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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, S UNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1896. w IN DAYS OF OUR FOREFATHERS Wicked Authors Were Whipped, Offending Books Burned and Publishers Pilloried EGGLESTON'S NEW VOLUME ON COLONIAL HISTORY A Painstaking Work That Gives I nvaluable Aid to Gomprehensive Knowledge of the Early Days of Our Gountry—It Represents Sixteen CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS OF BYGONE DAYS—By Alice Morse Earle. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co. For sale in this city by Willlam | Doxey, Palace Hotel. Price $1 50. | The scope of this book is indicated by its | title. It describes the ways and means adopted | by our great-grandfathers for the punishment of offenses against the law, at the same time | making the recipient of such correction an example that others might ‘‘fear and be | ashemed of breakinge out in like wicked- | In these pages we find described such gentle correctives as the ducking-stool, the pillory, the whipping-post, and brands and gags. The first of these, it Rppears, was applied to those good old colonie]l dames who possessed the character of scolds. A graphic description of cking in Virginia is given by one Thomas 1 Itis supposed to have been written vernor Endicott of Massachusetts in We quote: The day afore yesterday at two of ye clock in ye afternoon I saw this punishment given to one Betsey, wife of John Tucker, who by ve violence of her tonguehes made his house and ye neighborhood uncomfortable. She was taken 10 ye pond near where Iam sojourning by v officer, who was joined by ye Magistrate | and ye Minister, Mr. Cotton, who had fre- | quently admonisned her, and a large number | of peopte. They had a machine for ye pur- | P ¥t belongs to ye Parish, nd which I | was 50 told had been so used three times this Summer. It is & platform with4 smallroll- | ers or wheels and two_upright posts between | which works a Lever by a Rope fastened to its shorter or heavier end. Atye end of ye longer arm is fixed & stool upon which sd | Betsey was fastened by cords, her gown tied fast around her feete. The Machine was then | moved up to ye edge of ye pond and ye Rope | was slackened by ye officer and ye woman was | allowed to go down under ye water forye | space of half a minute. Betsey had a stout | stomach and would not yield until she had allowed herself to be ducked 5 several times. Atlength she cried piteously, “Let me go! let | God’s help I'll sin no more!” Then drew back ye Machine, untied ye Ropes | t her walk home in her wettea clothes | & hovefully penitent woman.” The luckless author who chanced to offend the powers that were fared o better in his way | than did the unfortunate Betsey of the history | before quoted. Since the days of Greece and Rome the woes of the writer have been many, We learn that in the days of Augustus 1o less than 20,000 volumes were seized and con- sumed. Later, by order of Diocletian, the | Bible fed the flames, and in England numer: ous works were publicly burned by the com- | mon hangman. Milton's books were among | those condemned. We read that “Dr. Leigh- ton, who wrote ‘Ziow’s Plea Against Prelacy, | paid dearly for calling the Queen & ‘Daughter | of Heth’and Epitcopacy ‘Satenical’ Hewas degraded from the ministry, pilloried branded, whipped; his eer was cut off, his nostril slit; he was fined £10,000 and lan- guished eleven yeers in prison, only to be told on his tardy release, with the irony ot fate, that his mutilation and imprisonment had | been illegal.” Such facts rather tend to lessen | our admization for the goad old way of dolug | things. Itis, however, pleasing to note that occasionally a pilloried publisher received some solace from the crowd. Wilifams, | who was set in the pillory in 1765 for repub- | \ing the “North Briton,” was treated with | rks of consideration and kindness, -He 1d & sprig of lsurel in his hand es he stood | and a purse of 200 guineas for his benefit was cted in the crowd.” Here is another ludicrous instance which we take from the chapter on “Punishments of Authors and Books”: “We Jearn from the Connecticut Gazette that an offending publi- cation was sentenced to be publickly whipt, ac- | cording to Moses’ Law, with forty stripes save one, and then burned.” What possible end he whipping of & book may haveserved his- tory saith not. EMANUEL E1Zas. OUR COLON.AL HISIORY. By Edward . Appleton & Co., New York 50. For sale by Wiillam Doxey, Palace Hotel, City. In this painstaking work Edward Eggleston hes given us invaluable aid to the compre- hensive knowledge of the early days of our | country. No historical library will now be complete without it. Although it is the first ot & succession of works on the history of this | country it represents sixteen years of research by & most capable student. He accounts, how- ever, this to be by far the most difficult part of bis task. This book differs from the colonfal histories which we already have in being not so much a narration of all the events of the early days, as a comprehensive survey of the meaning of the main events and a tracing | of the far-reaching consequeuces of them, | The succ ssion of cause and effect is the main | toric. The author tells of these beginners of | English life in America who stand out in | special prominence as potent molders of the | future destinies of a great mew empire. He points out what visions beckoned to these leaders which urged them to undertake the founding of mew States, and tells the story of | their hopes and disappointmentsand achieve- T he book is admirable in its condensation, which 1s such & desideratum in this busy age, when there is so much to learn of the wonde: ful present, that we want the history of the past given to us with & pithy brevity that tells | of events and &t the same time draws the at- | tention to their bearing upon the age in which we must act by the light of such information as we can read as we run. Into 350 pages is | here crowded the research of sixteen years. | On every page are wide margins, made beauti- | sul £s well as useful. The notes tell the conients of each paragraph, and so make the volume convenient for ready reference. The index is copious and clear, and the book 18 got up in a style both useful to tne student and artisti- cally attractive. The captions of the divisions of the yolume into books and chapters are un- usually good in their summary of the con- tents, and the notes at the end of each chapter, felicitously called ‘‘Elucidations,” are very in- teresting. One of the finest chapters in the book is *The Prophet of Religious Freedom, in which the author pays & glowing tribute to Roger Williams, whose spiritual exaltation gave him thoughts so far in advance of his fellow men. The historian says: 'He was but a bapbler to his own time, but the prophetic voice rings clear and 1ar, and ever clearer as the ages go on.” MACLAREN'S FAME wJan Maclaren” is announced as the most celfinted Jiving Scotchman. Perhaps Pro- fessor Drummond and Mr. Barrie were not given quite their share of honor in the prepara- tion of the estimate, says the Boston Journal, but we know that Ian Maclaren himself is not unwilling to give these countrymen of his their meed, for he never loses & chance to pesk well of them. 5 :)n Watson—it will soon be unnecessary to explain that this the real name of the :'lnln who wrote Besides tie Bonnie Brier BnuB e expresses the highest admiration for Mr. Bar- rie. It has been noticesble in the xnurvxnhu which newspapers have published since be began his American tour that it seems to give <him much pleasure to speak in loud praise to Mr. Barrie. lh is an interesting coincidence that we should now have in America both Maciaren and Berrie, the two most conspicuous writers of fiction whose field s Scottish. Maclaren i3 | book, | to me, Years of Research here to lecture, Barrie is here to attend to the stage preparation of *“The Little Minister,” and it is not at all likely that he will make any public appearance. Asked as to his own characters and which he liked best, Dr. Watson replied: *Well, I love them all, you know, for they are my own children. They are my very dear friends, every one of them. They know me best and I know them best. They talk to me, they walk with me, they argue with me and adyise me, and persuade me to do this or that, beating down incontinently many suggestions I make to them. I love them and laugh and cry with them, and they help and assist me in my work and make my life happy and bright many times. I love them all. The publi¢ has expressed a decided preference for one of them, however. Yes, it is Dr. MacLure. I love him very much. But if I were to say I liked one the better I would name Jamie Soutar. He is the best Scotch character I have drawn, the most truthfully Scotch in all his characteristics. Outwardly he is & cynic, but at heart the very essence of kindness, and I really love him. “Yes, the names I use are all Scotch names and are used by many writers, Mr. Barrle among them. You understand that Drum- sheugh 1s the name of the farm, and all the generations that live on it go by that name. Marget Hoo is & character that is very dear to me, and I am glad to know that so many peo- ple love her. Yes, it does my heart good to know that people read my books and enjoy them. Iam exceedingly happy if I have made any one the happier for my stories. “I have no present literary plans. My new {ate Carnegie,’ is out and for a time I will do no literary work. I have more Drum- tochty sketches to publish, however. I have never offered anything for publication. All the stories I have written have been written toorder, so to speak. I was requested to write something for this paper or that, and I wrote them. “We are well acauainted with your literary men on the other side. I have read your older writers and learned of them. Emerson and Lowei! have been teachers and prophets And I haye read Longfellow and Whittier, too. And your Walt Whitman, who, Iunderstand, is not so popular here, is a great favorite with us. Naturally we have a great preference for your locality writers, they being of our own school. We know well and love much the stories of Miss Wilkins, James Lane Allen, George W. Cable, Thomas Nelson Page, Joel Chandler Harris and perhaps ubove all Bret Harte. They are after our own tashion more than your other writers, as Howells, James, Aldrich and others. I am profoundly impressed with Harold Frederic’s ‘Damnation of Theron Ware." It is a great book beyona question.” He spoke of Robert Louis Stevenson with great love and admiration, having been a friend and fellow-student of the greatsst Scotch writer of the nineieenth century. Bobbie Burus is what he calls Scotland’s bard, and he knows him by heart and loves him desrly, WORD PAINTINGS. VIGNETTES—By Iubert Crackenthorpe. John Lane; The Bodiey Head, London and New York. Price $1. For sale by William Doxey, Paiace Hotel, City. Lovers of descriptive writing will find in these vignettes an hour’s pleasure. The authot calls it a miniature journel of whim and sen- timent, The whim and sentiment is mingled | with word sketches of scenes in many 1ands. They are all very short, aud pass before the mind’s eye as & panorama. The author does not let us linger long even before his pictures of the most famous places. Even Paris takes up but a paragrapn, and Lausanne is painted in & page. It is notall iandscape work. He | is fond of describing picturasque people, and when he conjures up before the fancy romantic scenes of city or lake or mountain he tells of the moods the sight of them put the beholder in. If there is any fault it is in over-gorgeous- ness of words and that the writer is & little bit too much in love with alliteration. Here is the Naples of this word artist: “Heaped beneath us all Naples, white and mo- tionless in the silent blaze of the midday sun; circling the bay, still and smooth and blue as the sky above, & misty line of white villages; dark, velvety shadows draping the hills; on | the horizon, rising ebruptly, Capri’s notched stlhouette.” SERMONS SEECIALLY FOR WORK- INGMEN. ‘W ORKINGMEN AND THE CHURCH—By Rev. Robert F. Coyle, D.D. Arena Fublishing Com- pany, Boston, : In these half dozen sermons which were de- livered to Jarge audiences of workingmen three years ago by a Calilornian, and are now given to a larger public, the many working- men who object 1o chureh-going will find mat- | ter of special interest. Dr. Coyle sent out & number of inquiries to representative labor- ing men’s organizations to find out what pro- portion of the workmen attended church, and the reasons for the hostility or indifference of those who did not. He says that he gotsoundly lectured by those who woni go to church and give the preachers a chance todothe lecturing. His refutations of some of the accusations, and acknowledgment of others, are so fair | and just that critics of the church should be fair and just enough to read them. The fact was brought out by his investiga- tion that from two-thirds to threc-quarters of the laboring classes habitually stay away from church, their dereliction in this way far ex- ceeding otner classes. In the many letters received explanatory of this refusal to hear the mivisters of God, the doctor says therefis not a syllable against Christ and his Gospel— the sole grievance is agaltst the church. EIGHT (LEVER STORIES. SOME WOMEN'S WAYS—By Msry Angela Dickens. R.F. Fenne & Co., New York. Frice 25. The ways of women are many and mysteri- ous, and in the short clever taies here told some of these ways are explained to have a nobleness far beyond the comprehension of the ordinary observers by whom their lives were surrounded. In the story called “An Unprincipled Woman” the heroine displays an amount of principle which takes the reader by surprise, and by the exercise of & higner | intelligence and deeper sympathy than would have been expected of her she saves & man whom most others would in thejir righteous- ness have crushed. In another good one, “So as by Fire,” we have an illustration of the benefits that may be made to grow from re- gretted evil in the history of a pastor to whom the passsge through a dark valley was an en- trance to a new life, “a life of such wide sym- pathy and comprehension as he had never dreamed of.” GOOD STORY OF THE SEA. WHAT CHEER—By W. Clark Ruscell R. F. Fenne & Co, New York. Price $125. For sale by Payot, Upham & Co,, City. The ruthor of this book proved his capacity for writing good marine stories in the “Wreck of the Grosvenor,” and all who have enjoyed that tale will pe glad that there is a new one by the same pen. Itisa pretty story of a sweet girl’s love for her sailor, in spite of all at- tempts to discourage her. But where the writer is specially strong is in his descriptive powers of sea scenes and sailors. He knows and loves well the ocean, and his pages are full of beatiful word-paintings aloutit. Herelsa sample description, osen for its brevity: *The sun wes floating tlear of the sea-line,a body of white fire, which poured its glory in heavingsilver to the very stern of the ship. The magic 1ight of this ocean moraing wrought the sails into silk, the rigging into silver wire, and gleams broke from her wet decks as she rolled.”” WHERE SUMMER : MILES ETERNAL NA-RUPUNA: THE HAWAITAN LEGEND OF CREATION—By Julien Darwin Hayne. The Hicks-Judd Co., San Francisco. Price $1 50. This legend of the island of Hawaii, &s the one-time home of the gods, who left the sign of perpetual summer there, has each one of its eighty-three pages handsomely illuminated. The god Wakea, wandering compardionless, called to bim a dove which his mother, in compassion for his lonely state, changed into a woman. From these two came the race of man. The bock’s edornment consists of pic- tures of the mountains, waterfails, lakes, palms and seashore of Hawali, “the Tropic Palace of the Sun,” of natives in their wild costumes, and women of & fairer race. LITERARY NOTES. A new book by the late Miss Mamie Dickens, “My Father as I Recall Him,” is announced for early publication. The December number of the North Ameri- can Review contaius an article on “American Bicycles in England,” by George F. Parker, United States Consul at Birmingham. 8ir Walter Besant has just brought out a book of drawing-room plays, written in col- laboration with W. H. Pollock snd depending for interest on plot rather than epigram. Book News for December will contain the first article in literary criticism contributed to any magszine by Ian MacLaren and the only article written by him during his American tour. The Review of Reviews for December de- nounces the administration’s ebandonment of American interests in Turkey, and demands that existing treaty rights be respected and enforced. George W. Cable, the editor of The Sympo- sium, writes appreciatively and gracefully of J. M. Barrie, the famous author of *‘Senti- | mental Tommy,” in the Christmas number of his magszine. The paper is enriched by a beautiful photograph of Mrs. J. M. Barrie, and a striking portrait of Mr, Barrie forms the frontispiece. The frontispiece of the December Century, the head of Christ, is a detail from the great painting by Dagnan-Bouveret, the exhibition of which is now the chief art attraction in London. The picture was the event of the last Champs de Mars Salon in Paris, and is con- sidered by many critics to be the most notable religious work that has been painted within the past decade. Megsss. Little, Brown & Co. of Boston have just published the “Boston Cooking School Cook Book,” by Fannie Merritt Farmer. The work is well classified, printed, {ilustrated and bound, and contains many recipes that are new, especially in the way of desserts, foods for the sick and confections. In answer to the question so often acked, “What is the good of polar exploration?” the Lounger in the Critic says: “If some of the more recent explorers were asked, I think that they would reply ‘that the pole is almost as much of a gold mine as South Africa. Dr. Nansen will, at the least calculation, make $100,000 out of his writings aud lectures on the subject of his voyage and discoveries.” Dickens for the million! It will be hard to beat an announcement which Chapman & Hall make in reference to Dickens, says the London Chronicle. They are to publish a complete set of his Works at a gninea—twenty- one volumes at a shilling a volume. Gocd paper, a decorative red cloth binding and fromtispiece pictures are all promised jor the money. The edition is the more notable be- cause fully half of Dickens’ stories are still copyright. The Macmillan Company announces a vol- ume of travel which for many reasons will attract and hold attention. It fs, “The Log of a Naturalist in West Africa,” by Miss Mary Kingsley, daughter of the novelist and enthu- siastic naturalist, the Rev. Charles Kingsley. It appears that Miss Kingsley’s primary object in making the trip was to acquire beetles, fetisher, and, if possible, a collection of fishes from rivers north o1 the Congo, but her atten- tion was by no means confined to these curios ana her book contains new material of value to the ethnologist and student of folklore as well as to naturalists. The yearly volume of St. Nicholas just pub- lished is as full of good things for the young folks to digest as the proverbial egg is full of meat. An idea of its size may be gathered from the fact that it contains more than one thousand pages and over seven hundred pic- tures. There are stories about animals, fairy tales, tales of adventure, stories for young Americans, a number of entertaining special papers and a vast quality of entirely new out- side matter. 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New York: The Century Company.] [y “ h i il | '”"l i I\ THE LATE COVENTRY PATMORE. HE death in England, a fortnight ago, of Coventry Patmore, removes a figure among English poets, but one whose distinction, such His first appearance in print was greeted with howls of derision from the critics, who again and again endeavored to kill him off; but despite their efforts Patmore coutinued to live and write, and was exceedingly Numerous editions of his works have been published both in Engiand and on this continent, and the demand for them has proved the difliculty of killing a poet. In his writings Patmore has by some been compared to ‘Wordsworth, but we prefer to regard him as well in the van of those minor poets whom we neea not read to criticize. T as it was, passed out more than twenty years ago. pleasing to a whole generation of admirers, PLEASANT MOMENTS WITH GURREN] VERSIFIERS. This Old Gountry. Purty big place—this country, to ever be laid on the shelf: Inever did have no fear o’ that, though I've got ten acres myself: An’ talk don’t ‘mount to nuthin’, keep singin’ a song; The hills stand fast in the stormy blast—the rillg keep runnin’ along! The winds Purty big place—this counry, to ever be drove to the wall; The seed comes up in the springtime—the har- vest’s shore in the fall; An’ the fields an’ the medders blossom, an’ the thunders shake the town, An’ the old flag waves in glory ai good news down! Purty big place—this country! Though people will foam and fret, An’ shore as the day an’ the flowers o’ May, “Thar’s life in the old land yet!” Thar’s life 'an joy for the askin’, an’ thar ain’t a breathin’ clod But ketchés the kiss 'o the sunshine an’ is free as the winds of God! Purty big place—this country—hills an’ val- Jeys an’ plain: Thanks be to God for the sunshine an’ the fine an’ fresh’nin’ rains, the seed in the soil, an’ the singin’o’ birds in the medders an’ dells, the ringin'—the liberty ringin’ o' the belis—o’ the liberty bells. The Lord is up in his heaven, an’ he’s bendin’ a sky o' blue, An’ wavin’ a ribbon o’ rainbows like signals over you; An’ it's “Forward, march,” for the country an’ joy to the field an’ town, ‘An’ the hills an’ the wild windssing it,an’ the red stripes ripple it down. “Forward march!” an’ the music stirs like the roll of a drum. “Forward, march!” an’ the answer rings to the sky, “We come An’ we’re marchin’ on together, an’ the goal— thank God—is in view. Three cheers for this great old country, an’ the red an’ the white an’ the blue! FRANK L. STANTON, ripples the An’ An’ Somewhere. Fair, mystic realm of Somewhere, Beyond the Sometime Sea, The vagrant odors come where The worid’s ways torture me, O’er waves and lonely islands Thy whispers come betimes, As lute-notes in the silence, As minor poets’ rhymes. O beckoning realm of roses, where' pleasures mark each mile, These yearnings are but music and livingisa smflel Sweet as a virgin’s dreaming, Who love’s first kiss yet thrills— Fair as the flowers gleaming Where moonlight softly spills. Man’s later Eden, Somewhere, We needs must long for thee; The tempter’s iips are dumb there, The serpent bate’s not free, O beckoning realm of roses, where pleasures mark each mile, There yearnings are but music and livingisa smile, WiLL T. HALE. The Steersman. The fore shrouds bar the moonlit sand, The port rail laps the sea; Aloft all taut, where the wind 2louds skim, Alow to the cutwater snug and trim, And the man at the wheel sings low, sings h “0Oh, sea room and lee room And a gale torun afore; From the Golden Gate to Sunda strait, But my heart lies snug ashore.” Her hull rolls high, ber nose dips low, The rollers flash alee— Wallow and dip, and the untossed screw Sends heart throbs quivering through and through— And the man at the wheel sings low, sings he: 4 Oh, sea room and lee room And a gale to run afore; Soweast by south and a bone in her mouth, But my heart lies snug ashore.” The helmsman’s a=ms are brown and hard, And pricked in his forearm be A ship, an anchor, & love knot true, A heart ofred and an arrow of biue, ' Ana the man at the wheel sings low, sings he: “ Oh, sea room and lee room And a gale to run afore; The ship to her chart, but Jack to his heart— And my heart lies snug ashore,” —The Bookman. The Nation's Flower, Oh, Columbine! Oh, Columbine! 3 Columbia’s flower of fair design, Thy trumpet tongues—red, white and blue— Bing Freedom’s song each year anew; And ranged about the central shaft - Forever on the breczes wait, > « E pluribus unum” for each State, Thus centered, makes the Nation great, Oh, Eagle flower! forth from the rock Thou springest after winter's shock, And with thy talons fiying clear, In strength and beauty lead’st the year. America’s broad land thy home, From mountain peak to ocean’s foam; Eagle and dove in one, the sign Of our fair country, Columbine. Cananaaigus, Dec. 1. M. 8, METCALY. Content. I want no fortune, large or small; 1 want no gems or jewels rare; Great riches on my soul would pall And fill my heart with carking care. Ihave no wish for mansions great, O’erspread with pomp and full of gaud. Let others seek a large estate; ’Tis not the portiow I would laud. I have no love for acreage; 1 have no praise at all for gold; I would not place one pin in pledge To win a mass of wealth untold. 'Twould never set my heart aglow To cry, “Behold! my millions, these!” 'Twould rather fill that heart with woe And utterly destroy my ease. Tis better far thatall these things To others should belong—to those ‘Who, bankers, nobles, merchants, kings, Enjoy in splendor to repose. Or, better still, to such a one As she, the greatest joy in life, Through whom my present ease is won, My well-loved *‘millionairess” wife! Iam content without one mill, And shall be so in sickness, health, Let come what may of good or ill As long as she retains her wealth. —Harper’s Bazar, The Quiet Port. There lies a quiet port across the sea, Where the proud sail is furled, Where the bright banner flares and flaunts no more That once waved round the world. There the brave ships that steered for other shores, e That fought the bitter blast, And dared the unknown straits, the frost- hung bays, Find harborage at last. And those white barks that sought the isles of dream, The lanas of love’s report, A They too, though steering gladly otherwhe: Have found the quiet port. There the dark night comes down around them, there The weary captains rest, * The homesick voyager bows down his head, The sage forgets his quest. But yet, ah, even while we fall on sleep, - We are content to wait; Comraaes, the land of cur desire is near, This port is but its gate. ELIZABETH G. RoBERTs in Harper's, TALES BY A CALIFORNIA GIRL Emma Frances Daws in Stories of Dre on and Her Success am and Mystery THE HAUNTED HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL Professor Anderson of Stanford University Declares That to Find Miss Dawson’s Equal in Her Own Field One Must Go Back to Poe and Hawthorne AN ITINERANT HOUSE AND OTHER STORIES—By Emma Prauces Dawson. Wi- llam Doxer, San rrancisco. Price $1 50, For sale by all bookstores. In this book are collected the best storiesof a California author whom Current Literature pronounces as standipg in the front rank of the literary development of California. Some f these have appeared before in magszines, but a number of them are here published for the first time. Words of high praise have been bestowed upon the previous work of this writer by men perfectly competent to pass literary judgment. M. B. Anderson, professor of English literature in Stanford University, says: *“In order to find Miss Dawson’s equal in her own special field the eritic must go back to Poe or to Hawthorne.” The stories are full of mystery and dream. Several of them have been prize-winners. The one called “The Night Before the Wedding” bore off & premium for heing superlatively queer. Miss Dawson puts into the mouth of one of her characters the exclamation, “Happy are you poets and musicians, who can express what is vague.” If tne possession of this power brings happi- ness then is Miss Dawson to be envied both for her happiness and her talents. She seems to have a deal of what in her poem “Unfulfiiled” is called the ““force celestial that could snare the secret thougnt of man.” The story which gives its name to the book, “An Itinerant House,” is a weird tale of this City, well fitted to keep one “awake o’ nights,” both by the thrill of the interest and the hor- rible ghostliness of it. That old house had its walls impregnated with some mystic force which produced ghostly suggestions to the minds of those who stayed within them in the early days when it stood on Telegraph Hill. Since then the wandering house has been moved about from street to street, still keep- ing its power of giving horrible sensations to those who lodge therein. All the inhabitants of this big Uity who dwell in old houses of which they do not know the complete his- tory can after reading this tale go to bed with the uncanny sensation that before morning some fearful fancy may be forced upon their imagination by these haunted walls. SHORT POEMS, THE LATEST AND LATER POEMS OF ANNA MORRISON REED—The Hicks-Judd Com- any, San Francisco, Cal. For sale by Willlam oxey and the City bookstores; price $1. The author of this little coilection of short poems has lived in California most of her life, and therefore they should have attention as a home production. Some of them have been published before as “The Later Poems,” but this {s the first edition of the ‘‘Latest Poems~’ Among the pleasing little pieces perhaps the best 1s “As a Nun Would Tell Her Beads,” which is after the manner of Browning. Another brief and pretty one is that com- mencing, “The gladdest heart in all the world is mine.” FOR EEGINNERS IN FRENCH. PETITE HISTOIRE DE NAPOLEON LE GRAND—By Arthur H. Selial. Maynard, Mer- rill & Co., New York; price 35 cents. A history of the great Emperor condensed within the limits of seventy pages, by a scholar who has industriously studied all the most reliable works on ihe subject, makes a very desirable textbook for youthiul students of the French language. The lines of this little history are all numbered for convenience of reference to copious notes. In every case of difficuit grammar there are foot notes to tell where to find the explanation. GROTESQUE BEAUTY. THE YELLOW BOOK (Volume XI, October, 1896). John Lane: The Bodlev Head, London and New York. Price $1 50. For' sale by ‘William Doxey, Palace Hotel, City. Few people fancy the fantastic cover of this quarterly unless they have a taste for tire gro- tesque and yellow as great as the heathen Chi- nese. But if they will overcome all natural repugnance they may have for Beardsleyism, bravely lift the yellow Iid and begin to read the first story about Lord George Hell, who is wicked as his name, they will at once become 8o interested as to forget their prejudices against nightmare-suggested pictures and the bilious color which is a badge of honor in the Celestial Kingdom. Lord George Hell, whose history is called “The Happy Hypocrite,” wooes the woman he loves under cover of a mask, and, when he wins and marries her, changes his name from Hell to Heaven to himself at the time, to appease science for the falsehocd, that “Lord George Hell is dead.” The true happiness of the hypocrite comes in at the end, when the mask being violently torn from George’s face he ‘begs his beloved wife not to look at his wicked {features, but she protests that the real face was fairer than the semblance with which he had deceived her. He looks into her eyes and sees there the reflection of his own face. It was indeed true: Lord George Hell was dead. The story is a masterpiece of sym- bolic beauty. There are & number of other good stories in the 340 pages, and In addition to the pictures of curious grotesqueness there are some pretty ones, and especially fine are the “War Horses of Rustem.” Among the many literary at- tractions the best is “A Ballad and a Tale,” called ““The Heavenly Lover,” by B. Ps man, This is & beautiful poem, which help the book to & warm welcome 2t the proaching holidays, when we ¢ birth of the Lord of Love, W ‘‘Heavenly Lover” of the tale. LITERARY NOTES. The “Laureate of Great Britain” is the title which Mr. E. C, Stedman gives to Rudyard Kipling in a recent review of the latter's new book, “The Seven Seas.” Henry T. Coates & Co., publishers, will soon issue “Pennsylvania Colony and Common wealth,” by E€ydney George Fisher, author of “The Making of Pennsylvania.” L. Prang & Co., the well-known fine art pub- lishers of Boston, are again to the fore this vear with a fine collection of calendars and Christmas booklets. It is pleasing to note in this connection that European publishers will have their work cut out to enter into competi- tion with a firm issuing such handsome work m America. Messrs. Prang deserve much credit for their enterprise. We have received from the Hicks-Judd Com- pany of 23 First street, City, a copy of a new book which they have issued, entitled, “What I Have Read and Noted.” It consists of blank leaves ruled in such a manner as to permit of the reader of works of reference or other books jotting down important passages in such & form as 1o be convenient ior reference. The idea appears to us to be & good one, The price in pdper cover is 50 cents, and in cloth, gilv edge, $1. “'The Story of Architecture,” by Charles T. Mathews, M.A., furnishes an outline of the styles in all countries. This compact yet com- Pprebensive history of architecture offers a study of the effects of civilization upon archi- tecture as a necessity and an art. Therein it differs from many other works which are simply narratives of events, plus catalogues of buildings. Another point of interest is that almost all the architectural monuments spe- cially referred to are described from personal knowledge. American architecture, 100, re- ceives careful attention. Outing for December is one of the best num bers of the popular sporting magazine that ever left the presses. The number opens with “The Pectoral Cross,” a powerful story of the stage, by Justine Ingersoll. This is one of the best things of its kind that has appeared for many a day. A second complete story, and a gocd one, is “Zinto,” by H. F. Muun, who proves to be well posted in the customs of the Indians about Great Slave lake. Notable fea- tures of the sport and travel departments ar *‘Hares and Hare Hunting,” by Ed W.Sandys; t the Top of Europe,” by E. M. Allaire; *‘American Amateur Athletes of '96,”" by W. B. Curtis; “Golf in America to Date,” by Price Collier, and “Racing Schooners,” by R. B. Burchard. The new volume jis almost ready in the series which John Murray is issuing in Lon- don dealing with the prominent women of America during Colonial and Revolutionary times. Itssubject is Mercy Otis Warren, the sister of James Otis, who played a great part in bringing about the American Revolution. His pubiic career began in 1761, when he put forward the question, *Shall persons em- ployed in enforcing the actsof treaty have power to invoke generally the assistance of the executive officers of the colony?” That of course was a foretaste of the events which led to America becoming & nation. The point of this memoir of the sister of Otis—the writer being Mrs. Alice Brown—is the light it throws upon his time. Arthur Waugh in his London letter to the Critic says: “*Mr. Zangwill is understood to be about to desert fiction tor a season and to pro- ject a series of studies of a certain class of Jewish development. These are to be called “Dreamers of the Ghetto,” and the types chosen will be conspicuous for the ideality wand humanity of their creed. The Christ will ‘be among them, but the latest will be of quite recent origin. Mr. Zangwill is already wvanced upon his work, which he hopes to have finisned before next summer, It isnotatall improbable that he will be more successful in this line of literature than he has proved as a story-teller. His method has grown in com- plexity and is now less suited than at first to the medium of popular fiction. He is wise if he appreciates this betimes, for he is & man who is pound to do something big, when once he has found his proper spoere.