The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-05

sometimes Mr.. Hough is optimistic and
sometimes pessin1istic as to the questions
he raises himself. In one of his pessi-
mlst1c moments he declares that because
Canada still has a frontier she is now
drawing off the very cream Of the Amer
lean populatlOn-the same people that for
merry were always moving west:'' In
other moments, however, he thinks we
shall find new rests in Alaska, in the
philippines and Asia. He then thinks
that. heredity has SO strongly nodded the
American character that we shall con-
tinue to have the man Of the western
type, tho the ''West" is no moresrS He
says: 49, sh
Yet we shall do best to dismiss forebodings
and to cling, as still may, to the faith and
hope that was part of the American birthright
We go ON apparently still without
plan; apparently still borne forward in throns
resistless as of yore. Perhaps in the forefront
of our ranks we carry the trump of Jericho for
other lands, if not in the bugle note of our
armies at least in the humming of our com
merce. Let us hope that we do not invite a
trumpet call at our own walls. *s~ What
ever the product of that change after the revo-
lutions that are yet to be- no man of the future
will ever again behold land like that American
west which is now more. . Now we
have seen our old rider, going far, our flap
hated man, the fearless one; he has strange
company to-day at home and abroad. In all
reverence let us hope that God may prosper him;
in all reverence let us hope that there may
never arise from the great and understanding
soul of any leader of this country that sad and
bitter cry: 'G1ve me back my Americans"
The new holiday edition of John Hays
CastiIan Days is specially illustrated from
drawings made by Joseph Pencil DURING
a recent visit to CASTLE for the special
purpose of illustrating this handsome vol
u1ne. These drawings have a charm abou,
them which direct photography cannot
impart. The very uniqueness Of outline
in many of them-a sort of dreamy indis-
| tinctness-is suggestive of the Spanish at
mosphere, and the architectural illustra-
tons Of interiors reproduce the misty veil
ing of high-vaulted naves and transepts
The book embodies the thought and OBJ
servations of one who is able to enrich
book of this kind with his fine knowl-
edge of Spanish life, art, literature, his
tory, tradition and people. In the chap
ter entitled 'An Hour with the Painters
| Mr.. Hay, in a very delightful way, de-
scribes the great picture gallery of Madrid
which he affirms is the finest in the world
And in the chapter on Cervantes nc
one can forget the exquisite poem by
Marcia de San Felix, quoted. by Mr.
Hay, beginning:
Let them say to my lover
That here le
The thing of his pleasure,
His slave am l.
Say that seek him
Only for love,
And welcome are fortunes
My passion to prove.
That passion was the passion of a sou
betrothed to Christ and while full O.
what Mr.. Hay calls '.reflned and spiritus
vdluptuousness,,'' is the outburst of {
young and arduous human soul, under tn,
stimulus of the solemn act of consecra
ton to God within the gloom OF conventua
life.
| In her Classic Myths, Mrs. Judd has in
cluded her versions of some of the bes
| of Greek, German, Morse, Roman. Fin
nish and Russian myths. The collection
makes some very entertaining reading. TIL
| supernatural in the Bible is distinctly pur
poseful and beneficial wherever revealed
The introduction Of the supernatural il
the classical stories is frequently frivolou
and immoral. The lack Of human knowl
| edge of many of the laws of the univers
! does not make the revealed working of sue
I laws beyond human explanation impos
! sible. Telepathy, for instance, is show
| ing men to-day that the touch Of min
cannot explain very clearly, but which
I nevertheless, exists.
/ There are touching and beautiful storie
/ in Miss Thurman's Sketches In Ebony an
1 Gold, which have the southern fiavorin
i of the old black nanny of the souther
| families Of the ante-bellum@ days. Th
old nanny" is still found occasionally
The author Of this book shows her at he
/ best in NANNY Liza in the little stor,
which is one Of mingled joy and tears, an
finely pathetic.