The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-13

racing Qedtn near the Top OF a seven
story building. a group of fremen are
about to try to make their escape to an
adjoining building by way of a three-inch
ledge and some of them are raw recruits
at the business. Nerves are strung to
the highest pitch when the man in COM
mand orders boots off. Il got holes in my
stockings" says vetran coyly. The
tension is relieved, and men who have
saved others go about saving their raw
comrades and themselves with steadier
heads and hands. Mr.. OHiggins knows
his material. and, what is quite as i'm
| portant, how to tell a good story.
The Century company, New York.
81 SO.
LEW WALLAcE's CHOICE FOR 1.-THE
GREAT - AMERICAN NOVEL," - The
great American novel, according to the
| late Lew Wallace was "Murvale East
man, by Tourgee--a book Of fifteen years
ago, says Success Magazine. 1t has sub
title, "Christian Socialist and is story
that few people have read, as it was is
sued by a small publishing house. Gen
eral Wallace thought this title detracted
from it's interest, as people might imagine
! 1t a life Of a socialist leader, or a treatise
| on socialism. H. -
General Wallace himself had in mind an
/ American novel He once said that it
was his intention to write this story after
he had completed his memoirs His
theme was the striving of-rAmericansr to
accomplish wonderful things in an in
/ credibly short time His hero was to be
a restless American who lived for few
years in Europe, then in Australia, in
Africa, and in South America, and who
finally, after years of wandering, returned
to his own country only to start again
upon his journey, never satisfied. never
happy, the spirit of an Indian within him
and the childlike desire to see new
scenes. In each of these countries his
hero was to accomplish worthy deeds
and when he returned to his own coun.
try it was to be with the intention o.
leading the life of a of the soil, blu
he was to find he could not do so. The
story would have been suggestive of ''Tht
Wandering Jew, with the element of re-
ligious controversy eliminated. #
SIMPLICITY THE OUTCOME OF cUL
TURE.-"Why should it be necessary t,
cultivate smplicity?' asked a member o
the last Minnesota legislature of The I'm
easy Chair a few days ago as he picket
up Malcolm J. McLeod's The Culture o
Simplicity. The Chair has forgotten wha
it's snapshot answer was. Now it woult
say something like this: ...-..-
+ Simplicity, the term is used here, i
an attitude Of mind toward life. 1t i
natural, but with most of US is soon los
in the compleXity of artificial desire
created by the modern environment
The mind becomes confused, and cours
of cultivation is needed to get back to tn
natural attitude. Hence, Lowell says tn
l highest outcome of culture is simplicity
i Mr.. MCLEOD believes the voice ben
:, PRAISED for simplicity is d spiritual note
Simplicity is spirituality; simplicity i
power; the spiritual is the solution {
everything is the way he puts what h
e calls 1.-The gospel for age of unrest.
g Mr.. Mcleod convincingly pleads for sim
! plicity in all of the ways of life. He ask
:. whether we are losing the art of media
: ton; he adds clause to a clause of til
Lords prayer Give us this day OF
daily bread and make us content wit
= i that; he stands for tranquility Of min
I the tranquility Of relaxation rather tina
= of repression, of being, not Of appearance
: he wants to see more of making life
d than of making living
s Mr. Mcleod is pointing out the path
the truest happiness and highest ends
an enduring life. We recommend both I'll
book and the gospel to restless age.
S, Fleming H. Reven company, New York
mot