The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-13
LITERARY NOTES


by Henry Williams The book contains
a very interesting aggregation OF facts
and a deal of fancy, as "a white mark
on the nail bespeaks misfortune" and
Pigs running about with straws in their
mouths foretell rain Price, rs cents.
SHAKESPEARE students can get good
fac-simile of the first folio
of Shakspere, which, for students pur-
poses, is just as grand the famous first
folio, from Funk and Wagnalls, who first
issued it just after Donnelly brought out
his first folio cipher sensation.
Great Britain supports only four liter
airy journals deserving the name-The
Athenaeum, The Academy, The Literary
World and the literary supplement Of the
London Times.
3 Mrs Humphry Wards country residence
in England bears the unromantic name,
Stocks" It suggests only the ancient
punitive process and the tumult of the ex-
change.
my Friend Prospero" is the title of
Henry Harland's new novel, beginning
serial1y in the June issue of McClure's.
The scene is in Italy
About $4,000 of the 100000 needed
for Harvards proposed I'm erson's hail.
to be devoted to the study of philosophy
has been subscribed
The American Philosophical society of
Philadelphia, which Benjamin Franklin
hundredth anniversary of the philosophers
birth. Franklfns scientific, diplomatic
and literary career was remarkable He
was the only man who signed four of the
most important documents in the world
the Declaration Of independence, the
Treaty of Alliance with France the
Treaty Of Peace with Great Britain and
the Federal Constitution
Houghton, MiffIin & Co. announce "Cor-
respondence of the Colonial Governors of
Rhode Island edited by Gertrude S. Kim
ball, and Great Epochs in Art History.,,
by James M. Hoppin, former professor Of
art in Yale university.
Here are some epfgrams from Emerson:
Go with mean people. and you think
life is mean. Then read Plutarch, and the
world is proud place. peopled with men
of positive quality, with heroes and demi-
gods standing around us, who will not let
us sleep."-Books.
1t makes great difference to the force
OF any sentence, whether there be a man
behind it, or no."-Representative Men.
The secret Of genius is to suffer no fic-
I1on 10 exist Tor us; to realize all that we
know; in the high refinement of modern
life, in arts, In sciences, in books. in men
to exact good faith, reality, and pur-
pose; and first, last, midst and without
end, to honor every truth by use Repre-
sentative Men.
Joseph Conrad has written new book
FAX, and Two Other Novelties. which
Mcclure Phillips & Co. will publish in the
autumn. Another book of Conrad's. "Ro-
nance, will be published by that firm
next spring.
The Macmillan company announces
'Idylls of the Glass; by Martha wolfen;--
stein, who relates stories of Jewish life in
a German town generation ago. This
firm will publish in October Arthur r.
re rnr c-f<
ley" life of Wesley in the form of fic-
ton
Professor Z. T. Ely's "The Evolution ~
Industrial Society will be issued by the
Macmillan company on June l. This firm
Will publish limited edition of the works
of Matthew Arnold in fifteen volumes de
luxe form. The first volume will appear
In June.
The Grafton Press, New York. has pub
lished Confessions of Chorus Girl by
Madge Merton, who in the first person.
tells how she was stage struck, ran away
from the convent where she attended
school and began an engagement as a
chorus girl with many illusions which
were dissipated.
The Macmillan company announce
Worlds Children" by Dorothy Menpes,
profusely Illustrated in color
Houghton, Mffflin & Co., Boston, an
nounce THE Confiscation of John Chand
ler's Estate" by Andrew NJ Davis.
R. II. Russell, New York, announces
Marjorie novel by Justin Huntley
Mccarthy, author of 'Tf I Were King
and Tales Of the Spinner by Jerome
Doucet. popular young author Of
France.
R H. Russell. New York, announces
plantation Bird Legends by Miss
Martha Young, and "Old Plantation
Days" by Martha S. Gielow.
The subscriptions to the memorial fund
to the late Sir Walter Besant amount to
only $1,000 after much effort.
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York.
announce new book by Ralph Waldo
Urine to be issued in the autumn, and a
new edition of 10000 copies of his I'm
Tune With the Infinite
The Scofield Publishing company, 1884
Dearborn street, Chicago, have published
Jack Henderson Down East" by Ben
jamin F. Cobb, Illustrated book full of
fun, even if it Is not written in Addison
ian and Johnsonese English
The American Unitarian association an
nounces Religious Freedom in American
Education" by Joseph Henry Croker.
Little. Brown & Co., the authorized pub
fishers Of Sienkiewic's works, state that
nearly 750, 900 copies of "Quo vadis' have
been sold. The same book is stated nv