The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1899, Page 20

20 THE SBUNUAY UALL,'® — o of the generations of men one spring and another passeth awa 1 wh more cheerless than plet state of t rengthless hea * fiitting in an aimless e e through ‘the mists and dar of a world of gloom! Yet, in the f , the impression left b ncholic, is as far ) 8 bidness as may be imagine b 1s full of possibilities, the 11 joy; and thoug an « e be 5 % & man may 4 1 work, e - the full all the g ts of t mvhen the er e o death. REVIEWED BY PRCF HB LATHROP STANFORD UNIVERSITY . imed from it the births and third, broad, easy and stately, leads to not gratified by a sight of the windows of ial Impartiality every form of recre deaths of Kkings and peace and the foot of the little narrow stalr at the the room where Alphonse Daudet wrote in the open air is given its share ¢ wer. Over it has flowed some half dozen head of which is the tiny bedroom, an “Fromont jeune et Risler aine.” The and its pictures. The pict times the blood of those accused of trea- arsenal in itself, at the top of an impreg- chapters at the end on “The Making of substance, are i Sxen {nsthik public piace nable tower, where John the Fearless, the Marals,” and “The Women of the graphical 1ange. ° town cross for a warning Duke of Burgundy, found safety and ‘“Marals” are more interesting, for in ka and Indla, the shores of the / sleep. them we watch the movement of human- and Pacific, the vineyards of Fre nin El- It is, however, not the stalrcases of ity up and down the same streets and golf links of Massachusetts, the courts of France, all have the The Mediterranean fs conspicuou sent. That there should have b Chinese or Turkish or South American plctures s not surprising, though presence would have been no more & prising, but it seems strange that no ko- dak should have been shot from a ya at the shores of Italy or Greece for O ing. Golf, at jresent the most truly amateur of sports, naturally takes up a gre of space. The absence of th drome,” which vulgarizes so mu ern sport, is refreshing. The sensation exploitation of athletic contests for gain and show, satisfying “sporting men, no sportsmen,” is not encouraged by one lins of Outing. y Benjs fifth cer y PRESIDENT WHEELER ON THE “Gree QREEK FAITH IN IM- MORTALITY. Not all men of to-day profess an inter- est in everything that the Greeks c sald and did; yet It remains true to a greater degree than is often realized that it s to them that we owe the elements of our culture and that by no means only Ir the fleld of the arts and of literature they our masters, but that in the fleld of sclence as well—of scienc its broadest eense—they lald the foundations wnercon we bulld It is not alone great as these ac \mpress us; Here the their achlevements, my 3 #0 serene S problems. “Follow me g ' you w N as the argument W ' i it some ¢ insults strike y cheer, ar for you will great A. T. MURRAY s \ by B. I Min & ( Bos A A Books Received. “Ho nd ‘Pizer by Ruth M » p v MINUTE OR SO b aries ACED Hiv TrHe n he ™ Know YES GLAR NG w t M A s THE LUS T © « s Morria SUPERSTITIOUS - = CRVUELT »y . ... < Ar n or AHE APPARITION 2 . : AANTEL A AKED vo. Lt r n i -of THE Coorks Axe-, grave e . 4 ILLUSTRATIONS New bner's So Yol i e more strikingly, the nature that is thus A g 3 3 A SEA-AE brought out into clear relief; the restless g 0 "ieq BY LU - & * 1s a com- /4 > BY Frame energy, the fearless, persistent s “The Ir 3 bt i Shoilita of : - T.BULLEN, truth, the hearty and unfii pt- - » / rue te, Mr. Ob- ance of what reason holds to be true, the Mr. Hermi- sanity of judgment, and the serently of am Le beautiful, r temper In the face of life's most bafing New problems—these things when taken in M a connection with the achlevements of the Ga where you ] Greeks in art and in literature, in sclcnce 1 to'keep the water and In metaphysics, In politics and in 8 ear muff to crawl ethics, have given them thefr unique po- s, New e th sition. And it Is a striking fact that in E a the last years of this busy, restless nine- H ) teenth century better work s belng done nj t g in the interpretation of Greek life and - painting Greek thought than was ever one before 4 We + u”.-m‘-'l";l"l-;; —and that not alone because the labors New bk a2 \ ::hl(er.'c past have made better work pos- A Wom n by « es Reade 16 shingles oubleday - McClure Comg N .r‘,’,r itk ?:qv‘_ | A little book has just issued from the \.‘n(l ',;,’ » z X i : Riverside Press that should be widely “Hawail r and r Vers » oot read: for while all may not have known Pl ip He % " 7 poo of the Ingersoll lectureship at Harvard Morgan 3 b on the fmmortality of man, yet an in - ol pretation by President Wheeler of the s - A / Greek view of life after death will inter- Francisco e W oz est many. And the little book will sat- — B T 4 lshr:'naul‘xhd:fnan.ls ra!?ad by a mention of The most famous extant gems are ner e tion of the inconveniences of or s name. It is learned witho aps the Gemma August burban life and his ine le inven- a touch of pedantry and s urn(n: ',‘; "”’l“”‘ C emma Augustea fn \ tion of ridiculous situ: and more the lucld, forcible style we should nave . .r. L oy & S & ymd ilous devices make his book a very gift for a friend who has a beau- tiful house in the country, with his own windmill and gas machine. (R. H. Rus- sell, New York.) expected. on which the triumph of Ay Greek religion, If the term be e, in the rarest workma 18 Indeed & most dificult and baming oo ©f Rome. There are Ject. Yet even in so vast and so hazy 8ntlaue amethysts, tho p a fleld certain facts stand forth clearly; Wwas and is mainly used for 1 thanks to the exhaustive studies of gen. rv‘uu I saw a bear od is nothing that astonishes an : erations of scholars, rican in E . e 80 much as the c » We do not lack a OPerstein s il ot kg iy o foundation; and a comprehensive work or fourteen inches lor sy s indifterence Wwith which Euro- on Greek religlon miy yot b wriier fourteen inches long however Y up and down historic streets Now the religious thought of any Dol Badaty of' the I reg v 1 before anclent bulldings whose very E: lsr ;hnu»;d Dy the view of life and the view which it had been cut > - stones must have sucked in consclousness WE COUL] . of decth obtaining among that wmele, " i 1t bad been cut from the tide of humanity the waves of e Saneambole = ~ the body of thought put forth e pd fof it A much larger ca which have w 1 them for generations. SEL ALl HAMDS EARRE S . Greek poets from Homer down on this of ""-.T'“’,“,“ was lost The tunnel-1i rchway down at the end A ERANTIC QUITE HAPPILY: theme must ever be a most | ulleries in 1848. About the larg of one street is the gate in the old city e e subject for study. nteresting extant gem—a sardonyx w 1 o all. W “worl e has . ; layers and re - wall. What a world of change has been Of | {ReSuinny- questions. et T'iberi tters make wrought since the old wall became sud- themselves the one that p"m’;‘; c::::':n 'l;hnl;‘l ::1‘:11 varic rge ) '$ parents denly absurd three or four centuries a80 4 wrurtin and Charlotte M. Martin be- D: us most nearly fs this: Haa this ¢ ns i story. 1 Le Ca la South who fin front of somebody’s cannon. It was oig 18 Martin an arlotte M. Martin, ukes and Queens which have most in- through the same halls, one figure after the Greeks In a life aft iis faith of la Sainte Chapelle, and it was give 8 hem. All the bitte even then. You pass through the arch SINS With an account of thres timeworn lerested the authors, but the stones hal- another, sad or splendid, lovable OF bearing upon sorturis” C°th any direct Louls of France, w up n t when Robert and his y and look up. The black line In the gloom Staircases. Up one you toll round and 1owed by assoclation with poets and men wicked, gay or serene, passing and dls- ' 1n the Hmeonouct? e Chapelie as a repre » of Joseph's hemselves divided in religious beliefs. overhead is the groove in which the port- round, your hand on *a rude handral, Of thousht. The chapters bear the titles: appearing. immortality was not one ty rorccPton of dream. His agonized letter to his friend Charles cuilis Imagins the haste you might roughly grooved in the great central col. AT;‘JG_,S@%I_:}\‘H‘PQ:nrle{ of ithe Middle The authors writing seems to bear the comfort or solace A":dl“:;t‘: hope of The art of cutting gem in whis avowal was made have had to make to get inside . . e Parls of Mollere”; “The mark of great accuracy and single- J r d We put Constantinople after the Mo it B oaina” ¥ A hav d ma get Inside before the umn, one solid tree trunk embedded in the Paris of Honore de Balzac' Y single-heart: with this Homer's clear vision of mortal pire, but few s !l for iron gate rattled down with a bang. On 2, : 8. On ground.” Do not your fingers thrill as Europe. Charlemag : ed earnestness. , As a guldebook to un- lot and the inevitable he loved but with whom he top of this delicate plece of stonework is they pass over these inequalities, axmarks “The Paris of Vic- noticed places of historic interest “The of Alexandre Dumas" end of all livin v may feel that his view of life and gén‘:)f tor Hugo.” In these literary chapters St 2 " t a scar. A cross stood th an s L2 s tones of Paris” should be of great v: . By an antique gem with t S.a0mry 2 cxwm tood thaselul the-tittis lett by e vorkmen, whose bodies were there are many Interesting anecdotes, but (C. Scribner's Sons, New York: $4) e l:en‘er?l:tl:an:c:;]{;‘.ne' Even as are the Berapis; Pepin le Bref c On F iconoclastic fury. This square block ne o oetond staloeaturles there is also much that‘except to a very = caves such are those like- on ft. In 155, however 0? Up and dow ; . in the co stood at the foot Of the town cross. Her. (e 2 mont the etens ot aneny Ereat lover of each poet must be Qull and A traditions affirm, went the steps of Queen a little trivial. Tiig Iast Cyotumnd SEONtg: Sl ko wise of men; the ieaves that the wing alds have stood on it and pro- Blanche—In 1200, seven centuries ago. The The sense of the past s to September, 1899, is the same healthy Beadern ana ohoicarth: and the forest all very well, but the sense of the past is out-of-door journal as ever. ' With .en)- :‘;ie:e::e-ar;::;:';;‘:pr{g:?: T(m: ndgMn wnd; so nardl cut stor » 1 enzo de Medicl that he vanni dalle Caralole, an of his was named Dor