The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-25
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THE UNEASY CHAIR
AUTUMN PUBLICATIONS OF: THE
BAKER g. TAYLOR COMPANY IN
IcLUDE A BOOK BY RICHARD LIE
GALLlENNE.-The Baker & Taylor
company announces for fall an attractive
list of books. Among the principal titles
are: When You Were a Boy" by Edwin
Z. Sabin, "The Poet. Miss Kate and I,
by Margaret P. Montague, THE Appre-
citation of Pictures''-a companion to|
'How to Judge Architecture" and 1.-THE
Appreciation Of sculpture"-by Russell
| Sturgis, Impressions Of Japanese Archi-
lecture and the Allied Arts" by Ralph,
| Adams Cram, and ''Romances Of Old
/ France" by Richard lie Gallienne.
when You Were Boy" by Edwin L.
Sabin, the largest part of which was pub
lished serially in The Century Magazine,
| will be published Oct. /. These sketches
/ of boy life have attracted very unusual
amount of attention from their: sympathy
/ and humor, and primarily are Of great
interest because Of the universally of
experience which is woven into them.
The book has over fifty Illustrations by
! Frederic Dorr Steele sla ~
The publication Of a book by a new au-
thor Is attended by 50 many problems
4 that publisher is generally very eau
t1ous and economical in manufacturing
the book. So convinced is the Baker &
Taylor company of the quality and future
of Margaret P. Montague's poet, Miss
Kate and T." that they are to issue it
in September in most elaborate form.
The cover in itself Is beautiful West
r Virginia mountain scene In colors,
mounted as medallion, and inside the
| text is printed in two colors with twenty
four illustrations, besides a colored from
tispiece. The story itself deals most
charmingly with West Virginia girls
experience and love for a poet very diff
| ferent from the conventional type OF
: poet, who goes there to die. IT,, ... -.
Russell Sturgis has prepared the fourth
volume of the Popular Art Series, OF
, which his How to Judge Architecture
: and THE Appreciation of Sculpture
have already been published. This book
differs from Mr.. Poores Pictorial Com
: position and the Critical Judgment Of
!, Pictures in the same series, in that il
: treats Of pictures critically and histori-
, cally, rather than from an artists view
: point. which is the manner of Mr.
, Poore's book.
| Impressions Of Japanese Architecture
and the Allied Arts is written by Ralph
Adams Cram, one of the country's bes1
= known architects, who has spent much
a time in Japan and made. a specially o.
:, Japanese architecture. The illustration:
Fare in themselves very rare and Of un
! usual attractiveness. The text under
takes to point out the genius of eastern
a civilization in art and to demonstrate
the impossbility of measuring eastern
| art by western standards.
8 ..EpATr sINcEpS OE TODAYn
a Frail singers of today, your song is sweet;
= The words that ye repeat
a Are comely, making music as they pass
. | Faint as the singing glass
8 Rubbed by moistened finger; round and roun'
l. Circles the rim Of sound,
A thin yet poignant cry. But yesterday
) Men sang manlier way
Plucking rough chords Of strength from Tyre
|: too rude
. Ever to be subdued
By this slight tnkling harmony Of the hour
d Awake, awake to power. ".> 49,
:. Singers of songs-ese die. Far better mute
Were the emasculate lutte,
s. Far better silent, than thus chrping .,
An echo of things gone -,.
o Gone down forever, with all those mighty heart
" Who brook counterparts.
!, Lee Wilson Dodd in September Century.
BARRIERS TO STHE HEART OF
PRINCESS AND STHE KINGDOM OF
lg PRINCE CUT. AWAY WITH TIL
Of SWORD.-The writer Of romantic ad
Ia ! venture mas only TO put his mana luC
the grab-bag of the history of the petit
III German states that thrived for two hun
in dred years following the Thirty Years
War and draw out a fistful of materia
put 1t together with a fair degree Of ski
RI and sense Of humor, and he has stor
49, that will hold a lover Of fiction to HI
- easy, or uneasy, chair until far into tn
or night. 1t looks easy, at least. For ev
ou dence one need only turn t0.A Prince {
70 Lovers by Sir William Magnay. e. +.
Sir William has gone to the grab-ba
mentioned, has obtained his material an
made story that lures one on from ad
~ venture to adventure, and from lo1
n scene to love scene, until all barrier
at down, prince and princess are prepare
!, to reign over contented people long an
happily. The story is full Of actio
much sword play and pistoling includes
from Chapter l." to 1.-THE End';> tt
10, hero is the right kind Of stuff, ditto tt
be heroine; there are intrigues and scheme
NJ worthy of greater causes, and there al
villains galore-what more could or
ask? If sample of the situations he
by the story is asked, here it is: S.
~ The villain has got the hero into his pow
l." and goes Off to make decker with the usurp
=, of the heros throne as to what dispositit
liS shall be made of the remains, for he regart
the hero as practically defunct He cheerful
puts the situation to the usurper thus
- 1.-THE prince is, as I have said, my prisone
2" secretly hidden away where no man, unless
to choose, can ever find him. He fell into n
-: hands by accident. and the fact is practical
Nd a secret which need never be known save
g those whose interest would be to ignore it,
all intents, he Is dead and buried. 1t is f
Is. your majesty to- say whether he shall con
% to life again.
IL: Villains propose, but heroes dispose
in novels, at least-and without the COZ
sent of the his spurious majesty tt
prince comes to life again, and the strus
r. gle Of sword and wit goes on to the fl
- delectation of the reader. ..e
Little Brown & Co., Boston. $780,
is BOOK FOR PRINCETONIANS.
no "Postgrads'' and 'undergrads' of Primo
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m Princeton, by John Rogers Williams.
a ! is a book full of facts and pictures Of tt
at great institution. There is an introdu
ton by President Woodrow Wilson,
OF sketch of the university's history, al
,ut descriptions Of the buildings, of the u
m, m perclass clubs and the athletic ground
M of the town., of the theological semina
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ost renceville. Print and binding are of
I'D kind to make the book suitable for al
he Princetonian's library.
The Grafton Press, New York.
IS $3.50 net.
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