The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 7, 1900, Page 11

THE.SUNDAY CGALL. king pack wever 1E8 g n € d a3 fr he cla that which I m reek d ance App ne of the v f vpu Itke edy dramatic ssic Mr. can matist ery but ation 1l passion were, a wi ord ent its 10 auty and ca” t) Almost all ament 100 of el nted force, »eauty arren its human e but ces sea nd in at the excellence nf const: -often in loving. and intelligently finished. What it ty tri- vial in its substance. Dr. Taylor's pen would seem to be too facile. Sonnets and Iyrics to thirty-three poets and painters, a sheaf of verses to private friends, verses on a lady’s relief from headache in sleep, on the floris santhemums,. may in any one case be jus- tified, but there are too many such in his little volume. His verse gets too easily on the wing. But in the exp f many lacks s intellectual and moral inten: It is too often oceasional, and a lit s art in raising large chry- simple and unive ents Dr. Tay Jor's work posses 1 fe- le The po.m callec is an ex- ample Oh. do not wait until Before thou givest m meed; Oh, do not now in by. And then ¢ t heed. If T have way. Haste with Ic n's weight, 1a REVIEWED BY PRCF H'B L ATHROP Shali plerce ““Too late!” - The present moment is th ve The Past Is gone, the Futu not be: It thou hast treasure of the heart to give To hungry souls, bestow it speedily For sweet Love's sake, let not to-morrow’s sun Tempt thee to wait before thou see it done. Schopenhauer’s saying that everything been praised and condemned, every- She spends the night but the circumstances which help to form thing blessed and banned. in due order, and she has awakened passions, becomes for a short Her lover is angry. lament over time his mistress. Displeased and shock- g on her knees before her open them, especially the intellectual atmos- and that now all that remains for a poet ction. whom she be- ed by detecting him in‘a falsehood, de- dow; and in the gray morning hears phere they breathe, brings in a multitude Is style justifies Dr. Taylor's choice of to lose; or, *‘Hide them. spising him for his shallowne growing s voice calling her and promising for- of additional elements, which make great such themes. The gen grace of indi- hildren fast asleep”—the to understand the meaning of what she giveness, As she goes to meet him she demands upon the attention in order to Viduality with which he invests them, lame man who has has done, she leav him. The death of feels that she ¢ her father leaves her with a small cap- love.w e of the romantic {tal, and she s to Paris to me the theme, “Paolo cine. She®shares the life of ancesca” has qualities which as- students there, and begin ather with the restrained and in- lost in her work when her old nnot marry a man whose be assimilated with the rest of the book. and his metrical saull, give to the poems s Mave a regrettul “i;"< 1t any one thing dominates in fmport- the quality of style—which Is only per- - that she cannot have children who wowd ik % Sl diffiused through expression > ‘women' not -respect her if thev' knew,. that-she oheey It 1e the Imaginative intensity of aylor's best work is in his transla- ing to be cannot look*forward to a future in"which T N oL b nte o 8 profound pas- tions. especially those from the French. ver cames she may herself come at‘last-to feel thay oo "y ITIEE T e S e but en. The combined energy and dellcacy of his than with the ex- before her to offer her marriage. To thiS she has sinned against her best self, noi sepiing fuflaence. Led by it in 5 devieus OFiSinals suit his talents. The transi i our ideal. In step he has been forced by Mrs. Ball, the mefely made an ignorant-misstcp. ~Nor - Mobhng Influence. Led by 1¢ 10 a qevions an are not sc happ: anguage, on the rich woman for whom Letitia had acted cay she take as forgifeness that love and 3 WA n - Dl PR oo , San Francisco.) ows that he as secretary. and who had taken this marringe-which are-Ners.as rightfully as smmny on b o P I e retuge r | sympathatic step from a desire of revenge. The motive hey qve the Maw's who'loves her. fOF in o mhrofagé of Kindly affection without our Elizbethan playwrights, es- of her anger was her knowledge that the p "l Fing o forget?';So she forces |b.* Marruge of kindly affection withous I shosfd purmine, BE CRAl SEa8t young. st & 700 had tempted Mre herself and bim-to Say ‘farewell: and 0 jntelicets il And: moral command of him- Duchess ol Malcys - Batj's bpghand & s psd £0 gir thelr way, alorie. : self.and to the fulfillment of his deeply e the hest Nngliah 5 conskqfent dexice” foo BUEGAS It:is plAinithat the/author writes to In-" cherished passion. The foil to Plers is peare, presents in- mother. Letitia scorns : sist on views:of righit and wrong, teach-, young Arnold Jacks, executive, clear, sure > ing, first, that chfldhn of . Both, sexes. of himself and his purposes, proof against should be early instrycted in the meaning the fllusions of pas and their rivalry Lafcadlo Hearn “In Ghostly Ja is imbued with a marvelous sympathy with that subtle philosophy which makes the whole world ghostly, existence being an descent illusion ng from the Sea of Birth and Death, the Present freighted with the spiritual presence of the mys- terlously reborn Past. Much of it is ghost. ter, whose of sex. and secondly, that thatsman-alons gor the hand of Irene Derwent is really 1Y only as all things touching our inmost can be just, happy, and self-respecting a congest between two opposing p iples Selves are ghostly, es b who believes the words of the : St lEe. Irene's erigagement to Jacks, her Stinctive. res of acillati or final sudden infense ture conv “¥Who is the h sband? ‘He vacillation, her final su inte revolt against the sovereignty of com- — 3 y Who scanning his unwedded lite Twas faithful to his ‘future wife.” Scious demand 7« S e Eges a0 e empire of n-tural passion and the ideal Irene’s But the story does not depend on the in love, perhaps this move E moral It is a consistent and entirely npature is the most significant expression 1] and impressive tragedy. The of the general mean of Mr. Gissing's cter and exverlence of Letitla book v are perfectly possible, and the pment of the plot from the charac- of the acter from the plot ellently studied. The other per- & are also vigorously represented, “‘1",'.,H e pi of the student life of *= ate iR in s very vivid. (F. A In the verse of Dr. E. R. Tayior—"Moods Company, New York, §1 and Other Verses'—there is a t Assing’s novel, “The Crown of slender but genuire, of true though the conscious study of sex soon followed and new so- organized. Their ar- of incorporation, if they could t ed by such a high sounding title, founded on the same humane lines laid down by the original tongs, to quote old Hoo Youk, one of the shrewdest Chinese philosophers who ever visited this country, “This was all mouth alk and contains not one word that comes from the heart.” The real object of these new tongs was to extort blackmail from the keepers of dis- reputable houses, and when the United ten the lines on the ortunate women, d the value of ve landed on he novel is one of considerable power, unequal in executic Wi gerous, as the release of a force is rous. (F. A. Stokes Co., New York ian- States began to tmporters of these u they irnocently enh | every unhappy female With the increa in values came en- e organization of more tongs, then came the 2l commercial block, the law of supply and ere was no longer blood and the high- h- n the dem: mor bir to inciude Zan « to ac- whenever they find it necessary to raise the wind, they resolve t es into a committee of the whole and select one of reir smoothest talkers to call upon some we Kk wn merchant, the agent 4 J tong to represent himself as a sort of sionary who calls to solicit alms for the aching celebration on the installi- 1 of their new idol in their modest lit- of worship, which they are do ception an ation of the characters in the new play is worthy of its profound passion and the perfection of its expres- In this point the clas al drama all drama under classical influences, likely to seem to the English k. In the concentration of the minl the situation and upon the ay the characters are eas Paolo and Francesca” this we, seems to ‘me to be present. Paolo Francesca are situations rather than per- sons. Francesca, a sweet girl “with only convent thoughts,'™ but with the capac:ty of a noble soul for passionate love; Paslo THE a handsome, pure-minded younger broth- SHIP er. Just as Romeo and Ophelia are a = oF way. the places they fill, not quite p r- coLuvmMBuUS sonalities, as are Juliet, Rosalind nd Imogen, so Paolo and Francesca in a greater degree, though pathetic figures whose fate and passion are real and us, are somewhat less than persona of an individual type whom we could rec- 2 : ; ; 2 ognize. The grim. but in his way novle. [llustrations by H. C. Seppings Wright in W. i thought, Giovanni., swift of dom!. a orders for his state affairs, able to leave 1:1k Russel’s Beok, **The Ship: Her Story.” his bride at the instant of he g tor the purpose of settling a tax—Glovanni, with his wounded back and limping step alike the wealth offered by Mrs. assumes much importance in is very lied restoration of her different .n nature from Mrs. Steffens’ hich she her- book. It does not lend itself easily to ible, because summ own honor by 4 rded is a person. So is the chiidless Lucrezia dishone bt et ol sk g S A S rizing. for it is not so much a story p e g L ere was no k i s the slowly moving account of develop- cesca’s happ i To her 1 er came i new ¥ z charac deed of 10 actio f one tn her sudden r digyr 10 2 A e !:::: :“r(nfui"'::mw s j ctt r PO r mar to stunces upon them all. The novel is fur- - 1 the round S i bl 1t to 1 fe 4 complicated by the fact that the CUNARD This want of individ pable fullness 11 ! : 3 TAants s : *S that she must do 1 resents ¢ cters epresented are not regarded e of presentation may make the play S€eif 0 ypeajrness in that not clalm us definiteiy formed. o ) be simply Lite & old other imper! i :"' of & the virginity which is ex- exhibited, but as anging, as CAMPANIA flexib! In e sty whic afrespes of her. and though she feel t composites of var Thé at- me as miform. . Au instance of .this norance ‘she committed no sin. tempt to represent cters el xibility is the lack of ease ind &t g . Ing their best to maintain with the dignity spont the short prose scencs of | ——— - = = —— . | befitting such a sacred edifice. “Would common life, which serve as a welcome v R i not the master of this great and prosger- terlude before the on-sweeping catastro- | ous house like to become a member of our phe of the last act. | @ ittle tong? To be sure, we are but boor possessing qualifications as a people, while the master is a great and fitness of the play for the (© merchant, whose name is as enture the opinion th kong as it is to t ses of the play mre caps m-house on Wash- compensated for by good acting. | goympathy with all hum kind — capacity, or the brilliant genlus in the Clubs—of which I feel there are now too | inston street. Still, we are honest if puer, The slightness of Francesca and Paoldo | ay jgea so plalnly foreshadowed and world should be permiticd to mar the har- many—are so very alluring in their meth- | and we would cons ourselves highiy up for by the fullness of | gaveloped by the poets of the clghtcenth ‘mony-of the home. ods of appealing to advanced woman's | honored if the great merchant prince irued from Page Eight.) sex refer with t the jeopardize the be: NG & B eme fine scorn—than to *I serve,” or will her physical and|Prosperous e ] of ‘the inner life. nervous nature succumb to the numerous known in Hon, Not all the executive ability, the business drafts they will be called upon to honor? | reat American Cust the odor of dawn. the howling of the sea or music of condensed words, all his poetic fait *gla of dead generat bestir al ghost stories gi f a new and (Little, Brown & Along the Way,"” by 3 well is another 1 which tender sincerity gives to ecided charm. With e of some of the poems less of the technmical accomplishment of verse and less in most ecases of the indi the volume discussed, the little book contains here and there lines of more i aginative force—such as O % chell Gho:ts ride . adow phrase seems to great poet. The ems all i entration ntrat imagination a expressed in the line just quoted, and they show the need of a Some pleasant poems are marred by a touch of commonplace in expression. “The ory of the Ages,” “All Soul's Eve” and the “Vacation Song™” e pleased ma more than the others. (The Peter Pa Book Cor:pany, Buffalo.) W. Clark R Story 1 the u:velopment ¢ the Ark to th ever, it Is sailing ships Drake's day to the middle which have reaily interested Mr. Russe The book is amazinglv free from t ¢ of language. Mr. Russell t r locas color in h " lustrations, by Mr both beautiful and interpretative. A er with any nautical tastes will find this book fascinating. (F. A. Stokes Co., Ne York). a soberly al Books Reaceived “A History of American Privateers,’ dgar S. M y. D. Appleton & Co., York, $3.50. “The White Terror,” by Felix Gras. D. Appleton & Co., New York, $1.50. History of the HiGhEindér’s War. ntinued From Page One. would be only t “in- significant shopke ex- presses it, if it would in ar way D their tong s are so abs e is too m eused for time, and he st zbtful honor with maay r T Now missionary tries a ack “Well,” he explains, “everybod ws how rich and generous t at master is, nd we are sure, if he cannot f honor us with hi object to making glory of tI say about y be repaid by the j follow gener But the master light, and with g e new 1 Chinatown were This wholesale murder soon broug bination. Many jtect themse se thugs, be 1gs, paying ua is arrangement ught about the vendetta esta ed a ired band of assasins, who have ever infested the Chinese quarter his city There are in all t tongs located in San F them fairly prosperot P of what une migh associate members. The a are the fighting men and about the headquarters of as a rule the tong membership is t only visible means of support. T s ciate membership. on the contrar is made up of some of the t A chants and house servar y ar for self-protection e-tenths would gladly desert if they had ur- The vendetta is the feature that is brought m r r notice These brigands, i ) t them- selves, or rather to intim fighting men of riv S have sworn to avenge the death every member of their r spective sacleties, so if you were to read in to-morrow morning's paper that a member of the Hip Sings had been found Aying on the sidewalk the night before, you may rest as hat a Sing will bite the dust in a r ¥ short time. It may seem a bit strange to the casual reader that the police have never been able to suppress this warfare, which is waged in the very heart of the city, as it were, but there are many reasons why it is almost an impossibility. e, these people have the advar s m plac a language which seem: and as deep as the grave spend a lifetime trying to learn the nacular, and then find himself st with some new form of prison si he is as much in the dark as he the beginning. The people absolut fuse to testify against each oth the merch class, for they real penalty. Of course the mer would do anything in reason to clear the city of this pest, but they are helpless. There is little danger of these murderers ever being caught in the act, for they ars as well posted on the movements of every police officer as I the sergeant himself, and they always choose their time with marked good judgment. Their wonderful rsonality which a good actor could giVe | nentury, The progress of the race tends cLIiZABeTH GERBERDING nature that it needs great courage to| wWould allow us to add his name to our similarity of feature and form ren cir characters, while effective Staging | grom the purely physical to the infel- Cané C‘I keep out of more than one or two.|membership roll identification almost an impossibility and ready vitality could make the Prose | ja.iyual, then to the spiritual. May not o wentupy Club. L man's mentality is rapidiy developing,| Of course, the great merchant prince W. C. BUNNER. scenes “go” with an case and €nergy | ¢y higligr eduo‘ion and the broadened 2 > the humanities are foremost in her e s = b which. in reading. they seem to lack, Xet | gyympathics of the woman af to-day be A Bright- Pmspect thoughts, and her individuality is more e i —-== on the whole, after many interested read- | Jreparing her for cnlargement of ler % and more prunounced. And if she is sue- I feel that the play lacks mcil.”m”,,q and sy ading and various humanity neces- | tioth centur A UEnslcet s S ol A | tieth ¢ nMF{S F. ). SYMMES, fally fur.v\merlh\n \'\omnn. and \\»llh the ;’;\e':‘lms bl dge Saptald o b the highest exaltation of thought and high- idgals fhield by the.women‘of the' "o, ¢ the ‘twentieth centur phrase necessary to make it great. (John Century Club. prosent century, the woman of the com- "Loon e rury. Lane, New York; $12.) e ing century’ will be trye-hearted, broad- MRS. A. H. BOOMER, mind- I, noble, brilliant; a leader of men, Sorosis Club. | RVET Like Paolo and Francesca, two recent | Be Contented With the revered honored and loved by them! novels are turned with more than usual intentuess considering “the way of | [Position of the Fara- HESTER HARLAND, Will Not Infringe Upon “Kimberley proper is built around a ole big enough to hold the entire white popu- lation of South Africa,”” writes Allen San- Letitia Berkeley. AM., w a man with a mad” One Is ‘“Lotitia | el Child Study Club. | gree in Ainslee’s for January. “This is the Berkeles. AL by Josephine Bontecou s'tic Female. 4 2 Man's Province in | excavation above the Kimberley mme, eltens: the other “The Crown of [Life,’ \ : made when diamonds were mined from by George Gissing So much been done for her by the \/jl] the Days Be Long the Least. i sich i il Snigous Beden s the daugh- | woman of the nineteenth century that the and levels formed. whence the blue ground ter of a professor Berkeley, who had | woman of the twentieth will find her lines 2 The woman of the coming century will | i plas : d hauled 1 s ¢ given Letitia the completest of educations | east In pleasant places. Al the avenues ~ Enough - to Admit of s I8 siadtad out Wi hauldd to: the sustace in everything except her body and her | of work are open to her. She has only to occupy a higher and a nobler sphere than | i glevators. The diamond is different heart. Growing restless as she reaches | choose her vocation, fitting herself to fill Half the Work She in the nineteenth century. In intellectual | from other precious stones in that ft is maturity from causes which she does not | that part of the social system toward culture, in a knowledge of science and | found in soft cldy. w ml; dt!xnlzxmulh) st, understand und which there Is no one to | which her nature leans. This luxury of s Assumii art and in social econumics, she will take | Fuby and emerald are embedded in quartz explain 1o her, she begs her father to | selection is the cream of sucial life—work I "HNg? | This makes the diamond easy to conceal New Y 3 an advanced stand jet her go t0 New York that she may | in its very highest development. To do 4 twentleth century woman? She sure- She will not Infringe upon man’'s pro- learn to live, and not simply be a spec- | the work one loves to do is greater hap- 4 na every De Beers Company tator and student, apart from the realities | piness than any play ever devised. But Iy will be a perfect “composite,” if her yince, but will become t still greater | gots from the workmen $2,000.000 worth of of the world. She makes her own living | should a married woman elect to tread Present tendencies prove anything. But extent his helpmate in p ing. enlight- | stolen goods. inclination to pufer as a teacher and as the sccretary of a | the avenue inclination suggests, it should Will the days be long enough to admit of ening and uplifting the race, and will fill | these precious stones so inten 1t woman, who has forced her way by | be only with the unqualified approval of half the work the woman of nineteen 5 true womanly destiny with matchless | the erime is severely punished. In South r wealth into the “smart se Tiere, [ her husband. Better for the twentieth hundred is assuming? 1Is she. as Emer- power and wondrous skill. | Africa the first commandment is “Thou | shalt not steal diamonds.’ What | | in the mouth, and by swallowing, almost by accident and innocent of wrong century woman that she content herself son says hitching her wagon to a S = sty > S. J HOME ITCH. 2 A g she receives the caresses of a young man'| with the position of the parasitic fe star,” and will she keep as her motto MR H R FRITCH |to Georgia is I. D. B. dmicit d land: Forum Club. | puyer) to h Afri For murder a of fashion, and carricd on by her suddenly | to whom the progressive members of her that of the crown prince of I " ; N fritual nature in the twen- With the opportunities of to-day, espee- cessful in carr |l1?|filtliili all her .xf:nl:;nd:Y m u l’d@.r, Ten ’Years g 5tefll1flg Diamonds, Twenty. man may get ten years; for having & diamond found on his person that is not registered, twenty years. At Cape Town is a great convict jfon called - ‘Breakwater, where s minent American families and English aristoerat join in lockstep with Lascars and Ka They have all violated the first command- ment In Kimber! 190 negro convicts sort the diamonds under the muzzles of Martini rifies. They are kept in a sepa- rate place. The bther black boys live in a five-acre inclosure known as the ‘Comse pound.” “The De Beers Company contr diamond market of the world. Of t mines, Kimberiey, De Beers, I Pan Bullfontein and mier, the two are situated in Kimberley and are the only ones worked now. The diamonds p duced in other parts of the world would not supply the city of Philadeiphia. Tna calue of the South African product thus far has been $500.000.000. The supply seems inexhaustible.