The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-04
BALLADE OF SOUR GRAPES.

BALLADE OF SOUR GRAPES.
Oft do I strive with god-like toll
On clear Parnassian heights to dwell.
While Smith, the author, keen for spoil,
Carpenters novels just to sell. -.@
His work is drivel. wot 1 well,
But still his mill grinds golden grist
The while his sales to millions swell
The poor, Successful Novelist!
With fendish cunning, smooth as OIL
He's robbed the master minds pell NELL
Excerpts from Hardy, Howells and Doyle
Are peculated by the ell.
+ His heroines damosel
Just like thousand more I visit
How you succeed cannot tell,
0 poor, Successful Novelist! $3.50
1t fills my breast with wild turmoil
lis That such fat wit success should spell,
While at Fame's doorstep must broil ~ ~, 81
With no one there to mind the bell.
In vain my classic goods I yell;
For when stop I'm never missed, ~.
ed Tho friends acknowledge I excel.
The poor, Successful Novelist!
Public, I would such luck befell
That my fair genius I might twist
Like him who claims your L,
The poor, Successful Novelist.
Wallace Irwin in the February Bookman.
Rev. Mr.. Vrooman's little book, The Fed
Grafton of Religions, an organization Of
which he is the president, explains the
t ~
build the affairs upon which the sacrificial
tests can be made which will prove whose
Lord is God" Elijah conducted such a
crucial test on Mount Carmel and the test
proved the God of Israel to be GOD in fact
Mr.. Vrooman is not satisfied with such
historical narrative Of sacrificial test. but
he. and the Federation propose to sift the
religions of the world and discover the
truth in each, drawing the dividing line
between religious knowledge and dogma
between what is known and what is simply
asserted in the absence Of knowledge. II
other words, the Federation proposes to in
form the world what truth is, thru the ap
| plication of reason, altho the author doe:
not directly propose to attempt to kicl
away the ladder Of divine revelation in tn,
Christian scriptures. In that volume, tn,
Christ gave the key to the knowledge O
| God, when he said that, if any man Woult
know the true doctrine, let him do tn
will Of God. Mr.. Vroonan believes il
'direct spiritual revelation. but he propose
to give men a rational theology. discrimin
ating between facts Of phenomena AM
philosophical deductions and inductions o
reason. The Federation proposes to recon
struct theology OH a rational basis and tn
process. as set forth in Mr.. Vrooman'
book, will be found very interesting.
| Mr. Mansfield in his London letter to thu
Literary World for February, says:
."The lovers of photographic treasures ar
having a neriod of unrest the final dispo
sition of the newly found manuscript of the frs
book of Paradise Lost However. there b
those temperate minds who think 1T really no
| worth troubling about. Rumor has it-ant
ruinor it most probably is-that Pierpont Nor
gan has offered $4,000 for the doubtful treas
ure while DR.. Furnival. in open letter of ad
vice to the British museum authorities, declare
its worth to be not $500: which is most likel
true enough, in that it is mere scrivener'
copy anyway and has not even interpola tons o
corrections by the poets hand.
The Charles y. Lauriat company. 301 Wash
ington street Boston. has out a catalog o
old books with announcement of the com
pany;s annual clearance sale