The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-22


The Author of 1.-THE House Of Full 5
flment." :
Five matrimonial ventures (why not call
them adventuresO are recounted by the
author. There is that Of Alexina, the
daughter of a cold New England father
and southern mother of warm but frivo-
Gus nature. She it is who finds that
Love is enough; no, We who seek saving :.
Go no further hither; there have been
who have found it.,
And these know the House of Fulflment OF
craving;
These know the Cup with the roses around it;
These know the Worlds Wound and the balm
that hath bound it.
Then there is the marriage Of Alexina's
mother, Molly, whose passionate nature
met no response in the iciness of her
husbands marriage which grew out of
admiration, not out of love-. IT was the
failure of this marriage that opened the
eyes of Alexina's aunt on her fathers side
to the highest good of matrimony and
saved her from family traditions which
would have misguided her head, if not
her heart, Again there was Charlotte who
married a man much her senior and came
to-. love him dearly with an affection
which grew from association, and de-
pendence and habit And 'of course
there is a marriage for gold in which all
that looked fair and sweet, to the one
who thought money could buy the great
est good, turned to ashes. -. 2-~.
Il, The characters that absorb the read
er's attention almost wholly are the five
women, and the author shows much
greater skill in. depicting woman than
man, tho Austen, the uncle and guardian
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GOODNESS and selfishness. He is almost
too cold and lifeless.
Alexlna is the central figure. She is in
troduced to the reader as a child, and it
is the story of her child life that is most
satisfying. The author of Emmy Lou''
showed her ability in portraying child
life. Still, the growth Of the girls mind
and heart is disclosed with much skill.
She has no one to instruct her, and she
gets her knowledge of life from observ-
alton and the conversation of others. Her
mother, and Charlotte and herself were
together one day when something recalled
to Charlotte one of the joys Of her youth.
,''Oh.'' she said. 1.-THE joy of youth. the low,
How it comes back, the intoxica ton of
1T, and the living. Drink Deep little Nab, it
never offers twice. l seemed to have deyined
it never would again." - :
The girl looked from woman to the other
Molly still pursued this thing called adulation,
and Mrs. Leroy, big-hearted, simple-souled as
she was, looked yearningy back on that which
gone.
Was this all, then? Was life forever after
empty, except, with Mrs. Leroy of duties
that occupied but did not satisfy?
Alexina learns the answer to her ques-
ton, and gets it thru her own experience
which is satisfying to the reader who
likes to have things come out right"
a IF L.
Verses In New Book Just Issued by Fred
eric Lawrence knowIes.-Frederic Law
| renee Knowles, who writes of ''Love
Triumphant and other things, has beer
heralded as one of the coming great poets
of America. To us there is some GROUND
| for such heraldry in little book Of his
poems bearing the title Love Triumphant
from. that of the first poem in the col
lection. Richard Burton has expressed il
nutshell the qualities displayed by these
poems when he says the author has "art
| heart, thought and imagination We
| have not read them all, but we have
read many Of them and not one of then
have we found which does not show the
truth of DR.. Buttons statement in some
degree. Take the latter half of the title
poem:
There's sight that blinds the sun,
Music that rebukes the birds,
Language lovelier than words
Hue and scent that shame the rose
Wine no earthly vineyard knows,
Silence stiller than the shore -
Swept by Charon's stealthy oar, ..
Ocean more divinely free
| Than Paciic's boundless sea-
Ye who love have learned it true
Dear how long ago we knew!s
| There is in that an adaptation Of form
| to thought, poetic sentiment telling fig
ure, happy diction, sureness of touch ant
much else that goes to make poetry
There is the same directness of approach
and expression in "Laus Mortis': -.
Nay, why should I fear Death. ,.
Who gives us life and in exchange takes breath
That lifts above the soil each buried thing
The lordliest Of all things -.
Life lends us only feet, Death gives us wings
Scythe bearer, when thy blade .. r. -
Harvests my fesh let me be unafraid!
| Gods husbandman thou art!
| In His unwithering sheayes, o bind my heart
One does not expect to find mucl
poetic suggestion in the modern offic
/ building, but the poet, finds among othe
! things this: ;. ss -. ). ,,Ilsis.z So
| The type art thou Of this vast land to me-, .
| Late risen Ger it's fellows. proud and great
The home of toll and yet superby free,
| Lifting with easy grace Times monstrou
! weight i. So /
] For our own part we shall be on tn
lookout more than ever for ME-. knowles
verses. The Uneasy Chair.
BOOKS RECEIVED =; So
y :. $50. Z - -. y Il : +.
THE HOUSE OF FULFILMENT. BY Georg
! Madden Martin, author of Emmy Lou Illus
4trated by George Alfred Williams. New York
+ Mcclure, Phillips g. Co. Minneapolis: Ma
j .,thaniel Mccarthy. :
LOVE TRIUMPHANT. Book of Poems. B
/ Frederic Knowles, author of son Life's Stall
way etc. Boston: Dana Estes s Co..
Il CHATTERBoX FOR 1904. Founded by j.. Ri
j skine Clarke, MA. Boston: Dana Estes.