The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-15

tall is it, not better that a hundred un-
necessary books should be. published than
that one good and useful book should pe
lost ?'-in order to revive his bellef that
quantity does not necessarily destroy
quality, in other words, that there are,
perhaps, as many good books published
now as there would be if only those wrote
books who are qualified to do SO. After re-
verting to this thought two or three times
a CHASTITY fear takes possession OF one.
Suppose some publisher or all publishers
should act upon DR.. Van Dykes sugges-
ton. Logically, could they not do SO
and pour out upon the public prints OF
every, manuscript that =. came to their
shops ?Er Undoubtedly there are good books,
hin manuscript as yet that have been re-
jected by publisher after publisher. There
must be or else history does not repeat
itself; and in order to make sure that
none of these is overlooked, what II pub
fishers out of their philanthropic hearts
should take it upon themselves to make
grist Of everything offered at their mills?
Would not such a flood Of stuff as would
issue forth tax even good DR.. Van Dyke
literary charity? But then economic rea-
sons. are stronger than philanthropic, some
one else says by way Of protest. Are they?
Who knows how soon some literary An
drew Carnegie may take It upon himself
to do just what has been suggested?
EOh,swell,a the protestant says. there would
| be The 9f1adhouse for such a man, Eand
with that same suggestion the incipient
| nightmare passes.
But to return to that list of books 1t
| begins with a long list of Biographies.
Conspicuous near it's head is a life Of
Gladstone by Right Hon. John Morley;
| Lights and Shadows Of a Long Episco-
| pate,' "reminiscences Of the Right Rev.
Henry Benjamin ,Whipple; Abraham Lin
coin, a short life condensed by John G.
Nicolay from gicolay. and Hays
And what wide range fol
lows. It runs all the way from Jeanne
d Arc to Americas Vespucius and Christie
pher Columbus. It includes psychology
ica1 study of the founder Of Mormoraisn'
+ and gets down, or up, to the 'Autobiog-
raphy of "a Newspaper Girl" Even oul
good old friend Captain John Smith is not
omitted. To go back Of the days of: the
man who may or may not have narrowly
escaped having his head beaten into 6
cory and shocking mass, one writer gives
| as title "Seven Roman Statesmen o.
the Later Republic" He may have chosen
seven because there Is luck In the number
and in order to make sure that he would
have material enough to work upon. No
much farther down the list one come:
upon that. familiar name, Andrew Carne
gle, whose life has been strenuous ant
successful enough certainly to warran
the publication of a biography up-to
1 date. :
Then there is that fiction list: 1t con.
tains about 200 titles. If that will MOI
keep you in fiction for a year, do not BIZ
disheartened; there will be a ''sprina
list, probably LONGER ere<the robins &. hes
again. 4$SIt55f ~
The religious and church history list Ii
somewhat more modest in SIZE. It con
tains books by wellknown men, including
) Matthew Arnold, Charles A. Briggs, Hor
ace Bushnell (sermons and fragments)
Rt. Rev. Henry C.. Potter, and others 0
: like note Great problems are Sdiscusset
Eby great thinkers, showing that amid al
! that is superficial there is much that deal
with the profundities.
THERE'S host Of juveniles, many book
> on the fine arts and an attractive list o
new editions, as we'll as works on history
science and almost every other field o
human thought.