The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-24
BOOK NEWS
AND GOSSIP
;. THE UNEASY CHAIR


HOW: A. COUNTESS .REcAME .Ac.i
oUAlNTED AND FELL LOVE WITH
HER ~HUSBAND.-A delightful little love
story of the days. of. William of Orange is
My Lady CIancarty, being the true story
of the Earl of Clancarty and Lady ELIZA
beth, Spencer by Mary INLAY TAYLOR.
Lady Elizabeth had been married to the
earl when she was II and he was 10:
They had Immediately been parted, and
for fourteen years she had neither seen
nor heard from him. He was a Jacobite
and had fled England for his life. Sweet
Lady Betty one day met by accident an
Irish gentleman just from France
who knew the earl, then clever Cupid be-
gan to unravel the tangle that had been
made of! things years before and to weave
them anew, according to pattern OF MS
own choosing and the story OF 1t all is a
thing to please the lover of light and
sparkling fiction. One gets glimpse at
the sparkles from this, the Irish gentle
man and Lady Elizabe eth conVersing: =
.Het is prescribed exile; madam, this king
Of yours has excepted him; from, the Act Of
Gracel he tcaaaet, qretur9 exfePt to the lower
and lest the to e0St e. to lose mead
>"onlyr one can recover a heart she said
| wickedly, but head never heard or one
that was put latter the .headsman =.
1
"And one can love many times" suggested
Betty. II have heard that my Lord Clan
! cartys heart is tender" g.
"Mere fables, madam he replied with Ecoea
mendacity; 'his heart is made for one image
only, and would keep: that-to% eternity - q.
/ Little, Brown & Co.,, Boston, = ILL., 7
r. NEW]BIBLE DICTIONARY IN&PREP
ARATloN.-Funk & 'Wagnalls company
New York, has in preparation a new
! Standard Bible dictionary, to be issued II
a large single volume of about 7oo,Oo'
words. This is to be prepared under I'M
Il editorial direction Of Melancthon w. ia
cobus, dean of Hartford Theological semi
nary and professor Of New Testament lit
erature; Edward E. Nourse, professor o
biblical theology in Hartford Theological
seminary, and Andrew G. Zenos. professq
of ecclesiastical history in Mccormick
Theological seminary, Chicago-nen ~
!; comprehensive and active scholarship
evangelical yet fully abreast Of the bes
scientific biblical learning Of the age. !
association with them as contributors +
the articles will be American and -Germa:
. scholars Of the first rank. ;.
Professor Nourse was for time a stu
t dent at Manchester college,, =>E%$
cHoPIN's WORKS, THRU "A HAND
Book.-G. G. Ashton Jonson has com
piled A Handbook of Chopin's} Works.
81 is for the use Of concert-goers, pianist
}, self calls the book "a Kind OF music;
= Baedeker, a guide thru the Thought
n land and Dreamland' of Chopin's Kline
: DOM" 1.-THE main portion Of the book,
n he adds, Consists ola brief account
d each composition, itstrelative place anon
n Chopin's works, it's distinguishing fec
If lures, notes of any special points or Intel
K est attaching to it, and an epitorne OF tt
1. comments Or criticisms that have bee
j. made upon it by all the great writer
IL critics, biographies and virtuosi who hay
+ written about Chopin and his works. -
Is book that will be appreciated not on
by musicians, but by music-lovers, ar
8 will contribute to their (: enjoyment ~
v Chopin. 'ss.s.@ - IL.
; NO MORE DANTEs OR MICHAEL Az
GELOS.-Very trenchant- and vital ne
i criticisms of literature assit. is today a
4; being written by Henry Mills Alden in tt
6: Editors Study of Harper's Magazine. i.
the April number, Mr.. AIdenEconsiders tt
% evolution Of genius, in itself and In !
le relation to human progress. AS to t
l. condition of literature, at present, ne DO
:. not regard it as a transitional :per1od b
tween the great achievements OF the pa
and the possible literary; wonders of t
future. On the contrary! $hes believes tn
i'd it is an ultimate, a dinal1scondition,
c. which we observe a general universal CT
- ture-the logical result Of wide. and IF
~ ducation-rather than the phenomen
ce of peaklike genius rising above Its fellow
ne as Dante and Shakspere rose in their d
q at a different stage Of our mental evol
ton. Mr.. Alden predicts indeed, that
Is shall have no so striking figures as Oar
h and Michael Angelo in the future deVelo
ment of poetry and art
10 QUESTIONS SETTLED IN A JIFF,Y
A little vest-pocket book that should co
ne tribute to the internal peace OF the count
"a is Laird & Lees Little Giant Quests
I'M Settler. It answers 10000 or more CUE
- tons while the other fellow waits a
.ie leaves him no chance for fight. J
lis have tried it., not on the other fellow,
lily on ourselves, and find it saves trouble.
Laird & Lee, Chicago.
-. MEMORIAL TO EDWARD RoWLAl
10y SILL, POET AND ESSAYiST.-A men
" rial to the poet Edward Rowland Sill
led recently been unveiled at Oakland, {
q. It IS in the form of a. bronze sun-d
mounted on a granite base, and is the s
no Of three classes Of the Oakland III
The school, where MIR. Sill was "a teacher
81 a short time. Tho he was not born
California, he spent the greater part