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T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1896. 21 MEMOIRS OF AN ARTIST, HARLES FRANCOTIS GOUNOD'S posthumous memoirs have been published under the above title by Rand, McNelly & Co. In this work the autobiography of the great muster has been brought down to the time of the first production of his opera, “Faust,” supplemented and rounded off'by some charming and characteristic letters from the master to his friends. People have been accustomed to think of Goinod solely as a musician, but on reading his memoirs one learns that this is far too narrow a characterization. In the first place, the work indicates that asa literary genius Gounod ranks at least be- side that other great musical writer, Ber- lioz; his incisive and luminous comments on the literary work of many of his prede- cessors and contemporaries show him . S N ] was not with that sense-of tearing myself | away as when bidding farewell to Rome, | the strength of which feeling shows the | force of the ties that bind. aples is a smile, a reflection from | Greece; her horizon drowned in purple | ana azure, her biue sky reflecting itself in the azure waves; all, even to her ancient |name of Parthenope, plunge you again | into that britliant civilization to which nature set such charming surroundings. | Quite different is the smile of Venice, at the same time caressing and perfidious; it is hke a feast above a dungeon-trap. It | was for this reason, undoubtedly, that, in snite of her masterpieces and the magic 1 with which she is enveloped, I had at de- | parture, eud without knowing why, a feel- | ing of deliverance rather than of regret.” | Gounod had the deepest veneration and | affection for his mother. To her, he says, | be owed everything he nas succeeded in ! being, saying or doing, that was good. | Closing Mis reference to his mother in the | preface, he says: I | simplicity. reduced to itss of all grace of are apt to think indispensable to poetry the poetical atmosphere; a life in which culture was an unattainable luxury | and intellectnal companionship a thing apparently unknown. All the great human experiénces have come to this cessories, but they bave struck sacred fire | from her ardent spirit. her life are almost incredible and far sur- pass Carlyle’s Utopia of independent sim- plicity. Poverty as she has kncwn it is a rude taskmaster, and Johanna Ambrosius has endured the prickof its goad since her earliest childhood. In feeble nealth, she has worked year in and year out, not at her woman’s work only, but on the thrash- ing floor and in the sfable, to support her family and keep the wolf from the door. The outline of Johanna Ambrosius’ life, as Mr. Schrattenthal gives it, is more than simple; perhaps as her friend he felt un- able to give us a fuller account of ‘it. She was born on August 3, 1854, at Lengiwethen, a small village in East Prussia. She was the setond child of a workinginan. a litile girl she went to the village school, but only until her eleventh year, when he: time was required for household work. Their mother was an invalid, and Johanna and .her sister, while yet mere children, were called on to do all the work for the family—cooking, sweeping, washing and scrubbing. Their father, fortunately, was fond of books, and did what he could to_make up to the children for the advantages they were obliged to forego. As a great treat he allowed them to take the Gartenlaube, a weekly illustrated mag- azine, and they were glad enough to de- prive themselves of any other pleasure for the sake of thisliterary luxury. For many years its pages seem to have been their only intellectual pasturage, and Johanna describes the unfailing delight of poring over them after the bard day’s work was done. As a young girl the unfortunate poet went into service, but seems to have been very unhappy, for she soon returred to her home. 20 Jobanna married a young peasant by the name of Voigt. We are told noth- CHARLES FRANCOIS GOUNOD. to bave bebn in possession no iess of the critical than the constructive faculty. In one delightful discussion on matters literary he terms words ‘‘docile and faith- 1 servants of thought,” and tes their to be to "lead one to the summit ut rude shock—mysterious guides, s who conceal both themselves and their methods.” Words served him thus. His dominating genius attuned thought to phrase as sweetly as it wove melody and ony into musical expression. nod’s young manhood, the auto- discloses, his skill asa painter 1 more highly thought of than his ity. In fact, Monsieur Ingres, 10rity on both arts and a director-of nch Academy, besought Gounod to discard the study of music and transfer his energies to the development of color and form. In the memoirs is a brilliant dissertation on the art of Michael Angelo, Raphael and others of a value to the world | far greater than a vast majority of accom- plished art works. o His comments on the compositions of Mozart and Mendelssohn are of intense interest, and his meeting and subsequent friendship with the latter musician are touched upon with engaging freedom and delicacy. One of thechief charms of the autobiography lies, however, in the glimpses Gounod gives one now and again of his own sweet and noble soul. L The pictures of Rome, ¥Florence, Naples and Venice are word paintings of genius, and tne whole work will rank as a classic. Let us reproauce a few sentences from his chauvter with reference to that city “which holds a great and glorious place in thie his- tory of the arts, and to whose natural fea- tures her geographical situation has given & character unique and exceptional in the world.”. 9‘\'enice, joyous and sad, lizht and som- ber, rosy and livid, coquettish and sinis- ter, a_constant conirast, a strange com- hination of the most opposite impressions, & pearl in a cesspool. < “Verice is an enchantress; she is the home of painters of radiance; she has in- vested ert with sunlight. Contrary to Rome, which waits for you, solicits you clowly and conquers you invincibly #nd foreyer, Venice seizes you by the senses and fascinates you instantly, Rome is serene and pacifying, Venice is exhilar- ating and disquieting; but the exhilaration that she induces is mixed (at least it was for me) with an_indefinite melancholy—a feeling of captivity. * * * Those still- standing waters, washing in gloomy silence the foundations of the old palaces; that dark, shadowy surface, from the epths under which one thinks he hears the croans of some illustrious victim, make of Venice a kind of capital of terror; she has retained the. impression of the Sinister. And yet, under fine sunlight,’ what magic in the grand canal! What retlections from those lagoons when the wave transforms itself into light! What power of brilliancy in those old remains of ancient splendor, which seem to contend among themselves for the favors of the sky and to ask its aid against the abyss into which they are fall- ing day by day, finally to disappear for- ever. 5 “Rome invites to meditation, Venice to dissipation. Rome is the grand Latin an- cestor who, through the channel of con- quest, will spread over the world tne catholicity of language — prelude and means to a catholicity vaster and of deeper meaning. Venice is an oriental, not of the Greek, but of the Byzantine type; more suggestive of satraps than of pon- tiffs, and of Asiatic luxury than of the solemnities of Athens or Rome. oAl “Venice is a passion, not a Jove. 1 was &educed upon entering, but when I left it 1 “May this tribute of a well-beloved son | leave upon her tomba wreath more durable | than our ‘immortelles of a day,’ and assure | for her memory, after my death, a respect that I could wish to make eternal.” The color and tone of the original has been admirably maintained by the trans- iator, Miss Annette E. Crocker, and the | book is ciothed in an exceedingly original |and appropriate binding, which in- | genivusly displays Gounod’s initials—C. . G.—in the treble and base clefs, be- sides a few bars from the “Faust’ aria, “La Parlate d’ Amor.”” Price $1 25. A VALUABLE REPRINT, The Humboldt Publishing Companhy bas ‘issued a reprint of the once famous and now almost forgotten book, written by Patrick Edward Dove, on *The Theory of Human Progression.” It isa work that | those who do mnot consider political econ- omy “the dismal science” cannot well afford to do without. It is prefaced by a biographical sketch of the author, who was a Scotch Janded gentleman, written by Alexander Harvey. Patrick Edward Dove’s book was, in a sense, the forerunner of ‘‘Progress and Poverty,” and that Henry Gedrge owes much to Dove there is the warrant of George’s own declaration for believing. In “The Theory of Human Progression’’ the natural method of land tenure, the Single | Tax, is clearly shown, and ifs author de- clares that eventually political economy will come to be a positive science, like mathematics or chemistry, but this time will not come until men have learned that poverty is a result of ignorance of the true and eternal laws of society rather than a blessing from heaven. But Dove's book;, as its name implies, is much more than a treatise on sociolagical laws. His argument is based on the law of evolu- tion, but he begins-his evolutionary process where Darwin and the othefs came to an abrupt end. fo long as the manifested universe acts in pursuance of the evolu- tionary law, unguided by the element of free will, there is no flaw in the natural scientists. They weave a beautiful, logical theory, which azcounts rationally (on their own basis) for all natural phenomena below the human stratum. But when the element of a human will comes in play these philosophers either cease their hilosophies or cease to be philosophical, Bove went beyond ‘them all and showed that there was a logical connection between all the sciences, and that, therefore, *‘there is a necessary order in which they must evolve chronologically.” Reasoning on this basis, Dove pointed out the chrono- logical order of the sciences, 2nd so ac- curately, too (in so far as experience has proved), as to almost entitie him to rank as a prophet. Indeed, in a sense he was a prophet—in the sense that every true philosopher is a prophet. [The book is for sale in this City_by the Popular bookstore, 10 Post street. Price, in paper, 50 cents.] JOHANNA AMBEROSIUS. | | A very rema rkable figure has appeared within the last year on the horizon of German literature, says the New York Critic. Johanna .Ambrosius, a woman of the people, has published a small book of verses, which in twelve montbs has gone through as many editions, and at which all who read must wonder. Karl Schrat- tenthal was the discoverer of her talent and the editor of the presentvolume. We read his introduction with great interest; for in it he gives a_sketch of the poet’s hfei astonishipg in its bate, slmost bruta ing of her subsequent life beyond the fact that a son and a daughter were born tothe young couple and that the struggle for ex istence was more strenuous than ever. The joys and sorrows of motherhood seem to wear a keener edge for her, sharpened as they are by the ever-present sense of poverty and want. Yet the note of joy predominates when she thinks and writes of Ther . children, and such a poem as “Mein Bub” seems to have Itis this quality of universality- which is =0 admirable in her verses. There is noth- ing of the village poet aboat her. One who 4 did not read the introduction to these poems and the account of her life would be at a loss to know where and when to place the author, for even where we can find trace of autobiography in here and there a verse, it is always the universally human side of the experience that is presented to us. Her poems have been compared to'all that is classic in German literature, yet Herr Schrattenthal assures us that it is only within the last year or two that the works of the German Olympians have been ac- cessible to her. She Jooks back regretfully Here is a woman’s existence | woman in rugged intensity, without ac- | The conditions of | come frem the heart of all happy mothers. | commencing with her bonnet and ending with her shoes. Speaking of hats, she says: ‘‘A woman’s headgear must be simple in outline and simple in effect. And it must be personal. The properly trained woman would no more accept a bonnet she had neither devised, suggestea nor selected than she would accept a husband because that was* the style of man people were marrying this spring.” And again: ‘‘No self-respecting woman wears another woman’s hat. She might as well try to wear her heaa." “For Plain Women Only” can be recom- mended as pertinent to the times and use- ful for summer reading. The sketches will serve to amuse the masculiie portion of the novel-reading public, from their re- freshing feminine cynicism. The useful hints to women, too, Will nog be dis- regarded by those to whem they are ad- dressed. ¥ [Published by the Merriam Company, New York. For sale by the Popular Bookstore, 16 Post street, City; price $125.] A FAMOUS LITTLE VOLUME. A reprint of the celebrated little work, *‘The Battle of Dorking,”” has just been of- fered to the American public by Way & Williams of Chicage. The strained rela- tions of America with England growing out of the Venezuelan boundary dispute on the one hand,and of England with Germany due to complications in South Africa on the other, give a peculiar and timely interest to the book. It wasa famous tract twenty-five years ago, and made a profound sensation in England and America, both by reason of its bear- ing on current. European events and pol- | itics and from its remarkable blending of | military knowledge and literary skill.” It appeared originally in Blackwood’s Maga- zine for May, 1871, and purported to be the recollections of events disastrous to Eng- land in 1875, narrated fifty yearsafter by an eye-witness. That Ingland ‘heeded this “‘piain warning,” which may almost be looked upon in the light of a prophecy, is evidenced by the recent British naval display. Whether or not its lesson will be heeded elsewhere as well Temains to be seen. The dreadful results depicted in the fanciful sketch of Germany’s supposed in- vasion of England are claimed to have much to do with waking up the English people to needed reforms in their army and navy. Certain it is the present | strength of the British navy bad its basis laid soon after the sensation created by that little sketch of disaster and defeat. PLEA FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY. “Some Poems and Prose That Would Fain Exalt the Word of God, the Divinity of Jesus and Present a Plea for Christian Unity,” is a work -by Rev. Silliman Blag- | den, published by Alfred Mudge & Son, | Boston. . The book is a model of typo- | graphical excellence, and its iliustrations | are superb. The author’s intentions are doubtless worthy of laudation. The vol- | ume is replete with Scriptural texts, which serve to bear out the author’s intentions. The poetry in the volume is very bad, in a literary sense. Rev. Mr. Blagden is evi- dently sincere in his endeavors to unite Christians under a common banner. The task seems to be a hopeless one. The author is a fair-minded and noble-spirited | person, it would appear, and his work is | free from bias and prejudice. He seeks to | accord the praises due to missionaries | without reference ct or creed. | PUBLIC SPEAKD | Under the title of “Public Reading and Speaking”” Professor Kirby presents, in ap- propriate style, the results of his long ex- | perience as a sful teacher along this | line of educational work. The book aims | todevelop individuality in the student,and | is looked upon as a most commendable ef- | fort in this direction. The hintsand helps that it contains will readily give the stu- | dent a mastery of the main problems that must be solved in order for one to succeed upon the platform, in debate, in conversa- tion and in a host of other affiliated top- ics. [Boston: Lee & Shepard. For sale by | William Doxey.] i JOHN SHERMAN’'S RECOLLECTIONS. AND READING. 1c: John Sherman’s “‘Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet,” which was reviewed at length in Tre CALL | several months ago, has been discussed by the press everywhere in the Nation, and it | is universally agreed that the book is able, | bold and fearless, and a valuable addition | to the history,of American politics, It is | not necessary to repeat that no man is better qualified to speak understandingly | of the financial history of this country ]OHA!QNA AMBRDSIUS,ATIIE GERMAN PEASANT EOE:I'. —_— on “thgose twelve dumb years.”’ been able to read one volume a year of Lessing, Schiller or Goethe, how rich she would have felt, FOR PLAIN WOMEN DNLY.' This book consists of some dozen dia- logues, reprinted from the Pall Mall Ga- zette, and is a transcript of discussions held between ‘‘my aunt and I on sub- jects dear to the feminine heart. The contents page forms a very fair index of the character of the discussions: “On Mir- rors,’ “On Bonnets,” “On Bead Trim- mings,” *“On Clothes in General,” “On Looks,” “On Tailor-made Women,” etc. The philosophy of these articles is dis- tinctly feminine, though recalling in some respects Carlyle’s “Sartor Resartus’’#in so far as the latter work treats of the habili- ments affected by human beings. “My aunt” contends that “no woman under 40 years of age Las the moral right to look irrevocably plain,” and holds that “all who submit basely to such a fate should be punished for doing so.” The medicine prescribed by **my aunt” for women with a tendency to plainness is largely composed of ‘‘mirrors, pierglasses -and looking- glasses.” “My aunt” proceeds in the course of ner argument to dissect the average woman, Had shethan Senator John Sherma: 3 nd to the student of finance the book question is very instructive. The work is now on sale by the Werner Company, 404 Spreckels building. ¢ LITERARY NOTES. General A. W. Greely.of Arctic fame begins in the March Ladies’ Home Jour- nal his articles on George Washington, which are expected to create considerable discussion. Generpl Greely has read oyer 2000 of Washington's privateletters and he writes in a frank, unbiased way of the per- sonal side of Washington. At a recent auction sale of books and manuscripts from rare collections in Lon- don some of the precious old specimens brought such figures as these: Shakes- peare's “Poems,’’ *1640, the first collected edition, but with the portrait defective and wanting four leaves at the end, £21; Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” 1667, first edi- tion, with the first title page, extremely rare, £90, J. Parkinson; ‘“Paradisi in S Paradisus Terrestris,’”’ 1629, first edition, with the curious woodcuts, £11 53; Gay’s “Fables,” 1727-38, with the plates after Gravelot and others, £17, Sir Winston Churchill; “Divi Britannici,” 1675, £14, and 8, very fine copy of the fourtn folio edition of Shakespeare, 1685, wanting the portrait, £45. “The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard” is the title ot A. Conan Doyle’s new histori- cal romance, which contains eight adven- tures in the career of a Napoleonic hero. The book will be published by D.Appel- ton & Co., with many iliustrations. Felix Gras, who is soon to be introduced to American readdérs by Mrs. Janvier's translation of bis new historical romance, “The Reds of the Midi,” is the successor of Mistral and Roumanille as the official head of the Filibrige, the society of Pro- vencal men of letters, which is the bighest literary distinction of the south of France. In one of the letters of Grui Patin, writ- ten in 1645, the learned bibliophilist says: ““It is true that there is here an English- man, thé son of a Frenchman, who pro- goses to-make carriages that will roll from aris to Fontainebleau without horsesin aday. Thenew machine is preparing in the Temple. If it should succeed, there will be a great saving of bay and oats, which are at present extremely costly.” A number of unpublished letters of an intimate nature, written by John Randolph of Roanoke, are incorporated in a chapter of reminiscences of the picturesque Vir- ginia statesman to be printed in the March Century. The American Historical Register, the official organ of a number of patriotic- hereditary associations, published in Phila- delphia, has a particularly attractive num- ber for the current month. The frontis- piece for the number is a fac-simile of the insignia of the Society of Daughters of the Revolution, done in proper colors and size. The story of Lafayette’s visit to this coun- try in 182 $ continued, and other in- teresting articles are: “The Origin of the Surnames Brown and Browning,” “Epi- sodes of the French Spoliation Period,” *‘Colonel Aaron Burr’s Order Book.”” The regular departments contain a wealth of useful and entertaining matter. Professor Arthur S. Hathaway of the Rose Polytechnic Institute bas written a “Primer of Quaternions,” which Mac- millan & Co. will publish very shortly. The theory of quaternions is developed directly from its fundamental ideas, with- out dependence upon principles not found in elementary algebra and geometry. It contains numerous diagrams and exam- ples, and should prove a valuable text- book for technical schools on account of the physical ideas that it develops. 8. 8. McClure is about to issue in one volume the ‘‘Earlier Life of Lincoln,” based upon the material published in the November, December and January num- bers of McClure’s Magazine. The Mec- Clures have coilected sixty or seventy dif- ferent portraits of Lincoln, a large number of which have never been reproduced in any forms A LITTLE WIZARD. A new historical tale, **A Little Wizard,” by J. Stanley Weyman, has just been pub- lished by R. F. Fenno & Co., New York. Itis a tale of Yorkshire, England, in the time of Cromwell, just after the battles of Marston Moor and Naseby and before the surrender of the Scot’s army of Charles I. The tale recites incidents in the careers of two youthful sons of a cavalier gentleman, who has sacrificed his life for the royalist and others,” by Cockburn Harvey. The Queen of Italy is about to publish her experiences as a _climber in the Alps. The illustrations, also, will be by her Majesty. The subject is a loftv one, and there is assurance that the work will be a royal achievement. Dr. Robertson Nicoll learns from the Cape that Mrs. Olive Schreiner, author of “A South African Farm,” has postponed the publication of her mew story on ac- count of ill health. The book is finished, but the author does not seem to think that it is quite ready for publication yet. - _Rand, McNally & Co. have just pub- lished a novel,” **Mariposilla,”” by Mrs. Charles 8. Daggeit. It is the story of a Spanish Californian girl who falls'in love with a young American. The latter is the petted, spoiled child of a selfish, worldly, conscienceless woman. A marriage is ar- ranged by her for her son, and Mariposilla is left to pine away. 3 N Arthur McEwen is now writing from four to five columns weekly for the News Letter. . Howard V. Sutherland, long connected with the Star, has assimed editorial charge of the News Letter. 3 ““A Man’'s Foes,” by E. H. Strain, is a story of Ireland at the time of the acces- sion of William of Orange to the British throne. It portrays the religious strife and intolerance of those times. The vol- ume 18 printed by Ward, Lock & Bowden, New York, and is for sale by Doxey; cloth- bound, $1 50. . The Century Company has arranged with General Horace Porfer for the publi- cation in the Century Magazine-of his per- sonal reminiscences of General Grant dur- ing the war. The papers consist of Gen- eral Porter’s memoirs of his intercourse with the great commander, both in the line of his duty as his staff officer and as a friend who shared his confidence to the end of hislife. “Lounger’ in the Critic says thst in old times the publisher made the author, or, at least, he made the author think that he did, wkich amounted to the same thing; but nowadays the author thinks that he makes the publisher; at any rate, he has convinced the publisher that he does—and that is all that is necessary to his well- being, the publisher being the one ‘who holds the purse-strings, Tihe men who have seen Sir Walter Scott must now be getting few, says the West- minster Gazette. John Usher of Stodrig, who died the other day, himself an en- thusiast on Border ballads, was one of the rapidly diminishing little company. He used to tell with no small pride that on one occasion, when Sir Walter was a visitor at Toftfield, his birthplace, he had sat upon the great novelist’s knee and had sung several songs, for which he was Te- warded by Sir Walter with the present of a white pony. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett’s new novel, “A Lady of Quality,” will bs a sur- prise to her readers, as it is an entirely new vein for her. The full title is “A Lady of Quality; being a most curious, hitherto unknown history, as related by Mr, Isaac Bickerstaif, but not presented to the world of fashion through the pages of The Tat- tler.” The time of the story is the reign of Queen Anne, and it is weitten in the language of the period. Its heroine is a | girl whose mother died in giving her birth, \ sh il T HE LAID DOWN ON HIS FACE AMONG THE BRACKEN. TR DINAINS S &}\Q\l}}\\‘} \ [HRRY '1 r‘\\ [Reproduced from “A Little Wizard.” cause, and one of whom, the *‘Little Wiz- ard,” figures pathetically in the story under the care of a faithless famiiy serv- itor, who has sinister connections with the Puritan Roundheads. The novelette has much of the literary and historic charm which marks all of Mr. Weyman’s work. Cloth, 50 cents. For upward of two years the publishers of McClure’s Magazine have been quietly gathering material and pictures for a new life of General Grant. They believe that they have made a larger collection of por- traits of General Grant (many of them rare) and other pictures relating to his life than has ever been made before. This biography will bring out the real Grant in the same vivid, thorough and interesting manner as Lincoln is presented in the ‘‘Jife’’ now running in McClure’s. Professor Edward Channing of Harvard University will publisb as the next vol- nme in the Cambridge Historical Series “The United States of America, 1765-1865.” An exceedingly interesting historical 4 novel entitled **Two Queens” is announced. It is a translation from the German of Baron Simolin, the son of tbe famous Count 8imolin, who rendered such signal services to Queen Caroline Matilde of Den- mark and Queen Marie Antoinette, and who came into possession of several pri- vate letters and diaries intrusted by that ill-fated Queen to Count Fersen. It is to be regretted that the texts useful to the study of the middle ages are not all published, and thai most of those which have been published are not well edited. The archives of the Vatican library were made accessible only about fifteen years ago. Those of Spain, Italy and England are only half explored. There are iibraries of manuscripte, rich in monu- ments of medieval literature, without catalogues. Such are the_ libraries of Rheims, Lyons and the Vatican. The cabinet of manuscripts in the Bibliotheque Nationale even is without a list serviceable to independent students. The Scribners bave in preparation a volume entitled “The Jewish Scriptures: The Story of Their Origin and History in the Light of the Latest Criticisms,’” by Amos K. Fiske, theauthor of “Beyond the Bourne’” and “‘Midnight Talks at the Club,” The work is described as a “popu- lar account of the tooks ‘of the Old Testa- ment considered as history and as litera- ture.” The staudpoint of the writer is radical and in accord with what has been called the “higher criticism.” i Aubrey Beardsley is going to Beardsle- ize Pope’s **The Rape of the Lock.” There are a good many people who owe Pope a rudge, remarks the Critic; now they will e scatistied. e In its review of the books of 1895 the Publishers’ Weekly says that the year just past has been the most productive the ‘American book trade has ever known. It registered 5469 books, of which 68 were new editions. In 1894 the total output was only 4484 books, showing an_increase | of nearly 25 per cent. The activities of the English publishers for the same er1od, as given in the London Publishers’ Circular, resulted in the publication of 6516 books—an increase of only thirty-one over 1894. The statistics compiled by the Bibliographie de la France, on the other hand, indicate a decrease across the Chan- nel from 13,007 books in 1894 to 12,927 00oks. b“’l‘he Non-Heredity of Inebriety,” by Leslie E. Keeley, M.D., LL.D., is 1n the press of 8. C. Griggs & Co. The author endeavors to show that inebriety is a disease. : i The J. B. Lippincott Company announces “The Autobiograpby of a ofessional Beauty,” by Elizabeth Phipps Train, author of the successful “Social Highway- man’’; “Cameos,”” a volume of short stories, by Marie Corelli; ‘“When Greek Meets Greek,”"a tale of the French Revo- lution, by Joseph Hatton; and ““The Light That I:ie:,” a group of “facetious tales on and who bas grown to young womanhood under no softer influence than that of her father, who “is a swaggering, sporting, lmrd-qrinking squire of those easy-going days.” REPLIES TO JUDGE BELCHER. A Juror Explains Why Mrs. Shattuck Was Acquitted. John L. McLaughlin, a member of the Shattuck jury, is angry over the com- ments of Judge Belcher upon the jury’s action in acquitting Mrs. Shattuck. He1s the president of the Fairmount Improve- ment Club and a man of standing in the community. In replying to Judge Belcher yesterday he said: i “In the first place, on the plea of insan- ity the defense proved the proper medicine had been administered to Mrs. Shattuck, .and if she was not suffering from the dis- ease stated the medicine might have killed her. Doctors for the prosecution admitred that was the proper medicine for that dis- ease. Examination ol physicians showed that she had been suffering from erysip~ elas. That was some time before the mur- der was committed. “In the next place Truly Shattuck wrote for Harry Poole. She said, ‘Come quick if you love me because you may not find mother alive when ¥ou arrive. I think you. can afford to Yorgive her. Come uigk.’ “Her deposition in the Police Ceurt stated that she met him at the door and went with him to the mother’s room up- stairs. Mrs. Shattuck said, ‘Are you go- ing to marry my daughter?’ “‘Harry Poole said, ‘We cannot obtain a license to-day, because the City Hall is closed. But to-morrow, Monday, we will, before she goes away.’ 2 “He insisted on b2ing married next day and then Truly went out to get some water, ‘While outside she heard the report of a pistol and on returning found Harry Poole lying on the floor dying. “The prosecution did not prove that Mrs. Shattuck murdered him, nor thatshe was not insane. The jury was at sea, for there was no proof that Mrs. Shattuck did commit the murder. 5 “1 tnink Judge Belcher oyerreached him- self; he went out of his way for some- thiag,” . Mr. Murphy’s Explanation. The following letter to THE CALL is self-ex- planatory: ' SaN FraNcisco, February 15, 1806. Ty the Editor—DEAR Stn: 'In your issue of io- day’s date is an articie entitied “Short in His Ac- coufits—Adam H. Murphy, Agent of the Portland Cracker Company, Arrested.” 5 1 wish to interpose a prompt_snd emphatic de- nial o the claim or assertion of the ofiicers of the Portland Cracker Company that my accounts with them were or are not in a heaithy condition, or that T have appropriated or misappropriated §1300 of the company’s funds; that | am not and never have beenshort in my accounts with said or any company or person: that instead of my owing the “Porgland Cracker Company said company is now indebted to me in a sum_exceeding 8300. " In fine, the case is simply & matter of disputed accounts Dbetween the company and myself. As I have been a resident of this State for twenty-five years, and never before had my bonesty or integrity in (he siightest degree called in ques- tion, which your article does, in_justice to mysels I earnesily bat respectfully rfinm that you pub- lish this reply and denial of the charges made agalnsy me. ADpAx H. MURPHEY. X ‘Will Feast Sators, The sailors of the Colombo will be feasted to- day by the Itallans of this City. The banquet takes pldce at 1 o'clock and at 3 .M. the “gal- lant men and true’’ of the [talian warship will adjourn to Befsaglieri Hall, where a popular festival tendered by the San Francisco and Oakland colonies will be held. In the evening the Italian comedy, “Stenterello.” will be per- formed at the Bush-street Theater, The com- mander of the Colombo, Prineé Luigi of Savoy and ell the other officers and the men not on “duty will attend. the love-making of some bashful per:ons’ IRA . SANKEY COMING, The West Side Christian Church Has Been Incorpor- ated.A NEWS AMONG THE CHURCHES. Dr. Dille Will Go to Honolulu to As- sist in the Dedication of a Church. Ira D. Sankey, of Moody and Sankey evangelist fame, is expected to come to the City soon for a stay of indefinite length. A certificate of corporation has been granted to the West Side Christian Church, and it proposes to push with vigor its building enterprise. The Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor has begun holding street meet- ings on Sunday evenings. The Christian preachers of Southern California will hold a convention in San Diego, March 3 to 5. Rev.J. P. Lewis, pastor of the Christian charge at Paso Robles, has resigned and returned to his home in Virginia. The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Christian Church at Santa Barbara has raised $500 for the building fund. Rev. W. O. Hays is supplying the pulpit of the Christian church at Sumner. The Young Ladies’ Branch of the Con- gregational Women’'s Board of Missions held its monthly meeting at the head- ?’\mrters yesterday afternoon. Mrs. F. B. illingham of Honolulu and Miss Stroud- .Bmith were the principal speakers. Dr. H. C. Minton will address the Con- gregational Monday Club this week on *'Some Hopeful Aspects of Modern Un- christened Thought.” The Young Women’s Christian Associ- ation will hold its annual meeting at Plymouth Congregational Church this evening. Rev. Leon D. Bliss, formerly of the Woodland Congregational church, has ac- cepied a call from Great Barrington, Mass. ev. H. Hammond Cole sends the Pa- cific an encouraging report of his work for Congregationalism at Weaverville. The Olivet Congregational Church shows commendable enterprise in. issuing & monthly paper devoted to the interests of the church. The young ladies of the Stockton Con- gregational church gave an entertainment at the home of Mr.and Mrs. E. W. 8. Woods on Tuesday afternoon. Their roles of “Dairy Maids of Tyrol”” were well sus- tained. The affair was successful in every way. Rev. J. Cumming Smith will give the first of a series of lectures at Trinity Pres- byterian Church this evening on *‘Chris- tianity ana Art.” Next Sunday evenin his subject will be ““Christianity and Sci- ence,’”’ and the last of the series, on March 8, will be *“Christianity and Common Sense.” Dr. Dille will 2o to Honolulu this week to officiate at the dedication of the new Methodist Episcopal church of that place. The State convention of the Christian | Eudeavor Sociesy will be held on May 14, 15, 16 and 17. Rev. J. W. Webb, grand chief templar, will gi an address at the Twelfth-street Chri Church this morning. 1t is said that Mrs. Clinton B. Fiske of the Woman’s Home Missionary Society will abandon public work for the time, and return soon to New York. Dr. Voorsanger's Bible-class has changed its time of meeting to Tuesday evening. An entertainment will be given at St. Joseph’s Hall on Tuesday evening for the benetit of the library and reading-room of the Young Ladies’ Sodality of St. Joseph’s Church. The Young Men’s Institute day celebra- tion will be held at the Tabernacle, Oak- land, this evenini. All Hallows’ Branch of the League of the Cross will hold a rally’at Myrtle Hall on Friday evening. The close of 97 of St. Mary’s College will give an entertainment at the college ex- hibition hall, on Friday evening, in honor of the anniversary of Washington’s birth- day. S’:e\r. W. D. McKinnon of Rio Vista will lecture on *“Catholic Loyalty,” at the Metropolitan Temple, on Friday evening. The class of '96 of Sacred Heart College is making preparations to celebrate St. Patrick’s day in fitting manner. A mission for men will be begun by the Redemptorist Fathers O’Shea and Linder at St. Peter's Church this evening. St. Paul’'s branch of the League of the Cross will be held at St. Paul’s Hall, Twenty-ninth and Church streets, to- morrow evening. . Company J, League of the Cross Cadets, is preparing for a grand minstrel and vau- deville show at St. Peter’s Hall in April. A bazaar will be held at Teutonia Hall in aid of St. Anthony's Church, to-morrow and Tuesday evenings. Eclipse of the Soul. J. J. Morse will lecture under the suspices ot the California Psychical Society at National Hall, Ellis street, between Polk street snd Van Ness avenue, this evening at 7:45 o’ the subject being ‘“The Evolution of a Soul—Its Eclipse.” ——— e NEW TO-DAY. Would you believe itl—the so-called “de- licious flavor” in nine- tenths of - the popular- priced cigars of the day is produced by drugs. A trial will con- vince you that -the “Mantell” cigar is not of this class, . - Mantells shipped to country dealers-on approval, subject to return at our expense. THE WERTHEIMER CO.