The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

These views will be found quite atsvari-
ance from those Of Mr.. Brady, the abridg-
er, who says:
Warren made Titmeuse and Cannon SO absorb
that one was fool and the other knave leave
no impression on the reader, who finds himself
even Wishing them success in their fortunes.
Try as he would, the author could not make
the poor little draper's clerk wholly contempti-
ble.. nor rob the masterful figure of Cannon of
its essential dignity. as
The trial where Tftnlouse wins his inheritance
is: think. the finest thing of it's kind in the
English language. The stroke of legal genius
by which the advocate of Ttm6lse turns to adj
vantage the disconeerting interruption of gtheIit4
tie puppy bis CLIENT, who has been carrled
away by the lawyers eloquent recital Of his
wrongs, is also stroke of literary genius. -.
Whichever opinion is correct, the char
acters are two that deserve to live-if a
book-and Mr.. Brady will receive for his
admirable abridgment the thanks of many
~:'What would you do if you should sud-
denly come into possession Of great
estate and $4,000 year? The question
is one to set person dreaming The
prospect of wealth set Titmouse a-dream-
ing. He dreamed: Thirty five pounds
year! See if / won't spend as much in
cigars the first month";! And this: '.How
er's dead, and that I'm an only child"
But that was before he knew the extent
Of the fortune that was to be his.
Mrs. Virgins Rebecca of Sunnybrook
Farm is reported as the best selling book
in New York: Thomas Bailey Aldrich,
author Of 1.-The Story Of a Bad Boy does
not profess to be an authority on girls,
but he considers that Rebecca ~t'is Just
the very incest child in American liter
ature.''
Mr.. Barnard's conceits Of General
Lover is an impressive demonstration of
the rhyming talent The number of maids
whose beauties he exto.s is enormous.
The "conceits run thru thirty pages.
leaving. about 40 pages for his variant
moods, filings at little fol1ies, sonnets, etc.
There is wit in his quatrains, and in his
ballads will be found some real poetry,
as in Ballads of April Weather" and
Ballads of October Dusk
Mrs. Peattie's selections Of Poems You
Ought to Know. one of which has APP
peared in the Chicago Tribune each day
for some time have been published in
a handsome volume. and they are; from the
very best sources and are highly cred
liable to her literary taste and Judgment.
A brief biography Of each poet is APP
pended to each selection.
The Fleming H. Revell company reports
that Sidney T.. Gulick's book, The Evo.
luton Of the Japanese, has been barred
out of Japan because the chrysanthemum
design on the cover of the book had six
teen petals. 1t seems that there is an old
law in Japan reserving the siXteen-leayed
chrysanthemum as the Japanese imperial
crest. The publishers have been notified
that the ban would be removed from the
book if they will make the chrysanthemum
have fourteen or twenty leaves.
h +.
The new edition of John Bunyan's Pill
grinn'ss Progress is a beautiful specimen
of up-to-date mechanical execution and
a notable example of modern illustrative
art. There are thirty-one Illustrations
and the text has been revised to follow
that of the last edition issued in Bunyan's
lifetime 1850.
Books for Little Folk.
The Bobbs-M Merrill company has issued
| a group of books that are full of gasps and
t'oh's' and s.ah's" for. the little folk.
The Enchanted Island of View, is a story
of a fairy-a very charming fairy-who is
transformed by a maiden into a mortal
for a. year and of the fairy.s one year. s
| life as; a mortal Then The Magical Mon-
arch of Mo is about the ruler of a won
lderful land where folks hats grow on
trees and their finger rings too, and where
the rivers are of milk, the eddies of which
hold cream, beside which strawberries
grow, dipping into the cream and just
longing to be eaten. If sugar is wanted it
is not far to seek, for the sands of the
river are ali sugar. The New Wizard OF
or, with its Denslow Illustrations and it's
account of the Wizard, Dorothy the Cow
iardly Lion and the Tin Woodman, begin
ming with Dorothy's travels by the cyclone
method is sure tosbe as popular with the
little folk as the original account of the
Wizard. These three books are by L.
Frank Baum, which is; another thing in
their favor. The Songs OF the Trees is
| by Mary Y Robinson. Each month in the
year, has a separate chapter and each is
devoted to a separate tree. The first full
mage color picture is a Silhouette of lit
4 lie child. around which is a border of holly.
! The. next page contains descriptive
verse ThenSfoll ows a page OF music about
the tree. and then the trees biography.
ITroubadour Tales relate to medieval
| France and to Finland. # All are about