The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-08
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TIE BEATEN PATH, BY Richard Lawrence
Maxim. New York. The Macmillan Company.

THE BEATEN PATH, by Richard Lawrence
hacan $, N Sn York The Macmillan Company
This is wofullys b, novel. I'd
be sure it, shows the dark. side of
things with undeniable, accuracy and
no one can deny that the story is
Drawn more from y, actual life than
from lnagination.s Only; there is too
much of this kind of novel writing and
TOO little OF the kind which shows the bet-
, Yer sue :. OF human nj ife. We. have in this
pooK 9 1ne portrayal Of a noble woman.
margaret Leverson, sold by .her5father to
Inc. wealthy head of a big manufacturing
i1rm; hungering for the love denied her
ana utilizing her position as far. as she
was able in behalf of needy and suffering
humanity. Into, her. life comes Owen
Ihulton, private secretary of her hus-
band, a stranger. with good recommends
l1ohs. Ihere is "a egood-natured Doctor
Llndley, and sanity laborer- acher.
who is employed in the sLeverson works.
and a sturdy character is Mowbray Doni-
phean The cold-blooded capitalist and
the reckless tradesunion man. are nor
trayed with incisive literalness and there
IS "a remarkably good description of9a great
labor strike against "a syndicate's depres-
sion or the wage scale, with an episode of
violence and incendiarisn which noble-
hearted men. tried. 4tosf prevents their
great peril. The ;sebnspicuous Interest IN
TOT Margaret LeVerson; her. confession Of
love for him and her splendid response to
conscience and duty altho she could have
Deen lOosened from the marriage bond and
marry him she loved, because Of her hus-
bands immoralities.s The final interview
when she had fled in the storm from her
husbands home, pulls att ones heart
strings. Her heart consented. to go with
Thulton. Her Judgment and duty said
no. and she cried S"Qh my life! nv love!
do noti1ove volt less because T give YOU
iup, but only more EN- ore se4mUre, as she
| cut herself adrift from her lpyer fo, ever.
One incident Edf the staEy .ist that EThultonn
1 had evidence that he was! sar nephew of
i beverson sand heir teitl1e whole Levers on
property. The stoFysfnds in tragedy and,
in his description of fthe DEATH of Meyer,
the laborer preaehes. the author, has. Ger,
ftainly. disclosed his finest powers: = =:
ISLANDER: A ROMANCE OF THE COURT OF
FIJI FHFLI gRF Of M a, AND ALEXANDER
/ author of THE Ronlanee Of Gilbert Holmes. )
Chicago: The World Railway publishing
Company, 70 Dearborn street. - s%ti:,
T Very few persons have shown them
Ise1ves< capable of writing romances of peri
DDS dating back two or three thousand
years. Charles Kingsley did remarkably
good work in his ypatia,'' q romance OF
fthe fifth century: based upon historic fact.
I In ISLANDER Mr.. Kirkman has revived
the personalities Of Philip of Macedofi and
his son, Alexander the Great, taking us
back to the fourth century before the
Christian era. The complicated intrigues
and enmities and jea1ousies Of the court al
Pella are set forth and the personality OF
/ Philip, his. Queen Olympias and Of Alex
ander, is brought out interestingly BY the
force of the authors imagination, re-
I inforced by some solid facts of history.