The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-11

Miss Rickert has visited the islands
twice and has plainly enough caught the
spirit of their people, and in the character
of Terval Saemundson, a descendant Of
! the vikings turned reaper, she makes the
reader acquainted with a man who is well
worth knowing. The question is: Was
there an adequate original of this man, or
did he actually speak, or did Miss Rick
ert invent his part, for example, in the
following dialog with lass whose heart
was torn by the unfaithfulness of her
sweetheart?
"What call you bein happy?" -
! "Havin' what you want in the world" was
her cry. ..EI 49,
''So?" he answered quietly "Then I Gamma
help We, for 1 ken nothing. about that" +,
! ''What is it, then?'' she whispered. .. q
T. 'Just ownin' your soul in peace. T.
She locked ut him. startled and Incompetence
''But yen know nothing O. that, L doubt Its
this way Some folks takes their troubles by the
throat and strangles them at arms LENGTH
Gamma put 1T very well-and others just takes
them in-in way of speaking-and bids them
welcome-makes friends O. them. = - But
you understand no word of it ALL, lass" .-
There is no reason why man like Ter
val, having lived the courageous life at
tributed to him in Miss RICKETTS, story,
might not have spoken such words. But
they are deep with philosophy, the words
OF thinker, who saw things thru I'M
fevered eyes,, and, whether he be fact
Or fiction, he deserves to be remembered.
In truth, Terval Saemundson is a char
acter who deserves to live: Miss Rick
ertS story, containing such a character, is
|, zone Of the notable books of the year."
Iif not Of more than the year. The story
is more than the narration of a mere
Emcident or succession of incidents; it is
a picture of life; to read it is to feel that
you know the islanders. The author
workmanship, too, is something much to
these Ia pH-O
novels, hurried off typewriter and print
ing press in order to hurry in the dollars.
Houghton, Mifhin & Co., Boston. N.
! Mccarthy, Minneapolis $1.50. g..
The annual course Of Old South lectures
for young people in Boston during the
summer Of 1904 was devoted to the sub
ject of Heroes Of Peace" the several
subjects being as follows: John Eliot,
the Apostle to the Indians; Horace
Mann and His Work for Better Schools
Mary Lyon and Her College for Girls;
:Dorothea Dix and Her Errands of Mer-
cyl; peter Cooper, the Generous Givar'';
Colonel Waring and How He; Made New
York Clean; General Armstrong and
the Hampton Institute.' The eight sold
South Leaflets prepared in connection
: are Nos. 143-15Q, in which many valuable
historical documents, often not other
wise easily accessible, are furnished te
schools and the public for the mere cost
Of printing by the directors of the Old
South Work, Old South Meeting House
Boston.
| The Nursery Fire.-Short stories fol
and about children. by Rosalind Richards
Illustrated with full. page plates and illus
trations in the text by Clara q. Atwood
Little, Brown & Co.. Boston. Decorated .
--,s cloth, 81 so.
A Boys Adventures.-George Bird Grim
nell, who has written stories of life ii
, book to his list, called Jack In the Rock.
les. It is a story of a boys experiences
with pack train. Illustrated by Edwin
!, Willard Deming. f. s
Frederick, A. Stokes & Co.. New York. N.
$50 Mccarthy, Minneapolis. $125
= ~. NOVEMBER.
Over the nights low clouds the flare
OF burning marsh throws ruddy glare.
Blue mists cling to the distant hill,
The flowers are gone, and the birds are
Where dry grass bends meath the fox:
; The weird witchhazel her bower ha.
spread.
Across the dull gray sky the crows
: Cawing, fly in wavering. rows.
: Slowly and sadly the daylight dies.
! The wind is bleak, it sobs and crys
Sara Andrew Shafer in The Outlook
November magazine number.