The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 24, 1899, Page 8

5 , THE SUNDAY CALL Uit the Titerary Tights in the ook Tlorld He spoke once again: “The boys will be ; to warm the atmosphere and color of the view the working principles which direct all short and are mostly lyrical and a very Hurlbut and R. L. Doherty. Eaton & Where the snowbirds wear stockings to et S saved— stands out a the man who is now doing the most im- large proportion of them are romantic Mains, New York, §1 23, berhaps 1t's your finger, perhaps it's your _ Slowly the words from his ashen lps f Ey Prolgssor K. B .,Cathrop, fous, powertul, portant work in solving gty import- and highly imaginative. Care seems to “Winter Adventures of Three Boys in APd Bgrhaps it's ’4 E TR TeITes e St crm &0 s 2 , and minated b; t bl bet the United States at have been taken to choose verse of more the Great Lone Lands,” Egerton R. That is ,mvn,‘i::( no' hell? Jtanlord Unwarsny. that makes its creations Hat Problem before o o ¢ the \han usual melodiousness. For a child Youns. Eaton & Mains, New York, §1%. . ey e ot Y0t eyes? . o . - . . s ttself ;"f’ ,':,""“‘v"r'“"em or the Qslang With any native sensitiveness to poetry “Enemies and Evidences of Chris- Heve you ever heard tell? Bunner of "Frisc g £ 35ate Hield ns it lan \is love for the old-time “»“;m“ngl" A riia States s (DIS ook would be a beloved possession. tianity” J. D. Quackenbos. Eaton & _ . You Whither y . h well 1 been startied 4.y with hideous perplexit put Many children, however, if not mos Mains,.New York, $1 5. M'kr‘;f‘:‘n to . ec with such extravagance of ;M WIth Rieous —perple hational Would prefer a larger proportion of nar- “Our Islands and Their People” part I g formb Ryl x The best alc Justify d and rative. (T y, New and part 1L The N. D. Thompson Pub- life, it does not have its meat on yany G ° Macmillan Company, New e R R R e S there, little girls, you'll be "stonished to know fou followed your d I judge, in the ral are a little L o i e e Our soil. The negro question is a —_— That back in the East the ra! ': Ju‘l:’:‘:';‘jr' o0 A The breast—indeed It Is a disease rUBINE e Successtil Mu. o merlness,” Ben- Scme Hemeyg Lhets g S W ¥ within its very life blood. Ten millon jamin Wood, Brentano's Publishing Com- And if the dogs bark, that bark it will freeze Amerlcans are negroes. They will not panv New York, - And they use it. you know. to cover ¥ Rem‘l ni cence .f emigrate or die or disappear. They are L % ¥ LYtiYe s° s And lnatend of “HelloT' 3 ninis S O ) w as a mass ignorant, unreliable, dependent he Beacon Biographies—Frederick That my ears both are frozen; they're frozen! beings, a danger to free Institutions in LDOUSIASE” by Charles W. Chestnutt. Ob! Oh! . _l l Bus their own incompetence, a_danger in the SWall. Maynard & Co., Boston, 75 cents. Had you ever heard tell the C usn= L v » “Child’s V. . A book of verses by A. J. Waterhouse You hadn't? Well! Wel > 4 encouragement which their presence Child’s Verse,”” John B. Tabb. Small, = Sl ot - ot ahouid ; n " r s Maynasd & O Do ot has just been published under- the title It really is time you s ~ s beliefs » SIVOS D the, corruptionENg e W I Roston 8, of “Some Homely Little Songs.” It will irls, have you ever heard tell street rhevvter ' Those v Lynching, political chicane, force bills, “Don Cosme,” T. H. Tyndale, G. W. certainly find & most welcome place 1:-\'1 thacs Il;‘le‘;fi:-lhermgm,‘,,_ out in the i <L . . - p are some of the evil symptoms, them- Dillingham & Co., New York. among all lovers of good - wholesoul ' werr. " e e O e e ¥hic’. result “Toyon." book of holiday recitations, poesy, for Mr. Waterhouse Is a writer And the mercury drops, and it drops. and it i b s 1 se from the peculiar conditions ~vated arranged by Allie M. Velker. The Whit- . who makes words subservient to the iasa TH it 3haches the water, and that's where it days of the e [ v mong us by the presence of the ne aker & Ray Company, San Francizco, and paints his pictures with the greatest ‘stops: ¢ ; vanished with the the ¥ Field's Further, this problem is a national one. Parllamentary Lessons” Urquhart delicacy and without effort. There is no oia." fersibie fire of ye old Bush-street and de As Mr. Washington well polnts out, the Lee. Rand, McNally & Co., New.York. straining for literary effects, firework eme ks SroReeis # oeloste: which was the scene of many lon balance of power may easily be thrown z Bookmark designed by Mrs. Charles bellishments of great words and involved * ARd the chilblain know, successful and brilllant e any time into the hands of a mass of Keeler, Unitarian headquarters, San' figures of speech. The style is direct, ey bite at your toe | : 1 by scores of people e prejudiced and illiterate Southern voters; Franclsco. simple, and the thoughts conveyed strike TUl it itches, and itches, and ltches? OB Oh! n or well to the fr s and- apart from political considerations, ~“Lee's American Tourist's Map of the sweetest chords on the human hearc D Toants Wents. Wel the theatrical world. S el firings. The ttle, “Homely Little Songs,” rm really so siad now you know, know, knW. Many varied and contradictory ars tha . t's “Hol Wwholesome * sentiments of . the - book Hey. there, litle airis; the cyclones blow there. ACCOURts to be gathered of the origin an - . . “His Defens throughout would seem to show that its And they take little cirldren right up In the dates of successive managements aid o e Y 2 interesting :,\;‘x;rrx;}:‘_s:.%:u}.;:.pa"r:.';nfigehxll1}133u|335r11;n Ana fhéy twist them and whirl them around FaSements connected with the old thea : = as she “As I Would Believe: fhelr papas don't know them, supposin€ The Bush-strest Theater, originally se 1 ) A the graes us Srenand she skien atBue, And heerioinoly blow them clear up to the Called the Alhambra. was bullt on this > It As they used to be v my life was you sky, side of the middle sixties, and was ed his mother-in-law And the bird of t orn to my spirit sung. And th ever come back as: under the agement of Willlam - 1aw ‘who kept the T want to look through my time-dimmed myl | PR who subsequently became t & ) 1 that the hand that guides them' there it myself, and it's dreadful. Oh! jng attraction was the engagemen N - t t . ' WiIl still for my faltering footsteps care. Zav owski in burlesqu X an syr travaganza on it be old 1 home of E Francisco v » sibilit Backus, Birch and Wambold be countrysi originators almost of minstrel e » be 2 : 1 ftalo Bill" b AL tion in the days of succes: = < - and henc this Leavitt amassed a forty <o < ter of a million. Changed, ir d, was . the picture on his return to the scens of - ks his former tri hs, broken by il K . = and facing erses. J e one might recall . & e theater, being y carried out in the fortune s . - Wi former man T : M sesses to-day a dc e Sonil e Locke here inaugurated his fam . il fen thread = - dazzling temy 3 dibly expensive and as a . way as | r ok M \ I th ex R wit s biog flords t % Br a ect L4 'S t k ™ th crowded tators . ' g “She used to wear such wi o < wating little boots with ¥ 1 old-timer. “Ah,” wit et ; make such boots nowa e is m s en ematior . and r ma mong other able advocate " chorus. Afterward are Rev. R. Heber Newtor w ds for rep atience 1 Crusoe” and = however funny, have an Interest Christmas week, “Cinderella.’” y Then came Kate Ci n, with her absurdly popular ditty of “For Goodness X e Sake,” etc. The following stars appeared : — : S this regime: o mis™ . boi? 1l conception of lisbu J. K. Emmett (Mrs. M. . P It Wete- ReGINRIY 10 Ao 1 which her plot is is taking the part of the old apple . us quo t her work possesses an woman in “Fritz,” her first earance = : ot on any stage), Harrigan & Hart, Minnie t Bt o i Maddern Fiske in “Caprice” (e - ! . . ing herselt as a favorite), Ki “Eighty Days Around the World ) moth organization comprising 2 3 nic the reader = brought from the East at treme s The have writ- pense, Billy Emerson’s Min: = I up to. noit ;(-‘~m an 3 Byron and Frank Frayn h ; ion e ¢ ew S — son of stock was played hers in the ye EAV attention is focused usually on & Fe Gymmashics of Cuurtesy g 167, James Herne being stage manaess. s N attempt is made to sug- Among the company John Jenn 3 or “atmesphere The (Copyriche 13 £ Georpe Atien) ed old m Esther Will fon produced is single and definite, Annie Adams lead, whi sl perhaps bar st of them are stories Maud, at 4 years of age, was t} s e children arts—of childish hero-wor- the company. She appeared f ~ whess b odirie ¢l , or childish disappointment. Some the Conti nt,” as Dol s, the waif, and when she delivered the must put him on his guard,” to the charge of sentimentality, some of melodrama, but the best of them “My Mr. Edward” and “Little Jim 1 of Kate Field's 1 everything she had hiting tells us th N . safely hazarded that she has n . \g, that it js Crow are so penetrating in their ob- rec. a more enthusiasti. which is best, that Servation 1 so genuine that they at- : Tound of applac e theh t common. She often !ain poignant intensity. The situation From Charles Reade's Novel “Pzg Woffington.” Over at the Baldwin T with a quotation, Where the little girl, unconscious of trage- - g earlier appeared as the but in the 4y, tears the black streamers from :the SO Celebrated Case " door to make a dress for her dolly, is one l"‘IStratlons by Hugn Thom n. L;Erk“R dm:t\u' “Humpty Dumpty”* . f extrao ry po ) . g i — — iss Whiting’s book is the ©f extraordinary power and pathos, no part of the United States can be low . publishers, Chicago, staged where while James Herne was t At W he speaks of science it 1s _ Mr. Loomis' book was written to make iy civflization without tending to bring stage manager. Herne as a the & - ombroso or #ays of i t hasn't bothered goqn the rest. The problem of the ons of the War With Spain,” Cap- prodigious practical jo st inking of. Premo- me to write it. 1 hope it won't bother Biock Belt §s the problem of the whole T. Mahan. Little, Brown & Co., talent on the barten ne, « and all the ¥ to read it, for I'd hate to have you country. 3 < where in those days a saloon f little way over bothered on m t JThe best “pgain’ this problem is not to be solved Just About a Boy,” W. S. Phillips (El cnly approach to the stage. I in have a great parts of it are th rlesques of current by sentiment or fa icism: nor can it be icho). H. S. Stone & Co., New gloomy was this derground n her. Of ¢ e, her books deal- literary types—the dialect story and the gglved by permanent trickery and sub- but it bounteously set forth g W are pretty we story for instance His own inven- jugation. The color line is drawn—it can- der Western Skies,”” Frank Carle- dream in the shape of a hot 15 ce it wre usually a little thin. But nothing 1ot be rubbed out. The South will not »ck. Washington Blade Publishing A stage-bomb, harmless enough W imperfections the kind could be more perfect than jet the negro vote, the North will not let Company, New Whatcom, Wash.,, sults, was employed in the B t the most complete s him work. What is to be done? cents, of “Humpty Dumpty,” but - recor 1d Interesting The sea lay low in ”r'f offing, nnd.ha* Mr. Washington's reply is plain and Rising Fortunes,” John Oxenham. G. thr beautiful word-painting it \;oulld 1‘1” 36 you Jo0y byead Ses ceived the master thought of enl ok wn & Co., Boston. as the eye could reach, immense white simple. It is addressed, in fact, though Dillingham & Co., New York, $1 50, ard to find lines more sympathetically ou hadn't? Well! Well! ers below stairs by throwing 82 it as quietly as pond-lilies mot wholly 1n form to hiy oo people, A Ward of tho Kings Ketheting Mao. Artistio’ than. the. callimtug on; SHOWE tha “TH Pes Sealiy tme you should: Ngw;, KAew, ::::.'r:x:muluu- oo e e - he bosom of a lake. “Work,” he says, “save, get rich, and quoid. F. M. Buckles & Co., New York, ;‘“““'i “"°"" L s , R R B 1 deatn With such excellent forco that it - Miss an 1ds dotted =ky, an ¥ blem, t sec 1 2 Do you know, darling, how pansies grow? e poem of patriotic bravery and dea yith s v 5 i A ppen hdans B & '_,'}‘:” }I fl‘”; Mr . FOUE DECSI the Dreblem "Lfl:::”;‘,’; § “From Kingdom to Colony,” Mary 004 takes the tints of the sunset glow, is as old as the hills, and it is a delicate bartender (a Dutchman) gasping P »out twenty portr a -rigged four- . equa E 2 ence i i gdom ny,” 2 The purple that floats in the mountain mist, undertaking for almost any writer to fright somewhere in the depth of with little verses forming a 2 and luffed in the teaches and urges the importance of evereux. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, The blush of a maid by her love first kissed, casks and barrels hidden in the cel After C, Locke's mang E A bring it to successful issue. The follow ils were piped to teaching manual arts; but still more he $150. The blue that's asleep in the midday skies, brow! E = " - ing on “Bunner of 'Frisco” proves Mr. board. and port, and, as she teaches respect for labor and strives to _““The Degeneration of Dorothy.” Frank 70 {rown that I love in my baby's eves. ~ Waterhouse fully equal to the occasion, mentary to show the spirit raits were made. The erial - 3, v had terminated somewhat abrupt a in the heavy wash raise the self-respect of his people. To Kinsella. G. W. Dillingham & Co., New That is the wey ther the poncter ever. Rowever. cane Rumorous little touch in N il ed to express the companion-light, al- the white man he says: “Give us fair York, $1 5. 2 thelant yerad makes the noes: & gent: Tok et R With A} Hayma Southern house ser- a delicate ray across treatment, so that we may learn not to _“The Sword of Justice,” Sheppard Do you know, Sariing, how Iilies srow? Bunner of 'Frisco—knew him well; x‘l-“:tf’r:d:; ;;""""‘l‘ the latter very shor l‘n fore the w:.uu(’ne the dull red disk of the distrust you. Our interests are the same, Stevans. Little, Brown & Co., BOStON, Guq motds it s of oo eautitul AR T Daapas aver youi et > §0 to the Baldwin. A | nd gentle uncles who vays insistin’ his colors.” but it is hard to bélieve it when you force $1 2. Pure ‘and wonderful, fal DR e g i n filled In by the unpleasant | wie subject of 50 many Regular Hades it is, you bet arity o 5 . 1 . made qually witty is the notion of buying US to pay firat-class rates for second-class _“The Treasure Shop.” Hezekiah Butter- Then he takes the £old ot my baby's balr yhen'thers resounded the. cail ~To Armaf® Taek the peactmels Minatre who seem t e 4 A Y . 2 : J v et *Frisco st to go © prestige of e theat . dialoct over the counter. “If ye're want- accommodations, or pass election laws worth. D. Appleton & Co., New York, ALLreisitamidthe whitenees there, ' = R s ity B e Leavitt's management of affai.. oo ' some a wee bit shop-worn, T'll Jet ye Which bar out the intelligent negro and §1 5. And that is the way that the lilles grow. Always remarkin’, “It's hell, you know. fmprove the characte . gped sl wDerrd el There's s admit the flliterate white. Th “The Heiress of the Season.” Slr Wil | © " "B ; igt the courae ¢ Star T ! guantity that Ian Maclatenslert oot o' SUSr il the Swmial, point 381 What | Ham:Miignay. - D. ‘Applston: &' Co., New, /22 308 Row, SE{iwhaw Tonis sxuw? e ks to.tas. + Dwevss, By ihoteisedvus. At last, s are 1 last buke.” I expressed surprise that €an the negro do for himself?" Bravery York, $l. ¥or they are the fairest of all things fai R e D e ey (%% Sucoesses. 1o reqel Sagement of Hoyt's k! XbAyors <o are | 1 let any escape him, and he said: ©P the battlefield, pathetic fidelity, do not _ *The Insect World,”” Clarence M. Weed. The one nerfect blossom, beyond compase Came with each crack of a savage's gun. e redeemed the reputation nes beautitul in gentle diome “Hech, mon, dinna ye ken there's no end 2ltogether answer this question. Genera- D. Appleton & Co., New York, 60 cents, ~ Symbal o sweetness and ail Jovenos: *Boys,” said the sergeant, “one, you know, o e aD & Srest Messure 10 the Scots 1 feit like telling him that 1i0nS must pass before the answer is fin- “Johnnie,” E. O, Laughlin. The Bowen- $0d Wished His children to comfort and bless, I was sorr; a v ven: " And He wrote the thought in a flower; and so, there had been a beginning, 2!¥ Eiven; but If the answer is to be ever Merrill Com Indianapolis. ITRat 7ig T watr Chat e sohm e Must go to the captain our case to tell and made for hims Probably death for him—who will go?" If & andler Harris, in enth ce, attributes to the little b lid any, astic pr N B “ After having given up the the YT w ra Bunner, “but war is hell. p the th " 1 W ut 1 refrained. favorabie 1L SDusuS-dng to/@uch akenoles’ . JUAt the (Wiha's WINIZ* 1o C. OMoulton. *\rere aredverace lat Thavh the fre s s v saps Bunner, ‘Bat. war is heil he returned in ‘%8 to assume . . L e we? The contessions of a hypnotized critic, 43 Booker Washington's noble devotion. Littie, Brown & Co., Boston, $1 %. Christmas ring and jingle; moreover, they Bunner of 'Frisco—up the hill, management, but oniy to chronicle u ¢ the DeETOCs A N e e cond! . ™Y the conversation with a famous authoy, TROS¢ Who like us in California know “Mists of Fire" Coates Kenney. Rand, are so strictly and refreshingly Califor- _While demons yelled, and over its crest: ure. After a period of disuse the place become the cold-storage conditions of B st ) bthir }I;'mn: .=c u~uh °T» this problem as a serious one only at & McNally & l‘ofchlcagm nian. In fact, the book throughout fs And (hhoulhullels sung, and their song w was"reopened fast Octaber icn .,. la s T oihes® DOT- Lith and poignancy. (Century. Company. distance will do well to recognize its Im- “Worldly Wisdom of. Chesterfield,” W. +Jlied with the healthy atmosphere of the . MHUC o 0 \priess now do your bestt of six months of G rman comedy, M traits present unimpeachable evidence of snancy. U1 ComPAnY: portance and to give our gratitude to this L. Sheppard, R. H. Russell, New York, \est and tefring with the plquant indi- 55l f¢" by Heaven: On and on, dame Fabbri-Muller playine imco?, ] t they were. The art with which the L5 great man. (Small, Maynard & Co., Bos- ““The Story of Magellan H. Butter- > “‘lh"’; °"ma e °'; o wWinto the river where missiles halled: female roles. This i put o 5“;:" Il-."’ux are set forth i5 so felicitous In its The colicction in book form of some of (o8- $1) O worth. D. Appleton & Co., New York. Ant’ were’ born here; you Enow, ‘canms ron | oaed A e e ot santiad. ing of the life about the old theater as , falthful and so informing, t the s and specches of Booker T. Mrs. Lucy W. Thacher's “The Listen- “The Life and Death of Mr. Badman,' thousht it best, ! to its real existence—the heart, the hope s per than character and individ- Washington, the principal of the well- ing Child” 15 a beautiful book, beautifully John Bunyan. R. I Russell, New York. - dytan gt (he, woadectul Bunsgeof:Hiseointo the campr T the pulsing fancy that once fllumined ’ revives and re known ncgro school in Tuskegee, Ala-" named. It s a collection of poetry de- “Ilustrative Notes on the International Where the frost makes of little girls’ noses & Wiped from his forehead the ultimate damp, s nob dismantled ruins. D6 oan ever some mysterious bama, brings before the reader at one signed for children. The selections are Sunday-School Lessons, 180, Jesse L. feast, Delivered his message and nted away, catch more than a half-tone impression?