The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-04
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| YOUTH BY Madame Edmond Adam (Juliette |
Lambert). New York: D. Appleton & Co. |
Price $40 net. Postage IA cents. |
The author of this book is one Of the
most distinguished literary women Of
France whose father INDUCED, like many
other Frenchmen, in dreams of absolute
! liberty and absolute equality, and thought |
/ that his utopian visions would be realized
Through the Paris commune exploitation |
| of 1S70-71 From her grandparents Mad |
anne Adam acquired many interesting rem
i iniscences Of the dissolution Of the Ma
/ poleonic empire and the march Of the al
/ lies to the gates of Paris. She herself
recalls the scene and temper Of the people
Of; France during the revolution of 1913
and stheAbetrayal Of the people by Louis
| Napoleon. Juliette was then at school
and organized a little revolution of the
girls which was suppressed by the teach
er. The authors marriage to Monsieur
| Lanessine was compulsory and the work
| of; her grandmother and mother The
i unhappy results SO affected the grand
Il mother that she starved herself to death
1 after she had asked Juliette's father to
forgive her for the harm she had done to
him and his daughter by forcing the lat
i ,ter's marriage. It was under the severe
1 handicap of this mismating that the
:. thor began her real literary life with the
production of "Anti-Prudhonian Ideas.
She has lived through two tumultuary Pc
RODS of French history. Nurtured in the
socialistic democratic politics she has, by
her manifold experiences, arrived at the
conclusion that social problems cannot
, force upon society reforms laid down in
| names, unless society Is ready to receive
! them and assinlilate them; otherwise they
upset society, agitate it and throw it back
on reaction. ... as=, :-... ~,
l WORDS THAT BURN. BY Ida B. Browne
) New York: F. Tennyson Nicely, III Fifth
Il avenue. r. 70. -
This story was obviously written to VEN
tilate the authors views on modern fads
;, and theories and social reform. A young
, American, son Of wealthy merchant,
! while travelling in Europe, meets the
daughter Of all English baronet, falls in
, loye with her, wins her, and is denied her
: hand by the irate pater who. prefers that
:, she shall marry duke. The girl being
e willing, after the party reaches England,
a she and young MERCER are married in de-
i fance of pater, and MERCER and his bride
d go to New York where the girl finds his
: family rolling in wealth and addicted to
y the new thought and social reform. She
: falls in with the current and, ultimately,
e when her brother succeeds to the Eng
t lish title and has married a rich Ameri-
e can girl, also given to the new thought, ~
Y visits with her husband the ancestral
n home and everybody is happy under the
y reign of a sublime altruism. The author
e has made really attractive book.
LOSI ON IHE Oh1NOCO; Or, American Boys
0 in Venezuela BY Edward stratemeyer, author
), of con to Peking,' etc. Illustrated. Boston
# Lee & Shepard. Price 81.
q Mr.. Stratemeyer gives his boys a triI
$ through country very much talked about
: now. The five youngsters land at La
q Guayra, and go by rail to Caracas, the
, capital; see much of the country and take
- a look at the Gulf Of Maracaibo and the
n big lake Of that NAME and journey sdowr
, to the mighty Ornoco river, which is three
+ 4 will one day have. fleets of merchan
II steamers in regular trade between thu
: rich interior and the outside world. Their.
is a sketch of the history Of Venezuela
- which is as large as our Alaska. The ad
ventures of the boys embody a deal o
valuable information about the country.
LETTERS OF AN AMERICAN COUNTESS II
HER FRIEND. BY the Countess Herself
II New. York: J. S. Ogilvic & Co., 81 Ros
street. Price, so cents.
alj This American girl, who had banker
J. ing for a title,,y through an alleged mar
" riage syndicate in Paris was provide
"a with a titled husband in Count de Poche
- vide ct ,Piednu, an individual who despise
Ii work and lived by gambling and locke
ID for a fortune with his American wife, VIII
n in these letters tells some very droll ex
periences and processes to be superlative
lily happy with the title she married, tn
ID title enabling her to contemplate com
: placenty the little oily Johnny Crapea
is she had tied herself to-. Yet there is a
t. undercurrent of sarcasm and disgust
k. the letters which betray her chagrin.
AFTER MANY YEARS. MANS 1NHUMANIT
OF TO MAN. By NJ. e.. Woodling, NJ D. Ne
ar York: The Abbey Press, Id Fifth avenue
le Price SIPS. IT,
~ In this volume are recorded certain con
i versations in doctors office between
Mt judge, a clergyman and few doctors o
v important current social questions, the i'm
potence of law, the utility Of medical SC
ence, Christian civilization, the NEAR
at mess and cruelty Of man, the newspape
~ |press, police system commercialism. dc
of generacy. One of the doctors, pess
-, mist, who takes" the ground that man :
1.-The lowest and meanest Of animal
things, world wide murderer holds tt
- floor persistently, while the author make
the clergyman, the deacon and the Jude
appear in the attitude of large consent
he the pessimist's propositions. The latte
he disputant is especially severe on wone
of and marriage as it appears to him. "Tf
tic great bulk of bad bills, bad debts al
n the work done without compensation
I'm nv profession said he, STAND again
to married people, who cannot 'or will NJ
on paw their debts'' The opponents of tt
pessimist cut rather sorry figure as oil
I'D Iputants.
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