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22 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1895. I @hildb o = Easter Lilies. ter lilies, Standing in the sun, " When the d: Lilies, Snowy 1 Lilies, Dreamy lilies aming white December | Christmas bright? And of inshine, fine. the sod, 1 bis heaven, until his philosopher, “Give me the trainir sixth year,” a who has died dren as men follow | science, nd I care not who teaches him thereafter.” The written for men and women | measured and endlessly dis- | by the critic He indeed | who can say be book is real whether whether it teache a t a child, an 11l soon whether | ; can tell, too,whether rand conc it is her a “story a book of knowlec spons: v of choosing s fit for the | young. | Itis for Du M er to express regret d hope of his that “it n: whateve might be i never pen ded young B: d to her i might not blue-eyed babe little " bottle Neither i school of e qu v the | who claim the right to | in the land which are confessed The fa most_ the ¥ are “stories” which shall teach them som thing of lif lenable them to pro: by the exp: r and not e in her stud average child of her years, w s of the | reproved | An Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. | in my hearing for having made a raid on “Trilby.” The degradation was discoy- ered, by the way, by the child ingenuously | requesting to be taught French. The child was highly indignant at being warned off the literary preserves of her | elders and appealed io me for justice. “They want me to go on forever reading | about a good little boy who takes hold of | his mother’s hand, walks downtown and i looks in at a shop-window and sees a little | woolly dog and thinks it is beautiful, and then turns around and walks home again without letting go of his mother’s hand. “What do I like to read? Well, it is pretty hard to find good things. Rudyard Kipling knows well enough how to write interesting stories for children, only he hardly ever will do it. Then there's Hawthorne. Hawthorne will do” (very slowly), “but J. M. Barrie isall right!?”’ And the small person’s eyes flashed with pleasant recol- lections. ‘Worse than this, children of five years old and under will often beg for ‘“poetry stories,”” the rhythm of which always seems to delight childish ears. One little five- year-old who had been regaled habitually with the usual atrocious rhymes for the nursery fell completely in love with “‘Gray’s Elegy”’ at the first hearing. She knew no more of what it meant than the rest of us do, but its sonorous phrases and smooth rhymes delighted her. And yet the sensitive childish ear and the active childish imagination are in- variably trained for many a long day with the endless repetition of such fascinating tales as “This is a cat. Do vou see the cat? Yes, I see the cat. The cat can walk.”” Not many years ago the teacher of a large private school in New York inquired of her pupils how many were reading a series of books then being publisned es- pecially for the young. Nearly every hand in the room went up, and a proportionate number of parents were promptly informed by this intelligent and watchful teacher that their children were reading books of the most dangerous and pernicious sort. Relying, quite safely, it seems, upon the carelessness of parents rcgurdinE the inside Pn es of their children’s books, a writer mg sent out about twenty-five volumes, all with pretty and innocent titles and all bavored with a strong pretense of religious sentiment. Beyond that the stories were of the intrizues of school children and taught sufficient lessons in deceit and pas- sion to shock any grown person. The praise and love of children does not bring fame; but, even so, there are many noble writers who are doing good work for the children. We need a Government, or a greater public sentiment, which shall demand more—a volume of good literature great enough to supply the children, out- | members of the same household is a fre- | that distinguish and give such grace and | | sweetness to foreign home life. However times the membe of a French and normal, | I oods [Realm childish ears, and they are full, too, of the action and life which delight the childish imagination. Charles F. Lummis’ stories of the folk lore of the Pueblo Indians are good as the best of Mr. Lumm work. ‘‘The Man ‘Who Married the Moon’’ is the title of his book, and anybody’s children would enjoy the quaint directnass of the tales. Howard Pyle is another clever author, who does not disdain writing for the boys His “Jacob Ballis- and girls of all ages. ter's Fortunes' has wonders to see the interest so well sus- tained throughout it all. Early Training. Criticisms, however unjust and unkind they may be asa whole, are not without value by way of suggestion. It has been arcastically asserted that in this country the mornings were too busy and the even- ings too weary for the indulgence of family courtesy.” This neglect of respect- ful ceremony in daily intercourse between quent and uncomplimentary comment upon American manners. In pleasing con- trastare the little amenities and civilities | meet during the d tis always | der salutation and words of inter- est in each other’s plans and pursuits. Breakfast in America is necessarily a hurried meal, from the early hour of| school and business, but in many homes | its character is greatly influenced by the | ance, and a gentle tenderness marked his intercourse with them, proving that they were loved and remembered every hour. His law was one of love, and the denial of a request was given with sach n_\'mgnthy and regret as to soothe the pain’of disap- pointment to the little suppliant. To bring “the little courtesies within their range” it is only justice that they be exercised toward the children in like man- ner as they are required of them. If they are expected to be thoughtful for the com- fort and pleasure of others the lesson must be strengthened by the knowledge that their own lives are brightened and made glad by corresponding efforts on the part n{'I‘mrems and friends. his beautiful creed teaches and accepts trifles as an evidence of ‘‘eorrect thougtt, sentiment and action,” and the hand that in kindergarten days places daily “a pretty flower at mamma’s plate to make her happy” is already pointing in the right direction to clasp closer and more tenderly until it becomes a strength and comfort for declining years, TABLE TALK. Philosophy From Babyland. st night in the country.. amma , Ethel, lie still in your little bed The —Now and wait for the angels to sing you to | sleep. Ethel (later)-Mamma, mamma! The angels are singing all right, but they bite me all the time and I can’t go to sleep. Spread of knowledge—'‘Papa,” said lit- tle Katie, “do you know how high those clouds are?”’ . “No, my child,” answered the father with an indulgent smile. “Well,” said Katie, regarding them with a critical ey “I do. They're circus clouds, and they’re about three miles and a half high. You didn’t have very good chools when you were little, did you, —Chicago Tribune. tor—Johnny, won’t you please give your new baby brother to me? Johnny (who has played with a succes- sion of little dolls)—I dess I'll keep him EASTER \\\\vV AN N \ LILIES. presence of company. Cheerful “good- | mornings” and kindly inquiries for the | comfort and rest of the past night are be- stowed upon guests, w n their absence | the same courtesy is forgotten between those whose w re should be (and is at } and greatest nurnrmnce. 2 illustration of failure in | which, alas! extends | in too many ns for ease of con- science. Itismnot lack of affection, but a sort of “all in the family’’ spirit which takes for granted and as understood what should be imypressed by frank and loving certain pride in good man- courtesy to strangers which elessness withholds as of slight import- nce in the family circle, where its omis- n is the greatest wrong. While in many iustances it proves un- flattering testimony, it must be admitted that the children of a family serve as best criterion by which to determine its stand- ard, not only morally and intellectually, | but also for its refinement in manners and methoc It is too often forgotten that | childbood is a mimic stage, its tiny actors | constantly rehearsing upon it the waysand doings of the adult world around them. faithfulness in imitation and shrewdness of questions explode the doctrine that they are “too young to notice or under- stand”’ things not to their advantage. It is well to accept the fact that however in- different and unconscious they may seem when engaged in merry play, little escapes their ever-listening ears and bright eyes. The kindergarten platform presents not only sweet suggestions, but also obliga- tions of precept and example—the aismfi» cance of the word bearing a lesson of duty. The German ‘“kinder” meaning children and ‘‘garten’’ garden gives the ‘‘children’s garden,”” which must be cultivated in the sunlight of love and judicious care that the sweet, human buds may grow and de- velop at the time when most tender and easily trained. We are told that this period is brief—only “from infancy to seven ners compe! awhile; but when his arms an’ legs dits breaked off you tan have him! Freddy (day before Christmas)—Santa Claus is going to have some trouble coming down our chimney. Johnny—How do you know? Freddy—I went up to the roof day before yesterday an’ puta cat in, and she hasn't come down yet.—Harper’s Young People. Teacher (wishing to drive home tne moral)—Now, children, why did the boy stand on the burning deck? Tommy Thicknuts—Because it was too hot to sit down on, I guess.—Bazar. Mr. Youngman—Dec you think your sister will be down soon, Willie? Willie—Yep. She said she was comin’ as soon as she could, so’s to have it over with. “Tom tleman. “I do try, mamma.” “Well, you don’t succeed very well.” “No, mamma, I guess it ain’t in the blood.”’—Exchange. A GUILD OF LETTERS. How Authorship on the Pacific Coast Is to Be Encouraged—A Strong Organization. my, I wish you'd try to bea gen- Struggling and‘impecuniuus genius will no longer have to cool its heels at the doors of the publishers and turn away disheart- ened and disgusted ; for, one day this week, the California Guild of Letters orgapized, whose aim and purpose it will be to render financial assistance to meritorious Pacific Coast authors. Poets, novelists, essayists, historians, etc., who have done good work, will apply to the guild, and if, in the esti- mation of that association of cultured and critical people, the manuscript be deemed “‘good copy” they will bear the burden of the expense of publication, promote its sale, and take all the risk of being remun- erated from its sale. And when the out- lay is returned to the guild the authors’ profits begin. SFurthermore, as writers are not usually mentally equipped to deal with these keen individuals who grow rich on the fruits of the litterateur, the guild will render its business advice and bring the publishers’ und of flesh down toounces. The mem- ers of the guild up to date are: Mrs. Shafter Howard, Mrs. Eva Paulson, Mrs. A. Gerberding, General Lucius H. Foote, Albert Gerberding and William Greer Har- rison. This, of course, is but the nucleus of the guild, which, it is confidently ex- pected, will in a few months mount up into the hundreds. There are no initiation fees and no dues. But when a case for the guild is reported an assessment is levied on each member. The first proceeding of the guild, and an example of its thorough earnestness, is the arranging for the publication of Ina Cool- brith’s poems, which will be placed with the big house of Houghton, Mifilin & Co. Years ago, when the Atlantic Monthly won Bret Harte from the Overland, Miss Cool- brith entrusted him with the MS. of her verses for publication. Bret Harte neg- lected the task, which was at his own so- A Mare Island Man-of-War’s Man, Aged 6. years”—and that success in the wonderful child-culture depends more on mother love and home influence than upon the teach- ings of the little school where a few hours are spent daily in haopy and helpful com- panionship with other little ones. The late Count de Lesseps wasa most judicious and careful father, guarding the lives of his children at all points, not only for their present but future good. His own life was a very busy one, but he com- manded leisure to receive his little ones with the same distinction accorded hon- numbering their elders three to one. The poems of Eugene Field are music to | ored guests. The trifling events of their little day were to him of supreme import~ B licitation, and the poetess never saw her verses more, nor could she learn the reason of Harte’s indifference, for he never an- swered her letters. ————————— The Montana Browns. In the early days of Montana the name of Brown was of such frequent occurrence that the old-timers distinguished them as follows: ‘“Poker” Brown, “Hog’’ Brown, “Diamond R.” Brown, “Log’”’ Brown, “Snaggle Tooth,” “‘Rocky Gap”’ Brown, “Whisky” Brown, “Deaf” Brown. The appliance of names to individuals for some act performed was t¥>¢culiu’. In Choteau County there resided *‘Spring-heel” Jack, ;‘Swee;—oil" Bol ‘}‘;Soummgll'— ouse”! C}mr- ey, ‘‘Four-jack’ b, *Sli im, “Bioody Kife “Roley Poley” Bob. “Shcl;kt' TJim. m&;&rhgentlemtx;] was an expert in appr g horses not hisown, for which offense he served a term at the fort above Winnipez. A good story could be told of each of the others. Every man sported wt:‘lu ?jgfl of gitée—mlonelu, majors, captains, judges and doctors were plentiful.—Helena Herald. oKD @o Our Literary Critics. A well-known writer, formerly of this city, but recently removed to more congenial fields, writes to a California friend in glowing terms regarding the city where his lot is now cast. He describes it as an Elysian field for letters, whereas literary San Francisco he declares to be bleak as a wintry moor. San Francisco has of late had what might be termed enviable opportunities to see herself as others see her. Her literary critics have been numerous, and they have spoken their minds in regard to her with a frankness that is almost calcu- lated to be edifying. 4 The Rev. Mr. Haweis’ remarks are still recent enough to recall; our whilom poet- librarian’s sententious summary is un- doubtedly correct, from his standpoint, and only a little longer time ago we had the assurance of Professor Anderson of Palo Alto that San neisco was the vulgarest city in Americain her attitude toward letters. B Undoubtedly much of truth underlies all these crificisms—truth that, rightly taken, ought to do us good. In literature and art, as in commerce and the news of the world, the worth and importance of everything have been in the San Francisco mind in direct ratio to its distance from the Golden Gate. But granting that this city has proven, for literature, %m a bleak and wintry moor, where shall we look, not merely in’ Amer- ica, but in the world, for the city that shel- ters and cares for her literary flocks, tempering to their shorn condition the winds that sweeping across the moors might otherwise strike them chillywise? Professor Anderson, when he character- ized us the vulgarest city in America, cited Boston as a city that had proven herself a foster mother to letters. ere, before me, 2 letter from a man well known to liter- ary Boston, a man whose name is known almost equally well on this coast as a writer of keen, trenchant prose, even as something more than a writer—as a thinker—a writer whom other writers love to read, and to learn from. This man, writing of his ex- perience during the past year in Boston, when a stroke of ill fortune had sent him to newspapering, says: 5 “I got through my work somehow, in desperation, but each day was a new curse, a new demand, a fresh torture, a veritable hell upon earth. I have often thrown down my pen in the office and gone out to pace the streets, determined to end the thing—to acknowledge I was crushed and blotted out by sheer bestial vulgarity. I thought of trying to get employment on the street railroad, of trying to startalittle second-hand book store, of lecturing. I wrote a humorous lecture and had got up a circular and everything, prepared to turn clown, of advertising, canvassing, of every hopeless thing that tortures the hopeless and ) a‘\j ! errnt o AR et AN P AN AP AN AN P A, | cut across the most natural evolutionary process in the industrial world. He advo- cates the encouragement of combinations of small capitalists, along with the discourage- ment of unions of large capitalists, in a way which seems curiously at variance with his arraignment of class privileges in previous chapters. At a time when men are just beginning to perceive that society is an organism he advocates a return to invidualism, albeit his whole argument is collectivism, pure and simple. [In fact, his conclusions place Mr. Call somewhat in the position of the small boy who wanted his cake and his penny, too. He has, however, {;lven us a useful and telling picture of the leading features of the coming industrial revolu- tion. [Boston: The Arena Publishing Company. For sale at the Popular Book- store.] Go Forth and Find. This is a little book by ‘“Thomas H. Brainard,” which the Cassell Company has just issued in the “Unknown’” series. The name of Thomas H. Brainard is quite unknown in literature, but it is an open secret in San Francisco that it is the pen name of Mrs. John R. Jarboe, one of our best known society women. There is nothing particularly startling about Mrs. Jarboe’s book, nothing to which could be applied that favorite carry- all phrase of the day, fin de siecle, but there is much that is pleasing. The people with whom it deals are such as one might meet almost anywhere in refined circles, and whom, meeting them, one would be sure to like. They are all clever Mrs. John R. Jarboe. poor. My book, accepted in New York for publication in '92, was rejected, after all, in the spring of '93. * * * T felt the| darkness close in about me and I saw no way out. day petual moral debasement.” Now, this man is no unknown struggler, but one who, as a writer and an editor, has made a name for himself among New Eng- land’s younger literary set. In this same letter he writes of feeling “as if born again,” because he has obtained a com- | mercial position and need no longer lean | upon ‘‘the poor crutch of literature.” And this letter comes from literary | Boston. One might almost fancy it penned | from some atticin San Francisco. | From the same city, almost by the same | mail, comes a letter from the head of a | well-known publishing-house. This un- doubted authority says: “Our public i8 a good deal of a sheep. | eople jumping. If it discovers them | jumping your way it immediately proceeds to take an interest in you, and if the same dear publicdoes not suppose that some one else has taken an interest in you it will let you severely alone. This may be unfor- tunate, but it is true.” How easily this might be mistaken for a wail from the Golden Gate! The world is snifering to-day from a literary plethora. ’Tis a question whether ‘‘the art preserva- tive of all arts”’ may not in the end prove more of a bane than a blessing. It is so easy to get things printed, and ~the writer, like the female wugc«worf(er, suffers from | amateur competition. The Coming Revolution. Additions to the literature of social science come thick and fast. The latest is by Henry L. Call,and it is to be com- mended as a masterly survey of existing social conditions. Mr. Call is a clear, logi- cal and comprehensive writer, so long as he keeps to his study of existing condi- tions. He has an easy grasp upon his sub- ject that holds the reader’s interest and excites his admiration. He shows ciearly the absurdity of carrying the doctrine of “the struggle for existence” on from the lower ranges of life to the one where rea- son is supposed to reign, and demonstrates that this struggle in society is not due to any natural or necessary law but to exist- ing faulty systems. After showing that less than thirty thousand men own one- half the entire wealth of this coun- try of some sixty million inhab- itants, he makes an examination into the methods by which this small minority have come to their wealth, and finds these fortunes to have been acquired from some one of six capital sources, namely, Inheritance, monopoly of land, the present banking system, private control of trans- portation and other facilities, the plunder of markets by speculation, or the corporate control of industry. ‘Honest industry’ never yet accumulated a great fortune. The monopolies, the lefialized injustice, the class legislation that have made all these things possible are clearly and_ logically set forth, and the condition of labor is shown to be ir- remediable under the present system. The various chapters of the book, *Sig of the Times,” “The Struggle for Exist- ence,” “The Privileged Classes,’? ‘‘The Fruits of Privilege,’ etc., lead up to the one in which Mr. Call has out- lined his particular remedy for existin evils. In this chapter, which is entitle “The New Republic,” having shown that the hardships of the masses are due en- tirely to evils produced by vicious institu- tions, he considers how these institutions may be modified. 5 3 & e would do away with the right of in- beritance. Decedents’ estates would be settled as now, but the proceeds would be added to the money supply of the country, and distributed as the ordinary circulation, free of interest; if credit is extended to the purchaser the debt incurred will also be interest free. He would do away with land monn}mlg and non-resident land ownership, lan peing held for occupancy only. The national banking system he would also abolish, and transportation under the new republic would be conducted for pub- lic instead of private profit. Above all he would abolish the trust, that combina- tion of corporate capital that has laid such a heavy hand upon labor. At the same time he would retain the wq:)n- tion. Mr. Call here seems to lose sight of the fact that combinations of corporations are as logical an outcome of corporations as these latter are the logical out- come of tnose combinations of capital known as private partnerships. To allow men to enter into partnership for the more economical and efficient conduct of busi- ness; to allow partnerships to enter-into corporate existence for the still further economizing of cost of production, and yet to refuse to allow corporations to combine still further to out this perfectly logical and ds ble uilmem*eno:w 1 The years loomed up in endless | are of vulgarity and trivial lying, per- | of an unhappy union. Neither knows of | the other’s matrimonial | They are thrown together under circum- | stances that precipitate the It jumps whichever way it sees the other | | young people, comfortably circumstanced and refreshingly well - mannered human.. The hero and the both. married —each the and heroine vietim complications. irevitable. They fall in loye with each other and find it out in a sudden, tragic way. Of course they suffer deeply, else why the story? But it does not seem to occur to either of them to do other than abide by the traditions of right-doing among people of principle. They neither reason nor rhap- sodize over it; they simply separate, taking the right course with a simple ac: ceptance of the burdens of human de: tiny that in these days of spiritual vivi. section, hysterics, green carnations and yellow asters is as refreshing as it is amaz- ing. The friends who were the means of bringing them together hunt up the young man’s wife, whom he had been forced to marry and whom he had left im- mediately aiter theceremony. They bring about a meeting and a mutual good under- standing between the two. The hero finds that after all the woman he loves is his young wife, and the heroine, who cannot return to the husband whose ill treatment has ruined her future, joins a sisterhood and devotes the remainder of her life to good works. The wholesome little story 1s simply told, the writer keeping entirely within the bounds of literary good taste. The rather curious title is explained by a quotation on the title page: The tale of one unto whose soul was borne An angel's whisper soft as summer wind: There is a heart that heaven has made for thee: 50 forth and find. [New York: The Cassell Publishing Company. For sale by the Popular Book- store. ] The Mountains of California. Agassiz called John Muir the only man in the world who knew all about glaciers. ‘Whether Mr. Muir knows all about them or mnot, he certainly has a fascinating way of telling what he does know. The title of the present book is something of a mis- nomer. *Itisa rather unfortunate choice that gives such a title to a collection of papers dealing with certain features of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It is a fortunate choice, however, that has given us the papers themselves. There is really very lit- tle known of the Sierras. Five hundred miles of rugged peaks, seventy miles wide, and varying in height from seven to fif- teen thousand feet make rather a longer range than most of us can accomplish, and the State owes much to John Muir for the knowledge which his enthusiastic re- searches have brought within reach. If John Muir had not been a scientist he would have been a poet. Perhaps, after all, he is both. Cerfainly no man, since Thoreau ever had keener sympathy with nature, a quicker vision for her mysteries or a surer speech for their interpreta- tion than he. But there is a certaln big business about the man of the California mountains that one misses in the New England seer beside his lake. Perhaps it belongs to the mountains; perhaps it 1s an attribute of the man—it, is" hard to disen- tangle the two. Something of whatever Mr. Muir has seen and heard and felt in the high Sierras he makes his readers see and hear and feel. The very breath of the pines seems to be in the air as he takes us over his printed pages among the forests of the peaks, the spruces and %he pines. The chapters on the forests are particu- larly interesting and instructive. They %wg a clear and beautiful glimpse into alifornia’s wooded wealth and recall the .| the last. cinate while it instructs. [New Yor! Century Company. For sale by the Dodge Book and Stationery Company.| The Popular Scientific Lectures. The English-speaking public is indebted to Thomas J. McCormack of Chicago for a translation of a series of those popu- lar lectures by which Ernst Mach, pro- fessor of physics at the University of Prague, has made himself so noted in Europe as an exponent to the general mass of people of some of the abstruser problems of scientific research. The trans- lations have been published under the title of ‘‘Popular Scientific Lectures,” in a volume of 318 pages, and constitute a work of general value to all who are interested in the advancement of science: The sub- jects ot tne lectures are: ‘The Forms of 1aquids, The Fibers of Corti, On the Causes of Harmony, On the Velocity of Light, Why Has Man Two Eyes? On Sym- metry, On the Fundamental Concepts of Static Electricity, On the Principle of the Conservation of Energy, On the Economi- cal Nature of Physical Inquiry, On Trans- formation and Adaptation in Scientific Thought, On the Principle of Comparison in Physics, On the Relative Educational Value of the Classics and the Mathematico- Physical Sciences. Only thefirstseven and the tenth lectures may, with strict propriety, be termed pop- ular. The remaining lectures are more philosophical in character and deal with the methods and nature of scientific in- uiry. That on “The Conservation of nergy”’ is a re-elaboratipn with omissions and additions of an early tract which has won a high and enviable place in the his- tory of scientific criticism. That ‘‘On the Economical Nature of Physical Inquiry” is the famous memorial address delivered at the festival meeting of the Vienna Acad- emy of Sciences in May, 1882; that on “Comparison in Physics’” was the princi- %;al address made at the last German Natur- orscherversamulung in 1894, It is exactly in these branches that the author has done his most original work and won his world- wide .reputation. [Chicago: The Open Court Company.] ¢ Coin’s Financial School.”” Among the books dealing with current political topics which are being issued in such numbers from all parts of the coun- try, none have attracted more attention or made a greater impression than “Coin’s Financial School” and its continuance “Up to Date.” These books have already vlayed a large part in forminga public opinion favorable to the remonetization of silver, and are likely to grow more and more in demand until the monetary ques- tions now before the-people of the United States are definitely settled. The books, while dealing with the most complex prob- lems of finance and with a multitude of statistics, are written with such clearness and skill they can be read with ease by any attentive mind and the argument followed without difficulty. They contain full in- formation in regard to gold and silver and the monetary history of this country, and give that information in a way which will be found interesting from the first page to While the author is an_avowed advocate of the free coinage of silver and his arguments are those of an earnest par- tisan, there is nothing unfair to the other side in what he has written, and gold men, therefore, as well as silver men, will find it to their advantage to read them. [Chicago: The Coin Publishing Com- pany. For sale by the San Francisco News Company.] ¢ Pantomimes, or Wordless Poems.”” This is a new and enlarged edition of a little book put out some dozen years ago by Mary Tucker Magill, a popular teacher amazing statement made in print by an Eastern tourist some years ago that’ the only tree in California is the scrub oak. It is one of the delightful surprises of Mr. Muir’s book to find "the man who has traced the Black Mountain Glacier to its head and tracked tne *“Bloody Canyon’ through, stopping on the top of a peak of the high Sierras to Fh with a Douglass squirrel to note the little fellow’s pranks and to whistle him tunes by the hour. And the scientist notes ,in passin, that that good ancient ‘standby of the hymnal, “Old Hundred,” has the effect "of putting to instantaneous flight squirrels, birds, ci ime\ks and every sort of wild tiung that listens with delight to every other tune, He describes the effect of a mobof small creatures suddenly dis- rsed by this tune as “quite profane.” He devotes a chapter, too, to that charm- ing little feathered chap the ouzel or water thrush, that frequents the waterfalls of the Sierras, and another to the natural bee pastures of the mountains, with a word of admonition to Californians who have not yet taken the hint here afforded, that here 1s a great industry for this State. The book, besides being a distinct and valuable addition to the literature of our mountains, is written in such fashion as to delight even the most careless reader and to of elocution in the East. The present re- vival of pantomime makes it of interest and it will doubtless prove useful to ama- teurs. ~ It is capitally illustrated and con- tains suggestions for the working out of the vari®us pantomimes given. Some of these latter are well adapted for children’s performances. x b There are also a number of Miss Magill's selections for recitation in the book. Most of them are dialectic and seem open to the charge of frivolity and commonplaceness, but the fact that they have been very popu- lar, as given by this reader during a good many years of public appearance would seem to indicate that they ‘‘fill a long-felt want.”” [New York: Edgar S. Werner.] The Miracles of Missions. A little book by Arthur Pierson, giving an interesting account of a number of the church’s great missionary enterprises. The work of the early missionaries in Hawaii, Formosa and Tahiti occupy sev- eral chapters in the book. Another sec- tion is devoted to the famous McCall mission in France, and there are interesting reminiscenses of Dr. Liv- ingstone and his labors in Africa. There is no particular system followed in the arrangement of the book. The stories are taken at random from different parts of the world—New Zealand, Banza Rhn- teke, Sierra Leone, the West Indies—but they make up a remarkable collection, il- lustrating the devoted efforts of the ser- vants of the church to desseminate light in dark places. [New York: Funk & Wag- nalls Compan; VARLEY MEETINGS, The English Evangelist Engaged to Conduct Revival Services in This City. A meeting was held yesterday of min- isters to consiaer the advisability of invit- ing Mr. Varley to begin work in this city such as he has inaugurated in Oakland. The following were present: Congrega- tional—Dr. C. O. Brown, Rev. W. D. Wil- liams, Rey. H. H. Cole. Methodist—Dr. E. R. Dille, Rev. W. W. Case, Rev. E. McClish, Rev. ¥. H. Barker. Presbyterian—Rev. J. Cumming Smith, Rev. H. N. Bevier, Rev. H. H. Rice, Dr. Mathena. Baptist—Rev. M. P. Boynton, Rev. S. M. Russell, Rev. J. G. Gibson, Rev. E. Dun- can. Christian Church—Rev. W. A. Gardiner. English Lutheran Church—Rev. C. A. Rabing. The meeting was called to order by Henry Varley, the evangelist. After Krnyer and an_informal discussion Dr. E. Mathena was elected secretary pro tem., Mr. Varley acting as chairman. It was decided to begin the meetings Tnesds{, April 23, with a bible reading at 3 o'clock in Calvary Presbyterian Church. Preaching 7:30 of the same day at the First Congregational Church. Meeting to be held for not less than one week, afternoon, at Calvary Presbyterian Church; evening, at First Congregational Church, afterward meetings to be held in Howard Presby- terian and Western Addition, Mission and throughout the entire city. Committee on . arrangements: Rev. Messrs. Dille, Smith, M. M. Gibson, Briggs, @ardiner, Dickinson, Simon. Advertisin; committee: Rev. Messrs. 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