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UNDER OLD ROOF TREES. What American Liberty Cost Our Colonial Forefathers. The Hills Over Which Paul Revere Galloped in the Moonlight. Recalling the Revolutionary Battie- fields in Historic New England. As Benstor George F. Hoar has elo- quently said: “Suvrely that people is happy to whom the noblest story in his- tory has come down through father and mother and by the unbroken traditions of their own fireside.”” 1t is this story and these traditions of the New England towns | and hamlets, where the fires of the Ameri- | can Revolution were first kindled, that have inspired Abram English Brown in writing the volume *‘Beneath Oid Roof-trees.” The book is one of a prospective series, and | treats of oniy a smalil portion of the towns identified with the opening of the Revolu- | tion. It is the author's purpose to con- | sider the other towns as they appear in | the widening circle from which came the ready response to the memorable alarm. His motive is to arouse in the younga keener appreciaiion of the cost of our| National heritage, conducive to a higher | standard of citizenship beneath its star- | spangled emblem. “The revival of interest in Napoleon Bonaparte,” says the author, ‘‘inclines many to long to visit the scene of his fatal conflict. But Waterloo, described. and painted by pen and pencil over and over again, when viewed in connection with its results to the world, is not comparable to the battle-field of Middlesex. “Good citizenship is patriotism in ac- tion. Itis not necessary that one should face the bullets of the enemy on the field | of battle in order to evince true patriot- ism. He who loves his home, his native town, and his country, and is ready to make | sacrifice for their honor and welfare, | is the good citizen. | “This is seen in the great company of | intelligent people who make pilgrimages | | point of view as being Kurchue the passionate devotion of sny free- earted woman the world contains. ‘While the reader may take exception to the hero’s utterances some times, yet there is no getting around the fact that he talks eloguently, and the further fact that he often hits upon cold truth. [New York: R. F. Fenno & Co. For sale by the book dlenamnent of the Emporium; price NEW EDITION OF THOMAS PAINE. The publication of a new edition of Thomas Paine’s “Age of Reason” (Lon- don: A.and H. B. Bonner), like Mr. Con- way’s interesting biography of Paine, isa reminder not only of the great influence exerted by Paine, but of the vast and silent changes which have passed over society since his time. Most adult men now living can recollect the name of Paine being mentioned with bated breath, and the ‘““Age of Reason” being spoken of in much the same terms that the late Lord Shaftesbury used re- garding “Ecce Homo,” as ‘‘the worst book ever vomited out of the jaws of hell.” A good deal has happened since the ‘“‘Age of Reason’’ was written in Paris during the Reign of Terror. Not only has a century passed, but a mighty intellecti revolution has been and is still proceeding in men’s minds. The Revolution itself emancipated men from the superstitions of the old monar- chial regime, when the person of the king was looked on as sacred, and bhe wasbelieved to be a special representative of Godon earth. Republican government has extended itself since then, and where kings remain, as they still do in the greater part of Western Europe, they are regarded soleiy from the utilitarian useful means of preventing undue difficulties about the executive. But even greater than the political changes which the Eevolution effected has been the intel- lectual change wrought by new discover- ies, new conceptions of the order of nature and new philosophic ideas embodied in modern literature. We are, in short, liv- ing in a new world from that of our grand- fathers. The mythical Paine of raw head and bloody bones associations vanishes, and we find instead a serious thinker who ad- dresses himself to the real evils of his country and his time with a suggestive- ness and perspicacity rarely equaled in the history of political literature. This impression aeepens when we turn to the “Age of Reason.” How is it, we ask, that such a fury should have been roused by this book? We read page after page, and we think we have heard our clerical friends even say something not very un- like what we here read. When we recall the writings of Colenso, the sermons we have heard from univer- sity pulpits, and such books as *Essays and Reviews,” “Lux Mundi’’ and a whole series of theological works published here and in America during the last twenty years, we marvel at the horror which greeted the work which Carlyle’s “‘rebel- lious needleman’’ gave to the world a cen- tury ago. But we must remember, says the London | Chronicle, that Paine lived in the bad old times of “Farmer George,'” the awful mysteries of religion were drawn out into formulas, were lit- when all every year to Lexington, Concord, | Bunker Hill and other places of historic interest. Each recurring anniversary | emphasizes the fact. No true citizen can cross the green sward of Lexington Com- mon, gaze upon the bronze ‘Minute Man’ | at Concord or press the turf of Bunker’s | beight without feeling the blood course | more rapidly in his veinsas he makes new resolutions of better citizenship.” eralized and devitalized, were robbed of the spiritual and converted into hard dogmas for the express purpose of propping up a corrupt system of polities and an im- possible order of social life. It was the period when, as Cowper put it, “‘the sym- bols of atoning grace’” were made “an office-key, a picklock to a place.” THE SCIENCE OF MONEY. Within easy access of New England’s metropolis are many existing yeminders | of that most_significant uprising, and the | verson for whom a recital of the “‘oft-told | tale” of the battle-field would prove | tedious may find enough of interest in the | story of things and places that existed | when the wild crash of musketry broke | the stillness of the dawn on that| memorable 19th of April, 1775. The | author, with true New England pride, | reminds young people that while he | would not abate one “‘jot or tittle’’ from | the accumulated honor justly due Lexing- | ton and Concord, he must in justice main- tain that “the only limit to the response ‘ was the primitive means of spreading the | alarm.”” The author has availed himself, | through years of patient labor, of a large amount of precious tradition obtained ! from widows of those who had personal | experience in the army, or from chiidren | who had the story of sacrifice from fathers | who suffered in field, camp or hospital; and while widows and children of soldiers | of the Revolution had become scarce | when Mr. Brown began his research, he | had often met grandchildren who had re- | ceived indelible impressiors of the strug- gle of the colonists while fondled in the arms of those who were actors in_the | Revolution. Introducing his work in a eeneral way, the author says: One hundred and twenty years have passed e the embattied farmers struck the first | ow for liberty, but many reminders of that | day are yet to be seen. Hills over which Re- | vere galloped on his midnight ride have been | carried into the valleys through which he made rapid pace; but many a hearthstone that glowed with the embers of patriotism is stili the pride of a thrifty owner, who rejoices that | the same roof which protects him sheltered | his grandiather, who at the same door gave a parting blessing to wife aud children as he hastened to the scene of conflict. Such homes, possessed and cared for by those who have there received the story of persoual experience from honored sires, are monuments to which all would gladly revert. These and the many | other reminders of the footprints of the pat- riots have their lessons of good citizenship for all. The volume, which contains 340 pages, | is profusely 1llustrated and is dedicated to “‘the societies organized to perpetuate the honor of the brave men and women, through whose sacrifices the American colonies attained their freedom.” It is certainly 8 welcome and valuable contri- bution to our Revolutionary War litera- ture, in which, it may be observed, a8 more intense interest is now manifest than has reviously been the case since the Civil War. [Boston: Lee & Shepard, publish- ers. For sale by Whitaker & Ray Com- pany; price §1 50.] THE UNCLASSED. ‘Well worth the reading is this new novel by that clever English author, George Gissing. The hero is a literary man who undergoes a world of experience in love affairs and narrowly escapes the snare of a siren, but is preserved by a providential turn to make happy the long-misrepre- sented heroine. There are many charac- ters in the book, and the interestis well sustained. Here is one of the interesting paragraphs concerning a subject on which nearly everybody at one time or another has philosophized. The hero is the speaker: What s a fellow to do to get money? I'm growing sick of this hand-to-mouth existence. Now if one bad & bare competency, what glori- ous possibilities would open out. The vulgar saying has it that time is money; like most vulgar sayings putting the thing just the wrong wey about. “Money is time,” I prefer to | say; it means leisure and all that fol‘lflw&l Why don’t you write & poem on_money, Casti? J almost feel capable of it myself. What can claim precedence, in all this world, over hard cash? It 1s Lbe fruitful soil wherein is nour- ished the fruit of the iree of life; it is the veri- fying principle of human activity. Upon it luxuriate art, letters, science; rob them of its sustance, and they droogllkl:wunuingl es. Money means virtue; the lack of it is v The devil loves no iurking place like empty purse. Give me a thousand poun to-morrow, and i become the most vir- {nous man in England. 1 satisfy all my instinets freely, openly, with mno pett makeshifts and vile hypocrisies. To scorn an revile wealth is the mere resource of splenetic poverty. What cannot be purchased with coin of the realm? First and foremost, free- dom! The moneyed mau is the sole king; the herds of the penuiless are but as slaves before his footstool. He breathes with a sense of pro- prietorship in the whole globe-enveloping at- mosphere, for is it not in his power to le it wheresoever he pleases? He puts hif hand in his pocket and bids with secarity for every joy of body and mind; even death he faces With the comforting consciousness that his defeat will only coincide with that of human science. He buys culture, he buys peace of mind, he buys love. Youghink not? 1 don’t use the word cynicallybur in very virtnous While this is by no means a new book (the first edition having been published in 1885), it possesses considerable value to students of economics at this date. Its author is Alexander del Mar, who was formerly director of the Bureau of Sta- tistics, and the Mining Commissioner to the United States Monetary Commission of 1876. He has written several other no- table works treating ot financial matters— notably a history of the precious metals and one dealing with monetary systems in various States. An extract from the preface to the sec- ond edition shows the scope of the present work, at the same time stating a truism. “The practical world,"” says Mr. del Mar, “wants a working theory or explanation of money as it now stands in law and fact; a theory which expiains preciseiy what money does, and precisely how it does it.” Those who place their trust to a great ex- tent upon precedent are dismissed in these effective words: *‘Practical science knows nothing about first cau The remota origins of customs may with advantage be leit to the researches of antiquarians.” Mr. del Mar goes very exhaustively into the origin of present monetary systems, tracing them from the first transactions of exchangeand barter. Heshows that price must be defined as the expression of value in money—the precise expression, but this it cannot be unless the whole sum of money is limited and known. He further indicates those fluccuations of price which do not belong to the domain of science and those which do. The whole work is, as we have said, of real value to students of economics. It forms a solid argument for the regulation of money, Mr. del Mar arriving at the con- clusion that if it had beenso regulated, in- stead of being left to commerce, chance and political contention, the great panics of 1851, 1821, 1837, 1861, 1873 and 1893 might have very successfully been averted. [New York: Macmillan & Co. For sale at the Emporium Book Department; price §2 25.] DARTMOOR. Maurice H. Hervey, in his new book, “Dartmoor,” has given us a sensational story of love and crime wherein the pu- gilistic training of the hero ultimately and unexpectedly serves him in most excel- lent stead. Morley Gniffin is that hero, impulsive and somewhat flighty at the start. He has a rival in love in the per- son of Hugh Darrell, who poses as Mor- ley’s friend and helper. Darrell and a Jewish money-changer conspire to ruin Grifin. The latter loses the bulk of his fortune in horse-racing, and, being of splendid, muscular build, he resolves to train and make an effort to win back lost riches in the fistic arena. Heis already in first-class trim when the plot against him succeeds, and he is sent to prison for a crime of which he is innocent. He es- capes from prison along with a desperate convict, who attempts the life of a beautiful girl in the house that has vielded shelter to the fugitives. Griffin’s iron muscles here save the girl, for whose sake he is compelled to strangle the desperado. The papers apvlaud Griffin’s act, and a pardon is the result. The con- spirators meet with dire and just punish- ment, and Griffin winds up by marrying tbe girl be rescued and, of course, *‘living happily forever aiter.”” The moral is that evil ofttimes turns to good, and that bit- terest trials may be the prelude to endur- mg happiness. [New York and London: Frederick A. Stokes Company. For sale by the book department of the Emporium; price 75 cents.] A ROGUE’'S DAUGHTER. Adeline Sergeant is the author of this new novel. Tne heroine is Delia Vansit- tart, whose father, as secretary of the Ori- noco Mining Company, embezzles funds as a result of his craze for gambiing, and flees the country. His son and daughter suffer on account of his misdeeds. His son 1s employed by a wealthy bachelor named Cyprian Harcourt, but young Vansittart’s wife commits a crime, for which her hus- band loses his position and is.cofamitted to prison. Then Delia assumes another name, and Harcourt falls in love with ner and marries her. Delia’s fatker returns in disguise to England, where he suicides when ..e finds the bloodhounds of the jaw closing in on him. Delia then dis- closes her real identity to Harcourt, who is shocked to think that he nas been tricked by Julius Vansittart’s daughter. earnest. Make me & illlonaire and I will i He thinks they must go chrough life, with- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 31, 1896. 4 @ i mfi RS N e AN ORIGINAL DESIGN F OR A MODERN ART POSTER, BY A “CALL” ARTIST. SOME VERSES FROM THE CURRENT MAGAZINES. PARTING. My life closed Lwice befors Its close; 1t yet remains to see It Immortulity unveil A third event to me, S0 huge, 80 hopeless to concelve As this that Lwice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. EMILy DICKINSON, in June Scribner’s. LIFE AND LOVE. Lite and Love at the crossroads met, Out for a boliday; Crled Love, **Sweet Life, thy cares forget, *Tis Love who bids thee stay, Come, journey on wi.hout regret, Through summer hours alway.” A rose-white blur against the sKy, Crabapple biossoms blow; The drifting swallows homeward fly To April sloves aglow: And Life and Love in laughter vie Ason their way they go. Pan’s pipes sizh 'neath a crescent moon, Like cobwebs float and stray: Night moths seek the white flowers soon, *Tis the daffodil month of May; And the pilgrims sing a merry tune, They are comrades true for aye. To June's rose-hidden portals led Glad Love his comrade true. “Now we must part.” was all Life said, “And tare alone, for who Finds Love and June and roses red, Has lived his day—adien!” NANCY MANN WADDLE in June Ladies' Home Journal. A SUMMER BARGAIN. I'm young and very handsome. I have heard a maiden say She thought me quite & wonder {n my own peculiar way. I'm what & novelist would call a person debonair; | And when I'm in the dsncing-hall nomaden seeks the stair. | I've genius for fiirtation; there are twinkles in my eve That you will find most fetching, even though you're very s And 1 was told | park, | My giances were so snapping you could see 'em | in the dark. e evening promenading in the quote; And when I sing a colicge song, or strike a banjo note, My hearers grow ecstatic—these are facts, mot bra And ask 1f 0ld Apollo is not back on earth again. In conversation, I must eay, you'll rarely find a man To talk as entertainingly as people say I can; And in a match at_badinage, or chatting erudite, The flippant and the learned all agree 1'm out of sight. But I am poor—oh, Very poor—as poor as one can And that is why I write these lines, now summer’s coming on— To ask if you'll subscribe for me for periods an on. For fitty dollars weekly and expenses I will go And make a barren mountiln house a mansion full of giow. ‘The summ ¥ girls who throng the hills, who erowd the sounding sea, Can possibly make no mistake 1f they’ll subscribe | for me. Il dance with you, I'll walk with you, I'll sit upon the stair hair; Il flirt with you: I'll balt your hooks when you perchance would fish; In fact Pl be as fine a beau as any one could wish. So hurry, summer maidens, haste and get your offers in, It you a lovely cavalier for August next would win; Itwo-step “just aivinely”—you'll observe I merely Job's turkey was & Crcesus in comparison with me: | | i | 711 dash off lovely verses to your dimples and your For there are indications 'mongst some heiresses I know To corner all the stock there Is in this especial beau. —+Editor's Drawer” of Harper's Magazine. HER HAPPINESS * Since that day, of which no word From her lips Is ever heard, She has known that at her side Sorrow evermore must bide, Drink her cup and eat her bread, ‘Walk her paths and share her bed, Be the iast to say goodnight, Greet her first at morning light, Go with ber through all her ways, To the enaing of her days. This Is hers at last; to know Life has dealt its heaviest blow, She has pothing more to dread ; All her bitterest tears are shed. Pain has now no poisoned dart That she fears may reach her heart; Nelther day nor night can bring Any untried suffering. It is something. just (o rest Of this dreary peace possessed; Just 10 slip the long control Of her pride-encompassed soul, And to let the days move on In accepted monotone; Not to more anticipate This severest blow of fate; Not against its doom to pray, Any more by night or day; Not to fear its deadly blight, Any more by day or night. As the storm-tossed mariner Finds the desert island fair Atter all the storm’s wild stress, *o she, 00, Is a!most glad. Is there anght in life more sad? What have been her strife and loss, Her despair and pain and cross, ‘Who at last can almost bliess Such a hopeless happiness! CARLOTTA PERRY 1n June Lippincott’s. out love or faith or happiness. Delia, how- ever, exerts her influence in her brother’s behalf, proves his innocence, secures his ardon, and wins new admiration from BeF hriabanil whi| Stisot help but love her in spite of himself. The brother's wicked wife dies, and a_happier marriage is in store for young Vansittart, and on the occasion of that marriage peace de- scends on the domestic life of Harcourt and D=lia, the former having discovered at last that he possesses a jewel of a life part- per, even although she had often been de- scribed as ‘A Rogue’s Daughter.” [New York and London: Frederick A. Stokes Company. For sale by the book depart- ment of the Emporium; price $1.] A BRIDE FROM THE DESERT. The volume of gvhich this is the title- story contains three of Grant Allen’s charming tales, ““A Bride From the Des- ert,”” *Dr. Greatrex's Engagement,’”’ and “The Backslider.”” They are just the thing for summer reading, and a couple of hours could hardly be passed more vleas- uraply than in their perusal. In the first- named story Private Moyle's exploit in saving from an awful fate on the African desert a party of English ladies, rouses such enthusiasm and admiration in England that the boy is enabled to redeem himself from - past mistakes, sa- cures promotion from the ranks and wins for his wife one of the ladies whom he had borne from the gates of death to home and friends. [New York: R.F. Fenno & Co., publishers. For sale by the bock depart- ment of the Emporium; price 50 cents.] BOOK OF VERSE. “Poems,”’ by Caroline and Alice Duer, make up a 60-page volume, which is neat- ly printed. Someofthe verses are decidedly clever, and a few of the love songs espe- cially are happy in their expressions of tender feeling. Caroline and Alice cer- tainly have talent in the way of verse- writing. [New York: George H. Rich- mond, publisher,] JUNE MAGAZINES. THE CENTURY. The second paper containing the “Im- ressions of South Africa,” by James ryce, M. P., appears in the June number of ‘the Century. This takes up the race question at the bottom of most of the com- plications which have made that coun- try the subject of international dis- pute, Mr. Bryce describes the differ- ences between the Boer farmers and the British Government of Cape Colony, th: led to the great trek of the former into the Transvaal. In the same number the *Lif with Napoleon’s di- vorce from Josephine, his marriage with Maria Louisa and the birth of his son, the King of Rome. Anartist that will attract | the especial attention of all interested in art is “Sargent and His Painting’ by. william A. Coffin. It contains nine pic- tures by John argent and sketch por- traits by Carroll Beckwith and Aun- ustus St. Gaudens. Elizabeth Robin ennell contributes a fine bit of de- seriptive writing, ‘“‘Lights and Shadows of the Alhambra,” which is illustrated by Joseph Pennell. There is a timely paper entitled ‘“Humor and Pathos of Presidential Conventions,” by Joseph B. Bishop. These are only a few of the good things to be found in th,e Century. HARPER'S. Harger's Magazine for June is an excep- tionally good number. Special features are: ‘“A Visit to Athens,” by Bishop William Croswell Doane; ‘‘Queen Lukeria of Gorelovka” (illusirated), by H. F. B. Lynch; *“The Greatest Painter of Modern Germany.” by _Charles Waldstein; “Through Inland Waters" (illustrated by the author), by Howard Pyle; “The Qua- naniche and Its Canadian Environ- ment”’ (iliustrated), by E. T. D. Cham- bers; “The German Struggle for Liberty,’” Xil (iliustrated), by Poultney Bigelow; “The Battle of the Cells,” a popular dis- cussion of the germ theory of disease, by Andrew Wilson. The fiction of the num- ber includes the first part of *‘A Rebellious Heroine,” a humorous tale, by John Ken- drick Bangs; “Evelina’s Garden,"” by Mary E. Wilkins, a_romance of considerable lengtn, with a New England background; *A Wali-Street Wooing,” a New York love story, by Brander Matthews, and *‘The Thanks of the Municipali a study of metropolitan life and politics, by James Barnes. The poems of the number in- ciude “The Sea,” by James Herbert Morse; “Preeterita’” by Madison Caweinand “‘Lip- Service” by Louise Belts, Edwards. M'CLURE'S. The June number of McClure’s Maga- zine is an excellent one. Perhapn‘t‘,‘he most notablie article is a little battle study by Stephen Crane that, 1n its way, is more dramatic and striking than even “The Red Badge of Courage,” the novel by Mr. Crane which is now attracting so much attention both in Americh and England. It shows, unmistakably, the hand of genius. Another bit of distinguished fic- tion is Rudyard Kipling’s *In the Rukh”— one of Kipling's earlier stories, but also one of his best, relating how that ever- entertaining orphan of the jungle, Mowgli, made acquaintance with white men and became & lover. Then there is Cy War- man's marvelous true tale of “The motive That Lost Herself,”” and an nstall- ment of Anthony Hope's “Phroso’’ fairly bursting with love and adventure. The Lincoin paper in this number exhibits Lancoln (mainly by new reminiscence and anecdote) as a father, friend and neighbor, on his return to the practice of law at Springfield, after serving a term in Con- gress. Of quite extraordinary interest is a series of portraits of Mark T'wain—fifteen of them, covering a period of thirty years, and almost putting a circle round the glove in the variety of localities in which they were taken. : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps provides some very entertaining reminiscences of James T. Fields, her publisher, and of Harriet Beecher Stowe, %ur intimate friend and at one time neighbor in Andover. Will H. Low writes biographically and critically of the picturesque rou&lu! English painters known as the fire- phaelites, and his paper is illustrated with reproaiuctions of the best pictures of Rossetti, Holman Hunt, Burne-Jones and others. FEANK LESLIE'S. In the June number of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly is a paper by Colonel John J. Garnett of the Confederate States artillery on *The Seven Days’ Campaign Near Richmond,” which describes the sec- ond battle of Manassas, the first invasion of Maryland and the battle of Antietam. The article is bandsomely illustrated with battle scenes and portraits of General Lee, Stonewall Jackson, General Johnston and otuers. Then there is an interesting arti- cle about Sarah Bernhardt, **The Geniusof Tragedy,” by W.de Wagstaffe, with anum- ber of portraits of ihe great actress in her various characters. Then there is a description of “The Ladiesof the Harem,”” telling of their life, amusements. etc., and beautifully pictured. Other features are: An account of a visit to Dalmatia, by Robert Howard Russell; “In the Grand Canyon of the Colorado,” by Edith Ses- sions Tupper; “'In the Land of St. Fran- cis,”” by Ehrie D. Walsh; an entertaining article on pistols and thei# early history | and use, by John Paul Bocock; and the first installment of a new department for oung people, containing a serial story by %orano Alger Jr., and a short bicycle story by Henry E. Haydock. Besides this there are some excellent stories and poems. 5 SCRIBNER'S. Henry Norman contributes an interest- ing article to Scribner’s Magazine, *'In the Balkans, the Chessboard of Europe.” A few months ago Mr. Norman made a visit to this region, and this article is the first presentation of the “impressions then gathered of Roumania, Servia, Bosnia, . Herzegovina, Buigaria and Montenegro. TLe crisis brought about by the Armenian question is of course in- timately related to affairs in the Balkans, and Mr. Norman's article is a clear presentation of the exact situation of the whole Eastern question as it appears at the present moment to a trained observer. The second and concluding paver by Mrs. Isobel Strong, giving reminiscences of 23 jRobert Louis Stevenson in his Home Life, s devoted to the laat year of his life, which was, as_appears from this chronicle. one of his happiest and freest from illness. Hamilton Busbey concludes his account of “The Evolution of the Trotting Horse” with much that is interesting about Stony Ford, Palo Alto, Robert Bonner’s farm at Tarrytown and other great stock farms. A story in anew field by a new name is “The Captor of Old Pontomoc,”’ by Mary T. Earle. Itisa dramatic tale of life ona Southern bayou. Among the striking ar- tistic features of the number are a full- age engraving of the late Theodore Rob- nson’s Shaw-prize picture, entitled “‘In the Sun”; a frontispiece by 8. W, van Schaick entitled “The Trovbadours,” and the second of Weguelin’s 1illustrations of Elizabethan songs. LIPPINCOTT'S. The complete novel in the June issue of Lippincott’s is “From Clue to Climax,” by Will N. Harben. It is a tale of murder and bypnotism, in which an extremely able detective and a physician of the new school join forces to clearthe innocent and run the guilty to earth. “A Fellow-Feel- ing’’ is by Edith Brower, perhaps the only author who can write readable stories about the coal region. H. C. Stickney in “Timely’' tells of some ‘“ways that are dark’ among the Chinese of San Fran- cisco. “The End of a Career,” as briefly described by Harry Irving Horton, was that of a male " flirt. L J. Wistar N supplies an instructive article _on “Criminal Jurisprudence.” Owen Hall discusses the prospects and condi- tions of “vauf arfare in 1896, giving the facts and figures as to the world’s various navies, and concludine that Great Britain is likely to hold her own. Concerning the ‘“Feigning of Death by Animals,” Dr. James Weir, as a result of special microscopic studies, pre- sents facts that are largely new. Dr. Charles C. Abbott offers some observa- tions on ““The Changeful Skies.” Edith Dickson writes on the ‘‘Youthful Reading of Literary Men.” William Trowbridge Larned makes some remarks ‘‘After Seeing a Poor Play.” *“Woman in Business” is discussed by Mary E. J Kelley. A second article on General and Mrs. Washington, by Anne Hollings- worth Wharton, deals with their official life. Like its predeces:or, it isabundantly illustrated. The poetry of the number is by Carlotta Perry, Grace F. Penny- packer and Charles G. D. Roberts. ST. NICHOLAS. An inspiriting article in the St. Nicholas for June is *What the Bugle Tells on a i by Lieutenant John M. Elli- N." The illustrations are by G. “Grizzly Phil” is a story to make the hearts of boys and girls beat faster, for it tells of a heroic deed by a 14-year-old Coloraao schoolboy. The history of Marco | Polo’s travels, by Noah Brooks, has been begun and is to run through several num- bers. Itis the kind of youthful literature that interesis the elder members of the family as well. Literary Notes. A volume of short stories by Henry James is shortly to be published by Mac- millan & Co., under the name ‘‘Embar- rassments.”” The studiesare entitled “The Figure in the Carpet,” ‘‘Glasses,” “The Next Time,"” and “The Way it Came,” and are sketched in Mr. James’ ususl minute and clever manner. Macmillan & Co. have in preparation “The Introduction to Public Finance,” by Professor Carl C. Plehn of the University of California. It treats of public expendi- ture, public revenues, public indebtedness and financial administration. The book will probably appear in August. The circumstances in which Harold Freaeric's new novel came to have one title here and another in England (as was the case with Hawthorne's Faun”’) are set forth in the London Chron- | icle. A curious accident was the cause. The writing of the book was extended over five years and a copy of the first half was sent to tbis country as long ago as 1893. For the purpose ot identification it bore the “Damnation’ title, which was one of many then under consideration. After the final choice of “‘Illumiaation” i;ad been made no one remembered until it was too late that the American pub- liskier had not been informed of the de- cision. Readers of “Pierre and His People” will | be glad to know that Stone & Kimball are | about to publish a new volume of short stories by Gilbert Parker under the title of “An Adventurer of the North,"” being the further and final adventures of Pierre and bis people. A summary of the recent legislation on questions of State and local government by the various States is given in the paper | by E. Dana Durand of the New York State Library, published by the American Acad- emy of Political and Social Science, and entitled *Political and Municipal Legisla- tion in 1895.” Macmillan & Co., announce for imme- diate publication Leibnitz's '‘Critique of Locke: New Essays on the Understand- ing,” translated from the French by Alfred G. Langley, A. M., with an appen- dix containing & number of Leibnitz's shorter pieces not hitherto translated. Ex-President Harrison’s articles have proved such an enormous success with 5 the Ladies’ Home Journal, adding over 100,000 to the circulation of the m=gazine, | that the series wiil be extended beyond the original limit. The ex-President has | now reached the treatment of “The Presi- dent's Official Family” in his series, de- scribing the relation which each Cabinet member holds td the President, Then he will show “How the Senate Works” and “How Congress Legislates”—each in a | separate article. essrs. Lemperly, Hilliard & Hopkins of Cleveland, Ohio, and this city, an- nounce as their fourth publication *‘Lin- coln and His Cabinet,”” by Charles A. Dana, with portraits of Lincoln and Mr. Dana, and a reproduction of Frank B. Car- penter’s painting, “The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation.” he edition will be limited to 350 copies. The fifteenth annual report of the TUnited States Geological Survey contains, among much scientific matter of great value, a “‘Preliminary Report on the Ge- ology of the Common Roads of the United States,”” by Professor N. 8. Shaler—a sub- ject that is timely and of great popular interest. This is the last report made by Major J. W. Powell as a director of the survey. He bas had charge of the work for twenty-five years. Rudyard Kipiing was asked recently whether he exgoyed writing poetry or prose most. He remarked that the pleasure of creatin% a poem was the highest intellectual delight he had ever rienced. \ Stephen Crane’s new novel, ‘‘George’s Mother,”” which will be published by Ed- ward Arnold within a fortnigut, was writ- ten more than a year ago. It is a tale of East Side life in New York, and is said to be unusually realistic. Mr. Arnold will publish Mr. Crane’s new books in London. Appietons’ Popular Science Monthly for June will contain a series of letters by Herbert Svencer on *The Metric System,’” which has recently been before botb Con- | gress and Pariiament. Mr. Spencer vig- orously opposes the further extension of the system and points out the advantages of one based on the number twelve. Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co. announce for early publication **Camilla,” a tale of society life in Stockholm, translated from the Swedish and Danish of Richert von Koch; ““The Victory of Ezry Gardner,” a Nantucket idyl, by Imogen Clark, and “The Social Meanings of Religious Ex- periences,” by Dr. Herron. “The Purple East,” that little volume of poems which cost William Watson the laureateship, isat last to be issned by Stone & Kimball. It is a tiny volume, its size being quite out of proportion to its impor- tance. Captain A. T. Mahan of the United States navy expects to finish his “Life of Nelson" by the end of June. The distin- guished naval historian has been at work on the book for some time past. The American Publisher's Corporation of New York hasissued one-dollar (bound) editions.and 50-cent (paper) editions of “Marble | | R. J. Fenno & Co., 112 Fifth avenue. THEY KNEW HOW TO DIE. A Tale of the Exploits of the Marseilles Battalion. The Motive Is a Defense of Those Whom History Has Slandered. Felix Gras’ Interesting New Book Entitled the ¢« Reds of the Midi.” The inspiring episode of the French Revo- lution with which Felix Gras deals in “The Reds of the Midi” is the march to Paris and the exploits there of ‘“‘that Marseilles battalion, made up of men who were sworn to ‘cast down tbe tyrant’ and ‘who knew how to die.'” A leading motive with the author was to do justice to a body of men that Listory had treated unfairly. For more than a century, de- clares Thomas A. Janvier in an introduc- tion, the Marseilles battalion which took 8o large a part in precipitating the French Revolution has been very generally slan- dered. French and English historians, with few exceptions, bave united in de- scribing it as a band of cutthroats and thieves, in part made up of runaway galley - slaves from Toulon and in vart of international scrapings from the slums of Marseilles. Carlyle in his time was almost alone in doing partial justice to those patriots, yet even to him they were vaguely defined heroes, and he suggested: “If enlightened curiosity ever get hold of the Marseilles’ Council-books, will it not perhaps explore this strangest of municipal procedures, and feel called to fish up what of the biographies, creditable or discreditable, of these 517 (sic) the stream of Time has not irrevocably swal- lowed ?” Nearly fifty years after Carlyle’s suggestion was made this obscure passage in history was completely cleared ug by Joseph - Pollio and Andrew Mur- cel, who not only explored the Ma'seilles’ council-books, but carried their search for facts deep and far; and the result of their investigations was the documentary history, “Le Bataillon du 10 Aovt,” that has Elaceu the Marseilles Battalion honorably before the world. As the records show, the 517 men comprising it, drawn almost wholly from the National Guard of Mar- | seilles, ‘‘were carefully chosen as beiug those whose civicism and probity were guaranteed by the twelve commissioners named by the Conseil-General,” and the | few volunteers from neighboring towns who were accepted under the same condi- tions. In the end, having accomplisned the purpose for which it went to Paris, the | battalion returned to Marseilles, where it | was received with civic honors October 2 1792. Gras has painted these men of Ma | seilles, who first gave currency to the re- | publican anthem in France, in living | colors—as “‘simple, honest patriots, stern only 1n the discharge of the great duty | which they believed was theirs.” The | hero of the story 1s a pea=ant boy, Pasca- let, who joins the battalion at Avig- non. In his old age he nightly en- | tertains a group of eager listeners in the shoemaker’s shop at Malemart by telling, ““from thread to finished seam,” how he marched with the Marseilles bat- talion up to Paris to besiege Kinz Capet in his castie. The author was one of the interested group. As a child of 10, he says, he was so enchanted by Pascalet’s beautiful stories that he longed to be a shoemaker in order that he might *‘listen forever to the stories old Pascalet would tell during all the long evenings to come.” In the bad old times befcre the Revolution Pascalet and his parents lived near Male- mart as serfs to the Marquis d’Ambrun, There was but one room in their hut, and it contained “two cradle-like boxes filled with oat straw,”” in which they slept; ‘‘the cooking pot in the middle of the room, hanging from a roofbeam, and a big chopping-block—and that was alll That was just alll” As for their daily sustenance, they were worse off than the most ill-fed of the brutes on the place. While Pascalet’s father was gathering acorns, by which oe- cupation he gained the living for the family, heaccidentally got in the way of the Marquis’ dogs, and the hare they were pursuing escaped. For this offense the old man was unmercifully beaten, and the boy, in revenge hurling a stone, struck the Marquis’ son and fled for his life. The priest at Malemart helped Pascalet out of the clutches of the maddened aristocrat and enabled the boy to reach Avignon, where he arrived on the day it ceased to bea papal city and welcomed the Marseilles Battalion in passing through on its march to Paris. A number of strange accidents determine Pascalet to join the Marseillese, and their commander to accept him, al- though only a boy. Then comes the ex- citing story of the march to Paris, leading to its climax—the bloody downfall of tha monarchy. The royalists who tyrannized over the Malemart peasants at the begin- ning of the tale come in the end to a just doom. Thereisa sweet dream of love in the story. The author, through his hero, expresses contempt for the Paris mob; the Parisians are set down as chicken-hearted and_the real credit for the overthrow of the King is given to the men from the south of France. [New York: D. Apple- ton & Co., publishers. For sale by William Doxey; price $1 50.] A NEW NOTE. This novel, by Ella MacMahon, the author of ‘A Modern Man” and “A Pitiful Passion,” has been making a great stir in London literary circles. It is a novel which attempts to depict the better side of English social life, and we are bound to admit that the writer has succeeded ad- mirably. The heroine of this striking book is that essentially end-of-the-century product, a “new woman.” Around her the author has built a story of uncommon breadth and possessing high literary quality. The authoress has - displayed her characters, mere puppets in untrained hands, and has made of them living and speaking photo- graphs—if such a thing were possible. There is in ““A New Note’ a vast amount of brisk and clever writing, which shows oif to great advantage certain cynically philosophical passages. The dialogue por- tion of the book is excellent. [New York: For sale at the book department of The Eme- porium; price §1 25.] THE RULES OF GOLF. This little work is timely, seeing the recent and rapid spreaa of the game of golf all over the world. The rules fol- lowed throughout are what are usually known as the St. Andrew’s rules, which are usually conceded to be autharitative. The gentlemen who have compiled the work under review, Messrs, J. Norman Lockyer and W. Rutherford, have taken considerable pains in the matter of notes. For the sake of clearness some definitions have been added, but these are marked “new,” and in no way change the mean- ing of the rules to which they are added. Specimens of the early codes will be found in the appendix. 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