The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-20
NEW BOOKS.

indianapolis: The Bowen Merrill Company,
The author Of this book is a Chicago girl
who has written short stories for the mag
azines and this is said to be her first at
tempt at novel writing. For a first book
1t is rather brilliant piece Of work and
there are many pages Of description in art
and character, which were evolved from
no ordinary mind. The author has the
art instinct and extraordinarily good pow
er of expression The story is of an art
list, Kirk Thayer, distinguished as a ris-
Ing man In London, who, having painted
a portrait of a London society beauty, a
lady he once had loved and who had mar
rled another, set all London to talking,
and summering with her and her company
on her yacht, met a Scottish beauty, a
nsher's daughter, on a little Scottish islet
and was so struck with her perfect form
and grace and facial beauty, that he de-
term1ned to have her for his model If he
mad to marry her to get her: He made
an impression on the girl, who was inno-
cent as a newborn babe, Of evil, and
when he came to the island a second time
by himself, he married her after string.
ent catechetical process by the girls
father who loved her and wished her to
marry one of her own class. Thayer took
her to London and there he gradually
showed the manner of man. he was as
he did not show the girls father. The
reader will regard Thayer as a consunl-
mate scoundrel and will read the closing,
trag1cal and pathetic chapters with indig-
nation. Thayer got his coveted model and
broke the girls heart and killed her by his
villainy The author is entirely too leni-
ent with him. ~a ..a :. y ) - -
JoURNEY's END. A ROMANCE OF TODAY.
BY Justus Miles Forman Illustrated by An
derson. en. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
Minneapolis: n. Mccarthy. Price, $1.5o.
This is a clever story of young Eng
lishman a distant cousin of an earl and a
duke, who, when his father died, found
he had been left only hundred pounds
a year, and left for New York to better his
fortunes in the new world There he got
a situation in a photograph store at $15
week and wrote a play for beautiful
American actress, which was stolen by an
actor who read it to the actress as his
own. This rascal was exposed through the
actress, who accepted the play and it was
produced with great success insuring
handsome profits to@Calthorp, the author.
This play businessFis attractively described
and then Calthrop learns that he has in.
herited the earldom and the author de-
picts in a very impressive way, the little
struggle Calthorp had over the question
whether he would ignore his English
sweetheart, Molly, who devotedly loved
him, or encourage the dawning love in
his heart for the actress for whom his
pay WetS WI1Ito11 lie TGduoT is lelL IN a
somewhat conjectural mood, but that he
soon after mailed a letter to somebody is
morally certain. saE..
THE MEANING OF PICTURES BY Professor
John G. Van Dyke, Author of cart Tor Arts
: Sake" etc. Illustrated. New York: Charles
. Scribner's Sons. Minneapolis: N. Mccarthy.
Price, $1.25. r..
This volume contains six lectures de-
livered for Columbia University at the
Metropolitan Museum, New York. The
author admits that it is not for one person
to lay down the canons of art criticism
and, in these lectures, he sets forth the
various forms in which art is estimated.
He devotes the first lecture to truth in
painting, and shows that what is called
realism in art cannot be wholly accepted,
for bold realism without combination
of the individual, his method and use of
pigment is hardly ever seen. There is
more or less idealization in every picture.
Another lecture is on the introduction of
the Individual element in picture, so
that the individual painter is recognized
in his pictures, in light and shade and in
expression, and in another lecture he
shows the part imagination plays. Very
delightful are the lectures on pictoria.
poetry, the decorative quality and subject
in painting which are rarely good reading
for art students. The volume is we'll illus
trated from the works of such artists as
Claude Lorraine, Millet, Toussin, Dau-
bigny, Gerome, Reynolds, Turner, Van,
Dyck, HOlbein and others.