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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1895. 17 grower, or the Hebrew banker—all of whom were offered to him. The American Princess cannot expect people who have had title and ancestors so long as to have forgotten them to look upon Sallie Sprigs of California as anything better than an Indian squaw, and the result is that all which the American woman makes by her marriage is the privilege of putting her coronet on her handkerchief and the hum- ble deference of the women at Paquin’s or Virot’s, who say, ‘Madame the Baroness,’ and ‘Madame ‘the Princess,’ at every second word. It really seems a very heavy price to pay for so little.”” [Harper & Bros., Rew York] Sl MISS DEVEREUX OF THE MARIQUITA' This is a story of Nevada bonanza days by Richard Henry Savage. The State of Nevada enjoys the boast, in its recent history, of having unbosomed to the greedy hand of man the most compact mass of treasure ever discovered. Its gray mountain buttresses hide to-day un- counted millions. Its sagebrush plains, its stony wastes, its alkaline lakes, its wind-sweot gorges, never invited the torifty Mormons, who fifty years ago were impelled by that uncrowned monarch, Brigham Young, to deftly seize Californin. The tritling evidences of gold found in the Carson _and the Humboldt were ignored by the Mormons, who seized a few fertile oases in this gloomy land of the Piutes. 1t was a land without a history. until the secret of the mountain gnomes was stolen by Comstock on the flinty breast of Mount Davidson. In 1845 the splendid mind of Brigham Young was turned to Mexico, to Arizona, to California, to even the smiling Sandwish TIslands, those gems of the blue Pacific. To the dreary waste of Washoe came Comstock, prospecting for POLONIUS IN BLOOMERS, Ever since Shakespeare caused old Polonius to utter those “words of wisdom to his son Laertes the world has been waiting for something of a similar charac- ter to be written touching the proper con- duct of the young woman of the century. Richard Hovey has attempted to supp! t hiatus in his book called * Marriage of Guenevere,” where Camul- na, the mother of ~Guenevere, thus dresses her daughter: CanMAL danghter, you have ke a wanton child ents hold her hand ave her if sh . and you maj ght upon our souls ten we would like to shift to others. ed out on yet hear fidenc imes over, fay aggravate 10 ac Speak freely, but sa; T00 far to out: ve enmity. tle. Do not strive ine the Jadies of art i fondness. 110 your life ack and woo you ofer. mon to him. Hoid oft . For in him s are not your interests. heart as well as deed; ht a fire to burn ess 1 an ash. with the innocent fact. eming lock the lips of slander. have lovers if you will; er, <0 you 10v6 Not the! are our lovers’ tyran! siaves. Rememiber t . alittle space alone, good . (Camaldu: After her mother’s departure Guenevere indulged in a soliloquy, in which she ex- pressed sentiments not unknown to the advanced young women of the present day. Why, what a thing is woman! She fs brought Into the world unwelcome. The mother weeps That she bas born s daughter to endure A woman's fa ather knits his brows v sbutagirl!” A boy ved for with delight. tyranny. e must not resist; the little mien Evemthe mother with pride, and bid: Youare but agi She must be qui dom with the bo And fled fro And I have passed W u afternoons upon the hard ious rock in that sweet weariness t follows effort, with a rever called KDew no sex e girl, those mighty peaks! they to0k me to their hearts Oh, the wild thrill veins, when the strong winds k of hungry wolves forests terrible “Shriek on,” I That tingled in t Came howling like a pa hat make the wintr. Beneath the Norland moon! cried, “Rave, bowl, roar, bellow till you spiit your throats’ You cannot mar the pinnacled repose Of these huge mountain tops. They are not n dle rage IS this! Am I vere those still, grand mountains tthat I wear; 1 have ordered » ne Arthur ? 1 care not. The old life is nc —*The Marriage of G pair of manacies. 1l Arthur as another— 8t I must. To live T tolerable. nevere,” by Richard Hovey. Richard Harding Davis, stepping up to the register of the Byrn Mawr Hotel re- cently, reported his arrival in this form: “Richard Harding Davis and valet.” Bar- clay H. Warburton, driving up shortly afterward on his tally-ho and inspecting the latest inscription in the book, wrote beneath it: “Barclay Harris Warburton and valise.” The Appletons announce a new juvenile story from Hezekiah Butterworth, entitled “The Knight of Liberty,” a tale of the for- tunes of Lafayette, which has been illus- trated by H. Winthrop Peirce. The Critic for October 12 is a bicycle number, containing the poems to which the editors have awarded the first and sec- ond prizes offered in August last for the best two poemson bicycling or the bicycle: a bibliograpby of bicycling, etc., and an account of the attitude of American au- thors toward the wheel, besides other mat- ter of interest in this connection. When the “Library of Religious Poetry” was first published, Oliver Wendell Holmes pronounced the plan of the work a most happy one, and John G. Whittier declared that 1t supplied a want that had been long felt. Both opinions were verified by the many editions through which the book has passed. The Funk & Wagnalls Com- pany will soon issue a new edition. The book conteins a collection of the best poems of all ages and tongues, with bio- gravhical notes, index of autnors, subjects and first lines. There are also fifteen full- page steel engravings. The editors are Philip Schaff, D.D., LL.D., and Arthur Gilman, M.A. Miss Bertha Monroe Rickoff’s classesin current criticism will begin Thursday afternoon, October 17, at 2 o’clock, at the home of Miss Rickoff, 2429 Bancroft way, Berkeley. Classes are to organized in San ss through plque | n | 1l to your husband, Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley. The | number of members will be limited and | the names of applicants will be submitted | to a committee apointed from the club. | Miss Rickoff says: “The classes to be slished are similar to those conducted by Mr. Lincoln in New York and Phila- delpt Their object is the study and discussion of the modern novel, combined with training in spontaneous expression and the art of conversation. Such discus- gold; Gould, Curry and other humble men | were near at hand when the shout went up | which called tne whole world to “Silver- ado.” No land in the world ever made | history as rapidly as Washoe, and Nevada, | from 1858 down to those royal bonanza | days, when the Nevada silver barons | stormed San Francisco, and building their | Pine-street fortress, made themselves bo- nanza kings of the world. In the wild rush of Washoe the infant | Territory was filled with a mass of hetero- geneous humanity and “womanity’” who wait, in the fading visions of the growing gray gloom of “recent history,” for their Bret Harte. I California boasts the magician of the sions will embody the underlying truths of ‘Internal History,’ for the novel of to-day is recognized as an illuminated philosophy of actual life.” The Bachelor of Arts is nothing if not strictly classical. The leading article in the October number begins with the state- | ment that “John Bull hasa stolid mind glooming behind an exceedingly rubicon visage.”’ The advance sheets of Gelett Burgess’ book, **The Purple Cow,” will soon be out. It will be quaintly fantastic and snggestive of a disordered imagination. William Doxey has in press a book of poems by Flora McDonald Shearer, whose gems of verse have already commanded more than local attention. Burgess will do the illustrating and is now engaged in preparing a design for the cover of ornate originality. As a tribute, with a money-making end, the New York Critic has issued a pam- phlet volume of ““Trilbyana,” containing a sketch of Du Maurier, of his controversy with Whistler and of the various enter- tainments inspired by the Trilby move- ment. ABOUT PARIS. So eminent a literary critic as Richard Henry Stoddard designates this volume of Parisian sketches as the best work yet done by that versatile young author, Rich- ard Harding Davis. Here are four tales, somewhat self-assuring style, but showing, if anything, much more painstaking in his style of composition than many of his all in Mr. Davis’ breezy, tersely put and | ) Sierras, and Joaquin Miller still wears his crown of the drifted Western pine, but Ne- vada is almost an unwritten, a songless land. Mark Twain, Dan de Quille, Rollin | M. Daggett, Sam Davis, Arthur McEwen | and a few of their companions have merely | touched the outcroppings of the great lode | of romance that lies ready to the hand of | the novelist. Over the old emigrant road, down the Geiger grade, came the Washoe rush of the | late fifties; the early sixties saw the wan- | derers from the Easttoiling over the plains |of the Sioux and Cheyenne, and then creeping timidly under Brigham’s rocky battlements at Echo Canyon. Life painted itself Juridly in those ““flush days” of Vir- ginia City. Adventurer and bravo and toiling miner, desperado and keen opera- tor fought, delved, drank, gambled, schemed and struggled for the shining gold and silver. Fresh hearts railed, weary hands dropped nerveless by the wayside, plot and intrigune wove their dark web JOHN JACOB ASTOR, GILBERT PARKER, Author of “A Journey in Author of “The Tres- Other Worlds.” passer,” “The Transla- tion of a age,” uPlerre and Peo- e ple,” “The Trail of the Bword,” etc. 2 KATE SANBORN, MARY CHOLMON- DELEY, Author of “Abandoning Author of “Diana Tem- an Adopted Farm,” “Adopting an Aban- doned Farm.,” “A Truthfol Woman in Southern California,” etc. est,” “The Danvers ewels,” etc. previous efforts. His charm rests in see- ing just what any wide-awake young Amer- ican would see in the great French capital and in telling it so that the reader feels that he has seen more than if he bad been to Paris himself. The volume is charmingly illustrated by Mr. Gibson. The author’s conclusions as to the figure the rich American girl who marries a foreign title makes amid Parisian sur- roundings are readable, though harsh. “Her husband’s relatives in France are more disappointing,” says he. ‘‘They cer- tainly cannot be expected to see her in any different light from that of an outsider and a nobody. They will not even admit that she is pretty, and they say among themselves that so long as Cousin Charles had to marry a great fortune it is a pity he did not marry a French woman, and that they had always preferred the daughter of the chocolate-maker, or the champagnes around the entombed treasures, and the Dance of Death was mingled with the fierce, panting life above and below ground. When Mount Davidson’s mil- lions overwhelmed San Francisco iu a golden tide, the pulse that beat in the mountain city throbbed by telegraph down at “The Bay.” Mad, wild, bonanza days! Speculation brought with it strange scenes of dramatic life in the two States. In the early seventies the golden and sil- ver tide had reached its highest point, and around the bonanza kings were gathered all the princes and princesses of the House of Belshazzar. Here, in these pages of Miss Devereux of the Mariquita, one who lived and moved among those scenes as boy and man has written the story of a mine. The strange history of the inherit- ance of a friendless girl. The story of an unpunished crime. Schemes ~ which reached out_from San Francisco to Vir- ginia City, New York, London and Paris are herein drawn from life, with phases of a wild, Walpurgis night social revel which has now happily passed away forever, The remarkable Southern adventurer who sought to be “one of nature’s noblemen,’” the Queen of the Night, the great King of Forgers and the social and mining ad- venturers of that ‘“time of storm and stress,” are real human units who have ‘“‘strutted their brief hour” upon the scenes of bonanzadom. The matchless miners of Nevada, ' brave, bold and resolute, are herein called back from the misty past, and, while toAdnly, the streets of Virginia City are not brilliant with life and excite- ment, and the glory of the past has died, the romance of the old still lingers! The story of Miss Devereux of the Mariquita tells of a modern Una, who walked un- harmed among the lions. 1t is the history of a princess *‘who came to her own again” after many days. In vain to search in the world’s financial history for a parallel to the ?Jnheavnl brought about by the delvers in Mount Dayidson’s flinty vosom. No such men and women now exist, for the fierce light which played upon the Silver Throne has faded forever, and this story lifts for a few tableaux the curtain which has fallen for a time, for the play is played out and the actors-are deu(;)o.r hidden in the gloom eof obscurity. F. Tennyson Neely, publisher, 254 Frank- in street, Chicago.] LAVENDER LEAVES, The waving corn was green and gold, The damask roses blown, The bees and busy spinning wheel Kept up & drowsy drone, When Mistress Standisb, folding down Her linen, white &s suow, Between it laid the lavender, One summer 10ng ago. The slender spikes of grayish green, Still moist with morning dew, Recalled o garden sweet with box Beyond the ocean’s blue, An English garden, quaint and old, She nevermore might know: And so she dropped a homesick tear That summer long ago. The yellow sheets grew worn and thin, ‘And fell In many a shred; Some went to bind a soldier’s wounds, And some to shroud the dead. And Mistress Standish rests her soul Wi graves their shadows throw And violets blossom, planted there In summers long &go. But still between the royal rose And lady lily tall Springs up the modest lavender Beside the cottage wall, The spider spreads her gossamer Across it to and fro— The ghost of linen laid to bleach One summer long agi —From the New ngland Magazine, CHRISTIAN CONSCIOUSNESS. A work which presents many religions problems under a new aspect, and is likely to give rise to considerable discnssion in theological circles, is “The Christian Con- sciousness,” by Joseph Black. The anthor s what he calls Christian conscious- long with the Bible, the church and reason as a source of authority for arriving at religious truth and right conceptions of moral conduct. Itis, moreover, according to the aunthor, the only source from which there can come an eyolution of morals and a continual advance toward perfection in our ideas of our duties to God and man. Mr. Black says it seems strange, at this end of the niffeteenth century of the Christian era, that there shoula be an un- developed and partly unused function of Christian life; afunction which not only accounts for moral and dogmatic phe- nomena, but also makes God more real to men. Itcomes in a time of need. The glory of the Reformation was the exalta- tion of faith and the substituting of the infaliible Bible for the in- fallible church. The immediate result of the reformation was the formu- lation of several creeds and orders of church government, each of which made a practical claim of infahbility for its own faith and discipline. The Christian con- sciousness had to hid its diminished head and even doubt and condemn itself. Times have changed, the Christion con- sciousness has its part to play in the mo- mentous era of change and development on whigh the world seems to be entering. To Christian consciousness we must look not only as a source of authority in one of itself, but a touchstone for trying the Bible, the church and reason. The style of the work is strong, scholarly and suggestive. It throws a clear light on the evolution of morals and *assists in ex- plaining how it is that evils, such as slavery, which are approved in one gener- ation, become universally condemned in another. The Bible and the church re- main unchanged, but unconsciousness grows and men may acquire truer ideas as the race progresses. The argument de- serves the atiention of all intelli- gent Christians who have accepted new conceptions of morality, new ideas of God's dealing with men, and who are seeking to reconcile these new phases of religion with the old faith held Y)}' their fathers. As the author says in concluding his book: ‘The doc- trine of Christian consciousness solves past difficulties and promises a future of gracious possibilities. It is alwmf‘]s reverent. It believes in the indwel ing Christ. The dispensation of the Spirit can never thrill the world with holy purpose until the Christian con- sciousness is heartily recognized and ac- cepted. The Christ in us struggles in vain for fullest expression, until we hail the Christian consciousness. The Christian cousciousness has ultra-biblical sanctions, but it has no ultra-Christian sanctions in morals and in dogma, ‘For other founda- tion can no man lay than is laid, which is Jesus Christ.’”” [**The Christian Consciousness, Its Rela- BEATRICE WHITBY MRS, MANNINGTON, Author of “Mary Fen- CAFFYN, wick's Daughter,” “In Author of “A 'Yellow the Suntime of Her = Aster” and “Children Youth,” “One Reason of Circumstance.” Why," ete. tions to Evolution in Morals and in Doc- trines,”” by J. S. Black. Boston: Lee & Shepard, $1 25.] HER LITERARY STREAK, A sort of literary streak Had struck my daughter May, She dug at readin’ all the night An’ writin’ all the day. She read and writ Napoleon An’ talked about the same, Till I was so dead tired of him 1 couldn’t bear his name. 1 told her once at supper-time ‘Twould spile my appetite 11 she should ever drop a hint Of Napoleon that night. But when I come ter serve the meat, She spoke right up so smart, “Ob, give me anything, papa, Except the Bonypart.” Neg York World. WAYNE AND HIS FRIENDS, This is the season of the year when the book for boys appears on the literary hori- zon. The philosophy of this fact is va- riously explained. It1s possible that the summer vacation among boys at the springs or the seaside may suggest a juve- nile theme to the weary author. It is pos- sible, too, that he has an eye to the main chance in getting out a book suitable for a holiday gift. The present volume is well fitted for that purpose. It was written by Mr. Selwin Tait, and is published by his own firm. The stories were written for the amusement of Mr. Tait’s little friend, Wayne Connor, and the chances are that all young readers will enjoy the tales as much as he. There are nine short tales of boyish adventure, and all good reading for §oung}s\‘nru. [J. Selwin Tait & Sons, New ork. PASSING THROUGH THE ORDEAL, The experiences of a man who, after a wild and reckless youth. seeks by repent- ance and atonement to win his way back to honor among men, furnish the inci- dents out of which is woven the story of “Passing Through the Ordeal,” by Arthur Pratt. The adventures,of the hero are im- Pl’oblble, and he has morein the way of uck, good and bad, in a comparatively short time than ordinarily falls to the lot of & dozen men in_their whole lives. It is, moreover, a novel of the old style. The characters are the conventional hero, heroine, villain, and benevolent patron who, at the close of the tale when the vil- lain has been unmasked, bestows his daughter on the hero and gives him wealth hesides. The style does not display the practiced writer, and if it be the first book of the author it may be regarded as giving promise of better romances to come. [**Passing ‘Chrough the Ordeal,” by Ar- thur Pratt. New York: J. 8. Ogilvie Publishing Company. Price, paper cover, 25 cents]. HILL'S PRINCIPLES OF RHETORIO, This is 2 new edition of .a textbook well knotn among educators. The author is Professor Adams Sherman Hill of Harvard University. The book was first issued in 1878. The present edition is a revision which includes many changes suggested by criticisms of earlier editions. The chap- ters, on description and narration—features of rhetoric, which rmodern teachers now recognize as of more importance than tech- nical rules—have been extended to cover much broader scope than formerly. Pro- fessor Hill considers the function of rhetoric to be, not to provide the student of composition with materials for thought, nor to lead him to cultivate style forstyle’s sake, but to stimulate and train his powers of expression—to enable him to say what he has to say in appropriate language. It is just such books as this that indicate the wonderful changes that recent years have brought in the standing given to Eng- lish studies in our secondary schools and colleges. TFormerly it was almost assumed that a student could acquire a sufficient knowledge of English language and litera- ture without any special %iscipliue. Now the subject stands at the head of the curri- culum, and many students would much Erefern sbruggle with an examination in reek or *‘trig’’ to the sort of test that the high_standard of teaching English de- mands. [Harper & Bros., New York.] THE BROWNIES THROUGH THE UNION. The pranks of the Brownies have long been familiar all through the Union. Boys and girls from Maine to Califorma have become intimately acquainted with each and every one of the merry little ras- cals. But now the Brownies themselves have gone about to hunt up their admirers, and 5 the children did not see them on their trip it must have been be- cause the little fellows travel only at night. Palmer Cox conducts the Brownie hosts through many of the States. They go down in the Pennsylvania coal mines, they.race on horseback in Ken- tucky, and they lasso wild cattle in Texas. They keep their eyes wide open and see many strange things that the children may know nothing ahout. It would not be surprising if the Brownies should teach a little lesson in geography in this book. But this will not give them dignity. They will cut their mad capers to the end of the chapter. [Published by the Century Com- pany. New Yor! 44 pages, §1 50. | GYPSY'S COUSBIN JOY. Ever since the days of the Trotty Book and the Gypsy books, Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has helped to amuse and to entertain children. Now comes a new edition of one of the Gypsy books, and if the stories are thirty years old it makes no difference, for even children’s literature should be like wine and gainwith age. Gypsy Breynton is a mischievous sprite, but her sinning, on the whole, is of the sort that always ends well. The present edition is admirably illus- trated by Mary Fairman Clark. [Dedd, Mead & Co., New York.] SARAH MARTHA IN PARIS, “Sarah Martha in Paris” is the title given to a sketch of the possible adven- tures of an American girl visiting the French capital for the purpose of studying music. The book was intended to be racy, but it does no more than limp around the old familiar course of midnight suppers, secret assignations, clandestine meetings and loves that live for a night. The story is nothing and is but poorly told. Large print and broad margins expand it to the E. F. BENSON, Author of \The Kubl Authorof kOur Manifold SARAH GRAND. con,” “Dodo,” etcy Nature,* - Tdeala,’ “Singularly Deluded.” “The Heavenly Twins,” etc. size of a dnodecimo of 229 pages, but there is really almost as little of it in quantity as in quality, and barring the suggestions of the shady side of Parisian life it isflat, stale and unprofitable. “‘Sarah Martha in Paris,”” by Saidee Bourgoin. [New York: The "Merriam Company. Price, paper covers, 50 cents.] THE SNOWBALL. Stanley J. Weyman, whose “Gentleman of France” and other historical tales have caught the public, is all the rage just now, and this publication in tasty form of one of his early short stories is welcomed. “The Snowball” is an ingenious tale woven about incidents that are assumed to have occurred at the French court in the early part of the seventeenth century. A snow- ball thrown through a carriage window at a courtier is found to contain a note of warning, which subsequently leads to the exposure of a plot against the King. Itis a well-told little story and prettily illus- trated. The volume s one in the Violet series published by the Merriam Company, New York. UNDER THE RED FLAG. Edward King has here written a book for boys, telling of the adventures of three American lads in Paris during the stormy days of the Commune of 1871. He had the ood or ill fortune, as one may judge, to e present during the stirring sgenes that hs describes, andg consequently he is able to throw a great deal of life.into the ad- venturous incidents. It is a historical story that will do all boys good to read. [Henry T. Coates & Co., Philadelphia.] A LITTLE BOOKWORM. Not a noise throughout our dwelling Of the urchin’s presence telling: Did he sleep? ‘Where had flown the dimpled laughter ‘Wont to ring from floor to rafter? What I saw, a moment after, Made flesh creep! He had rent my Lamb in pleces, ‘There was nothing but the fleeces, And Horne Tooke He had taken in a twinkle; Young looked old, with many & wrinkle; Other poets, quite & sprinkle, Strewed each nook. My new Gay was sad, Hood And my Bacon sliced and ttered | Hl)olltd my Locki Pollock’s Course of Time had run; Browning was indeed quite done; ‘Vandal fists had just begun Knox to knock. ‘The Decline and Fall of Gibbon Swiftly came: to many a ribbon ttered, t W 3 Steele was twisted; there was pillags ;!n Iy talx Deserted Vm‘:g.e i eaconstield was all t 4 ook wia bent. - ® ‘Would that I had caught the rover, Ere this cycione had blown over! 'ateful billow ! There he lies! could I be rude On such slumber to intrude? Zimmerman on Solitude; ‘That's his pillow ! lONROE H. ROSENFELD. ORIMES OF PREACHERS, A small volume of 139 pages bearing the title of “‘Crimes of Preachers in the United States and Canada” may be accounted among the oddest literary curiosities of the day. The work, which purports to contain a list of offenses committed by pastors of churches of all denominations, was first published in 1881, and the present volume is the fifth edition of the book and brings the list. of offenders down to the present year. The list is transcribed from newspapers, and certainly makes an im- osing array of crime committed by pro- lessed teachers of morality and religion. ‘‘Crimes of Preachers.” New York: Truth eeker Company; price 25 cents.] RHYMES OF OUR PLANET. ‘Will Carleton, poet and lecturer, will ever be best known from his * Over the Hills to the Poorhouse’ and “ Betsey and I Are Out,” in which homely poems he struck chords that must ever endear him to the popular heart. His latest compilation con- tains recent verses, many of which have appeared in various magazines and period- icals. ‘‘The Saint’s Love,” the longest of these, is an ambitious effort in pathetic composition and contains many strong passages. *‘ Fight It Out” hasa ring to it that means something. Does destruction seem to Inrk All about? Don't believe it! Go to work! Fight it out. Danger often turns and flles From a steady pair of eyes; Ruin always camps apart From an undefeated heart. Tut the spirit there is much— Do not doubt— That the world can never touch; Fight it out! Do the portals of your brain Freedom lick? Never let them thus remain: Push them back ! Do not give to efforts o 11 they number half a score; When a hundred of them' fafl, Then a thousand might prevail, Germs _beneath a clod must lie, Sre they sprout; lossom, by and by; ight 1t outy Have your foemen come to stay? Never flinch ! Malke them win their little way, Inch by inch ! Scan them well and fight them fatr, Give them honest blows to spare; There are meaner things possessed Than a first-class second best. ‘Time may come when you have turned To & rout Every trinmph they have earned: Fight it out! All the lessons of the time ‘Teach us fair. 'Tis a blunder and a crime To despair! When we suifer, ’tis to bless Other nioments with success; Fromonr losses, we may trace Something better in their plaace, Everything on earth and sky Seems to shout, “ Don’t give up until you die; Fight it outt” [Harper & Bros. New York.] THE FRONT YARD AND OTHER STORIES. All admirers of the late Constance Feni- more Woolson will welcome this com- pilation of six of her last stories. They tell of Italy, the land where her last days were assed. They are reprinted from the At- antic, the Century and Harper's maga- zines, and are prettily illustrated by Rein hart and other artists. The stories a ““The Front Yard,” “Neptune’s Shore,” Pink Villa,” “The Street of the Hyacinth,” **A Christmas Party’’ and ‘‘In’ Venice.” [Harper & Bros., New York.] JACK MIDWOOD. Here is another of the holiday books for boys. Of course it is a tale of adventure in the West, with bears and cowboys and all the assortment of detail dear to every boy- ish mind. It is well told and healthful in tone, as are all of the books of this author, Edward S. Eliis. [The Merriam Company, New York.] S Tt THE MAGAZINES. HisTORICAL REGISTER FOR OCTOBER. The American Historical Register (Phila- delphia) for October hasan attractive table of contents. The historic tour of Lafayette through the United States in 1824is con- tinued. This number tells, with scores of appropriate illustrations, of his trip up the Hudson, and visits to West Point, New- burg, Albany, Troy, etc. Major J. G. Rosengarten gives much that is new about General Comte de Rochambeau, illustrat- ing his entertaining article with numerous portraits. THE WRITER FOR OCTOBER. In the Writer (Boston) for October the series of “‘Editorial Talks With Contribu- tors,” which was begun in the September number by the superintending editor of the Independent, is continued by Robert E. Bonner of the New York Ledger, who tells what the Ledger wants and does not want in the way of manuscripts. HALE & NORCROSS ORDERS Judge Hebbard Not Restrained From Proceeding With the Judgment. The Supreme Court Grants a Hear- ing In Relation to the Blll of Exceptlons. The Supreme Court yesterday denied the Alyinza Hayward petition for a writ of prohibition to restrain Judge Hebbard from proceeding with the entry of judg- ment in the Hale & Norcross case. No opinion was filed, but in denying the peti- tion Chief Justice Beatty stated that if Judge Hebbard should err in the matter the defendants would have adequate rem- edy on appeal, The court, however, did grant an alter- native writ of mandate, requiring Judge Hebbard to appear vefore the Supreme Court on November 4 to show cause why Le sbould not be compeiled to settle a bill of exceptions. Judge Hebbard hasrefused to hear the exceptions, and by this move the objections will be brought for hearing before the higher body. The attorneys in_the case say that now the whole matter is postponed until the November hearing on the bill of excep- ti%l}a‘!. ject of applying for the writ of prohibition in regard to the entry of judg- ment was to prevent the collection of the $210,000 judgment against Hayward and others, but the attorneys for the defendant declare that the proceedings are stopped by the order for a hearing in regard to the exceptions. GOETHE-SOHILLER FAIR. The Festival Promises to Be a Grand Event. At the last meeting of the central com- mittee of the Goethe-Schiller festival it was reported that the interest in the affair had grown beyond all expectations, It is believed that it will be the most suc- cessful event of its kind ever held 1n this city. ’lyhe committee on invitations submitted a list of guests to be invited, which com- vrised all the municipal, State and United States officers, all the regents and profes- sors of the different universities and col- leges, Mayors of the surrounding cities and many other people of note and those who have or will aid the festival in a sub- stantial manner. The music committee reported that at the matinee on Saturday, November 9, music will bediscoursed by a fult orchestra. Probably the most onfiinnl feature of the entire fair will be the Hungarian czarda, which will have all the different nationali- ties belonging to the Austrian empire, and will have the original gypsy music and genuine gysies in their costumes to assist in producing tableaux and scenes such as frequently take place in Hungary. e following additional contributions have been received: Cash received up to October 6, $1237 01; E. Kornel and commander of Company F, Angel Island, $9 90; J. E. Knoche, San Jose, $10; , $5; . Siebe, $25; . e, $25; total, $1336 81, ¥ 2 STOP AND CONSIDER Before Spending Your Hard-Earned Moy With Incompetent Medical Practitioners. Why Pay Exhorhitant Fees and Receive No Benefit When Dr. A. J. Shores, (ali- fornia’s Popular and Successful Special- ist, Will Treat You for $3 Per Month Until Cured, Medicines Furnished Freo ? CONSULTATION AND EXAM- INATION FREE. Very few persons, if any, have money to throw away, no matter how much of it they may possess. Many, however, in making an investment, do so without giving proper thought to the result. In seeking medical aid, which is always an important matter, the greatest care should be exercised in selecting the proper phy cian—one whose ability to treat your case successfully has been established beyond a doubt, and one whose integrity and hon- esty as a man is acknowledged by all; the matter is doubly important because a human life is involved. DR. A. J. SHORES, the most popular and successful specialist in the West, was the first in California to extend a helping hand to the sick in the way of a low fee; the first to enable all sufferers to regain perfect health without mortgaging their homes and their very souls in order to pay the exhorbitant charges of so-called doc- tors. The np?reciatinn by the public of DR. SHORES’ efforts to benefit his fellow man is shown daily by the crowds of gratetul ratiems which each day throng his par- ors, and on all sides are heard words of praise for Dr. Shores’ system of treate ment and his honesty with his patients. The extremely low rate of $3 per month until cured and all medicines furnished, for the treatment of Catarrh and chronic dis- eases, has proven a_God-send to hundreds of people, who by it have been enabled to avail themselves of the latest and most scientific expert specialty treatment. DR. SHORES publishes daily statements from people who live here among you, and whom you can call upon and learn from them personally of the benefits derived from DR. SHORES’ treatment. Read ‘carefullv the testimonial of Mr. Theo. Roe of 662 Valdez street, East Oak- land, whose portrait is presented here- with. Mr. Roe is a valued and trusted em- ploye of the California_ cotton-mills, and will cheerfully answer all questions as to benefits derived from = Dr. Shores’ treatment. “For some years,” said Mr. Roe, “I have suffered from kidney trouble and an’ affection of the heart. kidneys were very weak, and 1 suftered continually from a pain in my back; could scarcely sto0p OVer; was very nefyous at night and my heart beat 50 heavily I could not sleep well; had spells of dizziness; tired easily, and felt exhausted aiter an ordinary day's work; felt languid upon arising in the morn- ing.''I treated with many physicians befors coming to Dr. Shores, but obtained no relief. After treating with Dr. Shores three weeks my symptoms have all disappeared, and I feel like anew man. Icannot thank Dr. Shores enough for what he has dome for me, and willingly recommend his treatment to all sufferers.” Patlents Who for Years Have Suf- fered From Catarrh, Rheuma- tlsm, Asthma, Bronchitls, Dys- pepsia, Kidney, Liver and Blad- der Trouble, Skin Diseases and Various Other Obstinate and Complicated Troubles, Are Being Speedily Cured by Dr. A. J. Shores’ New Treatment. TO THOSE DISCOURAGED. Dr. A. J. Shores appreciates that many per- sons have become discouraged, many are skepe tical, and many others feel as though they can- not spare the money to be treated. Dr. Shores has overcome all these objections. By placing his terms at $3 a month he made it possible for all to be cured. Why pay more? Come to Dr. Shores’ parlors. He will give consultation, examination and advice free. By doing this you can be personally con- vinced of Dr. Shores’ honesty and ability to cure you. THREE DOLLARS A MONTH Is the only charge made by Dr. A. J. Shores for- al! diseases, medicines furnished free, A SPECIAL DEPARTMENT. From requests by many people in San Fran- cisco DR. A. J. SHORES has added to his offices & special department for the cure of private diseases of both sexes. In thisdepart- ment Dr. Shores has surrounded himself with the latest scientific instruments for the cure of these diseases. Further, to prove his honesty, sincerity and ability to cure these troubles DR. A. J. SHORES is WILLING TO WAIT FOR HIS FEE until A CURE is accomplished. What is more fair? DR. SHORES' terms are within the reach of all, 50 no one need suffer on account of high fees. Dr. A. J. Shores’ Treatment for Piles is New, Painless, Safe and Cer= tain. Cure Guaranteed. DR. A.J. SHORES (4. (INCORPORATED), EXPERT SPECIALISTS IN THE CURE OF Catarrh and All Forms of Chronic Diseases. A. J. SHORES, M.D., President and Medical Director. A. J. HOWE, M.D., R. B. NEW, M.D. Parlors—Second floor, Nucleus Building, cor nerThird ana Marketstreets,opposite Chronicle Building. Office hours—9 t012 A3, 2105 and 7to 8 P. M.; Sundays, 10 to 12 A, M. Take elevator. SPECIAL NOTICE—Patients living out of the city, and who are unable to cail atthe San Francisco office will be- given advice and all particulars of Dr. Shores’ treatment irce by mail by addressing Dr. A.' J. Shores Co., San Francisco. Write at once describing your case. CALIFORNIA OFFICES : San Francisco—Nucleus Building, corner of Third and Market streets. Los Angeles—Redlick Block, corner of First and Broadway. Sacramento—706}4 K street, oppasite Post- office. San Diego—Morse-Whaley-Dalton Block,