The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-29

beautiful thing as far higher than the
| JOY to be gained from seeing one" Nor
r1s' great work was the stimulus he gave
to art production and beautiful handlwork.
And he left the flavor Of his genius in his
poetry. J.
AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE COLONIAL
AND NATIONAL PERIODS. By Lorenzo
Sears. Of Brown University. Boston: Little,
Brown & Co.
prehens1ve sketch of American literature
-cOlOnlal literature, which was mainly
the product of British thought, and the
literature Of another tone and American
in purpose, beginning after the close of
the war for independence and the nego-
tlatlon of the Paris treaty. The author
| shows the progress of this literature
through its representative factors, omit
ting the small contributors.
! The colonial literature was produced by
people who wrote as Britons in a. proyjn-
cial way, and. with limited horizon Their
literary remains are found in the journals
tand diaries and correspondence of the
Jamestown and Plymouth colonists chief
w. for the earliest period. Of the New
England prose writer's and poets, the
Iauthor gives all the informal ton needed
There" was much controversial writing and
, some poetical exploitation and devout
)meditatiOn. Edwards and Franklin mark
| I4C IL eduSlllOl pellOu ana, dICcf 100,
American writing, stimulated by English
entertainments, dropped the theological
faayoring and stalwartlys advanced to the
discussion Of the rights of British sub
jects, and, after the stamp act was en-
ACTED. there came many pens in defense of
constitutional rights. During the war for
Independence little was done in literature
After the war the great political writers
I Of the period otok an inning, and 1.-THE
Federalist' is their monument while
Trumbull took precedence as a national
poet. The early fiction was lame enough,
but, after the nineteenth century opened,
| there were favorable symptoms, and Irv-
ing plaudits even from Englshmen en-.
Brockden, Brown, Kennedy, Gilmore.
Simms, Cooper, Poe came along too, and
American literature began to be some
| thing to admire. From Poe onward the
register of ''in1mortals' grew rapidly,
with such names as Emerson, Longfellow,
Holmes, Whitman, Bancroft, Prescott,
| Motley. Parkman, and the close of the
century witnessed great impulsion of
our literature in fiction, history, biogra-
ply, poetry, science and art, while we
distanced the world in genuine humor.
The author deals with the latter record
with admirable judgment. His book is
one to have conveniently near for refer
ence. No new nation ever developed u
national literature of Importance in SO
brief period as ours. 5t.r.
| THE LEAVEN IN A GREAT CITY. BY Lillian
| w. Belts. Illustrated. New York: Dodd,
Mead & Co. Minneapolis: VIM. Donaldson.
| Price, $1.5 .,...
| This book will prove of value to all
| students of sociology, who are earnestly
| interested in the betternent of social con-
ditions,-the proper housing of the poor
er classes, the effective mending of rag
ed homes, the creation of a desire to bet
ter conditions among the submerged and
\ discover the effective way to accomplish
| permanent reform. The author begins
| with the tenement house investigation in
New York in 1873 which discovered