The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-15

and the most earnest devotion now enlisted in the
cause OF religion and that by means of them
vast multitude of children are receiving the
only religious instruction they have anywhere,
and many the only inspira ton to pure and noble
living.
Social Democrats in Germany.-Herr
Georg Won Volmar,- in the National Re-
view for December discusses at length
THE Social Democracy in Germany"
He concludes that social democracy is not
the kind of party to allow itself to be
trihed WITH and that among the German
folk it finds an ineXhaustibe source of
capable of resisting all attacks,
Eveline G. Cooley enters in the same
a Plea for the Protection Of
SHAKESPEARE" in which she protests against
the liberties actors take with Shakspere's
plays. She would. have a national school
of dramatic art to create actors who can
act instead Of being merely figures in
great stage pageants. Sir Leslie Stephen
continues his interesting early impress
sons, and as a special supplement the
assistant editor writes of THE Economics
of Empire-Preference and the Food Sup
ply"
What Christmas Means. = Golfers
Weekly, Christmas number, very properly
has a Christmas editorial, which, among
other things, contains this: ''Tho Christ
mas comes each year, it means too much
ever to be stale. In religion, it celebrates
the best part Of the Christian faith, a new
joy that came into the world AS holi-
day, 1t is the season of expansion, gem
crosby, leading others lives Cold reason
would say that the best time for making
gifts was when necessity called oppOr-
tunlty invited or impulse urged, but
Christmas throws reason to the winds and
opens the arms of faith and profusion
once each year" And then, with the
other features of the number, there is a
poem by James Whitconb Riley 1.-The Old
Days. with this:
There bide the true friends
The first and the best:
There clings the green grass
Close where they rest.
Would they We're here? No:
Would we were there.
The old days-the lost days
How lovely they were.
Chance to Help Good Roads Movement
The Good Roads Magazine for Decem-
Der prints in full the Brownlow bill, anL
editorially urges friends of the good roads
movement to work for it's adoption. Il
contains much else of interest to goot
roads apostles and to good citizens.
| How to Learn About st. Louis Exoo.-
Those who are planning to go to tn,
| worlds fair at st. Louis next SUNNI e
and those who are trying to decide wheth
er it is worth while will all find mucl
| of interest in Worlds Fair Bulletin TO
December. 1t has made one convert tina
we know Of who is beginning to max
deposits in his dime bank in order to &C
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| their publications.
Magazine for Roys.--The Decembe
number Of The American Boy (Spragu
Publishing Co, Detroit, Mich.) is en-
larged in form and in the number {
pages The notable features of the mum
Der are the first chapters of story b
kirk Munroe, who has just returned fro1
a trip around the world. The story
entitled 1.-The Blue Dragon-a Story of til
Chinese Peoples and there is a story by T
l.. Garner the Well-known expert on NOR
keys and monkey life, entitled MY Firs
Monkey" Further chap piers of the editor
story on Three Yankee Boys in Ire
land appear. A long list of other storit
and of articles of interest to boys mall
up very attractive boys magazine.