The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-27


NEW NOVEL, 6YfkATE DOUGLAS
Wiggin Riggs is a pleasant event in the
reading World; and in the March Century
begins that popular authors latest work
Rose O. the River Rose, of course, is
the heroine Of the tale; and the river is
the Saco, the beautiful stream which runs
near Mrs. Virgins summer home in Hol-
lis, Me-, SO Mrs. aWiggin has set this idyl
in scenes familiar and beloved. The tinted
frontispiece of the number portrays
George Wright's conception Of the Rose
of Mrs. Virgins romance.
= UNPuBL,s1E5A esHrrERs OF
CHARLES LAMB.-An interesting liter
airy find, consistingk of some unpublished
letters by Charles and Mary Lamb, ap-
pears in Harper's@ Magazine for March
The letters are in the possession Of w
Carew Hazlitt, who writes the accom-.
panying article, and relates a number OF
Lambs witticisms land other anecdotes
of the essayist Mr. Hazlitt is a grandson
of William Hazlitt. He published his LET
tiers Of Charles Lamb" in 1885, also "The
Lambs in 1897, and Lamb and Hazlitt''
in 1900. Mr.. Hazlitt mentions that tho the
British museums has RECENTLY acquired a
few Of the gems from Lambs library
including an edition of Beaumont and
Fletcher with MS. notes by Lamb. and
Coleridge, most of the essay1st's books are
owned in the United States.
A POEM OF A HEARTS TRAGEDY
In a form that resembles Aurora Leigh"
Mary Randall Shippey has told in Soeur
Marie the story of one who has suffered
intensely; and, in the end, as the result
Of association with Soeur Marie, seen a
vision. The story is the authors own, and
the mysteries she confronted demanding
an answer, she has now solved, If death
graduates one into a school where life's
mysteries are solved. The tragedy of her
life seems to have been not uncommon:
battle lost-7an upright nature lured
From honor and from love-a ruined home
broken heart-a wife's answering faith
Dragged in the dust.
That is; all there is Of the past" The
rest is of the ministrations Of Soeur Marie
and their good results until the author
learns:
TO sift the hearts desire, and teach the will
Obedience only to divine command
This Is our part the rest we leave to him.
It is long since We have seen didactic
poem Of the length Of this published. Its
qualities Of thought and diction, how
fisher for issuing it:
Robert Grier Cooke, New York.
: Tc.- -.
Jack London, whose recent novel, 1.-THE Sea
Wolf" is one Of the popular books, just now
has sent to the Macmillan company the manu-
script Of his new book, 1.-The War of the Class
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TOO MANY PUBLISHING HOUSES
A. writer in a British magazine speaks OF
a crisis in the English book market He
says the trouble is there are too many
publishers. There. are not enough good
books to go around: as a result poor
books are published. Hence the danger
to English letters. -. ,.-1.... -. F. ... 80
: A TALE OF THE MAINE WOODS
Piney Home is an artless tale Of Arcadian
life in a way down east' Maine village
a, half century ago, when debating socie-
ties and singing clubs were the diversion
of the young people in the evenings and
hard work in the virgin forests and in
the newly cleared fields the work Of the
day. George Selwyn Kimball has told
his story in a styIeia little too old for
young children and too juvenile for their
elders. Sherman Grant is the authors
favorite character. He brings to the
Maine woods his young bride and the
story promises to be peacefully domestic
However, French Canadians and half
breeds raise continual disturbance and In
the description of several hand to- hand
combats the author is at his best. John
Black, the pompous, but athletic and good
hearted Harvard graduate, is by far the
most Interesting study. Il. S. K.
s.e Boston, Herbert B. Turner & Co.
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