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3 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 1895. 21 RANK infl He is an old friend of Secretary Gres aid he was for years known in Indiar & CARPENTER sarin China and Japan has radically ! the position of our diplomats in The legations in China, a are now among the most service of the United hd every American Consul on the wores of the Pacific Oceanisto a extent responsible for the lives of a of the United \d judgment and mistakes are able ring the United States into irouble as never before, and it is interest- the men who now represent itries at this critical time. st important positions is b by Colonel Charles Denby United States Minister to Peking. held ‘his office for the and he has proven him e an able man and a success plomat. Hecomes from Evansville, In he was appointed largely through the ce of the late Senator Joe McDonald. the citizens am, past | in Washington. | | n All that Colonel Denby | had to do in order to bring about this re- | sult was to say to his Chinese cook: _‘“John, wanchee number one dinner, fifty piecee men, three days from now. all | proper.” | . The Chinese cook made out the menu, | did all the marketing, arranged the wines 1 decorated the table, All that Colonel by had to do was to put on his dress uit and take his place at the head of the table. During this dinner he made a speech in French, and he is, by the way, a ry well educated man, and speaks and s French fluently. 'His father was, I Cousul to Marseilles when he was a and a part of his education was Paris. He has especially dis- guished himself by the number of good rts which he has written during his @ gation family consists of the Min- is secretary of legation and the of- nterpreter. The first secretary is | Denby's son, Charles Denby " Jr., s done very good work dur- he Yn{wnt trouble, and who has been ng Minister to China during the greater last year. He is a young man—I judge not'more than 30 years of age; but he has been with his father during the whole of his service in Peking, and he is, aid, a good Chinese scholar. The COLONEL CHARLES DENBY, MINISTER TO CHINA. n had had knew that f the inflexit n’s ch 1id persuade t man for the 1 fill the office bette an, he would prot ted to do so and succe s Harrison’s ele letters began to comce Apolis from China. The b rent ports wrote ask t to retain Minister Dent n missionaries sent in I 1d both Protestants and ( d that Colonel Denby be s Chang wrote a letter thr cretary, and high China t down on their knees, me king, and wrote to the Pre same time the campai ried on all over the world. Ev in China who had a friend like Colonel Denby at once wrote to had him write to the President. S highest church authorities of England—I am in behalf of Denby, and s ed that Presi t Harrison very ly concluded that there must be some foundation for the desire for his retention, and he said that he should stay. Atany rate he was held on and on until the time of the appointment of Blair of New Hamp- | shire, who was not acceptable to the Chinese Government. After this Presi- dent Harrison concluded to let Colonel Denhy stay the remainder of his term, and President Cleveland continued him to the present time. The position of Minister to Peking is by no means a bad one. year, and at the present value of silver this is equal to nearly $35,000 a year, as far as spending power is concerned. I was told in China that the position could be kept up very comfortably on about $10,000 a year, and if this is true there is a clear annual saving of $25,000 in silver, or more th 000 in gold. Peking is off the s of travel. Only a few Ameri- zet to it in the course of a year, and e and eatables are cheap. Wines much cheaper in Shanghai than in Washington, and you can give a dinner in Peking for half the sum that the same teast would cost here. I am not sure, but I think the Government pays the rent of our diplomats in Peking. The legation buildings are flurro\mdediy a high wall of blue bricks, and Colonel” Denby’s own quarters consist of a number of low houses | of blue brick and his rooms are large and airy. The Enrlors of the legation are as well furnished as any you will find in Washington. Old rugs” cover the floor. Magnificent Chinese embroideries han; upon the walls. Tiger skins and Ieo;)ar§ skins and bits of rare porcelain and cloi- gonne are to be founé) here and there. Bome of the furniture is of teak wood. which is as hard as ebony and more bean- tiful than polished mahogany. There is a iano on one side of the room, and the atest books, with English, French and ‘American magazines, which are not more than two months old, lie upon the table. In addition to his quarters for himself and his family, he has a little wing which con- tains several guest-chambers, and he is surrounded with all the comforts of an American home. As to service, he is far better off than he could be in America, During the vigit which I paid to him about " six years ago Colonel Denby gave a swell dinner in honor of the dean of the diplo- matic corps, who was then just leaving for furope. About fifty guests sat down at the table, and the dinner was as well served and as nicely cooked as any you ¢an get up v foreigner me of the not sure but that one was not the Archbishop of Canterbury—sent in letters aspontaneous hg in favor of this foreign Minister The pay is $17,5003 | secretary is $2625, which the »resent value of silver is more an_ $5000. There is a house in the ion compound for the use of secretary, ana the position is by s a bad one. The interpreter tion is Fleming D. Cheshire, yung man who is somewhere between d 50 years of age. He is an American ved in China for eighteen or and who speaks Chinese as been connected with the z for years, and much of earned in Peking. He the only way to learn the lan- living among the people, it he shaved his pigtail, dressin He kept this up b 1 the mandarin and common s and he is now an indispensable b tion. He is a dark-faced, | salary of the ched, very intelligent young he has a house near that of the which he keepsa bachelor’s imperial customs of China. xports and imports are col- rreigners under an inspector- famous Sir_ Robert Hart. bout 3000 men in the customs, e scattered all over China. good salaries, but they are t to Sir Robert Hart, and d of losing their offices 1 our Government clerks were before ice rules were inaugurated. v in Peking in illustration vay in which Sir Rebert changes. They say he has ened against the walls of h there are pegs, each of he name of an official. The holes rked with the names of the | different positions, and if John Smith’s peg | is in the Sh ai hole it shows that John Smith isinc > of the customs at Shang- | hai. Now 1 the inspector-general | comes home very late. Hemay have been | out to d He may have taken a little champa, 1 upon getting into hig own hall he m; y lingly use this board as a | hat-rack. In doing 5o he may knock down a number of pegs, which his Chinese boy sticks back at random before his imperial | highness gets up. When he comes out in | the morning—so th s 3 nur:{; goes—he"looks le surprise at the appointmen | Boaed: P e appointment ‘“Ah,” says he, “John Smith has been | changed from Shanghai to Hankow. I had | forgotten all about that. [ must send off | the order at onc | And off it goe | getting $5000 a ! not put off to | half that, and all occur. . The head of our consular service in China is Thomas R. Jernigan, the Consul-General a . He is a straight, slender arolinian of about 45, who got his natic experience as Consul to ! _He is a gentleman, and he has proved himself to be a much better diplomat than those who have given him orders. He held on to the two Japanese | students who were afterward tortured to death until he received positive orders from Secretary of State Gresham to gjve them up, | and he then acquiesced almost under pro- test. Mr. Jernigan made a most efficient Consul at Kobe, and he is a refresh- ing change from the incompetent, broken-down politicians who have beld the vplace in, the near past. During my stay in China the position was held by the V ice-Consul-General, a namby- pamby Anglomaniac dude, who went b the title of William Dulaney Hunter, lng who licked his lipsin order to make his words soft and grl-like. The Marshal of the legation was George A. Shufeldt, a son of Admiral Shufeldt, a very good fellow, and its brains and standing were at this | time kept up by Walter 8. Emons, ayoun New Yorker, who has lived in Shangh | for some years, and who was acting as one of the judges of the mixed courts and in- terpreter. - He has since left the legation and is now one of the partners in a large trading company in Shanghai. The Con- sul at Tientsin is Sheridan P. Read, who was for some time connected with Russeil & Co., and who is related to ex-Secretary Foster and Josiah Quincy, some time since Becretary of State. He makes a very good Consul. "Connected algo with the consulate Tom Jones, who was at Tientsin, is like as moy, where the salary is sorts of queer changes at Tientsin is C. D. Tenney, who was for a long time connected with’Li Hung Chang, and who was the head of a Chinese school at Tientsin. Heisa very bright man and knows as much about China and the Chinese as any other man in the country. The consulate at Tientsin is a_big two- story building, situated on the edge of the fora:lgn concession, and Mr. Read has ample quarters for the entertainment of his friends. Nearly all of our Consuls in the East have fine establishments, and at Hankow, 700 miles in the interior, I found an establishment which would do eredit to Washington. It was that of the Hon. Jacob T. Childs, better known throughout the West as “‘genial Jake Childs.” He was, you know, Minister to Siam, and he isnow taking care of the interests of the United States and of Jacob Childs in the heart of China. . The dean of the Chinese consular corps is Charles Seymour of Canton. He has been in office for about twelve years, and he is one of the most efficient men in our diplomatic service. He comes from Wis- consin, and he has time and again saved the foreigners of Canton from riots. Another Consul, a famous Southern gen- eral, called not long ago on Li Hung Chang, and while talking with the great Viceroy Li Hung Chang’s son entered the room. The boy is now about 20 years of age. He speaks English and French almost as well as he does Chinese, and he is what would be called in America a highly educated young man. He had just left his tutor to come in to his father, and had been taking a lesson in polite forms of expression. The American gen- eral—he was a Southern general—conversed with him for some time, and at last, sur- rised at his knowledge of good Anglo- Saxon, he burst out as follows: “Why, my ho’y, you talk the English lan- guage elegant.’ Shortly after this the boy went back to his tutor, who was an American. He quoted the expression to him and asked him if it was correct. The American tutor did not like to go back on his own Consul, and he told him that the sentence was a sort of a dialecticism, just as the Canton- ese cannot sometimes understand the Pe- kingese Chinamen. Another American general—I am not sure, but I think it was Chinkiang Jones, so called from the name of the city in which he now lives as Consul in China— relates an incident of an_inspection of Li- Hung Chang’s troops. Li was very proud of his troops before this war began. They were armed with modern rifles. They had been drilled by foreigners, and the Chinese nobles of Tientsin thought they were equal to any troops in the world. While they were going through their evolutions General Jones and Li Hung Chang were off watching them, and as they hopped about with great agility, turning this way and that, Li’s long face broadened into a smile, and he asked General Jones what he thought of his army. The general is not the most backward of men, but he con- cl\.lgml to feel his way before replying. He said: “Why, your excellency, I don’t know how to answer. Do you want me to say what I really think or shall I answer you as a diplomat?’’ “I want the truth,” said Li. the truth.” “Then, your Excellency,” replied Chin- kiang Jones, ‘‘they are all right for run- ing, but for Simon pure fighting I don’t they are worth a darn.” 5 eyes sur\],pvd. He got pale, then sallow and finally burst out laughing and said: “Well, to be candid with you, general, 1 lm]vc always thought just that way my- self.” And this war proved that both of them were right. Copyright, 1895. AN ARGRY PRIMA DON Radical Distinctions Alleged to Have Been Made at a Hotel. “I want The Circumstances Bring About a Suit for Damages by a Col- ored Lady. An action which may develop some pe- culiar points of law was commenced yes- terday in behalf of Mme. Edwards, a col- ored prima donna, against Robert Weineke and Fred P. Plegeman, the proprietors of the Golden West Hotel, to recover the sum of $299 99 by way of damages. It appears from the complaint that Mme. Edwards arrived in this city at 8 A. M. on April 2last. She was surrounded by the usual contingent of hotel-runners, by one of whom she was finally deposited in the omnibus bolonging to the Golden West Hotel. She was accompanied by George Washington Walley and W, P. Thompson, the gentlemen named being the pianist and barytone of the troupe. The balance of the company had already left by steamer for Australia. On arrival at the Golden West Hotel the prima donna was assigned to rooms 101 and 102. She made arrangements with the clerk to pay $2 per day for her rooms and 25 cents for each meal. She had been in ossession of the rooms but a couple of hours, when one of the proprietors came up and informed her that she could not stay there and would have to quit at once. Mme. Edwards inquired what was the rea- son of this summary ejection, whereupon the manager informed her that it was un- necessary to give any reason for his action. She then demanded a wWritten statement of his reason, which the manager flatly de- clined to give, but after considerable pres- sure said it was on account of the lady’s color. The lady, in her complaint, says: 1 told him that I could compel him to keep me. He just said that I must vacate the rooms as soon as possible. He then forced me to leave the hotel immediately, and I did sorather than have further trouble. I became greatly ex- cited. 1 have Leen completely prostrated b; running up and down. I have been damage as to my hand and foot to I do not know what extent. ‘When the clerk came up to tell me to leave I was engaged in trimming my corns, and so cut y finger and little toe so that I can Ac-rcel{ wilk and cannot wear & glove on my hand. can never express the humiliationIfelt. I was degraded, and my mental faculties left me. I also lost several days in the transaction of my business. Moreover, I suffered great incon- venience because I had instructed my mail and telegrams to be delivered to this hotel. Mrs. Edwards and the balance of the McAdoo troupe left on yesterday’s steamer jor Australia. Her deposition was taken by order of Justice Carrigan before At- torney Jones and Notary Daggett, and the case will be tried in her absence. She is engaged for a twelve months’ starring tour in Australia and New Zealand. A POLICEMAN'S WIFE. Mrs. Susie Hauck Makes a Demand for Her Husband’s Arrest. Mrs. Susie Hauck, a dressmaker, living at 148 Sixth street, complained to Secretary McComb yesterday that her husband, Peter Hauck, a policeman, refused to support her and their two children. She also charged him with extreme cruelty, and de- maded his arrest. Mrs. Hauck states that her husband left her some time ago, and that he is now liv- ing with his mother, at 432 Tehama street. Recently she went to_him for money, but he declined to nge her acent. She was {;:rced to work at dressmaking in order to ve. The woman makes other charges, which, however, those who know Hauck claim connot be substantiated. Hauck has been on the police force for several years, but at present he is off duty. He denies the charges made b{ his wife. A complaint against him will be sworn to to-morrow. ik s he e s e It was the custom years ago for Japanese Ladies o ghid their toeth, Lo A Book Guild for San Francisco. It has become somewhat fashionable of late to decry San Francisco as a grim step- mother of the arts. It isunneccessary t® go into details of the accusations brought against her by her critics; they are such as may, with entire justice, be charged against every other American city, not one of which has, up to date, proven herself, to any great degree, a fostermother of the arts. San Francisco, however, is awakening to a sense of her shortcomings in this regard. ‘While we cannot, by any charitable hand- ling of the truth, correctly call ourselves a music-loving city, still music has her -patrons among a wide range of our citi- zens, and they have done much for the ob- ject of their devotion. We love and appre- ciate our artists. They, at least, cannot say that they are without honor in their own city. We are wont to lionize them at home and to note with pride their progress abroad. But for letters San Francisco has done but little, despite what bade fair, in early vears, to be her brilliant promise. We {mve none of the fraternities of writers such as flourish in other cities, and we only find out our writers when their work comes back to us through Eastern medi- ums. Nevertheless, even as music has her devotees, and art and science theirs, there are many lovers of good literature in San Francisco who are determined to see that the shrine at which they worship shall not be without incense. A society, to be called the Book Guild, is now in process of organization, whose alm is to be the cause of letters on the Pacific Coast. This society, which is to be composed not of writers only, but of men and women of literary tastes and culture, is to be en- tirely different from anything that hasever | been attempted in this city, or perhaps in any other city in America. The idea orig- inated in a conversation between certain members of the Century and the Bohemian clubs some months ago. The inability of San Francisco to keep her writers at home was_the subject-of comment. ‘“They all go East as soon as they become known,” some one said, sadly. The stateiaent had in it so large a modicum of truth as to be practically undeniable. It was discussed at length, and gradually the idea of the Book Guild took shape. Since then its projectors have been work- ing hard to perfect an organization. They have worked slowly, but have laid a deep foundation, and while it will be several days before the announcement of the directorate can be made, certain practical results have already been accomplished that are bound to have an_immense influ- ence upon the future of literature in Cali- fornia. The Book Guild is primarily a business undertaking. The directorate is to consist of two members from the Bohe- mian Club, two from the Century Club and a well-known San Francisco business man. The two clubs have not themselves, however, any oflicial connection with the guild. A number of leading writers on the coast have been invited, and have sig- nified their willingness to become mem- bers of the organization. The'guild is to be modeled upon the plan of the American Authors’ Guild, which society, by the way, has already invited the San_ Francisco embryo to enter its ranks. Its object is to encourage letters on this coast; to promote the sale of the works of Californian authors on the coast, and even, if necessary, in cases where it seems advisable, to undertake the publica- tion (for the present in the East) of books written by Californians. In a word, the uild aims to foster the literary spirit in 5‘lifomia. The American society, along whose lines it is planned and with which the San Fran- cisco Guild will co-operate, has been in ex- istence for about three years. It numbers among its members such writers as Thomas ‘Wentworth Higginson, Geo ‘W. Cable, Charles Dudley Warner, W.rgD. Howells, Mary E. Wilkins and several hundred oth- ers. It even has a few members herein San Francisco, prominent among whom ;{e Hubert Howe Bancroft and Ambrose ierce. It is, in reuiity a sort of literary trades union seeking to iu'ing about a better un- derstanding between authors and pub- lishers and to protect, when necessary, the former against the latter. It aims, also, to secure ;:ertninpflno{hrefomy, s nv; exten- sion of copyright, the carriage of manu- script and Eooks tiuough the mails at mer- chandise rates arrd in general the protec- tion of the interests of American authors. The president is General James Grant Wil- son, the vice-presidents Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Professor Moses Coit Tyler and Al- bert Mathews. Dr. Titus Munson Coan, well known on this coast, is treasurer, an the secretary is Craven ,Lnngstmth Betts, The board of managers consists of Colonel Higginson, Mrs. R. H. Stoddard, Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton, Mrs. Ellen Hardin Walworth, Mrs. Olive Thorne Mil- ler, Mrs. Elizabeth Akers Allan, Miss Cyn- thia Cleveland, Dr. Newland Maynard and Edwin M. Shannon. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes wasa mem- ber, as are also Julian Hawthorne, Edward Bellamy and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. i The American guild intends having an auditor to investigate accounts of publish- ers with authors, and is also estal liahinfi a fund to provide for the assistance of sic authors or the widows and orphans of au- thors. It furnishes free legal advice, and will, if necessary, fight for an author’s in- terests in the courts. It also supervises the making of contracts between authors and publishers. These contractsare usually powerful weapons for the latter fraternit against the author, who is entirely at thefz mercy. The management is already watching with, t inferest the organization of the San Francisco guild. The latter incorpo- rates in its p‘n of work certain features upon which the New York board look with Betts, inc especial interest. deed, de?hred that the American pgld would not_dare undertake the publication of a book by one of its mem! “But,” he adds in his letter to the local lecreufiyro tem., ‘‘you seem to «lo the impossible in California."” In choosing what shall be their first move in the interest of fornian liter- ature the Book Guild has made a selection that cannot but give general pleasure throughout the State. It will issue some | pages such an array of talentas no man- | agement has ever | then just starting, all time before the holidays, and though a leading Boston publishing firm, a volume of poems by Ina Coolbrith, with illustra- tions by William Keith and other well- known artists. There is perhaps no other writer in the State so thoroughly imbued with the spirit of California as Miss Coolbrith. Others have written of us, of our scenery, our customs, our people, and written as lovers write, but no other has so voiced the swirit of California, the land, as has this sweet singer. Her love for the State that has been her home since.early childhood amounts to a positive emotional affection. Miss Coolbrith was born in Illinois, but when a mere toddler started with her parents and brothers on the long, weary | “central overland” trip by prmria~schooner. i She is heart and soul a Californian. The | family spent a year in Marysville, then re- | moved to Los Angeles, where the poet’s | early girlhood was spent. To her early home in Los Angeles is dedicated one of the most exquisite lyrics that Miss Coolbrith has written of late years. It isnot found in the collection of her poems, but is well worth giving in this connection : RETROSPECT. [Los Angeles.] A breath of balm—of orange-bloom, By what strange fancy watted me Through the lone starlight of my room? And suddenly I seem 10 see The long low vale with tawny edge Of hiliside, in the sunset’s glow? Cool vine-rows, through the cactus hedge, And fluttering gleams of orchard snow. Far off the slender line of white, Against the blue, of ocean’s crest; ‘The slow sun sinking into night, A quivering opal in the west; Somewhere a stream sings, far away; . Somewhere, from out the hidden groyes, And dreamy as the dying day, Comes the sott coo of mourning doves. One moment all the world is peace! The years, like clouds, have rolled away, And 1'am on those sunlit leas, A child, amid the flowers at play. With her mother she came to San Fran- cisco in 1865, and here, in the old Golden Era, then under the management of Charles Henry Webb, her first poems were published. Her real literary work, however, began in the Overland. The Overland, as our earlier writers still love to speak of that famous periodical, when Bret Harte sat in the editorial chair and attracted to its ince succeeded in get- ting between its covers. At this time Miss Coolbrith also did considerable work for Eastern publications. The Atlantic, Harper’s and the Century, rinted poems from her pen, and inquiry gen fo be made concerning this young Californian with an ear for the richest cadences in the lan- | guage and a giit for making marvelous | melodies with words. In 1873 it had been arranged that Miss Coolbrith should accompany a lady friend to Europe, leaving her mother with a mar- ried dnuginer during her absence. The sister, however, was taken ill, and came to the poet’s home in San Francisco. Here, in 1874, she died, leaving her two children to Miss Coolbrith’s care. After this all personal plans were given up. Ina en- tered the Oakland Free Library as libra- rian, and began a round of mingled pro- fessional and household duties which lasted - for eighteen years, during which time nearly all her literary work lapsed. A volume of her poems appeared in 1881, but the edition was limiteu and the book is not now easil{ attainable. The volume which the Book Guild will put out will supply a demand that has steadily in- creased of late, particularly since Miss Coolbrith’s Eastern trip and enthusi- astic reception, a_year or so ago, in New York’s literary circles. The guild, in the reliminary arrangements for the book, Eu had the advice and co-operation of Edmund Clarence Stedman, and the vol- ume isto be most handsomely and artis- tically gotten up. i Miss Coolbrith is pre-eminently the poet of California. Nothing more beautiful has ever been said or sung of the golden State than that poem of hers on the lovely land where The palm tree and the pine Strike hands together under the same skies In every wind that blows. In the same poem occurs that appeal of California fora poet praise: ‘What matters though the morn Redden upon my singlug fields ot corn! What matters though the wind’s unresting feet Ripple te golden wheat, ‘And my vales run with wie, ‘Aud on these hills of mine The orchard boughs droop heavy with ripe fruit? When with nor sound of lute, Nor lyre, doth any singer chant and sing ssionate losing her of elections and the various complexities of a republican government engage his attention and that of the friends he makes. There are a number of thoroughly lik- able people in the book. The half- thoughtful, half-cynical attitude of the well-to-do American_toward the questions of the day is delicately and strongly sketched in the banker and the lawyer, and even the manufacturer, frankly brutal, in very seli-defense, in his attitude towar his “hands,” is recognized as a product of a system for which he can no more be held responsible than are his workingmen. 'he traveler does not attempt to outline, except in the vaguest way, the way they do things in Altruria. Howells is too thor- oug}}‘xl¥' past master of his craft to permit such incongruity, but one rises from a perusal of the book with a clearer idea of the weaknesses of this civilization of ours and of what is its inevitable trend than a dozen lengthy treatises on economices could possibly give him. [New York: Harper & Bros. For sale by the Dodge Book and Stationery Com- pany, San Francisco.] A New Life of Jesus. One of the most remarkable books that has ever been written upon the subject of which it treats has just been put out by the Sunrise Publishing Company of New York. This book is entitled “Iesat Nassar, or Jesus the Nazarene.” The authors, Peter V. F. Mamreov, Anna F. Mamreov and B. A. F. Mamreov, have had exceptional op- portunities for research and free access to unusual sources of information upon their subject. They have lived for many years n Syria, Palestine and Egypt, having been born in Jerusalem of Russian parents, who had taken up their residence in the holy land for the express purpose of sifting, if possible, the truth from the varying doc- trines of Christianity, Judaism and Mos- lemism. The story, therefore, is told from an Oriental standpoint entirely. Strictly speaking there is no fiction in it. The characters dealt, with are all historical or legendary, and the book is founded upon both Christian and Jewish secular and_re- ligious history, as well as upon the various legends in which all Oriental countries abound. The story opens with an account of the direct ancestors of Jesus, and the account is interwoven with much that will be new, even to students, regarding the customs and observances, political, social, religious, of the Jews. The account itself is start- ling to those accustomed to the orthodox stories of the humble life of the lowly Naz- arene. According to the Mamreovs the mother of Jesus, whom they style the Lady Marya, was of noble Median ancestry, the daughter of a Prince of Adiabene, Nakeeb by name, and his wife, the Princess Grapte of Kharax. These two dignitaries became converted to Judaism, the wife through the influence of a Jewish peddler, who had access to the court, the Prince through her. The pair then took the names of Joachim and Anna. After beinf childless for years, and under priestly ban on account of it, the Princess Marya was at last born to her parents, who thereupon_ fell under sus- picion of dealing in mugic,else how else bad Anna become fruitful after so many years. So, working upon her religious feeling, the priests succeeded in inducing Anna to transfer all her wealth so that it should come at her death to the priestly oftice. The little Lady Marya grew up, and was betrothed by her parents to her cousin Youseph, Shah Baudar, or chief of the shipbuilding, fishing and trading asso- ciation of the towns situated on the Lake of Gennesseret. He wasa very rich and powerful Baudar, and, according to this narrative, the famous journey to Bethle- hem was undertaken in order that the unborn child of the Princess might be en- rolled as heir to her estate at Deyar, with farms, vineyards, etc., not inclnded in the entailed property which would come to her in the death of Anna. Instead of being lodged in a stable, the powerful Youseph and his spouse had the best the inn afforded. The story of the life of the Nazarene, while following in the main the narrative of the New Testament, goes into details of the various plots laid against him by the Jews, his many escapes and the circum- stances of his temptations, trial and death that make the story one of thrilling and dramatic interest. The book is written with consummate skill and is full of Oriental beauty. Itis too long and complicated a work to ad- mit of justice being doneitin a review of this nature, but it will repay perusal. Tt is rendered still more valuable by a voluminous appendix, which is a compend of citations from _historical and religious writings and traditions of the great creeds which have dominated the human race. The book takes no supernatural view of the Nazarene. On the other hand, the various s;:fpenrzmces upon_earth of Jesus after his death are described with great circumspection. He is referred to as the holiest of men, the great teacher, the Son of God, and a beautiful picture is drawn of him going about his good work, despised and rejected of men. [New York: The Sunrise Publishing Company.] Zugassent’s Discovery. e, in my life’s fair spring, The matin soug of me in my young day. But all my lays and legends fade away { From lake and mountain to the farther hem 01 sen, and there be none to gather them. The gleaners have since come and have garnered rich sheaves from the new land’s store of legend and song, but none of these have sung to us of the belntx and gladness, the ripe, bounteous, over-lowing richness of the golr]en land as has Ina Coolbrith, and California may well be lad that her poems are soon to be col- ected and put in a form so appropriate, and under auspices of which our commu- nity may so well be proud. A Traveler From Altruria. It has been said that no one was more surprised than was Edward Bellamy him- self over the sensation created by his great book, “Looking Backward.” It is probable that W. D. Howells has been similarly sur- prised at the reception accorded his col- lectivist romance, “A Traveler from Al- truria,” when it appeared in the Cosmo- politan. Unquestionably it is the best thing of the sort that has yet been done. ‘We had had quite enough of tHe adventures of mineteenth century citizens suddenly transported to Utopian realms. Utopia had been pictured according to individual im- #gination until we were aweary of it and e lesson ceased to impress. There was after all something very evasive in Utopia. Nothing was ever said about its undoubted drawbacks. . But our fin de siecle civilization is noth- ing if not real, and for Howells to intro- duce (o it a traveler from Utopia, for Altruria is but another name for Utopia, was a masterpiece of clearness. The tray- eler from Altruria arrives in America with a letter of introduction to a writer—the writer of the story. He is the guest of the writer at a summer resort hotel, a e, fashionable caravansary, filled with wealthy, cultivated, plennr&seekhg peo- ple, among whom he proceeds to study our civitization. The results are trying to his host. The traveler from Altruria causes his discomfiture at once by helping an overburdened railroad porter with his luggage and that of other travelers. He creates consternation in the hotel dining- room by attempting to help a student-wai ress with a tray of dishes, and he does other things that cause ple to stare. He begins by being delighted to find himself in a country where all men are free and equal. Altrurians had been wont to read with pleasure of the enjoyment of the people under this ble: republican government, and he was to like everything American. ut he is per- xed first by the servant question. hen he startles a gnouP composed of a banker, a lawyer, a minister, a manufac- turer and the writer by asl where the American workingman Tnds is leisure. The fact develops itself that he had actually expected to find him at the hotel! Then the position of American women in society arrests his attention. The idea that they are becoming, as apart from men, the cultivated class startled him, as indeed it does his companions when k.hy come to consider it. itics, bus the relations of capital and laber, the luct Those who read and approved George N. Miller’s other hook, *“The Strike of a Sex,” which was so wildly read a year or two ago, will be deeply disappointed in tnis little volume. 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