The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-10
SPRING LIST OF

BOOKS.-If some reader Of current lit
erature were to be exiled for the sum-
mer and were to be allowed to take
number Of books as solace for his
lonely hours, he would hit it pretty
well if he took Appleton's spring list
complete. He would have seventeen
novels to start with, and most of them
by writers whom time and the public
have: tested and not found wanting.
Maxwell Gray, author Of the Silence
Of Dean Maitland,'' heads the list with
a book called SF'The Great Refusal, -
the story Of a young man born to great
wealth, who comes to feel 1t his duty
to give up his fortune. Very different
from this is Maarten Martens 1.-The
Healers,'' which is an attack On mod
ern medicine and the theories of spe-
eialists, but which is said to be "a
cheerful satire.'' Chiefly psychological
is George Moore's "The Lake." the
story Of a priest who fell in love SO
deeply that he abandoned his sacred
office and went forth into the world.
| This trio, which in itself is enough
to attract attention, is backed up by
| book by S. R. Crockett, bearing the
title, "Fishers of Men, 1t is Crock
ettesque. There is burglary and muir
laderT IN it, but there are also pretty girls,
t.love-making and >humor., Then there Is
1 one Of those ingenious stories In which
| Robert W. Chambers delights. 1t l:
called "The Tracer of Lost Persons. ,
It is described as beautifully illogical
but thoroly convincing Of course Il
tells how a dashing young man got
wife in an unusual way. One OF tn
I.old- fashioned love stories in which the
heroine is. surprisingly beautiful ant
the hero brave and handsome, is told b.
Elinor Mccartney Lane in All for tn
Love of a Lady, GA Lady in Wait
ing by Charles Woodcock Savage, i
story in the form of a diary of
Young girl aristocrat in Paris at tn
j time Of the French Revolution.
: E The author of t'Letters from a Self
4 Made Merchant to His Son. Georg
Horace Lorimer, is also on the Apple
ton list, with the "False Gods,' tn
+ story of a newspaper reporter-one o
the yellow kind The book is said t
be wildly exciting and very humorous
:: Such book as one could easily sus
: pect Mr.. Lorimer of writing.
|: Really the Appleton list of goo
things is too long to admit of mention
of everything with any detail. On
: finds there the names Of Lloyd Osborne
I, Robert Barr, Arthur Henry Vesey
Alfred Jesup Stimson, Mollie Ellio
? SewaH, Mrs. John Van Worst, Loui
Joseph Vance and Seth Cook Com
SCOck, ana Lne QeSCTlpLlous bHt pun
3 fishers give of their stories. are evt
: dence that the exile we spoke Of woul
S forget his exile If he had these book
4 along.
s = "A -beok of memoirs in the Appleto
$ list is called "With John Bull an
{ Jonathan and is by John Morga
:. Richards, the dean Of the America
q colony in London. The writer is tn
e father of John Oliver Hobbs (M!r
j Craigie) and his book gives many il
f teresting facts in Mrs. Craigie's chile
r In the way of history, the Appleton
}, offer "The Real Triumph of Japan,
+ by Major Louis Livingston Seama'
: This book is a warning to the Anne
IS lean nation thru the lessons that ma
l. be learned from the Japanese medic
<, service in the late war.