The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-02

One does not need to accept all Of the ad
vice of this adviser extraordinary. Even
a woman Of the world has no monopoly in
sound judgment on the problems young
men and maidens and others have to face.
But despite the exceptions this woman of
the world says many things that her read
ers would be better for needing.
L. G. Page & Co., Boston, $1.5O.
OUR HUMoRLEss HERoINEs.-A
writer in the Contributors club in the At
lantc Monthly for June complains that the
heroines of greater English fiction are al
most without hun1or. He says:
They are fair and gallant company, and it
is good to be with them They are wise and
sweet, passionate, strong and brave. beautiful
almost always good on the whole. and. without
failing. interesting. Yet felt the lack of one
last grace-a sense of humor.
He then raises the question whether
these same heroines would not be i'm
proved by a sense Of the humorous. He
puts the question in this manner:
Must it be SO? Would there not be some
thing yet more poignant in struggle and suffer
Ing II 1T were accompanied. Illuminated by
humorous sense. turned inward to accept the
folly Of it all? Lear's fool seems to some of
us more pathetic than his master by virtue Of
Cyrano de Bergerac Is accesatuated by the Turk
ing smile of the sufferer as he regards himself
But who will create for us' such a figure?
There surely Is an opening for, some
literary aspirant-create humorous hero
inc.
JoLLlTY AND HEEPFULNEss.-
Billy, by Edith K. Stokely and Marian K.
Hurd, is a story of a girl who frightened
the whole face of adversely which came
to her family simply by being Jolly and
hot to I,or
| hand. Her brightness and good cheer af-
fected the whole family and spread to the
community with most surprising and ben
| efcial results. One is not quite satisfied
| that the reason for the family's moving
| into such a community is sufficient, but
overlooking that the story is we'll TOLD
| and wholesome. It is the best kind of ar
answer to discomfort. ~5.'
Lothrop Publishing company, Boston, $3.50.
MR.. GARLAND'S SUBLIMINAL LIT
! ERARY SELF.-since 1.-THE Tyranny oil
the Dark began to excite comment dur.
ing it's run in Harper's Weekly, and more
especially since it's publication in bool
form by the Harpers, Mr.. Garland ha.
been frequently asked about his own be
! liefs in regard to the interesting occul
phenomena with which the story deals
But he always declines to bind himsel
! lurLQoFL IMAM ny saying LIldL I0 has MAJ
no personal psychic experiences, but ha
witnessed strange things during his tel
! years Of investigation. He does, how
ever, believe strongly in certain NANTES
tations of the subliminal self. How cal
I help it, he said recently, when I hav
actual examples Of my subliminal literar
self at work. It seems that at one tim
Mr.. Garland was awakened from sleep b
! apparently hearing an elderly Englis
countryman speaking to him in verse
The impression made upon Mr.. Garlan
was SO strong that, without hesitation, h
wrote down exactly what he heard. TIL
poem was in dialect, two verses runnin
as follows: j
Here 1 stond i the murk o. the wuther
An whussle atween thoombs
An never a hoon cas- at his luther,
An never hoontsman cooms.
The fields are plooed like meller's gardel
The fields are planted wi earn,
+ An naught remains for the poor auld warde
But to hang oop the roosty harm.
An expert, to whom the verses wei
): read, said the dialect was the speech
5 an uneducated Yorkshire yeoman. &c
course as realist," Mr. Garland laugh
ingly said, II deprecate this sort Of thin
8 and try to keep it under, but am gla
to have met my subliminal literary sci
: if we do not seem to have many interes
Y in common E$e~,