The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-25
New Books

Sarah Knowles Bolton. Illustrated. Bos-
ton: L. c. Page & Co. Minneapolis: N.
Mccarthy. Price. Sl.oO.
Mrs. Bolton has certainly produced dog
book par excellence and which the
friends of dogs will immensely appreciate.
She not only relates the most interesting
stories about the value Of dogs as protectors
of property and human life, but she demon
strates the instructive canine gratitude canine
grief and affection. She has collected large
number of stories from the newspapers ana
other sources and suggests that the dog mas
never received from man the care and grat-
tude due to him. She deVotes a chapter to
citations from state statutes embodylnS very
cruel treatment Of dogs. and suggests thaI
the friends Of the dog obtain the passage OF
laws making the dog property under the
law. The illustrations are numerous and at
tractive.
Jarvis OF Harvard. By Reginald W.
Kaufman. Illustrated by Edwards. boston:
carthy. Price, si:5o.
The author III his preface says his purpose
in writing this book was simply to tell a
story showing that college life in this country
is not different from the life outside the COL
leges. 1t is true that there are the same
temptations everywhere, but there is DIX
ference in degree and persistence In this
book the career Of Jarvis, the HARVARD
student, Is set forth in a strongly dldactlc
way. The man fell morally before he went to
the university, and there he went from bad
to worse chiefly through the agency OF
women He went into the deeps of vice, but
during his career, he encountered woman
who was courageous enough In her love
to take him after she had full knowledge or
Jarvis career Of vice. woman must love
a man much to do this. But he had risen
TO a stronger life Of victory and had put the
old life away as a foul thing. Better, indeed,
It would be If pure womanhood could always
be saved from living with married men VINO
have dehled their lives by repeated deadly
SINS But it is not so to be. There is some
strong writing in this book and the chap
tiers on athletics and class collisions are OF
special interest,"
The story of Il Young Man: CA Life Of
Christi by Clifford Howard, WITH b. fore"oro
illustrated by w. L. Taylor and T. Guer m
sey Moore. Boston: l.. c.. Page & CO..
Minneapolis: N. Mccarthy Price, $2'oo.
The object of the author, as he states IN
his preface, is to present the human SIDE OF
Christ: view Him in the light of His human
ity. and emphasize His wondrous personaii-
ty as q man, yielding up His life for the
sake of an ungrateful and Ubiquitous world
q sacrifice trascendent, inscrutable Inc
author in pursuance OF his purpose, ends all
that concerns Christ with the death on the
cross, as the fulilment of His mission. The
author relates enough Of the life OF Christ
and of his miracle working power to suggest
His divinity, and his aim Is to let the Ques-
ton of His divinity be decided by the lire
and works. OF course, from the Christian
standpoint, the mission of Christ was only
completed by His resurrection and ascension.
The author stops at His DEATH There are
eighteen full-page plates and marginal illus
trations The cover design is in white and
gold.
Rnnthhv
author of .'Dr. Nicola" etc. Illustrated by
BridSman and Hurd. Boston: L. Z. rage
& co. Minneapolis: N. Mccarthy. Price
$3.50.
This is a very good detective story-one Of
the kind few readers can resist. The author
who has given us so much of Nicola in his
other novels, drops him in this story and con.
structs a very thrilling narrative of the ind
ing Of a treasure vault among some ruins II
southwestern China by three men, containing
a. vast store of rubies, diamonds, pearls ant
gold. The men were adventures with rec
ords, and started ON their quest from Singa
pore, Their records were not very p1ous
and after the treasure was found, one or TN
men, Hayle, adroitly distracted ninety three
stones from the pockets of his partners AM
made good his escape, the booty being wort
a quarter of a million pounds. The searcl
for Hayle is what the story is about, the mar
rative being put in the mouth Of Fairfax, tn
detective. 1t Is very thrilling. No detecty
ever had more willy game to catch. Mr.. Booth
by has certainly written nothing better thai
this.
The Neutrality-suspicious.. BY Pauline Brad
ford Mackie (Mrs. H. NJ. Hopkins), autho
of "a Georgian Actress etc. Boston: I
G. Page & Co.. Minneapolis: N. Mccarthy
Price, $3.50.
This is a story of Washington life towar
the close of Lincolns first administration
when the war was dragging it's slow lengt
along and Washington was an uncouth city
struggling and dirty, and full Of barracks an
moving troops and commissary and artller
trains and forlorn negroes who had fed fro1
the confederacy and slavery. The story