The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-26
THE NEW NOVELIST.

A white sheet and fountain pen
And words that follow fast;
He fills the paper full of lines,
His brow is overcast; As.
His brow is overcast, my boys,
While many a fearsome fight
He deftly brings about to fill
His readers with delight.
"Ho, for another CORY page"
He cries, and then proceeds
To send his hacked-up hero forth
TO do prodigious deeds;
To do prodigious deeds, my boys,
His pages drip with gore,
Each thrilling chapter must contain
A dozen fights or more.
3 The bloody business ends at last,
The book then goes to press;
Two hundred thousand copies sell
In seven weeks or less;
a In seven weeks or less, my boys,
His fortunes made, and he
Rents some Italian villa and
From worldly careais free.
IS. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald.
Doubleday, Page & Co. will bring out, prob
ably Sept, 8. ''old Gorgon Graham" being more
letters from the 'self-made merchant to his
son, by George Horace Lorimer. This second
volume is addressed to the son actually engaged
in business.
Houghton Miffin & Co. are to bring out a
popular edition Of sills poems in one volume
poets are In more constant demand than Sills.
To him who seeks a comprehensive and
lucid account of the Kishinef massacre
and Its bearings we can recommend with
out hesitation Russia at the Bar of the
American People, a memorial Of Kishinef
This Is a book of records and documents,
collected and edited by Isidore Singer, Phi
D., protector and editor of "The Jewish
Encyclopedia There the story is SET
forth in brief in it's principal bearing II
offers to the statesmen and philanthropists
of our time valuable material for the solu-
ton OF one of the most momentous prob
lens of modern history. Chapters l., II.
III, and VI .sof the book are devoted tc
| the Kishinef massacres, giving an authen-
| tic and detailed account Of them; telling
| Of the impression produced upon the Amer
lean people by the horrible tale of the
Russian bartholomew of 1908: relating the
steps taken by our government to trans
NIT to the government of Russia the peti
| ton Of the American people prepared b.
/ Leo N.aLevi, the recently deceased presi
dent Of the Independent Order of B'na
birth Ito whose memory the book il
dedicated); and finally presenting the
this book Of the judicial proceedings O
the trial of the Kishinef rioters which ex
tended from Nov 10 to Dec. 81, 1903
In Chapter ". entitled 1.-THE Judgmen
of Gentle Russia" thirty-four Of ths
most eminent Russian statesmen generals
! church dignitaries, and economists rang.
ing chronologically from 1772, the very
year Of the first annexation of Poland
down to 1904, plead for the emancipation
of the Jews in Russia.
The student of the Philippine situation
will find something worth his while II
The Philippines and the Far East, b,
Homer G. Stuntz. Mr.. Stuntz believes
! that America has great mission in the
of the Philippines previdentially. He say!
in his preface:
| 1t has been laid upon me to write this book
After eight years experience among similar con
| ditions In British India, and more than tW,
| years in the Philippines, it came to me as
1 duty to set down In order the things whicl
American voters and American Christians ough
to know for their guidance in helping shap
the policies OF the nation and furnishing sup
port for our missionary societies in the worl
God has appointed each to do among thes
people.
| Mr.. Stuntz describes the archipelago
giving a useful map, answers the question
| 'Who are the Filipinos?" writes of thu
social order, sketches the history of thu
islands, and then goes into the problem
1 that confront America there. He believe
that Russia is a menace in the east, and o
the relations Of Russia and the Unite
States says:
Russia is no friend Of the United States
i When it has cost her nothing, she has smile
on us, on the principle that it is well to hav
! few enemies as possible when large interest
are at stake. But let any Russian interest an
tagonize this alleged friendship, and the hea
evoked by the contact will burn this so-calle
friendship like tow in furnace. ~
The Uneasy Chair