The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-10
NEW BOOKS

THE TRAIL OF THE GRAND E1GNEUR. By
. Olin L. Lyman illustrated in colors. New
York: New Amsterdam Book company, 156
Fifth avenue. Price $3.50. :;
The scene Of this, story Of adventure
and love is chiefly Sacket's Harbor, on
Lake Ontario, and the northern frontier
of the state of New York, and the period
is the war Of 1912. The story is related
in the first person and opens in a rather
tumultuous way, just before the war, with
a bear fight a man fight and an attempted
assassination and the killing of the would
be assassin. The principal characters
are an elderly F'renchman of high birth
and his daughter Renee; the narrator, his
sister Dorothy and John Godfrey, hero
of the forest. These and some others
actively figure in those Ttempestuous days
and suggest the hardships and perils and
sacrifices made in those days. The love
episodes are of special interest War
brings out the strongest love Of men and
women. It did in this story, where Doro-
| thy, after all her vicissitudes, lost John
Godfrey, to whom she was betrothed and
the narrator, after a long misunderstand-
| ing he thinking Godfrey loved Renee, dis
covered his error and realized the dream OF
years. There is a fine scene when, In the
heat Of the first battle Of the war OF 1872,
Dorothy seizes the American nag, When
! its staff had been shot away, and. mount
ing the most exposed position on the re-
doubt, waves it in full view Of the British.
THE CHAMELEON. By James Weber Linn, au-
thor of seThe Second Generation" New York
Mcclure Phillips & Co.. Minneapolis: Ma
| thaniel Mccarthy. :: >. .s~' r
This story is located in college town.
Land students. and professors and "prex'
are conspicuous: Bradford the hero, Is,
with some notifications, a chump. He
gets acquainted with Amy Power thru
livery bad railway smashup, in which he
loses his head with excitement for time
but braces up and proves helpful, and he
did afterward save a child from drown
ling, but after he married Amy and had
the misunderstanding and she charged
him with lying and he admitted it, he
was silly enough to make many arrange
ments to commit suicide by poison. The
girl was not worth suicide, but just as
| Bradford was dramatically raising the
fatal glass to his lips Amy burst in ano
Efell into his outstretcheds arms. Women
are SO queer, you know. A .repulsive
character in the book is Father Charges
who presided over st. Hilda' S church an6
made much display of piety, but hac
hardly as much Of that article as woulc
Erest on the point of needle. :sH =
IF NOT THE sALooE-wHAT? THE POINT
OF VIEW AND THE POINT OF CONTACT
BY James Ii. freeman, rector OF 81. Andrew
| Memorial church of Yonkers, n. Y. New York
The Baker s. Taylor Company, Nos 33-3
East Seventeenth street. Minneapolis: n
IL MCCARTHY Price, SO cents. =: u :
> T" The author. believes that the saloon il
here to stay. 1t is tenacious Of its right
: and the majority of people want it
Legislation may reduce it's power. AM
curtail it's influence as the supporter of
monstrous system Of black1nail, but TIL
: cure of the blighting curse must be sough
elsewhere than in those which have t
do with it's sale. He would adopt tn
Hollywood Inn substitute for the saloon
which has been successfully tried il
Yonkers. 1t provides opportunities TO
pleasure and improvement and mo op
portunities for the vices Of the liquo
saloon system. The worllingmen llav
responded heartily to the advantages o
the Hollywood Inn system, and the en-
doWrnentS Of it's founder and it's. own in
come? suffice. to maintain the work. I
has: a. fine plant for athletics, refreshmen1
eadingsand other things men want, an
not what reforners too often think the
; jIneed. InSNeW.York leaders of the liquo
interest declare that the Holly Inn 'i
the only, institution with which tn
saloon interests have to reckon