The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-07

The pages are bordered with floral de-
signs in pale blue The cover is attractive
ly decorated. To turn to the contents of
the book, one learns how Malindy sings in
part from the following:
Oh, hits sweetah dan de music
OF an edicated band;
An hits dearah dan de battles
Song O. triumph in de Ian.
1t seems l,olier dan evenn. -
When de solemn chu'cb bell rings
Ez sit an calmly listen
While Malindy sings.
The ache in the mammy's heart--the
same ache that the white mothers heart
feels. and Just as poignant an ache--is
told in Two Little Boots"
Amt YOU kin O. sad yo'sel'f,
. You little boots!
his is all his malnnly's lef', -''Jo
'. Two little boots. ..f.'"
Since huh baby gone an died,
lIcav'n itse'f hit seem to hide
Des little bit inside
Two little boots. -..
And then here is the impatient lover
eager to be thru with his days work and
off to the tryst: ..-
DE mockin' bird II SEN his slee
., A-thrillin' thoc and thoo,
. / know dat oil magnolia tree
Is smeln des fo you;
| De iessamine erSide de road - sJ
Is bloomin' rich an white,
My heats ath 'obbin cause it knowcd
You'd wait fu' Inc tonight. ,.
Messrs:TGeorge Barrie & Sons Of Phila :
delphias have taken heed of the complaint
! by Albert Bushnell Hart and Edward
Charming, professors in Harvard unver-
sity, that there is no comprehensive his
| tory of this country from the discovery
| to the present time; with the result that
| they now announce the first definitive,
authoritative, inclusive narrative History
of North America. In plan they have fol-
| lowed the suggestion outlined by the
| American Historical association and have
| in preparation series of twenty volumes
| Incorporating the three principles laid
| down by that society: First, that it be
co-operative; second. that it be under the
| direction of an editor-i chief; third. that
each volume be complete in ITSELF They
| have secured the services of Professor
| Guy Carelton Lee Ph. D., of Johns Hop
kins and Columbian universities, as di-
| rector s4.-.-
One of the most entertaining of the
later interpreters of life during the
French regime in New Orleans is Mrs
M. E. M. Davis, who is unusually well
informed of the course of history and So
cial life in the crescent. city thru constant
| study, acquaintance with relics Of the old
Creole. population and the traditions OF
| the ancient regime. In her The Little
| Chevaiier she introduces the Vicomte dc
avenge his fathers death in duel al
the hands OF the Chevalier de la Roche
! who had fled to Louisiana. De Valdeterre
found his fathers slayer was dead and
! that he had to face that slayer's son, q
| mere youth.
Curiously enough, De Valdeterre fell III
love with the sister of De la Roche al
sight, before he knew who she was. His
purpose of vengeance and this masterfu
| passion for the beautiful girl conf1icted
| uncomfortably, and Mrs. Davis way OF
bringing her hero out of the perpleXity is
certainly immensely attractive Inciden-
tally the brilliant social life of the ruling
class in New Orleans in the eighteenth
century is most entertainingly described
Eighty drawings, including "The Weaker
| Sex. the Story of a Susceptible Bache
lor,' includes the best of the recent worl
of Charles Dana Gibson. The represen.
tative of the weaker SEX which in this
case is not of the sex commonly called
| weaker, could hardly be blamed for hi.
weakness with the many temptation:
about him that Mr.. Gibson has draw
with SO much art The folio is hand
somely gotten up and is uniform will
former books of Mr.. Gibson's drawings
1t Is one OF the fine things among TIL.
holiday books.
There is hunor of an excellent quality
in Mrs Davis book of parlor plays 4
Bunch of Roses. There are six Of tn,
paror plays portraying the weaknesses
and absurdities of human nature, as
ridiculously jealous husband, in "A Buncl
of Roses and in an example of the nev
regime when husbands are assigned t,
housekeeping duties in "The New Sys
tenn" The plays are all brief and mirth
provoking.