The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-30

tafnly visited the falls of St. Anthony and
stood upon the site of Minneapolis and
hunted with the Sioux in the Mile Laos
country, but he did not reach the sources
OF the Mississippi.
The New Discovery Is dedicated to
William III. of England, in q highly fam
Doyant rhetorical style, the king having
become his patron. 1t. with all it's exag-
gerations, is very entertaining
In her Drawing Room Plays Mrs. Irwin
seems to have met the demand for simple
and attractive plays for the amateur sta ge:
which will, not require large stage and
elaborate stagesettings to insure success,
There are seven plays. They require from
two to- seven people only, three of them re-
curing not..more than five persons. and
plenty Of humor in them. -:
Chancellor Andrews The United States
IN Our Own Time continues the history he
began in The History of the Last Quar-
! Ter Century. The latter work was ia
! Vorably received when. published as: a
magazine serial The present elaborate
Illustrated work covers the period at the
close Of the reconstruction period. the
Grant administrations, the Greeley cam
paign of 1872, the Hayes administration
and the important, conflicts over tho
southern question: the presidential sue
eession, the silver controversy, war with
Spain, bringing the history up to the
roosevelt administration. Chancellor An=
drews is a free lance in criticism of pub
TIC men, The. volume is profuseIy and at
tfaetvely illustrated. - ..se. e,.:-.
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"A new volume in the tfY oIrth's ,Gup1paB=
ION Series is "T he Ship ofrState by:Those
az the Helm" containing papers explana.
tory OF the duties and working of the vari.
GUS departments Of governrne emit written
by men who know. from Theodore Roose-
welt, who writes Of the presidential office,
to the postoffice department which is
treated by ex-Postmaster General Wilson.
Senator Lodge writes of the senate and
treaty making, and the navy ard army are
| discussed by ,ex-Secretary Long and BIZ
Assistant Secretary. Of War Sanger and
General Ludington. respectively. Mr..
Reeds story Of the life Of congressman
is likely to disillusionize people who think
this life is an easy and pleasurable one.
4 very interesting war study is that
embodied in Colonel Kellogg's book, The
Shenandoah Valley and Virginia, 1861, 1865
and It's Importance during the war for: the
i union. He details the movements from
( the occupation Of Harper's Ferry by Gen
eral Harper with the Virginia state troops
on April 21,-s 1861. after the. partial de-
! States troops, to the suspension of SherI
States troops, t the suspension of, Sheri.
dams operations in December, 1864, soon
after which General Early's army sur
rendered at Waynesboro. #s@S
The Love Affairs Of Mary Queen Of
Scots, by Martin Hume is said to have
quite captured the English woman. read
ers.* The head 81: Nudes library. says OF
/ 1t: 1T Is distinctly a Woman's. book ani
has been taken UP by the feminine public
with as much avidity as tho 1t were a
novel," &
Frankfort Moore has an original way Of
relating romance ofthe Caribbean sea IN
Ibis Shipmates In Sunshine, which,, by
many. readers. will not be appreciated, fol
when 2they:read romance they wantsa lot
. Of thrilling dramatic situations and al
THAT. Z Mr.. Moore is very leisurely He
takes his readers with him on a winter
cruise about the West Indies and weaves
his romance Of some :of the party in his
descriptions of Jamaica, Barbados Mar
Unique, st. Lucia, st. Vincent, the Danist
West Indies. and other tropical lands
where sunshine and flowers abound, in q
VERY delightful way. ;.