The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-08
Books and Authors
THE MAGAZINES.

There is, in the September number of
the Worlds Work a brief and lucid ex-
PLANTATION Of the nature of the big realty
combination recently organized in New
York and capitalized at S66, 600, 600, to
operate in the leading cities of the coun-
try. OF course, Morgan is in it. The new
combination will deal with each piece of
property bought a great industry, ap-
plying to it the same rules and manage
ment which obtain with large manufac-
turing plants, settling titles absolutely
and improving property for revenue.
There Is illustrated paper on "a
Typical Irrigated Country" which details
the advantages of the system and also
the mistakes which cause failures such
as case where money is invested in a
canal by men who do not secure the arid
lands which spectators buy up before the
canals are finished, and settlers, between
water owners and land-grabbers are driv-
en- away by heavy taxation. W. S. Har-
wood contributes an interesting illus
trated paper on the breeding of new kinds
Of corn, by which the crops are greatly
increased in the same acreage. Mr.. Bull
fms illustrated paper on 1.-The United
States in Latin America" is full of valu-
able suggestions. He finds, by personal
observation, our relations to Spanish
America to- be not as cordial as they might
be. Some states, jealous of Chile, think
siveness of that republic. They are all
more or less possessed of the notion that
the United States has improper designs
upon them. Certainly we do not have
their trade to the extent we should. Last
year thousand steamers entered Argen-
tine ports, but'not one of them carried an
American flag. But we have mo-
nopoly Of supplying Brazil with -four in
spite Of Argentina's competition, and we
sell twice as much to Argentina as the
latter sells to US. Quantities of our goods
go to South America, but English and
German firms import and sell them. Mr..
Bulfn states many interesting trade facts
and thinks we can get our proper share
Of business by doing our own carrying
trade, establishing banking facilities and
branch business houses and continuing
the development of the resources with
American capital in South American re-
gions which are more promising than
| China or Africa. Among other interesting
| features isE~ Mr., Goodrich's ENGLAND AS
Seen By. An American Business Man." and
Mr.. eCunnif' s Labor Unions From the
| Inside" New York: Doubleday, Page &
| Co., "a Union Square East.
The Atlantic Monthly for September
has paper on What Public Libraries
| Are Doing for Children: by H. c. Well
| man, which demonstrates that the results
more than justify the money and work
spent upon increasing the effectiveness OF
/ childrens departments, since the quality
| of the books read by children, the zest of
children for informing literature, the
stimulus given them to study, are marked
| characteristics of the new conditions.
| The article should be read by all who take
! any interest in the subject Of juvenile
/ literature. ITalcott Williams con-
| tributes valuable paper on our new
/ navy, showing what is yet needed to fully
| check the ambition Of any power who
4 meditates an attack upon u.s. Mr.. e. H
Russell gives us some interesting cor
respondence between Thoreau and Isaac
Hecker, the latter being one Of the Brook
4 Farm philosophers who was afterward
4 led into the Roman church by Orestes
/ Brownson. Hecker proposed to Thoreau
that they should make a pilgrimage te
Europe, working their passage over and