The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-16

Of metaphor and exag-
geration Of expression which are in vogue
nowadays II you read good prose and
good poetry without initiating any author
exactly, you will unconsciously contract
the habit Of severer discrimination and
greater purity of FORM
This is the principle underlying the
Harvard proposition. Acquaintance with
the highest models in all literature and (
art is essential to those who would work |
under the best and noblest inspiration.
NEW BOOKS.
THE HOUSE ON THE HUDSON. By Francis
Powell. New York: Charles Scribner's sons |
Price, S1.50. Minneapolis: N. Mccarthy.
This is a first novel and 1t reads like I
one The materials Of which it is con- I
Etructed might have been made more eff
fective and had practiced hand taken
hold of it, far better results might have
been attained. The heroine, Miss Athena |
Derohan, was spoiled by her French edu-
cation and, after her mother died soon
after her father lost his fortune she, with |
him, came back to New York, where he
wrecked his remnant of cash specializing
in Wall street and soon followed his wife |
across the Styx. Miss Derohan, left to
herself, fell back upon the benefaction OF
a cousin, who li,Gd sumptuously on
beside her beauty, bag of jewels, which
figures In the tale. At the outset Rich
ard Thorpe, attorney, offers his services
to her to see what can be squeezed out Of
the Derohan estate. This man, after the
girl has a continuous festival Of love af-
fairs and has revelled in pillows Of trag-
edy, proves the winner in a very pretty
race for her hand. The author should try
her hand more prudently in the next
drama of love she writes. She mapped out
too large job for herself In this story.
Her heroine excites little admiration al
tho she had a very disagreeable time with
her mean relations.
THE 77,s WARS OF PEA PEACE p F. Wilson.
254 Washington Street. Price. $3.50.
This is a novel of no little interest, The
author intended, doubtless, to embody In it
as the dominant feature an assault upon
industrial combines. but the love features
dominate and the trust feature is Incl
dental. There Is real heroism in the
refusal Of Theodore Harding to enter the
cause he had a genuine detestation of
monopoly, and this one was under the
complete control Of Albion Hardy, who al
ways constituted the majority. Theodore
argued against the pool with his father,
In vain, and he and his old college churn
ItS1O, fW4O EUSCdlA0 Ills 1dLIlSl > SSCTSIdEy,'
found they differed on the subject. The
son got out Of his fathers project and
started an independent mill Of his own
and the pool goes ahead and continues
the process of crushing competition and
one night Theodore's mill burned down
| or was burned down and some people
charged it to the pool. The love episodes
are we'll wrought and Faith Ordway and
her intense devotion to Theodore Harding
lar, hor roc Solo of 1,orn y,
| the tirnbers of his mill, cannot tail to
enlist sympathy and admiration.
THE TRAGEDY OF THE .KoRosKo. By 4.
20 Conan Doyle. Philadelphia: j. B. Lippin-
| colt Company. Price, 30 cents
This story appears in an enlarged and
revised form since its serial publication
! works. A party of Americans and Eng
ilishmen charter a steamer to go up the
| Nile from the head of the first cataract
to Wady Halfar. A jolly party Of men
and women they were; but the joy was
1 turned into horror when, in going into the
! Libyan desert too far from the steamer,
| they were surrounded by dervishes and
their troops and had a fearful experience,
! but were rescued by Egyptian troops
| from Wady I1alfa. There is much genu-
| Inc humor mingled with the tale.
| ss Literary INOISS.
j The American Book company, Chicago
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Two Girls in China, a very interesting
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| The Macmillan company announces fol
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4 Medicine and Surgery: by DR.. Francis
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i The scribners announce the publication
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RED Rock
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!, has published Jacob Abbott,s "A Boy o.
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: The Puritan Press, Boston, has issue
Z. christian Science. Historical Facts,
s containing defense of Mrs. Eddy an
J, her system, through her own messages t
: : her flock, and affidavits of her followers.
. The Winthrop Press, New. York, ha
published In book form the proceeding
i of the Industrial conference held last De
: cenaber in New York under the auspice
4 Of the National Civic Federation.
The M. Clark company, Boston, an
. nounce for early publication story 9
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i the Bear Paws mountains. She is an ex
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s George FRANKLIN Wiley, author Of Soil
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Idealing with the same bJect--the 70
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