The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-12


ADDRESSES OF THE FoRTY-FIRsT ANNU.
AL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL EDuCA-.
T1oNAL ssoCIAIIoN. Held at Minneap-
Oils Mimi, July I'll, 1902. Published by the
association. 81
It takes a thousand pages to detail
what the teachers Of the National Asso-
citation did in this city last July and to
list the life. active and corresponding
members: The portion devoted to the
department Of Indian education abounds
in wholesome and practical suggestions
from persons on the firing line who sem to
know what they are talking about. There
are papers of permanent value among
those read in the library department, as
that Of Mr.. Mills of Indiana on. 1.-THE
Library as an Educator.'t There is spice
in, Professor, Norton's address on the
teaching Of science in the schools, the
effect of which he thinks is only skin
deep. The child study papers are not
fire. from ~vaporous theory, but there are
good suggestions on bushes courses and
the value Of musical instruction. : -
The group of educators favorable to
the grotesque reconstruction of our Eng
lish spelling had much to say, but were
not without criticism They are probably
Illinois teachers association, of their inn
possible phonetic spelling system. + The
papers on manual training, agricultural
education and taxation for school pur !.
poses are god reading and Archbishop Ire
lands address on Devotion to Truth:
the Chief Virtue Of the Teacher is
worthy of the offices of the art preserv-
alive Of all arts
f. r, Tennyson Nicely, ia Fifth avenue,
New York, has just issued I'm The Trail
of, the Pack Mule by S. H Nealey, who
| tells the experience Of two boys who ac-
companied government surveying party
L f,yn.r IN ri xYhoy a,
| baby town, and had many adventures
| worth reading (S1.25). 2
/ Nicely also publishes a very good and
humorous story of a wOman's experience
with Furnished Room Houses '-scene
largely in New York-by Silas Wright's
Widow who is Annie M: Burdick. The
i book is illustrated Price $1.5O.
I Another of Neely's clever books is ''The
Poorhouse Lord by Mary Wiley ($1.5O)
who, although an invalid, has made good
story about a little poorhouse waif, wht
was befriended by Kind people and de-
veloped into a lovely, womanly woman
($1.5O). -. -.~ = +s-, :
Another of Neely's books is a volume
Of verse by Miss Harriet S. Shelley, sale
| to be granddaughter of grand nephew
Of Percy Bysshe Shelley, who settled il
this country in the first part of the las
century. The volume is entitled Poem!
of Life and Loving ($I. These books are
Recent issues of The Frederick A
Stokes Company, New York, are attrac
tive volumes. We have Gabrielle Dan
Inunzio's drama, 'F,Eancesca Da Riminf,
the speciality of Eeanora Duse, trans
lated by Arthur Symons, who Introduce
it with a sketch of the play, which, whel
Duse first played it, was too long and i
was cut. Symons' translation is from tn
unabridged play. price ST. ....
Stokes also issues Eden Philpott's 9TH
River a strong and attractive romanc
; Of the west country moors of Englan,
and the valley of the Dart river, writer
largely in that mystic minor key whicl
: marks the authors '"The Children Of tn
Mist H.. = 81: e "a ,.s-s - ::
Another of, the Stokes books is Com
4 with Me into Babylon by Josiah M. War
; illustrated, who has constructed an elab
. crate romance touching the collapse g
the Assyrian empire and the fall of Nine
veh, drawing largely on his imagination
the book of Nahum and Greek tradition
: A: love episode pervades the story.
Stokes also brings out a thrilling lro
I nance entitled 1.-THE Garden of Lies b
I Justus Miles Forman, who has elaborate
a somewhat original plot. "A petty. prime
r of Novodnia on the lower Danube, mar
!. ries a rich American girl at Newport. o
the wedding day the brides carriage
| upset and the newly married girl Is throw
q out and, sustains injuries which depriv
i her of mental <soundness and her memor
8 is effaced. She is taken to Paris f
: treatment by an expert, and her husban
8 goes off to .Novodnia. Her doctor find
: that the girls recovery Is certain if some
(. body can be found to personate her hus
band and see her. Colonel Mallory, a
Irish gentleman, is found willing to pei
form the service, and the interest inter
tisifes to the denouement, which is Yer
cleverly Il constructed. There is due
with many exciting incidents, and life
2 gay Paris is incidentally revealed.
Recent publications of Funk q Wae
nails Company, New York, are Of cor
) siderable interest, as .'Kuioskop the Mas
!. tier and Other Algonkin Poems, = transla
e Itions by Charles Godfrey Leland and job
!, lDyneley Prince, experts in Algonkin dia
2 llects The original Indian matrical saga
Z are a part OF a once large, body of poetr
of North American Indians. much {
r (which has been lost. They embody tn
/ traditions and histories OF the aborigins
8 tribes The Blackfeet, Cree Ojtbwe an
8 east coast Wabanaki Indians are the re
: manning representativ of the Algonki
J. nations. The appendix contains much ir
e. terestirig information about the Algonki
!. Indians The book is Illustrated. Price $
r "A book Of deep interest, published b
8. the same firm, is 1.-THE Spirit of the Chez
o. to- d volume of studies OF the people an
) Their ways in the Jewish quarter. of Ne
q York by Hutchins Hapgood, illustrate
]. Inv Epstein The author does not DIVE