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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 8, = |§ chronopho f itself nong h, an »bable y app 10d; ho ¢ the other e bee th are regarded US photography, espe- | anch of it known as| tography, has already won | a recogaized position e methods of scientific d in tke mnear future that it will be even more reciated. Marey and Muy- s the two pioneers of the works of the latter, glish and published in been long within the reach | d the English language; hand the works of Marey the most part inaccessible to with French. Iric Pritchard, M.A., ob lats Professor . Mouvement.”’ recent and impor- { the eminent French ologist, and it isclaimed International Scientific, interest for both al- reader, b A his preface, remarks method, with its various has been of immense ser- every branch of science, and The [Reprod Photographic Gun. uced from * Movement.”) atly effy e been rep ma ob: a T ica enomenon and orded 1 nis i station al cond fresh w: d birds in reason of its slowness, its fee- that of invented. and by the city of Paris. gz the locomotion of various species | mals he has studied each under the | ects in open air; and man, quadrupec many improvements have of ected. Laborious statistics Jlacad by diagrams in which variations of a curveexpress in a most | ner the several phasesof a served phenomenon; and, | ecording apparatus, which tomatically, can_trace the curve 1 or physiological event, | pidity, is otherwise inacces- | ation. Sometimes, however, represents the phases of a | is found so misleadiag that | more serviceable method— chronophotography— Professor Marey has unique opportunities for car- nvestigations by the physio- | endowed by the French Re- | In com- itions essential to succes: ater pr marine aguarium 1s wide spaces 1’ which their movements are unfettered. The develop- | the love and respect of all, and none ment of the new methods of analyzing | might know that the; movement could never have proceeded | menner born.” : within the confined space of a physiolog- | & Co. For sale by Doxey; price, 50 cents.] ical laboratory. Marey demonstrates that photography will permit the exact meas- urement of ti tography can me intervals, and that pho- also reproduce the trajectory of a body moving in space, and it follows that, if the tw -an be combined in_photographic images, hronophot 0 motions of time and space | | ographic method has been | ituted which explaimns all the factors | trations from the pen of Vernon Howe n | vices sung over him, and it was Emr S int‘d and move from poverty-flat into a and X7 ooRmakers. B of the female razor-wielder. She and her | father keep a couple of boarders—Simeon Quarry, an Englishman, is one; August Jarison, a Swede, the other. Emma and Jarlson'are in love. The day of the wed- | ding is fixed, but just before the appointed | time for the ceremony the biidegroom 1s brought home from the furnaces, singe blackened and sightless and all but dead. He has been *“blasted” by a premature ex- plosion. There is a lengthy description of | the “blast rite.” No one in Soot City surprised at a funeral for a man ye the flesh. “Such rites were the fom of the terrible, black little to | where tie birds flew low, for the damp of the steam and the prevalerce of soot in the air, and where any fine man who ho took life eagerlv in the morning might be blasted at the noontide snack. * * * Onpe idea that is directly referable to the Swede minds is that which gave | tury ago this month. badly. These wounds &s they heal lea called character.” [New York: Transatlantic )‘ublis;flng Company. For sale at the book- stores. MONTMARTRE. C. A. Murdock & Co. of this City are the publishers of a communistic “poem” by Austin Lewis. The title is “Montmartre,” and it celebrates the uprising of the Paris Commune in 1871, just a querter of.a cen- Mr. Lewis is evi- dently a mild vype of the anarchist. He isn't a poet, but might pass in a crowd of everyday rhymesters. The verses are printed in pamphlet form and the cover is 1llustrated with a picture of Anarchy, the title being inscribed on a significant red scroll. It was, perhaps, of just such as Mr. Lewis that Pope wrote, ‘*A little iearn- ing is a dangerous thing.” B ) rise to the blast rite; had be- ;P | come general that s Tiget be- MR T BEIES. yond its scorch | and shock—if on | brought to behave | dead.” And so were really Ison had funeral ser- s When | task to bring the dead back to.life. | Jarlson ted” a paper was found on him w 1 his property to Emma. | | The latter hac en running a barber-shop | for a livelihood, and she laid down the razor ish when she came into {a for 200, ry had always been jealous of Jarison, and he now made haste to court the Buite girl. She ap- peared to be rather reckless with her money, and Quarry, seizing an_oppor- tunity, stole a. ad saved. Theleis | no talk of punishing Quarry for this crime, | although he confesses his theft and by his deed drives Emma and Jarlson penniless from Soot City out to the free dwellings of | the voor at the stonepastures. Quarry visits the family in the new quarters and plots with Emma’s father | near the supposedly unconscious form of | Jarison. The former awakens from hi | deatnlike sleep. A strike occurs in Soot | City and it is planned to blow up the | shops. Jarison has heard the plot from Quarry’s .own lips while the latter sup- posed the former dead to the world of sight and hearing. Emma, following the instructions oi the lover, whose life she bad preserved, hurries to the scene and | frustrates the devilish design, ana Quarry | is shot dead w endeavoring to escape. Jarlson becomes himself again; Emma | gives up shaving. The couple are mar- Q | downtown room. It is shown how justly | Quarry met his fate tnhrough Jarlson’s in- | formation, as the latter discloses the fact | | that Quarry had set off the blast with mur- | derous intent at the time Jarlson was | nearly singed todeath. Jarlson becomes | an inventor and the book winds up with | Emmae (too fine for the barber trade) learn- ing to play the piano, and Jarlson getting | | a_reputation as a tenor singer. [New | | York: D. Appleton & Co. For sale by | Doxey; vrice 75 cent Joaquin Miller's poem, “The Port of Ships,” which was first published in THE Carr in October, 1 under the title “Co- lumbus,”” has received high praise across the ocean. In a recent critical article on American letters in the London Athenzum is this sentence: ‘‘In point of power, work- manship and feeling, among all poems written by Americans, we are inclined to give first” place to the *Port of Ships’ of Joaquin Miller.”” Asthe reader may feel a fresh interestin the poem, since our British cousins have accorded it such exalted recognition, it is here reproduced : 1d him lay the gray Azores, ehind the Gates of Hercules: Before him not the ghost of shores, Betore him only shoreless seas. The good mate said: «Now must we pray, For lo! the Very Stars are gone. Brave Adm’ral spea ¢ *‘Why, say, ‘Sail o «“My men grow mutin My men grow ghast ous dav oy day: ly, wan and weak.” iit'of home; a spray shed his swarthy cheek. brave Adm'ral, say, ght but seas at daw: . &L break of da; il on! Sail on! and on®' ™ They sailed, and sailed, as winds might blow, Until at last the blanched mate s: 3 “Why, now not even God would know Should I and &ll my men fall dead. These very winds forget their way, For God from these dread seas is gone. Now speal speak, and ssy—"" He said ail on! Sail on! and on!™ They en spake the mate: . th to-night; He curls his lip, he With lifted teeth, as if to Brave Adm’ral, say but one good word— What shall we 4o when hope is gone The woras leaped as a leaping sword “Sail on! sail on! Suil on! and on?” NEW MEMORIAL TO LINCOLN. All the founders of McClure's Magazine are recent graduates of Knox College, Galesburg, Iil, and the editor, Mr. Mc- Clure, is a trustee of this college. They have undertaken to assist the college in | Sl’CCE‘iS()Bi‘TO ;‘l’lE TITLE, There is one commendable thing to be said ‘about this new novel by Mrs. L. Walford, just issued in Appleton’s Town and Country Library: its moral tone i high, and juvenile readers will be rather fited by its perusal. It is a simple story, showing how great things may be | obtained through a little perseverance. | The hero 1s a listless fellow, with no par- | ticular aim 1n life. He visits a country town, and there falls in love and marries | agirl with a small fortune. They travel | B. -3 on the Continent for a counle of years, | never remaining long enough in one place | to tire of it. Then the hero learns, to his | surprise, that he has fallen heir to a for- | tune and a title. The pair take possession of their new estates, and their common and underbred manner causes much harsh comment. They awaken to a sense of | their unfitness, and, with the aid of a kind | friend, prepare like students for the world of refined society. Aftera time they gain were_not ‘“‘to the [New York: D. Appleton «“FANCIES FRAMED IN FLOREN- TINE.”” This is the title of a pretty little volume by Henry Russell Wray. There are thirty- eight ‘‘farcies’” or poetical prose sketches, each accompanied by one or more ilius- | Three Series of Images to Demonstrate the Corresponding Position of the Bird, When Taken From Three Different Points of Views. [Reproduced fro m ** Movement.”] in a movement which it 1s the desire to | Bailey. There are some beautiful senti- understand. experimental solution of certain Very eom- | themes on all sides of life, while many of Jlicated mechanical problems. The whole | {he yuthor's flowers are strewn on graves. t “mechanics”’ is based on a| Here is one “fancy” which affords a fair f the movement which is im~4 gxample of the style: parted to a mass, for from the movement ch produces it cln.bemeuu.ured The book contains over 200 illustrations. and among the 8 man movements i kineties, certain movements in m P question o knowledge o the force whi the point of vi in man from an comotion of quadrup animals, aerial locomot .nd insects, and the scientific ap chronophotography. Appleton & Co. Doxey; price $1 75.] STONEPASTURES. Eleanor Stu novel, “Stonepastures.”” She writes like a novice in the realm of fiction. the story in question isnot developed with remarkable el the incidents saying the Swedish dialect, she makes the Ecandinavian style of the * melodrama rather than like 8 countryman Ole Oleson. of Poverty Flat of is probably a ever—she bas chosen for her heroine a female parber. 1t also affords a very simple ubjects outlined are: Hu- from the point of view of an fromn ew of dynamics, locomotion " artistic point of view, Jo- eds and of aqualic tion, flight of birds lications {New York: D. For sale by Willinxp art is the author of a short The plot of everness, although some of are oddly interesting. Es- heroine discourse in the ‘down-East Yankee” of the Stonepastures is the f Soot City. The authoress pioneer in one thing, how- | ments in the volume, which touches CHARACTER. “The whole world is an archery field and its people are the targets; for ai certain ages | every man comes forward in_ his regular turn | and serves as a mark for the darts from the | drawn bows of Joy, Sorrow, Jealousy, Disap- pointment and Hate. “Often the aim is false and the arrows fly wide of their mark, while at other times they come daugerously near: but oftener they ierce him, and this wound influences all his | future life, for man is young when he enters the field where the life game is played. Then ““He who rejoices in being the target for Joy and Love finds that they are always joined soomer_or later by another archer called Sor- row, whose aim is unerring. Jealousy, Disap- pointment and Hate score many points; for shen the coward (and the greater number of targets are cowards) confronts that row of wicked bows and flees for leck of moral strength to stand the wound, the quick eyes and practiced hands of Jealousy, Disappoint- ment and Hate send their arrows witn sure and rapid flight on their crippling missions. “But the teiling game, which has been played since time was, goes on and will continue as long as time is. The old targets relate their experiences over and over again, as guides to the young who have not yet entered the arena. It matters not, however—the marksmen seem 10 know thieir own. | 7 of this year the collej | establishing *“The Abraham Lincoln School of Science and Practical Arts,” as a worthy memorial to Abraham Lincoln. Before Lincoln was even nominated for the Pres- dency Knox College conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Laws, and at the time | of the famous Lincoln and Douglas de- bate, held in Galesburg, October 7, 1858, the students «carried banners inscribed “Knox for Lincoln.” The publishers of McClure’s Magazine have established 100 scholarships in this new school. Each scholarship entitles the holder to all the privileges of Knox College, ana can be earned by securing 500 subscribers to Me- Clure’s Magazine. A scholarship pays the board, room rent and tuition of any young man or woman for a year. The publishers of McClure’s Magazine have also under- taken to raise an endowment fund of ‘a | quarter of a million dollars for this new department of Knox College. On October gé will celebrate the anniversary of the Lincoln and Douglas debate. The oration will be delivered by the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, and many | men of National fame will be present. Ther2 wiil undoubtedly be thousands pres- ent who were present at the debate. THE INSPIRATION OF POE’S “RA- VE Edgar Allan Poe had much trouble with the critics during his strange, eventiul career in the flesh. Of recent years critics, as a rule, have paid homage to Poe's genius, and his works complete are now being published in gorgeous style, possi- bly as a speculative outcome of this latter- day interest and devotion. But Poe's weaknesses are not to be permitted to find oblivion, and his fame is not to be trum- peted unchallenged down the corridors of time. The latest attack on Poe and his writings appears in the New York Journal over the initials, “A. H. L.” The latter quotes Dr. Thomas Dunn English, who affects to throw new light (sort of a cathode ray, as it were) on the ‘‘source of inspira- tion’’ of Poe’s “Raven,” and who is, fur- thermore, pleased to expose some of the poet’s numerous shortcomings. Poe’s fame will not be eclipsed by Dr. Thomas Dunn English, and even the article in question, which 13 printed below, seems like an echo of the assaults that were made on Foe by enemies during his lifetime: It was no great number of months ago when I had the pleasure of & chat with Dr. Thomas Dunn English, for a long time Revresentative of the Newark (N, J.) District in Congress. Dr. English is one of the last strong figures of a literary past, which reaches backward in its morning to include such names as Fenimore Cooper, N.P. Willis and Washington Irving. Dr. English, of all he has written, regretsnoth- ing but “Ben Bolt,” which he composed with- nd without price at the request of when the latter became editor of the New York Mirror. While talking with Dr. English I was told much that was new and interesting. The con- versation fell on Edgar Allan Poe, whom Dr. English knew closely and well. At one time Dr. English and Poe were warm friends; as much friends, at least, a8 Was pos- sible with one of Poe’s erratic and shallow nature. Poe was not to blame for his makeup, which was, however, a peculiar one. All sense of moral obligation was left cut of Poe. He might borrow your watch in the blandest way. and when you got it again you would re- ceive it from the pawnbroker, where Poe had ot all he could on it. Nordid this abash him. ile was as freely in your presence afterward, never offering 10 repay your loss or explain the phenomenon of his pawning your watch. He appeared to regard and relish it asthe most natural good and Pmrr thing to do. You coulc always tell when Poe had been drinking by his slouchy, unkemptdress. When sober Poe was & vast fop, & great dandy. He was & lion smong women, and they saw a great deal in his dark, melancholy, sensitive, but exceedingly weak face which was veiled Indeed, it was from women whom there is great rivalry for points of score among | to mex. this b.nfi of archers so widely different; and | Poe usa rule did his borrowing, and it was ! how eagerly, with drawn bows, they await | their jeweiry which he regulariy pawned. Poe each newcomer! was born in Boston, but prefer: to have it ‘believed that his native place was Baltimore, He never failed to refer slightingly to the Yankees and their literatuze. After Poe had attained a good deal of fame he was acked to attend a dinner in Boston and read & poem written for the occasion. He spoke to Dr. English aboutit at the last mo- ment. “] don’t know whether to go ornot,’’ he said. “\hat's the matter?”’ Dr. English asked. “I've not written any poem,” Poe replied. At this Dr. English suggested that he'd bet- ter say he was sick. This he might fairly do, as he’d just been rescued from one of his sprees. p“But," said Poe at the suggestion that he stay away from the dinner, I can’t remain away. Imustgo, you see, because they are go- ing to give me $100.” Poe went and read a poem which he'd writ- Emms Butte is the name “The whole world is an archery-field and its Deppie aie il wousded—S0=s a4y, == ! 4o when Le wasa bav. and which had never: 1896. 21 been regarded as worth pnhllahinz. It wasa weak, puerile thing. But Poeread it, having collected first his $100, Some one of the com- pany ventured to say that it was far below Poe's other poems then published. Poe arose at this end told the party that he had written the poem they had heard when be was 14 years old and read it to them to try the accuracy of their taste and poetic knowledge. He got very Jittle fame out of this scrape and was roasted 'and scorched in the papers withott mercy. I only tell it as showing the glullow vanity and lack of honest worth in Poe’s nature, 1 asked Dr. English his opinion of Poe's “Raven.” ¢ “What do I think of Poe’s ‘Raven’? It is more wonderful as verse than as poetry. At the time it was written many thought it was the work of Hurst, a clever Irishman, who, while not much of a poet, was the most finished versifier of the day. But Poe wrote it, and Hurst didn’t. The idea of the Raven and its elimbing and perching was obtained from one of the conversations in Kit North’s ‘Noctes Ambrosiana.’ The style of the verse itself was gained from Mrs. Browning’s poem, ‘Lady Geraldine’s Courtship’ Oh, 10! there was no intended plagiarism in it. Poe got $30 for “The Raven,” and $5 a verse for ‘The Bells,’ which was written and publllhau one verse at a time. No; they didn’t pay much to your poets, They paid more for prose. Graham, who founded Graham’s Magazine, once paid | Fenimore Cooper $1000 for a short story called | ‘The Lost Handkerchief.’ “How did ‘Lady Geraldine’s Courtship’ run?” 1 asked, as the doctor paused. I'd never heard of it being Poe’s model for “The Raven,” and Was anxious to make a COmparison. “It canters like this’’ replied the doctor, “and would scarcely fail toremind you of Poe's masterpiece, which was written afterwarg Soh! how still the lady standeth! ’Tisa dream, a dream of mercie "Twixt the vurple lattice curtains how she standeth, still and pale! "Tis & vislou, sure of mercies, seat to soften his self curses, 5 Sent {0 sweep a patient quiet o'er the tossing of i > said, “now throbbing through me! a0 stelue stones th that calm white forehead are ye ever g torrid cusiu6 sand desert of my heart and lite undone?” WIith murmurous stir uncertain, n the air the pur- ple curtain Swelleth in and swelleth out, around her motion- Tess pale brows, While the giding of the river sends a rippling noise forever : Through the opening casement whitened by the ‘moonlight’s siant repose. Dr. English thrashed the author of “The Raven’” on one tumuituous occasion. He does not like to have the affair referred to, but it ought to be told nevertheless, Poe, who, as I siated, was in the sadly too frequent habit, had pawned certain jewels he had borrowed from & lady. She complained. Poe mede some rcmark about her which reached the ears of her brother, who soon came after Poe with & crabtree cane. Poe walked into Dr. English’s office, where he was writing, and asked for a pistol, saying that the brother in question was looking for him with & cane intending to beat him. Bob Tyler, brother of President Tyler, was sitting with Dr. English at the time. The doctor expressed @ sincere hope that the brotner might find Poe and flail him to death. This opened ug the | avenue of a discussion between Poeand Dr. | English, to which the doctor gave a climax by Whipping Poe. The poet needed it. “BLEARK HOU LOCALITIES, Charles Dickens, the younger, m his in- | troduction to ‘‘Bleak House” (Macmillan’s | newly issued reprint of the original edi- | tion), identifies some of the localities men- | tioned in the story. Tom-all-Alone’s has | .| disappeared, but the present Took’s court, | Cursitor street, London, was Snagby Cook’s | court; Chichester Rents, leading from the | east side of New Square, Lincoln’s Inn, to Chancery lane, is the court in which Mr. Krook came to such a bad end; and Rus- sell court, between Catherine street and | Drary lane, is the thoroughfare whence | “a reeking little tunnel of a court” gave access to the iron gate of the ““hemmed-in churchyard, pestiferous and obscene,’” the “beastly scrap of ground” in which the remains of Captain Hawdon received Christian burial. Russell court has been cleaned up of | late, and the horrible little churchyard has | been converted into an asphalted play- | ground for the children of the neighbor- | hood, but the archway, and the tunsel, | and the sle}\s, Mr. Dickens says, are still | there. Mr. Tulkinghorn’s chambers were not_far distant from 58 Lincoln’s Inn tields, where Mr. Forster lived, and Mr. Dickens has always thought that, al- though the surroundings of the two houses are altogether diiferent, and al- though there was not the faintest likeness | between their occupants, Chesney Wold was much more than a mere accidental | resemblance to Rockingham Castle, in Northamntonshire, the resiaence of the { Hon. Mr. and Mrs, Richard Watson, to whom “David Copperfield”” was dedicated. Although “Bleak House” when it first appeared was one of the most popular of Dickens’ books, it excited a good deal of spiteful criticism. Lord Denman, for ine stance, who had been Chief Justice of the Queen’s Bench, was very angry indeed with the story, and criticized it with con- siderable acerbity in a series of articles which he contributed to the Standard. The causa teterrima was Mrs, Jellyby. Lord Denman, an enthusiastic advocate of the abolition of slavery, overlooking the fact that the novelist was as good an abolition- ist as himself, somehow persuaded him- self that the satire which was directed against the absurdities and extravagances of which Borrioboola-Gha was a fair enough type was “calculated to obstruct the %res! cause of human improvement.” He failed to see that one might satirize the foolish hangers-on of a movement and yet preserve a complete respect for and de- votion to the cause itself. THE GERMAN PRESS. Dr. Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer of the Phil- adelphia Evening Telegraph is the author of a volume rec ently issued in Berlin en- titled, “The Relations between the State and the Newspaper Press in the German Empire,with Some Outlines of the Science ot Journalism.” The bookis animportant contribution to contemporaneous litera- ture, and “sheds lifiht on the severe press restrictions of the Kaiser's realm, “Every Prussian,” says the Prussian constitution of 1850, ‘‘is entitled to express Ius opinion freely by word, writing, print or artistic representation. Censorship may not be introduced; every other restriction on freedom of the press will only be im- posed by law.” Up to the year 1874 every German state had its own peculiar press law, but in that year all these various stat- utes became merged into one for the whole empire. By this law the press of all Ger- many was relieved from some vexatious restrictions—such as stamp duty, censor- ship and bail for good behavior, under which 3t had theretofore groaned. Nevertheless, it still continued subject to a series of severe penal provisions, cal- calated to establish in the mind of every public writer what Bismarck termed & wholesome equilibrium between the sense of ireedom and the sense of fear. This equilibrium, however, may be said to have been in a state of complete derangement to the disadvantage of freedom between the years 1878 and 18090, during which period the anti-Socialist law made confis- cations and prosecutions of the daily press an almost everyday occurrence. True, the German press is not now subject to censor- shipin the sense that its productions must first receive the imprimatur of the police before they can see the light. But the “‘repressive’’ measures which have now taken tie place of the old ‘‘prohibitive” or “preventive’’ system are of a very incisive and vexatious kind, makihg the lot of the German journalist anything but a safe or havpy one. A copy of every newspaper published in the German Empire must be sent to the chief of the local police on the early morning of its issue; and if this number contains anything which appears to bring it within the venal action of the press law or the Criminal Code, tue whole issue of the number in question may be summarily impounded, together with its stereos and type ‘forms.” This may be done, for example, if the ¥Aper in ques- tion fails to give the name of its publisher and responsible editor; if it reveals move- ments of troops or measures of national defense; if it publishes anything of a trea- sonable character, or in the nature of an insult to the Emperor or one of his federal allies, or offers its readers any material of & lewd and impure kind, or incites to the committal of a penal offense, or stirs up the various classes of the lieges to violence against one another. The police of course and their coadjutor, the public prosecutor, have herea vexr-xy jarre and elastic margin of Judsments and their ohject being an imme- E and “reform’” he will very soon be made | acquainted with the inside of a fortress. diate one, is attained even if, after a day or two, their act is reversed by judicial deci- sion. For when. the contents of newspa- pers are thus hung up to dry like onions, 80 to speak, for five or six days, they arve absolutely valueless asnews. On theother hand the German journalist may commit some offenses which are unknown to the laws of other countries, certainly, at any rate, of England and America, and it is the dread of the possible consequences ot these offenses which is ever before the mind’s eye of the men whom Bismarck once contemptuously characterized as mere‘‘quill-cattle’’ana the present Emperor denounced ‘as *‘press scamps’—unscrupu- lous rascals wno were recruited from the “proletariat of passmen’’ that formed the curse of modern Germany. Over every editorial chair in the em- pire the Damocles sword of the press law hangs suspended by a mere hair, filling the occupant of this seat with a constant feeling of nervousness and apprehension. And first of all he has to keep perpetually in mind the class of privileged persons who enjoy such a degree of immunity from criticism that, as Herr Oberholtzer Temarks, the safest course for the journal- ist is to say nothing at all about them if the something which he nasto sayis not in_their favor. At the top of the list of this privileged class stands the Emperor, and his very name must be treated as| sacred, otherwise a prosecution for Majes- tats-beleidigung, or lese-majeste, will be the result. There used to be a speciaf crime known as Bismarck-beliedigung, but this of course has now ceased to oc- cupy the courts. It is a pity that Herr | Oberholtzer does not illustrate this partof | his subject by some of the most salient | cases in which a charge of lese-majeste bas been trumped up, but a writer in the Contemporary Review supplies the defi- | ciency in the most amusing manner. What constitutes lese-majeste and what does not lies with the Judge to determine, but in no circumstances is truth allowed to | be justification for any statement held to | be libelous about ary ‘““privileged person,” | ture” is announced by Messrs. J. A. Hill & | and the list includes the federal allies of | Co. Charles Dudley Warner is the editor- | the Emperor, as well as all the members | of their families, the sovereigns of friendly | states, embassadors and members of the federal council. When a monarch is dead, | however, he sinks to the same level asa | private person—as far as the law of libel is | concerned. Nevertheless, it would be in | the highest degree dangerous for any writer to abuse, say, the memory of Frederick William IV or Frederick III. | But apart from the crime of lese majeste, | the law is also very ingenious in bringing within its scope press offenses which are | construed as ‘“high treason,” and under | the latter category falls the publication of | military secrets. - Moreover, should any journalist dare to cross the line which forms the boundary between ‘“‘revolution’ The journal, too, would have a bad time of it which ventured, say, to advocate the restitution of Aisace-Lorraine to France. The only means of bringing home ex- treme 1deas of any kind to the minds of the people is to get them ventilated in the Reichstag or any other Legislature in the ratherland, where speech is compara- | tively free, and then these speeches may be reported in full provided they are re- ported truthfully. This is the only field, as Herr Oberholtzer says, in which the newspaper press is relieved from its other- | wise constant sense of responsibility to | the State, and hence even the anti-Socialist law was never able to withhold from the | eyes of the workingmen the fulminations | of leaders like Bebel and Liebknecht from | the tribune of the Imperial Parliament. | On the other hand the press does noten- joy the same immunity from prosecution in respect of its reports of vroceedingsin courts of law, which are subject to very stringent rules. With regara to press offenses against private persons, the law is almost equally strict, and, it may be added, equally el tic and subtle. Nowhere easier than in Germany can actions be brought for de- famation, libel, or “insulting the memory of a dead person.” In the latter case ‘“‘the insult must be of such a kind that if it had been offered the deceased when living it would h.\vz tended to make him appear | contemptible, or reduce him in public es- | teem.” But it is criticism of the living which constitutes the greatest danger to the German journalist, especially when delivering himself on productions in the fields of literature, science and art. For here he must never at his peril cross the | shadowy and movable line which separates | “‘unfavorable opinions” from positive *‘de- famation.”” Then the “boominfi” of ma- | terial enterprises is hedge about by a wonderful series of stipula- tions, as, for example, that Germans must “not be tempted to emigrate by the publication of ‘false facts’”; and if any newspaper is caughtin the act of misrepre- senting the conditions of life and labor in other countries, its “responsible editor’” will have to ‘“sit” for it. “Sit"” means going vo jail; and consequenily many journals have got Sitzredacteure, or “dummy’’ editors, being ordinary mem- bersof the staff whose duty it is to *'sit” out the penalties imposed upon them by the courts. Every journal is bound to print the name of its *‘responsible editor,” a legal personage through whom the law is supposed to get at the real author of a press oifence; but the institution of “‘dummy editors” often defeats the long- ing of the law in this respect, and thus it | happens that a man is paid somuch a year | for acting as the scapegoat of his col- leagues. When a newspaper offense can be tabulatea under no other title it is brought into the category of ‘‘disorderly conduct’”’ (grober Unfug), for which the ‘penalty is a fine of 150 marks or imprison- ment. But here Herr Oberholtzer leaves the reader in the lurch. There are degrading depths of discussion to which even so | patient und exhaustive an expositor as he cannot descend. ‘‘The author,” he says, “‘as a jeurnalist, must politely decline to subject to serious discussion a law which has been interpreted by the courts in a manner which places his profession on the same level as the barking of a dog, a_false alarm of fire, or a gross public offense against decency.”” But there is one stipu- lation of the press law which appears to command the approval of our indignant author, and that is the clause—the famous | eleventh—which imposes upon an editor the duty of inserting a matter-of-fact *‘rec- | tification’”” (Berichtigung) from an ag- grieved person with reference to any state- ment pubiished in the said editor's paper affecting the rectifier’s interests or honor. Apart from these ‘‘rectifica- tions,” German newspapers contain almost no ‘letters to the editor,” which form so conspicuous a feature of the English press, and are at once the out- come and the sign of civicliberty and pub- | { ! | illustrations_and fac-similes, with the scenery of ‘‘Izeyl.” Kirk Munroe has written a new story for Harper’s Round Table, the firstinstall- ment appearing in the current number. 1t is called “Rick Dale,” and contains the adventures of a young Californian, the son of a millionaire. Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. announce “Emma Lou, Her Book,” edited by Miss Mary M. Mears. It is the diary of an in- genuous 16-year-old Western gir!, whose lofty views of life supply an element of unconscious humor. Warburton Pike's volume_ of travel, “Through the Southern Arctic Forest,” will be issued this spring by Edward Arnold. it records a canoe journey of 4000 miles from Fort Wrange! to the Pelly Lakes and down the Yukon River to Bering Sea. The publishers of McClure’s Magazine have decided to spend $20,000 for short stories during the coming year."' They an- nounce that new writers will be especially welcome. Stories should run from 2000 10 6000 words. The shorter the story, the better chance of success. The Messrs. Macmillan will publish in the spring “The Pilgrim, and Other Poems,” by Ellen Burroughs. Thisnom de plume, well known to readers of the maga- zines, is that of Miss Sophie Jewett, an in- structor in English literature at Wellesley College. This is her first volume. The Walton edition of the Rev. Dr. Van Dyke’s “Little Rivers,” which the Messrs. Scribner announce, will be printed by De Vinne, on hand-made paper, with a photo- ravure portrait and extra illustrations on avan paper, and will have a new preface. The edition is limited to 150 copies. Messrs. Harper & Bros. will publish in book form the series of out-of-town sketches by Mrs. Rosina Emmet Sher- wood which have appeared from time to time in their various publications. They have also in press “The Bicyclers and | Other Farces,” by John Kendrick Bangs. A ‘‘Library of the World’s Best Litera- in-chief, with Professor Harry Thurston Peck and H. W. Mabie as associate etlitors. An advisory board of eleven well-known men-of-letters will lend its aid to the edi- tion. Count Tolstoi professes admiration for Ibsen’s morality and earnestness and ad- mits him to be a writer of striking indi- viduality. Tolstoiconfesses, however, that Ibsen’s playsimpress him as being confus- ing, that their foundation and form are to him unsympathetic and that their purpose is anything but clear. Messrs. Frederick Warne & Co. will pub- lish immedintel({ “‘Sport in Ashantee,” a story of the Gold Coast in the days of King Coffee Kalcalli, by J. A. Sketcnly; *The Carbuncle Clue: A Mystery,” by Fergus Hume; and “The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain,” by S. H. Jeyes, in the series | of ‘“Public Men of To-Day.” The Philistine for this month is full of good things. It is published by the Soci- ety of the Philistines, an international association of book-lovers and folks who write. The society was organized to fur~ | ther good-fellowship among men and women ‘“who believe in allowing the widest liberty to individuality in art.” Messrs. Way & Williams will publish in April “The Lamp of Gold,” a sonnet se- quence by Florence L. Snow, illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett. The idea of the sequence is taken from the reference in “The Marbie Faun” to the seven-branched | golden candlestick. They announce for the same date “A Mountain Woman,” a volume of short stories, by Elia W. Peattie. The New Amsterdam Book Company have in press three books which will be on the market this month: “Seven Frozen Sailors,” by George Mannville Fenn; *In Scarlet and Silk; or, Recollections of Hunting and Steeplechase Riding,” by Fox Russell; and ““New Sporting Stories,” by G. G., author of “*Sporting Stories and Sketches.” | _“The Capsford Mystery, or Is He the | Man?” is the title of W. Clark Russell’s | new book, announced by the New Amster- dam (N. Y.) Book Company. The author | has heretofore been known asa writer of sea tales only, but the new novel deals al- together with ‘land-lubbers.” In this work Mr. Russell has so skillfully veiled his plot that until the close of the volume the reader is unable to determine ‘“Who Is the Man.” The March Romance is the most inter- esting of the series, since_its change into an illustrated magazine. It contains a pa- thetic little story, ‘a charming poem by Even Rexford, and illustrated articles upon a half-dozen timely subjects. There is a good anecdote told in its brief little story about dogs, while the article on the next Paris Exgositiou gives an idea of the :ffl)ld of talk about the great French fair of A new volume of stories by Richard Harding Davis, including a Van' Bibber, is on the press of the Messrs. Scribner. Mr. Davis has been commissioned to visit Rus- sia to be present at the coronation of the Czar, and also to visit Athens next month to witness the revival of the Olympic aames under the patronage of the King of Greece. He is to ‘‘write up” both of these interesting occasions. Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. have iust published **Moral Evojution,” by Pro- esgor George Harris of Andover; ‘‘The Life of Thomas Hutchinson, Last Royal Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay,” by James K. Hosmer; “In New England Fields and Woods,” by Rowland E. Robinson; and new editions of “Over the Teacups,” Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Pink and White Tyranny” and Julia A. Shedd’s “Famous Painters and Paintings” and “Famous Sculptors and Sculpture. The March Nickel Magazine has the usual quota of good articles and pictures. The really remarkable value given in this ublication for 5 cents rather disarms crit- cism, but one is still inclined to wish that the publishers had chosen some less gaudy hue than imperial blue for the cover. The general effect of a rather pretty design is marred by this fault, but it will probably enhance its selling qualities, and that is the main point to be gained in these days of big editions and infinitesimal profits. The Lark for March is as able a protest against the dictum of these who have in- sisted on taking it too seriously as it is an exponent of free and wide-swinging Bohemianism. It has too much brains to be irresponsible and too fine a sense of satire to offend. Mr. Doxey is responsible for the mechanical part of it, and that means that the queer, outlandish. obscure and sltogether original character of the monthly is receiving all possible assistance from an appreciative business manager. Notable features of Outing for March are: “Duck-shooting on Savannah River’’; *In- cognito,”” a racing story; *‘“Wild Sport in Sata it i ylon'’; “Across the Mesaba,'*a story of lic spirit in their hlfihest form. Under | Ce¥ ’, ¥ o 3 + a woman’s adventures while homestead- disorderly conduct” the Government ing; “Among the Russian Bears”; lumps all the newspaper offenses which cannot be otherwise assigned a name; but | with the confiscation of particular issues, | and the punishment by fine or imprison- ment of convicted editors, it does not ex- haust its powers of making the press feel the weight of its displeasure. It has at its disvosaf & still more petent means, per- haps, of bringing recalcitrant writers to their senses in the shape of its almost un- restricted power over the sale and distri- bution of the journals, though this is a subject that would require a column of ex- planation all to itself. Little wonder that when, last year, the Emperor proposed, in his ill-fated anti-revolutionary law, to add still more to the fetters of the press, the whole nation rose up and declaimed against the idea as a positive outrage on the civilization of the nineteenth century. LITERARY NOTES. Meehan’s Monthly for March is re- plete with valuable contributions to the science of horticulture. R. D. Blackmore’s new novel, entitled “Dariel: A Romance of Surrey,” will be ublished by Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. t will not appear until 1897. A volume entitlea ‘‘Studies in Judea- ism,” by S. Shechter, which Macmillan & Co. are soon to bring out, deals with some obscure topics in the Jewish faith. A. Blanck (New York) has just pub- lished “Sarah Bernhardt, Artist and Woman,” by A. L. Renner, with numer- ous autograph Ti‘g“ especially written by Bernhardt. e volume contains sixty **Adolph,” a story of the Canadian lumber woeds; “Model Yachts,” a practical treat- ise upon how to build and rig miniature racing crait. The editorial ana record de- partments are interesting, while the gen- eral sketches and illustrations are up to the high standard maintained by this pop- ular magazine of sport, travel and recrea- tion. ‘W. Earl Hodgson, who claims to be & friend of the British Poet Laureate, says that Mr. Austin, originally a Catholig, is now an Agnogstic; “vet he is no more dog- matic about Agnosticism than he ever was about faith, and so supports the Church with mightand main.”” Mr. Hodgson also tells the readers of the English Iliustrated thatoneof Mr. Austin’s personal friends is the Queen. who for years has been in the habit of sending;him, on appropriate ocea- sions, a photograph of herself or some other token of remembrance and esteem. An- other is the Prime Minister, who, when he goes to Swinford Old Manor, feels that there is an exception to Lord Beacons- field’s rule that a country-house visit is three days of boredom in which a man can only eatand sleep. = =A Warmer Climate Than New York. «“Have you heard recently from your divorced husband?” said a New York lady, meeiing a friend. -%{eg; the last time I heard from him he was wearing his summer clothing.”” “Good grecious! I didn’t know he was dead.” “He isn’t; Texas Siftez he’s down i Florida."— THE HOG RANCH NUISANCE The Residents of South San Francisco Say the Pens Must Go. PLACES THAT BREED PLAGUES. Mr. Woolf’s Ideas of a Lady’s Parler. The Hog Limits to Be Changed. The citizens of those portions of South San Francisco known as the Bay View Tract and the Excelsior Homestead are complaining, and with excellent reason, of tne hog ranches in the vicinity of their homes. A pig at best is not dainty in his tastes, and will grunt joyfully in view of a mud bath in any convenient puddle, but it is re- served for the penned-up swin2 of South San Francisco to demonstrate how low these animals may sink and live. And to the moral credit of thoseimprisoned pork- ers some of them do not live, as the dead carcasses now lying inside of the pens at many of the ranches will prove. But nothing euphonic will fully and clearly explain just now filthy these places are, and a look at the creatures wading in the cesspools of their habitations is dis- gusting 1n the extreme. The pens inevery case are too.small for the number of hogs crowded in them, as all of the ranches are owned by small landholders, who make their living by fattening swine for the mar- ket. The animals are fed on the slops from the restaurants, and every day these unsightly tankwagons can be seen making their way over the hills to the hog ranches. Neither vehicles, nor drivers are very nice affairs as they go along the public thoroughiare. There are about twenty-five of these hog farms within the City limits, each and every one of them a nuisance to the neigh- borhood. In many places families living | near these unclean epots haye been at- tacked by sickness in the form of an epidemic. Empty dwelling-houses can be seen alongside of hog ranches where the tenants were driven away by the malodor- ous and germ-breeding institutions. The Excelsior Homestead is a_ pretty tract drained by Islais Creek, and along both slopes of the stream the hog-rancher has located with his pens and slopwagon. When the drainage from the establish- ments reaches the creek the little stream flows on volluted to the bay. Arthur Mc- Cooey has a ranch on Italy street of 300 hogs. This is one of the places complained of, and when Health fnspeclors inne and Duren and the reporter visited it yester- day they found that an effort had been made to clean the pens. However, for | sanitary purposes, if not for the practical, the attempt was a failure and the place was not nice, to say the least. G. Herrin has an atrociously unclean ranch at the corner of Athens and Italy streets—mark how the classic and the arts are associated with the South San Fran- cisco home of the hog. John Tyson on Madrid street, near Per- sia, has about 100 swine penned up in un- speakable filth, and to every three hogs he has one cur dog that growls and growls. Julius Woolf, who runs a ranch at the corner of Paris and Italy streets—ihe Eurcpean names of the thoroughfares go one way and the names of capital ciies the other on the Excelsior Homesteau— was helping to feed Tyson’s swine yester- day. e mentioned that his own place was “a lady’s parlor’’ compared with son’s. The visitors learned subsequently that Mr. Woolf’s ideas of ‘‘a Jady’s parlor” are very limited, as & more wretched set of pens a pig was never confined in. When the hog farms leave the City Mr. Woolf’s should head the procession. In all the ranches on the homestead the drainage of the pens is allowed to run into the street, creating a nuisance in pub- lic view of the passer-by. In some places efforts have been made to impound the seepage by catching it indeep holes dug for the purpose. This creates a cesspool which does its part in peisoning the at- mosphere_and = spreading a pestileuce around. But bad as affairs are on the Ex- celsior homestead, down in Bay View they are worse. Many places in this pretty suburb are made unfit to live in by the neighboring hog farms. Here the dead animals were found lying in the drainage outside of the pens. Frank Schuster has about thirty hogs in a few old filthy pens on the corner of Twenty- first avenue South and Istreet. Hestated that the nigh tide, once a month, reached his place and cleaned his yard. The place did not appear to have been visitsd by any tide since the deluge. The place of Peter Golirey, a near neigh- bor, was equally bad, but the ranch of George Stambough threw all the others in the shade. Its foul, or rather vile, condi- tion, is indescribable and merits the imme- diate attention of the Board of Health. In fact the line known as the ‘“‘hog lim- its’’ should be placed further south, so that the swine-infested spots in Bay View and the Excelsior Homestead be cleansed. In view of the numerous complaints from property-owners in those tracts the health authorities are satisfied that the matter must be acted upon and the ranches removed to localities where they will not be an offense to residents in the vicinity. ————————— It is estimated that of the 90,000 paupers in London two-thirds are able-bodied and capable of working. NEW TO-DAY. o From U.S.Journal of Medicine Prof. W. H. Peeke, who makes a specialty of Epilepsy, has without doubt treated and cur- success isastonishing. We have heard of cases of 20 years’ standing cured by him. He publishes a valuable ease, which he sends lwi th a arge bot- tle of his absolute cure, free to any safferers wha may send their P. O. and Express address. We advise any one wishing a cure to address adlrsh. 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