The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-07

TO be very frank, the chair cannot see
what Linn saw to love In Katharine.
She is said to have been rarely lovely
and sweet and it is inferred that she
was clever, ,or perhaps at least intelli-
gent. "A character, SO described must
gmake good" She must have such a; part
in the action. Of the story and speak such
part as to give evidence that she Is all
that is claimed for her. Katharine does
neither, and is, therefore, a very shadoWy
heroine"
Another failure on the part of the au-
thor is to inject a flavor Of humor. One
finds no vein Of It, tho he may be said
to find traces Of it in Frank Thetford, a
burglar who loves his profession" and
things. aS
For the great adventure" it can be said
that it seems to be satisfactory In a meas
ure only where it is confined to Wall
street. The adventurer's dealings out
side Of that lack. much in realistic draw
ing.
We are told that we have assembled from the
ape; but some Of us are using round-trip tickets.
Poor Richard juniors Philosophy, in the
Saturday Evening Post
A portrait sketch of a man who is
subject and knows how to draw a clear
p1cture-that is Francis E., Leupps The
| Man Roosevelt. There is no attempt on
the part Of Mr.. Leupp to give highly
| colored or any kind Of biography Of the
president, only a desire to show the char
acter Of the man from a knowledge Of
| him, both in public and private life
| AS a key to a remarkable character"
| Mr.. Leupp points to the fact that the
president, physically weakling in his
boyhood, has acquired by Spartan train
ing a. body like spring STEEL" This and
| other changes ''have been wrought by
the sheer exercise Of will. The man has
conquered nature. Every fresh victory
has strengthened his self-confidence, a
this confidence has furnished the pro-
pulsive force for his next assault"
To those who think the president Is a
genius the author has this to say:
President Roosevelt is not genius. He is
| man OF no extraordinary natural capacity.
| AS author lawmaker, administrator, huntsman,
| athlete, soldier, what you will, his record con.
tains nothing that might not have been accom-.
/ intelligence. Such prestige as he enjoys above
his fellows he has acquired partly by hard work
i and partly by using his mother-wit in his choice
4 of tasks and his method Of tackling them.
The man who can be SO matter-of fact
in the first chapter Of his book, where
1
ecstasies, It seems to US, Is worthy Of a
hearing.
Stating Mr.. Roosevelt's attitude in the
postoffice muss. Mr.. Leupp says:
/ Ali the .ipolitics' Of the situation as far Of
| Mr.. Roosevelt could see, the politics Of cap
turing rascals and putting them into the peni
tertiary or the pillory regardless Of who they
were by whom appointed, or what the par
Iticular influence that still stood at their backs
LIZ damage were to come to the party it would
leone, he believed. from having rottenness in the
lpostal service, not from digging out
1t is difficult to see how a reader o.
this book, II he be Roosevelt enthusiast
4 would not become more enthusiastic, OF
how an anti-Roosevelt reader could fai
to ask himself the question whether the
4 right man was not in the right place ir
the White House now.
j The publishers Of Stony Lonesome, By
i A. j. Russell, the "Nonpareil Man. o.
I The Journal, are showing meritet
faith in the book by pushing it as {
spring publication. Tho it was sold IL
Minneapolis late in December, 1t is fo
most places spring book, not having
i McNa1ly & Co., the publishers, predic
that Mr. Russell is a newcomer In tn,
field of fiction. They say, with the utmos
truth, that "It is clear that Mr.. Russell
has been boy himself and that he has {
long memory They predict that Ston,
|, Lonesome will become the talk Of tn
town"
There is one thing The Uneasy Chat
feels no uneasiness about, and that is tina
it will never have anything to answer 70
In having indorsed STONY Lonesome" t
, the limit It (the chair was a boy one
, itself and done things that Short
1 Hitchcock and the rest Of the Ston