The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20
NEW BOOKS

POWER. By Wolf .on Shierbrand New York:
doubleday, Page & Co. Octave, 2.4O net. For
sale by Mccarthy.
This Is a timely publication. Germany
as a world power IS in some respects the
most aggressive nation on the globe The
welding of the German state into such
power has constituted a part of the
authors story but not all of it, This
power" having been welded the point of
especial interest is the aggressiveness and
policy Of that power. The author writes
from an American view point, with the
advantage of long residence in Germany
and an intimate knowledge of German
national life and national ambition He
gives US sketch Of the kaiser as he is,
both as monarch and in his family life
His large influence in the shaping of pub
lie affairs. His analysis of the political
life of the nation is written with the
grasp and the knowledge of a trained
journalist. AS to the future, the author
thinks Germany must and will seek a
close and intimate understanding with the
United States. This the kaiser Is resolved
upon. Friendly and intimate relations be-
tween the three great German powers
would contribute to the progress of the
world.
THE NEGRO IN REVELATION, IN HISTORY
AND IN CITIZENSHIP. BY Rev. ]. J. Pip
KIN, WIN an INTRODUCTION by General John B.
Gordon. st. Louis: N. D. Thompson Publish.
ing company.
This book is "a history Of what the race
has done and is doing in arms, arts, let
tiers, the pulpit, the forum, the school, in
commerce. and as the author puts it,
with those mighty weapons in the bat
tie of life, the shovel and the hoe" The
frontispiece is page given to pictures of
John Wesley Hoffman, Booker T. Wash
tv,ok ill
Gators Of the colored race. The introduce
ton by General Gordon is an indication of
the sympathy of the south with move
ments for, the elevation of the colored
race. General Gordon is not altogether
alone among southern men In his ap-
probation of the fact that the south has
more to gain from the elevation of the
colored race than any other peo-
pie, excet the members of the COL
pie in the south must ever be an import
ant Industrial and commercial element
Their elevation naturally becomes mat
ter Of more interest to their white neigh
bors than anybody else besides them
selves, and it is significant Of the great
change which has taken place in south
ern sentiment, when a man like General
Gordon, one Of the, leaders OF the con-
federacy, who achieved his military hon
should be willing to write the preface to
book issued for the particular purpose
of setting forth what the negro has been
doing and can do in all the various ave-
nues and occupations Of modern life.
THE LANE TKHAT HAD NO TURNING. By
Gilbert Parker. With illustrations by Frank
F. Schoonover. New York: Doubleday, Page
T. Co. For sale by Mccarthy. Price, $3.50.
This pathetic tale by Gilbert Parker
is issued in attractive form with excel
lent illustrations. The story is one of
the best by this popular author, and
those who are fond of his stories would be
glad to have this one brought out for
them in such attractive form. The story
never fails with it's pathetic sadness to
touch the heart.
AN OLD SWEETHEART OF NINE. By James
Whitcomb Riley, with drawings. by Howard
Chandler Christy. Indianapolis: Bowen-Mer-
rill copany. For sale by Mccarthy.
Mr. Riley's publishers have put his love
poem in most beautiful setting. The
Illustrations are superb, and each quatrain
is given a page and wreathed In delicate
pink tracery of vines, leaves and flowers
by Virginia Keep. The poem is a reverie
in which the dreamer, with pipe in mouth,
lives over again in the seclusion of his
and young manhood with that "o]N
sweetheart Of nine." The door is ajar and
from the nursery come the sounds Of
childish prattle and a mothers voice. And
as the reader follows through the poem
and sees the fondness with which the first
personal pronoun of the poem dwells upon
memory Of his old sweetheart, not only
In childhood days but later on, particu-
larly when he says,
I feel no twinge Of conscience to deny me any
theme
When care has cast her anchor in the harbor Of
dream:
In fact. to speak in earnest, believe it adds a
To spice the good trihe with little dust of
harm.
one naturally feels a little indignation, at
the freedom with which he INDUCES sweet
memories of that old sweetheart of
NINE" until, in the last line he discovers
that the wife of his manhood is that
old sweetheart" Riley is fond Of spring
ing surprises of this sort upon his read
ers, and it is sufficient to crate an in
terest in this volume to say that it is
quite "Rileyesque." ".1
THE STORY OF THE ART OF MUSIC BY
Frederick J. Crowest author of '.The Great
Tone Poets Illustrated. New York: u. Ap.
pleton & Co.
This volume was written for the gen
eral reading public and not for profess
sional readers especially. The author
shows that music must date it's genesis
with the dawn Of nature, for nature is full
Of harmonies, and the harmonies Of music,
as Wagner has shown In his theory and
practice, are made up of a combination of
harmony and disharmony, the two produ
cling symphony. The author recalls all
the traditions of the origin and develop
mert Of the art and its practice by the
ancient Egyptians. Hebrews, Assyrians,
Greeks and Romans, giving illustrations
OF the instruments used. The harmonic
theories OF the anciento are set forth and
their mode of notation. The religious use
Of music Is of the greatest antiquity and
the early Christian church set their beau
tiful chants and hymns to the choicest
music Of the pagan ceremonials. as well