The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-28

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| THE POETS OF TRANscENDENTAL1sM. AN
I OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES by George Willis Cooke
WIN introduction essay and biographical notes.
Sos,on:. Houghtoll, 2Miffin & Co. M inneapolis ::
i :Nathanel. Mccarthy. Price ~. ts5e,. . ~
| Some of the finest American poetry
+ conceived and written is to be found in !
this book New England aTranscend-
&enta ism was cha IA cterized by no arid and
| tQrmenting Technology. like that Of Kant (
! but Ut accepted the Kantia1 transcend
entail the a priori function of the specu-
| latlve5 reason as verified in Eexperience
! yet having validity beyond it, Trans.
I cendant is the sphere above and beyond
! experience: J.. s., sense and ~experience
! KANT with all his excursions into the fog
| of metaphysics held fast to the great
! realities of God moral freedom and i'm
mortality. These realities fill the poems in
! this volume with luminous intelligence
| The New England Transcendental move
ment was revolt from the theology rep
/ resented by Edwards and it claimed that
lEits ambition was to eXalty the dignity Of
I man. which they thought was 9disparaged
Fly thesold theology beHausesiit: held that
The was a sinnertneeding salvation by this
/ sacrifice of the cross. This position Of the
Observation-Disclosures is well expressed by
3l-Augusta Bristol in her <'The odd Song
and the New on pages 270-274; although
| the real s'Oll Song never eNinced such
a sentiment as that the world is orphaned
and God: is away from the world
I Among the Observation-Disclosures contribut-
ling, to5the intellectual beauty and wealth
LOT this handsome volume. are Emerson.
! Lowell, Bronson, Alcott, Thoreau Mar
garet Fuller. William Ellery Claiming,
freeman Clarke, ) Ellen Hooper, c. A.
Dana, George William Curtis, Theodore
Parker Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
4 Sydney Morse, Ednah Cheney Julia Ward
# Ia cEs VIC
Hosmer; Anna BraclSett There is abs
;ography Of each poet.s Exquisite. indeed.
are such poems as Hoslner's The sMys1s
terry of God";;, Edna Cheney 81 Waiting
Help Julia Ward Howe's THE House Of
}. Rest; Channing's 1.-The. Breath of
Spring; Alcott's Excellence; Lowell S
1.-The Street, and Love Reflected in
| Nature''; Emerson's ~"Rhodora.' The
| religious: element in the Transcendental
movements dominant in these poems.
WILLIAM ELLERY CLAIMING, MINISTER
/ OF RELIGION. BY John White Chadwick
Boston: Houghton, Mifhin & Co. Minneapo-
e lis: n. Mccarthy. :. Price $1.15. ....
x MT. Chadwick is one of Charming S
+ most ardent admirers and would impress
upon a generation which knows not the
Il distinguished thinker as we'll as he did
II the Catholic charity, the luminous
Il spiritual life, the humanity of the man. :
II Charming, i'll his early years and minori-
fly, belonged to the evangelical and Cal
ENinistic Congregations of New England,
;Ebut when the Unitarian controversy split
7 the Congregat ionaF church, Claiming went
|,with the liberals; who represented the
Erevolt5 against the Gavinistic trinitarian-
sf;isrn and doctrine of sin and mans deprav-
lily. The author gives considerable space
ito this disintegratmg. Unitarian contro-
iversy. After his visit to Europe, Chan
lining began to take deeper interest in
! 1.-THE Social and political questions of his
time, advocating the extension of educa-
yttional facilities to all classes. His purely
: Literary output. was small and limited to
'Ethree. or four articles in the Christian Elk
= aminer@ But at that time, there was linn
y tied literary stimulus in this country. Bry
= ant and Pierpont and Irving had written
crsditabe things, but there was so little
= purely. literary work that Channing's few
4 articles excited profound admiration Six
q volumes Of ,Channings sermons and "The
4 Perfect Life,' represent his powers as a
preacher Many manuscript sermons were
: accidentally destroyed by fire.. DR.. Chad
4 wick gives a very good summary of what
i Claiming preached in the eighth chapter.
In the anti-slavery movement period he
. was slow in taking his stand with the
radical abolitionists. When he did So
many of his Boston, acquaintance gave
him the dead cut. He felt it to be his
duty to oppose slavery at whatever per-
Il sonal cost, and he herolcally acted on that
'1line. Much of interest is related as TIC
& Channing's personal life and envronage
He had a perfect domestic happiness. cit
4 is a good world he wrote, "notwithstand-
& ing the darkness hanging over it. The
longer live the more see the sun break
. ing through the clouds l am sure the
sun is above them" He loved natura
i beauty and took delight in his farm anG
garden. II almost wonder at myself, wller
/ think of the pleasure the dawn gives me
e after having witnessed it SO many years
i This blessed light Of heaven, how dear il
q is to me! And this earth, which I have
trodden so long. with what affection
; look on it!' he once exclaimed. There are
photos of two portraits of Charming il
: the volume.
Literary Notes.
n Irving Bacl1eller's new novel, .Davrel o
\ the Blessed Isles" will be issued early il
April.
H. r.. Coates & Co., Philadelphia, an
Z nounce '.rhe Tu-Tze's Tower,'ssby Mis-
I Louise Belts Edwards of that city. Thu
hook is based on the Chinese uprisin,
I in 1900.
8 The fourth and last volume of Mis-
Susan B. Anthonys History of Woman
Suffrage has been issued. The grea
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