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- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALIL, SUNDAY, JULY 4. 189 "7,~t,e~-_' JUSTIN McCARTHY ON THE VICTORIAN ER an era co. and b 1880, ustive history, and e 1g & m cipal events them In so clear and interesti that even those who have k the sub- jects, and get a more comprehensive idea of the more notable occur: by reading these condensed accounts of th contains a number of good, clear 2 most prominent men of the skeiches of the great politicians whom the suthor bad smple opportunities of observing at close quarters arc of course ex ceedingly well done, and hole book is 1y readable. Histor McCarthy writes is worth reading ev ¢ those who read r entertainment nd care nothing for ne acquirement briefly and viv- sode. It is , who began ng so much fon at its close. and yet won SO mu 1 careful impartiality the ) his faults and to force himself into Parliament wheu first eleced and that pody’s long resist- ance of his claim sre both censurea as being 2 indignified. ost His e Irish quesiion. Gladstone’s home rule for that discon- and the reasons of his failure lain. There ¢ way in which the story is told. ere were wise statesmen who favored it hinking they were doing all for the best, and who opposed 1t | The remarkable ssed by Parnell is here were wise statesme #s_conscientiously :r in lendership posse d dealt with Parnell with a fis re d Ireland) much might shed toward the saiisfaction of ted Kiogdom from manya cal vented munya crime. The nhistorian in now to all'who question then or Jater that the success of the constitutional home rule movement would ave meant the gradual and final pacification { Ireland and the reconciliation of the Eng- lish and the Irish peoples. The picturesque brilliance of Disraell’s career is related in & way that makes us mar- vel anew at his wonderful schievement: Some scraps of conversation are given showing | that Disreeli believed that all politicians did r hard work in order to win fame, and kly confessed that he did. Oue night ight tried to convince him that he, Bright, least aid not come to the House of d bland.y, pityingly, and declined discus- mons for fame, but *D sraeli smi and almost sion led me, Egypt?” which traces England’s ements in that country, and intimates that there is very likely to be terious trouble ahead for Britaiu on account of this occupa- tion of the land of Pharoahs. The historian says that even yet England may be called upon to make sacrifices which are not worth mak- ing, as the court lady says in Shakespeare, “‘For all the mua in Egypt.” In an eccount of the Queen’s jubilee in 1887 s recorded that the Irish people treated the 1atier with aeliberate colduess. It is stated 18t this would not have been the case had it en for the fact that Ireland had received many years littie or no royal countenance. The Queen during all her relgn had spent Iy & few days in that island. Other matters very interestingly treated are the Armenian massacres, ihe Venezuels boundary dispute, the arbitration treaty and the Transvaal trouble. The idea of arbitra- Mr. McCarthy holds, was so strongly ed by the inteliigence of toth nations t ot be long prevented. DU MAURIER’S \’I[W OF MARS. There is one point worth particular notice in connection with *‘The tian,” the new novel by George du Msurier, which has for the past six months been running serially in Har- per's Macezine andissoon 1o be brought out o, in book form—that is, its almost journa.istic | timeliness. At the very moment when the world | was speculating about Mars, wondering if it were inhabited, wondering what manner of intelligent beings ccu'd live on another plan- et, wondering 1f by any device we could es sh communication with them, Du Mau- rwas busily engaged ona work in which mystery was revealed, and the first inhab- of Mars to make the acquaintance of man was introduced on earth. Since the book was completed our knowledge of Mars has, through the persistent endeavors of scientists, among them Percival Lowell, greatly increased, and it is interesting to compare Du Maurier's spec- ulations about the planet with the facts now well established. Mr. Lowell’s latest studies of Mars have been made at Flagstaff, Ariz., and in Mexico, where the conditions were particularly favorable o his observations. An article on his work there. recently published in the New York Herald, says: ‘Mars is in many respects the most interest- ing object in the solar eystem. The phengme- nel brighiness, when nearest the ear@fhas attracted the geze and excited the imagine- tion of men of all ages, while the berutiful coloring which the telescope discloses to ob- servers has made it the more admired the bet- ter it nas been known. “‘Its genera. conditions are more like our earth than those of any other planet. Iisday is about forty minuntes longer than ours. It hss four seasons like our own, though the greater eccentricity of fts orbit and the slightly greater inclination of its axis accen- tuate its seasons, giving it a colder winter and a botter summer. “Mars has an atmospkere slightly less dense tha nour own. Thisserves 1o keep the sur- fece at & mean temperature above that of the earth. We know this because, while Mars Ehows polar caps like our own planet, tnese meit off in the late summer very much more than on the earth.” The account of Mars given in Du Meurier’ novel in connection with the history of “'Martia” presents a somewhat more personal view of the planet: For an immense time Martia “had gone through countless incarnations, from the low- est form to the highest, in the cold and dreary Planet we call Mars, the outermost of the four Ahebited worlds of our system, where the detestation | teresting feature in this is & wonderful y as to make true friends of regret his fall from power. when if th rial Gover £ the greatinfluence he held (he really have been the o | absolute obedicnce toa la ty understood | ere isa chapter called “Oh! Whither hast | | sun seems no bigger than an orange, and which, but for its moist, thin, rich atmosphere peculiar magnetic conditions thatd ffer irom ours, would be too cold above ground for human or animal or vegetable life. Asit is, it is only inbabited now in the neighborhood of its equator, and even then duriug 1ts long | winter it is colcer and more desolate than Cape Horn or Spitzbergen—except that the shallow fresh-water sea does not freeze except for & few months at either pole.” Mr. Lowell’s telescopes were not strong el gh for him ta decide absolutely that Mars was inhabited, though their revelation of an elaborate system of twin canals in the planet 1y inclined him to the belief that they were the work of a Lighly ingenious race. So, for enlightenment on this point, we must n to the imagination of the romanticist. Martia’ gives so atiractive an account of her fellow-creatures that they seein altogethersu- perior 10 humankind: “Man in Mars is, it appears, a very differen t being from what he is here. He is amphib- ious and descends from npo monkey, but from a emall animal that seems to be something between our seal and our sea lion. * * * His beauty is to that of the seal as that of the Theseus or Antinous to that of an orang- outang. His five senses are extraordinariiy acute, even the sense of touch in his webbed fingers ana toes; aud in addition to these he possesses a sixth, tbat comes from his keen and unintermittent sense of the magnetic cur- rent, which is far stronger in Mars than on the earth and far more complicated and more | thoroughly understood. *“When any object is too aelicate and minute | to be examined by the sense of touch and sight, the Martian shuts his eyes and puts it against the pit of his siomach, and knows all about it, even its 1nside. “In the sbsolute dark, or with his eyes shut, snd when he stops his ears, he is more in- tensely conselous of what immediately sur- rounds him than at any other time, except that il color-perception ceases; conscious not | only of material objects, but of what is pass- ing in his fellow-Martian’s mind—and this for an area of many hundreds of cubic yards. “In the course of its evolutions this ex- traordinary faculty—which exists on earth in a rudimeatary state, but only among some birds and fish and insects and in the lower forms of animal lile—has developed the Mar- tian mind in a direction very different from ours, since no inner life apart from the rest, no privacy, no concealment is possible except ata distance involving absolute isolation; not even thought is free; yet in some incompre- hensib'e way there is, as & matier of fact, a y greater freedom of thought than is con- ; absolute liberty in , & paradox beyond our comprehension. “Their habits are as simple as those we at tribute to the cave-dwellers during the prehis- toric periods of the earth’s existence. But their moral sense is £0 far 1n advance of ours that we haven't even a terminology by which to express it. * * * These cxemplary Mar- | tians wear no clothes but the exquisite fur | with which nature has endowed them, and which constitutes a part of their immense beauty. * & * | | “They are great engineers and excavators, great irrigators, great workers in delicate metal, stone, marble and precious gems (there isno wood to speak of); great sculptors and decorators of the beautiful caves, so fancifully and so intricately connected, in which they live,and which have taken thousands of vears to design and excavate aud ventilate and #dorn, and which tney warm and light up at | wil in a beautiful manner by means of the tremendous magnetic current.” { Oneof the most remarkable facts In connee- tion with the inhahitants of Mars is the man- nerof their death, which, by the way, they lcok upon far more cheerfully than we do. “For when the life of the body ceases and the body itselfis burned and its ashesscattered to the winds and waves, the infinitesimal, im- ponderable and indestructible something we call the soul 1s known to lcse itself in & sun- | beam and make for the sun, with all its memo- ries about it, that it may then receive furthe.r development, fitting it for other systems aito- gether beyond conception; and the longer it has lived in Mars the better for its eternal life in the future.” This theory, fantastical as it seems when con- sidered apart from the romance, bears & curi- | cusand suggestive resemblance to & recent | discovery meade by Professor Alexander Graham Bell, the distinguished scientist. For some time past Professor Bell has been experi- menting in the bope of finding & medium to transmit sound that wouid enable him to construct a telephone without the use of & wire, and thus to annibilate space. This medium, it is said, he has discovered in a shaft of light. The instrument, which is called the “‘photophone,” has not yet been perfectea, but when this work is accomplished Professor Bell believes that he will have achieved a method of inter-planetary communicetion. Who knows but that this may be the means of | our making acquaintance at first hand witn | the Martians, end of learning as facts what Du | Maurier has presented to us under the guise of romantic fietion? TEST FOR MINERALS. PRACTICAL MINING AND ASSAYING—By ¥rederick Milton Johnson, San Francisco, the author. For sale in this City by Hartwell, Mitcnell & Co. Price$1. Many prospectors in the State of California and in Nevada have passed over outeroppings for want of some simple method which would enable them to discover the value of such, | and it is more than likely that numerous rich | deposits of ore have for that reason never been worked. Frederick Milton Jobnson, a resi- dent of this City, who in the recent past has had fifteen years of practical experience in the mountains, the mines, the mills and the assay office, has for the benefit of the prospector, the miner, and those who may desire 10 obtain & general knowledge of mining and as- seying, prepared and published what | he calis *“a pocket edition of practical mining and assaying.” In this work the author gives in plain, unmistakeble language, free from puzzling technicalities, the rules for determining the character of rocks thata prospector may meet and their relations to veluable minerals; tells how to test for free gold, how to make wet assays and how to get the value of copper ore by means of an outfit that will not cost more than $1 50. He also illustrates a simple insirument to be used in surveying and leveling, which a pros- pector often has to resort to; a cheaply con- structed and simple concentrator, scales to ascertain the value cf a “button” obtained irom a test, and furnishes a number of tables that are of great value to those who may wish 1o search for gold. The instructions laid down wiil enable one distant from any assay office to determine at very small cost what he has dlscovered. Of Queen Victoriu’s jubi'ee book, the Ameri- can rights of which have been secured by the Century Company, nearly all cogpies have been sold in advance of issve. The$50 edi- won. of which 100 copies were secured for Americs, has more than doub.ed in price in circle of Americans. JUSTIN McGARTHY. Justin McCarthy, who was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1830, has gained an international reputa- tion as a statesman, novelist, historian and journalist. politics of the day as the leader of one of the wings of the Irish party. From 1868 to 1871 Mr. Mc- Carfi\y lived and traveled in the United States, and thereby became known personally to a large He has written ‘‘Roland and Oliver,” “‘The Riddle Ring,” ‘Red Diamonds’’ and numerous other works, including ‘“A History of Our Times,”” a pretentious undertaking of which the final installment has just been published. He is a conspicuous figure in the English SOME JULY MAGAZINES. The complete novel in the July issue of Lip- pincott’s is **'A Mouuntain Moloch,” by Duffield Osborne. The scene is an otherwise unknown island in the Pactfic, settled in remote ages by Phenician exiles and ruled by their descend- ants, The hero is an American naval officer, who leaves his ship for love of a native Princess; and the adventures and bloodshed are worthy of Mr. Rider Haggard. Other stories are “William’sSpree,” by Louise Boynton, and “The Haunted Burg- lar,” by W. C. Morrow, author of “The Ape, the Idiot and Other People.” Dr. Francis E. Clark, founder of the Christian Endeavor so- cieties (a sketch of whom, by the way, appears in THE CALL to-day), furnishes a vivid sketch of “'A Plague-stricken City,” written duringa recent sojourn at Bombay when the bubonic plague was at {ts height. The article will be of special interost to the Endeavorers and to readers in general. “The Evolution of News- paper Advertising” is traced through its vari- ous stages by Oscar Herzberg. Ingram A. Pyle has a paper on “The American Drama,” and Ellen Duvall one on “The De- cline of the Hero.” In “The Play of the Bronco™ Allan Hendricks describes an experi- ence which the reader will be loth to emulate. Annfe Steger Winston writes appreciatingly on “The Fantastic Terrors of Childhood.” Lawrence Irwell tells of the theory and prac- tice of +Suicide Amongthe Ancients,” i e., the Greeks and Romans; and “Quarantine for Cattle” in this country—an unfamiliar sub- jeet—is flluminated by H. H. Bowen. The poetry of the number is by Mary E. Stickney, Carrie Blake Morgan and Clinton Scollard. Sunbeams for July contains some Fourth of July stories by Mira L Cobbe, Florence A. Evans and Clara T. Henry, as well as Aunt Priscilla’s talk with the children. Arthur Ward takes us “Into the Canyons,” in a con- tinuation of his sketch on Colorado begun in June. Dr. H. Lioyd’s article on ‘‘Swimming and Water Sports” is full ot information and advice to the lovers of natatorial pa: times. Mrs. Root’s suggestions in dressmak- ing, and descriptions of costumes, in *‘Fash- ions and Furbelows” will be read with interest by mothers, while Grace Hastings’ initial article on the art of making Macrame lace will prove serviceable to mothers and daugh- ters. The kindergarten and natural history departments are full of information for teachers. McClure s Magazine for July opens with an account of the actual daily life in a liitle “re- public” where the citizens and Governors are young boys and giris from the poorest and most crowded distriets of the City oi New York. Private industry and public functions are pursued precisely as by older people in larger republics, and neglect or abuse of either encounters the same pains and penalties as in life at large. The paper is fully illustrated from special photographs. The late Frofessor Drummond is the subject of a paper by the Rev. D. M. Ross, who lived in close intimacy England, and of the §15 edition, 600 copies of which were secured jor Americs, only & few | have not yet been taken up. with him from his boyhood to the hour of his death, and who is thereby enabled to give us the first really vivid and satisfaciory presens tation we have bad ot a man who was one of the great personal influences of his time. The paper is illustrated with several portraits of Professor Drummond. cne of them a recent oue, which his friznds consider the best in existence. Other features of this number of McClure’s are & fine series of 1ife portraits of Andrew Jackson, sev- eral of them never before published, elong with some reminiscences of Jackson by his granddaughter, Rachel Jackson Lawrence; & humorous story by Robert Barr, describing the subjugation of the “bully of the school” by an ingenious Western schoolmaster; an adven- turous tele by Conan Doyle, dealing with those picturesque kings of the high seas who 1ived, like several distinguished playwrights, by taking iheir own where they found it; & | paper on Grant, by Hamlin Garland, portray- | ing him as his fellow-officers and soldiers saw him in the actual work of conducting a great | campaign; the account of the voyage of the Mayflower from Governor Bradford's quaint and naive “History of Plymouth Plantation,” lately presented by the authorities of the Bishop ot London’s Library at Fulbam, Eng- land to the State of Massachusetts ; and, finally, a story of a latter-day Romeo and Juliet— whose misadventures, however, do not all end in blood and gloom snd funerals, but quite the contrary—by Anthony Hope. While three sbort stories of unusual merit are a distinet feature of the Juiy Atlantic, still this issue contains aside from its fi n articles of more permanent interest. Pro- fessor Woodrow Wiisou of Princeton Univer- sity contributes an articie upon ‘“Ihe Making of the Nation,” and asks the perplexing ques- tion, “Wnat is Americanism?”’ Another po- litical paper of importance is by E. L. Godkin, editor of the Nation, on “‘The Decline of Leg- islatures.” He traces the development of Legislatures, and contends that in all parts of the world there has been a decline in the dig- nity of legislative bodies. Following other studies of rural New England, Alvan F. San- born, who has made a specialty of this sub- ject, writes interestingly of social conditions in a decaying New England town. A dis- tinctly literary flavor is added to the issue by the printing of hitherto wunpublished letters of Jonn Sterling and Emer- son. Edward Walao Emerson ed- i1s them and- adds an interesting sketch of the cheerful and heroic Sterling. Kate Holladay Claghorn writes on Burke; and this review, coming on the one hundredth an- niversary of the great statesman’s death, is particularly timely. She discusses his work and character and its relations to American history. Professor W. J., Ashley of Harvard University mazes the recently published life of Jowett the text for an article on “Jow- ett and the University 1deal.” Incidentally Professor Ashley gives a comparative study of English snd American university work and ideals. The three short stories referred to are: “One Fair Daughter,” by Ellen Olney Kirk; “A Life Tenant’’ by Ellen Mackubin, & story of army life in Texas, and *Ne g Creol,’” by Kate Chopin, a story of low life in New Or- leans. Alice Choate Perkins contributes a sonnct called *“A Day in June,” and Olive Thorne Miller prints another of her studies of birds and outdoor life, entitied ‘The Stony Pathway to the Woods.”” The reviews of this number are on Strauss and James Lane Allen. Scribner’s for July embraces the following table ot contents: “Pelagia Impersonating Aphrodite in the Amphitheater” (~Hypatia”), drawn by A. Castaigne, frontispiece, scenes from the great novels—VII, engraved by Florian. “Undergraduate Life at Yale,” Henry E. towland, with iilustrations by Orson Loweil. ‘A Rejected Titian,” Robert Herrick. “White Pansies,” Archipald Lampman. *The Modern Business Building,” J. Lincoln Stef- | fens (“The Conduct of Great Businesses—Fifth Paper”), illustrations by W, R. Leigh, “John Cabot,” the Marquis of Dufferin, chairman of the committee of the Cabot celebration, illus- trations from original documents, autograph letters, ancient maps, etc. “Greencastle Jen- ny,” Helen Gray (one. *London,’” as seen by C. D. Gibson,VI—London People, written and illustrated by Mr. G.bson (the last of six illus- trated papers). William orris,” Walter Crane; illustrated wilth portraits and repro- dnctions from photographs of Mr. Morris’ dec- orative work. “The Story of a Play,” ehapters XIV-XX; W.D. Howells (to be concluded in August). *“Whist Fads Cavendish. “The Point of View”—the idealistic use of tall build- ings. “The Fleld of Art”; women art stud- dents’ clubs. “About the World”; To the Res- cue of the Seals, the Queen's Jubilee, the Fate of the Arbitration Treaty, the Fastest Ship Afloat. LITERARY NOTES. General Horace Porter's ‘‘Campaigning With Grant,” now appearing in the Century, will be issued as a subscription book in the sutumo. «His Majesty’s Greatest Subject” {s the title of a dramatic romance of India, by 8. 8. Thor- burn, which is to be published shortly by D. Appleton & Co. Harper & Brothers have just issued: “A History of Our Own Times,” “Georgia Scenes,” “Susan’s Escort,” **Hell for Sartain,” “Bobbo,” “Mr. Peters” and ““The Real Condition of Cuba To-day.” “Uncle Bernac,” the new historical romance by A. Conan Doyle, victures the adventures of a hero who crosses from England to France when Napoleon was encamped at Boulogne and meditating the invasion of Engiana. What an entirely unsophisticated country must Japan be, particularly for the bieyclist. Mr, Fernald will teil in a forthcoming work to be published by the Century Company how, when wheeling in Japan, the chilaren tried to feed his bike with carrots. Short stories by Coman Doyle, Anthony Hope and Robert Barr will appear in the July number of McClure’s Magazine. Add to these an installment of the Stevenson novel. ‘‘St. Ives,” and in the matter of fiction it would be hard to frame a more attractive announce- ment. The present widespread interest in the sub- | 23 it ject of fiying machines gives a timeliness to a serial extravaganza that begins in the July Ceutury. Itis ealled “Up the Matterhorn in a Boat,” and is written by Marion Manville Pope, whose story of the Minnesota fires, “A Day in Tophet,” was recently published in the Century. Messrs. George Routledge & Sons (limited), 27-29 West Twenty-third street, New York, announce a series of 12mos under the title of “One Hundred Immortals.”” They are bound in half leather, fuli gilt back, gilt top, marbled and gold paper sides, with hea bands, and will retail at 75 cents per volume. The third edition of James Lane Allen’s new novel, “The Choir Invisible,” is now in press, although the first was one of exceptional size, and the second even was double the number of volumes technically considered an edition. There are those who claim that Mr. Allen’s work is “caviars to the general,” but this would seem to show that one need notbe a poet or an artist to appreciate the poetry and beauty which so strongly characterize all Mr. Allen’s works. Intelligence, issued by the Metaphysical Publishing Company, 503 Fifth avenue, New York, makes its appearance this month as the continuation of the Metaphysical Magazine, which has been before the public for the last two years and a half. In its nmew form the magsaziue is more attractive than ever, having been enlarged in rsize, changed in style, broadened in character and scope and im- proved generally, while the subseription price has been reduced to the popular rate of $1 & year and 10 cents a number. Leander Ed- mund Whipple will edit Intelligence. The Macmillan Company announces for early publication an edition of Spenser’s “Faerie Queen,’” edited with/introdnction and glossary by K. M. Warren. Itis to be pub- lished in six velumes, each containing one book of the poem, and 1s an attempt to supply the need of a pleasant handy and inexpensive edition for general use, that is, for those gen- eral readers who use books more for pieasure than for business. It is convenient in size anaattractively bound in blue and gold. The glossary is full snd excellent; the story told canto by canto isa useful fea: ure, and the general introduction is judi- clously written. The Peter Paul Book Company of Buffalo announce that they have in press a book with the title “The Chatelaine,” by G. E. X, a writer who has made a unique book from (principally) the experiences of travel. Througnout the book the ides is emphasized that nowever much there is in common in ex- periences, the line of demarcation is the ideal. G. E. X. idealizes experiences so that there are no solitudes, as such, no glooms, as such; and while each page is complete, or well-nigh, in itself, yet itis the way in which the whole is hung together that warrants the title “‘Chate- laine,” complete only with its many chains, and many links of them, with their dependent thoughis and experiences, It is known that Dr. Weir Mitchell’s novel, “Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker,” which is now aprearing serially in the Century, was 1o be published in book form last uutumnand a large edition had been manufactured, when the great adaptability of the story for serial publication caused the issue of the book to be postponed for & year. It will be brought out this autumn, and the great interest in the novel during i:s serial appearance indicates & large sale. The July installment in the Cen- tury will contain the story of Hugh Wynne's call upon Major Andre the night before An- dre’s execution. The author makes Hugh Wynue the bearer of the letier from Andre to Washington asking that the writer should be shot and not hanged. Harper & Brothers announce ‘“Bobbo, and Other Fancies.” which besides the title story contains a number of selections in prose and poetry, by Thomas Wharton, with an intro- duction by Owen Wister; “Eye Spy, afield with nature, among flowers and creeping things,” by the late William Hamilton Gibson, profusely illustrated by the author; *“A Lubo- ratory Course in Wood Carving,” by Professor Michuel Joseph Golden; the third volume of Justin McCarthy’s “A History of Our Own Times” ; “The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote,” by Chailes Dudley Warner, who at- tempts in this volume to bring lovers of Shakespeare in touch with the world or Shakespeare; and a new edition of “Georgia Scenes,” which was originally published in 1840. Thae Macmillan Company has in preparation a Dictionary of Architecture, to be published in three Jarge octavo volumes, under the di- rection of Russell Sturgis, author of “Euro- pean Architectnre; an Historical Study.” The work will include special articles by many of the leading architects, sculptors, engi- neers, mural painters and other men hav- ing practical knowledge of the arts about which they write. Blography is part of the scheme, and one may expect to find definitions of terms. history and criticism of styles, together with some account of building as an art, materials aud their employment, construction (practical and scientific) modern appliances to meet novel requirements modern and ancient practice in the applica- tion of painting and sculpture to buildings, 1andscape gardening in connection with archi- tecture, ete. The volumes will be abundantly illustrated. Kipling has been strung up for plagiarism. A writer in the Critic has put forward the assertion that he borrowed the idea of his “Bill’Awkins” from an American ballad. Those who are familiar with his “Seven Seas’’ remember the verse: ’As anybody seen Bill ’Awkins? Now'ow in the devil woula 1 know? ’E’s taken my girl out waikin’ An’ I've got to tell 'im s)— Gawd bless’lm— 1've got to telt ’im so. The writer in the Critic then goes on to quote & song from which hesays Kipling stole his idea. This the Atlanta Constitution denies and says if it was stolen at all, which is a question to be mooted, it came from the good old Middle Georg:a Cracker song: Has anybody seen Sal Skinner? Now how in the debbil do I know? She's longer than a fence rail and thinner; With her shoestring hangin’ on the flo’ Gol darn her— With her shoestring hangin’ on the flo'— ol dara_he: NEW CHY GUIDE. DOXEY'S GUIDE TO SAN FRANCISCO AND THE PLEASURE RESORTS OF CALIFOR- NIA—RBy William Doxey. for sale in this City by Willlam Doxey, Palace Hotel. Price 5u cents. A very complete guide to this City and vicin- ity and to the principal pleasure resorts of the S:ate has been prepared by the popular bookseller, Willlam Doxey, just in time to meet the wants of the crowds of visitors now here and on the way to attend the Eadeav- orers’ conveution. It is quite up to date, thoroughly accurate, well iliustrated, most in- terestiugly written and is accompanied by 8 large, clear map. the ana'ysis of | THE YELLOW BOOK AGAIN. THE YELLOW BOOK—New York and London, Foru;lle in this City by Willlam Doxey. Prica 8 The April number of *“The Yellow Book,” barring its cover, contains nothing particus larly fitting or brilliant. It is composed of stories, some few of them strong, some of them stupia, and most of them disappointing. Of the art work none is particularly pleasing, saving, perhaps, as a puzzle might be, and the poetry is scarcely gooc even in the mechanical partsof it. The book opens with a poem by W. B. Yeats called “The Blessed.”” Thiy starts off with the correct meter and accent in the first line of the first verse. Then all the rest of the verses (and there are ten others) stammer and crimp with their own incorrectness. Had Mr. Yeats been wise and made eleven poems of one verse each instead of one *poem” o1 eleven verses (and there is really no good reason why he should not have done s0), he would have been relieved of the necessity of even having Corres spondence in the rhyme, which he has done faithfully. Evidently the artof rhyming comes natural to him. But he has yet to learn that thero hasbeen some poetry without ruyme, and an enormous amount of rhyme without poetry, and that there has been no poetry without meter and thought. The story “Merely Players,” by Henry Har. 1and, is likely to prove fair reading when one is tired out and does not want to think. Itis extremely improbable—the story of a King who manages to conceal his idgntity from the reader until the climax, and is suffering from an exaggerated attack of cynielsm, laziness and indigestion, it would seem. To cure hime« self he is advised to fall in love with a “red« haired” woman, which he does at the first suggestion, in spite of the fact that he hasa wife whom he has never seen. Of course, the red-haired woman turns out to be the nege lected Queen. The author had a romaniic idea, but he does not explain satisfactorily how the King havpened to be married with- out ever seeing his wife, considering tbe fact that he wasa King. He forgets that there is court etiquette which even a King with & bogus digestion would be compelled to obe serve. Richard Yarnett, C.B., L. LD., has trans- lated some sonnets from the ‘‘Portuguese of Authero de Inental.” Wih thistle’s azure flower my home I hung, And did with redolence of musk perfume, 4nd, robed §n purple raiment’s glowing gloom, Low preluce to my coming carol sung. These are the first lines of the first sonnet, and after you have floundered about among the mysteries of the verbs and their subjects and have reached the solidity of certainty, you discover an idea. There is & poem called “The Question,” which would have been just as well unanswered, inasmuch as poetry should deal with the higher and nobler things. “The Question” deals too plainly, and with no result, with the base. “Pijerrot,” by Olive Constance, and *'Oasis,”” by Rosamond Marriott Watson, the former emotional and the latter descriptive,are on the who'e the best verse in the edition. The women writers seem to have clearer percep- tions, higher and mightier ideas, than the men. Itisnoticeable in the prose as well as the poetry. Marion Hepworth-Dixon’s story, “The Runs away,” isa clever little bit on the human in. terest line; “The Other Anna,’” a story of rtist life, rather pleasingly = faneiful, by elyn Sharp, and “Kit, an American Boy,” by Jennie A. Eustace, are harmless reading, though not unusually ingenious. Ada Radford’s “'Lucy Men,” a story dealing with a plain little school-teacher who fallsin love with a senseless friend’s husband and fole lows fora few steps the path of least resiste ance, is so charmingly natural that, while it is not new in any sense, it is §till better than the majority. Among the other prose articles in the book appear “The Christ of Toro,” by Mrs. Cuns ningham-Graham; “Concerning Preciosity,” by John M. Robertson; “Sir Julian Yarne,” a realistic tale of a young American at the Casino, who gambles and loses, and is shot to death because he suspected the dishonesty of one of the players, by Julia d’Arey; “The Loss of a Penny,” by Cecil de Thierry, told of & tramp who was arrested for a murder that he did not commit, and of his subsequent pe- culiar death. There are a few others along the same lines, perhaps not wholly condemnable, Lut nevers theless without sufficient characteristic pointg to make them more than barely readable. TOURING IN EUROPE. The brick roads of Hoiland are disliked by some wheelmen—praised by others, says Rob- ert Luce in “‘Going Abroad.” As in Holland more than in most other countries, the vile lages and rural districts are the more pictur- esque and the less spoiled by the quick-tour Dpeople, and as there are sbsolutely no hills to climb, it is surely worth the wheelmen’s ate tention. “The roads of Spain,” declares one bieyeler, ‘*are good as a rule, though notequal to those in France and lialy. A trip through any one of our States wou!d be a more formid- able undertaking than one througn Spain. Of * course we attracted universal atiention, but it was alwaysaccompanied by courteous respect.”” Normandy is another delightful region tfor bi- cycling, and Touraine is declared s paradise for wheelmen. In Northern France tue clie mate in summer is excellent for the sport, being much less wet than that of England, and averaging considerably cooler than that of the United States. A favorite trip is from Rotterdam or Ams- . terdam up the Rhine Valley to Switzerland, and then from Geneva straight to Parisand the sea. Home-coming wheelmen who had just made this trip to!d me, however, that if they were to do it again they would reverse it, 50 83 to slide down the Rhine Valiey rather than climb it. Such a trip from New York to New York, with first-class passage on a slow line, coula handily be made in two moaths, at & total cost of from $200 to $300, according to the hotel accommodations demanded. By crossing second class and economizing on the other side it car: be done for $150 or even less, but most people would not enjoy what they would get for an expenditure of under $200. Undoubtedly the favorite trip covers Great Britain alone. The first time over,at any rate, many dread the chance of embarrass- ment that ignorance of the language might bring o & bicyclist in the villages of the Con= tinent. Of course, this danger Goes not bother the tourist in Great Britain. Furthermore, the Eaglish rural districts are justly famous for their beauty, and the roads are uniformly excellent. Living is more costly than on the Continent, but $2 a day would be a fair allow- ance for an economical bieyclist, whether man or woman. Taat includes everything, except purchases of clothing, mementoes and Ppresents. W. C. Morrow of San Francisco has one of his powerful short stories in Lippineott's Magazine jor July. It is reported that Mr. Morrow’s book, “The Ape, the Idiot and Other Storfes,” which ‘the Messrs. Lippincott re- cently brought out, was selling “tenth best” among the books of fiction in the United States last mounth,