The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-07
: NEW BOOKS
IN PICcApILLy

Of The Game Of Love- Etc. New York: G.
cartbg hg.naPs Price Sons :, ho Minneapolis n Nc
Ih1s is a book of the earth, earthly.
There is somewhat of a superfuitys of
Wallets housekeepers, cooks and house,
maids, and, as Piccadilly stands for the
sllded world of London and it's manners,
millinery, morality and mockery, it can
not be expected that the +decaloeue, IS
dominant over the play of the characters
In this book. Debcnair and cynical men
and women abound and the atmosphere of
the demimonde obtrudes. The basis OF all
the developments is an ill assorted mar,
rlage IN high life and an illicit love byc a.
woman, which eventually leads to tragedy
groWing :a1rectly out of the discovery by
Lord Ossington of two long, glittering
strands Of his wife's golden hair hanging
TO the diamond breastpin of his friend
.Debr1say.% A: very strong moral point
may be read into the story. It is to be
hoped readers will SO read it. 1-,r., :.
my WOODLAND 1NT1MATEs, r, r,e. p,r
nell, Author of Mfr. Chupes and Miss Jenny =
F.. New York: The Baker and Taylor Comnanv
1881 East Seventeenth street. Minneapolis:
n: Mccarthy. Price, ST.. -" = -
: Those who, have read the former, hootx
OF this author will take pleasure in these
sKetches 0f beautiful nature by such a,
close observer. In the first cha pter she
very charmingly describes an August dav
IN the woods beneath arching, interla cling
boughs among birds, insects and flow.
ers and within the area pervaded by the
symphony OF natures uterances, the ci-
cada chorus, the songs Of the flowing IVA !.
waters and OF the birds and the. soothing
sound OF the wind among the trees. Az
Ter that, the author portrays the corntr.
OF autumn and the splendors of the DIVING
year, the movements *of the birds and
insects and the southwark procession OF
the summer, birds, day and night. The
winter days and the aspect of nature in
her manifold moods and the coming Of the
spring time are described in affluent no.
etic style and it Is to- be hoped that the
author will never imagine herself to be q
| poet and change her Ave prose for vain
| attempts to place her thoughts in accent
able metric bounds. - - l@ ~
THE is.1 sAr1dsTs. BY Henry c.. vedder, Pro
seminary. New York: The Baker and ia Y
ior Company, 1881 East Seventeenth street
| This volume is one of the series of ''The
l story OF the Churches, designed to furi
nish a uniform set of church histories
showing the origin, development and his.
tory Of the various, denominations. Eacr
volume Is to be written bysa representa-
tive writer Of the denomination treated
The historic facts are clearly stated ani
| put III comparatively small compass, anG
they will. nodoubt. be most acceptable t.
people who do not care to study TIE
voluminous church histories for essentia
facts. The Baptists in the world numbe,
$4,000 churches with 5,645,70O member:
! and with other sects essentially BAPTIST
| number 100000 members, four-fifths q
! whom are found on this continent, The
Baptists have the honor Of initiating il
1898 in England the great missionar,
movement, beginning by Carey's self-sac
rif1cing work In India which subsequent,
started missionary work on the part Of tn,
Church of England. The Baptists o
Europe and America have been conspicu
Gus in foreign missionary work. A. full
4 explanation is given OF the distinguishinl
doctrines of the Baptist church and, ii
4 polity. The immediate spiritual ancestor
of the Baptists were the .Mennonites
whose founder was Menno Simons,a a Re
man. Catholic priest, who left the Romaa
communion in 1886 and became an inde
pendent evangelistic teacher, -