The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-09
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Omar Repentant.-Om Omar Repentant? He
has need to- be; not because he wrote bad
poetry, but because he put bad morals
into good-magni1cent oetry.' The NOR
ais of his Rubaiyat have been censured
again and again, but it has remained for
Richard lie Gailienne to put singing
censure into Rubaiyatesque verse, good
enough to merit place in every future
edition Of Omar's great work, and deserv-
ing a place there as an antidote for the
Rubaiyat's immorals. Mr.. LIE Challenges.
poem appears in the November number
OF The Cosmopolitan: It begins with the
critic of mature years and a youth. in a
New York den, the youth with copy
of Omar. Then comes this:
Boy. do you know that since the world began
No man hath writ deadlier book for man?
You smile-O yes, know-how old are you?
Twenty-well, just measure twice your span.
Have words to gid the blackness OF the
Said thus, how fair 1t sounds the Vine! the
Grape! srta- 3& go ~ =
0, call it whisky, and be done with it.
your health"-great God! your health! and
straight you drink
Disease and Death-upon the cesspools brink. i
cry ''your health'-and with a laugh you
@ drain :
The poison that makes soul and body stink
"a Farther on follows a picture of the con-
sequences of devotion to ."the Grape! the
'-Whisky-which, if word pictures
were always efficacious, would leave: no
reader a devotee of the cup. *.
Inc magazine is one of numerous at
tractive features. s G
An Appeal In Behalf OF Mrs. Florence
Maybrick's Book.-"Mrs., Maybrick,s own
Story; Her Fifteen Years Of English Pris-
L / IA will hn icc,J To- L.
FUNK 4 Wagnalls company, New York
Ever since her arrival in America she has
been the guest of my family writes
Emmett Densmore, MD, of Brooklyn
This say only to justify my appeal.
The book has been written wholly by Mrs
Maybr1ck, except the legal digest and
other matter in the appendix. It is liter
ally her own story, and it is pitifully pa
thetic. Mrs. Maybrick was sentenced tc
be hanged by a judge who, not long after
the. trial, under the advice of his physi.
! clans, resigned his judgeship because Of g
mental disease. Three days before the
appointed day for execution, the sentence
was committed to Imprisonment for life
Thru the bias of mentally unsount
judge this American woman was kept fol
all these years in an English prison, II
spite Of the urgent circumstances of emf
| nent Americans. There could be scarcely
a greater miscarriage of justice than Their;
was IN this case. ss 49,. -. ~S~..=e ?
I'm her book, Mrs. Maybrick ha.
i brought herself, at the urgency Of he
friends, to tell her story in full. Sh,
tells it now here for the first time, ask
ing for vindication in the minds ant
i hearts of her countrymen. N ~.
l. Mrs. Maybrick has been bereft of he
children, who were taken away from he
by the relatives Of her husband, and nov
finds herself bereft of all her property
Vn+T S1,@ CyY ~..1xx %1>nk I HI
listen to her story and grant her. tn
justice of a thoro vindication. There i
more which and other personal friend
of hers ask the public to remember: I
several hundred thousand American me-
and women will buy this book Mrs. May
brick will thereby receive a lifelong com
potency. Copies of it may now be or
dered in advance of publication thru an
bookseller, or direct from the publishers.
! "Women In Fine Arts."-Clara Frs
/ kline Clements book under the foregoin
4 title is one to attract artists and ar
lovers generally. 1t covers the perio
from the seventh century BIC, to tn
twentieth centurySA.D., and includes half
tone reproductions OF many of the work
of artists Of whom sketches are given. TIL
author has not limited herself to a, mer
statement Of biograp hical facts. but en-
deavors very successfully ito give an ide
of the atmosphere in which the artist
lived and worked and the, + influence
which affected the results Of their labor.
There is an illuminating Introduction deal
ing with art since the renaissance. TIL
artists mentioned in the body of the boo
are taken up In alphabetical order.
Houghton, Miffin & Co., Boston. N. Nc
ss@3 Carthy,a Minneapolis. $3.50 net.
A Sequel to ""JeweI."-Among tn
popular books of last season, Mrs. Clar
Louise Burnham's Jewel" ranked high
Altho dealing with the subject of Chris
tan Science, its appeal was wide. Tn
character Of the little girl for whom tn
story was named, was lovable, full Q
human sympathy and charm. Mrs. Burn
ham has now produced a sequel, Jewel
Story Book, which is intended for young
err readers, but which is sure to interes
those who have read the first book.
Houghton, Miffin & Co., Boston. N. Nc
| : .Carthy, Minneapolis. 80. 80 r.s
True Story OF Adventure for Boys
Such, we are assured, is The Three PrIs
oners, by William Henry Shelton. TIL
prisoners were Sergeant Ned, Tedd
Guggan and Oldenhan Grapes, the tim
, was during the civil war and the plac
the mountains of Virginia.
, A. S. Barnes & Co., New York. $1.25.
Rambling Among the PIanets.-Whe
l Frances Trego Montgomery's 'Wonderfl
2 Electric Elephant came out last veal
, it Immediately became popular She ha
t now issued a sequel entitled On Lar
: to the Planets. In it Harold and Ion
> in company with the Indian prince an
: princess, four characters prominent
the former book, take a ride in tn
Electric Elephant but this time instea
4 of walking, running or swimming, !
= sails thru the air to the various planets
l The book is illustrated by Winifred I
Elrod, with seven full-page colored plate:
The Saalfeld Publishing company, Akron, y
-E Ohio 81 so.