The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 18, 1900, Page 9

What the Leading Literaru Lights of the World Are Doing of definitions of technical words and led so certainly to the amassing of names that people presently became bored or burdened by the mere vocabulary From this aspect of botanical sclence its own devotees turned. From an examination of the external charact of plants large enough to be seen with the naked eye there was a rush to the study of internal characters, of the struet arge plants and an examina er In this new worl to the necessity for broad knowledge and quisite to a leader in business. . n v s Mr. Wood’s book appears now in a sec- By Profassic . B. Kathrop & e e D e T ottt ol hoped if it reaches ; . . still more Interesting to observe that Mr. g third ed@ition Mr. Wood will amplify it of Jtanford University. Wwood inusts rthur Helps does, with a much greafer number of fllustra- tive anecdotes, or brief narratives, which will give pungency to his general sugges- tions and make their bearing clearer. It s also desirable that he should say some- ich il a tax on individual and and which seems to be a as 8 on courage, eral if pc age of the e 1 the gambling Instinct w! In this It 1 when the d Mr of time and n: act of the Tr g those comp! f the correspondence v receded the War now going o dares may fad more often but will ac- complish more results than the man who measures his force carefully and keeps in- No book could contrast more with a French business man's advice to Follow my advice, not your ge- nius; build solidly on what I safely offer you; have a little filng In youth, settle down, do not tax your resources with a large family and retire to quiet ease In middle life. The French prudence is turn- ing out to be national madness, and the fine courage of American business men like Mr. Wood is & promise of continuous (Brentano’s, New York.) might as well be dead as out of the fash- than men and women; it is true of books and methods. Not s0 many years ago botany was re- garded as a study especially adapted to the so-called finishing schools for girls, an indispensable part of the curriculum in every young ladles’ seminary, a subject quite too effeminate for boys and young men. There was some reason for this be- lief, for in this country botany was little studied. Affected though botany certair! 3 sters and leisured clergymen. books of botany by scopic forms. scopic botany some see all is of the science; a plant is of interest until it is cleft in pieces, and til these pieces are.examined under the s examination a certain sort of sentimental spin- £ Mr. Wood's book -is one of nd of courageous, thor- national vigor. the eminent Asa Gray, the friend of Darwin and the first great botanist America produced, did much to raise botany in this country from a di- version and an accomplishment to a seri- If anything his books went too far, for they were so largely made up xon” {if you microscope. probable or possible relationships of th plant, and it is fitted into a niche in the scheme of classification tly changing modes. AIE GO Ry s MR iy sh vaporing of Eng- by both aggression strengthened the fonality. They have which defies them. ¥ Mr. Hooker's work B oo OO OO SO one of passionate t injudic ould have beer work of time. The good portraits and e scale. It will be of ose who wish to have in South Africa the time and to the ultimate le is admir- ¢ A e )y /) Chicago.) It is seldom that & successful man of zes for th e secret of his ow P TS OTS O TS OSTTS sh with which I|tjons and pay expenses to New York. | hat deal with the ques- [ More than that, it is well known that |to the matter that thereafter I forbore.” | business life in a way |while the army was at Valley Forge| Nor were these sacrifices made by 2 man and practical, and that | Washington loared to the Government |of large means. Washington's wife was any literary merit. These are De- | $65,000 in gold, not & penny of which was | rich, but not the general, and there was 1 “Complete h Tradesman” and | ever returned to him. It is true that | never a year after his retirement from in the In- | James Madison, In 17 did propose to | public life that he did not have to en- facts lend | the general to introduce & bill in Congress | croach upon his private fortune to make Successful Man |looking to the return of this money. “But | both ends meet. When he died, in 1799, Mr. Benjamin Wood ol’JG"neral received - me solhe was worth less than $70,000 in his own . Wood & Co, | haughtily,” said Madison, “when I called | right. Had he lived ten years longer he bears ample testimony | upon him to learn his wishes in regard | must have been a bankrupt. Washing- ' S 0 & & o JThe Jtudy of a Devotee, 2 ot A HE model for this picture was Miss Jessie Kelly of Snoho-| zines have repeatedly sent to the young photographer asking per- mish, Wash. This beautiful. study was made by George James Fowzer, the youngest art photographer on the coast, DO mission to reproduce this picture. Mr. Fowzer is visiting San Francisco in the hope of regaining his health and will very likely and has been pronounced by the artists of this city to be one of the| go south to locate in one of the cities of Seuthern California. He is finest photographs ever taken on the subject. Several Eastern maga—[ a graduate of the Hopkins Institute of Art. T T T TA T DT ST DSOS S>> erals than Washington; Morris and Ham- | fiton better financiers; Madison, Jay and | Wilson his “superiors in statecraft, | Jefferson endowed with more profound | and subtle Intellect; but not one of these able and patriotic men was his equal in dignity, steadfastness, patience, breadth and wisdom. Calm, grave, self-content, | this silent doer of deeds, master of him- self as he was of each new emergency, went in and out among his fellows—the greatest of them all. Washington was the grandest figure of the revolutionary peri- is name s and will st in our history. DT ‘:«‘rrtm \ll‘m;'(m‘r:;'; Bt _C-oitxnx{ed ,fmm_linfp One. | GQOPQQ wash?nthn——The Man. 1 ton literally wrecked his own fortunes to build those of the republic. He was not a genius acceptation of that He belonged, instead, to that little group | of men, a group including Lincoln and ‘William the Silent, each of whom pos- sessed a balance of powers so serenely perfect as to constitute genius of per- haps the highest order. Wayne may have been more skillful gen- in the common much-abused But from this sort of botany also a reac- main the | tion has come. This botany is too depend- ent upon the microscope and the labora- Greene and tory. It is not sufficlently living, it is not the study of things where they grow. There must needs be then a return to the out-door world, but now the botan- ist goes around with uite as much as with a collec r with dry- ing papers e He sees pla group, cal Coulter’s Relatior name as which supplem tory, t 1s K en- titled * valling . - y suishes fr . its envire a of plants to thetr sur ¥ - is not new, but it is new e 1o ain thread on w ™ more or less f + y of to-day. In Ce . A ame beads of lea - e tamili same a melod viefssituc sual and for In € matic novel e standavd eff «ind of writing are attained w genuity @ o r ke w th fge one of the gra:eiy s calm, inwardly p gcters: who because of thel idealism are capabl mensely s chivalrous & k- eyed beau &h flerte st J ars same nt or ars a living d temple her mother's It - the & tions the story nd of in the new The daughter image a istically impossible death for th bereaved and been bee late sheer commonpla hing unromantic erick Co., New York; $1 30 Books Received. panish Peggy,” by Mary therwood. H, 8. 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