The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-25

ly to the interest Of the book. The frivolous
element is entirely absent from the stories,
which are more less instructive and told
in a very charming way. For sale 10y n.
Mccarthy. Price $1.50
"A Gentlewoman Of the Slums, Being the
Autobiography of Charwonan,' is the title
of a very good story in the dialect of the
submerged Of London, by Annie Wakeman.
Boston: L. c. Page & Co. Minneapolis, N.
Mccarthy Price $1.50) A charwoman's life
is generally rather contracted, but this one,
Betty Dobbs, had a most interesting career.
Born in dark adversely, her father drunk
ard and wife-beater, her smothers spirit
broken by brutal treatment, betty went out
to service at the age of u, and her expert
ence in the struggle for existence in various
employments is enough to make angels weep
And yet there are streaks of intense hum0r
in the book, as when Betty tells of her mar
riage Betty was one of the unknown hero
ines.
..Oakford; The Story of Virginia EPlanta
tion,' Is "a southern story OF pOst-bellum
times, by Terry Gordon, who introduces two
or three love affairs and a wicked English
man, lord, too, who robs southern gentle
man of his bonds while he was entertained
at his house, and contrives to have the lover
Of the gentleman's daughter, very fine,
honest fellow, arrested and jailed for for
gerry which he had never committed. The
author ingeniusly gets these things straight
ened out and the various loving couples are
happy The portrayal of the negro servants
about the Lee mansion is very we'll done At
the period Of the story many negroes clung
to the old plantations where they had been
born and brought up. New York #. Tenny-
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The American Book company has issued
1.-The Art of Teaching by Emerson E. White,
LII. D., author Of series of mathematics
and Elements Of Pedagogy etc. The au-
thor lays down three fundamental ends Of the
teaching process, as knowledge, power and
skill, and he sets forth how these ends can
best be obtained, examining the various meth
DDS with care and then laying down the
guiding principles in all the phases of train
ing, from primary reading ups and showing
the important part psychology plays in the
educational process.
John Lane (New York; has issued in his
Lovers Library series the love poems of
Sir John Sucking, one of the best of the
lyric poets and dlamatists of the seventeenth
century. He was SO precocious that he could
speak Latin when five years old There is
real sweetness i'll such poems as IT Prithee
Send Me Back My Heart" and Honest
Lover Whatsoever"
''The Field Of Glover" is a book of fairy
tales by Laurence Housman, with very at
tractive engravings in black and white by
Clemence Housman New York: John Lane
The Bodley Head; price, $1.25 metz. The
! cover design is in green and gold. The con-
spcuous story is "The Bound Princess" de-
scribing the adventures of a youth who had
been adjudged u smpleton by his wise par
ents who turned him out into the world. His
| name was Noodle, but being befriended by
various won der workers, he becomes very
wise and ultimately marries a princess. The
story is a good specimen of the modern Won
der tale Much of it is prose poetry There
are Other attractive tales, as The Pas
sionate Yuppet,'' 1.-The Wishing Pot and
| 1.-THE Feeding of the Emigrants.''