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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 1895. 21 - e lele TALKS ABOUT BOOKS AND BOOKMAKERS. SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THE VARIOUS LATE PUBLICATIONS. i) 8 H Vi last issue of The Lark, edited by Porter and Gelette Burgess, containg lowing: DEDICATION. the fiyleaf of the copy of “The Silverado ters” sent {0 “Virgil Willlams and Dora orton Williams,” to whom it was dedicated, is the following poem the handwriting of 1kbe author, written {yeres, where, as he saysin b spent the Lappiest days f his life:] Here, from the forelands o e tideless sea, Behold and take my offe £ it grew ¢ air; tish heather blossomed, and st last unscapen sapphire, in whose face , France, Algiers and Tunis view roverted mour Eack now, my Booklet 1 posting on th liome, and the ri bear. s whose honoring name yon R.L.S. A OALIFORNIAN POET. ! Of all the writers now within California’s borders it is a rather curious circumstance that one of the best and most favorably known in the East and abroad is compara- tively little known at home. In the East ham is coming to be ian Poet.” He has ed in the leading 11 probability, than save, perhaps, John Muir, and his i he most distinctively poetic spirit we have on the coast to-day. His range is far wider than that of Joaquin He has fully Ina Coolbrith's won- e of rhythm and fine ear for the ate cadences of the language, e vivid imaginative power that rizes the work of Emma Frances are several reasons why Professor 2 should be comparatively little n on this coast. He is by nature and bit of a lifetime a recluse. What said of himself is pre-eminently harles Edward Mui’humA He is man. Those who know him ever ghtly would find it impossible to dis- ate him from the literary atmo- phere in which he constantly dwells. In bachelor eyrie in the hills back of East nd he has one of the largest and_best ate libraries in the State, and here, when school hours are over, he is sure to be foand. Heis one of the most genial and friendly of human beings, with a heart overflowing with love for his fellows— when his fellows seek him out—but the companionship he himself seeks lies be- tween the covers of books. He has, more- published very litcle on_this coast, uis work is by no means distinctively Born on this coast, never an Californian, having left i% but once, and then but fora few weeks, there is_yet, singularly, little ing in Professor Markham’s ke the man, it is universal rather 1. In the nearfuture a volume of rse will be issued in New York by | the Scribners, and it is probable that the | book will occasion more than a passing surprise on this coast. Professor rkham’s personality is ite @ d_and interesting as is his B Oregon he came, when ore than 2 baby, to Calitornia with owed mother. At 5 years of age he heepherder on tha hills of Solano A At 10 he had sol &large of @& band of cattle and was his nisther's ranch superintendent and man of 2ffairs. School- he had none, save a few weeks one winter, but he had always a8 grammar or an arithmetic at his saddle-horn, and these be mastered while riding aiter his cattle. | ‘When 14 or 15 he came in possession of the first book he ever read, except the before- his.wid w mentioned grammar and aritumetic. This } was a worn copy of Byron, and it opened up a new world to the lonely lad. Some- times, for a week atatim: he saw no human face, but he and Byron traversed the hills together. Two years later he earned some money of hisown, and sent to San_ Francisco for three books. These were Bryant's and Moore’s poems and ‘Webster’s dictionary. An editor friend from over the divide sent bhim an occa- sional magazine, and he had aready begun to woo the poetic muse, though rarely, as be says, “‘catching more th:n a passing glimpse of her fleet feet twinkiing over the distant hills.” These books, and no otker comrades save his cattle, made up his life until he was nearly 20 years old. Then his mother soid the ranch and, set free for the first time since his fifth birthday, the young man next day started for fan Fran- cisco and entered school. 23 he en- tered college, and teaching and studying acquired the education for which he hun- gered and thirsted. Then he letrned the blacksmith’s trade and, hammering at his forge, hammered out also in kis busy brain verse that Scribner’s, the' Century | and other Eastern magazines glaily pub- lished. A few years of blacksmithing ratisfied him that he could ‘“‘earn _his bread by the sweat of his brow,” which was yhat he wanted to know, and then he rsumed teaching, which 'has ever since been his serious work. He has been County Super- intendent of Schools in the north gnd the south, but is now principal of Tampkins School, the training and model school for the Universi)i of California. Professor Markham has published some rose, but his verse forms the foundation or his literary reputation, and in this line be has done seme very remarkable work. Heis a twofold genius. Living with, lov- ing and interpreting Nature as no other Californian poet has ever done, he is as well a part of the humanities. Heisawake to every aspect of human experience, and his work is full of that characteristic, vital quality which, for lack of a better word, we must call life. Take this Lit, which he calls “*On an Old Road,” wherein hegivesa vivid impression of the joy o +arth and of life, to be seen and felt ‘in tug open hills end fields: A host of poppies, a fight of swal)sws; A flurry of rain, and a wind that foliowe— Shephends the leaves in the sheli-rod halows, For the forest ls shaken and th. uned. Over my head are the firs for rafi.- The crows blow south and my he: { zok after; 1 kiss my hands to th2 world with laughier— Is it Aldenn or mystical Ind? - 1 Ll vher— G the whole world ia gad of the wind! He voices, too, the piteous human wail that is under all our seeing and doirg and, &s he often does, takes his text frcm the things of the fields. Thusin ! _THE LAST FURROW. The spirlt of eurth, with still restoring hand fid rain moves, {n glimmering chism gropes, A‘;z mMOsses mante! and the m':fgm flower npes; 4nd Death the Plowmay wanders in ali lands, And to the 18t of earth his furrow stands. The grave Is neve, 3 Follow the dewd npon the e SoBSS And there wild memories meet. When willows flin, When rumor ef ing slo] upon oo their banners to the that might almost have led a less robust manhood into dilettanteism, and which, picking and choosing, eonsidering and re- Jecting, occasionally leads him into trifling affectations,as in the concluding lines of this same poem, “Work and Wages,” which we quote from Beribner's Magazine: When the daybreak comes pushing its beams through the mist Rebuilding the palace of light; Then up and away toward the summit afar— Towird the peak hanging aream jike and ecrie, TUnder ihe morning star. One feels a certain straining after effect that is rarely noticeable in Professor Mark- hain’s work, in hisreference to ‘‘the peak hanging dream-like and eerie.”’ But there is nothing of the sort in this bit of summer gladness which he calls | THE VALLEY. in the summer hills, 2 by little winds and daffodils; falls and s0ft shadows pass at noon: Noiseless, at night the clouds assemble there And ghostly summits bang below the moon— Dim visions lightly swung in sllent air. And in every line of his is an essential Itis true that every human being is ‘“‘the sum total of his ancestors,” buc back of him, t0o, are all the generations of his race that have gone before him, influen- cing his life along the lines of race develop- ment. His own environment is an enor- mous factor, too, in forming his character, and more powerful than all, and a point upon which too much stress cannot be laid, is the will of the individual. Bjornson’s story stops short of any con- clusions. He shows us Thomas Rendalen —giited, erratic, scarcely sane—making a deeperate fight against prejudice, ig- norance and pig-headed obstinacy in his native town, and he closes the narrative with a terrible scene in the village church, where a wedding is prevented by the pub- lic presentation at Rendalen’s instigation before the bride of a betrayed maiden with the bridegroom’s child in her arms. Both this injured girl and the prospective bride were schoolmates and intimate friends in the girls’ echool, but despite the training received in this institution it takes this theatrical denouement to prevent a mar- riage that would have been infamous, and into which the bride was waiking open- eyed. But the hook is a powerful one, full of dramatic force and interest, and of great value as showing the increasing in- fluence of modern thought upon the Norse mind. [New York: Lovell, Coryell & Co. For sale by William Doxey, San Francisco.] THE GOLDEN AGE. The man who brings back to men and women the days of their childhood should be sure of a welcome in our libraries. This is what Kenneth Grahame has done in these dreamy little papers that first saw i WILLIAM MORRIS, [From o photograph.} * linto verse. One cannot but hope that having freed his mind in this direction the author will return to the 'Fnths of literary rectitude—and prose. There is more poetry in most of Mr. Savage’s prose than there is in any of his verse, His prose is full of imagination; there is none in bis verse. The varions ‘‘poems’’ that make up the volume read like Schoolboy efforts at composition. They are commonplace and dreary. The lines flow on with fatal fluency. Fancy a poet standing “before Schiller’s statue’’ and saying: | Here, in the lovely Thiergarten, Shaded by nodding trees, Stands Friedrich Schiller, carved In stone— Near beautiful Louise! Wbicago: F. Tennyson Neely. Forsale by illiam Doxey, San Francisco.] HOW TO REAR THE BABY, “The Care of the Baby,” a manual for mothers and nurses, by J. P. Crozer Grif- fiths, M.D., contains useful information and practical directions for the manage- ment of children in health and diseases. Details of the baby’s toilet, including lists of the necessary clothes, the methods of feeding the baby, sleep, exercise and train- ing are all commented upon and described. Much attention is given to the subject of the child’s nurses, the child’s rooms, in- cluding the day nursery, the night nursery, the sickroom and the schoolroom, with timely hints as to heating, ventilation and furnishing. The longest and probably most i[u{:ortant chapter is that devoted to the | sick baby, for under this head are given the symptoms of the diseases of childhood, with simple remedies. Appended to the book are various CHARLES EDWIN MARKHAM, [From a photograph.] wholesomeness, an exquisite beaunty of | conception and execution, and withal a freedom from conventional restraints that mark him as pre-eminently a poet and not a mere versifier. In appearance Professor Markham is singularly like another poet with whom he has much in spiritualand intellectual com- munity—Willlam Morris. How marked is this facial resemblance will be seen by a glance at the two portraits which we re- produce to-day. The Celifornian is much he younger man of the two, and while not yet approximating the wonderful breadth of intellectual sympathy which character- izes the older poet, his work already re- veals the poetic faculty 1n a far higher de- gree than does anything Morris has yet published. “THE HERITAGE OF THE KURTS.” This is the new title which the translator has given Bjornstjerne Bjornson's great novel, “Det Flager i Byen og paa Havnen” (*“Flags Are Flying in Town and Harbor”). Like all modern Scandinavian writers Bjornson is terribly in earnest in his work. The higher education of women, an equal standard of sexual morality for men and women, the influence of heredity upon the race—these are some of the problems with w hich the novel has to do. The first sec- tion of the book purports to a reprint of an old manuscript. In diction ana substance it is an exceedingly clever bit of imitation of the early eighteenth century Danish. It gives the history of the founding of the bouse of Kurt in a Denmark coast village. The first Kurt was a typicul swashbuckler, drinking heavily, levying tribute upon the whole countryside —a swearing, roistering, overbearing brute, whose pres- ence meant menace to every woman 1n the town. He lived by the sword and erisned by the sword, miserably upon a ung-heap. His sons grew up and walked in his footsteps, and thus genera- tion followed generation, the race growin, more degenerate as the century passed, until SJon Kurt, the last of them all, died insane before he was 40 years of age. Soon after his death a son is born to his widow. The latter resumes her maiden name, and the son ws up as Thomas Rendalen. The mother’s whole life is henceforth de- voied to the task of wiping out the Kurt inheritance. From the beginning the boy is a terrible problem to her, and her whole system of training has in view the over- coming of hereditary traits in him. She brings him up among little girls. Her- self educated as a girl in England, she is a competent instructor of youth, and she opens a school for girls. The Kurts had for generations been the apgmsors and outragers of women. This last Kurt is ruled over, distanced in study, even beaten, by his girl companions. In all things his conduct is made to conform to the standards required for them. It is impressed upon him that he must never marry—that the family must end with him.” In a word, 'his training is a Spartan one. When grown he is sent abroad to study educational systems and returns to assume principalship of the now famous girls’ school. The study in Norse life and habits of thought that this experi- ment opens for the reader is axeeodinflgly interesting. Bjornson is by no means flat- tering to his own people. The picture he draws of Danish thought and practice toward women, of Danish morality in the x plain, i :IIIOW"I Winds and sound ol’ sudden urb the dream of winter— vain Tho grasses BUTy 0 ihe grava b Toss their wild torches op their windy i limited sense of that word, and of the re- ligious status of the Danes, is_a terrible one. at deal the book must be taken as the author's own view of life. He Yot del eak graves lonely in the has muchwu‘nprdin the part woman There is something at onge GWIK must pla; the salvation of the Norse daring and sin, ulaxly.Ppm riate in: races. He declares that the good of the I conception of flowers, “tos; torches on their windy tonwxgc." sor Markham has a power to bring our eyes a whole landscape i conplet— to show us the meaning gf‘nnllu: a single ork and ine, as when he says, in *¢ Vages” : Every attainment is only a camp for the night. Thomas B.engulen {bafore ‘woman doctor to ac Erh in theschool. All modern educational it is not apparent that the; il.bl:':rh«dway among the older people. It 1 mople demands thuicfl culture and scien- c trainin, He makes ing from America a 88 instructor to the or women. eas are embodied in this institution, but make :nly not- e. the younger generations that the The poet has been a fairly prolific wri hope of th i His forthcoming volume of verse is Ei?u Ih:xfl‘;%‘iythl:r:.lmon the famous :::‘x'li ;n zh.i;gne. Hl:el;;:d beiann, oll” his ootu‘l:trymen, Bjornson g inclined to Lowever, by a oemg- finical babit of Mufi.fi.nn- &";Wmfimm" o= warrant. | the light in “The Yellow Book,” “The National Observer’ and “The Chap Bock,” and are now gathered in a dainty volume upon which Stone & Kimball, artistic printers, have expended much typographic ingenuity. Kenneth Grahame has a delightful style. Whether one follows the imaginative boy along a Roman road, or in pursuit of the sleeping Princess, or explores with him “The Secret Drawer,” one is sure of a leasant time. He touches unerringly and Helicatel the sweetest chords in the human %eart. These little papers are not deep nor lofty. They do not attempt the solution of any problems, but they are full of human sweetness and sympnlhl; full of the joy and the pathos that make up the period of childnood., One feels a_peculiar sympathy with the auttor’s childish view of “The Olym- pians,” as Mr. Grahame calls the grown people—those mysterious beings who, hav- ing absolute license to indulge in the leasures of life, could get no good out of it. *“They might dabble in the pond all day, bunt the chickens, zlimb trees in the most uncompromising Sunday clothes; they were free to issue forth and buy gun- recipes for the preparation of special foods for babes and older children, particulariy for use in sickness. Descriptions are also given of the numerous kinds of baths. as vell as formul® for the making of poul- tices and plasters. Prescriptions for dif- | ferent ointments, solutions, mixtures, | powders, disinfectants and emetics are in- cluded in the appendix. Throughout the book are tables, designed to aid the mother in the care of her children, such as a table of infectious diseases, telling the | characteristic symptoms of each, a table of ons and antidotes for each and a dose t for children of differentages. [Pub- | lished by W. B. Baunders, 925 Walnut | street, Philadelphia, Pa. Cloth $1 50.] iBIBDB OF EASTERN KORTH AMERICA. This is a very comprehensive work on our Eastern birds. The author, Frank | Chapman, is assistant curator of the de- | partment of mammalogy and ornithology | in the American Museum of Natural His- | tory, in New York Oity, and is eminently well equipped for the preparation of such & book as this. The introductory chapters . {Sketched by Joe Strong, after a CHARLES WARREN STODDARD, WHO WILL SOON VISI? SAN FRANCISCO., pastel portrait by Benoni Irwin.] gowdcr in the full eye of the sun—free to re cannons snd explode mines on the lawn; yet they never did any one of these things. " No irresistible emrg_v hailed them to church o’ Bundays; yet they went there e ln;ll of their own accord, though they betrayed no greater delight in the experi- ence than ourselves.” ‘What child has not thus in his inmost heart mused over the mysteries of unap- preciated opportunities “attendant upon TOWn-up upef £Chi 5]:;: Stone & Kim- all. For sale by William Doxey, San Francisco.] AFTER MANY YEARS. bt R A R PR ey These lines of Browning’s are irresistibly brought to mind by the sight of Richard Henry Bavage’s latest literary effort—a volume of verse. Hiving painted ‘s several realistic pen-pictures in prose, Mr, on the study of ornithology and the identi- fication of birds will prove of great value to the amateur in beginning the study of this most_interesting subject in natural history. The birds are so highly special- ized, 8o far in advancein intelligence and in- terest of all other wild creatures, and they are, moreover, so easily studied, when beginning is once made, that one wonders that an intimate knowlsdge of bird life is confined almost entirely to specialists on the subject. Mr. Chapman’s book is admirably sup- plied with keys to the species and deserip- tions of their plumages, nests and eggs, their distribution and migrations and a brief account of their haunts and habit: In fact, in & volume not too large for fi use he has given us an epitome of exactly the knowledge we want concerning our s oSt gud Uaat ok, Sieation” o ve received a of attention of late, and & number of ¥ood bird books have been published, but it is a misfortune Bavage has imprudently followed Silas Wegg's llmem_mpbl.e em’npu and lapsed that ny s yet to have n who can do for the biras of the Py Coast NEW TO-DAY. (loak and Suif House, 120 EKearny Street. 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CHILDREN'S JACKETS, red, blue and brown, white braid timmed. ... $2.50 . $2.00 — $2. The rush last week was so great that we had to inconvenience our customers a little, for which we apologize. We have now inereased our force, so there will be no delays this week. —— what has been so abundantly accomplished for those of the Atlantic Slope. ith the exception of Dr. Cooper's work in the Coast Geologic Survey, ana which, never Esrticnlnrly accurate, is now obsolete, we ave nothing of value on the subject, al- though we have an abundance of interest- ing varieties of birds. §lr. Chapman’s book is I)mfusaly illus- trated, and will prove of value to bird students on this coast as well as in the East. [New York: D. Appleton & Co. For sale by William Doxey, San Fran- cisco.] THE ZEIT-GEIST. In his preface to this, his latest novel, L. Dougall says: “I do not believe that it be- longs to the novel to teach theology, but I do believe that religious sentiments and opinions are a legitimate subject of its art, and that, perhaps, its highest function is to promote understanding by bringing into contact minds that habitually misinter- pret one another.” This he has endeayored to do in the ‘“Zeit-Geist,” which is the story of how one man read his own interpretation of God’s truth. The scene is laid in Canada, in the region north of Lake Ontario. The hero, Bartholomew T j’ner, is a man se youth is spent in dissipation. He becomes converted to orthodoxy, but finds ortho- doxy unable to answer the questionings of his own soul, and after bitter failure and many falls comes out at last into the se- rene light of spiritual peace. By his fellow- townsmen he comes to be deemed little better than an infidel, but he is, neverthe- less, a potent factor for good in the com- munity. The story is well told and gives an inter- esting glimpse at the life and time with whicg it deals. [New York: D. Appleton & Co. For sa.e by William Doxey, San Francisco.] AOROSS INDIA, Men may come and men may go, but it looks as though Oliver Optic intended to go on forever writing books for boys. Like good wine, he improves with age, and ‘writes with the dash and vigor of old and the interest of to-day. His contempo- raneousness is, perhaps, not the least stir- ring thing about Oliver Optic. Mostof the men who wrote some thirty years ago re- tain something of the old-timey atmos- Phere in their later work, but not so he. ‘Across India” is right up to date, and the modern boy will find it as interesting as, twenty-odd years ago, his father found the author's earlier books. [Boston: Lee & Shepard. For sale by William Doxey, San Francisco.] : BOY BOLDIERS OF 1812, The popularity of stories of the War of the Rebellion incited writers and pub- lishers to recall and revamp the recollec- tions and adventures of other wars that have enlivened our National history. Everett T. Tomlinson is engaged in turn- ing out a series of volumes treating of the ‘War of 1812. These books are well written are replete with nrtliu§ adventures, an( will prove popular with the young Ameri- cans for whose entertainment they are g‘mdncad. %’ubfiahod by Lee & Shepard. ‘or sale by Doxey.] WATOH FIRES OF '76. Even Revolutionary days and trials are being made to yield material for the book- makers. The “Watch Fires of '76,” by Samuel Adams Drake, may be considered fair specimen of this class of literature. The book is filled with brisk anecdotes ve! g upon historical themes, with now and then a clear-sighted effort at character analysis. The Revolutionary Warisalways a romantic and attractive theme for the rising generation and Mr. Drake's works are sure of popular lpprachtion.“l[.l’nh- g‘o};d be Lee & Shepard. For by Y- RECENT FICTION. Ir tEE Fire or THE FoRreE. — Georg Ebers is always welcome to the novel- reader, and the present translation by J. Bafford will be very acceptable to English and American readers. “In the Fire of the Forge'’is a romance of old Nuremberg, in the latter of the thir- teenth century. As in all of Ebers’ work, the time dealt with is vividly brought be- fore the reader, who, until the Jast chapter of the second volume is reached, I literally, in the thirteenth century. It powerful ves, isa her work faithfully and well. [New York: D. Appleton & Co., 2 vols. For sale by William Doxey, S8an Francisco.] THE VENGEANCE OF JAMES VANSITTART, by Mrs. J. H. Needell.—This is one of Ap- pleton’s popular Town and Country Li- brary series. A story of a bad man's brooding over wrongs that might have made a good man bitter, and which trans- form him into a fiend seeking vengeance. [New York: D. Appleton & Co. For sale by William Doxey.] A StUDY IN PREJUDICES, by George Pas- ton.—A capital story, having to do with the average Englishman’s idea of what constitutes wifely duty, and his method of dealing with a wife who adores him, but in whom he fancies himself disappointed. He finds out too late what a fool he is. Ina different way from ‘“The Heritage of the Kurts” this™ book, too, touches bitterly upon the unerinal standard of moral con- duct set up for the sexes. [New York: Appleton’s Town and Country Library. For Sale by William Doxey.] Ixto THE HIGEWAYS AND HEDGES, by F. F. Montresor.—The writer declares at the, outset that he does not intend this asa controversial novel, but controversially in- clined readers will be apt to takeit as such. The hero, Barnabas Thorpe, is a faultily educated strolling preacher, who makes a convert of a high-bred, cultivated girl. He saves her life under peculiar circumstances, and an intolerant relative manages to make the two believe that the girl has been compromised. So the two are married, agreeing that the marriage shall be only in name, and a singularly impressive and realistic story of life is begun. Barnabas Thorpe is a loity character, splendidly conceived, and wrought out with a faithfulness that brings his person- ality strongly before us. Margaret Deane isin her way as real a person as himself and immensely more attractive. It wil shock the sensibilities of the average mind to read of her marriage to Barnabas, and the shock will not be lightened when, in time, she learns to love him. A dainty, delicately reared woman, loving a man be- neath her, mightfor love’s sake learn to put up with uncouth ways, with poverty and lack, of all the orfinary refinements of life, including napkins and forks. But married, without love, into such surround- ings, despite the wonderful qualities of manhood that Barnabas develops, itis a strain upon the imagination when, in the depths of affliction that comes upon him through his own overnice and wholly mis- tuken idea of duty, Margaret finds that she loves him. [New York: Appleton’s Town and Country Library. For sale by William Doxey, S8an Francisce.] SisTer GrATIA (Satan’s Simplicity), by C. Edgar Snow,—A miserable tale, reeking with ignorance and written in an over- wrought hysterical style that would con- demn even a conception with some pre- ze%se]to wit. [Chicago: Charles H. Kerr 0. A SieeN's Bow, by Susie Lee Bacon. Like ‘Sister Gratia,” which the same house publishes, “ASiren’s Son" is an ex- ceedingly silly story. Itis bad as well as silly, with, from first to last, not a redeem- ing character in it. [Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co.] BerTY, by Anna Vernon Dorsey.—One of the complication-producing problems of this book, as stated by the author, is the question, “Can a man marry his widow’s sister-in-law?” One would be inclined to grant him the privilege, if he could arrange certain little difficulties that seem at first insurmountable; but we are informed that “the canons of the church and of civil law” forbid it. Hence a tale, reading which one wishes church and civil law had winked for the nonce, an’ we could have been spared ““Betty.” gew York: United States Book Company. For sale by Doxey.] MARGERY OF QUETHER, by S. Baring- Gould.—Whoso delighteth to feel the hair of him rising, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, and his integument assuming that agxe-nnm vulgarly knewn as goose- impled, will joy in reading “Margery of uether.”” The story which Baring-Gould tells under this caption is so impossible as to seem quite probable. There are other tales in the volume, but ‘‘Margery of 8uether" fills the title role. [New York: nited States Book Company. For sale by Doxey.] OxE HUNDRED B;: Srorixs, edited by tale, and the trauslator has done | Murat Halstead.—Beginning with what he is pleased to call “the bear stories of the Bible,” Mr. Halstead gives us a unique collection of Probable and improbable, ueer, humorous and tragic tales in which ruin figures. Some of them are not bad —others are not particularly good, but they are bear stories and they ail go. [New York: J. 8. O, e Publishing Com- pany.] ‘WEDDED TO S8PORT.—A story of English country life, by Mrs. Edward Kennard. [New York: United States Bou. Com- pany. For sale by Doxey, San Francisco.] MoriAL THE MAHATMA.—By Mabel Col- lins. The scene of this tale is laid in Tibet. It deals largely in mysteries with which the author seems as familiar as she is with the interior of the country she calis Tibet. Asno one else knows anything in particular about either, the story will prob- ably pass unchallenged. [New York: United States Book Company. For sale by Doxey, San Francisco.] How 1o MAKE MONEY, ALTHOUGH A ‘WomaN.—Theauthor of this book, Irene W. Hartt, has already enlightened the world upon “How to Get Married, Although a Woman.” Her present subject is a shade more abstruse. Thackeray said: “Givea woman opportunity, and if she have taste and have not actnally a hump’— we quote from memory—‘‘she may marry whom she will.” But for a woman to make money is another and more difficult matter. Miss Hartt has compiled quite a record of ways in which women have made money, but there is a painful lack of au- thenticity about some of her records. She cites two rather famous women who are known of all their friends as being in cir- cumstances quite precarious asexamples of women who have made a great deal of money giving parlor lectures. She recom- mends making women’s exchange wares, packing trunks and the writing for the newspapers as avenues open for women, and gravely informs her readers thatif a womsan has some money and wishes to make more, she cannot do better than te speculate in stocks. Taking into consideration that she is writing for the usually ignorant and inex- perienced, the value of Miss Hartt's book is more than problematic. [New York: J. 8. Ogilvie Pughshing Compagy.] Mamma—Why, Frankie, how did all these mosquitoes get in under your net?’’ Master Frank—Well, mamma, I'll tell you. 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