The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-12

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TIE UNEASY CHAIR

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THE UNEASY CHAIR
THE OLD, OLD ouEsTs FOR HAPPl-
ESS.-A character III Elisabeth Willard
Brooks As the World Goes BY has
ter bitter appointment in love and
What might fairly be called good re-
covery:
l have learned that happiness is subjective;
1t does not depend upon any other person or
any other environment. It depends solely upon
our relation to the great currents of life. If
we ", resist there is friction and distress; If we
Jung ourselves boldly into the eternal tides. we
truth. : 49, 49,. =.
We agree with the young lady's first
osition-s'h happiness is subjective.
But we learned that long time ago, and
It was taught the world so many cen
turles ago that it has been forgotten and
learned and reforgotten almost number
less times since. It was preached in the
comprehensive-'The kingdom of heaven
is within you"
we are very much afraid, however,
That II the young lady has gone ON living
the rest OF her philosophy she has come
to grief. There are currents in life which
don't sweep one into every form of
beauty and TRUTH but just the other
way But the philosophy is what the
world takes as It goes by, and SO belongs
In book bearing the title Of this. S.
The early portent of the book is trag-
ical, but tragedy does not follow. The
story is only mildly exciting intellectually.
Little Brown & Co., Boston, $780,
SOMETHING TO READ "WHILE
YOU REST."-The federal commissioner
OF education has published some interest
Ing library statistics showing that in 1903
the number Of books in public, society and
school libraries was 54,419,000, says Har-
per's Weekly for June 10. The number
represented an increase of 374 per cent
in twenty-e eight years, an increase large
~ due to Mr.. Andrew, Carnegie, to whom
upward of a thousand libraries in the
United States owe their existence, wholly
or in part. The number of volumes in
1900 was 1881, 900. The largest collec-
ton Of books in the United States is the
Congressional library, which contains
100000 volumes, including pamphlets,
next to which comes, Harvard University,
which contains $500 bound volumes and
100000 pamphlets. The Boston public
library figures in the third place, the ag-
gregate number of it's books and pam
phlets being 772, 000 The New York pub
lie library, which will comprehend the
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has 500, 900 volumes and 10000 pamphlets.
TO appreciate, however, the facilities for
reading afforded in New York, we should
mention that the New York city library
has 100000 volumes, together with large
number of pamphlets; that the library OF
Columbia university has nearly 100000
volumes and $4,000 pamphlets, and the
Mercantile library, $4,000 volumes, in
Guiding pamphlets. The Philadelphia
Library company owns 100000 volumes
and 81 900 pamphlets, and the number OF
books and pamphlets in the Philadelph1a
free library is 100000. The Chicago pub
lie library has 25s,ooo books and pam
phlets, and in the library Of the Chicago
university there are $4,000 books ane
100000 pamphlets. All Of the last-men
toned statistics refer to 1900. In the same
year the Bibliotheque Rationale at Pari:
had 5000, 900 books and pamphlets, tn
British Museum 100000, the Imperia
library at st. Petersburg 100000, and thu
Royal library at Berlin l. 100000. It ap
pears that the number of American pub
locations in 1902 was 1888; O, British pub
locations III the same year, 1881; of Ital
ian publications in 1900, 1915; of French
publications sin i1so2n12 1893; },of German
publications inIthe ame year, 26 so6. y.
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