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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1895. 17 NEW BOOKS. e Twenty thousand dollars is the tidy| +little sum that the Century has paid Mrs. | Humphry Ward for a new novel, and she retains the right to publish the fiction in book form. “Literature of Decadence’ is the an- nouncement of a startling poster in one of Doxey’s windows. Under this title are arranged the works of Ibsen, Nordau, John Oliver Hobbes, Paul Verlaine, Richard Le | Gallienne, Phil Mighels, sketches by Au- | brey Beardsley, John Sloan, Hazenplug Pissaro and others of that school, and such | up-to-date produc the Echo, Moods, the Lark, the Philistine, the Evergreen, Bibelot and the Chap Bock. While these workers in the field of ynodern thought may be justly c tury representat them all with th Ibsen and Nc a maj these young people Ithy br . their skulls and healthy thoughts in their brains. | o Annie Laurie's book, “The Little Boy Who Lived on the Hill,” is_almost ready for_ publication, 1twill be illustrated by Swinnerton. John Burrou ays some excellent words in Stone & Kimball’s last Chicago Chap Book. s stone and | n essential difference— | ubstal ut of arrange- | s—the crystallization, says | | Mr. Zangwill. [Drawn by Fred Richardson for the Chap Book.] | | | Mr. Burroughs. In substance the charcoal and | th ect how | widel snothing | tha te: i Two en have the san the; about the same words in expressing them with one the product is real literature, with the other it isa platitude. The difference isall in the presentation; a finer and more com- i s has gone on in the one case > other. The elements are better tted together; ned and intensifie we mean by n quar are & thing external, that can be put in and of itself. But it is not: exture of the substance it- faultless rhetoric e. Indeed, perfect Yle, as the great er. It may, and , 20 with faulty workmanship. It is use of Words in a fresh and vital wa: us & vivid sense of & new spiritu; In the best work the sty den in the matter. > * * way he clew to wh e that I find with our younger more_promising _school of movelists is that their aim_is too lMterary; we feel that they are striving mainly for artistic effect. * * * Their seriousness is mainly an srtistic seriousness. It is not so much that they heve something 10 say as that they are fi h a desire to say something. v gazine poets seem filled with the What labor, what artand tech- ue, but what a dearthof feeling and spo; ! I resd & few lines or stanzas anc then stop. I see it is only deft handicraft, | and that the heart and soul are notin it. One d hunter told It looked like a duck, it quacked like a duck, | pon the table—it mocked | These mock poems of the magazines re- | me of it. | INDEPENDENT PAMPHLETEERING. | At no time in the literary history of the century has there been such a tendency | upon the part of young writers to rush into print independently of the established avenues of literary publicity. | It would seem as though America had | periodicals in abundance to minister to | the mental requirements of the public, wj- even to furnish an outlet for the energies | of those afflicted with scribenditis. Ap- | parently, however, we have not, for nearly every month sees the advent of a new ven= Hon. Ignatius Donnelly. ture in this line. Itisnot alone that we have Moods, Chips, The Chap Book, The Bibelot, The Philistine, Keynotes, The | Evergreen and The Lark, but we are being flooded of late with nickel publications of every sort, homeopathic doses of thought, done up in artistic shape and printed on the best of hand-made paper, with all the accessories of line and rubric known to the printing trade, but bomeopathic doses nevertheless, and the most of them, it is to be confessed, dear at the nickel or the dime that are the regula- tion price for them. We seem to be enter- ing upon an era of indevendent pamphlet- eering, wherein every man, woman and child having something to say puts it forthwith 1nto a thin little volume and sends it forth to find an audience with the lic. p"il; is a question whether these thin little volumes do find an audience. Book-buy- ers, as a rule, do not care for these little books. Tiey desire volumes that have, so to speak, ‘‘a presence”’—books which they can arrange upon their library shelves, and to which they can point with pride, as it were, as evidences of literary taste. They want books to possess weignt and proportion in the tangible and realistic as well as the figurative sense. Only the usually such because, as hinted above, he is_denied transportation along the recog- nized highways of literature. But it is to be feared that there is gener- ally some reason for this denial. Candor compels the admission that the pretty lit- tle pamphlets of individual expression are for the most part thin in contents, as well as in proportion. The keynote of the age is expression, an eminently useful word in its way, but by no means equal to the task lately put upon it of bearing the vagaries of ageneration. The tendency of the age is to come before the worid with its thoughts, or, lacking these, with its feel- ings. This is eminently true of our younger writers, who are mainly responsi- ble for the all-pervading pamphlet. The burden of this sort of literature is woe,woe, and yet more woe. Our young friends fling their intellectual anatomy about with a recklessness that would be amazing were it not so readily understandable. It is merely a part of the general desire of the ego of the age to make itself known, to give itself expression. Like most neuroses, this condition brings melancholy, the sure prerogative of youth and_ inexperience, and the corresponding misapprehension that individual emotion is of interest to the world at large. Our voung writers who run to pamphlets have a grievance against the publishing part of the world. They believe there 1s a ‘‘conspiracy of silence” against them, and they are fain to scale the battlements and storm the castie of Public Opinion unaided and | alone. A characteristic of the group is an evident and painful lack of reading, of study, of coherent and consecutive thought. They have no mental back- ground, everything they write is in the foreground. They are contemporaneous to a degree, and correspondingly impatient of that which has gone before them. Thus it comes about that we have ar- rived at what may be called a neurotic school of literature, whose aim it is to pro- duce the outre, the bizarre, the quaint, but which only succeeds, as a rule, in giving us ed and the y “Expression for expression’s s watchword, a watchword as false as is that other cry of certain schools, ‘:art for art’s sake.” A mental colie, according to thisschool’s reasoning, is as legitimate a subject for expression as are any of the higher pro- cesses of mentality ; and, judging from the published matter of our pamphleteers, is far more frequent. One hesitates to be harsh, but the thought thrusts itself upon the mind that what most of these young unspea; writers need is not publishers, but pep- permints. THE GENESIS OF CALIFORNIA'S FIRST CONSTITUTION. This is a monograph in the series of Johns Hopkins University studies in polit- ical science. Itisa study constitution- making by Professor Rockwell D. Hunt of the University of the Pacific. Itis an in- telligent study of a subject of great inter- est. The dramatic events of the history of California prior to the American conguest | are first briefl sketched. The political and constitutional as well as the social conditions of territorial Cali- fornia were unique. Never were law and administration more needed ; seldom hasan ©Opie Read. | enlightened community endured so inade- anate a legal system and so precarious an administration. The early Californian leaders (Castro, Vallejo and Pico) were too discreet to attempt an expulsion of the Americans after the conquest; and the Americans were not permitted to throw off the unsavory Mexican law. The persistent desire for admission into the Federal Union ivas itself doubtless a bar to the much-needed lacal organization. The pro- found National signi i question in American politics is the key that must e constantly in the hand of the student who would gain a comprehensive view of the local distracted situation. lave extension created California; Cali- fornia effectually checked slave extension. The American population of California during 1846 and 1847 was very small, widely scattered, and altogether in a position extremely disadvantageons for efficient, united political action of any kind. But it had become evident to the _settlers that the coun- try destined to be permanently n; and it is not surprising thata clamor began to arise for American laws and institutions, and that expressions of dissatisfaction with the impotent Mexican Government and seemingly harsn military rule grew louder and louder. It cannot be charged to the discredit of the early settlers that they thus manifested dissat- isfaction with the existing order of things, and evinced an earnest and persistent de- sire for organized government. They were, for the most part, honest, energetic and intelligent pioneers who bad been accus- tomed to law and order. California being no longer under the corrupt and despotic rule | of Mexico, they were 1ot unreasonable in expecting better chings from the United States. But their greatest grievance was the very want of law adequate to the pro- tection of life and property, and to the complete administration of justice. Asthe population increased, causes for disaffec- tion multiplied. Those Antericans who had lived under the Mexican regime had learned to accommodate themselves meas- urably to the existing conditions and to the use of the Spanish language; but in proportion as the American population in- creased after the conquest, um{ gradually gained the ascendency of numbers, it was unreasonable to expect the new comers to adapt themselves to the effete Mexican laws, at best only partially perpetuated and imperfectly administered, and labor- iously to acquire mastery of a language plainly and speedily being superseded by their own-English, ‘While awaiting news of the close of the war with Mexico and a scheme for civil overnment from Washington came the iscovery of gold. The news was being disseminated, the tide of immigration l)ak begun. The already growing deswre for organized government was greatly accel- erated. Tfie need was almost infinitely in- creased and better administration of jus- tice sccrued to be absolutely imperative. Could honest Americans hope longer for the promised civil organization from ‘Washington, or should they themselves take the initiative? In the spring of 1849 General Riley superseded Colonel Mason as de facto Gov- authority was itself offensive to leading settlers, they denied that he possessed any civil authority whatever. But as chief ex- ecutive of the province, he must needs act in civil capacity; hence arose the contro- versial conflict between de facto (or ex- officio) Governor and people. While Gen- eral Riley awaited the final news from Congress, the people of the several districts proceeded, with characteristic American regularity, in their arrangements for a civil government proceeding from their own initiative. Immediately on learning that Congress had the third time failed to make provision for the government of California, General Riley asserted his civil authority in a most agirl in such a situation is wholly illogi- czfi. Mr. Johnson -allows his romantic fancy to run away with his common-sense, so far as his portrayal of Edith is con- cerned. As a consequence his story is in itself so absurd as to defeat its own entirely laudable end, namely, castigation of the back of evil. If the author will visit San Franeisco again the management of THE Carn_will undertake to see that he is afforded ample opportunity to investigate Chinatown from the inside, and that he is given an insight into the Chinese question in all its bearings. Once in a position to speak imclhg_entlfi it is only fair to suppose he will modify his assertion that Cali- fornia’s citizens are ignorant of or calloused JOEHN H. HOLMES, EDITOR OF M, THE BOSTON HERALD AND PRESIDENT OF THEE NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATED PRESS. [From the New York Fourth Estate.] emphatic manner by issuing a call for a | general constitutional convention, and by | proclaiming the so-called legislative As- | sembly of San Francisco, the head and | front of the settlers’ movement, to be an illegal and unauthorized bcdy. The As- sembly, on its part, protested against Riley’s intervention, and reasserted what | it believed to be its undoubted right—viz., | the right of self-government, i default of | suitable government by the United States. The issue was sharply defined; buc the | citizens were too much'in earnest in their desire for eflicient government to allow themselves haughtily to stand out against | the de facto Governor and hold themselves aloof from his really practicable easures i’us: announced; therefore, they were not ong in acceding to his time and place for the convention. The convention met September 1,1849, in Colton Hall, Monterey, and concluded labors October 13. The author sketches in detail the salient features of the conven- tion, and adds that a high order of skill required to bring to completion a sat- isfactory_constitution for acommonwealth whose history was_absolutely unique and whose early admission into the Union was seen to be extremely doubtful. It was ior- tunate that the convention was ruled by no demagogue, no faction. no party. The mixed character of the personnel proved a safeguard. The claimsof Northern senti- ment and Southern chivalry had to be re- garded ; ardent Americans fresh from “the States” were tempered by older pioneers and Hispano-Californiar all were com- pelled to submit to repeated compromise, | and thus a moderate, judicial and workable constitution was created. The achievement illustrates the great capacity of the American people for self- government. The constitution offered to the ,citizens of California for their con- sidetation and their votes sprang imme- diately into ygreat favor, and the members of the convention were warmly pra having done their work faithful journed with unimpaired good will MISS L. DOUG. LL, MISS F. F. MONTRE- SOR, ot “The Mer- The Zeit- Anthor of “Tnto the “Beggars All,” ~ Highways and| Hedges.” { document received the highest commenda- tions from all sources, as the “embodiment | of the American mind, throwing its con- victions, impulses and aspirations intoa tangible, permanent shape.” It maae California a free State. It was advanced, liberal, and thoroughly demo- cratic; fonnded upon social and poiiti equality, it was enlightened in its pro- visions for education and catholicin its guaranty of religious freedom. All political power was declared to be inherent in the people, and all officers of the Gov- ernment were made electi Although the achievement of an assembly extremely Dheterogeneous and in the main unused to law-making, it embodied the principles of the best political and jurisprudential philosophers; anc, contrary to the ex- pectations of some of its framers, it en- dured for thirty years as the fundamental law of the empire State of the Pacific. EDITH; A STORY OF CHINATOWN. This is a little tale written with the avowed purpose of enabling San Francisco to ‘“see herself as others see her.”” The author, Harry M. Johnson, declares that “if the residents of the larger Pacilic Slope cities could be brought to realize the shocking condition of the moral atmos- ghere of their communities, they would not be slow in mending the existing state of affairs, which has been of such long standing that, through its very familiarity, it has lost its hideousness to native-born Californians and old residents.” The pecu- liar evils to which he alludes are certain conditions that in times Fnst have pre- vailed on the outskirts of Chinatown. Mr. Johnson’s effort for the purification of the Pacific Coast is well-meaning, but curiously unintelligent. His little book is written out of a fullness of ignorance of a to the evil that exists in our midst. [Bos- ton: The Arena Publishing Company. Price 75 cents.] A GALLOWAY EERD, Tn that set of young Scotch novelists which now forms so brilliant a galaxy in the literature of the day there is none wio rose more rapudly to fame or acauired more promptly a wide circle of readers than 8. R. Crockett, the author of “The Stickit Minister’’and “The Raiders.” The publication of his new novel, “A Galloway Herd,” will therefore be regarded as one of the literary events of the season. It is one of the longest stories he has yet written, and will take rank among his TOL- LOUTS nthor of Asthor of “Master and ~ “Footsteps of Fate,” Man,” ete. Majesty,” etc. more ambitious works. It will not, how- | ever, add much to his fame or give en- couragement to those who have looked to | see him erow into a really great novelist | and do for this generation what Dickens, Thackeray and George Iliot did for the one just passed. It would appear from this story that Crockett’s talent does not go much further than to enable him to depict the humorous side of Scotch character. This, ot course, is a talent not to be scorned. A new humorist whose genial eyes see the lov- able aspects of human nature, even in the roughest guise, and who teaches us to langh with sympathy and not with de- rision at mankind, will never be without honor in this melancholy world, where laughter is needed as a medicine, and where it is too often furnished by those who make it a mockery instead of genuine delight. In the characters of “A Galloway Herd” we bave the true humor that pleases and does not hurt. The Scotch farmers of Dumfries will not resent this picture of their homes, their deacons and their fam- ilies. Tt is the story of a quiet, well-ordered farm into whose household there has been introduced by theaccidentsof life a mother and a baby boy involved in_the meshes of a London tragedy. Around these two are centered the main incidents of the story, but they are by no means the most inter- esting. Infact the tragic element is the weak part of the book. The real charm lies in the stories of the ordinary farm life, the frolics of the boys and the courtship of TASMA, Authorof ““Not Counting the Cost,” etc. HERMANN _SUDER- MANN, “The Wish,” Author of etc. one of them. It is these sketches that carry the interest of the reader along until the plot of the tale is played out, the vil- lain killed and the heroine happily mar- ried. [““A Galloway Herd,” gy 8. R. Crocketf, 12 mo., 208 pages, cloth $1. R. Fenno & Co., 122 Fifth avenue, New York.] ZANGWILL'S LATEST THOUGHTS. 1. Zangwill is writing for the Chicago Chap Book his impressions of the English elections, but, of course, finds a chance for a great many other items that interest very great subject. There are thousands of residents of the Pacific Slope who could cap his story with others far more heart- rending, of far less fortunate sequence, and who could_assure him that the people of San Francisco are very much alive to the plague spot that exists in the City’s heart, undg would like nothing better than, un- hindered by Eastern legislation and senti- mentalism, to wipe it out of existence. ernor of California. He recognized the rave difficulty of undertaking to admin- ister the civil affairs in a province which was neither a State nor an organized Ter- ritory; he desired to keep the military au- thority, so intolerable to the people, as few find mental pabulum in the work of the independent pamphleteer, who is erfectly hid from view as possible. While the undisputed fact of his military But while Mr. Johnson talks about China- Americans more than British politics ever can.hope to do. Here are some selections from his latest utterances: A country has the politicians it deserves. I have heard the most ignorantgirls rage against Mr. Gladstone; damsels in their teens who knew nothing of 1ife or its problems, nor could have studie mf question for themselves; pretty girls withal, but who at the mention of the veteran statesman took on the avenging aspect of the Eumenides. t was a girl of quite another temper who re- town his story deals merely with a block | plied to me ‘When, talking over old times and or two of Dupont street. A young girl | old discussions, I said L leaves a happy home in company with a | socialis villain, and when he is wearied of her she drifts into Dupont street, where she is dis- covered and rescued. The story isin itself highly improbable; the conception of such | men were not necessarily “ ad not yet become a don’t think you ever knew what you were.” I winced as at a just reproach, yet when I had left her the retort occurred to me (as retorts will, when too late) that there was no particular merit in being a “what ists" or “’ites;” that thoughts did not fit into pigeonnotes, and that if there was any merit in the matter it con- sisted rather in preserving free play and elas- ticity of mind. “Because certain men had put certain ideas into the world it did not follow that every other man had definitely to accept or reject each and all of them, and to become an ‘’ite” or an “‘anti-'ite” in so doing. Plague take great men! Whatright had they to force one into the jury-box? Still less was it com- pulsory to return a'verdict if, as the vulgar were apt to think, the acceptance of any one ““ism’ precluded the acceptance of another, so that to be an Ibsenite was synonymous with detesting the dramas of Sardou,and to bea Wignerite involved a horror of Mendelssohn. It was only the uncultured who held their artis- tic and political creeds with the narrowness of Little Bethel, importinfi into thought and esthetics the zealotry they had lost in religion. The book of experience, thoughtI, isnot an encyclopedia, Wwith every possible topic neatly ranged in alphabetical order; it is no A B C time-table, with the trains dock- eted for the enlightenment of the simple; ’tis rather an encyclopedia torn into a million million fragmenis by kittens and pasted to- gether again by infants, so that all possible things are inextricgbly interfused, every one with every other; 'tis a Bradshaw edited by & maniac, where the trains that start butdon’t arrive are not even distinguished from the trains that arrive but don't start. Wherever persons are conscious of the infinite complexi- tiesof things (he%( will be found cautious of creed and timid of assertion. You have prob- ably noted that at Waterloo station, in London, no porter will ever bind himself to a definite stalement concerning any train. Itisonly the artistic who hold that black is black and white is white, unconditionally, irretrievably. . 100 FOR A NAME. The Authors’ Publishing Company, 1293 Broadway, New York, will give $100 cash to the person who shallsend the most appropriate title for the following National poem, which is to constitute the opening page of the forth- coming 2d American edition of Foster’s poems, a130-page volume, to be published the first week in Decem ber. The title will be passed upon by three compe- tent, disinterested judges, and the name of the successful competitor and the title chosen by the judges as being the most appropriate for the poem, will be announced in the New York newspapers on Sunday, December 1, 1895, un- der the head of New Publications: BY ARDENNES FOSTER. ‘White child of Briton’s womb, Columbia! ¥amed New World sovereign, and the world thy guest, Nor walls but walls of Peace to sentry thee. Nor jeweled crown more mighty than thy crest. Nerved, steel-winged eagle, and invincible, To emblem thee at thy majestic shrine Ot Science, sweeping ken, enlightenment, Where Liberty and Progress intertwine. Columbla! recurrent pregnant maid, v And bosom throbbing with ripe harvest-heat, Till multitudes from thy flush garners feed, And on thy shores Creation’s races meet. Grand nations pay thee homage: ’tis their will, Whose peoples knock at thy broad harbor-gates, As ships of might come in, saluting thee; ‘And writ in water are the racial hates. Puissant kings disarm before thy doors, Nor war-dipped javelins touch thy Pilgrim-womb: Whence came the sonsof Human-Brotherhood, And laid the vanquished war-god in his tomb. Once-blood-wet-battle-fields take seed, conceive, And burst with rank on rank of festal-grain, Inwoven till thy brow is garlanded - May poets share the laurel in thy reign? Queen, chaplet-crowned, bright gem of hemls- pheres, Proud victor in the world’s momentous wars, That tribes of God might rally with tiy sons, And know tne franchise of thy stripes and stars. SEADRIFT. A dainty little booklet of verse by Her- bert Bashford, bearing the name of Sea- drift, comes to us from the press of the Commercial Printing Company of Tacoma, and the contents show, within a limited range, a true poetic sentiment and noin- considerable skill in the accomplishment of verse. None of the poems are long, several are only quatrains, and they deal mainly with minor emotions or descrip- tions of certain poetic aspects of sky and sea around Puget Sound. A good example of the more serious meods of the author, as well as an illustration of his ability to handle the sonnet form of verse, is found in this: IF SHE SHOULD DIE. 1t she shonld die—the thought of utter gloom And untold grief throngh all my yvears is this. 1 shindder, G Whet loneliness 10 miss Ifer loving presence from our cozy room. And know within a damp and darkened tomb ‘There lies the heart I draw in rapturous bliss Galnst my own. the tender cheek I kiss, Whereon a crimson flower is now in bloor. Each bird would follow in her spirit's flight, At break of dawn the rose shed tears of woe, its trembling lips held upward to the sky: A star in heaven shiue with such a light, *Twould be &-marvei to the world below 1t she should die—if my loved one should die, THE JONESES AND THE ASTERICKS. Of the writing of satires on society there will never be an end. In that brilliant world where the passions, hopes and fears of human hearts are confined within the limits of conventional respectability and where even the truest have to be more or less bypocritical, there are ever arising oc- casions to exercise the skill of those who delight in shooting folly as it flies. One of the lighter forms of this satire is found in the ““Joneses and the Astericks” by Gerald Campbell, which has evidently been pub- lished for society people themselves, as it appears in all the luxury of heavy paper, broad margins, attractive illustrations and handsome binding. It contains the love story of the daughter of an ambitious mother and is told in a series of mono- logues, each chapter being made up of the talk of some one of the principal charac- ters. It aims to be no more than light reading for leisure moments and will serve well for that purpose, inasmuch as thereis nothing in it that can be called heavy or even serious. While not witty it is not dull. The characters though commonplace enough in London society are not prosy and the story ends happily for everybody concerned. [The *‘Joneses and the Aster- icks,” by Gerald Campbell. London, John Lane; New York, the Merriam Company; 201 pages, 12 mo., price §1 25.] PAMPHLETS CONCERNING ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. Senor Juan A. Alsina, General Commis- sioner of the Department of Immigration of Argentine Republic; is doing good work for his country in sending out broadcast pamphlets relating to the resources of the various provinces. They are published for free distribution and are J)rinted in Eng- lish, Spanish, German and Italian. They contain just the information desired by pros’yective immigrants or capitalists seek- ing for favorable investments. From two publications at hand it is learned that the provinces of Salta and La Rioja are among the richest in minerals, of most fertile soil and containing forests of valuable timber. The climate is described as extremely mild, with rare frosts. Oranges, olives, figs, grapes and many fruits familiar to Californians are here produced. Wine- making is extensively carried on, but the methods are exceedingly primitive, the old system of treading the grapes being followed. Women do this work and get 60 cents a day. B The naturalization laws of Argentine are interesting. Besides the usual method of securing citizenship by two years’ resi- dence foreigners who have rendered service as follows may become naturalized : Having served in the army or navy, or as- sisted in a military engagement in defense of the nation. Having established a new industry in the country or introduced a new invention. Being contractor for or constructor of rail- ways in any of the provinces. ‘orming part of the colonies now established, or which may be established in future, be they in the national or provincial territories, pro- ;'idtehdlhn such person possess real property in them. Inhabiting or pooulating national territory on the frontier lines or outside of these. Having married an Argentine woman in any of the provinces. Exercising the calling of professor or teacher in any branch of education or industry. These books may be obtained by ad- dressing the Commissioner of Immigration at Buenos Ayres. AMERICAN STUDENTS HONORED. As is its annual custom, the “Annals of the American Academy” contains a list of the students in American colleges who have obtained during the past year the degree of Ph.D. for work in political and social science, economics or history, to- gether with a list of the appointments for the coming year to fellowships and post- graduate scholarships in the above sub- Jjects. From these lists we see that forty- one students received the degree of Ph.D. from fourteen universities. Johns Hop- kins conferred this degree on twelve stu- dents; Columbia, Cornell and Yale each on four students; universities of Chicago, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin_each on three students; University of Worcester on two students, and the universities of Brown, Harvard, Lombard, Michigan, Washington and Lee and Western Re- serve on one student each. At nine uni- versities fifty-nine students have been ap- pointed to fellowships and post-graduate scholarships for the coming year in politi- cal and social science, economics or history. Tne University of Chicago has appointed twenty-two students; Columbia, Harvard, Johns Hopkins and University of Wiscon- sin, each seven; Cornell, five; University of Indiana, two; and Bryn Mawr and Uni- versity of Mississippi, each one student. CAPTAIN MANDEVILLE. Those who like their sensational litera- ture after the recipe for ladies’ toddy, “hot, strong and plenty of it,” will fina their taste exactly suited in this story by John R. McMahon. Mutiny on the high seas, robbery, the marooning of a sea cap- tainon a coral reef in midocean, eleven murders and a perfect charnel-house of correlated horrors are a few of the minor incidents that make up the narrative. The story is interesting as evidencing the au- thor’s curious familiarity with a wide range of rather extraordinary subjects. One is continually moved to wonder, read- ing his book, how Mr. McMahon could know so' much and make such unrrom- able use of his knowledge. - The ability to construct so good a_story, in certain re- spects, as ‘“‘Captain. Mandeville,” should produce something much superior to the sort of thing thisis. [New York: G. W. Dillingham. Price 50 cents.] THE TEMPLE - SHAKESPEARE — " KING RICHARD III” AND “KING HENRY V.” Here are two more volumes of the con- venient edition of the great author now being issued by the Aldine house, Lon- | don. The edition is extremely artistic, each volume containing one fine etching, and the typography is superb. There are abundant notes, perhaps not so numerous as in Rolfe, but suflicient for all purposes, and there is a summarized bibliography ‘of history and criticism bearing on each play. Macmillan & Co., London and New York. ‘or sale by William Doxey.] INEZ—A TALE OF THE ALAMO. This is a reprint in popular paper-covered form of one of Augusta J. Lvans’ novels. The tale possesses the usual attributes of that author’s fiction, but has never ac- quired the popularity of “St. Elmo” and “Beulah” and some of her other books: Because it is a tale of the Alamo, of senti- ment groping about the scene of that hor- rid butchery, it will always be read wherever burn the fires of American pa- triotism. [Published by G. W. Dilling. bham, New York: For sale by the San Francisco News Company.] A START IN LIFE. “A Start in Life,” b): Hcnore de Balzac, is the beginning of a series of republica- | tions by Roberts Brothers of Boston. The present edition is in library binding, with 1ed top. The familiar dedication appears. TO LAURE. Let the brilliant and modest mind that gave me the subject of this scene have the Lonor of it. Her brother, DE BaLzZAc. The entire catalogue of Balzac’s novels will be reproduced in_this manner. The present_volume contains 421 pages. [For sale by Roberts Brothers, Boston, and by all booksellers; $150.] THE BIBELOT. The September number of this attractive booklet contains ‘that charming story of the poet Dante Rossetti, ““Hand and Soul,” a reprint that all admirers of the best in literature will appreciate. It is the only tale that this much-admired poet ever wrote, or at least the only one which it is known that he ever completed. Its deli- cate imagery, its masterful language, all give the suggestion that the mind now for- ever silent might have accomplished much for our prose literature had it been so di- rected. [Published by Thomas B. Mosher, Portland, Me.] HISTORY OF PRINTING. Pietro Rossi appears to have been one of the fortunates who made money at the late Midwinter Exposition, for he has re- turned to this City for the purpose of establishing a depot for the sale of artistic Italian, Venetian, French and English rare publications, originals and reproduc- tions. One of the publications just issued bg' Signor Rossi is a *‘History of the Art | of Printing During the Renaissance in Italy,” bearing evidence of the eifect of the artistic hand of # ldus Manutius in the development of the Art Preservative. For sale by Pietro Rossi, 120 Sutter street, San | Francisco. | READINGS AND RECITATIONS FOR JEW- | ISH HOMES AND SCHOOLS. This is a volume of selections compiled by Isabel E. Cohen, designed for the pur- se stated in the title. - The object-is for th entertainment and instruction, and it would appear that the compiler has well fulfilled her purpose. There are selections from Scott, Longfellow, Bryant, Moore, Addison, Whittier and others, as well as from the works of leading Jewish writers, including Disraeli and Emma Lazarus. [The Jewish Publication Society of Amer- ica, Philadelphia.] SUICIDE OR ACCIDENT. The Remzins of F. J. Grifiths,.a Young Civil Engineer, Found jn_ the Bay. The remains of F. J.Griffiths, & ecivil engineer aged..19 years, ‘were recovered | from the bay yesterday morning. ‘William Conlon, who fives-at the corner of Trenty- | third and Point Lobos avenues, was walk- ing along the beach near Fort Point, when he saw the remains and notified the police. | The body was removed to the Morgue. Young Griffiths lived with his parents at 2507 Larkin street.. His father; Anthony J. Griffiths, is a claim-adjuster for the | Market-street Railroad - Company. Ac- cording to him the young man . was meas- uring some filling-in work that. had been completed near Meiggs wharf, and acci- dentally fell in and was drowned. Xealso insists that the son had a‘happy home, and that there could consequently be no occasion for suicide. The boatmen and ofhers who frequent Section B.of ‘the seawall say that,young Griffiths deliberately jumped 1nto the bay. A fisherman who was sailing past in his smack attempted to save him by throwing arope. The young man refused to take the rope, and waved the boat away. A boat was put out from the Merchants’ Exchange landing, but when it ‘got within two feet of Grifliths he sank and did not come up again. It is said that there was a love affair in the case. The voung man’s passion was not reciprocated, and he grew despondent, Hi3 family and relatives deny the story, and say there is absolutely no foundation | for it. ~ An inquest will be held by Coroner Hawkins, when all the facts in the case | will be brought out. e e w Corporations. The Pacific Coast Bicyele Company was ine corporated yesterday. On a $100,000 capital | stock, $60,000 has been subscribec as follows: | J. R. 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