The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-17


That coming from an Englishman
whose judgment is, we know from past
experience, sound, is quite equivalent to
the opinion of the little ivory idol of the
book-knife. - 't-s
Incidentally, or perhaps quite the re-
verse, Mr.. Jerome gives the American
wife who leaves "hubby'' at home while
she "does'' Europe with great thoroness,
valuable hint thus:
''The American husband appears to be
a sort Of stained glass saint, and you
American wives are imposing on him."
Mr.. Jerome has a bit of admiration-or
is 1t sarcasm? --for the American girls
etiquette. At least he says:
Her father may be soap-boiler, her
grandmother may have gone out charring.
That's all right she, says to her am
bassador, they're not coming. You just
take my card and tell the king that when
he's got a few minutes to spare I'll be
pleased to see him, =, And the extraordi-
nary thing is that a day or two afterward
the invitation arrives
american Wives andlOthers' is by no
means all humor or sense nonsensically
put. For example, here is a statement
made by a Russian to Mr.. Jerome, which
the latter quotes. 1t is worth while re-
cording inasmuch as it seems very likely
to come true: ~
1T is gathering; taere are times when
can almost smell bl3od in the air. I am
an old man and nag escape 1T, but my
children will have u til hsuffer--suffer as
children do for theUsins / Of their fathers
We have made brute beasts of the people
and as brute beasts they will come upor
us, cruel and undiscriminating. 4
The Russian peasant, when he rises, Will
prove more TERRIBLE more pitiless THAI
were the men Of 1902
Mr.. Jeromes, new book is not fiction
1t is book of witty, often keen, essays
on wide range of subjects. They are
such essays as made Mr.. Jerome's reputa.
ton in the beginning, and the reading
public will welcome this return to his
| own.
Frederick A. Stokes company, New York; $3.50
| Story Of King Philips War and Puritan
| Times.-Fiction writer's, looking for new
| fields, seem to shrink from the Puritan
| field. Perhaps Hawthorne's work there
has had. something to. do with this shrink
| ing. Maude Clarke Gay, however, has hat
the courage to try, and has written The
Knitting of Souls. The time Of her story
is that. Of King Philips war;
While a more. powerful story could bf
| written of. such rigorous times and the
artifciality of the lives of the often hypo.
critical rulers of the colonies seems tt
have entered into the soul of the book ane
| into its stilted language, there Is still
| much Of interest in the story.
Kenneth Brooks, the foster son and "a
| vorite of Governor Bellingham, is faith
| full follower Of the church, but looks upo1
the infallibility of. the Bible much after
the manner Of the modern followers Of the
'higher criticism His Straightforward
manliness and devotion to truth at frs
charm Lady Virginia, the wife Of the
kings villainous commissioner, and a belle
of the court of Charles, and later com
| pei her love. To Brooks she is the realiz'
alton of an ideal. Unfortunately the king
commissioner and the. city council see
heresy rather than truth in Brooks crit
| icism of Calvin and the Bible and he is
banished. He makes his escape to the
Indians, thence returns to the city ant
then again takes to the woods, Where NJ
leads a life of wanderer. Finally IN tne
darkest hour the news comes that the
commissioner has been murdered by MS
accomplice in treachery and that the COL
ony has recognized Brooks valor.
After that Virginia came to him. not with the
wild first passion of youth, but with something
stronger and grander, born Of the long years OF
| sorrow and pain She crept to him like weary
child and laid her head upon his breast and her
lips upon his own. IT,,
t. Il. S. K.
| <a~sf.Ezs- Lee & Shepard Boston.