The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-21

The inn of the story is QUIET country
place on Dartmoor in Devonshire, Eng
land. Each Of the authors is responsible
for one OF the four characters: Kate
Douglas Wiggin for Miss Virginia Pome-
roy Of Richmond, Mary Findlater for Mrs.
MacGill, Jane Findlater for Miss Cecilia
Evesham, and Allan McAulay for Sir
Archibald Maxwell Mackenzie Mrs. Wig
gin and Mr.. McAulay have rather the best
OF the allotment in that their characters
are those who have the center of the
STAGE But the Misses Findater have
done in Mrs. MacGill and Miss Evesham
two very lifelike characters who con-
tribute much. to the storys interest. Mrs.
MacGill is particularly good.
Each person in the little drama tells his
own story, chapter by chapter. each in
Its proper place, as tho 1t came from
diary. Virginia, in the following, is re-
cording a little conversation with Sir
Archibald:
do you approve of marriage-go in for it,"
queried Sir Archibald in somewhat startling
manner, after a long pause and putting steadily
the while.
II approve of it entirely answered, ..es
pec1aly for men; women are terribly hampered
81 should have put that in exactly the oppo-
site way he said thoughtfully.
II know you WOULD 1 retorted, ''and that's
precisely the reason 1 phrased it as I did. One
must keep your attention alive by some means
work entirely
Only a pretty girl, and very sweet girl,
a somewhat roguish girl would have
dared that to Sir Archibald, who hadn't
| much use for girls under any circum-
stances, not even for Virginia. But the
| speech pleased him, he laughed and said
You're an awful good chap, American
or not!''
| It was not long after this until Sir
Archfbald's feelings toward Virginia had
undergone a change. How could it help
undergoing q change toward the girl Mrs.
| Wiggin has so cleverly portrayed and
such a bit of beauty as Martin Justice has
pictured in his Illustrations? But what
do you think of a man who would describe
his changing feelings thus?
| - and before become the sort of blither-
| ing idiot that man is when in love, must
and shall be of; 1t is not the girl I funk;
and 1 know I never shall 1t is the feeling I
am beginning to have about her. When she is
not there feel as If something necessary to my
existence were wanting-as If 1 had come off
without a Observation-Disclosures gone out in a
| tephat and frockcoat without umbrella op a
showery day In town. When man gets to feel
thus about another human being, it is time he
was off.
But it would not do to judge Sir Archi-
bald harshly because of his lack Of skill
In framing smiles. He is a pretty good
chap Scotchman or not, and his feelings
were only changing, not changed. 49,
Altogether, the affair at the inn, as set
| forth in the rectangular venture in auth
orship just given to the public, is one
to delight the reader of fiction, or of any
thing else for that matter. 1t is, as we
called 1t above, a dainty CONNECTION, light
and unsubstantial, like cream puff.
A rumor is current that Maude Adams
has been studying the Mennonite people
of Pennsylvania with a view to playing a
dramatization Of "Tillie: a Mennonite
Maid"
Paul Laurence Dunbar, known as the
poet laureate of the negro. race, is lying
seriously i'll at the home of his mother IN
Dayton, Ohio, with complication of
throat and lung ailments, which, It Is
thought will cause his DEATH He has
been in bed for nearly two months and
the attending physicians give scant en-
couragement Dunbar himself, however
is optimistic and says he has no inten-
ton of dying. ----,f.
The Rev. Hugh Black of Edinburgh
author of "Friendship," ''Work," etc., is
about to issue thru the Macmillan com
pany 1.-THE Practice Of Self Culture The
subject of the somewhat philosophical dis
cussion in his recent book, Culture. and
Restraint" is here treated from the
standpoint of the question:: In what prac
tical ways can the self be equipped for
service? He does not present self culture
as in itself complete ideal for human
life. but as part of the education nee
essary to make a mans contribution tc
the world worthy.
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