The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-24

Lorne is in politics and love at the
same time, and it seems to us that fate,
or Mrs. Cotes, treats him rather shabbily
in both, but it is not The Uneasy Chairs
duty to tell how. IS -
Much more interesting than Lornes love
affair is that Of his sister, Advena and
young Scotch clergyman, Hugh Ffnlay.
A fool notion" of Hugh's stands in the
way of their marriage and almost results
In tragedy-apparently would have done
soahad it not been for Theresa crifice Of good
old Dr.; Drummond, a sacrifice to which
this chair lis not yet quite reconciled.
Still, he saved Hugh for Advena, and Ad-
Yena, being q girl after the chairs own
heart, the chair would not have had her
lose a man who after all was worthy and
whom she loved, A glimpse of Advena's
fharac ter is caught from this, early in
the tale:.@ -. ,...,,.,t .'. s:. - ' -
THE inevitable hour arrived when she
should pc instructed in the piano, and the
second time the music teacher came her
pupil was discovered on the roof Of the
house with the ladder drawn up after her.
She dld not wish to learn the piano. and
from that point of vantage informed her
family that it was a waste of money!
rms may look; as it stands alone. like
W1tulness; in reality it was only the con-
quot OF girl who knew her own mind.
10 sum up in a word. the neon1e ono
q.
hghtful people to know for the most mart
ana there is something about the whole
story that envelopes the reader in q thor-
oily refreshing Canadian atmosphere.
The Uneasy Chair.
nathaniel Hawthorne was born Jnlv
ioV4: Ih1s year, therefore, marks the
hundredth anniversary of his birth. 70
GO. are to issue Hawthorne'ss hest
Work-Ihe Scarlet Letter-certainlv the
greatest novel written by an American
IN an edition. limited to 1875 copies on Jan
an paper, and one copy on vellum. The
lettsrpress will be an exact reimpression
~ ne or!slnal edlt1on There will be fif-
teen original colored Illustrations. all fuIl
page, by A. Romandi and G. Graham. The
volume will be in special binding.
An important contribution is made to
the story of America in verse by Clinton
Scoiiard and Wallace Rice in Ballads Of
v vaaor ana victory, Being Stories In Song
from the Annals of America. The present
work has fifty, each Of the authors con-
triDut1ng twenty-five. The book begins
with a spirited invocation, Mother
Land by Mr.. Scotland, to the nation at
large calling upon the descendants of the
To guard lest Mammon's yultunous 1pst @
Prove both to be our bane and ban.
10 Keep our fathers simple trust
In something godIier than man:
To hold with rapt remembrancing
The memory Of glories gone,
Yet like the frstlng flowers of sprinp
To set our faces toward the dawn.
If but thy sons answering stand.
Of heroes dead the worthy peers
Then shalt thou march, o Mother-Iand
Triumphant thru the crowding years
This is followed !. by Mr.. Rice's "The
First American Sailors celebrating the
achievements Of Ellzabeths five great
knights from southern England, Hum
phrey Gilbert, Francis Drake, Walter
Raleigh, Richard Grenville and John
Hawkins, each being assigned stanza
connecting him with American history.
| A collection of essays by Robert Louis Steven
son, which had never been brought together in
book form outside of the subscription edition,
was published last fall by Herbert B. Turner
& Co., Of Boston, in their dainty edition Of
| Stevenson. The publishers announce a second
edition Of this volume, to which they have added
| illustrations.