The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-06
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OUT OF THE WEST. BY Elizabeth Higgins
New York: Harper & Brothers..
AS the title would seem to imply, this
story has something to do with the west.
But the interest is divided between the
west and the national capital Frank
Field, young New Yorker, who spends
more money than his rich father approves
Is given by the latter, the alterna tive Of
Delng turned out in the streets or qcing
to Nebraska to look after dads elevator
interests in one-horse railway town,
and chooses the latter in infinite disgust.
In Columbia Junction he passes through
much storm and stress before the ignoble
is washed out of him, and his better ma
ture triumphs. He falls in love with a.
young woman populist, whose soul burns
with sympathy with struggling humanity
and hatred of plutocrats. She is known
py: her supporters as 1.-The Joan of Arc of
Colorado. After Field is converted bv
her to populism, they are married and he
is elected to congress as a populist and,
having oratorical gifts he wins recogni-
ZION. railing into the hands of lobbyists.
male and female, especially the latter
Field Wavers in his purpose of pushing
a railway rate restricting measure, which
ne was pledged to see through. His wife
was tlercely jealous of the female lobby
lists, and the author, in portraying this
part OF the career of 1.-The gentleman from
A'O"A
cal life In Washington, which she uses
with excellent effect, Her. descriptions of
the life and people of Columbia Junction
are very amusing and pathetic by turns
The society girls of the Junction and
their ambitious mothers, who Unanswered
to secure Field for their daughters ara
sketched with most interesting effects
The author gives pathetic descriptions
OF the impecuniosity and sufferings of the
people during the depression of 1S73-79
and shows how Field acquired, through
severe discipline, high character which
his early career seemed to make improb-
able. Edith Hull, the Joan of Arc" of
the story, emancipates herself from, her
most unreasonable dogmas and develops
into a very noble wife for Field. The au-
thor has good descriptive powers and
handles her little populist heroine, who
went to washington innocent of the
worlds ways. with marked ability and
grace
cHANT1cLEER. a PASTORAL ROMANCE. By
Violette Hall. Boston: Lothrop Publishing
company. Illustrated in three colors by W.
Granville Smith. Price, $3.50.
The author of this book is a prose poet
and 1t is a cause Of gratitude that she
does not break out in rnetrical effusion,
Her hero and heroine, Margaret and Maui
rice, are, however, not much more hero
and heroine than are the married poets,
Roger and Mary, who lived in the most
beautifully romantic bit of countryside
one can imagine and wrought in their
gentle way all through the glorious DAYS
and nights of summer to bring the other
two to an understanding. It was beauti-
fully done. And what an unusual couple
were Roger and Mary, who, after seven
years of married life, took moonlight
walks among the dreaming flowers and
whispering leaves and made love to each
har q 9 IN ipo So1 10
a little episode on a June night: "a stem
of laurel flowers lay against my cheek. I
gathered it with a sudden impulse and
turned to fasten it in my husbands but
tonhole. He looked down al me smiling.
thought how handsome he was in the
moonlight. My hands trembled with the
rapture of the maid Molly in the long
ago, and drew shyly away from him.
He put out his arm if to draw me to
him. and then stopped as if he, too, were
afraid We sat in embarrassed silence
until with effort Roger wheeled toward
me to lift my face to his. Gazing steadily
down into my eyes he whispered, Mary,
love you.' so do l. I answered back, 7
mean you, Roger Then he pressed me to
his heart, for such a declaration of what
had been to him, and would be to him,
as only my most secret soul can phrase"
Then there were more confessions and
more kissing. This is really delightful,
IN Sp1c-anu-Spdn LnooeIl novel, too!
There is description of miles upon miles
of fragrant orchards over which the soul
of Mary "goeS in raptures' and she tells
this of the effect upon Amanda Decker, a
plain farmers daughter: she was looking
off into the fragrant orchards with tears
| in her eyes. Amt it nice? she said
dreamily. 1T hurts. though. SometfmesgI
think I can't live through May. It's so
so NICE In my bewildered surprise I
wondered how much Of the eternal splen-
| doris we all of us tack down under our
carpets
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