The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-27
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AN ANTHOLOGY FOR THE, SPORTS
MAN.--Your true sportsman is stirred by
the song Of victory Or depressed by the la
ment of. defeat. If he is one Of the I'M
conquered he knows what the wine of
triumph means, and he is Of little imagi-
nation if he cannot know what the gall
Of defeat would mean. Most, however
have tasted both wine and gall, and will
find something to recall both in The Ath-
lete's Garland, q, collection of verse Of
sport and pastime compiled by Wallacs
Rice: It is a book that every lover Of
sport for sports sake will want among
his traps It contains verses by the mas
tiers and the amateurs, but verses in all
cases by those who delight in physical
prowess. There are songs Of victory and
dirges for dead hopes, poems for the golf.
err and the tennis player, for the football
enthusiast and the diamond devotee, for
the oarsman and the fleet of foot, for
every phase Of sport verses with morals
and without, verses musical and unmusi-
cal. Indeed, it. is! remarkable how much
has. been compacted into this volume of
$50 pages of song about sport ...
For no fame may man win better the while he
hath his life
Than from what his feet have accomplished, or
his hands amidst the strife. ~.
A. G. McClurg & Co., Chicago.
V YOU AND
Over the shills where the pine trees grow,
With d laugh to answer the wind at play,
Why do laugh? r do not know, i.
But You and once passed this way. ~
Down in the hollow now white with snow
My heart is singing q song today, ~
Why do I sing !? :, do snot know, ~-. 81
But You and were here in May. -~ 81
Thomas s. Jones, Jr., in May Lippincott's Mag
azine. s - 5IGa..t ~" "GssE 4 i
A "STANDARD" ENCYCLOPEDIA
CoMiNG.-The announcement that the
Funk & Wagnalls company, publishers Of
the Standard dictionary, are to publish
Standard encyclopedia, is matter Of no
little Importance. The Standard dictionary
is a, standard, and If the encyclopedia
comes up to a mark relatively as high,
as it no doubt will, those who want to
know will congratulate themselves. The
publishers promise:
It will be to things what the Standard diction-
airy is to words. 1t will be up to date. It will be
made wholly by specialists, the highest authori.
ties in every branch of human knowledge being
made Its editors regardless Of expense. 1t will
be all-inclusive, both as to subject and as to
| thoroness of treatment. 1t will be most easy
to consult; indeed this feature will be a distinc
tive one. The thing man wants to know at
once will be the thing he finds first and easiest.
The illustrat lions will be all that the most crih-
cal can wish and will be prepared primarily for
the purpose of informa tion The maps will be
well made and adequate. a thing never yet
achieved in American encyclopedia making. The
Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopedia will be-
in short, the standard universal reference work
for the masses and the scholars, the workers
! any APPEAL TO Observation-Disclosures
that title the first address delivered by
Charles Wagner to an American audience
has been published in attractive book
form. The proceeds from the books sale
are I to go to the purchase Of land for
a church in Paris, to be presided over by
! Mr.. Wagner Many who heard the Paris
pastor while he was In the United States
will welcome this opportunity to add to
their collection of books an address Of
great force and helpfulness.
Mcclure. Phillips g. Co.. New York.