The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-12


This all ends by Harris being ordered
from the house.
OF the book Mr.. Dixon says:
claim the book is authentic human docu-
ment, and know it is the most important moral
deed of my life. There is not bitter Or ma
Ignant sentence in it, 1t may shock the preju
dices of those who have localized or worshipped
the negro as canonized in Uncle Tom" Is it
not time they heard the whole truth? They have
heard only one side for forty years.
The only question for critic to determine
when discussing my moral right to publish such
book is this: Is the record of life given i'm
portant and authentic? If eighteen millions of
southern people, who at present rule believe
What my book expresses, is it not we'll to know
1t? l assert that they do believe it, and the
number of southern white people to-day who dis
agree with '"rhe Leopards Spots could all be
housed on q half-acre lot. challenge any man
to deny this. If it is true, is it not Of ire
mendOus importance that the whole nation shall
know it? ..
The man who wrote the book and has
thus defended it was born in 1864 and
graduated from Wake Forest college, N.
G.. at the age of 10. Having secured
scholarship he took postgraduate work at
Johns Hopkins. He afterward studied law
and was admitted to the bar, becoming in
1884 a member of the North Carolina
legislature. In 1886 he turned aside from
legal practice to study for the ministry.
BY 1889 he was pastor Of the Peoples
|. Temple (Baptist) OF New York, a position
which he continued to fill until 1S99 After
leaving the Peoples Temple he lectured.
The story Of '"The Leopard's Spots" was
simmering, however, and finally came to
light. His 1.-THE One Woman" is said to
have brought from his publishers a. letter
asking him to name his own terms.
F. Schuyler Mathews is preparing for G. P.
Putnams Sons a companion volume to Facts
About Wild Flowers which will bear the title
'Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music"
1yoJ,,, 1y;11 I,1s
ings in Japanese style. while the text will be in
terpolated with Scores so that the reader, by
sounding the notes on musical instrument, may
be enabled to identify the birds when they are
heard in the forest or field.
The growth of interest in the Lewis
and Clark expedition, that by which the
continent was first spanned by government
explorers, has been marked within the
past two or three years. An excellent
outline study of the expedition is to be
found in Rocky Mountain Exploration, one
OF the latest of Appleton's "Expansion Of
the Republic Series" The story of Rocky
mountain exploration is told by Reuben
Gold IhWa1tes' whose name has appeared
on the title pages Of several recent books
OF western history. The author has given
by far the most of his space to the above
mentioned expedition. There is an an
propriateness in this he says. "Their
expedition Chat of Lewis and Clark
/ was the HfSt to cross the continent under
the auspices Of the United States govern
ment; in many ways it was, considering
both the occasion and the result, the most
| important Of all-other expeditions but
continuing and broadening the work of
the men who broke the PATH The book
is dedicated, by the way, to John john
ston, LII. D.. for twelve years president
of the Wisconsin Historical society,
OF the same series is Steps In the Ex-
pansion OF Our Territory, by Oscar P.
Austin, which gives a comprehensive re-
cltal of the movements of the American
Tag. Numerous maps illuminate the text
Both volumes are carefully indexed, and
Will be found especially useful as addi-
tons to educational libraries,
There are things which boys should
know, and which they come to know SOON
err or later, but not always in the way
they should. Books which tell about these
things with discretion and Judgment,
therefore. have a peculiar value. Man
hoods Morning Is a book of this sort
and cannot do harm to any boy who is
approaching the days when he must meet
the more serious problems of young man
hood face to face; on the contrary. we
do not see how it could fail to benefit anv
thoughtful youth, and possibly it would
make some thoughtless ones thoughtful
! 1t covers wide field, as shown by the
following partial list Of chapter headings:
What Some Young Men Have Done. :"
wild Oats and Other Weeds" "Rea sons
Why Yovng Men Go Wrong Paying the
Piper What Young Men Must Be-