The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-01
NEWS OF BOOK WORLD
4 Story Of "Trust- Busting in the MIddie
Vest. Letters from a Son to His
Self Made Father Notsa, EnIoined
Study Of itaIlan Literature Lore
Stories About Birds.

For mental recreation and physical ex-
ercise we would prefer 'broncho busting
to trust-busting. Opportunities 1T
4 trust-busting" do not come TO the aver
age citizen, but it is plain from the eff
fectS shown by those who have tried the
game that It is anything but muscle and
nerve restoring. Trust -bustings, is IA
game that is played to the finish for some
body. s5s - y
John Halloran, in The Whip Hand, by
Samuel Merwin,, knew this last charac-
terlstic OF the sport when, as manager; for
a Lake Michigan lumberman, he under
took, iin self defense, to break the lumber
trust Of G. Hyde BigeloW, prosperous
Chicago capitalist, much Of whose PROS
perity, however, was in his top hat and
frock coat. The fight was bitter one and
John began to fear he would be.thrown;,
when he got a "hunch' from the way
Bigelow was ttplungng'' Fin: corn) that he
must be near the end of his wind 1t
was just here that he decided to bring him
under complete subsection. lis plan sue
ceeded and G. Hyde iBigelowz was. as. COM
pletely busted" as ever1broncho was.
Boiled down, such a story is simply a
story Of business competition But there
is a Miss Margaret Davies and a. certain
Apples" LIE Due. the former giving light
and the latter shadow to+the story. 1t is
altogether wholesome story Of American
life-life on Lake Michigan-told in a
ers OF a good fight and Of q manly lover
VIII read with pleasure to- the end, even
tho 1t is realized that the trust in the
case Is a light weight
| After day spent In hearing the petition
| OF George Horace Lorimer, author Of "Let-
| tiers from a Self-made Merchant to His
| Son." asking for an injunction to prevent
the publication Of Letters from Son to
His Self-made Father Justice Morton OF
| the supreme court decided against the
plaintiff and, refused to issue thesini line-
| ton asked for. ~ So, .sx,
| OF Italian literature will be found in
/ Professor Kuhns' The Great Poets 81 italy
i The development Of Italian .litera tufe;st thu
development Of a distinctive Italian Ian
guage in which to express the best italian
thought, was hindered by the fealty Of the
Italian mind to the Latin language, and II
| developed: only toward the close Of the
thirteenth century. Italian literature be
/ fore that period was Latin literature The
coming Of many troubadours with Their
1 balladry from the South of France int
Italy, on account of religious wars in theil
own country, stimulated the production Of
poetry in Italy and in the italian Ian.
guage, which subsequently, developed int
j the elegant .dictiOn Of Dante, Petrarch
| Tasso and Aristo. ~.
1t was not until the middle Of the thir.
! teenth century that Guittone d. Arezo.
Tuscan, made his appearance ais the frs
! original italian poet. ~,
! Professor ! Kuhns.'. exegesisz. Of, Dante.
The Divine Comedy, Is fine. In. discus
] sing attractively the renaissance he ma
! turally. dwels on Petrarch, who founded
] the renaissance in Italy and was the frs
! lyric poet Of modern times ~ J.
| The closing chapter relates to the ItaI,
Of the nineteenth century, rising afte
being the. battlefield Of nations for four
teen centuries to the, dignity Of nation
ality and italian unity, and still doweret
with the poetic gift and inspiration.
! do you read many novels?''. asked ou
j lady correspondent of her visitor from TIN
I country.
4 ooh! yes, a good many, was the reply
] Have you ever read Ten THOUSAND
| a Year,
Lord bless US. ma am nor answered
the astonished visitor. fI meyer read al
many as that in my whole life.'' i