The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-14
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READING. BY Mrs symes.
Akron, Ohio: The saalfeld Publishing COM
pany. Price 80 cents. s
The author of this book is loyal sub
scriber to the theory of physiognomy and
does not believe that the ridicule Of non
believers disposes of the subject. Neither
does it. Physiogno1ny has justified it's ex-
jstence by its verifcation of many postu-
lates of its theory, but it has failed in at
tempting to demonstrate infallibility as
one of it's attributes. In this volume Mrs.
Symes offers simplification Of the texts
of the technical works on physignomy for
laymen and sets forth the subject in more
attractive form. Of course there are GER
tain faces which even to the uninitiated
are repellant and excite aversion, for they
bear the stamp Of Wickedness and Grim
inal tendency but there are, likewise
faces which do not reveal repulsive ten
denotes which, nevertheless, conceal var
,ious atrocious leanings. So the physiog-
nomist's classification Of faces into OBJ
long, round and pear-shaped is not always
verified. However, Mrs. Symes has made
her interpretations of character and tenn
permanent, thru face details, chin, lines
Of mouth. nose, eyes, ETC., so attractive
that the volume will be found interesting
to everybody. There is appended an al
phabetical guide to Misunderstanding
after this style: Cheerfulness-A turned
up snub nose. If the lower lip is curved
in the center, the subject will also be
whimsical
ANTHONY WAYNE, SOMETIMES CALLED
mad ANTHONY BY John N Spears. New
York: D. Appleton & Co. Price ST. Illus
trated.
In his boyhood Anthony Wayne's heart
was fired with the fighting impulse by
the French-Indian wars with the English
in the Ohio valley and Pennsylvania.
hv no or
Pittsburg occurred when he was 10 years
old. In 1774 he joined the Pennsylvania
patriots in setting forth the grievances
Of the colonists against the mother coun-
try, and he expressed his views freely
in public and Joined the patriot army in
Its as colonel in the continental service
and saw fighting first in Canada in the
attempt to capture Three Rivers. The
military and civil career of Wayne is adj
mirably described. After his great serv-
ices in the war Of the revolution, he went
into the supplementary and fierce war on
the northern frontier in 1924, and put
an end to the disorders there in the battle
Of the Fallen Timbers, where he led one
of the most daring charges on record. He
died in 1895, two years after the close Of
his splendid fighting career.
a GIRLS LIFE IN A HUNTING COUNTRY.
BY Handasyde. New York: John Lane, the
Bodley Head. Price $1.50
The title Of this book is deceiying. It
suggests breezy descriptions Of men and
women riding after hounds and Diana
like heroine, but there is comparatively
little about hunting in the story, which is
chiefly made up of the placid nominations
of a young girl who lived with rich and
amicable widow. Mrs. Bampfylde, Of
Crown Court, whose activities were
largely directed toward preventing her
brother, "the general" from marrying a
woman she thought was unsuitable. There
is love episode in the story, for the
heroine meets Banbury Bampfylde, the
heir at-law Of Mrs. Bampfylde These
two do not exactly gravitate toward each
other. The gravitation appears to be
Banbury's doing; but the girl, at the
close, intimates in a very curious way
that Banbury in an enigmatical way
asked her to marry him. And there she
stops!