The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-12
THE UNEASY CHAIR

oEEN by a POET.-In the Critic re-
Gently IN answer to the question II it was
me 1ault OF the public or the poets that
poetry attracted so little attention, DR..
van Dyke said, among other things:
In the first place, is it really the function Of
poetry to attract attention? Has it not almost
Always come, like other things pertaining to the
celestial Kingdom without observation? Is not Its
n mr. aim Gas Wordsworth says) to impart GER
tain kind Of pure and strengthening pleasure,
thru the imagination, to those who are capable Of
receiving It? It seems to mo that real poetry
must always be difficult to advertise. Its merits
writer, or new brand Of soap or detective
STORY or cowboy novel. It cannot make Its
way by detonation, without sacrificing it's own
significance 1t must go out into the world quiz
city, and ind the people to whom it belongs
by natural affinity, and whether they he few or
many 1t must trust itself to them to keep it
alive. . !
The only period, 60 far as remember when
this public really went in for poetry, was in the
nrst part Of the nineteenth century, when the
verslhed short stories of Scott and Byron were
the the biggest sellers" Of the day. But in ordi-
nary time poetry has always had to rely upon
the silent classes" as Carlyle calls them, for
Its first acceptance and Its encouragement. It
was SO with Lowell and Emerson, 1t was SO with
worth and Milton. .'f
Mcclure Phillips have added to their spring list
a new book by Booth Harrington, 1.-THE Beau
toms best and happiest vein. It is an almost
whimsical tale Of young, impetuous love, the
scene OF which is laid in Paris, Venice and Rome.
In daintiness and charm it suggests the author 8
successful Monsieur Beaucaire.'
AN EcsTATIcALLY HAPPY MAR
RAGE AS THE OUTCOME OF AN UN-
USUAL METHOD OF WOolNG.-An-
thony Robson Of Boston was deeply in
love with Juliet Marcy Of the same city,
h9 fo~
just getting on his feet as a. young man
after his family had lost everything. She
was the daughter Of wealthy father
| She had repeatedly refused to marry
Tony" He seemed to have given her ur
| and shifted his affection to Eleanor Lang
ham Of San Francisco. At least, he tol6
Juliet that that was the situation, an6
then asked her to help him furnish small
suburban home he had bought. against
the coming Of the bride. Juliet, o.
course, said it should be the privilege o.
the bride to furnish her own home. Bu
Tony was obdurate, and Juliet finally
consented. The result was-anyone coult
guess, for there was no Eleanor Lang
hamI she was a fiction Of Tony's, ant
the miniature he wore to convince Julie
Of Eleanor's reality was a borrowed one
| Did Tony and Juliet live happily eve
| afterward? The records, which are IL
print in The Indifference Of Juliet, BY
Grace S. Richmond, do not say as to tn,
lever afterward," but they relate tn,
story Of happy Tony and Juliet most en-
tertatn1ngly for a period covering severa
years. It is a joyous, lively story, whole
some and refreshing, relief from 81
| many stories of unhappy matrimony, AM
just as true to life, too, tho perhaps no
so often realized. Here's hoping the re
naming years Of Anthony and Juliet ma,
be many and as happy as, or happier
even, than the past years have been.
Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. 81 so.
SEVEN THOUSAND EIGHT HUN
DRIED DOLLARS FOR BURNS FAMILY
BlBLE.-Seven thousand eight hundre
for Robert Burns family Bible, contain
ing domestic records in the poets hand
says The Literary Collector.
This bible (printed at Edinburgh 10
John Reid in 1867 was willed by Burns
wife to their oldest son. Robert the!
passed to the second son, and then
Burns grandniece, Mrs. Sarah Burn
Hutchinson. in whose hands 1t RENAME
until the sale in December. An America
the relic, but there were many contes
. tants, and the winning price, 81 1861
. came from a Scotch collector. =.
MUSICAL LETTERS FROM MUSICAL
MUNIcH.-An American Girl In MunIct
a book Of letters by Mabel w. Daniel!
, gives one a athoroly delightful pictur
of the music students life in Munich.
begins with the arrival Of the girl m MI
Mich and her surprise at having street
car conductor touch his hat to her as sl
+ boarded a car and ends with the com
pletion Of her first years work. Their
is much in the book for musical peopl
, and for others as well, for the girl
r question was not so absorbed in mus
, that she had no other interests. She sa;
much Of life in general and took time
, note what she saw in her letters to hi
: friend in America. Her letters are sprigh
= ly and frank, and one catches the spir
:. Of them in a way that might make hi
+ feel that they were intended for himsel
+ were it not for the "Cecelia DEAR" whic
2 begins the letters, and does not admit
a ''hirn' as the recipient. Incidental
there is a pleasing bit of g. romance II
v terwoven, but it is not that Of the lette
a writer.
\ Little, Brown & Co., Boston.