The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05

girded cliffs; Is awed by the silence between
the lofty walls of Eric's ford. But how like
that heart-chillng, stern visaged ford
seemed the case Of Alvin as set forth in
1.-THE Wooing of Helga'' Yet the indivisible
love Of these two won at the last!
Dorothy south. A Love Story Of Virginia
Just Before the War: By George Cary Egg.
glestpn. author OF "A Carolina Cavalier
"Cahp Venture" etc. illustrated by G: D..
Williams. Boston: Lothrop Publishing
company, No. $50 Atlantic avenue.
Readers of Mr. Eggleston's "A Carolina
Cavalier" that wholesome and impressive ro-
nance of revolutionary days, will equally
enjoy Dorothy South which is a delightful
romance Of old Virginia in the period immedi-
ately preceding the civil war. There is a
very attractive view of plantation life in that
state at that time. 1t was an ideal country
life, approaching more nearly the country
life in old England. The hero, DR.. Arthur
Brent, a young man of large scientific attain
| mehts. became heir as next OF kin to a
large Virginia plantation, "Wyanoke.' Born
in the south and brought up in Indiana, Bent
had, in his youth, visited his uncle at the old
place, and, arriving to take possession, he
encounters Dorothy South, to him unknown, a
southern girl who could ride after the hounds
with the best of riders and was budding up
into superb womanhood. The girl was heir to
| a neighboring plantation, and, since her
| father s~death, she had lived at the Brents.
| The dashing creature first seen by Brent
perched ON a tall chestnut mare accompanied
| by a lot of huge hounds, naturally excited his
admiration. She was to come into his life in
way he did not suspect at first. she was
not easily won. She had been picked out be-
| fore Brent's arrival by neighboring planter
| for his son. They made strong fight fol
the girl about whose life there is a mystery
which the author gradually unfolds. Brent
| found himself loving the girl before he was
master of Wyanoke year. Soon the symp-
| toms of the coming civil war becloud the sit
uation and incidentally the agitation in Vir'
ginia is described over the question of seces
sion, against which movement Brent ant
thousands of others protested, but through
state pride Joined the fateful movement ant
stood by the old state to the wreck and ruiz
| Of the war. The capitulation of Dorothy is
cleverly and beautifully told. The negro
characterizations throughout are true to life
Dick the 14-year-old negro factotum Of Wy
anoke, flavors the story with negro humol
from beginning to end, and the author has thu
Afro-American lingo at his fingers ends
Letters From Egypt and Palestine
e, By Maltbe Davenport Babcock. Illustrated
| New York Charles Scribners Sons. Min
neapolis: Nathaniel Mccarthy. Price, 81.
These letters were written by DR.. Babcock
|
read at the meetings of the Mems assocla
tons of the church, last year during a tril
to the countries. named IN the title. The!
are written with the graceful ease and fam
iliarity and CLEANS of real hunlor character
istic Of the man and~have no guldeoook ma
voring, while giving much desirable in
formation in very pleasant way. DR.. Bah
cocks observations among the tombs OF tn
ancient Egyptian dynasties and touching tn
5 living race now dwelling over the myriads Q
t dead in this hoary soil, are intensely inter
g esting He was impressed with the fact tina
t whatever the lives of the old Egyptian
8 NAV have been, there is a noble austerity,
:, dignity and purity about their wall-picture
i and statues, that should put the Roman an
8 the Greek to the blush.'' In Egypt ther
r cannot be found such fragrant violations {
d the decency in art as in Pompell survive ID
e great eruption of Vesuvius. In Palestine a
T the recorded journeyings of Christ were TO
It lowed He found the school children OF
: German church In Bethlehem singing
d Arabic. "My faith looks up to Thee to tn
# tune America The party bathed In tn
a Jordan when the mercury stood at 100 Of
grees in the shade and soon after shivere
on the Mount of Olives at night IN ten
| nerature of AZ degrees. DR.. Babcock sa
, the splendid rugs the sultan placed in TT
It ! MOSQUES of Omar and Ell Aksa at Jerusale
! in honor of the visit of the German empert
and remarks: II have never enjoyed II
f thoughts Of that visit. 1t seemed bad bus
d ness, on the heels of the Armenian atrocltle
Il for the kaiser to be kissing hands with u
q unspeakable and unrepentant Turk ~
"a nartv visited SYRIA and went to Damascu
a ! which was ancient when Abraham got
a steward there, and is still surprisingly bea
s tiful in the sunset light at a distance. Pro
to unity disllusions