The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-02

>fA@S ~ AAtS paper dllQ loyalty TO the
truth make Guthries dual motto, and the
combination introduces the reader Of Mr..
Atsheler's book to the first important
incident therein. A ycun6 man of Guth.
rle's acquaintance. State employee ia
learned to be q defal,iter; shall Guthrie
give the story to his paper? He is urged
not to do so, by friend Of the defaulter's
family, who pleads: *
If you refuse our. request, yours will
be the responsibility for running a home"
Few newspaper men have. not been
thru such an ordeal Ethical views differ
as to, newspapers duty in such a case.
but no one in the newspaper business
doubts for. a moment the duty of tho
newspaper man to whom such Information
has come. rig. I'LL 49,.
/ The incident is used & by the author
merely to show the character of the pro-,
tagonist. How he saves the speaker Of
the house in fight against false charges,
how he wins congressional fight in the
| ''old fourth" district, and how he wins
charming girl, are the really Interesting
features of the tale. The story lacks the
CLINT of humor, and, perhaps makes too
! much Of a paragon of; Guthrie. Otherwise
! it is story Of very much interest.
Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. $3.50.
SENT MY SWEET VALENTINE. .
sent my sweet valentine, :.
Wherein asked would she be NINE
| I spoke Of how loved her; swore
= My heart was hers foreYermore.
or fathom-deep devotion told,
| But, as I failed to mention gold,
| = And state how much I had thereof,
Alack. alack, I lost my love.
-Sennett Stephens In February. Hppineott's.
| What Were the Words?-,
at our office the other day, '''you were asked to
describe yourself In a fews words, could You do
it?' His answer that he could describe me in
two, was no answer atm. gsAlsos the two words
were not description. and were 50 offensive that
did not con tinues the ,eonS6rs Sttons 9ttI @;A
7 Just what those two words were, Barry
Pain, the author of Eliza, leaves &to the
| reader. but after perusing the entire series
Of short stories in .'Eliza," the reader is
compelled to: acknowledge that there can
be but two that apply, and he finds these
two slipping off his tongue uhcalled for.
Eliza is a study in. "a sininity" in man
Of the self-satisf1ed SOFT. Every page Is
| clever. and, altho Eiza's husband Is such
monumental absurdity, he is rharmless.
In all, there is a delicate thread of senti-
ment that reaches the climax in the last
two chapters and is as charming as If the
scene. had been in a palace instead Of a
fiat l. s, K.
Dana Estes & Co., Boston.
| Thackerays Regiments Of charaeters.-
A feature Of striking interest in the new
edition Of the works Of Thackeray which
Messrs. Charles Scribner!s Sons are bring
ing out says The Bookman FOR February
is the alphabetical list .of his characters
| which Is found at tho end of the thirty
second and last volume. This list when
footed up is positively startling It shows
! that in the great English satirist's works
fhoro hof
ferent characters; probably more than
go to make up vast edifice Of Balzac's
Coincide Humane; certainly more than
are to be found in all the works of Dick
ems, and almost as many as are mentioned
in the innumerable volumes for which the
elder Dumas and his collaborat ors-Du-
| mas ct Cie-are responsible. I*<s
Is Religion Waning7 If 1t Is, is 1t Wan
Ting More In the occldent- than In the ORR
ent?-Charles Cuthberts Hail. president Of
Union Theological seminary, In an ad-
dress delivered at Columbia university
and quoted in The Literary Digest Of Jan.
| 49, speaks Of ''the impression of a waning
interest in religion" saying: 49,.
/ 1t is striking fact that in the western henli-
sphere, where the prevalent form of religion is
Christianity, one Is more likely to receive the I'M
preston Of waning interest in religion and
fading Of God than in the eastern hemi-
! sphere where, thru immemorial past, has oc
cured the rise and spread Of religions that con-
troll the major part Of the race; where in the
present, religion still is the chief business of
| life.
DR.. Hall, however, looks for : better
| things. He says: - - .
believe that the critical movement. in a
manner SO marvellous and SO contrary to general
expectations as to suggest q divine oyerrulng,
| has prepared the way for a type Of preaching
that shall be first Of all religious, as occupied
with the content Of revelation, and because SO
transcendently religious. vitality ethical and prac