The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-17

But it is here that the contest for mi
ladi's hand begins to grow interesting.
is q clever writer of fiction. but
is a man of no moral fiber, and of dis
honorable past. He develops into "a thoro
villain when he begins to see that he is
being beaten.
The author weaves into the story
glimpse of New York life, which, coming
from a New Yorker, may be taken to be
reasonably true It is the incident Of a
dinner party. DR.. Couteau and DR.. Knapp
attend for professional reasons in part.
DR.. Couteau says of the people who are
to give the party:
Eyes, they are lot of barbarians-the
kind that bride their guests to good ma
ture by coyly dropping a hundred dollar
gimcrack beside each plate, good deal as
you tip q Coney Island waiter in advance.
and then when the gorge is over, the host
tries to get square by Juggling out his
roulette wheel and turning his drawing
room into a gambling den The only diff
ference is that in gambling house you
can limit your losses, whereas IN one of
these private games the first thing that
you know they'll have you running the
wheel, when you stand to lose any amount
according to what some little whipper-
snapper with more money than brains
may choose to chuck on the table,
Amos loses s638, and gets off easily.
DR.. Rowland, the author, writes from
life af1oat and ashore. He served in the
navy thru the Spanish American war and
afterwards in two separate voyages to the
Philippines as surgeon in the United
States army. He saw service afioat and
ashore in this capacity. He made voyages
about the islands of the archipelago and
to China and Japan, later returning to
practise surgery in New York city. He
therefore writes from experience. He has
considerable room for Improvement as a
story-teller. The presence Of the story
teller is too apparent turnout the tale.
Instead Of being lost with the characters,
who are drawn with considerable skill.
you are conscious most Of the time that
you are not watching the business itself
but are only hearing some one tell about
it. However, that need deter no one from
reading the story for fear it will prove I'M
Interesting.
that hits The Uneasy Chair favora bly,. It
belongs to little book Of poems by
Henry and Helen Chadwick, the proem
of which follows:
From these stone streets would go
Where the pines rude blossoms blow;
Where the winds the leaf lids lift,
Letting sunshine thru each rift;
Where bright brooks keep. ceaseless song
AS their foam fecks file along;
Where the outer ocean lies
Solitary meath the skies;
Where the wind built sand dunes lift
Sun-bleached shoulders. drift on drift.
Far from tasteless toll to fly,
There I'd rest, and I'd be l.
That is a good example of what the
book contains. AS to the sentiment OF
this, the Chair says, Here. tool
new novel by a new writer, Emerson Clifford
Tay1Or'S Daughter Of Dale is announced
by the Century company, the date of publication
May Is. The book is said to tell most en-
tetainingly the story of Barbara. the daughter
! of Dale'' her devoted grandfather, an honoret
professor Of Dale, and her two rival wooers
| students in the graduate school ut Dale. Mr.
| Taylor is a graduate of Yale, Yale doctor o.
Palma mater.