The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-06

Ihere is no gong behlnd the returns, SO
this must be some more real diary of a
real boy 1t sounds like it, immensely
SO. And as boys diary it makes book
worth studying, not only in order to de-
rive amusement but to study boy nature.
For that reason Henry A. Shute has pro-
duced something of a human document
For. example it helps to solve that deep
attachment, of boys for their mothers
(when mothers are like Henry's), to read
Of the boys experience when his father
has sent him supperless to bed. This is it:
-- and when it was almost dark mother
came up with tray and she had fride one of
the ptkerel and had some tost and a baked po-
tato and i set up and had a bully supper
mother wasent mad a bit with me but she told
mel did -rong but she gessed f-got my pay for
it and CESS i did. mother is jest as good as
she be- ~.-,'.' 81. - Ss@.
And one can study the psychology of
the youthful mind in the following, as well
as tho there were a window in the boys
head: .~ss .'.'-e Es-..-.. e.. r.+..,-'...,.
Sept. 80. Brite and fair. cant have emmy
! more flies. at recess today Plug and Didy
had the best fife ever saw they fit all recess
and none Of us heard the bell and Plug had
| Dfdly down when old Francis came round the
| corner and GRABBED Plug and Didly. i tell you
we all went into school lively and old Francis
made Plug and Didly stand on the platform all
the rest of the day with their arms around each
| others necss and we ddent have emmy recess in
the afternoon. it is pretty tuf we can't play
one old cat becaus old Polly Smith makes fuss
when the ball goes over her fence and we cant
play football becaus Scotty broke his arm and
| Whack got stunted. and we cant hte Decaus II
is rong to ite. might jest as we'll be girls
! and roll hoop. ..
We can solemnly testify that the feel
ings here expressed are wholly natural to
boyhood. And to read them makes US feel
as we did when we read STONY Lone
| some"-like, very much like a boy again.
| IJo,,, No 1ooX
the impression that he is as 'brite and
fair as his diary
A new idea in the art of prompting his
tory has been applied in The Historians
History of the World, issued in the United
States by The Outlook. The idea is moth
ing more nor less than the treatment OF
the whole period Of history in one work
composed Of the contributions of the great
historians of times past and present, al
fifty joined together. This new history OF
the world is based on the actual writings
of the great historians of every nation
Their most readable and most valuable
passages have been woven together, logl
cally and dramatically, and in the ligh
of the latest research, to make a con
| tinuous and orderly story. While the worl
is primarily a. compila tton,sslta is said; u
possess artistic and symmetrical com
, pleteness in the highest degree, and to be
! moreover, authoritative and up-to- date.
A fair example of the method and on
of general interest, according to descrlp
: lions, is the twelfth volume of the TWEEN
! ty-1ve which make up the work. Thi
covers the French revolution and tn
events Immediately preceding and follow
r ing. Professor Alfred Rambaud writes -
); PREDATORY Characterization of the Period.
: He is unquestionably the first living his
= torian in France, and many would plac
: him first in all Europe. j. B. R. Cape
a fgue's Louis XIV ct la society d
y XVIIme steele throws light on the reck
: less life of this reign, which brought on tn
: revolution, the careers Of Pompadour, d
: Barry, the wicked Due de Richelieu ain
u "a others. Sismondi gives discreet &C
= count of the arc-auX-cerfs. Pompadoul
=. who set Europe in arms and whom Fred
- erick the Great called "Cotillon l., is de
scrbed by the De Goncourt brothers
1, Lies mattresses de Louis XIV The per
d sonality of that attractive and naples
d woman, Marie Antoinette, is revealed b
O the Correspondence secrete entire Mari
Therese ct le Comte de Mercy-Arger
', teau;' edited by A.. Arneth and M. /
It Geoffroy. And SO, on. = That is -enoug
s to give, the idea. OF course the histor
= taken. from foreign and ancient writers
y transla ted. ~.A.. - 'r''3'- !. ~ So =
n From the sheets sent us the work
e. an ambitious one, has been thoroly don
u editorially and sumptuously done from
u mechanical and artistic standpoint.
- The editor in chief is Henry Smith viii
~ liams, LID. The Uneasy CHAIR.