The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-20

thoroughly up-tO-date in meeting the ar
guments of the materialistic and agnostic
schools; but he does not take into con-
sideration the fact that there is a strong
reactionary movement against the fatu-
GUS materialism of the past century, built
upon the exploded fallacies of Lucretius
and his Greek models, with the aid of
modern biology. The reaction goes to the
other extreme, following no safe middle
path and denying the existence of matter
altogether, a theory garnered from an
cient oriental philosophers. The arsu-
ment of DR.. Pierson against materialistic
philosophy is very complete. if compare
lively brief His illustrations are apt
and forceful and any candid doubter is
likely to find effective suggestions in the
little book. '-.'>'
THE LITTLE CITIZEN. BY N. E. Waller.
illustrated. Boston, Lothrop Publishing Co.
81. net. go"
This is a good, live story, incidentally
highly commendatory of the work Of the
organizations which take children in the
waif condition out of the perilous and fire.
quently criminal environage of city life,
often life in the streets, and locate them
in country homes among kind people.
healthful surroundings and moral and re-
ligious influences. This story is about a
newsboy waif named "Miffins.' who had
been injured by cable car and who was
sent to Farmer Foss's big farm. where he
saw sheep for the first time and took his
first breath of Unpolluted air. slept in a
clean and comfortable bed for the first
time and took his first meal Of pure food
and his" first lessons in the higher civiii-
zation The story Of the transformation
of his character is most interesting and
there is plenty Of humorous incident.
=
ton. Indianapolis The Bowen-Merriil COM
pany.
What will the club women of the coun-
try do with Mr.. Horton? Will they take
his book as a reflection upon the woman S
club and the club W oman and attempt to
wreck his literary aspirations by resolving
that his portraiture Of the club woman is
wholly unfair and grossly exaggerated and
that, therefore, he doesn't know anything
about the art of writing fiction, or will
they overlook his picture of club life in
Chicago in an absorbing interest in two
strongly contrasted matrimonial ventures,
drawn with remarkable fidelity, proofs of
those words Of Robert Louis Stevenson S
| which are found on the title page: ''Times
are changed with him who marries. there
are no more by-path meadows, where you
| may innocently linger. but the road lies
| long and straight and dusty to the grave" !
The story Is simply, directly and power
| fully told. OF the two pictures Of marital
| life, one is of a promising and light-heart-
ed young man In a real estate office with
| life before him. He falls in love with a
girl Of striking beauty, who seeks cul-
| ture in clubs, but is Of no brains, force OF
character or generous impulses. He mar
ries her, and the sad tale of the descent
4 from his former happy state to one OF
| misery makes the heart ache. Inter
/ woven with this is the story Of the life
4 Of a ''rising young lawyer and his fam
lily. Dorothy, his wife, is an angel Just
! a littlegweak and just a little wicked In