The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-17

soon after he met her under the shadow OF
the pyramids. Morrison won Dorothy, but
Dorothy would not marry a divorced person,
for he had been married unfortunately some
years before and his wife had, without his
knowledge, obtained divorce in South Da-
kota. The problem was solved by the chance
meeting of the divorced woman. Dorothy and
Philip in Egypt. Having discovered the sit
uation, she quietly committed suicide in
most accommodating manner, and Dorothy
and Philip being free, the reader is left with
the strong ntimation that they married.
Philip is an altogether unsatisfactory hero.
"a. Damsel or Two is one of those linger-
ing, hesitant, deliberate stories which one
reads with interest, but finds himself saying,
do hurry up F. Frankfort Moore prefers
that style, as is shown by his "A Nest of
Linnets.'' New York: D. Appleton Coz
The story is about two lovely English girls
whose father, Colonel Selwood had lost
money, and the family had. to cut down ex-
penses. The colonel, the Boer war having
broken out, went to Cape Town as staff
officer, leaving young Foxcroft, London
editor, to look after the girls. He falls in
love with Muriel Selwood, and the colonel,
having been wounded in battle, Jean, the
sister Of Muriel, goes to South Africa to take
care of him and incidentally her lover is
found on the same vessel. The girls both
get admirable husbands. Their experiences
are detailed and inside view is given of
tho delusion under which the English peo
pie labored with respect to the duration Of
the war. s5s1
Alfred Benjamin & Co., New York. have
issued Dictionary of Sports" giving in
forty Eight pages full definitions Of each
term used in golf, tennis, baseball and racing,
with illustrations, in a form convenient for
ones vest pocket. The book was compiled
! by Samuel Jaros, $50 Nassau street, New
| York city.
| "In the Days of Giants is a book of
| Morse tales by that admirable storyteler,
Abbie Farwell Brown, with many illustra-
lions by E. Boyd Smith publishers, Hough-
| ton, Mifdin & Co., Boston. For sale by
| N. Mccarthy, Minneapolis. Price, $1.10 metz
Some of these tales are reprinted from The
| Churchman, New York. but children who
read them there, and no end of other chill
| dren, will love to read this volume, for the
author has a wonderfully attractive way Of
! telling Of old things, such as How Odin
| Lost His Eye" THE Giant Builder, - 1.-THE
Magic : Apples,' .tThe Dwarfs Gifts, y
''Thor's Duel.p And there are a dozen
others. ~
! Charles scribners Sons New York, have
published a handsome manual OF the game
| or EDr1dSe, SetClng 1OrLn us laws anu CID
| bodying illustrative hands and detailing its
| principles, by J. B. Elwell. price, $1.25.)
| There is a good index and glossary and the
book is. beautifully printed and bound. Min
neapolis, N. Mccarthy. s1.25.
The University Of Chicago Press. Chicago,
has issued the full text Of the proceedings
| of the department Of Superintendent of the
| National Educational association, at the an
nual meeting in Chicago, held last Feb
ruary.
Lord Alingham, Bankrupt by Marie
Manning, and published by Dodd, Mead &
Co., tells how Lord Alingham and Honorable
Reginald Howard, his uncle. saw America
in New York hotel. Alngham had come
to court and marry a rich American girl
and began operations, but he got into the
| papers and his sensibilities were wounded
They are healed temporarily, however. BY
a young American woman whom he met on
shipboard on his way home. The story is
rather silly one.