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IBER 20, 1898 28 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, : Henry James’ Latest Social Study t Is Galled “In the Gage,” and Deals With an English Telephone Girl. by J. R. Miller, D.D., i the Still Wate: by Henry James, is a book | the particular point that he tries to make, | = 3 1 S ontaneil editic o it top, €0c; € D W here is no (Yuuhl that they contain | trated edition, 12mo., cloth, giit merits of which there | JMCVE 1 o nt of valuable information | ~Ships and Haven Henty Van' Dyke. great diver: of.apin-| 2 VSt aEmount o Fo tell ho: ! 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Wild Compa shers, Boston MIRIAM—By Gustav Kobbe. *“Miri 2 sfory of the Nantucket New Sc hoal lightship told in the quaint djal d- LE: 310N AV m’ | of that amphibious island by one who has seen it in all its varying phases, win- and summer. It a fascinating " and, while full of exciting pas. ends with a most unexpected cli- T. Y. Croweli & Co., publishers, Messrs. e w 11 rth ““Through My < kins (Dorca 18mo., cloth, ‘You: ple’s Prob by J. R. Miller, D.D., 18mo., cloth, 7 ONCROROROJO OJOJONONORORORONOKC] NEWS, N § evening Hi AR rmony Chap- ter will give a grand entertainment and ball in Natlve Hall. Miss Cordie Wetjen, daughter of M E. D. Wetjen, worthy matron of Har- monys Chapter, who accompanied her mother on the occasion of her E to attend the golden wedding of her par- returned with her mother and will take part in the entertainment to be given on Tuesday next. It will be her first appearance in public in this city in month: Wet who s well known as ( yrofa’s wonderful wnistler, while in the East appeared b fore several aiences and won high | commendation for her wonderful talent. She was offered a number of engagements for conc: in December and she accept- ed them, but was unexpectedly forced to 1 all on account of iliness, resulting severe cold following exceedingly weather. Since her return to S isco the young lady has fu d and she is _of opinio! s no e like that of Ca ollowing officers o elected, will be i ember: M Head, P.; M Haw Maud W k, A the following Andrew the following M.; W. There is a prospect of a chapter belng organized in Delamar, Nev. GOLDEN GATE COMMANDERY. The ladies’ club of Golden Gate Com- mandery, K. T., gave the first of a series of winter parties In Golden Gate Com- mandery Hall last Tuesday night. The hall was very tastefully decorated and the attendance numbered about 100, the invitations being confined exclusively to the membership of the club and the mem- bers of the commandery. The function vas under the direction of Mrs Mrs. G. E. Dow. Dr. H. Sadler and Mrs. s a most enjoyable on s to have a reunion once a month. THE ODD FELLOWS. entertainment given Thursday The night under the auspices of the lodges of the First District was well attended, and the programme presented was a very en- joyable_one. On Thursday night Western Addition Lodge had an exemplification of the de- gree work, presented by A. H. Nowell, D. D. G. M. The same evening Oriental Encampment - worked in the golden rule and royes purple desrees. The next meeting 0f the convention on the Golden Jubilee Celebration Will be on the 12th of next mouith. ' THE REBEKAHS. {welon Rebekeb Lodge has declded o 5| B give an entertainment on the 1 cember which will be in the Darktown minstrel show. The to black up. Templar Lodge 12th inst. initiated a ladies are at its meeting on tt three candidates ing J. W rris, the grand_patri the Encamnment branch. The e was followed by a sumptuous banquet There were many ladie Hall of _the g last Wednesday ni to the invitations sent out by Oriental R bekah Lodge, to attend the compliment- and_ gentleme Odd Fello v party which was got up_under the direction of Mr: na Jarvis, N. G.; Miss . Morgan H 1. Pinkham . Annie ¥ Lutley and Davis. - admirable soclal events for which this lodge is noted. There was a short pr gramme, the numbers being_contribute Charles Reed, Janette Draper, Mis Strahan and Mes: Goodefund, Chapin and Hernandez, and a dance followed. his lodge will have a candy pull on the | 21st of December. ANCIENT ORDER OF WORKMEN. | On the 25th inst. there will be given in B'rith Hall a musical and litera | entertain | en Gate, Va lodges, | which are In District No. 5. A fine pro- | gramme has been arranged for the even- | ing. On the evening of the 12th inst. Spartan | Lodge was vistted by Grand Master | Bahrs, who delivered an instructlve ad- dress. Arrangements are being made by the various districts of this city to give a | series of district meetings, next month. These meetings are to be | held at the request of Grand Master Workman Bahrs. He prop to_infuse new zeal and enthusiasm in the order. Oak Leaf Lodge of Oakland proposes a very interesting meeting for its members and friends on the evening of the 2ist inst. Abbie Ewin ent under the auspic ley and Golden Wi Keystone Lodge gave an entertainment | on Monday evening last, the occasion be- | ing their twentieth anniversary. The pro- | gramme was of a musical and literary na- | ture, Addresses were made by Grand | Master Workman George H. Bahrs and | Judge Ogden of Keystone Lodge. After the programme the floor was cleared for | and bowers with a promenade around the | dancing, and an excellent was | served in the banguet room. supper Oak Leaf Lodge pald several fraternal | visits in_Oakland during the past week, | one to Pacific Lodge on Thursday even- |ing and to Keystone Lodge on Tuesday | evening. DEGREE OF HONOR. The entertainment and musicale given | 1ast Tuesday night by Silver Spray Lodge in Excelsior Hall was wttended by an au- dlence that filled the hall to its utmost and proved that the lodge is not without host of friends. Mrs. M. J. Stewart, 8. C. of H., and Mrs. J. Harrington P and Miss Celina Cooper, who were the committee on entertainment, presented: Piano selections, Mrs. Walter Malloy; ad- | dress, Mrs. E. Mayon, G. C. of H.; in- strumental trio, Rosa Sturburg, Josephine K. Welch and Miss Hadler; whistling solo, E. Wales; recitation, Walter Malloy; fancy dancing, Miss G. Smith; vocaliza~ | tians, Sam Booth, and remarks by W. | H. Barnes, P. G. M. W. The pro- j&rmmme was followed by dancing for the e by Willlam | While not a book | By A story of th s of Gold- | commencing | Tt was one of | HE St isser, will very likely purchase The statue repr it for the modeling of the rough hide of the monsters, their expressive attitude and the representation figure of the devotee have elicited high prai ser has done a number of casts whi He was born in Krain, Aus may be mentioned as his principal sculptures heretofore. Arthur Stra life in the Orient, where he and the “Resting Liones: has spent pleasure of the many young folks who | Iways ready for a waltz. | Lodge of Merced, at its last | held meeting, initiated two candidates. | An_unusual number of applications for | beneficiary certificates have be of late. n received | THE NATIV S, The sixth anniversary ball given by | Precita Parlor last Tuesday in Mission Patlor Hall wasia: decidad sucee Che | rtistically decorated and | in which there was a great number of couples, was a very at- tractive sight. Precita is one. of the go- | ahead fraternal bodies of the Mission, and the membership al arranges soclal functions that are most enjoyable. Mission Parlor announces an invitation masquerade party in its hall on the 23d | inst | California Parlor paid a fraternal visit | to Alcatraz Parlor last Thursday night, | and after business there was a very pleas- | | ant time. The officers of California Parlor will be elected December 1. The parlor is doing | active work in the matter of arranging | for the 1900 celebration. William M. Milton, D. D. G. P., will, within the next two weeks, visit all the parlors in_his jurisdiction. | Grand Treasurer Martin and Grand | Secretary Lunstedt have arranged to visit s follows: ovember 21 Weav r\'Ille:‘ Etna; 24, Fort Jones; 2. Sawyer's Bar; | . Yreka, and 29, Redding. L. J. Lelande of California Council, who recently came to this city from | Mexico after an absence of many years left last Monday with a bride for hi home. ~She is a sister-in-law of the late | Sheriff McEvoy of San Mateo County. i | Among the visitors at the office of the grand secretary last week were A. Dal- ton, P. P., of Mt. Diablo Parlor, who re- | ports the parlor in piood condition; Thom- | as Flint Jr., John_A. Steinbach, John T. | Greaney, M. W. Miiton, A. R. Nathan, | R. M. Fitzgerald of Oakland, Frank D. Ryan of Sacramento and H. R. McNoble of Stockton. NATIVE DAUGHTERS. The indoor picnic that was recently siven by Joaquin Parlor in Stockton was a novelty in the line of entertainment in that city. The large, bleak, barren hall, known as the Agricultural Pavillon, in which it was held for two nights, was | converted into an aggregation of booths dance floor. There were games, such as croquet, enchantment, quoits, bean bag and others. and there was a donkey and cart for the little ones, a feature which they much appreciated. Then there was a shooting gallery in the “wild woods,” a gypsy booth and a fish pond surrounded by dense wil.ows. Each evening the Sixth Regiment band discoursed sweet music and many filled the dance floor and joined in the modern dances. This was given in aid of the fund for the entertainment of the Grand Parlor delegates, who are to meet in Stockton next year, and it proved a great success, socially and financially. Joaquin Parlor will give a euchre party each month until next June, and in the meantime other entertainments of an at- tractive character will be arranged. Fremont Parlor gave a pleasant enter- tainment and hop last week in ald of its sick fund. It was a Success in every way. WOODMEN OF THE WORLD. Golden Gate Camp at its meeting on the 6th inst. initiated two candidates for Sun- set Camp, and after an early adjourn- | councils on the night of the 20th her. To more than suggest this exciting and powerful tale, which has about it withal, the semblance of plausibility, would be to rob the reader of a forthcoming pleasure. The book is soon to be issued by M. F. Mansfleld & Co. of New York. Price §1%. The Macmillan Company announces the early publication of a new edition of *“‘The Choir Invisible,” by James Lane Allen. The text of this now famous novel has been revised and corrected by the author. This new edition will contaln about thirty full-page illustrations, and -some seventy others in the text, by Orson Lowell. The cover design is by the same art- ist. Entirely new plates have been used: and no effort has been spared to make the edition cne of exceptional beauty. ““The Philippine Islands and Their People’ is the title of a book by Professor Dean C. Worcester, which the Macmillan Company will publish néxt month. The book is a record of personal observation and experience, with a general mccount of the archipelago, and a short summAry of the more important facts in its history. ! ““The Trumpeter and Other Poems™ Is the ti- tle of a neat appearing little book from the pen of Andrew Downing. Of the quality of the poetry let the reader be the judge. Hayworth Publishing House, Washington, D. C. A new and cheaper edition is announced by the Macmillan Company of the ‘‘Life of Car- dinal Manning, Archbishop of Westminster, by Edmund Sheridan Purcell, member of the Roman Academy of Letters. ® «THE HINDOO’S PRAYER,” MAMMOTH STATUE BY A, S. STRASSER. ij Hindoo's Prayer is the subject of a massive sculpture recently exhibited nd which has attracted much attention. It It is almost life-size. royal collection nts a moment in the earnest prayer of the Hindoo. who worships the white elephant e from th critic 5 3 h gained fame for him much time. ment, paid a iraternal visit to €Calumet Camp. Last Sunday the membership of Golden | Camp placed a monument over the of of its members at rest in Cypress vn Cemetery, and another over the grave of ome resting in Holy Cross Cemetery. At each place the fuil ritualistic service was given and the Acme Quartet rendered the vocal music. It is one of the obligations of the order that a monument of marble shall mark the resting place of each deceased mem- ber, Last Monday nizht initiated six candidate: this time the applications of uft, W.. seeking membership in the camp General Organizer Rogers has returned from an_extensive tour in County, where he met with success in the advancement of the order. start out on another tour. THE NATIONAL UNION Pacific Council has changed its meeting night to the second Thursday of each month. The council at its last held mee ing initiated two candidates, and under the head of good of the order Speaker J. G. Menzies presented a very enjoyable programme. There were speeches and stories and music by the National Union quartet, with Professor Seichel accom- panist. the members and visitors. There were eral members of the cabinet present. The cards are out for the smoker that is at Goldan Cren and it has to be given by California and Golden Gate | inst. There will be first-class talent and a first- class collation. California Council at its meeting last Tuesday night initiated one candidate, and under good of the order the member- ship was favored with selections by the quartet and addresses by President Hast- ings of the cabinet, Senator Field, Presi- dent ‘Arter of Golden Gate Council, W. A. S. Nicholson and others, FORESTERS OF AMERICA. At the last held meeting of Court Sutro Heights there was work in the initiatory degree for itself and Court Golden State, and the efficlency of the guard was in- creased by the presence of Quartermaster Sergeant R. W. Bonney of Company A, Sixth California Volunteers. His soldierly bearing added much to the impressiveness of the ritualistic work. The court during the evening carried out the true spirit of fraternity by making a donation to a member who technically was not entitled to any benefits. After the meeting J. Kroner, a new member, one of the volun- teers, recited an original poem. and there were addresses by a number of members. Junfor Court Pride of California will jve an entertainment and ball in Social §iail ‘of the Alcazar on the night of iae 7th of December. COMPANIONS, F. OF A. Grand Chief Companion Ira W Coburn has announced the following official vis- its: November 21, Sotoyome Circle at Healdsburg: 22, American Circle, Peta- luma; December 1, Golden Era Circle, San Francisco; Oakland Circle, Oakland; 7, Live Oak Circle, San Francisco; 8, San Francisco Circle, San Francisco. Excelsior Circle No. 2 will hold a festi- val and Christmas tree in the sociai hall of the Alcazar on the 20th of December. Palo Alto Circle was visited last Wednesday night by the®grand officers. There were present Mrs. Emma Harring- ton, P. G. C. C. and V. G. H. B.; ITra W. Coburn, G. C. C.; Mrs. Flora Jacobs, G. S. C., C,; Mrs. K. A. Haughy, G. T.; Mrs, Humboldt | He will soon | The council furnished cigars to | Did Milton Crib From Vondel? Latest Gontroveray That Is’Agitating the Critics. T is a wise book that knows its own author in this day of modern an-| alysis and research. Just as we are comfortably settled in the belief that | William Shakespeare really did write | nis own plays, up bobs the tireless| critics and comparers to show that Mil- | ton is not the only author of ‘“‘Para- dise Lost.” It appears that some thirteen years prior to the publication of ‘Paradise Lost” a Dutch poet by the name of Joost Van der Vondel wrote and printed ‘\ a dramatic poem called ‘“‘Lucifer.” | This “Lucifer” has just been translated | into metrical English by Leonard Charles Van Noppen and reveals in sub- [cJoYoXCXOROJOROXOROROROROROXOROJO] @ in Vienna by the artist, A. is said that the Austrian Government The -of the artistic Most of his subjects are taken from tria, in 1854. “The Japanese Woman” | R . grand trustee. and in ion to a large attendance of mem- bership a number of visitors. During the | ing there w initiatory work and | election of the following named as | Miss Pau- ; Belle Rapheld, C. | | &f Carrie 8. C. C.; Rose Kasper, S.; M. L. Rapheld, F. 8.} Kittie Aaron, | G.; Sadie Mund, G.; Ign. Levy, L | GI: Bmil Kahn, O. G.; Jennie Morris, or- | | ganist. The visiting officials addressed | the circle and congratulated it on_its prosperity, after which there was a short programme and the serving of a collation. The prosperity of this circle is one of the most remarkable on record. A new circle was instituted at Salinas st Wednesday and five more are prom- fsed before the close of the vear. Live Oak Circle has elected the follow- officers for_the next term: Mrs. > Weisel, J. P. C. C.; Mrs. Harrlis, Speliman. S, C 3! | Mrs. Spencer. L. G.:_ Mrs. T.; N. Rothman, S.; Mrs. Stein- | rs. Meyer, L. G.; Mrs. Saun- ders. 0. G. Robin Hood Circle at its meeting last | Wednesday re-elected all of the present officers except four. The new officers are: | Mrs, Lane, R. G.; Miss Annie Schoen, L. 8 é\‘lrs. ‘Winterbotton, I. G.; Mrs. Erhart, @ INDEPENDENT FORESTERS. High Chief Ranger McElfresh is in this | city. On last Tuesday evening he attend- | ed a large meeting of the’membership of | Court Southern Heights on the Potrero and delivered a very interesting address: Court Yerba Buena visited in a bod: During his stay in this city the high chief | ranger will visit all the local courts. ¥ Court Yerba Buena at its meeting last | Tuesday night, after the transaction of routine business, announced that at the ! | next meeting amendments to the by-laws would come up for discussion. It was also announced that the second monthly entertainment will be given in Charity Hall, Shicls building, on the evening of | the 6th of Decembe Supreme Representative and Chief Dep- | uty High Chief Ranger Ben I. Solomon | | has presented to Court Yerba Buena. of which he is a member and very efficient recording secretary, a _ handsomely framed large photograph of a group of the representatives who attended the re- cent session of the Supreme Court in To- ronto, Canada. It is a fine group of In- telligént representative men of the order. KNIGHTS OF HONOR, Yerba Buena Lodge has rejected the proposition to provide a lodge physician. | Some changes as to sick benefits were | adopted and two candidates were ini- tiated. The visit of the Past Dictators’ Associ- ation to Unlon Lodge last Tuesday was a pleasant affair. Unlon will shortly give a smoker. ; Leland Stanford Lodge is doing so well that it will have to secure larger quar- ers. Grand Reporter Johnst it g visit last Thursaay. ene. yel olar Star Lodge, which s still E gling with the problem “is it bensg“fo Jead from a strong suit or a weak one,’ s visited last week by the grand dicta- or. Center Lodge i8 preparing a rece; its friends to be given at an earlypc}?\?. 1 San Jose Lodge will initiate sixteen candidates at its next meeting. The lodge Is arranging for a publlc installation of ew officers. e event wi - lowed by a ball. e rop DAUGHTERS OF ST. GEORGE. The members of Britannia Lodge of the | tion of the “Lucifer” may reasonahly expect another run. 3 1t is impossible to doubt that Milton laid “Lucifer’” under the most liberal contributions, even if one is not h?und to find proof of this in every one of the forty or fifty parallels which the au- stance, plot and expression a startling analogy to the “‘Paradise Lost.” 1t is a known literary fact that Milton schemed his great poem as early as 1641 —twenty-two years before the appear- ance of the Dutchman’s masterpiece. In fact, Milton’s manuscript is now in the | | library of Trinity College,Cambridge, to | thor of “Milton and Vondel” has set incontestibly prove that not only the| out. Mr. Edmundson, like ev r); llhl’:; o dustrious pursuer of an inquiry kind, fell to some extent under the,ob- cesslon of his fixed idea. No doubt he too often credits Vondel with the origi- Still, twenty-two years had to elapse | nal proprietorship of metaphors, before its completion and publication | similes, details of = description, and and Vondel's “Lucifer” appeared in |flights of imagery which would be 1654, some time before the earliest date | almost sure to suggest themselves in- to which the commencement of ‘“Pare- | dependently to each of two poets deal~ dise Lost” can be assigned. The pre- |ing with the same subject. sumptive evidence that Milton had| If Milton and Vondel both compare made the acquaintance of the Dutch|the descent of an archangel from drama before commencing his own epic | heaven to the fall of a shooting star is altogether too strong to be resisted.| there is not the least reason for be- We know that he had mastered the | lieving that one of them borrowed &o Dutch language, and that he was in|obvious a comparison from the uzhgr. frequent communication with Holland; | At times Mr. Edmundson almost !ea\%s there is good reason to believe that, | the impression of suggesting th.l M‘l}; years before, he had heard of Vondel|ton worked on “Paradise Lost’ Wit a5 nis work through Grotius, the|the “Lucifer” before him, paraphrasing Dutch poet’s friend and protector. | every scene of that drama as he went ote Mr. Edmundson’s summing | 00 u;:r%quxste('a:er OE this point, e Against this, however, there s some= tions with Dutch envoys, controversies | thing more than a moraf uuhi l.‘-l with Dutch professors, intercourse with | It would have been virtually _a!p )sl(‘f’«‘ll a circle of quasi-Dutch friends, corre- | impossibility. Milton had lost his sxzas spondence with Dutch residens, quar- | tWO years before the Dutch drama ‘\; s rels with Dutch booksellers, all con- | published, and could l/w\"*’ "(‘1‘1‘\}" ?flere- spired to familiarize Milton with Dutch | read to him. He couid hardly, i e, hav re t ¢ from aftairs ki only less well | fore, have done more than borrow :gqx:;fn?:g l:-iTha leh};xmmur : :n:l | it the general plan of his own poem, its in- | - % R e iy, the ‘very gossip. of the | Scenes, incldents and cast of charat- chief centers of Dutch Iife than' with | ters, together with such passages o' S0 She cusrcat toples of London” alogue and description as he thoug ‘The publication of the “Lucifer pro- | he could better in the borrow'ng. o Poh ducod'an immense stir In ‘Holland, and | (e by one, wé might possibly DiC Eror Svolked a storin of, ecilesiastical enmity | JOWD to chance. | Whem VER 5 idea, and indeed the title of ‘“‘Paradise Lost” had occurred to him in the year 1641, but that at that time he had draft- ed a scenario of the poem. which could not possfbly have.failed to | The (he:}\ n's third part ere now hath reach Milton’s ears; and with his| fealty sworn S, Sl avowed views on “borrowing not pla- | Unto his standard, the false Morning giarie,” it is incredible that he should | not have' procured, even if he did not| and Milton writes:— receive in the natural course of things| mjs countenance as-the Morning Star that { wanting in lyrical 'charm. | to from one of his Dutch correspondents, | guid. a copy of the work which had anticl- | The fimr y flock allured them and with v es A D ot athio “Luciter”s were Drew after him the third part of heaven's host ; translated into English many years ago by Mr. Gosse in his “Studies in North- | ern Literature,” and later Mr. Edmund- son, in his ‘“Milton and Vondel.” “A| Curiosity ‘of Literature” gave English | metrical versions of many passages se- | lected from this and other poems of | Vondel's, as pieces de conviction | against Milton. | This was rather hard on Vondel. For | whatever merit the translations had, they were not sufficient to cope with | the original English of Milton. | The “Lucifer” is a grandly, or, at any | rate, grandisely, constructed celestial | melodrama, composed with a steady eye to actual performance, which it, in fact, obtained—it was brought out, | says Mr. Gosse, “with great display of | scenic heavens, but after two nights | withdrawn on account of the great ex- pense it involved”—and, in view of this theatrical purpose, supplied plentifully enough with what a mcdern playwright | would call “‘strong- situations.” ever, after Milton’s introduction of “real gunpowder” into a seraphic and diabolic battle, not dramatically repre- sented but only epically described, it 11 hardly do for us to dwell too cen- soriously upon Vondel's weakness for stage effect. There is, at any rate, no appeal to the groundlings in the style and quality of the verse, which in Mr. Van Noppen' spirited translation has a march of sus- tained, or, at least, of rarely failing, dignity throughout, and in its inter- calated choric passages is by no means That even in its highest flights the poem ever touches the acétual sublime it were too much to say. .Sublimity is a big word for a rare thing, and the poet whose sublimity would not evaporate in the translator’s distillery, leaving only a rhetorical ‘“‘sublimate” .at the end of the process, is rarer still. the “Lucifer” is undoubtedly a great poem—even in English. But, after all, it mpo ble to keep | away fram the question—What did Mil- ton owe to Vondel? Anything or noth- ing? and, if anything, how much? Mr. Van Noppen, having a long poem to translate and a voluminous memoir to write, and an elaborate commentary compose, declines—wisely enough from his own point of view—te start that ancient hare again. But the ani- mal has now had a rest for a good many ‘years, and readers of a transla- JOOST VAN DER VONDEN, Author of the Great Dramatic Poem How- ‘ | | | Short of this, | 1 It Turned flery red, s Their phalanx and began s0 long or when we read of the rebel army in “Lucifer” that quickly grew and waxe like a half moon Sharpened its points and closed on us two horns, and of Gabriel's bodyguard in “Para- dise Lost” that the angelic squadron bright arpening in mooned horns to hem him round, or yet again, when we hear Milton's satan repeating, almost word for word, after Vondel's Lucifer, Better to reign in hell than serve im heaven, we may still go on clinging to the the- ory of accidental resemblance. But af- ter half a dozen, a dozen, a score of similar parallelisms the odds agalnst chance and in favor of design become so overwhelming sthat the least mathe- matically minded of men will reject the former hypothesis. The “long arm of coincidence” is not all that. And most assured- ly it is not long enough to cover the fact that Milton’s “Samson Agonistes™ followed in due course upon Vondel's Samson,” and that it abounds in evi- dences that in the matter of dramatic construction at any rate, to leave the poetry out of the question, he was con- tent to take his Dutch contemporary as his closely followed model. “To borrow and to better in the bor- rowing,” the poet quietly says, is “no plagiarie.” This dictum, remarks ~ Literature, ought to have been known t the broom-seller of anecdote who remarhea to a rival trader, “I steals the twigs, L steals the sticks, and I steals the twine, and yet I can’t sell 'em as cheap as vou do.” For then, when his compan- jon had given the cynical explanation, “Ah, but I steals 'em ready-made,” he might have crushed him b the re- joinder, “Then you are a plagiarist of brooms, which I would scorn to be. I borrow, but I better in the borrowing.” It is impossible on the evidence to doubt that Milton borrowed twine dnd twigs wholesale from Vondel though the stick was his own. And everybody knows that fifty dol- lars was not an exorbitant figure to re- celve for the job. “Luciler; From an old Dutch painting. olorororo oo o Tororo e To ROt CRCRoR O ORORCORORORORCRORORONORORCH Daughters of St. George are completing arrangements for a carnival and ball to be given in Union Square Hall on the night of the 30th inst. The committee in charge is composed of a number of the most_enthusiastic members, who are do- ing their utmost to make this one of the most _enjoyable functions ever given by this lodge. Prizes will be awarded to those who shall appear in the most orlg- inal costumes, and to those in the hand- somest dress. LADIES OF THE MAbCABEES, The members of Mission Hive will have an evening at home and a dance in their hall on the 12th of December. A good programme will be presented. The first “at home' given at headquar- ters, in the residence of Mrs. Eudocia S. Moffatt, 8. C., 919 Hyde street, last Tues- day by the central committee, afternoon and-evening, was a_very successful affair. Each hive was represented by its lady commander or lieutenant; Mary E. Sol- omon for San Francisco Hive; Minnie W. Aydelotte, Oakland; Henrietta Stone, Mis- sion; Isabel M. Strong, California; L#lian Rinner, Phoebe Hearst; Annie McAnney, Encinal. There were present a number of the prominent members of the order, in- cluding Sir Knight S. W. Hall, deputy su- reme commander of the Knights of the {accabees. & San Francisco Hive at its meeting ‘on the 11th inst. welcomed Lady Commander Solomon and Past Lady Commander Wa tier on their return to this cit State Lady Commander Moffatt addressed ths meeting, speaking of the advancement of the order in this State and ail over the Union. She complimented San Francisco Hive on the progress it is making. The hive will give a hop on the 15th of De ber in the Alcazar building. The mittee arranging for it is Ladies Savory and Whitesides. om- Joachim Murat's remains, which have been resting since 1815 in the castle church of 'Pizzo_di Calabria, where he was shot, are to be transferred to Naples: and buried in the Chuich of Santa Maria among the former Bour- bon kings. A ‘Wyoming's woman superintendent of Public Instruction, Estelle Peei, has so successfully managed the sale of pub- lic'lands as to increase the State's in- come from $100 toc $1000 a week. She is clever at‘driving good bargains for the State.