The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-11

ture studies with faithful and appreciative
portraiture. Indian Summer contains this
pleasant picture:
In fearless, merry mood, the forest folk
Around him push and peep; he notes them
not;
Or how the squirrel springs with chartered
joke
Along the rain of laughing chestnut burrs
One of the strongest pieces Of work in the
book is The Maelstrom':
Meath northern skies. it's guardian sits and
sings
Her witchly runes; while specter-white and
The charmed icebergs seek her fateful haunt;
There, Tapped betwixt her knees, anon, she
swings
A giant cup, whose draught to frenzy stings
The storm gods baneful lusts; until his taunt
And mighty, bearded laugh, his foemen daunt,
When on wild seas his wind-swept chariot
In that grim eyre, which whirling ravage
fills;
Her eyes forecast, with fixed, circean smile.
From its prophetic dregs, the futures ills;
While at the smoking depths the kraken coils,
Its greedy lips choked with CHASTITY spoils.z
Webster's International Dictionary
of the English Language. Revised
and Enlarged Edition. under the supervision
Of Noah Porter, LII. D., with voluminous
and phrases by w. T. Harris, Phi D., LII. D.,
editor-in-chief Springfield, Mass: G. and
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| Culture and Restraint. BY Hugh Black
| author of ''Friendship." Chicago: Flem-
| ing H. Reyell company. Price, $3.50.
| The author of, this book has, with fine
| scholarly ability, discussed the question as to
the proper attitude of Christian faith to the
world, with its ordinary life, and ties, bust
ness and pleasures; whether absolute renun-
citation or utilization of the worldly interests
! is the rule Of Christian life. Are the natural
| instincts to be ignored, or is rigorous morti-
| fcation the law of Christian life and conduct
The author has indicated In the title the trend
| of his argument. He reviews the claims Of
! culture and ascetcism and shows that nei.
Their, by ITSELF is conducive to the higher
| Christian life. If we attempt to make o.
culture a religion, we niserably FAIL as we
| do If we attempt to make rigorous ascot
icism a religion. in the literal sense Of tina
word-a binding back to God Jerome'E
wretched confession of his experience demon
strates the error OF rigid asceticism. 9Th.
ideal Of a perfect man." says the author
| must not only include the development O.
the higher faculties, but must lay stress or
these; must rise in crescendo from sense tt
to the spiritual. True culture cannot exis
without self-denial Self-mastery is not as
ceticism 1t means self-limitation, modera
ton, restraint, in every sphere where cultiva
ton is applied The chapter on ''The Chris
tian Solution is very fine. The author be
lleves that voluntary withdrawal from tn
social bond is a wrong to a mans own bes
life and social offense, even if it is for tn
exclusive culture of self. The great Chris
tian thought of service includes both cultur
and sacrifice for the highest good of man
The end of all the training of our power
must be for such service. 1.-THE world" say
the author, a''can much easier do withou
, some of the practical energy, which, indeed
it never lacks, than it can do without tn
vision of the prophet and the imagination o
the poet and the beautiful creation of tn
J artst-all the intellectual and spiritua
thought with which thinkers and seers fee
the true life of their fellows. Much of tn
best labor, wrought out of the brain an
heart of man. has no direct reference t
: the welfare of men, but we cannot measure 1t
indirect value in kiudling thought and dean