The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-01
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
New Years Poem by Alfred Austin--Hand-
some New Edition OF Fiske's Dutch
and Quaker coIonIes"-Doubt Cast on
Milton MISUNDERSTANDING of $50
ciety Fiction" Made Easy-A History
of the Republican Party

Associated press dispatches from New
York to-day contain a poem by Alfred
Austin, the poet laureate of England, en-
titled Moving Onward published in to-
days issue of the London Times. 1t says:
Years moving onward, onward. Whence and
Age after age in the selfsame world, with the
f selfsame stars in the sky.
The Selfsalne glory of light in heaven and light
that is still on the way;
Outlooking gaze of the damsel drawn and droop
Of declining day;
All things always the same, unchanged, I'M
changeable and save we
Who come like clouds, like clouds disappear form
and fall like waves of the sea;
| Message and meeting of several friends, Yule
carol, New Year chime,
And eternity moving and on, the passtOnless
wheels of time;
Peace, but hungry duel for life, darkening to
And, Muscovite legions tramping on, doing the
will Of the tsar i
But still the glory of light in heaven and light
| that is still on Its way;
Faint hearts that desDond of tomorrow, look
up, and done with despair or dismay.
For British ST. elS stand erect at the fortress
| gates of the world,
| splendid symbol unfurled.
And the lord of right still sits on his throne.
still yields his sceptre and rod rs
And the winds and the waves and the years move
- on, doing the will of God.
The new edition of the late Professor
| John Fiske's The Dutch and Quaker Colo
nies in America, in two large octave vol
umes, profusely Illustrated with portraits,
maps, facsimiles, old prints reproduced
and other new and valuable historical ma
. terial, is the most complete and attractive
narrative of the Dutch and Quaker set.
tlements-the Dutch following the lead Of
Captain Hudson, who had entered the Del
aware and Hudson rivers in 1909, and
claiming the region between the Delaware
and Cape Cod, to which the name New
Netherland was given; the Quakers. com
ing into grant of land west of the
J Delaware, given In 1851 to William Penn
who identified himself and his fortunes
with the colony, which was meant to be
4 a refuge for thu Quakers, who We're under
persecution in England.
Professor Fiske details, in his fascinat-
! ing historic style, the fortunes of these
colonies up to the revolutionary war. This
: narrative embodies the conflict between
} Dutch and English claims, the displace
2 ment of the Dutch governors. the founding
of New York, the surrender Of New Meth
/. erland to the English in 1864. Professor
? Fiske's story of the rule of the Dutcl
1 governors throws new light upon what Il
I usually regarded as rather dull history
5 His story Of the Penn colony-th
Quaker Commonwealth and his obser
vatjons on the peculiarities of it's princi
7 in attempting to carry out his ideal stat
i are most interesting reading.
t These volumes follow the historical stud
T les of Professor Fiske, beginning with col
$ Virginia and Her Neighbours and eth
: Beginnings of New England" The frs
e volume Of the Clutch and Quaker Colo
n Mes embodies a remarkably fnterestin
: history of New York city. The professo
e says in conclusion:
: 'The two great middle colonies presen
. a most interesting subject of comparativ
4 study. because both have been Profound
4 Influenced by Holland, butt in the on
B case the Dutch ideas have been worke
8 thruathe crucible OF an individual geniu
a while in the other case, they have hoWere
It with random luxuriance. In the cosmC
d politanism which showed itself so earl
If in New Amsterdam and has ever sine
d been fully maintained, there was added |
7. American national life the variety, tl
= f1exibilty, the generous breadth of viev
IL the spirit of compromise and Cancellation
NJ needfuI to save the nation from rigid pre-
l. vincialism. Among the circum stance
to which prepared the way for a. rich ar
le varied American nation, the prelirninal
he settlement Of the geographical center /
i Dutchmen was certainly one Of the mo
a fortunate"
e The professor incidentally notes TIL
~ William Penn was Dutch on his mother
n. side, and he had the broad and liber
~ temper IN all MS polltlcaI IDEAS, tnat cna
n acterized Netherlands before and b
ge lyond any other country in Europe.
b.
ne 2 In regard to the manuscript of Milton
er Paradise Lost to be sold at aucti
b Jan. 25, it is now said, says the New Yo
Times Saturday Review, that nobo
knows whether it is the original man
" script written by the blind poets aman
NJ ensis or the work of some printers scri
x ener. Many experts are said to place lit
al value on it.
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