and old Ardell'
having died, leaving enormous wealth to me-,
she went to the antipodes for a season, ana,
like many other women, after while admit
ted that she was 80 awfully lonely and
well, the reader will find out.
ton. By John B. Robins, D. D. Chicago:
Fleming H. Reyeu company, So Washington
street
The author of this book believes that mar
riage Is designed to place upon the human
race the responsibility of fatherhood and
motherhood, upon the proper direction of
which responsibility depends the welfare Of
humanity, the permanence Of the higher and
righteous civilization. Marriage is at the base
of all true culture. education and home life.
The quality OF the home-life influences, If it
does not always determine, the quality of the
and r,n of no II
thor would have such Christian nurture as
will develop a manhood cosmopolitan in its
nature and character in the Individual and
civilization Of humanity elevated to- a Chris
ton brotherhood. The greater portion Of the
book is naturally devoted to suggestions Of a
specific character touching the training Of
children. "All children the author says,
will be regenerated, provided there Is spr-
itual sustenance In their environment. The
family may furnish 1t. The church may sup
ply 1t, Either one or both should furnish 1t.
All should be born again, and from this
should live and grow in the spirit. The
wife Is a mother to the body, the family a
mother to the mind, the community mother
to the moral nature, and all things a mother
to the spirit. If all are in their place, the
regeneration of children will follow in the
natural order of things"
Rockhaven. BY Charles Clark Mum, au-
thor Of Pocket Island and "Uncle Terry"
Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill. Boston:
Lee & Shepard.
AS in his Uncle Terry Mr.. Num- in this
novel, brings the reader into the New Eng
land atmosphere, and those familiar with the
scenery and life at the little. out Of they way
seaports whose inhabitants are chiefly fisher
folk captains retired or in command of trad
ing sloops and schooners, spinsters and crop
OF sturdy young boys and girls, will find
pleasure in reading these pages, in which
Mr.. Mum has embodied very impressive
love story. With special fidelity has he
sketehed the one store of the village, where
honest old ex-sallor and soldier Jess Hut
ton presdes the gossipers and has the
confidence of the community. The selling by
Jess of granite ledge he owned to New
York firm for quarry brings about the trair
of Incidents which make up the story The
firm who bought the property sent VIM
Hardy one Of their bookkeepers. to superin
tend the opening and operating Of the quarry
Thds youth encounters Mona Hutton, niece
OF old Jess whose mother Jess had courteG
and lost In his younger days, but still loved
her and she was "a widow. Hardy and Mona
are the central figures The girl Is pretty
guileless conscientious and musical. She ant
Hardy gravitate to each other and fnall,
they are betrothed after very picturesque
love-making. Hardy's employers make thu
uuarry at Rockhayen the basis for organiZins