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THE SUNDAY CALL o N L stmas presents for the cholce of Is is bewll- children’s the most ed out of all ere everything looks alike rly everything > eyes? About e Call will review f the season. ink it is he) some- v of a writer by trade 1l in sell- unate uch of rs re- 0 accept eived such cation d de- re- an > dat n dis day’s wor de way he say t out in de middle er de t yo' rotten heart, ef pére I'll whip yo! e wid yo' it set me in naked ef T hatter pizen ( e nervy Ann brought the w erfously before me. Her e £ rclo , her body sway- e tretchi arm trembled w 1 e had resummoned fr were on the spot of a 1to one grass—all s and slowly faded suddenly epizhly. e lat Rube r like a little boy dat de r had rse Tumlin i fool yo'se'f When you hit u put yo' han’ in _my face, cheapes' way er git- got fer dem what iles are even slighter orfes of the xame v a lack of power The sole in- in the fncidents All that has jor Tumlin, except as and parcel of A reader is onant's shoulder, thin romance about it. Thus neq aind at times very Mine live. resonant, or anger. carries a weight ruid Aunt strong in love dnese. Mr. Ford's fllnstrations of rocs are vigorous. of twhite pnople ie. (C. Scribner's Sons, ‘Mammon & Co..”” by E. F. Benson, the hor of ‘“Dodo,” is & novel of the i set in London society and of the high finance which uses the smart \eet _for _advertising _ purp: T, {Allngton was a financler, & floater “'smart’ of Australian mines. He was a large man, with a look in repose of heavy bility, like a butler, in animati of serene benign! tured saint. His hair w. , ke a blunt- s rather thin and light, with a bald spot In it like a tons “Sobrieiy shone from his large mild eye and the lines of his firm, som what full- yuth expreesed steadi- ness in ev ut his room hung a few exqu in eat His tastes e dainty almost stop a_conver- ing financial tion to the beautiful - sky by a flight of and ¢ on the o call t - serene charm of the even- ing on the hills. When he had w absorbed attention worked out the det of a gre self by J sion music, aiter lon he most t money d . he would rest hi Matthew Pas- g from vibrant delicate reticence and obriety with the skill feeling of a 1. Then he would kneel at ver desk, thanking God for i Ith, his perseveranc ower clating and praying for their things' nee he would get into bed and sleep he could bribe was necessary 2 ter of the art d some mine: >, He needs s n no money at all “onybeare, known need of mor d Kit, this penniless cigarette-smoking chums, Wwno _enter- ned Princes and gave the best balls in don, unite in_a friendly attack upon Alington. The method is simple, 1dicious combina- lous gown from a scheme of orange ting mainly in a n of Kit with a m: yrth, developed ig to_her srious red-gold hair, of dusk " and accentuated a string of rubies on her ‘dazzling neck.” Besides Mr ck and Kit, the = ra Is are Lord Comber, 1, an_American Murchigon, the vel world flesh, rm- ver A the ut meaning xpected ver, | m simple wisdom Jots of a new life in )y its force put into it repre- novelist's art, how- ever, it suffers grave defects. Tt possesses no central point of interest. Mr. Alington is the most individual and powerful figure, while k and Kit a the subjects of the And Jack's ne king and R mad dance in 1gErous p ed, A more pr« 1t the characters are made to act, but from inward necessity ound seribed 3 t seem to act gton's music and art are merely stuck on him; they are not part of him. Kit's repentance i3 not analyzed and made credible. Repen- tance is always dangerous in a novel. 1t has a perilous tendency definite impression pro to obscure its stroy to weaken th, y is allowed to r stency. If 4 r , the repen st be the develop- ment of latent tr ady subtly hinted and must be in character—not unst it. KIt's repentance is feeble, un- ed and mild: Kit in her palmy 4 as a fine con brilliance more inte ling virtue. fenceless energy and esting than h Sipe ‘hroughout there is more cleverness than imagination. The smart speeches have no individuality. The whole book is not one single thing cast from one pouring, grown from one root, or worked out from one central thought. Its ts are “‘assembled,” as they say of bicycles hought in pieces from a half dozen fac- tories and put together. Such books can- not possess the consistency of imagina- tive works, in_which the characters do t they do be e they cannot help it; not because they are told to. Natur- ally, external peculiarities are insisted on Mr. Alington’s look of a bad stained saint, “Toby's hair, “Ted's” fac sage. Mammon & Co.” challenges comparison with the late Harold Frederic's “In the Market.” The stern, almost cruel, con- sistency of that book,itsrigid maintenance of its single point of view, the thorough and explicit manner in which it exhibits the motive force of its one central figure, ‘e it morec impressiveness than Is pos s i d!scux’:llw'el(lflle. Y:}L “Mam- %o has a briskness and variety g}ofls&ogn. and it possesses the remark- able quality of carrying with it the stir and fullness of a life outside of its rages. Unlike “In the Market,” it is not abstract and separate from the world at large. The book is disfisured by misprints. (D. Appleton & Co., New York. $150.) A whimsical, tender, touching, charm- ing, gay, sad book full of fresh l.ie s BU Professor H. B. kathrop of Stanford Universiti. est,”—altogether likable except for the disigreeabiy erratic title with which the Aiss Blanche Willls Howard, has to burden It. Vroni Lindl—born the daughter of the peasant of Hexenfels, a hamlet perched “in the bleak hill country betwcen ¢ Danube and the Neckar, known as the Rough Alp. Grim rocks grouped in evil counsel dominated the "barren land; peasants’ flat roofs would have whiried away were they not frelghted with heavy stonies; and nothing—man, mouse or moss—could well exist unless havdy enough to defy the long sweep of icy wi that battled here with fury all un- spent, though they had rushed from the far frozen north across a continent.” Here, amid the rocks, Vroni scrambled— “boid, lithe, lJawless, vivid in color, care- less of wind and weathe: Here she rned from her stirring mother to labor, her gentle father to love and thin e she grew up in beauty, and hetuce she went forth to earn her living—begin- ring as a scullion in the kitchen of a great nouse. The life of Vroni in the great & rise to the lace of chef through her pluck, her breezy willful- ness and ‘straightforward intelligence, her a her courageous defiance to conven cowardice, her slow, steady T of her own self respect and dignity, and her final happiness and success be- e men, make a story at once most most touching, and most true. he_good genius of others—spurs ish towhead lover, Tiber, to nd activity, and gup- Characteristic [llustrations ports the Countess Nelka in the sacrifice, worse than death, to which ne- parents brought iser. Never before hat a French ook been made & ctive and heroie— 0 att really so, and not by any accident or perversion of work The auther's strength of feeling about the place and training of women Is quaimt- 10w The book, if it were not so Ithily ory, would be ory a purpose. Sermons on the « ro- sirls from the consequenc much ignorance, on the ben ing them an occupation, on of women workers—in short, on hundred topics about the place of the modern woman—bristle in the shade; but they never come out an rk or bite. arles Scribner’s ew York. $1 50.) The Forestry Division of the United States Department of Agriculture has published the first part of a Primer of Forestry, by Gifford Pinchot, in which in exposition is made of the most essential facts of forest life. A second part will contain #n elementary discussion of prac. tical forestry. Mr. Pinch has shown great skill in presenting scientific concep- in a popular and interesting but exact manner; and the large number of well-chosen {liv rations which accom- pany the text of the book make his mean ing clear evem to those who have no previous knowlege of the subject. The primer describes the way In which a tree takes food, breathes, grows, forms wood, strives for a foothold, struggles with its fellows, helps its neighbors ind is helped by them, grows old and becomes ripe for (i and telis what enemies it has to fear. The most interesting part s the chapter on the life of the primer of a forest “A foresi tfee Is In many ways as much dependent upon its neighbors for safet and food as are the inhabitants of a town upon one another. The difference is that in a town each citizen has a special call- ing or occupation in which he works for the service of the commonwealth, while in the forest every tree contributes to the general welfare in nearly all the ways in which it is benefited by the community. A forest tree helps to protect its neighbors against the wind, which might overthrow them, and the sun, which is ready to dry up the soil about their roots, or to make sun cracks in thelr bark by shining too hotly upon it. It enriches the earth in which they stand by the fall of Its leaves and twigs, and alds in keeping the air about thefr crowns, and the sofl about thelr roots, cooler in summer and warmer in winter, than it would be if each tree stood alone. With the others it forms a common canopy under which the seed- lings of all the members of this protec- tive union are sheltered in early youth, and through which the beneficent {nflu- ence of the forest is preserved and ex- tended far beyond the spread of the trees themselves. " But while this fruitful co- operation exists, there is also present, Jjust as in a vll!nge or city, a vigorous strife for the good things of life. For a tree the best of these, and often the hard- “Dionysius the Weaver's Hegrt's Dear- est to get, are water for the roots and space and light for the crown. In all but very dry places there is water enough for all the trees, and often more than enough, as, for example, In the Adirondack forest. The struggle for space and light is thus more important than the struggle for water. “The story of the life of a forest crop is then largely an account of the competi. tion of trees for light and room, and al- though the very strength which enables them to carry on the fight is the result of their assoclation, still the deadly strug- gle, in which the victims are many times more numerous than those which survive, is apt alone to absorb the attention. Yet the mutual help of the trees to each otner is always going quietlyon. Every tree con- comforts and assists the other . which_are its friendly enemies.” It is by this mutual relationship that clear lumber is produced. As the growth of the trees advances their tops meet. The lower branches, deprived of light and alr, grow sickly and die. ‘The new wood as It forms squeezes the bases of these branches and they break off. The hola is soon covered, and the trunk of the tree forms wood unbroken by any knot. It is a bare pole, which in time will form logs of solid lumber. At last the tree grows old, it increases but little In size, it shades the trees be- low it, and it cumbers the ground. How shall it be removed? Shall it fall and rot in uselessness? Shall it be cut without thought of the future, so as to destroy and devastate the forest? Shall it be By Joel Chandler Harrls. taken so that its place shall in time be filled again by another noble tree, to be cut its turn? Finding the right answer to these questions is forestry The Ioresiry Division of the Bureau of Agriculture is er ed in finding the right practical point. of view. more misunderstood r d than the act'vities of this division. 1 not esthetic or senti- mental or possessed by a mania for keep- 1g forests untouched. It is as hard- d about a forest as a bullpuncher on oke team. The practical side of its work is shown by the fact that large ow of timber lands in the Adiron- dac re operating their property under a system recommended by the Govern- ment ex; and that owners of redwood lands o Jast are « the Government in suppor: perating with of a scientific investigation of the best method for ad- ministering those lands, Cramped for me the division is, it as done much useful work; and it shows wisdom in issuing such Ilittle manuals as the one unde onsideration, with educati The peculiar importance of forestry this State the justification for ;i attention in these of our fore brushlands a sheer act In some parts of the rvation of woodlan 1nd distributing matter of life and death Vs, rmers_and what water is. this little book so muc column the Tk ruin clearing of our s, would be is a . as Mr. Kinney truit-growers know The miners of Idaho have learned by cruel experience how im- portant the forest is to them; the miners of California can profit by (newr lesson, The torreats which flow over a deforested country carry great quantities of mud, which silt up rive and shoal .arbors. For the lumberman himself, if he owns land, the preservation of the forest {s of importance. In short, all and every in- habitant of this State has a direct interest in forest preservation. To some it means all, to some a little, to most it means much. The public-spirited energ(?r of the Department of Agriculture should be sup- ported by the whole commonwealth of California. The primer {s distributed free of charge and may probably be most easily obtained through the local Congressman. Macmillan & Company have published new editions of F. Marion Crawford's “The Ralstons,” and of Horace Annesley Vachell's “A Drama in Sunshine.” The fundamental soundness of public taste is shown by the uniformly high excellence of books that obtain the honors of a re- print. To-day's admiration may be a craze; to-day's mneglect blindness; but resterday’s admiration that lasts to-day {5 pretty sure to be well founded. Kather rine Lauderdgle will look out from the pages of “The Ralstons" alive, charming, young and beautiful for many a long day vet. And it will be long before “A Drama in Sunshine” ceases to pulsate with life. The book is, of course, the more Interest- ing just now because it deals with a period In California, at the very end of which we are standing. (The Macmillan Co., New York. “The Ralstons,” $100; “A Drama in Sunshine,” $150.) “Cattle Ranch to College,” by Russell Doubleday, is the story of the life of boy in_the “Far West'—that is, in D: kota, Wyoming and Montana—twenty ago. It is practically a true story. The impression of monotonous and dreary hardship, and still more mo- notonous and dreary ideas and amuse- ments, produced by the account of one bitter struggle and barren sport after an- other, is,pathetically confirmed by one or two little touches of the boy's life. What _a_picture of family life in the father's jeering at his son for being beat- en in a fight with a grown man. What an Iliad of deprivation in the words: “Of baseball, marbles, tops and all the games of skill and strength dear to the town dweller our boys knew nothing; their amusements were akin to their work—to ride well and to shoot straight was a matter of business as well as pleasure for them.” The book fs painfully illustrated with photographs. Thelr hard perversions of sunlight and color make them wearisome to the eye, so that-the little marginal sketches, mere hints of grass-tufis or the outlines of a lamp, afford an extraordi- nary relief by their touches of art and grace. The bock itself suffers from a similar monotonous hardness of effect. Tt is impressive, however, as o record of the* stubborn resistance to every kind of From Aunt Minervy Ann. obstacle which gives thes American, like like the Scotchman and the Englishman, £0 much powe (Doubleday & McClure Co., New York, $i 50.) “The Mickey Iinn Idylls,” by Ernest Jarrold, one of the best of the long list of books dealing with the home life of the Irish labore It is composed of a scries of disconnected storie h giv- ing an account of some interes epi- sode in the life of Micke, n. Although the m rt of the book i full of pure Irish nd humor, it con charming element of pathos a nature seldom found in this One of the prettiest of the the chapter where Mickey is described as finding his mother in tears becaus she could Secure no shamrock for her birth- day “to 'mind her of the vale o' Glen- more.” Mickey resolves to go to the woods in the deep sn to a rock where he knows some ‘“Yankee shamrock’ grows, 'to put it aroun’ the sugar bowl agin’ the mornin’.” His return home with the arbutus through the snow and storm, against which he plodded until he 1c.l into the road exhauste cezing, offers one of the prettiest touches in the book. Of pure fun perhaps th pter is on Mike Welsh's ram. ram, recent- 1y brought to Coney Island, proved to be i dangerous one. It happened that Pat- Fogarty was passing through the field, when the ram furlou: charged upon him. As a measure of safety, Pat- sey seized him by the horns and wa still holding him when Mike Welsh, the owner, came by. “Lave go o' that ram!"” shouted Mike, running up. “Is it tryin’ to stale him ye are?’ ~‘“Devil a le him,” replied Patsey; “I was just seein’ had he any strength In his neck. Come down and hoult him a minute, Mik Faix, he's stronger nor a bull.” “Is t s0?" replicd Mike, jumping over the wal ‘glve me a hoult of him, till [ see is he that sthrong.” Patsey then went cheer- fully to the fence and laughed at Mike, whose face was dripping with perspir: tion, while the whole village soon assem- bled on the fence, offering comforting re- marks, and Mike still held on, struggling violently. He was not released until Mickey Finn came along, seized the ram’s tail and alded Mike to throw him over the fence. Mickey's accounts of the wonderful things he learns in his history and geog- raphy are very amusing, as is also the story of the taking of the census. The whole book is indeed cleverly written and very entertaining. (Doubleday & McClure Co. $125.) To read “California Frulls,” by Profes- sor Wickson, is to smell the perfume of the apple blossoms and the orange flowers in the orchards, the scent of wild sage and manzanita blooms from the hills, and almost imagine that you have a large- sized check from the Fruit Growers’ TUnlon in your inside pocket. It is a book for the fruit grower to read, study and in parts commit to memory. It is thoroughly Californian in every line, and not a rehash of some pamphlet on “Truck Gardening” that was written by & man who lived in the New Jersey swamps and had to drain things in sum- mer and blanket them in winter to make them grow. ‘Why failures have been made by some in attemptin fruit culture is plainly shown in Professor Wickson's writing. It is a very simple matter to raise fruit when you have such a plain guide, and it is diflicult to do so when you do not know how and have to do three times as much work as is necessary, and then perhaps gsee a two-year-old orchard die without possibility of relief, by reason of some fatal mistake that could not be rectified after planting. There is nothing left to be imagined or guessed at, the book is complete, and be- sides that, while it is technically correct and goes into many interesting minutae and detalls of description, there is nothing involved or complicated in the style of writing. It begins at the beginning, takes (he mountain slope covered with manzanita and chaparral and leads step by step through each part of every process of clearing, planting and tending the orchard or vineyard until the grower receives his bill of lading from the railroad, for his shipment of green or dried fruit. A list of some of the subheadings of the book makes pleasant reading to one who has been through the experiences and finds his own_ conclusions verified or im- proved upon, but it is even more pleasant to those who have the delights of an pation, for with this book vou may down winter evenings at home and plan out every twig on ev tree with the kind of tree and its location and what sort of sofl it shall be in and what fertil- jzer and how much water it shall have. In fact, it gets farming, or rather ths fruit-raising part of it, into something more like an exact science than the lot- tery which it has heretofore been. Under the head of general information s given the climate of California and its local modifications, ranging from the tor- rid region about Indio, where the sun ever shines on burning sands and the date alm and pineapple grow with the banana n the oases, to the edge of the glaciers on Whitney, where nothing but the hard fest apples and kindred northern can ripen. These, of course, are 3 freaks of climate. The great bulk of the State is temperate and produces the fruits of both extremes. Why the California climate is so specially favorable to cthe growth of fruit is shown to be largely by reason of the lack of humidity in t alir allowing the full benefit of the sun’s rays to act upon the leaves and fruit Fruit soils of California make an impor- tant chapter for the man who has etill his selection of land to make and in a lesser degree to the man who has not yet planted his fruits and can get those which best suit the soil already owned. The chapter on wild fruits of California shows the natural tendency of the State to fruit production and takes a Califor- nfan back to the time of boyhood, when he climbed over the green carpeted ridges of the Sierras picking wild plums and cherries to make marmalade—and black- berries, raspberries and strawberries for Jam. An Interesting description of the Mission fruits, those planted by the Spanish mis- sionaries, concludes the historical part of the work, and then commences the solld work with grubhoe, plow and spade. The cultural division of the volume is very complete and is full of new wrinkles for old hands as well as for the beginner. Its sub-headings are as follows: earing land for fruit. The nursery—budding and grafting. Preparation for planting—planting trees. Pruning orchard fruit. Cultivation—fertilizers for fruit and vine; Irrigation. Part third is devoted to a description and habitat of each of the many Cali- fornia fruits with all their advartages and peculiaritie Grape prcpagation—planting and care— occupies 4 division by itself, Semi-tropical fruits—the date, fig, olive, orange, lemon and lime—are treated at length, and in shorter space the banana, the trees and thinning trees guava, jujube loquat, persimmon, pine- apple, pomegranate, prickly and alligator pears all make inferesting reading and arouse an intense desire In the reader to get land and tools and set to work. Economy is given prominent place all through, for in a business as large as fruit-raising, with its many ramifications, becomes, small economies are a source of large proiits. Five acres under cultiva- tion as illustrated by Mr. Wickson would in most cases pay more net profits than N'iox acres planted to hay or grain in the old way The book is a treat for every one In- terested in nature, whether from the standpoint of practical money-making, scientific investigation or mere romantic interest, and will be a standard library hook. (Pacific Rural Press, San Fran- cisco. $2 50.) Mr. Sebastian Evans has translated into English the earliest record of the activity of St. Francis of Assisi from the rather recently discovered Latin manuseript of the Mirror of Perfection, by the saint’'s beloved companion, Brother Leo. No- where else is there so clear a picture of St. Francis’ simplicity, of his whole-heart- edness, of his freedom from the fear of man that maketh a snare. The simple energy of this record is such that it strikes a reader as very inappropriate for Mr. Evans to translate it into an artificial old English, speaking of the ‘“sick and heal,” instead of the sick and well; call- ing a physician a leech and in general artificializing Brother Leo’s quaint but crabbed and honest Latin into a pseudo- quaint pretended old dialect which affords no pleasure to any but a sentimentallzed lover of affectation. The effort, though made on a false basls, is carried out with very great skill and some scholarship, (L. C. Page & Co., Boston.) There is no social force more subtle and therefore more powerful than art. Not merely in subject but in manner it exerts an influence more profound than would be supposed by those who have not thought about it. 'Paradoxical as it may seem to say that the quality of a line, the plac- ing of patches of light and shadow, the cadences of a line of poetry or the turn of a phrase may tend to elevate or debase & whole character, it is certainly true. Art neglected or taken lightly will have icisms That Will Interest All Readers of Books. its revenge. The sense of this intimate connection between art and life has im- pelled the French critic, M. Brunetiers, in his lectures on “Art and Morality” to an earnest warring against the view of art often taken in our da. at it is a thin, apart from conduct, living in a world o its own and directed by laws indifferent to ordinary laws of morali Wildly as we may differ from individual judgments, or even from general conclusions of the French critic, the soun his atti- be admitted by there is such & tude in this lecture mu: every one who believe: thing as right and wrong duct. 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