The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-05

ifestly not merely to add to the readers
knowledge, But TO cultivate as we'll a
taste for good literature and the best
kind of thinking and living, which Is char
acter building. Add to these exalted quail
tiles range of thought that touches upon
every essential and vital point in life
from the morn of birth to the sunset of
old age, and the result needs must be
what 1t is--in and of itself library, a
library which will make the home which
or the individual who possesses 1t richer
in the treasure that moth and rust doth
not corrupt" Such a library, my friend.
| / am fortunate enough to call my own.
| Here they are around and before me.
| fresh from the press-still fragrant with
the smell Of new made books-warm with
| the personality and palpitating with the
life from which they took their source.
Yes, know all this time you've been
eager to know who the distinguished au-
you time to think you would remember
that God has never given to any one all
the talents. So it came to pass that
American modern talent was levied upon
and leach working in his own favorite
star" has made the many sidedness that
produced the well-rounded work. A
glance at the list of contributors assures
you at once Of the quality of the contents
and satisfies that every paragraph will be
readable and profitable There you find
represented the young and strenuous of
which the nations chief executive is the
| like our venerable Doctor Edward Everett
Hale; the silver tongued orators, like
Chauncey M. Depew and Newell Dwight
Hills; or noted preachers Of the gospel,
like Frank Gunsalus and Bishop Hurst;
and the children's writer's like Hezekiah
Butterworth and Earnest Seton Thompson;
and genius Of finance like Lyman Gage
and Andrew Carnegie; and wizards of in
vention like Edison; or sweet singers like
Margaret Sangster; and scores of others
who are making American life in
all it's multiform phases and activities
what 1t Is. -,
Surely when such an august company
are assembled on paper and bound to-
gether In one purpose there Is but one
inevitable result, consolidated encyclo-
pedic library-a library profitable In the
study Of the learned statesman, yet simple
enough for the humblest home where
5 lives an American school boy.
} 1t was in casually picking 1t up for the
, spare moment reading that I discovered
this marvellous many-sidedness. Opening
at any place it will touch upon some
vital phase Of life and make an interest.
ing point of contact which in turn be-
comes point Of departure that lures or
> with fascination, but always with the
= same result, information and inspiration
l determined to find it's beginning If
!. could, though it seemed like Mother Ma.
D ture never to be found in a beginning OF
Z an ending, but always in a process where
: each step seems the parent of the next
fatter myself, however, that at las
found the center around which an(
Il from which all the rest radiated. Will
; that as my starting place I have fount
9 unlimited profit and Joy in following on
V Growth and Instinct in Love, and to m!
infinite joy I found there is at last
:. book made which, though designed fol
V practical utility in the business worl,
:, in the commercial world and in the worl
Il of mechanics and physics, and the liter
: airy world, had devoted some Of it
g choicest pages to that to which all thes'
Q others should be but ministrants, tn
= home and the responsibility Of home
9 making. -,
The human babe, in this encyclopedia
: is held of as much Importance as spong
y or grasshopper, and so there is quite
- lengthy treatise on prenatal and ante
= natal life; it's physical development an
g relation of growth to mental develop
. ment and character; really, my friend
3 1t is as interesting to read about tina
IS little red manikin with only the power {
il crying. and suction from the time VINE
= he has almost no self at all till he be
q comes a well-rounded character, as t
), read some of those nature study book
- on how the tadpole becomes a fros
Seriously, I never realized before whs
a privilege is given to father and mothe
IN watching uf they only knew how
the development of the highest form {
) life till 1t is able, to give expression {
% the. inner life in the, living Of "a goo
=. life. Why, they have the real laborator
q work about which the learned doctor
- write volumes of theory
- There follows nere something / hav
i always wanted but never found, col
~ 1aotinn ~ ha Worl6'o rhoicont fairy IA ~
20 classified in sections, as, the Hindoo sec
~ ton, Japanese, Ara bian, Russian, Greel
y italian, Spanish, German, etc. Then tt
- =, fables of all peoples, classified in tn
-. same way. So charmingly are they tol
~ with their little dashes Of thrown in viz
~ y nettes and prefaced by a chat with DR..
~ Stanley Hall on How to Tell Story"
v, The selections include only those whic
IL are richest and most beautiful and thos
e. from which spring the greatest amount
~ poetry and classic literature. 1t is
10 beautiful presentation of the spirit -,
g. great legends and myths that not on
as will entertain the casual reader but wi
ol stimulate an interest to go farther in
j. the mines from which the treasures ha,
3 been taken. ..@s - IT. ...r..,,.s
~ But there are so many things, TIL
w. should I attempt to do them all justic
o. I should myself be transformed into
OF walking Consolidated Encyclopedia L
wv brary," which would exactly defeat tt
IN high purpose of this wonderful VOL
ed which is not information stuffing b.
ST thought provoking. But to proceed, f
r, when once under the spell of this mast
So minded work. there is constant forWa
e. pushing. -.
n If were limited to just one senten
X about it, l would make it this one
X The text is from the pen Of Mr.. Fra1
OF Roe Batchelder, edited by Mr.: Erne
nd Thompson Seton and inhabited by t.
he wild animals he has known together wi
IS. some very, very tame ones,
'st There is a section devoted to natu
ty study, not in hashed-up comedy chan
g style, but an organized work on ANNA
'ly wild and domestic and birds, domes
lie and wild, fish, frogs and insects. and e
nd cry other creature that in the earth
IL air or sea doth dwell. The best Of
SIN is that Notwithstanding the countle
in number of topics treated nothing stan
nd are introduced to each Individual creatu
in his own natural environment and hol
TX in which the Creator or cirucmstanc
he place him, behaving in his own a
ed pointed way and living in peaceful rel
lr- tion with the members Of his own fami
we no matter where on CHS great glo
or their present residence may be-. Some Q
ses beside you my friend evidently kno
AN the Importance of studying by co
for parison.
sp- Nor did 1 tell you alias though so
me great teacher had planned It, 1t co,
OTIS not stop until it reached the, great fin;
YES in RELATED LITERATURE. So tn,
rm follows rich fund of animal stor
nth such as Damon and Pythias in Dog Lif
hat "The Song that Brought the sunshin