The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-04-09
NEW BOOKS.

THE BLUE GOOSE. BY Frank Lewis Mason, au-
thor OF The End Of the Trail New York:
Mcclure, Phillips & Co. Minneapolis: n Nc
Carthy. Price $1.5O. G. -
There is no. abatement in the popular
interest in stories of mining life; that is,
really good stories Of that kind. ''The
Blue Goose" is of the latter description.
the title is the name Of the, saloon and
gambling hell Of Pierre LIE MARITIME, who
was also proprietor OF a subterranean
laboratory, where he converted stolen ore
into gold ingots. This ore was stolen
from the works by the miners and it was
the discovery that $13. SO out of every $25
worth of ore mined was so stolen which
brought about the tragedies recorded,
when the guilty miners found that the new
superintendent, Firmstone, held the
tracer. Elise, the heroine the adopted
daughter of thes=villainous Pierre, who
kept her out of the vices of mining camp
life, is strong and noble character, whose
respect and ultimate love for the super
lntendent' leads her to- warn him of the
conspiracy against himself, she herself
having been also threatened by one of the
miners who resented her partially for the
superintendent, Firmstone, who is shot
put not fatally, by theaconspiring miners
who, in attempting tosdestroy the COM
pany's works, destroyed the hell hole
The Blue Goose,"j Internationally and
the fiend incarnate, Pierre, with it, The
reader will no doubt conclude that Elsie
is one Of the strongest characters" ever
bred Of mining camp and will not won
ger that she came ,thro its fires Of sin
LEAvEN1NG THE NATION. .rhe Story of Amer.
lean Home Missions. BY Joseph B. Clark, D.
D., secretary Of the Congregational Home Mis-
sionary Society. New York Tie Baker &
| TAYLOR company, Il 33-37 East Seventeenth
! street. ~ tsegs Gs.9:5fi .!. A. $50
I ms volume: contains can interesting
demon strat ion fathe very. important part
the home missionaries. hayes played INLAY,
ing the foundations 81 I. national ne strength
hnd pres g2a The faatter has devoted
i missionary work, ana he has done his
work in the most Interesting manner It
Is true, as he says, that the eliminati ton of
Spain and France from control of this
continent and the primary falling to Great
Britain, the Protestant influence, pre-
| dominated. Perhaps the author. is a little
Christiantty's influence and is too re-
luctant to give Roman Catholicism due
! credit for its leayenfng missionary work
| during the nineteenth century. The story
| OF the early missionary effort in the west
! and northwest is well told. AS our ter
| r1tory expanded by such additions as the
! Northwest Territory and the Louisiana
Purchase, Christian missionary effort
! made itself concurrently felt In Min
l enesota and the Dakotas noble work has
been done since the first settlement The
4 author pays very high tribute to Mime
sofa and her early settlers and missionary
| pioneers and leaders like Nein and Sec
conabe, and Hall and Cobb and Lyon
There were, however, noble men, Of other
churches than the Presbyterian and Con-
| gregational who proved themselves
mighty factors Of good IN this state. Min
nesota stands in the highest rank among
the states which have a large church-go-
| ing population, The author says that
| mot the least among the forces con-
| tributing to the moral and political
strength Of Minnesota, are her churches
and kindred institutions, which were
| planted and have been nurtured and de-
veloped, almost without exception, by
the agency Of organized home missions.
| The growth of missions on the Pacific
/ coast. in the southern states and in Cuba
and Porto Rico in recent days, is inter-
estingly described, and there lis notable
discussion on the correction, enlighten-
| ment and assimilation of the increa sing
numbers of foreign immigrants. The
author holds that home missionary work
must devote large activity to the districts
| Of our great cities where are densely in
| trenched the foreign element most ignor-
! ant and most alienated from the spirit
Of our American institutions. The last
portion of the book is devoted to sum-
! ming UP Of the substantial fruits of home
missions. with the affirmation that "the
| twentieth century opens with auguries for
our country a thousand times brighter
than any which cheered our home mis-
sionary fathers in 179S. -.
THE TRUSTS TaA Eat gAh We s. % K WITH ~
By w. NJ Collier, New York State Civil Ser
ST, vice Commission, Etc New Yorkc The