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24 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 26, 1895. | important that Thomas should be warned LL[ , of the impending danger. ! 5 Garfield was mounted on a magnificent orse, who knew his bridle hand, and, put- ting spurs to his side, leaped the fence into | the cotton field. The opposite side of the | lane was lined with gray blouses and a General Garfield’s Famous| Ride on Chickamauga’s | Bloody Field. i MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. HIS A Noble Horse That Bore Him Well. How the Day Was Saved to the Union Army. { The objective point of what is known as the Chickamauga campaign was Chatta- nooga, which is the southern gateway of the Alleghanies. Rosecrans had crossed the Tennessee, successfully maneuvered the enemy out of Chattanooga and thrown 2800 men into the place. But a greater work remained--to march his whole force into it in the face of Bragg’s army, heavily re-enforced and largely outnumbering his own. To decide who should hold and oc- cupy Chattanooga was fought the battle of Chickamauga. | The first day’s battle left the Union forces in possession of the approaches to the city, and when he met bis corps com- manders on the night of that day, Rose- crans said, in substance, to General Thomas, who commanded his left: “Your line lies across the road to Chattanooga. That is the pivot of the battle. Hold 1t at single glance told him they were loading for_another volley. He told me that he had been in tight places before, but this was the tightest. Pressing his lips firmly together he said to himseFf: “Now is your time—be a man, Jim Garfield!” He spoke to his horse and laid his left hand gently | |on the rein of the animal. The trained | beast heeded his touch and, putting the rowells into his side, he took a zigzag course across the cotton field. It was his only chance; he had to tack from side to side, for he was a dead man if they got a steady aim upon him. He was riding up an inclined plane of about 400 yards, and if he could pass the crest he would be in safety. But the gray fellows could load and fire twice before he could reach the summit, and death to him | was certain unless providence had some further use for him on this planet. Up the slope he went, tacking, when another vol- ley bellowed from out the timber. His horse was struck a flesh wound, but the noble animal only leaped forward the faster. Those scattering bullets whizzed by him, but he was within a few yards of the summit. Another volley echoed along the hill when he was half way over the | crest, but in another moment he was inl safety. As he tore down the slope a small body of bluecoats galloped forward to meet bim. At their head was Colonel “Dan’ McCook, his face anxiou: My God, Garfield?” he crie you were killed certain. isa miracle.” It was not many months before this brave man himself was stretched upon such another bullet-swept field at Knoxvilie. Captain Gaw had bis horse shot under him at the first fire, and was considerably bruised by the fall, but somehow he man- aged to dodge the bullets and to crowd and pallid. , “I thought How you escaped “IF HE COULD PASS THE CREST HE WOULD BE IN SAFETY.” all bazards; and I will re-enforce you, ii{ necessary, with the whole army.”” | Thomas saw in time the approaching , danger, and thus was enabled to check the enemy and saye the army. And in telling how Icame to see it I shall have to relate | the qeri]uus ride of General Garfield over the bloody field of Chickamauga. It must be borne in mind that the Union | army had a line of fully four miles, and | was operating in a broken country, half | forest and half cotton-fields, from no one part of which was it possible to take in the | movements of the entire army. Rosecrans | had established his headquarters for that | day in the rear of his center and right | wing, and on one of the foothills of Mis- | sionary Ridge. He was there about noon, | surrounded by General Garfield, his chief of staff; Major Frank S. Bond, his_senior | aid, and several crderlies, when Captai William B. Gaw, chief engineer on th staff of General Thomas, rode up to his | headquarters. The captain had been sent | by Thomas with a message to General | Negley, and had passed in the rear of the | right center just as Wood opened the fatal | gap into which Longstreet plunged, break- | ing McCook’s corps into fragments. Rein- | ing his horse to the right, Gaw had got out | of the way of the fugitives. A moment be- | fore Rosecrans had caught a distant view | of some scattering troops straggling over | the hills, and he called out to Gaw. “What troops are those coming down the hill?” The answer was, “‘They are part of Me- | Cleve's reserves; the right center is broken.” In another moment the hills were swarming with a_ disordered rabble, and | Rosecrans realized the serious nature of the disaster. He saw at once that the tate of the battle hung on Thomas holding firmly his position, which commanded the | road to Chattanooga. He was cut off from | the main body of his men and from Thomas’ headquarters; but, after an in- effectual effort to rally the broken troops, he ordered Captain Gaw, who knew the country well, to find the way to Thomas. They moved forward, but had gone but a | short distance when Captain Gaw’s orderly | was shot from his horse, and they found before them a dense mass of the enemy. Gaw then reported that the only way to | reach Thomas was by a circuit through McFarland’s Gap. a distance of eight | miles. They set off in that direction, and | soon coming to a point where the road | forked—one fork leading to Chattanooga, | the other to the position of Thomas, they | halted to breathe their horses, and then | Rosecrans directed Garfield to ride on to | Chattanooga, to from there send ammuni- | tion and to make the necessary prepara- tions for the holding of the place in case Thomas should be obliged to retire before | Longstreet, intending himself to proceed at once to Thomas. i ““General Garfield” — I here quote the | statement of Major Frank S. Bond— | “asked a number of questions and evinced | a hesitancy in_undertaking the great re- | sponsibility of issuing such important | orders in Rosecrans’ absence, when finally | the general said to him: ‘Very well; I will §o to Chattanooga myself. ~ You gu to Thomas. He_ has nine of our fourteen di- | visions and will undoubtedly hold his posi- i tion until nightfall. Tell him to then put | out a double line of skirmishers and after ! over the crest to the side of McCook and Garfield. McCook gave him another horse and the two set out again for the head- quarters of Thomas. Garfieid’s horse had been struck, but the danger had given him the spirit of a lion, and he plunged forward at a breakneck pace, through plowed fields and tangled forests, and over broken and rocky hills, for another four miles, until they climbed a wooded crest, and were within view of Thomas. In a slight depression of the ground, with a small group of officers about him, he stood in the open field, while over him was sweeping a storm_of shotted fire that fell in thick drops on the high foothill | that Garfield was crossing. Shot and shell and canister plowed up the ground all | about Garfield, but as_he caught sight of Thomas he halted in the midst of the torm, and with uplified arm, shouted: “There he is! God bless theold hero! He as saved the army!” For a momentonly he halted; then he plunged down the hill through the fiery storm, and in a few mo- ments more was by the side of Thomas. As the two men embraced each other the noble horse that had so bravely borne Garfield through that hurricane, struck by another bullet, staggered a step or two and fell dead at the feet of Thomas. In hurried broken sentences Garfield tells | Thomas that he is outflanked and that the whole Confederate army of 70,000 is closing down ugon his right wing to crush into{ He fragments his weary force of 25,000. must withdraw his right wing and form line again upon the crested horseshoe which is before them at_the base of the mountain. Quick the order is given and quick the movement is made, yet not a moment too soon, for yonder irom behind a clump of woods emerges the head of Longstreet’s bristling columns. He has turned back from the pursuit of McCook and now is coming to annihilate Thomas, and Thomas’ men are too few, for his line falls short kg'o300 feet of the spurof the mountain. ngstreet perceives this gap, heads his columns for it and in ten min- utes more will have struck Thomas on flank and rear fatally. Now nothing short of a miracle can save Thomas, and “the days of miracles are past,” say the theologians. Still, there | must be an invisible power that controls | events in the heavens and on earth, for just at this critical moment a heavy column is seen on_the hill down which Garfield has just ridden, and in another moment a horseman covered with foam is by the side of Garfiéld and Thomas. Heis a slightly formed man, a little slabsided, viith dark hair, projecting brows, and dee black cavernous eyves from which now a black flame is flashing. It is Gordon Granger. He hasheard the firing four miles away, and without orders has come to the rescue of Thomas. He points with his sword to the men on the hill, and cries, “Where will you place us?” Thomas stretches his hand toward the 300 feet ga; against which Longstreet is coming, an simply says ‘“There.” [The owner of this land told me per- sonally in 1880 that from this single hill he had dug and sold 400 pounds of lead in bullets.] “ Back up the bullet-swept hill Granger fiallnns, and instantly his ;700 men, led on y the heroic Steedman, are rushing down ] dark withdraw his troops to Rossville Gap; | 10 the defenseless gap like a bristling ava- and you report to me at Chattanooga as | lanche. They are not a moment too soon, to the condition of affairs with Thomas,’ ’ | for Longstreet’s heavy columns are at the When they parted the sound of heavy | breach, and now comes the collision. firing in the direction of Thomas had al- | Garfield told me that it was like the com- most ceased, indicating that he held his position, and the battle was substantially over for the day. With Gartield and Cap. | tain Gaw and two of the orderhes they | made a wide detour to avoid the Confed- erates, and by the route they took it was eight miles to Thomas, and at any turn they might come upon the enemy.” Soon striking into a dark, pathless wood—a tangled undergrowth of intertwisted bush and briar—they skirted for two miles the low bottom lands of the Chattanooga Val- ley. Thence their route was clear to Ross- ville. At Rossville they took the Lafay- ette road, guiding their way by the sound of the firing and moving cautiously, for they were then mearing the battlefield. The road there was scarcely more than a lane, flanked on one side by a thick wood and on the other by an open cotton field. No troops were in sight and on they Eal. lo: at a rapid pace. But when they had left Rossville a thousand yards behind suddenly from along the wooded side of the road a volley of a thousand minie balls fell among them thick as hail,wound- ing one horse, killing another and stretch- | ing the two orderlieson the ground lifeless. They had ridden into an ambuscade of a large body of Longstreet’s skirmishers and sharpshooters, who, having entered the fatal gap in the right center, had pressed that far on the flank of Thomas, with the evident design of falling upon him in over- vowering numbers. erefore, it was all ng together of two immense railway trains in full career—the forward columns'shiver- ing to atoms and going down in a common destruction. Steedman’s horse is shot on the full gallop and his rider is hurled fifteen feet forward by the momentum ; but turning a complete somersault he alights on his feet and urges on his men as if nothing had happened. For forty minutes the onset las and then a ghastly breastwork of 3000 dead and dying, blue coats and gray, fills the narrow gap. But the Army of the Cumberland is saved from destruction. Now, beaten and baffled, Longstreet withdraws his seethin columns, and not another blow is struc by the magnificent army that Bragg has gathered; for that night Thomas holds Rossville Gng. and meanwhile Rosecrans has rallied the fugitives at Chattanooga, and in twenty-four hours built a cordon about it behind which he can defy the en- tire armies of the Confederac: Janes R, Griaore. This paper Is constructed from facts o - eated oxally to the writer by Major Frank :T;::L of Rosecrans’ staff, by General Garfield also, and from « written statement of Captain William B. Gaw of Themas’ sta®, furnisied the writer by Gon- cral Garfield. Copyright, 1895. There are ten “fruit schools” in France where pupils are instructed practically- how to cultivate and husband fruits. | Nahida Remy’s ‘“Jewish Woman.* There has been of late a remarkable awakening of interest in the Jewish people. We are coming to a better understanding than ever before of the Jewish character, Jewish history and Jewish literature. This interest will only be stimulated by the volume just issued by Krehbiel & Co. of Cincinnati. This isa translation by Mrs. Loutse Mannheimer of Nahida Remy's | great book on ““The Jewish Woman.” Mrs. | Mannheimer, who is reputed to be the | most learned Jewess in America, has done | her work as translator well and with great | fidelity. Her enthusiasm over her task, if one may judge from the manner of its ex- ecution, has been hardly less than that of the author herself. The book is prefaced with an introduction by the famous Pro- fessor Lazarus of Berlin, who declares the book, although written by a Christian | woman, of Jewish women, to be most thor- | ough and at the same time free from all | prejudice. 2 | As a matter of fact, the book is a very | remarkable one. It is a study of Jewis] | womanhood from a standpoint so compre- | hensive, so broad and just, so appreciative, | that it is difficult to believe that it is writ- | ten by one of an alien faith. Nahida Remy | has been able, in her work, to draw her in- formation not only from original sources, but to study the literature of her subject in | the original text—an obvious advantage. The book will be a surprise to more than one class of readers and a source of enjoy- ment to many. The first two chapters are devoted to 3 consideration of the condition of woman among antique peoples, barbaric and civil- ized, and to the Christian view of woman and of marriage. Those who are wont to contend that woman owes to Christianity her freedom from bondage and her elev: tion from degradation will do well to read Nahida Remy’s book. They will learn with surprise how much old Jewish thought and custom have contributed to the ameli- oration of family life and the social stand- ing of woman. Judged by their laws re- garding the position and treatment of women, the ancient Jews seem certainly to have been far ahead of modern legislators. The grown-up girl was given in marriage by the parents or putinto a home where the master or the son of the master wished to marry her later. Even where the father of the girl received a compensation for her and the girl served in the home where she was placed; if at the end of six years the master or his son did not marry her, she was free—even her own father could not prevent her from going or coming as she chose. She was protected by the law. Moreover, the master, if the marriage did not take place, was bound to indemnify herfor the work she had done in his house. Nor could he send her to any other place during the six years. So, too, even although a daughter were promised in marriage by her parents, she could, if unmarried, on coming of age, re- ject the intended, and in the presence of witnesses choose another husband. Al- though a daughter could not inherit when there were sons her dowry was always cal- culated for, and often exceeded the inher- itance of her brothers. Ia case the father was too poor to give a dowry to his daugh- ter the community assumed the duty. Ac- cording to the old formula—the Ketubah— the document wherein the husband enu- merated his obligations toward his wife began thus: *“‘Be my wife accordini to | the laws of Isracl,and I will work for thee, | honor thee, support thee and provide for | thee accoraing to the custom of Jewish husbands, who work for, honor and sup- port their wives and support them in verity.” | Thé wife had the right to select the first dwelling-place after the marriage. In case | of refusal by the husband they could be divorced without any detrimental conse- quences to the wife, either morally or pe- | cuniarily. 3 | Unfaithfulness on the part of a wife was | sternly and fearfully punished, but rigor- { ous punishment was inflicted upon the | | husband who knowingly brought false ac- | | cusations against his wife. Betrayal of a | | girl was also subject to severe penalties under the law, and he who misled a mar- | ried woman was sentenced to death. Her- self honored, protected, held in high esteem as the guardian of the inner sanc- | tuary of the home, the history of Jewish womanhood abounds in instances of wives | taking upon themselves all the cares of the | family and business that their husbands | might have leisure for study. | There occur in the Talmud, along with manifold injunctions upon husbands to honor, consider and take counsel with their wives, many curious restrictions and regulations regarding women in_ their social relations with men that read_curi- ously to-day, but which had their rise in the almost universal belief among ancient nations that women were mare passionate than men, and therefore needed to be in commenting upon Jewish women, says: “The wonderful and mysterious preserva- tion of the Jewish people is due to the Jewish woman. This is her glory, not alone in the history of her own people, | but in the history of the world.” That women esteemed as were these, by the men of their race, should have accom- plished much for the good of that race is what we would naturally expect. The women of the Bible require much attention at the hands of the author of the book under consideration, as do those faithful and heroic women of the dark middle ages, who were burned, were hanged, were drowned, and even themselves sought death rather than renounce their faith. The chapters devoted to these give a long list of names of women who proved them- selves leaders in those troublous times. They were teachers and writers, printers, publishers, learned in medicine and the conservators of learning among their peo- ple. There have been great artists, lin- §uists, authors and philanthropists among ewish women, ancient and modern. To many readers of the book their names will be familiar, but the knowledge of their Jewish origin will come as a surprise. Nahida Remy is, as Dr. Lazarus says in his preface, candid in her judgment of | Jewish women. She makes no plea for | the Jews. For her there is no Jewish question; but she writes in keen apprecia- tion of Jewish women. She contends for all their inherited endowments, their high achievements in the past; but she like- wise, while not reproving, contests against certain failings of the modern Jewish woman—her neglect of her sacred inher- itance, her eager pursuit of frivolity, in- stead of living in_accordance with the spirit of her sacred inheritance; that they, more than men, allow themselves to be hindered by certain disadvantages of this generally advanced age. Dr. Lazarus ventures the hope that the book will be widely read by Jewish women. It certainly can be read with in- terest and profit by both men and women of whatever faith. * [Cincinnati: Press of C. J. Krehbiel & Co. “The Master. Trilby gave English-speaking readersa taste of artist-student life, and Zangwill in this, his latest and greatest work, affords them another glimpse into that enchanted land. Butitislike nothing Du Maurier shows us any more than art is like English art—a subtle distinction which the author makes one of his characteristic points out of. It is the student life of London that Zangwill shows, and the delineation is an adjunct to rather than an important part of his story, just as the story is merely an adjunct to the problem which the author has set himself to solve. ‘We have had no higher work in fiction during_the past decade than this which Zangwill has given us in “The Master.” Like “The Children of the Ghetto’’ and ““The King of Schnorrers,” the work is ex- quisitely done. Unquestionably we have more strictly guarded. But Dr. Lazarus, | here a master hand. The problem, how- ever, is different from that presented in either of the books mentioned. It is the question of life for the artist—the conflict between art and life, between life and death in a man’s own spirit. Matthew Strang, the artist, is a Nova Scotian, and the pictures of his life in that land make the early chapters of the book of fascinat- ing, tragic interest. The boy, Matthew, is an artist. He draws as other boys make kites and, in winter, sleds, in the land which is his birthplace. Poverty, |boil, hardness and deprivation are |t_he conditions of his vhood. His ife is grim, pitifal, but he has the spirit as well as the sensitiveness of the | artist, and he refuses to be beaten by his | surroundings. In time he fioes_awny to | Halifax; saves money to take himself to } London; is obliged by a sense of duty to | use it otherwise. He sees life, tastes of its | E}:auure& but the artist within him shrinks ck from the stream of sensuous delight | it loathes yet longs for. The ideal of his | art demands pure service. We. see, rather than are shown, the soul’s struggle to find | itself. The story of Matthew Strang is the | story of every earrnest man or woman be- | fore the probiems of soul-life. He reaches ndon; he faces poverty, pain—almost | starvation. Trouble at home compels him | to return, Temptation comes to him there | in the form of an opportunity to marry for | money. He yields, ana the devil's bar- gain eats into the very fiber of his spiritual | Integrity. Fame, wealth, position, honors, allcome to him after that, and at last—years later—love. In the final fierce, supreme struggle the tortured, thwarted soul | arises once more, and turns from love to duty. And_ duty leads the man back, through sordid paths and bitter to travel, to art, and its mastery, through mastery | of his own soul. He had_been saved from |love and happiness and sent back into sympathy with all that works and suffers. And thus, the note that had trembled | faintly and then died out in his work was | struck strong and sure, at last—the note |of soul. “He had toited and hungered, | he had feasted and made merry; he ha | known the lust of the flesh and the pride | of the eye. What he had wanted he had {not got. And out of ail this travail of | soul ‘was born his art—strong, austere, | simple.” | The book is a strong study, strongl; | worked out. As said before, we have ha {of late no higher work in fiction. [New | York: Harper & Bros. For sale by Payot, | Upham & Co., San Franeisco.] Answers to Coin. If it be true that the success of a book can be best estimated by the antagonism it arouses and the efforts it provokes in others, then ‘“Coin’s Financial School” may be justly accounted the greatest polemic success of the year. It hasnot only excited adverse comment more or less | vigorous in the newspapers, but has been | the cause of the publication of quite a little library of books on the relative merite | of bimetallism and the gold standard. Five of these books, written in reply to | “Coin,” are before us for review. One of ‘! them, bearing the title of “Coin’s Finan- | cial Fool,” by Horace White, is little more | than a pamphlet, ahd is written in a di- rect, logical way without any attempt to imitate the dialogue style of -*‘Coin,” or to follow him in the use of pictures to_illus- | trate the points of the argument. The re- | maining four—*“Cash vs. Coin” by Ed- | ward Wisner, “A Freak in Finance" by J. | F. Carill, **Coin at School in Finance’’ by John E. Roberts, and “The Official Book Answer to Coin’s Financial School” by Stanley Wood—follow the style adopted by *‘Coin” himself, and are profusely illus- trated. | All of the books are designed for popular | reading as campaign documents, and none | of them treat the financial problem any | more philosophically or with a greater de- | gree of impartiality than Coin did. Horace Vhite contents himself with pointing out | some of what he calls the “falsehoods,” “forgeries” and *‘jugglings” of Coin. The other books are more elaborate and under- take a complete refutation of all the argu- ments of Coin, and in many cases of his statistics and facts also. ‘While none of the refuters write with that snap, vigor and vivacity that has made Coin’s book so notable throughout | the country, each of them piles up a good array of arguments against his conclusions, and a reading of either of them will have the good effect of inclining the reader to think over the subject again before reach- in§ a conclusion. 'he appearance of so many books of this kind, dealing ina popular way with a great political issue during a year in which there is to be no National election, is a new feature in American politics and seems to be a decidedly commendable one. While to the exact student of financial matter | none of these books will be of any particu- lar value, they will certainly have the good effect of interesting the general mass | of the people in a study of both sides of this important question, and therefore | may be welcomed as a desirable addition | to the passing literature of the day. “Coin’s Financial Fool,” ta/ Horace | White, issued by the Reform Club, New York; price 10 cents. “A Freak in_ Finance,” by J. F. Car- 5m; Reed, McNally & Co., Chicago: price 25 cents. ‘““Cash_vs. Coin.” by Edward Wisner; Charles H. Kerr & Co., Chicago; price 25 cents. !‘The Official Book Answer to Coin’s | Financial School,” by Stanley Wood; A. B. Sherwood Publishing Company, Chi- cago; price 25 cents. *‘Coin at Scho ol in Finance,” by George E. Roberts; W. B. Conley Company, Chi- cago; price 25cents. For sale by the San Francisco News Company. Church and State. Under the title of “Loyalty to Church and State,” the addresses delivered in this country by Archbishop Batolli since his appointment as apostolic delegate have been published under the editorship of the Rev. J. R. Slattery, rector of St. Joseph’s Seminary for Colored Missions at Wash- ington, D. C. The profits of the sale of the book are to be devoted to the work in which the editor is engaged. It isprefaced by a brief review of Satolli’s work and travels in the United States by Cardinal Gibbons, and contains in addition thereto an epitome of the principal events of his life. Cardinal Gibbons points out that the language of the addresses is not that of the delegate. 1t is the custom of Satolli to dlc'.ate_ what he intends to say in Italian or Latin to his secretary, who, after turn- ing it into Knglish, submits the transla- tion for his approval. This explanation accounts for the difference observable in the style of the various speeches and for the consistency and unity of the thought. Most of the addresses are short, being only ceremonial responses to welcomes re- ceived at different schools or institutions in various parts of the country. Some of them, however, are long enough to deal adequately with great themes, and these deserve torank with true orations. The most important are those referring to Christian education, loyalciu church and state, and a discourse on the pressof the United States. In addition to the ad- dresses on education the volume contains the fourteen propositions in regard to the relation of the church to y‘mb%ic schools which were read and considered in_the meeting of the Archbishops at New York in 1892. Taken in connection with the speeches on the subject, these propositions give a comprehensive idea of the attitude of the Church of Rome toward the schools and effectually refute any. supposition of hostility. It is upon the question of loyalty to church and state and the relation of the Catholic church tothe United States that .worse has happened to it than criticism; ! Satolli speaks most frequently and is most eloquent. . An extract from an address on this sub- Leect at Carroll Institute, Washington, may quoted to serve the double purpose of expressing his sentiments in his own lan- guage and nfiording an illustration of his style. He closed his speech on that occa- sion in these words: S +‘I cannot conclude without calling your attention to one other important consider- ation concerning the relation of the church to the Natlon in this country. The opin- ion is certainly growing that we are near- ing a most critical period in history, and that in this country especially great prob- lems will soon demanda positive_solution. All the horrors of a social revolution are pred.cted by men no less renowned for ac- curate and calm thinking than Professor Goldwin Smith and Professor von Holst. | All agree in selecting this country as the field of the greatest of the disorders which threaten society. This being so, it is in- teresting to note the words ofa non-Catho- lic writer in the latest number of an im- portunt magazine, He says: ‘The tacit acknowledement of the religious primacy of the successor of St. Peter is one of the clearest signs of the times. It is a signifi- cant recognition of the fact that the Catho- lic church holds the solution of the terrible problem which lies on the threshold of the twentieth century, and that it belongs to the Pope alone to pronounce our social ‘‘pax vobiseum.”’ “Lovalty to Church and State, the Mind of His Excellency Francis Archbishop Sa- tolli, Apostolic Delegate.”” [John Murphy & Co., Baltimore.] Magnetism. In a small duodecimo of 279 pages, bear- ing the title of “Magnetism and New Cos- mography,” George W. Holley essays the task of constructing a new theory of the universe. He maintains that the force known to us under the name of magnetism is the primal power of the universe, and includes 1n itself all other forces, from the attraction of gravity to those psychic in- fluences which affect the mind and the heart. Beginning with a consideration of the physical forces of electricity, heat, light, chemical affinity, etc., he proceeds to develop their relations to what he calls ‘“‘transcendental magnetism,” thus effect- ing a complete unity between the material and the spiritual world. Magnetism, he says, may be defined as “the connecting link between mind and matter, or ratheras the medium by and through which the divine energy is imparted to all matter—is made effective in the outer stellar spaces, when and as far as the divine mind shall direct.” ; The greater portion of the book is taken up witfi a description of the new system of celestial geography which this theory of magnetism requires. The author says “‘Diety is the grand center and depository of all forces, all forms of energy; a force and energy that are immanent, ominant, positive. Here, then, is our omnipotent magnet. Its sg)iritunl effluence goes out and is diffused in all directions. As its distance from the center ‘increases, its otency by a divinely imposed condition is siminished; it grows less and less until it becomes a negative force.” Upon this theory the author’s system of cosmography assumes a common center for the universe and divides space into different forms or compartments determined by the action of magnetic laws. % From these considerations of the form of the celestial universe the author turns abraptly to psychic influences, spiritual- ism, gypnotism and other mysteries of life. On these subjects a considerable array of incidents, more or less startling, is given. In fact, the whole work seems more like a scrapbook of quotations from scientific writers, original ideas noted at odd mo- ments and strange stories of spiritualists and hypnotists than a systematic treat- ment of a single theme, and while many of the chapters taken separately are interest- ing, there is too little connection between them and too little coherency in the gen- eral argument for the treatise to be re- garded as a serious contribution either to science or to philosophy. i “Magnetism and New Cosmography,’ by George W. Holley. [Arena Publishing Company, Copley square, Boston.] The Poems of Paul Verlaine. In all the dainty beauty of their “green tree library” series, with wide margins, red initials, pictures by McCarter on parch- | ment and all the exquisite typographic | tricks of which they are masters, Stone & | Kimball have put out the poemsof Paul | Verlaine, translated by Gertrude Hall. This seems hardly an opportune time for the publication of the work of this poet. Our French critics have preached to us the doctrine that toward the end of the cen- tury we may expect all manifestations of literature, of art, of scholarship, to sink to decadence. This is really what fin de siecle is meant to express. But recent developments have made ! most people thoroughly weary of deca- dence. hether it be the end of the cen- | tury or the beginning of a new era, the | world is just now demanding a literature | possessed of backbone, with blood and | sinew. It is demanding art that is for something more than art’s sake. The “yellow” cult is on the wane. Something | it has been shown to be absurd, and ! healthy men and women are weary of it. | Toa peogle in this temper Paul Verlaine will scarce yagpell. He is pre-eminently | the poet of decadence. f “the new woman” is a trying creature for society to | assimilate, “the new man,” as represented by the school to which Verlaine belongs, | is equally distasteful to most healthy | ntinds. It is difficult to judge of verse in transia- tion. A comparison with originals reveals that the translator has at least been faith- ful. Often she is musical, and never other | than graceful. But the book abounds in affectations. Of these certain ones are the fault of the publishers, but others are essen- tial elements in the work ot Verlaine. Be- ly."t:'nd a question Verlaine is a poet. He as an ear to catch the most delicate ca- dences of the language he uses, a sure in- stinct for beauty and a marvelous power of ex?ressiun for religious and sentimental feeling. But the heart to feel—the soul- sentiency to inspire—these are gone from the man—burnt out in the fierce fires of a life given over to shameless lust, and their absence makes itself felt through ever: one of his polished, gem-like lines. [Chi- cago: Stone & Kimball.] The Wish. A translation by Lily Hinkel of a story by that ‘‘coming man” among German novelists, Henry Sudermann. What Kip- ling, Zangwill and Hall Caine in England, Margueritte, Maeterlinck and others in France and Belgium, are becoming, Suder- mann is-also becoming in Germany. He is & young man, not much over 35, but he has already made his mark in German journalism and has a wide circle of ad- mirers in that «country, particularly in his native city of Berlin. "His work is essen tially modern and invariably of a high order. This translation, which is admira- bly done, will serve to introduce him to a wide circle of cultivated readers in this country. The story is a study in the subtleties of psychi¢ crime. A young girl, at a moment of critical importance, by the bedside of a sick sister, entertains for one instant the wish for that sister's death. Her expiation of that momentary sin, and the study that leads up to it, present an interesting and vivid study in the com- plexities of modern life. Sudermann does not analyze; he does not preach, nor even theorize. He simply tells his tale with the direst simplicity, and entirely lacks the straining at dramatic_effect that charac- terizes the writings of that other great German novelist, Auerbach. [New York: D. Appleton_& Co. For sale by William Doxey, San Francisco.] With the Procession. A story by Henry B. Fuller of American life—to be more explicit, of life in Chicago. Perhaps without the author’s intending it to be 8o, the book is depressing. The merging of the social life of the Windy City from that of the straggling Illinois town into that of the metropolis with as- pirations to become a cosmopolis is full of athos. The book reeks with the spirit of €Vestem enterprise as_manifested in nine- teen-story buildings, in hundreds of miles of “suburbs” and in ‘‘Browning societies’ unnumbered. The struggles of ““old fami- lies” of thirty years’ standing to keep up with the procession in the triumphant march of progress are well rtrayed. They represent the ambitions, the efforts, the ‘successes and the failures of women who began life in scattered cabins—of men, their husbands,who from small beginnings have become millionaires, and here and there, through all the scramble and splen- dor, the old, independent Pioneer spirit still crops out in spite of all. One has a warm regard for Mrs. Granger Bates, leader of social Chicago, when, in the privacy of her own room, she forgets the Corots and Daubignys in her picture gal- lery, the yards of Scott and encyclopedias in her li%mry, her rococo drawing-room and all the rest of it, and dances “Old Dan Tucker” for the sake of early days. She enjoys it so much more than anything she has ‘done in_years. It is the sort of tale that our cousins_across the water will read with interest and pronounce “‘so character- istic, don’t you know.” [New York: Har- per & Bros. For sale by Payot, Upham & Co., San Francisco.] Esthetic Principles. In this Henry Rutgers Marshall has given us a small book on the psychology of the beautiful. It is not designed for critical readers, but intended rather as a popular study of the principles that govern esthetics. To the ordinary reader, who is not a psychologist, the chnpter on “The Art Instinet,” from the artist’s standpoint, will be found the most interesting, not to say comprehensible. Much of the author’s learned ~ discussion of the quality and nature of pleasure will seem vague to the average mind. Such a one will find it ex- ceedingly difficult to get up a proper de- gree of sympathy for the hyper-esthetic | author for whom “one special mountain of great matural charm has lost all | of its impressiveness because a light-hearted critic compared its autumn coloring with that of corn-beef hash.” 8o, too, much of the fine consider- ation of whether the beautiful really gives us pleasure will be lost upon the lay reader, but there is much that he will find helpful and stimulating in the book asa guide to the psychologic principles that really govern our appreciation of the beau- tiful. Professor Marshall is, however, too purely a scientific psychologist to write | sympathetically about esthetics. It is a question whether the perfectly impartial critic is, after all, the truest critic. Cer- tainly the study of esthetic vprinciples is the last study that should be approached in the cold unenthusiastic spirit that char- acterizes this work. [London and New York: Macmillan & Co. For sale by Wil- liam Doxey, San Francisco.] ‘When Dreams Come True. The ability of Edgar Saltus to weave to- gether a fine literary fabric of rhythmic prose, to adorn it with the sparkle of epi- grams and to infuse’it with the glow of a seemingly passionate fervor has rarely been better displayed than in his latest work, “When Dreams Come True,”” which he describes in a sub-title as “A story of emotional life.” The story itselfis of no great moment, being concerned with the love affairs of a susceptible young man who hovers be- tween two women and manages to involve bimself badly with both. Itis told, how- ever, with great cleverness. The reader is permitted to see the incidentsof the drama only from one point of view, as indeed we generally see them from real life, and as a consequence when at the close of the book another view of them is given there isa pleasant surprise added to the charms of the style. There is nothing in the book that suggests a serious view of life. The mian and the two women have their emotions sufficiently under centrol to prevent any possibility of a tragedy. Their fortunes or misfortunes in love affect their appetites occasionally, but never their philosophy or their re- ligion. Under the stress of extreme emo- tion they are so influenced-ig their conduct as to be driven to make a journey across the ocean, but this is about 2s near as they come to doing anything rash. Such char- acters in ordinary hands would be too commonplace to be worth reading about, but Saltus depicts them with such liter- ary art, they become amusing. The book is small, but it will make a pleasant pas- time for a summer’s day, and add to the reputation of the author as a master of velvet prose. *‘When Dreams Come True,” by Edgar Saltus. [Transaltantic Publisking Com- pany, New York.] ““The Marriage of Esther.”” A very entertaining narrative by Guy Boothby, who has the happy faculty of carrying interest in every line he writes. It is the story of two men who met as beachcombers, who after a great deal of hard luck, reach a pearlers’ island, where they meet with success, and at last one of them marries the daughter of the owner of the station on the island, after the owner had met with an accident that resulted in his death. Good and bad times follow, but the unmarried beachcomber serves the married one faithfully, and turnsout tobea marquis in disgrace, who finally manages to obtain assistance to relieve his friend and dies in rendering him a service. [New York: D. Appleton & Co. For sale by William Doxey, San Francisco.] ““The Gods, Some Mortals and Lord Wickenham.”” More brilliantly clever even than usual is John Oliver Hobbs’ newest novel. The pages are fuller of epigrams than a pudding of plums. It makes capital reading for a sort of literary dessert. Nevertheless, it is an unpleasant tale—shallow, empty, heart- | less and hopeless—an epitome of all that our French friends mean by their much- used phrase-cf-all-work, for the present day, fin de siecle. The “‘gods” are unpro- pitious, the “mortals’’ inauspicious, while | *Lord Wickenham’’ does nothing but trail | inanely through the story, a convenient lay figure upon which the bright author may fiang epigrams and taking bits of description. [New York: D. Appleton & Co. 'or sale by William Doxey, San | Francisco.] “Fidelis.”” Appleton & Co. send out another and | far better novel than that of John Oliver Hobbs in *‘Fidelis,” by Ada Cambridge, who so far deserts the tenets of modern fiction as to delineate a hero who is heroic, albeit unreasonable as human beings, | heroic or otherwise, are apt to be. He is repulsively ugly as to features, but a literary genius. He loves a woman who is blind, but who recovers her sight, and about his fear that she should see his face centers the main complication of the tale. 1t ends happily, of course, in due time and all goes weF, [New York: D. Appleton & Co. For sale by William Doxey, San Francisco.] “Two Women.” A dull tale, poorly told. The author, Lida O. Vanamee, has a capital conception. Her two women are an independent pair of cimun;z Americans, who cross the ocean and start on a driving trip through the English cathedral towns. With such a starting point the story might have had every sort of excellence, but instead it | winds its way through a mesh of stupidity | to a conclusion so inane that the reader | hardly knows when he has reached it. | [New York: The Merriam Company. For sale by Payot, Upham & Co., San Fran- | cisco.] “Lady Olivia.” Under the title of “Lady Olivia,” W. C. Falkaer presents to the readers of fiction a novel that is founded on incidents of Revolutionary times. 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