The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-18

THE WEAVING OF WEBS. By F. W. Van |
Praag, Author Of .'Clayton Halowell.'' New
8 York: Il. F.. Fenno & Co., Nos and II East |
Sixteenth street
This is a well-constructed story of the
civil war, embodying the adventures and
perils of a union officer sent by General
Mcclellan inside the confederate lines to
obtain much needed information about
Lees movements. The colonel-Carroll
was his name-got into some trouble, was
captured after being wounded, and was
so saved from being shot instantly. The
romance Of the story comes in with the
introduction, Of Miss Ethel Henderson. a
'secesh'' girl, who fell in love with the
spy and dressed in boys clothes to fol-
low him about as his factotum, and nursed
him when wounded, unknown, however,
to Carroll, who had met her early in his
career as a spy in Richmond. The girls
father was an Englishman who had come
over to get confederate contracts and had
married her mother. a southern woman,
Carroll's dealings with him were not Of
the most pleasant kind. but few spies
ever won fair maidens as Carroll did, for
the webs which were woven nearly ac-
complished his ruin.
OLD SOUTH LEAFLETS. How the United
States Grew. Boston: The Directors Of the
Old South Work. Old South Meeting House.
Price, 50 cents -' -
Brissot's Account Of Boston in 1888, the
Ordinance Of 1884, the Cession of Loui-
siana Monroes Messages. on : Florida
Captain Potter'ss Account Of the Fall Of
the Almo, Porter's Account of the Dis
Ilcovery of the Columbia River, Summers
| Report on the War with Mexico, and
| Stewards Address on Alaska. These are
all valuable papers. That on the &cession
4 of Louisiana is timely. Summers report
on the war with Mexico is most caustic
arraignment of the Polk administration
and the slave-holding oligarchy for their
unconstitutional proceedings for the ex-
| tension of slave territory. Stewards ad-
dress on Alaska and the text of the treaty
of cession from Russia, are of deep in
terest in view Of the ratification Of the
! treaty with Great Britain providing for
kthe investigation into the meaning of the
convention Of 1925, which settled the
boundary between Great Britain and Rus
1sia. The Old South .Leafets are in in
creasing demand by students :Sof history
|,as many original papers not ca silly &C.
cessible to the public, are reprinted.
SAN FRANCISCO AND THEREABoUT. By
Charles Keeler. San Francisco: The Cali
fornia Promotion Committee. Hlustra ted.
The author has produced very inter
4 esting sketch Of the romantic past of thu
u city at the Golden Gate. Way back il
dence on, the Atlantic coast, the padre:
of the Order of ST. Francis set up thei
tents on the shores Of the bay. and il
September took possession for KIM
i Charles III. of Spain and shortly after
Iward the mission of San Francisco d
Assist was founded and prospered will
| the aid of the pious fund, SO that in 182
the mission possessed vast numbers o
cattle, horses, sheep and hogs and larg
grain farms. Then Americans began t
come in. The war with Mexico expedite'
the Americanization of the country an,
1.-THE discovery of gold settled the futur
of California and San Francisco suddenl
burst its contracted bounds and ex
; panded all over. the hills of the PENN
sula The Argonauts worked a trans
; formation The author devotes chap
) ter to the railway and bonanza kings
, and then describes the commercial an
, industrial growth of the city. dwelling
upon its great Importance with referenc
: to the growing American trade with tn
, orient. @+s a~F