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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NUOVYEMBER 3, 189s5. POLITICAL REVOLUTION IN NEVADA, By Saum In order to fully understand the present | situation of politicsinNevada it is necessary | 1o go back to 1892, when both of the old par- ties were disintegrated in order to make way for a new party, destined later on to cut a very important figure in National | politics. The causes which led to the | death of the Republican and Democratic parties in Nevada arose from several condi- tio but the principal factor in the turn- ! ing down of Republicanism and Democ- | Tacy in the Sagebrush State was the fric- } tion which had been in evidence for many years between the press of the State and the central committees. During the palmy days of Nevada m bad always been very lavishiy spent in | ical campaigns. When the Comstock | 1 its prime a campaign was in reality a sort of grand carniv; lic, and large sums were handled by the Central Committee to melt | away in various directions—no one exactly | knew where. The papers generally sent | in their bills for advertising and job work | about thirty days after everybody else was | paid, and if they got 30 cents on the dollar, or enough to pay for the extra composition | aud other expenses incurred during a hot | campaign, the publishers considered them- selves as running in reasonably good luck. In some instances the publishers’ bills were repudiated entirely by the committee or laid over until the next campaign, at which time all old scores were wiped out, and that was the end of it. In order to receive better treatment from the bands of the politicians, a press asso- i formed, embracing all the papers of the State, and the publishers | ed the central committee of their re- e parties that all advertising in the e must be paid for in advance, as the hed to place itself in a position q as advantageous as that occupied by the spell-binders, brass bands and | saloon-keepers. This step on the part of the publishers caused a great deal of friction with the local committees, and at one of their meet- ings beld in Virginia City the Newspaper | Association was alluded to as a gang of ‘‘bloodsuckers,” and the statement was also made that a campaign could be very | much better conducted without the assist- | ance of the press. These remarks having reached the cen- tral committee of the Press Association a meeting was called, and the committee | decided that in the next campaign the | Republican party, which was then the | dominant party of the State, could run its politics without the assistance of the| oney | s before adoption. pers then began their cam- P cation in favor of starting a new party in Nevada, to represent the one ea of free coinage, not so much as a ques- 1 of local import but one which affected the shoemaker of Massachusetts and the cotton planter of Alabama as much as it did the silver miner of Nevada. The ques- tion has always been treated by the people of Nevada as a proposition not so much as affecting local silver minm% as it does the question of a greater circulating medium | throughout the United States based upon | the bimetallic union of gold and silver as money everywhere. For years the people of Nevada had kept the State in line as a part of the solid Re- publican phalanx, with protection and uigh tariff ss the text of the party creed, i ut a discussion of the subject soon made apparent to the average mind that Nevada, which manufactured nothing, could in no way be benefited by a tariff which made everything it consumed about d the price that such commodities d command if a high tariff did not vail for the benefit of the Eastern pro- ucer. One had only to consider the ques- on in that light to see what a one-sided, handled affair the whole thing was, | ything which Nevada consumed protected, and silver, about the only h she produced, was legislated nst at every opportunity. however, advocatin, ied he politica! The paper a new bosses and when g the primaries ap- he Central Committee | | gency, where he lost control of the situa- DAVIS, great East was due more to his activity and well-known ability as a politician than to any other cause, and the subsequent success of the party in two campaigns re- flects the greatest credit upon his ability as a political manipulator. In all his| career as a politician no one has ever charged him with betraying a friend or breaking a political pledgze; calm and clear-headed upon all occasions, he never found himself in a political emer- tion, or made a move of which his oppo- nents could gather any materia! advan- tage. He made many enemies in the State of Nevada, however, and like all success- ful politicians received many a hard roast from the opposition, and during the silver campaicn the fire of the other side was generally concentrated npon him. To those who knew Charles Wallace no fur- ther explanation of his part in the organi- zation of the silver party is necessary. Meanwhile, the Republican party recov- ering from the temporary set-back admin- istered by the new puliled itself to- gether and assembled in convention at | Reno in the courthouse. After the first temporary adjournment, it eradually dawned on the Republicans that the silver men hsad capturea the organization of the convention, and they further discovered later in the day that the silver advocates had a clear majority on rollcall of nearly forty votes. When this discovery was made the Re- publican minority, headed by the old party bosses, held a separate caucus and decided not to meet the silver majority in the convention unless they could be guar- anteed that a resolution to the effect that the Republican party should put no Presi- ntial Electors in the field would not be troduced by the silver men. A commit- t=e from each wing of the convention held a meeting, and a promise was finally made by the silver men. The minority wing, however, finally declined to return to the conve hall, fearing a trap. le of hours later the voters hired nic Hall and proceeded to hold a | »nvention, claiming to be ‘“the | This action nettled the silver men 1n the Republican Convention, and they adopted a resolution to the effect that the party should place no Presidential lec n the field, and nominated Francis 'wlands for Congress. The minority g, holding its n in Masonic 11, was manipulated mostly by Senator nes of Genoa, ex-Congressman Wood- Congressman Bartine and Phil le of the D. and T. Railway Com- | who acted as chairman. Thefriends | am Woodburn insisted on his be- nated for Congress, much against , as he had very little stomach for the campaign. It was finally decided that a dummy vote was to be taken ‘Woodburn, at which times his friends uld refrain from voting, and the chair was instructed to decide that, Mr. Wood- n not bhaving received a ma- jority of the votes of the con- vention, there was no nomination. This course was to bz taken in order to pave the way of the convention to indorse the nomination of Francis G. Newlands made by the Courthouse convention. The parties manipulating this scheme argued that if Newlands had no opposition he would not furnish the munitionsof war to make its fight. The scheme, however, was knocked in the head by a misunaer- standing on the part of the chair, who de- cided inadvertently that Mr. Woodburn, having received a majority of those voting, was the nominee of the convention, ‘Woodburn, who had expected a different result, was obliged to sccept the nomina- tion thus blunderingly thrust upon him, and thus there were two Concressional candidates in the field. Meanwhile a com- | mittee, who had not anticipated this re- | sult, had called upon Mr. Newlands and tendered him the indorsement of the Ma- Hall convention, but he promptly deciined it on the ground tbat he had | already accepted the nomination from the | Courthouse = convention, which represented his views upon the sii- ver uestion. As this convention resulted in cousiderable confusion it was determined to place matters in a still stronger shape before the people, and a convention of silver men was called at Winnemucca to ratify work in the cause of silver which had been done in the two Reno conventions. It was not until after the Winnemucca convention had adjourned, and placed its platform and Presidential Electors and Congressional nominees fairly before the E:ople, that the silver party could fairly considered a fixture in the sagebrush. The er Democrats met and indorsea | the ticket, and refused to put any Presi- dential Electors in the field. This conven- tion was manipulated by Robert Keating of Virginia City, Jewett Adams of White silver men under the guise of Populism in order to satisfy some old grudges. Realizing that the Populist fight would jeopardize the silver interests and do no good to the Populist cause they urged the Populist committee to withdraw its ticket. They were very nearly persuaded into doing so, but the proposition was lost through the stubbornness of cne or two of the members and the fight was carried on for Doughty as before. He was without any fands and earnest in his expectations of being elected to Congress, but as the campaign progressed the fact that he was being made a tool of by other people seemed to be apparent to everybody but bimself. Tt was just prior to this campaign that Senator John P. Jones, who had been eighteen yearsin the United States Senate, and who was regarded on all sides as a National party Jeader, announced in & long letter over his signature that he had sev- ered his connection forever with ihe Re- publican party upon the grounds that for vears it had been the creature of Wail street, inimical to the interests of the masses and in favor of the wealthy classes, as evinced by itsattitude upon money ques- tions. He set forth at great length and in the most logical manner his reasons for severing ties which had been hallowed by time and pleasant memories, and that he could no longer be true to himself or his constituents by remain- g with a party who, under a pretense of being in fayor of gold and silver as money, were actually in_favor of gold as against all other propositions. This declaration on the part of Jones created as great a sensa- tion in Nevada as it did throughout the United States, and the Republican Cen- tral Committee, through its chairman, Trenmore Coffin, a Carson attorney, sent a letter to Senator Jones, asking him to re- sign his position as United States Senator for Nevada. This letter was couched in the most impertinent language, and in every line reflectea the unparalleled cheek of and offensive disregard of the ordinary amenities of politics on the part of its writer. It excited nothing but contempt for the Central Committee all over the State. In reply Senator Jones said in his characteristic way that not having been elected to the Senate by the Central Committee he should not resign at its bidding, but whenever the people de- sired his resignation for the course he had taken he was ready to compl. When the convention met at Carson City to nomi- nate the State ticket a third letter was read from Senatar Jones, couched in such incisive and unequivocal language that his golitical position could not longer be oubted by anybody. The ticket placed in the field by the sil- ver men at this convention was composed of ex-Republicans and Democrats. The Democrats, who had always been in the minority in Nevada, had a majority of the offices at the disposal of the convention and the Legislature, but this disposition of the spoils of victory was made with the full consent of the ex-Republicans, who composed the majority of the silver party | and showed to the Democrats their faith in making the coalition. This second campaign was as hot as the previous one, and the Republicans made a very stubborn fight throughout the State. The result was another clean sweep for the silver men, although the majonties at some of the precincts were not as large as in the campaign of two years before. Preparations are already being made in Nevada for the campaign of next fall. A good United States Senator is to be elected, one | Congressman, a Board of Regents for the university and three Presidential Electors. Since the last campaign the American | Protective Association has been organized | in the State, and the members of the order claim to have such a large membership at the present time as to be able to hold the balance of power. Itishard to get any correct data of the strength of the organi- zation by parties outside of the order, but at the present time they claim a strong membership in Douglass, Storey, Lyon and Ormsby counties, with new lodges forming in_ the eastern art of the State. It is believed that the | order is at present controlled by the Republican party and is to be utilized as a factor in the fight of 1896. What grounds there are for this assertion it is rather hard to say, except that in the western part of the State most of the prominent members of the order are Republicans. It has been supposed for some time that both John P. Jones and Francis G. New- lands would be rival candidates for the senatorship, and that the Jones faction and the Sharon faction, old-time enemies in the political arena of Nevada, were being lined up for a money fight. It is claimed, however, by the party leaders that neither of these gentlemen | desires to enter into any contest which will { jeopardize the success of the silver party, and feeling that such a fight would disin- tegrate it either side would be willing to withdraw in favor of the other. ‘With this narmonious feeling existing between the leaders of heretofore rival factions it is understood that Mr. New- lands will favor Jones for the Senate and make his third fight for Congress. Since “What’s the name of that man to whom you just now spoke?”’ said one gentleman to another, as the two were passing along | Montgomery street. “Do you mean the compactly built man under medium height. with square shoul- | ders, who just now went into the broker’s office?’ ““Yes, the same. There he is coming out now.” “That’s Deniz Kearney, and he was orce Dictator of San Francisco and the leading agitator in the greatest political Denis Kearney. nia.” Kearney may be seen any day on the | streets of the City. He goes about his | business in a quiet, unobtrusive way, | speaking briefly to acqu seldom pausing to discuss ar | public conce | The question is often asked, ““What does | Kearney do for a living now?” | It is known that he writes occasional v topie of 'WHEN DENIS WAS DICTATOR. The Rise and Pall of a Sand-Lot Napoleon. revolution that ever took place in Califor- | with a vast sum of money, but he did not | fancy the idea of getting riches that way, | and consequently retired from the scene of | | public activity as poor in purse as when he | entered it. He had ambition to lead and direct public affairs, and so reluctant was he to part with the power which the masses of workingmen once conferred upon him that he lingered on the sandlot long after his influence had gone. After many fail- ures in efforts to restore his prestigeas a | leader he gradually subsided and became an unpretentious citizen. For a period of two years his power in San Francisco was almost absolute. Ex- tended reference is made to his reign in the October number of Scribner. In the “History of the Last Quarter Century in the United States’ by E. Benjamin An- drews, president of Brown University, chapter vii, covering six pages,with illustra- tions. describes Kearneyism. Considering that President Andrews is writing history | one is surprised at the element of truth in the contribution. The pictures illustrat- ing scenes in San Francisco are particu- larly good. The full history of Kearney’s poweris not told. Itisa fact that Kearney domi- nated the conventions of workingmen. He named the nominees, from Governor and | | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court down | to the last man on the Board of Education. | When a newspaper assailed him too | harshly ke directed the working people to | stop taking the paper, to withdraw their { small wantads ffom its columns and to boycott dealers and restaurants who took | it or advertised in it. He either silenced | criticism altogether or tempered it into | passing comment. i It is true that Kearney did not call the constitutional convention, but as it had | been called by the Legislature, he nameda majority of the delegates and exercised a controlling influence in framing the con- | stitution. The adoption of tine constitu- tion was secured by the unfailing support which the farmers of the State gave to the | proposition. { | Kearney went East in the autumn of | | | | | { | | | though | DENIS KEARNEY BEING DRAWN THROUGH THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO AFTER HIS RELEASE FROM THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION. The pro cession passing the Lotta Fountain on Market street. Painted by Howard Pyle from photographs by Taber and a description by Kearney himself.] but little attention to the San Francisco agitator. The crowd collected on the com- mons to hear him numbered less than 1500. Kalloch was the only man in the Work- ingmen’s party'of San Francisco that Kearney did not control. The agitator had doubts of Kalloch’s sincerity, but the eloquent preacher could convene such a | vast multitude on his own announcement to speak that the agitator, in order to preserve harmony in the party, did not | openly revolt against Kalloch’s nomina- tion for Mayor. RJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN. In the death of Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, | which occurred at Southampton, October 4, American literature sustained a great loss. Though a foreigner, ‘“born bred,” Boyesen's ambition was to win | and | place and fame in American (English) let- | ters. estimated from his works. Boyesen sprang from an intellectual parentage and vindicated the truth of heredity by his subsequent brilliant lamentably short career. His father was a professor of mathematics in the Naval Academy at Fredericksvarn. Young Boyesen entered the gymnasium in | Christiania at an early age and a course at Leipsic preceded his graduation in 1863 from the University of Norway. It was at his father’s suggestion that he spent the next year traveling in the United States and he decided to remain in this country, His predilections were decidedly literary | and he determined to master the English language. The Norwegian tongue he felt How well he succeeded is easily | did not afford him the scope demanded by | his ambition. He became the editor of the Fremad, a Scandinavian paper published in Chicago, but resigned that position to accept & tutorship of Latin and Greek in the Ur- bana University, Ohio, with a view to | known it long ago.” mastering more quickly the difficulties of the English language. In 1874 he was ap- | once killed in New York, and that the | especially well represented by original | Sun 1aid him out by reporting everything | that was said in his speech. Boston paid | $ workers and investigators in the realm of entific study. The University of C fornia has of late years issued m notable technical publications Stanford’s now taking the f nia’s contributions to biological research promise to become both valuable and numerous. The present series of publica- tions is issued under the patronage of Timothy Hopkins Esq. [Palo Alto: Le- land Stanford Jr. Univers SALT aw equest, an- le of Rich Salt and L Shakers. Thesz are even finer than the last lot, and, best of all, this Z'me thev goat 2O cents each, Wednesaay 1ight end: Also 250 dozen Pretty Decorated China Butter Plat regularly 80 cen o al 45 cents per dozen until Wednesday I’s really too bad. Every day some one tells us: ‘I never knew you sold at retail. I wish 1 had We are a little out of the retail district, and it’s the the last campaign several old line Demo- | crats who struggled to maintain their party organization two and four years ago | have signified their willingness to join the | inia City and sent out its usunal in the shape of adver- ing the pu of the date Pine County, an ex-Democratic Governor, and Hirsch Harris of Douglass. After this convention adjourned Major | location that leads people to believe f that we are an exclusively wholesale P and State Convention. The time for which the papers had so 1 waited had now arrived, and the ad- ements, instead of being printed, as had been the usual custom, were uncere- morniously pitched into the waste-baskets no further attention paid to them. result of this action was what might | be called a paralyzer upon the Re- can Central Committee, as well as on party it represented. The time gradu- | ipped by for the primaries to be | but in mostof the countiesof the | there were no primaries, and very | information in any corner was to be | ad regarding the time of the Republican State Convention. In a few weeks a good many people were ring what had become of the Re- ublican party in Nevada and men able to answer this question were hard to find. Meanwhile the Democratic newspapers | had taken the same course of action in re- spect to their own party, with exactly the same result. While this quiet work was g on other influences were active in to completely reorganize the old | parties of the State upon the ruins of vhich a new one was to be buiit. A call was issued to the silver men of the State irrespective of their party affiliations, to assemble at Reno and promul- gate a platform. This call was extensively published in all the news- apers of Nevada, and the convention was Boemed wicessitigtyin every quarter: ‘A& & result there was a very large gathering of leading politicians and the convention was a very lively and enthusiastic one. As different speakers, who had been formerly prominent in the counsel of the old parties, were called to the platform to announce their conyersion to the new doc- | trine of silver above party the opera- house resounded with the cheers of a vast audience. It wasat this convention that | the tragic death of George W. Cassedy occurred. He had been for over twenty-five years a political leader in the Democratic party and the editor of the Eureka Sen- | tinel. He wasa man of great force, both as a writer and speaker, and physically a man of rather full habit. While adcressing the audience from tne platform of the opera-house the hearty ap- plause of the audience carried bim to a point where he labored hard physically in his oratory. He left the place complain- ing of a severe headache and a few mo-| ments later, pressing his hand to his heart at hisroom in the hotel, he fell across his bed and died, while the convention was still in session. The convention had just adopted his declaration of principles when | the news of Cassedy’s death was announced to it. The chairman immediately adjourned the convention, and Casedy’s funeral a few days later in Reno was one of thelargest in the State, and marked tributes of respect were paid to the deceased by citizens of the Stategenerally. Itisclaimed that C. C. Wallace of Eureka, a close friend of Mr. Cassedy, was more instrumental than any one else in organizing the fizht along the line of Eastern Nevada from Eureka to the Sink of the Humboldt, and after- ward the silver party was frequently al- luded toas “Blacfi Wailace’s ontfit.”’ It is but a matter of justice to John Dennie of Reno, an old Jeffersonian Democrat and chairman of the Central Committee, called another convention and phvlced a Democratic electoral ticket in the tield. The campaign possessed many amusing | features. Re REpublicnns andyDemocralgs both had regular tickets in the field, while | the Silver Democrats and Silver party all united upon one ticket. The campaign | was one of the hottest ever seen in the | State, but not until the vote was counted | was the public made aware of the over-| whelming strength of the Silver party. In | the counties of Eureka, Elkoand Humboldt there were many precincts that went | unanimously for the Silver ticket. The | returns swept in_from the Sink of the| Humboldt snowed a popular uprising | for the new vparty never before | witnessed in the State, while the | counties in the western part | of the State, namely, Ormsby, Washoe and Storey, where the fight waged hottest, the old Republican strongholds elected the sil- ver ticket by a fair majority. Out of 10,000 votes, the silver ticket downed the combined opposition by over 3000 ma- jority. Francis G. Newlands was consid- ered the leader of the fight, assisted by Senator William Sharon of Storey, Charles | Wallace of Eureka, Charles Mack, C. C, | Powning of Washoe, W. E. F. Deal of Storey and others equally active. William | Nixon of the Winnemucca Silver State, as | chairman of the silver central committee, was located at Reno during the campaign, end was an_important factor in the hand- ling of the fight. When the Legislature met it organized in both branciies, with the Silver party in | control. The victors at once proceeded to i swing the ax, and wherever an_official head belonging to either of the old parties | presented itself it was lopped off without delay. As soon as the rank and file got the smell of plood in their nostrils they clamored for more, and the political guil- lotine was kept in operation until the thirst of the crowd was satisfied. The second silver campuign held in Nevada last fall, presented equally sensa- tional features. 'There was still in exist. | ence two Democratic Central committees, each with a ticket for the field. A straight Republican ticket, a straight_silver ticket and a ticket indorsed by a Populist con- vention, held in Washoe County. The Populist convention is_supposed to | have been engineered by Republicans, i who, by placing a railroad striker in the field for Eongres!. named Doughty, hoped to draw votes from Newlands, who bhad been renominated for Congress by the sil- ver men. People along the lines of the| Southern Pacific Railway Company | were still holding many bitter meum- ories of the big strike of July, and thus many votes were drawn to the support of Doughty, who posed as a poor man waging a fight'against a wealthy can- didate. H.F.Bartine, whohad been beaten by Stewart in the Senatorial fight of two vears before, was in the field as the Repub- lican nominee for Congress. 5 Daring this campaign emissaries from the Populist party in the East who were favoragia to the silver movement visited the State and called a meeting of the Populist Central Committee. They dis- Mr. Wallace to state that the or- ganization of the silver party in the covered that the Populist leaders were merely waging a sham battie against the { we have spoiled our mailet.” silver party, and the probabilities are that there will oe a greater accession to its ranks next fall than ever before. To the silver party of Nevada belongs the credit of being absolutely the first in any State to hoist the flag of revoltagainst theold rule, and to sound the slogan of free coinage 16 to 1, a plank which has since been adopted by the silver men all over the American Union. Should the movement in favor of bimetal succeed in the next Presiaential election, as there Dow a strong prospect of its doing, this | party, if it climbs to power by popular vote of 1896, will be obliged to concede the fact that the inspiration which resulted in the birth of the new party had its origin in a little State of 50 000 inhabitants and casting but a little more than 10,000 votes. Should it fail in 1896 it will begin the next century as full of hope as ever, and have a ticket in the fleld in the year of our Lord 1900. OUR COMMON SPEECH. Gilbert M. Tucker here publishes six of his papers on topics connected with the the proper use of the English language. Mr. | Tucker is a caustic critic and his papers | make good reading. He regards words as tools and with this figure makes strong oints as to the proper use of language. | e says: ‘By far the most important suggestion offered by the analogies of the little sho; relates to the folly of misusing our verbal tools, and just here is the one great point of dissimilarity between the Engiish language and the equipment of a work- room. A mallet may be highly polished as to its head and rough hewn as to its handle and yet give entire satisfaction. But it would hardly work well on chisels, if the owner were in the habit of using it to drive nails. That is exactly what we not unfrequently do in speech, and the natural resvlt follows; the nails are not driven straight and we presently find that As such misused words are noted ‘preposterous’ | for “absurd,” ‘“‘aggravating” for “exas- perating” and “enjoin” to mean just the contrary of its original meaning. Degraded words are discussed and the | revisers of the New Testament are taken in hand for several bad slips made in changing the old King James version, Dictionaries are considered. Both Web- ster and Worcester are ruled out as anti- auated and preference given to either the | or the Standard. A chapter is| entur; devoted to American English, in which residents of the United States are given credit for using much purer English than do our British cousins. [Published by the Merriam Company, New York; for sale by Johnson & Emigh‘j OUT OF DUE SEASON. “Out of Due Season,” a mezzotint by Adeline Sergeant, is a finely touched work, the treatment of the principal char- acter, a noble type of manhood, being very powerful as well as artistic. The book is found in the Appleton Town and Country Library, published by D. Apple- ton & Co., New York. [Doxey’s; 50 cents.] | i | | | A SANDLOT MEETING IN SAN FRANCISCO—THE WORKINGMEN | PASSING A RESOLUTION BY ACCLAMATION. | | [From Scribner’s Magazine for October.] stories of the sea for the daily papers, and is a regular contributor to Eastern literary syndicates that supply newspapers with interesting stories. Common rumor goes that he dabbles a little in mining stock operations, but he is not by any means classed as a speculator. At one timg dur- | ing the high tige of agitation in this State Kearney could have retired from the scene | | 1878 to extend his agitation to New York and Boston, but the workingmen there jdid not accept him as a leader. John Swinton, then managing editor of the New York Sun, resolved to have Kearney’s New | York speech reportea verbatim by stenog- | raphers and published word for word in | his paper. Mr. Swinton holds that Kearney was at 1 ‘ () il “THE CHINESE MUST GO!” Denis Kearncy addressing the workingmen on the night of O tober 39 on Nob Hill, San Francisco. From Scribner’s Magazine of October.] Bjalmar Ejorth Boyesen. [From Harper's Weekiy.] pointed instructor of German in Cornell, and in 1880 accepted a similar position at Columbia College. Afterward he became professor of the German language, and in 1890 he took the chair of Germanic ia: izunges and literature in Columbia Ci ege. Professor Boyesen first attracted atten- tion as an author by his ““Gunnar, a Norse Romance.” A Norseman’s Pilgrimage, Tales from Two Hemispheres, Falconberg, Gothe and Schiller, followed. Among his latest writin%:}, Writings of Henrik Ibsen, The Saga of Eric the Red, The Novelist’s Art of Char- acterization, The Feud of the Wildhay- men, and The Evolution of the Heroine may be cited. In ell his writings there is traceable a vein of ‘‘old-fashioned winter-night” ro- | ‘M. FRIEDMAN & CO., mance, so refreshing after the doubtfu realistic effect attained by some of the late | writer's contemporaries. His work gave promise of much to come, but death’s re- corder closed the volume of his own life too soon fur the fruition of his literary | hopes and ambitions. THE GENUS SEBA! TODES. Formidable as sounds the title to this pamphlet it is nothing more mysterious than a study of the skulls of rockfish. The rockfishes of the Pacific, commonly (though incorrectly) called ‘‘rockcod,’ form a large section of the scorponaznide, a family of the mail-cheeked fishes, and present extremely interesting problems in distribution and classification. The trea- tise under consideration is a purely tech- nical work by Frank Cramer, reprinted from the proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 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