The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-24

From a tegiIn1ning like this ESQ i,nper.
fectly5 outlin asstlaor goes onto talk
always lin. thassameN friendly fashion, of
''your day dreams, dear MiladiSS And your
va clE yellls edu
world AID your .deciglan, inEssfavbrsof the
claims or home and coming down to the
development Of your love, the building Of
your house O dreans@and yoqpr q ira nother-
hood. =. !: - s:sas$..
would like to be or do in the world, ought
to weigh some of the more important
problems that are sure to thrust themselves.
upon her in any course, in life, then this
book would be good for any girl to read,
and if a woman. is, helped by facing her
problems over again now and then and by
igetting friends views, OF, them, then the
book is one. ..that WON en- will welcome. Z !.
I. Jenkins Hains..lEs the authors:2of The
strife of the Sea, tells his own story of
the desperate struggle which he had in
his yacht Edna RECENTLY off Brunswick.
Ca, struggle which will greatly in
crease interest in Mr. Hams work. Mr..
Hains was In his 30-foot sloop, which is
heavy boat built for deep sea work. He
struck a fearful gale on Dec. 9. He writes:
For five days Iashave lived thru more
dramatic scenes than T. shall ever be able
to depict. For two days we held our own,
but on the 11th our rigging and bcwspr1t
were carried away, and from then on our
sufferings were beyond description. we
rolled heavily, battered by every sea. 1t
| was impossible to stay in the cabin, and
we were compelled to- lash Mrs. Hains to
the mast far above the deck to keep her
from being washed overheard. I expected
| every minute that we should turn TURTLE,
but thru a series of miracles, the Edna
always righted Our water casks We're
broken in and our food soaked, so that
we had nothing to eat or to drink. 1t was
| after five days that we sighted the
.schooner William c.. Tanner, and finally
signaled her. Even then the difficulties
! of boarding her were almost too much
for us, and we all collapsed upon reach-
ing the deck. We tried to tow the Edna
into port, but the line parted and she
sank. -. 80. se.a -
Japanese art, so far as painting is con-
(. cerned, is not in a very promising con-
dition The spirit of commercialism. ac-
according to Mr.. Hartmann. in his work,
! japanese Art, has brought about an atti-
tude of Indifference toward art, art patron
i age has ceased and there is a growing con-
/ tentment in reproducing traditional and
conventional ideas, with the minimum of
invention and ingenuity in conception and
! workmanship. The studio is becoming
transformed into an ordinary workshop.
This is to be deplored. The .Japs have
given western nations very beautiful and
refined decorative IDEAS They intuitively
comprehend the best use OF flowers in
4 decorative art In lacquer, work and in
bronzes.. they have ideas which can be
profitably borrowed. From the illustra
I tions in Mr.. Hartmann's book, it would
appear that Japanese painters have no
ideas as to the proper painting of water
and rocks.
The new radical school composed OF
young men and young women follows
) servilely the manner, composition and
execution of European or American art
lists. They copy with the utmost fidelity
and in arrangement and color com
bination, Mr.. Hartmann thinks theil
J work has a peculiar charm. Being copy
: lists this school cannot be national.
The author interestingly discusses the
schools of. art in Japan from the earliest
religious art period and contends that il
will be better for Japan to hold fast tt
her own ideals of Asiatic tradition, as she
is the last custodian Of oriental culture
new art which will prevail thruout the
|. world for the next thousand years.
{ Browning's fine poem, The Ring and tn,
Book which is based on an old book h,
picked up in a second hand book store ii
l Florence, containing the story of an ole
Roman murder case from which he drew
/, fact to which he linked fancy, is admir-
ably treated in critique by Roy Sherman
Stowe1l entitled '"The Significance of tn,
!. Ring and Book. - -. He has shown him
! self an intelligent interpreter of Brown
, ing. dwelling effectively on the spiritua
teaching of the poem-the TRANSFORMATION
{ Iof the spirit in order to the rectifcatiol
/ of the intellect