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MINEOWSKY and RANKEN. s e u N A CROWDED HOUSE LAUGHED AT “The CUCKOO” Buperbly Acted by the FRAWLEY COMPANY. NEXT SUNDAY NIGHT, NCONVENTIONAL HONEYMOO! rance of MISS KEITH WAKEMA SPECIAL! MORROW AFTERNOON at 3:15 o'clock— ! opular Fortnightly Concerts, THE M QUARTET and CECILE --2%c, S0c and Tse MENRY HOL) HARDY, Vocal Soloist. Reserved Sea (THE PEOPLE'S POPULAR PLAY HOUSE.) PHONE SOUTH 770. EVERY EVENING THIE WEEK. , MATI SATURDAY. LONDON LIFE! The Real JEFFRIES- PICTURES. These ed Every Afternoon at Afternoon CONTEST 1 be exhib General Admission— , 25, 35c, B0c and Tbe. s will be presented at the Bx- ding, Oakland, to-night. EVERYTHING NEW, NOVEL AND ENTERTAINING. AND MRS PERKINS FISHER in Esra HALF-WAY HOUSE"; MICHELL; WAYS: BRUET AND RIVIER! § PICKANINNIES: PARTIE TRI NE FRANKLIN; BIOGRAPH. PAPINTA. served seats, 2c; Balcony, 10c; Opera airs and Box Seats, 5Soc. MR ) C Matinees Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. RACING! RACING! RACINGI] 1900—CALIFORNIA JOCEEY CLUB-1900 January 22 to February 16, Inclusive. OAKLAND RACE TRACK. Racing Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- €sy, Friday and Saturday. Rain or shine. ¥ive or more races each day. Races start at 2:15 p. m. sharp. Ferry-bosts leave San Francisco at 12 m. and | 32:80, 1. 1:3, 2, 2:3 and 3 p. m., connecting with trains stopping st the entrance to track. Last two cars on train reserved for la- dles and their escorts: no smoking. Buy your ferry tickets to Shell Mound. All trains via ©Oaklang mole connect with S8an Pablo avenue electric_cars at Seventh and way, jand. Also all trains via Alameda mole con- nect with San Pablo avenue cars at Fourteenth and_Broaéway, Oakland electric cars go direct o the track in fifteen minutes. Returning—Trains leave the track at 4:15 and 445 p. m. and immedlately after the last race. THOMAS H. WILLIAMS JR., R B. MILROY, Secretary. 'CAPE NOME *| THE ALASKA EXPLORATION CO., Jrade of Qur City and the Pacific Coast BOARD OF TRADE - REPORTS A YEAR -~ OF BIG PROFITS | |Directors Elected at Annual Meeting. PROSPERITY IS PERMANENT PRESIDENT WATKINS STARTS HIS SEVENTH TERM. B+ +0600+49000040 06000660636 0+00000ee ot in the history of commerce in this has such a favorable report been re- ed as that made yesterday by Presi- dent A. A. Watkins at the annual meet- ing of the Board of Trade of San Fran- cisco. During the past year thers was a de- se of 36 per cent in the business fail- sres in California and $1,121,008 in the lia- bilities from the previous year. The value of the methods pursued by the board is| attested by the following facts contained in the report: During the twenty-three ye: ence the number of fallures record 10,182; amount of liabilities, §65,864,806; 1 lities per firm, 0, amount of recoveries, 6,454, average percentage of recoveries, 10. t 15 a matter of record that the dividend | received through the medium of the courts in | ases averages less than 25 per cent. | After reviewing the business transacted by the beard of directors during the past | vear the report concluded as follows: pencement of a new year is a suit- | proper timo for us to review the | jassed away, mark its successes, ailures and formulate our plans s . & year of high prices, | profits, and a ‘‘record- y branch confidence. ion on the business horizon that ered upon an era of prosperity without precedent in our history. f the exports of America on s is one of the great signs chinery and in this respect we | first. The inventiveness and of American machinists has given | arkets of the world | iling sentiment among business men | nfidence in what is to be developed. servative view of the situa- ay, to quote & commercial he business community looks > 1900 with at least equally mixed of hope and confidence.”” These are | two prime factors in all commercial re- | , and as they are 8o closely allied in the | s of business men it is a safe conclusion | that with the conservatism which marks suc- | cessful enterprise there need be but little fear Our Increased Trade With China. any products to China. Our inese has Increased almost This is merely hing. For like reason Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the in the country, has for fifty years no superior to cure constipation, dyspepsia and billousnes: TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES. THE ALASKA EXPLORATION CO. Will Dispatch the Al Iron American | Mail fteamship | IEALANDIA (CAPACITY 3000 TONS) FOR NOME DIREGT. Sailing from San Francisco Monday, May 21,1900. First Cabin, Second Class and Steer- age Accommodations. For Passenger and Freight Rates, and Reservations, apply to 139 POST STREET. CAPE NOME! Al SHIP COLUMBIA, CAPACITY 2700 tons, sailing on or about April 10. Ap- gly Alaska Navigation and Commercial 0., office with LEWIS, ANDERSON & CO., % E; LOWEST RATES. CAPE NOME. For passenger and freight rates ses C. F. Moore, 535 Market street, room AMUSEMENTS. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. | “H00T MON, Ye Canna Stop the Rush™” ; “Wouldn’t That Keep You Waiting?” DON'T MISS THE NEW “FAIRY TALES!!" ~—THE FOURTH WEEK-— Ot the Enormous Comic Opera Triumph, THE IDOL’S EYE. EVERY EVENING AT 8. MATINEE SATURDAY AT 3. THE SAME OLD PRICES-25 and 50 cents. Telephone Bush 9. ALCAZAR THEATER. AN ABSURED SUCCESS. | T.'lig.t The Beautiful Comedy-drama, & FRIENDS! | Entire Week., Engagment of The Distinguished Actress, Matines Sat. MARY HAMPTON. iS< RESERVED SEATS 23c and | Sunday. 28c SOc Next Week—""OH, SUSANNAH!" Q@ S e A i AT L L 0 S . S Tt A e IRt e an an o S e S SR R SRS S S S Y Ba e e e o that on January 1, 1801, we may be able to look back with unalloyed satisfaction on the year 1900. A discussion as to the advisability of entering into an reement with the Los Angeles Board of ade by which recov- eries could be made in the southern part of the State through the Los Angeles board followed the readirg of the report. In the g,&st the commissions charged by the southern board were sald to be exces- sive. Los Angeles has proposed to do the southern business of the San Francisco | board if the local board will attend to the recoveries due southern merchants. The matter was finally referred to the board of directors, with power to act. 8. Nickelsburg, 8. Feuchtwanger and Isaac Upham were elected to serve on the directorate for three years. After adjournment the board of direc- | tors organized for the ensuing year by the election of the following officers: A. A. Watkins, president; T. G. Parsons, first vice president; 8. Feuchtwanger, sec- ond vice resident; Sanford Bennett, treasurer; H. L. Smith, secretary; Joseph Kirk, attorney. This is President Wat- king’ geventh term. COAL IMPORTERS MUST PAY DUTY ON ANTHRACITE Judge Hawley Deliv- ers the Opinion. CONGRESS MEANT TO TAXIT At LA BLACK DIAMONDS NOT OF THE FIRST WATER DUTIABLE. AL SR Judge Hawley In the United States Cir- cuit Court of Appeals yesterday handed down a decision in the celebrated anthra- cite coal case of Charles P. Coles against the Collector of Customs at the port of San Francisco. The decision will settle several hundred cases of like character hung up in the Federal courts awaiting the action of the Circuit Court of Ap- peals in this matter. Coal Importers are vitally interested because the judgment of the court will oblige them to pay many tens of thou- | sands of dollars as duties upon anthra- cite coal of a certain quality, which du- ties will go to enrich the treasury of the | United States. The opinion of Judge Hawley sustains the decision of the Board of United States Appraisers at New York and of the United States Circuit Court in this ecity. | So that the case of Charles P. Coles against the Collector is settled for all time, as well as several hundred similar cases dependent upon its fate. The appeal was taken from the judg- ment of the Circuit Court sustaining the decision of the Board of General Apprais- ers that a cargo of anthracite coal im- orted from Wales into the port of San | which contained less than 92| Francisco, per_centum of fixed carbon, was subject to duty at the rate of 67 cents per ton, as rovided bg%q Dar-’ifil‘lph 415 of the act of uly 24, 1897. The appellant contended that anthracite coal Is admitted free un- der paragraph 523, which names as free of duty “coal, anthracite not specially provided for in this act.” Paragraph 415 reads: “Coal, bituminous and all coal containing less than 92 per centum of fixed carbon, and shale, 67 cents per ton of 23 bushels, 80 pounds to the bushel.” Judge Hawleg;'s opinion states that there is no am lfuky or uncertainty in the language used. “It is a cardinal rule of construction,” says the court, “that if the language used is so clear as to admit of but one meaning there is no room for any other construction. It {s never allow- able to interpret a paragraph or section which has no need of interpretation. It is always easy to pick flaws and catch at straws and make suggestions that if the statute meant what Is claimed for it by the opgusins side it is reasonable to be- lieve that different language would have been used. “We are unwilling to give appellant’'s construction of the act, because fl ‘would nec ily imply that Congress did not understand the plain meaning of the words ‘all coal,’ contained in the para- graph in question.” The court next took up the intention of the lawmakers. Anthracite coal, the de- cision went on to say, had been on the free list prior to the passage of the Ding- ley act. A quotation was made from the debate on the Sueulcn in the Congres- sional Globe of June 30, 1867, “from which it clearly appears,” says Judge Hawley, “that the imposition of the duty of &F er ton on all coals containing less than fi per centum of fixed carbon was expredsly intended by the lawmakers to co\'ler anthracite as well as bituminous coals.” The judgment of the United States Cir- cuit Court is affirmed with costs. The brief in the case on behalf of the Collec- tor was written by Assistant United States Attorney Woodworth, and was a clear and concise exposition of the law. —_——— Canners Are Disappointed. The flurry among the local canners con- cerning the advance in the price of cans is about over. The Eastern concern, rep- resented by Mr. McCall, that was ex pected to be planning to establish a new can manufacturing plant in this city, has falled to make the necessary offers to persuade the canners that business com- petition is assured, and contracts with cents the old can manifacturers are being | made. At the same time the price of cans has been advanced in the East There is little reason to doubt the accu- facy of the Information glven in The Call concerning, the formation of a can combine, with the Nortons of Chicago at the head of it. The tin plate trust is locally believed to be a party to the deal. Oourt Seal Rock. Next Thursday night the members of Court Seal Rock of the Foresters of America will cgive an invitational function in Pythian Castle to its friends in the nature of a vaudeville entertainment and manc@ The time for the entertainment been fixed at half-past 8 o'clock. e e e e at an UNITED STATES TRANSPORTS MEADE, OHIO AND MANAUENSE. STRICT WATCH ~ KEPT ON ALL -~ THE SUSPECTS ;Many Ships Released | After Inspection. | THREE VESSELS PRATIOUEDJ] REEEE St | FIVE SUGAR BOATS ALLOWED | TO LAND CARGO. | | RIS | The United States quarantine officer was | ept busy yesterday. Before noon he released three transports, early in the aft- | ernoon he allowed two schooners to go | | about their business and before sundown he gave the brig W. G. Irwin and barks Mohican and Diamond Head pratique. This leaves the transport Ben Mohr alone in the quarantine grounds, and she will probably be released to-day. The transport Manauense was the first | of the fleet to get away from Angel Is and. She steamed slowly down the bay | and came to anchor oft Folsom street | | wharf. Representatives of the transport | gervice went out to the vessel on Sunday | and the testimony of the entire crew was | taken in the matter of the alleged unsea- worthiness of the vessel. As far as can be gathered the evidence is all against the army officers who sent the sensa- tional reports, of the vessel’s condition | over the wires.”Captain Barneson, master | of the transport, says that o repairs save to her donkey boiler have been made to the Manauense since she left San Fran- cisco, and that if she is unseaworthy now she is the most remarkable steamer he ever set foot on. Since leaving Manila the transport has ridden out two storms and the tail end of a typhoon. When asked the cause of all the trouble the genial old master mariner whispered “Bad | | whisky.” The Government authorities | will not allow a soul aboard until all the | | evidence has been taken, and when that | job is accomplished the Manauense will | The Meade followed the Manauense out | of quarantins about 11 & m. She came to | anchor off Alcatraz and 139 military pris- | oners were landed on the island. ome of the men were most des?emte. and in | consequence Lieutenant Wilson and fifty- | five men were on duty as a guard. The | prisoners were put in the new jail erected | on the parade ground at Alcatraz, and | there they will be kept, some for six | | months and others for varying terms up | | to twenty-five years. The guard was not | taken off until afternoon. he McDowell | then went alongside and took the men to the Presldl{),; 1 " Captain Wilson of the Meade Is w | known' in San Francisco, T was Tee merly a port warden and left here sev- eral years ago as master of the shi Alexander Gibson. The latter vessel left here several weeks ago for New York in | | command of Captain Holmes, under whom | Captain Wilson at one time served as (71’)‘11?1'f officer. 1 3efore coming over and anchorin, | | Folsom street wharf, the Ohio put‘ 8.'.5' remains of 138 soldiers aboard the steamer Caroline and the latter landed the cof- fins at the Presidlo. As soon as the Ohio | has been docked and examined by the transport officials she will be turne(f over to_her owners. The schooners Ruby A. Cousins and Vine, both from Honolulu, were released early in the day. Both vessels were thoroughly fumigated, and when Dr. Kinyoun was satisfied that all the rats aboard were dead he allowed them to dock. There is no fear of contagion except from the ver. min on these vessels, and the quarantine officer is determined to see that no bu- bonic plague shall enter San Francisco if he can hel%l 3 During the afternoon the bark Alden Bessie arrived from Honolulu and she was sent Into quarantine to keep the Ben Mohr company. It will probably be next Wednesday before the bark is released. The transport Senator has been re- turned to her owners. She will be thor- ouxm{‘ overhauled and will go into the Cape Nome trade in the aprlnan ‘Another lot of coasters made port yes- terday. Among them was the ship Glory of the Seas, bark Harvester and schoon- ers Wing and Wing, Gotama, Una, Chal- lenmer and Confroniza. The Santa Fe's freight steamer Lady Joicey arrived from the Orient via Hono- lulu and San Diego yesterday. She brings a very large cargo of general merchan dise for this port and, after discharg. ing, she will go to Portland to load flour la.nd then to ga.n Diego to complete load- ng. (f“amaln Gielow goes out on the Corona, vice Debney, who remains ashore on ac- count of ill ‘health. Captain Stark gos out on the Laguna, vice Captain Hansen. The una has been sold by Pollard & Dodge to parties who will outfit her fox Capé Nome. The purchase price was $25,- 009. The schooner Robert R. Hind has ar- rived at Port Townsend, having made the Trun from Hawall in the fast time of 15 da; “The bark Abby Palmer, which left Pu- get Sound for Australia with a load of lumber a month ago, put into Ban Pedro yesterday. She was caught in a south- easter off the coast of Mendocino and lost her deckload. Reports from San Pedro recelved by the Merchants’ Exchangs yesterday state that she landed one of the crew, who had both legs broken. The contract for bullding the new sh for the Sausalito ferry at the north en of the. fer: de{pol has been let to New- som & McNeil for $3909. E———— THE CLOAKMAKERS' TROUBLES. Warrants and Counter Warrants Sworn Out for the Arrest of Strikers and Non-Strikers. The cases of M. Kosman, T. Solomon and Max Herman, the three strikers from Davidson & Miller's cloakmaking estab- lishment charged with battery upon H. Stechler and J. Farbenstein, two non- union men, on Seventh street Sunday af- ternoon, were called before Judge Caban. yesterday and by consent their cases 1 continued for a week. '"Br:rnew Farbenstein. a brother of J. | released on bonds. | several prominent business men of this | | for the sale of postage stamps. He thinks | DISCRIMINATION IN FAVOR OF Farbenstein, who also alleged that he was attacked on Seventh street on Sunday, was' arrested on a warrant sworn to by Jacob Augenblick, one of the strikers, on the charge of battery. The warrant was sworn out in Judge Fritz's court. Augen- blick declared that Farbenstein started the row on Seventh street on Sund&{ Sam Sflber, a cloakmaker for M. Simin- off & Co., also swore to a complaint in Judge Mogan's court charging Charles Schwalzburg with battery upon him on Seventh street Sunday, and Schwalzbu was arrested. Both were released on ball. | Another ghue of the trouble developed when Jacob Rosen, one of the cloakmak- ers now employed by Davidson & Miller, | secured a warrant in Judge Mogan's court for the arrest of Jacob Augenblick on the 1 charge of threats to kill. He alleges that | on January 24 Augenblick threatened to | kill him firet and then kill himself. Augen- | blick was arrested on the charge and was —_———————— Slot Machines for Stamps. Congressman Kahn has been asked by | city to urge the passage of a bill allow- | ing the use of nickel-in-the-slot machines favorably of the proposition WILL FIGHT THE UNJUST RATES ON FREIGHTS Merchants Oppose Proposed Tariff. LOCAL SHIPPERS AROUSED S e e e s e 2 LOS ANGELES. AL e Three of the largest and most Influen- tial commercial and industrial organiza- tlons of Northern California have entered an earnest protest against the proposed | tariffs between Los Angeles and San Joa- quin Valley points. The protest was in the form of the following dispatch: SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5, 1900. Willlam_ Sproule, Freight and Trafflc Manager Southern Pacific Company, W. A. Bissell, Assistant Traffic Manager Santa Fe Bystem, Los Angeles, Cal: The under- signed commercial organizations of San Franclsco earnestly protest against your roposed tarifls between Los Angeles and n Joaquin Valley points, inasmuch as same are inequitable and do not give due consideration to relative topography and dersity of population as compared with tar- iffs in force between San Francisco and said points, We ask that you at least postpons making same operative until we have given a hearing. Answer to Eugene Good- win, Mills buildin A. A. WATKINS, President Board of Trade. A. SBARB 3 President Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association of Californi; CHARLES NELSON, President Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Goodman, manager of the Manu- facturers’ and Producers’ Association, in discussing the matter at issue sald: The cause of the sending of this telegram by the commercial bodies of San Francisco was as follows: Following the action of the Southern Pacific Company and the Santa Fe, denying the right of fruit shippers of Sotthern California to route their goods, the Chamber of Commerce and other commer- clal bodies of Los Angeles took up the fight with the railroad companies on behalf of the fruit shippers to compel them to rescind the order. It s now believed that the railroad people, finding the pressure hard to bear, represented to the commerclal bodles at Los Angeles that the fruit shippers’ fight was not theirs, probably saying to them if you will drop this fight against us we will make concessions to the merchants of Los Angeles by lowering frelght rates so as to | permit Los ‘Angeles merchants to ship into the territory adjacent to Bakersfleld and as far north as Tulare. We say that we belleve this Is the case, for the new freight tariff effective February 10 from Los Angeles to the territory named is reduced so that Los Angeles shippers have an advantage of from 10 to 18 cents per hun- dred pounds over San Francisco shippers. In fixing freight rates to points in the inte- rlor, not subject to Water competition, transportation companies have been and are largely Influenced by the topography of the country and the density of population trib- utary to the points to which frelght rates are to be made. Heretofore the raiiroad traffic officials have recognized these factors in de- termining the freight rates out of San Francisco and Los Angeles, so that Te- hachapi has been the dividing line to which Los Angeles and San ncisco were on an equal basis In transportation matters. Under the new tariff, if it should become effective, the territory from Tehachapl to Tulare would be taken from the San Fran- clsco merchants and the business turned over to Los Angeles by reason of this change In the freight rates. 1t these two factors, topography and densi- tv of population, be considered, there can be no question as to the fairness of the old transportation rates as between Los Angeles and San Francisco. From San Francisco to Bakersfleld the country is level and with a number of important towns along the lin from Los Angeles to Bakersfleld, two moun- taln ranges must be passed over and with no ’ow-o—ooo-o ® SHAKESPEARE AND THE EARLIER CRITICS. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. POPULAR STUDIES IN SHAKESPEARE. Contributors to this course: Dr. Edward Dowden, Dr. William J. Rolfe, Dr. Hamilton W. Mabie, Dr. Albert S. Cook, Dr. Hiram Corson, Dr. Isaac N. Demmon, Dr. Vida D. Scudder and others. XII. SCHOOLS OF SHAKESPEARE CRITICISM. (Concluded.) Shakespeare and the Romantic School | of Criticism. The great literary revival of the latter half of the eighteenth century produced a school of criticism so sharply in con- | trast with the classical school that it may | most fitly be characterized by the anti- thetical term romantic. The movement had lts origin in Ger- | many, where such critics as Lessing, | Goethe and Schlegel revolted against the | lterary domination of the Franco-classic | principles of criticism. Against the authority of Corneille and Voltaire they invoked the name of Shakespeare and set themselves resolutely to establish the fact | that his plays were not only delightfu! in | themselves, but admirable as the products of a master mind working along definite principles of dramatic construction. | This note of revolt was soon caught up in England, primarily by Coleridge, whose blended poetic and philosophic powers eminently fitted him to be the profoundest and most sympathetic of Shakespearean critics. He and his followers gave voice to the romantic reaction against the cool, common-sense criticism of an earlier gen- eration, and if at times they ran into ex- | travagance, as when Coleridge preached the doctrine of Shakespeare's infallibiiity and upheld even his puns as the “emani- tions of genius,” they nevertheless played 2 most important part in raising Shakes- peare’s fame above the critical balance | scales wherein Pope and Johnson had | weighed it. Since Coleridge wrote and spoke no Englishman at least has dared | to sit In judgment on Shakespeare. The | task of later criticism has been a reverent attempt to penetrate the poet’s meaning, | illustrate his thought and discover if pos- | sible the personality hidden behind bis work. Yet the eulogy of Coleridge was no blind rhapsody of praise. We may say of him, as Hazlitt did of Schlegel, that no previous critic had shown either “the same enthusiastic admiration of Shakes- peare’s genius or the same philosophical acuteness in pointing out his character- istic excellencies.” And of these excel- lencies the greatest in Coleridge’s mind was Shakespeare’'s judgment. “The con- | summate judgment of Shakespeare,” he | says in his “Table Talk,” ‘“not only in the | general construction, but in all the detail of his dramas, impressed me with even greater wonder than the might of his gentus or the depth of his philosophy.” And again, “Shakespeare was a great poet acting upon laws arising out of his own nature, and not without law.” Here is a change, indeed, from the earlier concep- tion of Shakespeare as a wild, irregular and lawless genius. And It is just this profound conviction of the organic urder and unity of Shakespeare's work, and the | He often mistakes own feelings in his own person. The story of the poet’s life lies buried there, but at present it seems as if the cloud of mystery that hangs around it were not soon to be dispelled. Probably the s tory attempt 1 most satisfac- ods, which he the Workshop, “Out of the Depths the Heights,” is well known. These periods, he holds, are distinguished not merely by differences in the poet's power of expression but also by the subjects with which they deal, and by the widel \arylngr tone and temper which inform them. The whole purpose of Professor Dowden's “Mind and Art of Shakespeare” Is to trace the evolution of the poet's genius and the changes of the poet’s mind from the earliest stage of gay apprenticeship to the final closing of the drama, when the master broke his staff and buried his book and went back to die in quiet Stratford. The resuit of the critic’s study is summed up in the words: ““The Shakespeare invariably bright, gen- tle and genial is the Shakespears of a myth, The man actually discoverable be- hind the plays was a man tempted to pas- sionate extremes, but of strenuous will, and whose highest self promounced in favor of sanity.” More pretentious but hardly so rellable is the elaborate work, “Willlam Shake- speare,” by Dr. Brandes, the greatest liv- ing critic of Northern Europe. This is a splendid effort to reconstruct the man from his work, and to interpret that work by the known' facts of Shakespeare's lifa and the influence of his environment. The purpose of the book, he declares, is “to prove that Shakespeare is not thirty-six plays and a few poems jumbled together, | but a man who has felt and thought, re- Joiced suffered, brooded, dreamed and created Unfortunately Dr. with all his wealth of learning and doubted Kkeenness of critical percept has given far too free a rein to his fancy. theory for fact and builds elaborate structures upon shifting foundations. The book as a whole is rather an exercise of imaginative criti- cism than a genuine biography. Yet it is always Interesting, always stimulating, and a distinct addition to the great Ii- brary of Shakespeare literature. The principles of this school have been pushed to an unconscious reductio ad ab- surdum by Mr. Harris, the late editor of the Saturday Review. In a series of es- says on the true Shakespeare which ap- peared in that periodical during the year 1868 he asserts that the work of Shakes- eare is of so subjective a character that t is easler to realize his personality than that of any other writer. By the stmple process of identifying Shakespeare with | various characters of his plays, a process by no means devold of ingenuity and sug- gestivenes: that he arrives at the conclusion the poet was a ‘‘combination of ical delicacy and extreme sensitive- too weak to endure h man's life of Elizabethan London, a v! tim of insomnia and the slave of sensual passion—in short, a modern neuropath. It Were better to leave Shakespeare wrapped in the cloud than to present the world with such a figure. And in fact a reaction against this school is already, visible. The latest life of Shakespears (Sidney Lee's) is remark- able for its dogged insistence upon the D S T e B e St S Y 1 at once learned and enthusi- | rounds of his bellef that‘ exposition, astic, of the raises Coleridge above Shakesperean critics. Of Coleridge’'s contemporaries and dis- ciples, Hazlitt and Lamb, we need not speak at length. Hazlitt's work is mark- ed by unbounded enthusiasm and kfien‘ critical insight, but marred on the other hand by the intrusion of personalities and | political reflections, and quite wanting in moral depth. He devoted himself espe- cially to the exposition of the characters of Bhakespeare's plays, and his work is one of the most valuable contributions in English to pure esthetic criticism. Charles Lamb, more than any of his contemporaries, devoted himself to the re. vivification of the age in which Shake- speare lived. His “Specimens of English | all preceding Dramatic Poets Contemporary with | Shakespeare” may be said to have re- stored Marlowe, Heyvwood, Webster and a host of forgotten worthies to English literature. But his peculiar love for these victims of unjust oblivion did not blind him to the surpassing merits of their mas- ter. His design in the “Specimens” was, he declares, at once ““to show how much of Shakespeare shines in his contempo- | raries and how far in his divine mind and manners he surpassed them and all | mankind.” His “Tales from Shake- | speare’” threw open to childhood the doors of an enchanted world, and his letters and essays are starred with subtle and sympathetic criticism of Shake- | speare’s plays and their interpreters upon the stage. And if at times the note of whimsicality and paradox that marks all the work of Elia appears, it only adds charm and suggestiveness to the real value of his flashes of criticism. Shakespeare and the Personal School of Criticism. The latest development in Shakespear- ean criticism has been that of a school which has sought to reconstruct (hPEper- sonality of the poet from his work. ven in the last century Capell lamented the lack of a critical life of Shakespeare which would trace the development of his genius. Such a work, however, was | impossible so long as the chronological succession of his plays was unknown. But the labor of a score of editors has ractically established this, and the Sénce as to the poet's development w may be drawn from the order of his plays has been supplemented by_the autobio- graphical element in the Sonnets. The | story contained in these was curiously | disregarded by the older critics and even by (Ee romantic school. But since the early years of this century a vast amount of ink has been shed thereover, with, we must confess, amazingly little result. It was long ago recognized that the greater towns of importance to be supplied. Carbon, Brown Flemish, Navy Gray, Marinda Black, Persian Green, Wine Color, Hungarian, Old Dutch, Brown, Old English, Antique and Bog Oaks are among the new moldings just received. ‘We also have new patterns in Mahogany Cherr& Bone Black, Mafle, Green Bronze, Mat Gilts, Olive and Ivory, with mat- board, in snts to match every shade of moldings and to harmonize with any pic. ture brought n to us to be framed. - born, Vall & Co., 741 Market street. Two Insolvents. M. F. Smith of Oakland filed a petition in Insolvency yesterday in the United States District Court. His liabilities are $567 17 and_he has no assets. Frank E. Wolfe and Charles E. F. Wolfe, as the firm of Wolfe Bros. of Val- lejo, filled a petition in bankruptcy as a rt of the Sonnets was addressed to a ;?:uthful friend of Shakespeare, a smaller humber to a woman, commonly known as the Dark Lady. Drake in 1817 pro- ed to identify the friend as Southamp- on. Bright in 1819 was the first to sug- gest the name of William Herbert. The apparent allusion in the Sonnets to an intrigue between the ):oe s friend and his sweetheart has lately been taken up and developed with great detail by Mr. vler, who professes to have discovered the identity ofsthe Dark Lady with Mary Fitton, a maid of honor to Elizabeth. Upon 'this basis he has constructed a plausible and undoubtedly attractive the- ory of the lrnged{eol Shakespeare's life. a story of love, trayal, suffering and forgiveness. But Mr. ler's theory has been so rudely challene by Sidney Lee and Lady Newdigate that even the faith of those who were readiest to give it cre- dence has been shaken. r. Lee, in fact, asserts there is no story at all in the Sonnets; but this is to go, one feels, a step tco far. The per- sonal note rings plain enough in them for him who has ears to hear, and we may partnership, stating their liabilities at $1699 and their assets at $850. sig, l that Shak still hold with Wordsworth, Hugo, Kreys- Swinburne, Furnivall an Do'({qn Sonnets express his | pen: R i e e R S SR S known facts and its complete avoidance of conjecture. It gives us what is known of the poet’'s outer life, but makes no_at- tempt to realize his personality. The ulum has swung to the other ex- treme. Conclusion. At the close of the nineteenth century Shakespeare's fame stands higher than it ever did before; its influence reaches fur- ther. One hundred and fifty years ago he was hardly known outside of his island. Toward the close of the last cen- tury he conquered our Teutonic kinsmen. The nineteenth has seen his triumphant entrance into Latin and Slav lands. His lays hold the boards in Paris, Rome, Budapest and St. Petersburg as in the capitals of the English-speaking race. Complete translations of his works exist in German, French, Italian, Dutch, Rus- slan, Magyar, Czechish, Swedish, Danish and Finnish. In Spain and Armenia trans- lations are now under way, and separate plays have appeared in such widely scat- tered tongues as Weish, Croatian, He- brew. Japanese and various dialects of Hindostan. His influence upon the life and thought of the civilized world it is simply ImPusslble to estimate. Nor Is this influence fikely to grow less. Even if our civilization should perish lfke that of Greece and Rome the works of Shakes- peare would remain, an everlasting me- morial of the greatest mind of the ng- est race of modern times. Princeton University. Channing Auxiliary. At the annual election of Channing Auxiliary of the First Unitarian Churech, held yesterday, the following were selected serve for the ensuing term: President, Mrs. P. B. Cornwall; first vice president, Frank Summer; second vice presi- Mrs. Wendell Easton: recording retary, Mrs. Robert Collier; corre- sponding secretary, Miss Kate Atkinson; business secretary, Mrs. Elisha Ransom: treasurer, Miss Kate W. Beaver. —_————— Scotch Evangelist’s Success. Rev. J. Meikle, the celebrated Scotch evangelist, opened a third week's revival at the First United Presbyterian Church last night. During the past two weeks the meetings have been largely attended and have resuited in many additions to the church. There will be meetings every night except Saturday. Rev. Meikle has been in the evangelistic fleld for many years and is a very entertaininig speaker. —_———————— The Bostonians Always visit Zinkand's when In the eity. declare the menu and service to be the on the coast. ————— Hemp Enough for Coast Use. Manager Kellogg of the Tubbs Cordage Company reports that there IS no pros- pect that there can be a shortage on this coast in Manila hemp now that so much hemp is discovered to be at the ports that have just been opened by General Otls. They s, 20 At one port there were 125,000 e R s o it ee] e will bo::nn lower n«.‘r{;‘; “h..- T...f;'r some time probably, as ‘will keep up the price of the raw