The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-06-03

in their own haunts and And intense pleas
ure in the study of all creatures who live
in foliage, earth and water-these will read
this book with real delight. The author has
most charming way of telling what she sees
in her walks with the professor and shows
herself to be- mistress of the art of, I'M
parting Information in a most agreeable way,
with exquisite touches Of humor. She tells
us of insects unfamiliar to the unlearned mind
and shows that she has studied their con-
truction, disposition, defense, food, habits OF
life, amusements, loves, hates and Jealousies. /
She makes one even respect the tiny creatures
who hutter about the arc lights and gas lights
summer night. 1t Is only wonderful
that she has had the patience 10 watch and
describe each minute step in the life Of the
spider and Of the waterbugs who skate in
July Of the jewel-weed which carries its own
catapult. and Of many other things. There Is
delightful account Of walking party and
much about birds. The illustrations are fine,
sixteen being in. half tone made. by dis
tnsuished Photographic artists. There are
sixty-six line engravings. The author has:
made even pol1iwogs and tadpoles: interest
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-he Earth's Beginning. BY Sir Robert
Stawe ell Ball, author of The History of the |
Heavens" etc. New York: D. Appleton &
Co. Price 81. 80. .'.-... -.
The distinguished author was requested by |
the ROYAL Institution of Great Britain to de-
liver a course of lectures to an audience of
young people In London last winter, and this
volume contains them, revised and enlarged.
He introduces the lectures by fine tribute
to the great philosopher Kant whose vast
knowledge and habit of investigation extended
far beyond the field of pure reason. His cos
mogony shows that he preceded ,LaDlace in
laying down the principle of the nebular theo-
| ry, which affrms that the earth, sun, planets
and all bodies now forming the solar system
| originated from vast contracting nebula
| Thereafter the author begins at what he
| calls the fire mist" out of which the globes
| of our solar system were formed. With the
| fifth chapter he begins the consideration of
| the sun and solar Eeat. and deals with that
stupendous subject in mastery way OF the
| prodigality with which the sun distributes its
heat, giving heat and light daily sufficiently
| to warm and illuminate, two thousand million
| globes large our earth, the author ad-
mts that science is not yet able to explain it.
! Science thinks the excessive radiation of heat
| is gradually exhausting the supply, but the
| author thinks it will be millions of centuries
| before there is any aDpreciable alteration in
| the SUMS effectiveness, and that the enormous
| emission of heat is due to the contraction or
| shrinkage of that lurainarY. The chapters on
| the sun are finely and clearly written Those
on the earth are equally SO. He shows how
| the heat increases the deeper. We go down
| into the earth, as known by Huyssen's mile
| deep bore, the process being interestingly de-
| scribed. The interior heat, he thinks. is ra-
| dated by the ehrinkage of the earth IS crust.
On earthquakes, which the author thinks are
only adjustments Of the crust interesting
| chapter is given. Each crust adjustment
sends pusation all over. the globe, the vi
brations decreasing with the distances. The
delicate instruments now in use indicate any
earthquakes Of Importance happening any
where in the world, details Of vibrations be-.
ing reproduced faithfully ty a recording pen
Gil on a revolving drum of paper. The author
thinks that strong proof of the rigidity OF
the earth is the rapidity with which the vi
brations traverse the interior, which, he con-
+ tends is not liquid as held by many The
material cast UP by volcanoes. he thinks,
comes from points within a moderate depth
from the surface, and volcanic energy Is orig
inally derived in some way from the contrac-
ton Of the .primeval nebula The author gives
a thrilling account of the volcanic eruption
| on the island of Krakatoa in 1885. and he
notes how, through the fight of the tremen-
dous tonnage CT volcanic dust westward sci
ent.sts were enabled to discover that twenty
miles above our heads there Is a con-
slant wind, "a mighty tempest necessarily
; hurrying with ia speed much greater than
that Of the awful hurricane which once laid
so large a part of Calcutta on the ground and
slew SO many of its inhabitants.,-. The, dis
, lance of this never-varying and furious wind
saves humanity from. utter destruction r..
.:'-='-. -. LITERARY NOIES -.
: The author OF .'Red Pottage,'' Miss .chol
8 nnondeley, says it will be years before sht
r, completes another long novel. So glad
y When it does come hope it will not be 81
~ abominably suggestive as = Red Pottage. - Is
q Houshton, Mifllna Go, have issued sou
Country's History of the United st ates." b.
e Eva March Tappan, Ph. d.. very admirabl
+ introduction to the study Of our history an
l. profusely and handsomely illustrated and cal
Y culated to stimulate the young to look furthe
i Iinto the records.
>, L. c. Page & Co., Boston, announce a sc
r. ries of Best Writings by Great Authors,
lie edited by Alexander Jessup: The Balzac an
n Stevenson volumes have heen issued, and tn
volume on Poe will be issued in, August. Fac
ID volume contains an introductory essay upo
t. the authors literary work. S., x = -
l. The Macmillan company announces Mai
ID Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature,
,e by George Brandes, author of William Shah
e. spere," etc.. and two new volumes of til
,e. Chiewick edition of Shakspere-.:K King Richar
is III. !" and The Comedy Of Errors, :" and Fell
: Seedlings "'The English Chronicle Play
:. useful study in. the popular historical ltters
ture environing Shakspere.
-, Mrs Everard Cotes, in her Those Deligh
ID full Americans shows that En- glishmen yisi
IL ing this country characterize as "putrfd
- everything they consider not to- their. likin
"A She might have said also that, En- glishwome
: have a habit of calling everything they do NJ
h like nasty $50 - y vi.
~ =; !. H. w Fisher & Co., Philadelphia. announ'
=. "Our Annual Execution. > forgotten esss
-. as by Thackeray. containing The knight
81 81 Guerdon'' and 1.-The. Almack's Adieu." The
- first appeared in Fraser's Magazine and we
70 reprinted. i'll Boston in 1859 in a volume
- TIackeray,s miscellanies and have not a.
-, -. peared elsewhere since, and have been owe
y, looked by the Thackeray photographers.
-. Houshton, Miflin & Co. will publish Il
10, late Professor John Fishes New France al
NJ New England" and Charles Egbert Craddock
90 "The Champion in the autumn.
u, 70 Colonel T. w. Higgns son, author Of t
ne biography OF Longfellow. just issued in t
' e,l American Men OF Letters series. married
~ niece of Longfellow's first wife. and had a
iat cess to letters which throw much light up
me the poets early married life.
On Wise and conservative people will n
e fail to grasp the opportunities offered
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