The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-23

MIR. Curtis devotes considerable space to
the Jewish colonies in Palestine and to
DR.. Fierzls Zionist movement. He thinks
that, as Palestine is a small country (150
by 80 miles), it could not maintain the
seven OF eight millions of Jews in the
world, and he does not think the material
inducements to settle in Palestine arc suf~
fcient to draw any considerable number
Of Jews thither. The Jews in Palestine
are broken into hostile factions. Palestine
lacks fuel and water-power, and manu-
features are limited, and from forty to
sixty-tWo per cent Of the land is unpro-
ductive and fit only for grazing Another
difficulty pointed out by the author is the
considerable number Of Syrians, Greeks
and Arabs, who could not be dispossessed
Of their property and turned out, without
a struggle. These people detest the Jews.
OF Jaffa. which is reported to have ante
dated Noah and to have survived the
submergence during the Flood, Mr.. Curtis
relates strange things. The volume is pro-
fusely Illustrated from photos taken large
ly by the authors daughter Elsie.
Mrs. Julia barrow Cowles Of Minneap-
oils has long been known as a writer of
children's stories for magazines, a gift
acquired in part by experiment with her
own children. This fall Mrs. Cowles has
collected some Of her stories into a volume
entitled Jim Crow Language Lessons. It
is made up of taes Of birds and animals,
and contains about twenty short stories
for quite small children. dealing with their
favorite pets-cats, dogs, crows, chickens
and sparrows. The stories are told in
simple language and show much sympa-
thy with child and animal life.
| A very interesting man and -Iammo on
story is The Clark of Coin, by Harry Lind
say. We are having many issues of that
kind Of literature just now. Mr.. Lindsay
locates his story in England-in Rushing
ton, a pseudonym for a nlammon- worship
ping community, in which We're numbered
not a few mammon converts from old
fashioned Methodisn. The hero, Allan
! Jepson, born and bred in Methodist
| ,manse, his father being a Methodist min
| lister, goes to Washington to learn bust
! ness with a big, wealthy firm, whose head
is Methodist. The young man, within
the nlephitic atmosphere of nammon, is
gradually drawn into the maelstrom, and
enters the speculative arena and tries t.
effect a corner on cotton and fails. Ths
woman part Of the story is quite thrilling
. The childhood of many adult people to.
day was made all the more charming thrt
:. acquaintance with the Robin Hood bal
1adry The stories Of Robin Hood ii
Robin Hood, His Book, and Of his merr,
men, good archers all, have a wondrou.
fascination about them. Robin was. In
deed, a. most humorous outlaw, and ii
4 Miss Tappans handsome book are SCI
i forth some of Robins adventures Illus
trated in color and i'll black and white.
/ The edition Of Tennyson's Poems edited
by Henry Van Dyke for the Atheneun
Press Series and published in an edition
4 for students and one for the general read
er contains 136 selections from Tennyson
and 1t is very certain that they compris,
the best poems which the late Englisl
! poet laureate gave to the world. Dr. Val
4 Dyke, himself an author who knows tn,
i power and beauty of the English Ian
s guage in verse or prose, and whose liter
airy taste Is the Towering of long contac
i with all that is best in English literature
i is safe guide to the student of Tenny
i SON His comments on these selections
4 disclosing Tennyson's real meaning an,
q his wonderful power of Interpreting ma
4 ture. together with q surveyor, the social
political, religious and literary conditions