The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 22, 1896, Page 21

- finer, partly invisible, less corporeal body— THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH ' 22, 1896. SEVEN MEi IN ONE. l D philosophical writer whose books | of human thoughts. Dr. Je- material sciences and mere speculative A~ AN FRANCISCO has produced a | deal with the highest of human | aspirations and the most profound | rome A. Anderson’s works go beyond | what are commonly known as the| thought. It will avail us nothing to | pass them by slightingly in favor of | the lighter literature that tasks the | gray matter less to appreciate, for | these thoughts and aspirations are | iastening themselves even upon this lighter | literature and.are coming into our daily | lives, whether we will or no. Men may cry for intellectual peace, but there will be none. There will be less as the years go on, and the tide will not turn toward mental peace until human science has classified | and named the last phenomena of which nature is capable. Last week we read | that photographs could be taken through | solid substances. Yesterday Edison told us he could see through a two- inch plank. What will to-morrow bring forth? In spite of ourselves we must think, and we will think| about these verities and subtleties of na- ture, and those who begin to think before circumstances compel them to will be the better equipped for the entire struggle— | which, pe"fimps. does not cease with the shuffling off of the body. This, at least, | is the view taken by the author of the book, “Septenary Man,” "and it is no more novel or modern a view than is the theory that the human being is com- posed of seven separable parts; func- | tions upon seven separable planes. The | latter theory, though almost sensa-| tionally new to the Western world, isin reality as old as the theory of m- | mortality, which indeed it seems to eluci- | date and make rational to the understand- | ing not satisfied with dogmatic faith. Dr. Anderson makes no claim to originality in dividing man into sevsn parts, but in- sists rather that ‘‘the Vedantic schools of Brahmanism held and still hold that | man has at least four or five prineiples or vehicles of consciousness entering into his ccmposition; Buddhism recognizes | seven; Con nism five; Gnostici sm sev- | en; the Kabala seven, and Christianity | three! The same teaching can be very clearly verified in the old Egyptian sym- | i lier, as well as the | philosophy, particulariy in | on presents the following | septenary formula: | , the body. , ‘astral body. ality. | animal soul (desire). nas, the human soul (thought). dhi, spiritual soul (intuition). Atma or Jiva, spirit. Starting upon this hypothesis, explain- ing the nature of each of these seven parts, and citing evidence of their reality, the author treats at length and in clear, well- chosen language this subject that to the Western world is still occult and mysti- thouech surely no more so than ability to see through a two- plank was a month - ago. s the book of value for the | scientific reader is the fact that its | affects rather a simple style and | employs homely English words and 1ses wherever possible. | e first four of these seven principles known as the Lower Quaternary the last three as the Higher Triad. | Without the triad man would be nothing more than a perfected animal. Robbed of | the quaternary, man functions on a plane imperceptible to merely human faculties. | The triad is divisible only in a metaphysi- | cal sense. They are but manifestations of | the ego—that essence of the soul, spirit, life, | God, or whatever name one may know it | by—which persists. Though the concep- tions of the higher triad, as set forth in Dr. Anderson’s book, are very beautiful and some of them present very clearly drawn pictures to the intellect, yet those | who eschew metaphysical subjects—or | think they do—will find greater interest | in the author’s explanation of the guater- nary, or lower manas. Here the division | of the principles is real and in a measure susceptible of proof to the dullest. Hyp- notism, the phenomena of the so-called spiritualistic medium, the well-attested fact of clairvoyance, sleep, dreams and | many other and more strictly physical henomena, explanations of whick are | impossible to all but the students of | theosophy, are by this theory of the lower | quaternary made clear and Teasonable to | the mind; are proven by the rules of logic, | at least, if not by ocular demonstration. | There is something fascinating about | are ihis book of Dr. Anderson’s, and one-| whose curiosity is sufficiently aroused to | lead Lim to take it up seriously, or at least with mind open for the reception of new truths, no matter where they may lead, will not lay it down before finished, and will have his Bppeti(e well whetted for further peeps behind the curtain of the purely material world. | What is occult to us to-day may be scientific to_us to-morrow. Yetitalways was scientific, and it was cur own angle of | vision that changed. Dr. Anderson’'s | book is occult only to those who have | not turned its leaves slowly and thought- inlly. and those who do this will find it in- tensely interesting at least. There is always much buman interest in the con- templation of man from a standpoint otber than that of bones and flesh. Has man a | linga sharira? Is this linga sharira, or astral body, separable from the physical | body? Has man a still finer, still more | invisible astral counterpart capable of a world-wide separation fror: the corporeal body? What g:comes of these finer astral | siells when the phenomenon called death | intervenes? And what is this phenomenon | of death? Questions like these are answered in ‘‘Septenary Man,’* not by | dogma, not by empirical platitudes or | generalities, but by a searching examina- | tion of the preniises, followed by the | logical presentation of a science that is much older than’ any western science. And this science is nof dogmatic. Beyond | the primary postulate of a supreme intel- | ligence behind and in the universe, nothing is presented on faith, and the reasoning fucalties alone are appealed to. “Septenary Man" is published by the Lotus Publishing Company, 1170 Market street, San Francisco, and is sold by ali book-dealers. AT THE SIGN OF THE GUILLOTINE. As the title half implies, “At the Sign of the Guillotine” is 2 story of the French Revolution. The author, Harold Spender, has introduced characters and events of historical importance. The leading part fn the story is played by no less a person- tge than Maximilian Robespierre, whose jespotic power and whose tragic downfall tre strongly described. A love story lorms tiie centerpiece of the pla_t. Robes- | pierre imagines that he has claim to the hand of Elise Duplay, who loves and is bved by Deputy Bertrand Louvier. Robespierre has not made a good lover. Self-absorbed in the sentimentalism of his ywn passion he had quite forcotten that n romance, as in war, it takes two to play tgame. Love had been to him a decorous AN AN~ | through if they once start in. | work. In the first part, Tommy, grown tired of playing with the wooden am- mals of his Noah’s ark, becomes drowsy while sitting on a win- dow-sill, and is. amazed to see his animals suddenly limber up and run away. A sheep offers to assist Tommy in finding the lost animals, and | | a Thingumbob; the Welsh rabbit, with a | foremost rank of our latter-day humorists, drama, in which he filled the front of the | stage while the girl played a secondary | submissive part ontside of the glare of the | footlightss Elise, in fact, had been tho | ornamental fringe to his existence—a pic- | turesque idyl, hardly gifted with a sepa- | rate will or personality. He looked to | find in her not a partner in danger, but a resting-place after storm, built for his | special harboring. ' This complacent con- | fidence in his own powers had not lent | strength to_his wooing. i It ignored the chief factor. It expected | a surrender withoat a conquest, a victory | without a battle. Elise is a graceful, charming brunette. Her home is the cen- ter of gayeties, and she is betrothed to | Louvier. She has never considered the | love of Raobespierre, yet the latter is| astounded when the revelation comes to | him that he has a rival. This awakes in | the tyrant a burning desire to possess. He | seeks an excuse to slay Louvier, easily frames one, and has the Deputy thrown into a prison and condemned to the guillo- | tine. Asa last resort Elise, to save her | lover, promises her hand to the tyrant | when peace dawns, sacrificing her own | freedom to guain Louviers reprieve. | The latter is shocked to . learn of the promise and that the attempt | te have him slain was inspired by | Robespierre as a rival for the hand of | Elise. He makes war upon the tyrant in | and out of the convention. The overthrow | of Robespierre brings victory in a double sense to Louvier, for it sayes Elise to him, and the twain, from a distant land of | peace, with calm interest watch the rise | of Napoleon’s star. Edmund Burke, the | famous British statesman, figures in the | story as the friend of the ola order, but | which he would fain have bettered by an | infusion of the best ideas of the new. The | character of the Marquis de Saens, a friend and genius of the old regime, is also well | drawn. The story is one of much strength, | bemng intrenched behind a history that forever alive with thrilling interest. [ ' The Merriam Company, publish hers. Sold at the Popular Book Store; price $L. TOMMY TODDLES. | A story of remarkable cleverness is | “Tommy Toddles,”” supposed to be told in response to the plea of a child for A tale of animals and boys, With guns and fights and lots of nofse. The author is Albert Lee, and the book is as full of interest of a peculiar kiad as an egg is full of meat. It is a story that will charm the young, and, moreover, it will win its way with the big folk, for there are very few of the elder people who | will not want to read “Tommy Toddles” The vol- | ume is quite as attractive as ‘‘Alice in | Wonderland.” There are two parts to the | on their long journey they meet burglars and pirates and many fearful and wonder- | ful beings—the queerest kind of a creature, body that looks like cheese and ears that resemble pieces of toast; and different sorts of seals that weep different colors of sealing-wax. They hear a discussion of Oysters by Clams, and a Stone Gargoyle enchains their attention with the account of a duel between the Penguin and the Swordfish, wherein the fact is demon- | strated that ‘‘the Penguin is mightier than | the Swordfish.” Two pieces of rich plum- | pudding are responsible for the first dream. | In the second partan ex-pirate joins | Tommy on a trip through the corridors of time, the twain being assisted by old Father Time himself. The corridor walls are covered with pictures, and Tommy catches a glimpse of Washington crossinig the Delaware and of the battle of Bunker Hill; he sees the taking of the Bastile and thé great London fire; then the Spanish Armada and the Crusades, and later, the burning of Rome, Julius Casar crossing the Rubicon, the siege of Carthage, the building of the Parthenon, the de- struction of Troy and the fall of| Babylon, and other things whiz | past in a confusea blur, until the | deluge is reached and Tommy and the ex- pirate enter the ark. The ex-pirate is profifie of “little classics” " which | le is only too eager to recite| on all possible occasions ‘“for Tom- | my's instruction.” The latter’s adventures | in"the ark are more wonderful than his ex- periences out of it. He is a guest at a ban- | vet of animals of evety description, and fore he is awakened he has received a care that makes his heart leap into his | throat. The book should be a favorite in | the home. Pefer S. Newhall has made a notable success in his illustrations, which | are as happily appropriate to the lefter of | the work as Cruikshank’s sketches were to Dickens. [New York: Harper & Bros., publishers, For sale by A. M. Robertson; | price $1 25.] | « THE BICYCLERS” AND OTHER | FARCES, | The parlor entertainment and amateur | performance generally, ‘“The Bicyclers | and Other Farces,” by Jobn Kendrick Bangs, is just the thing for evening fun | and amusement. Mr. Bangs stands in the ’ and there is nothing gross about his | humor, either. The volume above men-} tioned is illustrated profusely and well. | Besides “The Bicyclers,” the titles of the | farces are: Fatal Message' and ‘A Proposal Under} “A Dramatic Evening,” “The | ¥o0 Difficulties.” Here is one of the laughable situations from “The Bicyclers” : Mrs. Perkins has been called to the tele- phone, and there she has learned, to her utter horror, that her close friend and guest, Mrs, Bradley, has been arrested and juiled while enjoving a bicycle ride in the evening for the offense of not carrying a lamp. Mrs. Bradley has given the police an _assumed name. Mrs. Perkins screams and grows faint, and all the heusehold gathers. Then follows the scene from which the following is an extract: Perkins—Great heavens! What's the matter? Barlow—Get some water—quick ! Mrs. Perkins—Air! Give me air! Perkins—(Grabbing bicycle pump from Bar. low's hand)—Don’t stand there like an idiot! Act! She wants air! (Places pump on floor and begins to pump air at her.) = Barlow—Who's the idiot now? Wheel her over to the window. She’s not a bicycle. (Tney do so and Mrs. Perkins revives.) Perkins—What is the matter? k Mrs. Willoughby Hawkins— second street—no lamp—bailed papers! Perkins—What's that got to do with us? Who's Mrs. Willoughby Hawkins? Mrs. Perkins—Emma!_Assumed name. Barlow—Good Lord! Mrs, Bradley in jail. Perkins—This is & nice piece of—ow—my ankle, my ankle! (Enter Bradley and Yardsley, Bradley carry- in a bottle of Pond’s Extraet.) Bradley—W here the deuce did you fellows go to? I'vebeen wandering all over the square looking for you. Perkins—Your wife— Btedley—(dropping bottle)~What? What about her—hurt ? Mrs. Perkins—Worse (sobs)! Bradley—Killed? Mrs. Perkins—Worse! L-lol-locked up—in jai ; wants to be lamped out. Teat heavens! Where? When? What next? Where's my hat? What'll the baby say? I must go to her at once. Yardsley—Hold on, old man; let me go up. u're_too excited. I know the police cap- tain. You stay here and I'llrunup and fix it with him. If you go he'll find out who Mrs. Hawkins is. You'll get mad and things will be worse than ever, Bradley—But— Barlow—No buts, my dear boy. You just ¥ ’ Dr. Jerome A. Anderson, Who Has Just Written a Notable Philosophical Work, “ Septenary Nature of Man.” |From a photograph.] even twenty years. Women have got no business. Barlow—Don’t get mad, Brad. If you knew the fascination of the wheel you wouldn’t blame her a bit. [New York: Harper & Bros. For sale by A. M. Robertson, Post street; price | $125. THE SECOND OPPORTUNITY. W. Pett Ridge has {ollowed up his suc- cessful novel, *‘A Clever Wife,”’ with an- | other story that bids fair to be as well re- ceived as the first. *“The Second Oppor- | tunity of Mr. Staplehurst’’ makes delight- “TELL HIM TO ASK MRS. WILLOUGHBY HAWKINS” [Reproduced from ““The Bicyclers,” by John Kendrick Bangs.] stay where you are? Yardsley’s right. It would be an awful grind on you if this ever became known. Bob can fix it'up in two min- utes with the captain, and Mrs. Bradley can come right back with him. Besides he can get there in five minutes on his wheel. It will | take you twenty minutes on the cars. Yardsley — Precisely. Meanwhile, Brad, you'd better learn to ride the wheel, so that Mrs. B. won't have to nde alone. This ought 0 be & lesson to you. Perkins—Bully idea (rubbing his ankle). You can use my wheel to-night. I—I think I've had enough for the present. (Aside) The pave- ments aren’t soft enough for me; and, oh, Lord! What a stony curb that was! Bradley—I never thought I'd get 50 low. Yardsley—Well, it seems to me thata man with a wife in jail needn’t be too stuck up to ride a bicycle. ‘But—by-by—I'm off. (Exit.) Mrs. Perkins—Poor Emma, out for freedom and lands in jail. What horrid things police- men are to arrest a woman! . Bradley (Indignantiy)—Served her right! If en on’t obey the law they ought to be arrested the same as men. 1i she wasn’t my wife I'd like to see her sent up for ten years, or THE GARGOYLE TELLSHTHE STORY OF THE FIGHT. [Reproduced from *“Tommy Toddles.’’] . ; ful reading. It is light and airy,and quite the thing for a leisure hour of release from | ordinary cares of the world. Both of the above-mentioned stories deal with literary folk. Mr. Ridge seems to be right at home with ‘‘the mob of gentlemen who write.” In the new work Mr. Staplehurst has writ- ten the novel of the year, winning wealth and celebrity. He is feted and toasted on all sides, and becomes puffed up with a sense of his, own importance. He | looks upon life from his lofty posi- | tion, and wishes that he could be | permitted to live twice, so that in the second existence he could revel in youthful pleasures that he could only ap- Hred“e in retrospect, as it was now. Staplehurst’s wife goes for a visit to a | foreign land. The husband is rather giad of it. While he is musing an unknown person calls him up on the telephone. It turns out to be Jove, who grants the wish for a second opportunity. Then for six weeks Staplehurst, under a new name, revels in love affairs. It nearly ruins him, and when he winds up in jail he is glad to hear the voice of Jove once more, and only too glad to have Jove restore him to the comforts of home and loving wife. Jove brings about the desired change on Staple- ‘hurst’s sworn promise never to talk about changing again. [New York: Harper & ?lmza ] For sale by A. M. Robertson; price ANOTHER OF THOMAS HARDY'S BOOKS. “The Hand of Ethelberta” (a comedy in chapters), a work of Thomas Hardy, which was first published in 1876, bas appeared in a new edition, with an etching by H. Mac- beth-Raeburn and a map of Wessex, that imaginary location of so many of Hardy’s stories. Ina new preface the author ex- plains that “‘this somewhat frivolous nar- rative was produced as an interlude be- tween stories of a more sober design, and it was given the sub-title of a comedy to indicate--though not gquite accurately— the aim of the performance. A high de- gree of probability . was not attempted in the arrangement of the incidents, and there was expected of the reader a certain lightness of mood, which should inform him with a good-natured willingness to accept the production in the spirit in which it was offered. The characters themselves, however, were meant to be consistent and human. “On its first appearance the novel suf- i fered, perhaps deservedly, for what was | | | involved in these intentions—for its qual- ity of unexpectedness in particular—that unforgivable sin in the critic's sight—the immediate })re(‘ursor of Etnelberta having been a purely rural tale. Moreover in its choice of medium, and line of perspective, it undertook a delicate task: to excite in- terest in a drama—if such a dignified word meay be used in the connection—wherein servants were us important as, or more im- portant than, their masters; wherein the drawing-roont was sketched in many cases from the point of view of the servants’ hall. Such a reversal of the social fore- ground has, perhaps, since grown more welcome, and readers even of the finer- crusted kind may now be disposed to par- don a writer for presenting the sons and daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Chickerel as beings who come within the scope of a congenial regard.” [New York: Harper & Bros., publishers. For sale by A. M. Robertson ; price $150.] DEARTH OF AMERICAN AUTHORS, Apropos of the very common complaint that our American periodicals are de- voting the greater part of their space to the productions of our British cousins the “Lounger” in the New York Critic makes this- timely and interesting explanation: A New York publisher with whom I had the pleasure of a long conversation a few days ago is of the opiniom that the American author. is bound to come to the front before very long, and he thinks that the enthusiastic reception of Mr. Stephen Crane’s ‘‘Red Badge of Courage” will have done much to encour- age him. 1am sure that I hope so, for I find the dearth of American authors depressing. Look at our magazines—not one of them with. an American serial except the Century and the Atlantic, the former with Mr. Hopkinson Smith’s “Tom Grogan,” a short novelette; the Iatter with Miss Jewett's New England’ tale. “Tom Grogan” is finished in the March num- ber, so that leaves Miss Jewett's the only American serial in the field. . Now, don’t you suppose that if the Century could find an Ameriean novelist with the drawing power of Mrs. Humphry Ward, it would be only too glad, or that, if Harper's could have found an American story to take the place of ‘‘Briseis,” or if Scribner’s could have substituted an equally good American tale for *‘Sentimental Tommy,” they would have jumped atit? In- deed they would. For many reasons—one for the satisfaction of cultivating home talent, an- other because American authors are not so high-priced as the foreigners. Both of these are important considerations. No American ublisner brings out English authors because e personally prefers them to Americans, but solely because he cannot find American writers of the same commercial valune. He will in timz, bowever, 1 feel sure, and the sooner the better for all concerned—except the Britisher.” TEXTBOOK OF RELIGION. The Primer, first of the series of Text- books of Religion, has just been 1ssued. The preface, which is written by Rev. Father Peter C. Yorke, the general editor of the series, states that it is the aim of the series to provide manuals of gradu- ated religious instruction which will take the pupil from the lowest to the highest grades. The foundation of the series is the Baltimore catechism. The compilers have taken the gquestions and answers, have graded vhem and have added reading lessons, pictures aud hvmns. Hence the children are not compelled to learn a dif- ferent set of answers as they advance in their classes. The Primer contains 95 ages and is bound in stiff cloth covers. t deals with tbirty-three answers of the Baltimore catechism, which are explained in forty lessons. Twenty-nine half-tone engravings illustrate the text. [San I'ran- cisco: Printed by P..J. Thomas. Sold at bookstores. Price 25 cents. In quantities over fifty, 20 cents.] A NEWSPAPER DIRECTORY. The annual catalogue of American and Canadian newspapers for 1896 is issued by Messrs. Dauchy & Co. of 27 Park place, New York. This ed ition (which is the sixth) is folly up to the high standard set by editions of former years, and is all that could be desired in respect to type, paper, pressvork and binding, while in the con- venient and compact arrangement of its statistics and information we do not think it could be improved upon. The feature of a space for memoranda following the name of each paper makes it speciully valuable to all advertisers, as it can be used as a complete record of all contracts or as an index to contract record books, etc. It contains 710 pages, is bound in cloth and the published price is $5. THE APRIL OVERLAND. The Overland for April appears in an artistically designed cover in colors by Boeringer. The features of -the 1ssue are: “California at the Atlanta Exposition” by J. A. Filcher, ‘‘International Bimetallism” by John J. Valentine, “The Defenders of the Union” by Frank Elliott Myers, and the second series of “Original Sketches by San IFrancisco Painters” by Pierre N. Boeringer. CALLING LIST. The San Francisco Calling List for 1896, compiled by Edward M. Greenway, has been issued by H. 8. Crocker & Co. In addition_to the list of society people with their addresses thereis a chapter on card etiquette, forms for wedding invitations, ete. To people in society the little volume isinvaluable. Itisin compact form, and the mechanical work 1s admirable. LITERARY MATTERS. Marie Corelli, whose ‘‘Cameos’ has just & Kimball’s Peacock Library, makes in this way her first appearance in book form. Her short stories are, however, very well known in California, and esgicinlly in San Francisce, where she lives. er new story is of life in this City. Those who are interested in Maeter- linck and who prefer to read his work in transiation will be glad to know that Mr. Richard Hovey has finished another volume, which completes th: translation of M. Maeterlinck’s plays. This second volume will appear shortly as its prede- cessor did in Stone & Kimball’s “‘Green Tree’”” Library. Kene Doumic says that the gravest peril that threatens literature is the,disappear- ance of a literary public. Authors have to write for a crowd which regards beauaty of form, purity of stvle and distinction of ideas as of secondary importance. The coming revival of the Greek Olym- pic games at Athens is largely due to_the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin of France, through whose instrumentality a congress of delegates representing the leading nations was called together to arrange for the contests. In a forthcom- ing number of -the Century Magazine Baron de Coubertin will have a paper de- scriptive of the modern games at Athens, and the artist Castaigne Is going to Greece to make the illustrations for it. taizne has drawn a series of remarkable pictures of games as they used to be for the April number of the Century, to accompany a Elsper descriptive of them written by Allan arquand, professor of archsology at Princeton. | W. T. Stead’s ‘‘Penny Novel” idea seems to be a tremendous success so far. Over 400,000 copies of the abridged *‘She’’ have been sold. The Philadelphia Ledger ad- vises that some action be taken before this enterprising personage starts-cutting Dick- ens, Thackeray and Scott down to the limi- tations of a “Penny Novel.” Nothing is sacred to him. The writer who signs himself *“Marma- duke” saysin London Truth: “There are three classes of literary people in this coun- try. The first is obtrusive, the second is obscene and the third is obscure.” “Ia,”” by “Q,;” may lay claim with jus- tice to possessing the shortest combina- tion of title and author of any book yet published. “Q” is Quiller-Couch, the well-known English writer, and “Ia” is the name of the heroine, a fishergirl of a pretty liftle love story. Horace Vachell has a new story, “Jimmy’s Rest Cure,” in the Pall Mall Magazine. Mr. Vachell has written quite a number of stories lately and some of them are decidedly meritorious. Horace isa highly educated young Englishman and is the leader of a small colony of 1 his countrymen at ranching in San Luis Obispo County. E. F. Benson, who helped to start the “new woman” idea in fiction by his 21 “Podo,” is engaged in writing a romance of the Grecian war of independence. At resent he is a member of a party occupied in excavating old Greek temples under the auspices of the British School of Arch®ology at Athens and will use the in- formation thus obtained in his new book. In Russia—the land of Tolstoi, Tourzue- nieif and Dostoieyski—there are more illiterate persons than in any other coun- try—125,000,000 souls and not 20,000,000 able to read; 9 journals and periodical publications for 1,000,000 persons, whereas in Servia there are 26, in Greece 36, in Spain 68, in Norway 89, in Belgium 153, in Switzerlgnd 230 for 1,000,000 persons. At Ouralsk the tehinovniks burned the library, which was under their charge, in order to heat their rooms. Edmund Gosse, in his capacity as chair- man at a recent Browning lecture, speak- ing with the authority of long personal friendship, warned his hearers against thinking of Robert Browning as a sort of veiled prophet. “What Isaw,” he told them,“‘was an unostentatious, keen, active man of the world, one who never failed to give good, practicgl advice in matters of business and conduct, one who loved his friendas, but certainly hated his enemies, a man alive in every eager, passionate nerve of him, a man who loved to discuss people .and affairs, and a pbit of a gossip, a bit of a partisan, too, and not without his humor- ous prejudices. He was simple to a high degree, sipple in_his scrupulous dress, his loud, happy voice, bis insatiable curi- osity.” Messrs. Methuen (London) have begun the issue in seven volumes, of which the first only is issued, of Gibbon’s ‘*History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Em- pire.” The work is under the editorship of J. B. Bury, professor of modern history in Dublin University. Miss Bentham-Edwards’' forthcoming novel, “The Dream Charlotte, a Story of Echoes,” will be published simnltaneously in London, Leipsic and New York—in the latter city 'b_v essrs. Macmillan & Co. Mr. Crockett’s new novel, *‘Cleg Kelly, Arab of the City; His Progress and Ad- ventures,” is to be published immediately Messrs. D, Appleton & Co., with several illustrations. The Johns Hopkins Press has issued “The Physiological Papers of Dr. H. Newell Martin.”” Professor Martin occupied the chair of bialogy from 1876 until 1893, and a number of the most valuable of his papers are thus presented after editing bfil’resi- dent Gilman and Professors owell, Brooks and Welsh. Messrs. Harper & Bros. have just pub- lished *‘A Souvenir of Trilby,” be nF seven photogravure portraits of the leading characters in Beerbohm Tree’s presenta- tion of the play. The souvenir is neatly bound in boards. Dorothea Baird is the Trilby of the cast. [For sale in this City by A. M. Robinson, Post street.] NEW TO-DAY. The Powder Free. In every package a bottle of liquid Sozodont (use daily), a box of fine Sozodont powder (use twice a week). complete, so safe, so certain in giving the best results. larity has lasted over fifty years. No other dentifrice so Its popu~ A small sample bottle free, if you mention the San Francisco & RUCKEL, Wholesale Druggis! Sozodont, H Address the Proprietorsof v York City. (OO0t —— Its a winner everytime BATTLE AX el come from the pressof the Messrs. Lip- pincott, has announced in London a new work entitled “The Mighty Storm,” the first edition of which will comprise 20,000 copies. arold Frederic's new novel will be out this month, “The Damnation of 1heron ‘Ware” is the title, and the storyis of a Metnodist minister. Alice 8. Wolf, who is the author of “A House of Cards,” the new volume in Stone PLUG rgest piece of o0D PLuG in the lead tobacco ever sold for iocents . g - Te PHILADELPHIA s S @) ELECTROLYSIS G . 1170 MarKeT 915 CORNERTAYLDR (OuerTie Maze) lium 28 ARMALENTLY REMOVES SUPHK. U *air by electricity at $1 a sitting: first sitting free: mo scars left; moles, waris, etc., also re- moved. DR. LEPPER’S ELECTRIC LIFE! Cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Bruises, Sprains, Stiff Joints and Swellings. . IT STOPS ALL PAIN. ALL DRUGGISTS SELL IT. 50 CENTS AND S1 A BOTTLE. Pimples, Col BEFORE ano AFTER ‘The reason sufferert are not cured by tors s Prostatitis. OUPIDEN ¥ s the only known remed, 'n and money ret MANHOOD RESTORE Insomnis, Painsin the Back, Seminal £missions, Nerve som) ins ! 5 3 sy inal Emissions, ous arry, tion. It stops all losses b ness of discharge, which if not checked all the horrors of Impotency. kidnevs and the urinary organsof all CUPIDENE strengthens and restores small weak o1 “CUPIDENE" This great Vegetable Vitailger,theprescrip: ch physician, will quickly cure you of all ner generativi such as tfilnhood.'y ins, Varicocele and Prevents quicks torrhaa . CUPIDENE cleanses the liver, th impurities. ;x e ight. or ni ‘{-dl to because ninety per cent are troubled abmw?muuu’:r -ration. 5000 testimon! & permanent eure, als A written guarantee give six boxes does not #1905 box, six for $5.00, by mail. Send for FREE circular and testimonipls. 3 T NE CO. ket street, San Francisco, Cal. For sale by Address DAVOL MEDICINE CO., 632 Market st "'v"rfiix’;:cv. 50 Ao