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THE SUNDAY CALL. fes are naturally grim and his strength. The cover is exceptionally hideous. (Houghton, Miffin & Co., Bos- intensely gro- more ton.) 4 Where A g b Fisherman by Henry Van & theme in them, which Dyke, like “hronicles of Aunt - e more than onch, ta the ot Minervy Ann.” Is drawn from Scribner's r ; oMcars. Magazine. It is a collection of essays, uck and in- lighter than froth, thistledown, a floating the ship on feather, on angling—or rather on the con- 5 & 1 h frightful templative = -iability of : on “talk- . ing pins and pis- ability,” that Is the of nature through the air and disposit which s easy In rautical phrase- terchange cughts lings, o " der without ex- - vild strawberry, o y fire. fon. One Kindly goodfel rather “F leaped into Aiffuses style en alr o k a Lulent and in spacic this book e a smooth water pleasantly eo is prett is caught with a jerk bound and v Scribner’'s E ashore. Sons, New Y. 3 of Mr. Robertson's “ ) : . really imagines. His — For Love's Sweet Sake” Is a haok that k. talk, change their rela- comes In a neat whit x. which is bound m vy were ) 3 in fine white cloth that s ad if It wers live hem | painted, and w ts decorated with deli- : gges ates cately outlined gilt Cupids, true-love the § ) tak- bows and hearts pierced with arrows like i . a valentine. " It is printed on thick and glossy paper, s will ¢ and looks tn all like a white satin bridal ¥ th dress e narratives are the It 1s a compilation of '3 made ea. Mr. F . by G. Hembert Wesle jed Into e f th four parts—Love's M Noon, t £ X ex power Love's Evening and Love ght. Love's pions w e defi- acter, be made 1 In general is described as more violent tery over style is plain. “Serrate steeps” busy physician, who, established in some Morning consists mainly of the iagenions 4 . Ip seed and irreclaimable than the Eastern. (The is harsh. For a * te” to “remand” small town, is cut off from the frequcnt conceits about roses, Cupld, and love w . & & vk . fa; tha dleritoibe Company; §13). is awkward In sound and.at the same mestings yith his fellows, and yet wishes “WhiDDed with feathers, which have made . 1 poor in America - s ected o aleton e fects it T so great a part of the stock of amator £ h the creation of t} . ®) some Tegrel thbtino . OLF d'Arville prefaces his book of Sy sene seonter omr mota e aacreCy o keep up with the trend If not with the 5o £1¢at & PO ¢ 1 befors Christ. s ¢ er Y not have been de- YerS nesa et Alpha” with the fol- gun sy Bres CF Ones. OO rave: yet DACE. Of an allled sclence, will .ind this In tne rest of the book the poems have ke N ' et The lowing » h itics: SYIIES ik ol L e rec®i Yol book Interesting and stimulating. The g ring of naturalness and s quality of R e gher order e atter all the ere’ beauttfll. " Tho s town amMcer:who. cares to secve ais. fol - A (K o g did set before her- a1 T et songs es true lvrics, calling b 3 I8 fel- concreteness rare In suc ollections. : I fatn would ask of thee, L , low-townsmen instead niteness in suc feved with skill and As critics, true and brave, for it music to make them complete. served by them, will fln:(”:m:y (,,hfl.“,‘ There is unusual definiteness in such situ- wn & Co., Boston. poet be { The sonnets are often f :nd rigid, g ils duties ~e- a110ns that of the lover scorned by & Morga among othe! §1 50 b A i& too 88 fot th garding Improved water supply, sewage young coquette who has never known - - a0 B 2 rhyming knave the form bein " vere for the autbor, gygtem, clean streets, and tha’ cere o¢ Joung fec ' - : RO For 1£ 1 fafl in rhyme, though even some of them. are fine pupiic buildings set forth i & cerr ceer 1Y prays: g gt B With mind Intent on high poems. None of the poems reach Teat- licht. The plain eitizen who resi more G0d pity you 1t you should meet witd . s The lofty ) el W i e gh el 32 sht. at 1 scorn X s of wri ries of lively Focgtie o DEnes (";}’.‘j-‘w:fln""""m<"{H mees 11:]':;"{\:; than the papers and who wishes to in- When love shall come. res e of a care- e e O s S rap s, sure G hIsifamily and Bimeel a6 Mah - There is s Hke. distinctnest £nd. TealttR ver of facts in soct- The critics will readily forgive Mr, a'ar. S5 Here and the . a degree of he Bt tis Do¥ Ith, safety and comfort in the wife's app al for some token of the as possible will be alded in his endeavor love which she by this book of Dr. Newman's. (G. P. “You cannot kr thet’c eyes Putnam’s Sons, New York.) And tranqu ing =and raves n a tramp himself—not ville. It would seem that he could not r with a retreat and do better unless he h but completely, irrev- His work is r months at he possesses a whole: ¢ a business, eble in thought, {nacey- The desert sphinx with ap. *ime. He knows rate in meter. incorrect In syntax apq Sees unappalled the ow, when we two sitalone, | thoughts within your mind are stirre med by and she had “ocabl i ve. the dialect, the cipher, the se- tame or unidiomatic in . sift. “The Helpers,” by Francls Lynde, is a My heart Is crying '~kn} nn:d' child g oboland. _He is at home on the He delights in words 1ike Slow skimming seabirds dip soft breasts NOVel the scens of which fs Iaid in Colo. F i one fands look; 1t SRuiin: laving : .on. tramps’ highway from Massachusetts to pinken, tallen, i s ebnas: rado, the action befng main)y connected SRR o o California. iasiben (& ohshssscxraben- . {dlo'r, ¥ topazte, I dream ct sleep within a dreamof l:fa. W'th mines and mining. It is not a min- AN In the desolation of the woman v g t Afrer-—ef sunSidieeie 0f shties-in " (C. A. Murdock & Co., San Franclsco.) INE-CAmp story, . peopled with strange, . o i aids o Bia it ermany, and_has wandered with the iy k e haif-human creatures, who speak an fm. V17 did he bend his eves on mo at times pins. He a orks in‘ ‘Rubsla. . In - “Tramping - TN “Drives and Puts,” by Walter Camp Possible language very full of whiskers, "both my hanc 1 calmly speak SEDING e With mps” he tells how & > and Lillan Brooks, Is a series of gol Who are fantastically wild and rough, but ise words of co I that were sa & vess onsclousness, {FAMI s living, \\fi h are Who have somewhere a spring of maudiin gall? \$ stories, ‘n golf language, w - e, \ sgrecably simple and anG which will .elp few idle n tes ples is neither playing tenderness ready to flow whenever the an- 0 had no love to give.” thor sees fit to touch the rock with his- Lovers married or unmarried will pretty staff. The author, however he may at eertal nd at least one or two poems times have fallen short of his fdeal, has in the book which will speak directly to Ithy in te solfer to ntly whe his game sta dreaming of it. (L. C. Page & Co., had the conception of a tale breathing the them Boston; 1 50.) atmosphere of truth; the miners are men Although the collection contains so . - h vho are miners; the language spoken, many genuine and simple pages, and some X There should be some spe- though slangy, oddly quick, and colored fine poetry, there is In it very little or no cial and good reason for With the excitement, the uncertainty, the high poetry, like some of the sonnets of publishing another freedom of the locality, fs not melo- Mrs. Browning or Michael Angelo or ¢ o b k « ,bacteria just dramatic and impossible; the scenes are Shakespeare. e poems are by ivea’ now. People are be-| unaffectedly accu from the lonely every day sentiment, not by higher ing injured quite as windlass in a me canyon to Y traglc jdeal. The pictures are intensely, v 4 much by w s bright theater In Denver. The characters commonplace and really injur - . was Al (el genodes ok are s nuine. Thers is truth (Lee & Shepard, Boston; $1 5 : " . as by the miner, Stephen E u.‘”';, ,rx",;:n.::,':u °,"d “A Modern Merce by K. and Hes- e : » UMIAUEAL yoth Prichard (E H s & story in the style of Anthony has . - its iittle n 1 i 1t \ ma = reader a \ him who turn up to help him al P s the best part of the book e N B the hero is forced to ¢ between pri- vate and public honor, but we t n this would be improve cor ) Doubleday & McClure Con w ¢ York; § : Books Received. ; Shiloh Car A. L. Jack- son. J Ogilvie Publishing Co., New t and ' : Humor L - Page & Ce “King Pipy by Mr Ford. : L. C. Page & Co., Boston oy “Two Little Kr Annle Fellows J 2 CAN & i : Co., Boston. Fittest” "he” afterward B “The Adventures of a_ o —_ o BRSSh et ter of unspoiie. translated by Leon G | L. cut and engraved, Rrowing poverty cannot make ; & hour t stickKing to the his lang sing or leo' : by : 1 T ine of Some scenes ju, = .o e touch of style Te- S5, | Bosto P Ite to thie charm of plaine Henry St. John C. Page & Co., Bos- K e e vine athanlel Hawthorne,” Annis g e Flelds. In the Beacon Blographi 1 ; commonness amoug the poor. il L - SPE o ’ Maynard & Co., Boston; M A e v P : “Things As They Are,” by Be : er : ir Small, Maynard & Co., Boston . s - Black Wolf's Breed,” by Har- mal, Maymara & Co. Boson. $13 " + = M n E ovel at once roman- nbitious Boys.” by - " 1 the days of Louls American, geherous and open- : ' I : oF Bleaviile, the hearted, but no fool. There I3 a “In Hampton Sk B Panice r . ship f Blenvilie, the true picture of thet contrasts of and G. C. Ct MeNelly & Co., : : wn Western life in the figure of Con- New York ol 3 1ppl, ablish stance Elliott, brought up in open- In Satan's Realm,” by E. ( Blum. £ lidate a eyed and untrammeled purity in a d, McNally & Co., New Yok § town where the gambling den and Fond. MeNally i L v 03 nd Libert by Mor- w b catlba; Tk 2 the danceball ‘are unconcealed, _, \mperialism and Liberty,” by Mor 3 < = o - rison 1. Swift. Tt Ronbroke Press, Los - th King 3 The Western freedom from re- Angeles 5 Comy reach beyond 3 strictions of convention or propri- ATESleS, Briak P, Bale e ey ety has much evil In it; but the “The Apistor i G E 2 R ehrid b freedom of girlish purity is per- lard. R. R. B g Oomy 52 b e haps worth the price. Chicago i BT , The novel is intended for a par- ‘A Son of the State ticular rurpose, announced in Ridge. Dodd, Mead & Co., clear but rather affected phrase $1 2 e by the author in a dedicatory Messenger No. 48" i w note: “Forasmuch as it hath The Werner Company, i th seemed good in the eyes of many cents. m RS to write of those things which Saragossa,” by B 818~ Thus are oilled out:the eh- make for the disheartening of all translated by Minna C. y who need of the humankind, these things are writ- Brown & Co., Boston. le; Mouret, an ten In the hope that the God-gift “The Nabob,” by A 'S ne soldier of b of loving kindness, shared alike transiated by Burnt & la f s s b who stum 3 by zaint and sinner. may In some pBrown & Co., Boston. 2 vols for a reverse of fortune to accept a into a nest of Bienville's en- poor measure be given its due." “.rne Larger Faith” by J. W. Coulter. position = css to the sister of a picks up their trai- The novel then is an {llustration Ch tea: i Kerr & Co:. C g town in the west of torous dispatches, esca of the power of loving kindness to p ngs of her one danger after an- make bad good In an imperfect Fredicaments.’ by . n r. and the now % sman- world. The herolne, Constance Lif¢ PU oy Ao . fends, Maia ship, now strength worlg, " Theheroine.” Conatance e ong grocers, ©f his bare now by ure of that loving kindness which The Largest Pieces of is divine, bearing all things, hoping all things, achieving all JeWelry Known, acquires ful and tender wife, name and an Inher- er mall tradesmen Here she t £ 't anticipated, true, a bea: s epirits, behind rough, : e thlx.g{fl. Thrdl:':mhlor. upheld by rou oot ol o - ihe . Bee 4 her few words of faith in him, 3 o e despalr a ctchedness caused ny lls between his main ex- (e atiar: cruak Jitaflures Stie The, Getkwar, b Harode, an Indien rur she watches with Ploits. The romance has SONSS Nlsars flis vice. The Princs (whe. eUfl " rules under Buftish easing 1dyl of the love ¢ Teal interest and Individua harlot is upheld and strengthened zeralnty, has a great and gorgeocus el 3 ot OF e love Cf iiy: it fa not & mere copy 0 in repentance by her love. Bless- palace in Baroda, and seven miles out of Dumas. dulled by a thou- PeRatvan che wiits o oh AR 0t ings and hap;incss follow her the city, at Makarpura, a hunting lodge woel sand reprintings. It would £teps because she 1s possessed by or summer palace. A bodyguard ) &e . mald- ,ave added interest 1f still that power of loving, itself a strong men, m ¢ 1some en more had been made of the miracle, which works miracles. Arablan chargers iressed like Aus- el iife in Loutsiana. French The other characters have all trian hus ) b abou 1 ¥ . and Spapish history of that some touch of the same epirit fn anq with it a batter artillery consist- region has been but little them, the most fully presented ing of gold anc er guns. touched by wrilers, (Bowen- being her lover. who begins a ‘There are four gu & one Merrill Co., Indianapolis.) e * gambler. but defying, indeed ex- two of silver. T} siting. the hardest suspiclons of in 1571 by san the world, even of those he loves WOTked on them. for best, performs acts of incredible “¢& . s steel lining. are of sc dness and forgiveness. The Heemten un carri “The Bronze Buddha,” by 1 XA Cora Linn Daniels, is a tale of a statue so supernal in its beauty, 80 divinely com- fllustrations From Josiah Flynt’s New Book, “Tramping With Tramps.” . ose of the book Is certainly gverlaid with siiver. sassionate, o tenderly b worthy of attainment, but if the by the finest team of € re ]n;gghn!_\‘ commanding, that It drew all be- . auther wishes to prove what love roda can furnish. The | t mirat holders toward it with admiring self-sur- does to amuse himself. He cla byssine, abreuvolir, Hi® most amusing line themselves. Any writings which merely render. In it mysterfous gems bring happi- fies tramps and says something of the is: *“The calld deep Its sibulating ceased.” add to the alarm of nervous persons ness and peace to the wearers, prophecies Way in which they should be treated. His (Elder & Shepard, San Francisco). without having any wholesomely stimu- 1sed In silve 1 Iver ank on but facts locks are ir wear go forel, can do he forgets that not fic constitute ev of fiction s to the reaction of men's ce. The testimony of a thoroug on a sim- of Indian inities mad 1 the banks of book Is & good corrective of the hysterl- “Songs and Sonnets,” by Juliette Estelle lating cffect on the intelligence of the minds on their experiences fs accepted metals 1 heme 1= Hewey “Differ- the Ganges centuries before the coming of cal pseudo sclence of Lombroso. The Mathis, is a work of a different order. community are worse than uscless. On gynly so far as e reader's imagination and Del ences” A Young woma wealth, the Christ are fulfilled in N York parlors, sane, practical, unbiased nature of his Not one page Is without a definitely con- the other hand, a book which I8 tem- cordially acco ipanies the author's, find- er of a fashionable clergymen, a man with strange d "D eyes and a face comments on the criminal character will celved ide not one page is untouched by perate as well as truthful, Inter:sting s {ng the actions of his ch wcters credible. p at she owes a dut the worid, of dark beauty cails before others vis- commend his book to every person who an intensity of feeling which exalts it ‘0 well as instructive, and which commands The belief that Christ-like love, charity, and t her duty Ac and fons from his soul, or sets sounding in thinks serjously upon the important ques- the level of genuine poetry. The melody respect because of the company it Keeps, fajth, forgiveness. will habitua Iy bring triffe smaller i scientific” in s n itable their ears music ineffably sweet and dis- tlon of the treatment of the tramp and !s sweet, simple, unconstrained and even has excellent reasons for existing. to repentance sinners on whom it is ex- each. Thé liml work She goes 1o live in a college set- tinct, of heavenly origin. All the char- the criminal. If the unwisely generous at times effectively daring. The words Such a book is Newman's “Bacteria,” ercised rests on other grounds than jts silver guns are cov tiement. Beginning with the professional acters are beautiful. happy, rich, gracious among us were acquainted with the clever are always appropriate, at times singu- published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New nes like gold, and fre success on a novel-and most people ! 3 ol sense of aloofness from the “cases” and noble. The author has lavished upon trickery exposed in Mr. Flynt's book, larly trae York, John Murray, London, In thelr would feel that Jeffard, who is saved ang 4 <c0 (07, that meial. Tn which e philanthropist unconsciously the story great warmth of emotion and many would be ashamed to be taken in The poem entitled “Afar” is Interesting “Science Series” edited by Professor built up to manhood. is a bit mechanical, ‘mecr e Brince of Weis bem . she in ed by Acquaintance with one the charms of a sensuous eloquence which again. It would be almost worth the from its definiteness and sincerity of Cattel of Columbia and Mr. Beddard, a As a whole the hook shows marken fo gold guns with him to saluto the Prine T iy v imore Inteliigent is very alluring. The plot is Ingenlously Wwhile of the Government to distribute “local color.” Its scenery is genulnely Fellow of the Royal Soclety. The full itle equality. Its conceptions are lofty. 1t Snis s the only secasion oo the P personal relationship with the poor. Lit- comstructed. The reader at last waits this book free of charge. CaliZornian and notning else. Of all the states the aim of the book—‘‘Bacteria, "““‘}‘“’r "“d\“” of true vision and pas- have been allowed to leave the Stats tie by little she comes to belleve in the with eagerness for the blessings of the San Francisco is given an unenviable lyrics the ane that pleased me most is espectally they are relatea to *he Lober Of adequate expression. but fn a n Lord Dufferin was Vice gospel of labor, the faith that only the Buddha. What a chill disappointment to reputation as a comfortable place of ref- reat part of t! e work t 2 >y o e pald a s thank thee, God.” economy of mature, to industrial pro- 5 p e work the ~uthor's ideas 1oy of India he pald a state visit to tne man who works can have any real char- learn simply that one heap of jewels is uge for tramps, and the Western tramp In nearly all the poems a lack of mas- cesses, and to the public health.” The of the novel proves too cumbersome for seem too much for him and the machinery Ikwar and was saluted by the silver guns.