The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-16
NEW BOOKS
STORY OF A GRAIN OF WHEAT By william
CEdgar. Minneapolis New York, D. Apple

STORY OF A GRAIN OF WHEAT. BY William
4O.Eagar, minneapolis. - New York, p. Apple
This little'volume by the well known edt-
tor of the Northwestern Miller, is full of
interest and valuable information for all
VINO are interested.$in wheat. as raiser,
dealer, flour miller, and all persons inter-
ested IN the great economic questions of
the day. In twelve chapters Mr.. Edgar
introduces his subject. discusses the wheat
berry, the early history of wheat, wheat in
modern times, Britain the great wheat
mart, Argentina as a wheat grower, wheat
in the United States, the wheat fields of
o-day, the wheat fields of tomorrow, the
milling OF wheat, the progress :of milling,
transportations and tariffs One of the in
terest1ng portions of the book is that
which explains how hard wheat, so long
IN dlsfavor, began to be the great milling
wheat Of the United States in the early
seventies.
Mr.. Edgar says that the coming of the
pur1her made spring wheat flour far
use 1t was regarded as far in
ferior to -four from whittier wheat,
being strong but of poor color. The meth
cd OF mill/g then in use was such that
the intrinsic value Of spring wheat was
unknown and unsupported. "a machine
was introduced in Minnesota in 1s7O,'' says
Mr.. Edgar, which was to milling what
the reaper was to agriculture No other
one machine accomplished what it did for
the world of bread eaters. About the time
of its introduction good -four sold for $40
or more a barrel. The average price for
patent flour in these times is about one
third of its average Them This machine
was invented by Edmund N. La Croix,a ma
tive of France, who built the first success
full purifier in Minneapolis in 1870. It is
sad to learn that he profted nothing by
his great invention. The story of the
LaCroix improvements and how another
obtained the credit fors them is very inter-
esting as well as the story of the litigation
over the purifier that ensued Mr. Edgar
deals broadly and intelligently with the
question of western Canada wheat and
predicts that ere long. Canada will wrest
the supremacy in wheat raising from the
United States. Mr.. Edgar is particularly
wen qualified !. to discuss wheat transporta-
ton and tariffs and to many his discussion
of these subjects will be the most inter-
esting in very interesting book
CHARLES D1 ToccA. A TRAGEDY. By Cole
& Co. Minneapolis: n. Mccarthy.
The author of this book is the husband
Of the author Of Mrs. Wigs Of the Cab
bage Patch Alice Caldwell Hegum of
Louisville, KY. He has contributed verses
of no little merit to, the leading period
tcals, and in this tragedy he has put his
best and r11aturest5 Thought, choosing the
fifteenth century as the period and Italy
! the locality. He has not overburdened his
pages with characters, but he portrays
with considerable power a succession Of
intrigues, outbursts Of passion and jeal-
ousies and leaves the reader contemplat-
ing a double tragedy thru fatal misun-
Outstanding. There are some fine pas
sages in the tumultuary interviews be-
tween Antonio, the Duke Of Leucadia's
son, and Helena, the daughter Of IIaemon
tortured by evil prophecies and doubts.
yet constantly pleading her love for An
tonic, as
I am thine,
Thine, more than immortality is Gods!
| Hear, does the nightingale not tell it thee?
The stars, do they not tremble it, the morn
Murmur 1t urgently into thine eyes?
- y =.
| Then would I lean forever at thy lips,
Lose no reverberance, no ring, no watt.
| Hear nothing everlastingly but them!
And the prophecy of her drowning was
verified, for she had seen a vision even
| in the ecstacy of love:
A waste Of waves that beat
Upon clin-and beat! Yet thou and
Had place in it, ~