The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 4, 1900, Page 8

THE SUNDAY CALL }l\‘ g\(‘ew His m inclined t to be get me a wife. ed to do the bes! e ired and twen f tok Leing a considerable ¥ thrown aw mistress for m my idle hou good temper, household and make r head and why you mot go Dich e X her own the she cried out. - ¥ of choic T hew ve no need to tell me n a “I have eves e to know why you were the why you married me.” I3 from me, until I could see colled wealth of her hair e neck between it and ence, she with be b 4 and fingers clasping and un- B the wall and what seemed a long ime to grow im- and all ad- and of a sweet- Had Medea worn guch a look, sure Jason had quite forgot the fleece, and with those cyes Circe had needed no other charm to make ness most & men what she would. Her voice, when the spoke, was no longer imperious; 1t was low, pleading music. And she held out entreating hands. “Have pity on me” she sald. “Listen Kir and have pity on me. You are a . man and wear a sword. You can cut your way through trouble and peril, I am a woman, weak, friendless, help- ess in distress and peril, and I had n to save, no kmght to figh: my battle. I Go not AN, do elf for the t crea- not bite Are they sor themselve thing of which I stood in s ve been bitterer : eand times. than death. 1 had but one scape; how, I did not care— . T a waiting woman 4 Patience Worth. One night she weeping. She had wearted of had signed 10 go to Virgiria Edwyn Sandys’ maids, and st moment her heart had failed re had been pressure brought to bear upon me that day—I had been angered to the very soul. I sent her away with & heavy bribe, and in her dress und under her name I fled from—I went gboard that ship. No one guessed that i was not the Patience Worth to whose name I answered. No one knows now— none but you, none but you.” “And why am I so honored, madam?” I sald bluntly. She crimsoned, then went white again. £he was trembling through her whole frame. At last she broke out: “I am not of that crew that came to marry! To me t stranger—you are but e h I caught to draw my- g to dare a behind, 1 t that ship with its sl When the sh! cargo sets 1 and we met v weather and there was much I thought. ‘I may die of the fi Whe I lay n the boat € the glare that you rou must nt her she ie would not do so. r. unbarred 1t and it, for the air It was not clouds bad ow hanging ance came a was against myself for that unlucky throw; anger most of al inst the woman who had so cozened me. In the servants 2 hundred yards away, lights were stil burning. against rule, for th late C d that ere was somethi 1 could rail out against, I stre upon the men and caught them as in Diccon’s cabin, dicing for to-morrow’s rum. When 1 had struck out the lig h my rapier and rated the rogues to* several quarters I went back agh the gathering storm to the brightly lit, flower-decked room and to Mistress Percy She was =till kneeling. her handls at her breast, and her eves, wide and dark, fixed upon the blackness without the open door. 1 went up to her and took her by the hand. 2 “] am a gentleman, madam.’ 1 said. “You need have no fear of me. I pray you to rise.” She stood up at that, and her breath came hurriedly through her parted lips, but she did not speak. “1t grows late, and you must be weary I continued. “Your room is yond trust that you will sleep well. Good- night.” 1 bowed low and she curtsled to me. “Guod-night,” she said. On her way to the door she brushed against the rack wherein hung my eca- pons. Among them was a small dagger. Her quick eye caught its gleam, and 1 saw her press closer to the wall and with her right hand strive stealthily to deta the blade from its fastening. She did not understand the trick. Her hand dropped to her side and she was passing on, when 1 crossed the room, loosened the dagger and offered it to her with a smile and a bow. She flushed scarlet and bit her lips, but she took it. There are bars to the door within,” 1 said. “Again good-night.” “Good-night,” she answered, and enter- ing the room she shut the door. A mo- ment more and I heard the heavy bars drop into place. Lord Carnal, who is the King's relgning favorite, suddenly appears at Jamestown, seeking his lost flancee, and with the King's consent to carry her by force, if hecessary, to England. Unfortunately Percy and Jocelyn are in Jamestown and she is at once recognized by Carnal. Through colonial red tape, however, he is prevented from taking her away until a ship can go to England and return with the King's commands direct to the com- pany itself. Meantime the unloving mar- ried pair are kept under surveillance in Jamestown. From here on incidents crowd upon each cther with startling rapidity. The Governor's guards arrive just in time (o prevent Percy from killing Lord Carnal in a duel. An Indian outbreak is threat- ened, which calls Captain Percy away from Jocelyn’ ide. He leaves her in the charge of his man Diccon, a fellow wnose life he had once saved. Diccon proves false to the trust, though unwittingly, and the result is that both he and Joce- lyr. are captured by the emissaries of Lord Carnal. Captain Percy appears on the scene and makes a brilliant rescue. He punishes Diccon, who in turn attempts to kil! his master but fails, and is given his reiease from servitude, but appears again to render Percy great services in the try- ing events which follow. Lord Carnal is suil busy with his plots and the oddly wedded pair are kept in a constant whirl of adventure. Finally word comes from England that Captain Percy and his wife are to be taken back to London, where the mar- riage will be annulled and the King's ward will be given to Lord Carnal. Asa last resort Jocelyn and Percy determine to make thelr escape by a small salling boat to some northern settlement and throw themselves upon the mercy of the Dutch. They succeed in getting away from Jamestown, but through a remark- able chance are obliged to take Lord Car- nal with them as prisoner. The position is a strange one and is commented upon rey as follows: he minister who had been a player, the rival who would have poisosed me, the servant who would have stabbed me, the wife who was wife in name only— mine were strange shipmates.” Then occurs the most improbable part of the tale. They are wrecked upon a desert island, fall in with pirates and Cap- tain Percy becomes their leader. To tell this fact alone gives a most falry tale effect to the plot of the story, but as it is explained by Miss Johnston and worke ith the greatest care for it seems the most natural e world. Thelr subsequent cap- ture by a British ship, the return of Percy, Jocelyn and Carnal to Jamestown, the trouble with the Indians and subsequent effect upon the principals of the story should all be read in the author's own to be appreciated. It would be the reader's enjoyment of the tale to hint at the final culmination of the plot here. o prie The descriptions of picturesque Colonial mias feaweEnNs— - — Virginia—the customs, tne people, the wild life of the. woods—all show the hand of a poetess. From a historical point of view the book is accurate and gives a most charming pen picture of the earliest colonial times, long dead—a fleld most rich in material for historic fiction and which it seems strange has never been entered before. Miss Johnston took a daring step In founding a romance upon the incldents attending the landing of a shipload of matrimonially inclined servant girls upon the shores of America—the idea was a droll one, and admitting of great possi- bilities, but in a less surer hand could have been turned into a dismal failure. lardly a theme for idyllic treatment, but the glamour of those early days has been =o beautifully interwoven through- out that a dramatic narrative is given a brilllant setting. It would make an excellent story for dramatization, and it is sald that Miss Johnstan wrote with that point in mind. Miss Johnston reached her thirtieth birthday last November, so we may hope for much more stories from her pen. At present she lives in Birmingham, Ala- bama, but was born in Virginia, which accounts in part for her enthuslastic and charming descriptions of Virginian scen- ery. She lost her mother some ten years ago and since that time has had the en- tire charge of a large family of brothers and sisters. “I am a busy woman,” she wrote to a friend, “with many interests and responsibilities, and frail health, and my writing is largely in the nature of fancy work, to be picked up at odd mo- ments when nothing more pressing en- Eages my attention” Rather clever “fancy work"” she does, too! (Houghton, Mifliin & Co., Boston and New York.) ——— “Spanish Peggy.” ‘Spanish Peggy.” by Mary Hartwell Catherwood, is a well toid and interesting short story of early lllinois life. Abra- ham Lincoln and Richard Yates, aftel ward War Governor of Illinols, appear as the defenders and protectors of a younsg Spanish girl, who has been adopted by an old Indian. Even within the brief limits of the littie book room is found for vivid dramatic realization of a large number of characters. The purpose of the book is in large part to give a picture of the whole- some, rough and heroic life of “Young 1llinois”; in part to give a view of Lin- coln displaying his great tender nature even in youth. The bock appears to rest on some historical basis. 1t would have been a kindness to have -informed the reader just how complete this basis is. It is certainly a skillful story: but it might be malintained that it s too romantic either as history or as a setting for the heroic personalities whic! a{vpfiar in it (H. 8. Stone & Co., Chica 1 50.) e “The Priest's Marriage.” “The Priest”” Marrizge.” by Nora Vyn- ne, 13 one of the ordipary noveis of Eng- Neh middle-class 1ife of which so many are printed and which in construction and often in plot bear so close a resemblance to one another. However, In the case of this book varlety is lent by the introduc- tion of a quondam Roman Catholic priest who abjures his faith in order to marry the heroine. The interest of the book centers in the difference in the view of marriage held by the ex-priest and by his wife—views which are irreconciiable not only from the differcnce In character and education of husband and wife, but, partly, perhaps, from the fact that the wife has a friend Wwhose views on this and on other subjects coincide more nearly with her own. ‘The novel is filled with dialogues intend- ed to be eplgrammatic and clever, but, which at times, comes perilously near be- ing stupid. The book is worth an hour's reading on a summer afternoon. (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, N. Y. and London. 50 cents.) . ST Overheard by the Bookworm. Booth Tarkington, In explaining for a literary magazine his object in writing “The Gentleman From Indiana,” gives a valuable hint to other story writers. He says: ‘‘The Gentleman from Indiana' was written in the belief that in the very homeliest and most out-of-the way little ‘middle Western' country town one may find not only romance and unexpected loveliness, but also the ‘concerning dem- ocracy’ of the country—and a great deal of goodness and American sense.” If writers would be content to seek in the home and the dally life of the people sub- Jects and material for their sketches they torical Novel anpd Other Books That Will Pro might be more entertalning to their read- ers than by manufacturing impossibe ad- ventures and portraying undreamed-of characters. The Criminal: His Personnel and En- vironment” is a scientific study by Au- gust Drahms, resident chaplain of the California_State Prison at San Quentin, which will be published this month by The Macmillan Company, with an intro- duction by Cesare Lombroso. Dodd, Mead & Co. have just completed the removal of their publishing and book- selling establishment to their new build- ing on the corner of Thirty-fifth street and Fifth avenue, New York. Count Tolstoi has at last completed the novel on which he has been so long at work. *“Resurrection” has finally been chosen as the title of the work in Amer- ica. It is a story that cannot fail to make a strong impression upon American minds. It is a terrible arraignment of social evils, somber and cruel, but as pow- erful as anything he has done. The work has been fully translated, and Dodd, Mead & Co. will publish the only author- ized edition in America about March 1L Mary Cholmondeley’s ‘““Red Pottage™ has passed the seventh printing, and its publishers, Messrs. Harper & Brothers, announce that the book has gone into its eighth edition. Unlike “David Harum' and “Richard Carvel,”” Miss Cholmonde- ley's story did not have to wait for recog- nition. Its popularity was instantaneous, and is apparently to be of long duration. The Century Company is printing a large new edition of “Hugh Wynne." The steadiness with which Dr. Weir Mitch- ell's romance of the American Revolutio.: continues to sell after it has been for more than two years on the market, indi- cates that it is likely to become, as many - have predicted, a permanent addition to historical ficticn. Dodd, Mead & Co. announce for ear'’ publication Albert Stickney’s monograph on the Boer war, “The Transvaal Out- look.” The work will contain five mape. The continued popularity of “David Ha- rum" is Indicated by the Increasing fiy- ures, which are sald now to have reached 425,000. That the verse of Edward Rowland Sill has taken a.foremost and permanent place in American poetry now seems cer- tain, Every anthology of American met- rical composition Includes specimens of his verses, the “Fool's Prayer” being no- tably a favorite for this use. Since the poet’s death, in 1887, the volumes of his verse have had a sale which constitutes a disproof of the frequently heard asser- tion that interest in poetry is declining. It is probably more correct to say that taste In verse is rising, and that the “boudoir poet” is no longer In favor, while the virile singer !s in demand. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. will soon publish 2 volume of the dead singer's prose and letters, containing many of his best briet essays written for The Atlantic's “Con- tributors’, Club,” and many extracts from his letters throwing much light on his aims and effort: Mr. Anthony Hope-Hawkins is hard at work on a new novel to be called “Qui- sante.” In the “Prisoner of Zenda,” Mr. Hawkins set a high standard which none of his subsequent storles have equaled. This new novel upon which he is now en- gaged will be received with great inter- est. There is a curfous and rather amusing bit of scandal in connection with Mrs. Schreiner’'s implacable hatred for Mr. Ce- cil Rhodes. It has been said, and practi- cally avowed by those most intimate with her, that Mrs. Schreiner cherished for a Jong time an Infatuation for the arch woman-hater. This admiration in a less violent form was shared by the other members of her family, but of them her mother also remains unchanged. It is re- lated that from the first money she ob- tained from “Trooper Peter Halket” Olive Schrelner sent £20 to her mother, who im- medtately forwarded it to the Cecil Rhodes fund.—The Bookman. “When Knighthood Was in Flower” was published a little over a vear ago and has already sold over a hundred thou- eand coples. The title, “When Knighthood Was in Flower,” was not chosen by Mr. Major, whose historical taste was satis- fied with Charles Brandon, Duke of Suf- folk. And who knows but that the latter title would have proved just the weight to sink a fine book into obscurity? Mr. John J. Curtis of the Bowen-Merrill Com- pany. suggested “When Knighthood Was in Flower.” a phrase taken from Leigh Hunt's poem, “The Gentle Armour.” On the 10th of March will appear the first number of Messrs. Elder and Shep- ard's magazine, Personal Impressions. The policy to be pursued by the San Francisco publishers in renewing this publication is contained in the following announcement: “In announcing our intention of renew- ing the issue of Personal Impressions in enlarged form, we do not wish to imply that we intend to depart from the pur- pose of simplicity that moved us in the publication of the first volume, or that we shall lay any claims either to fine rhetoric or learned critiques. On the con- trary, we wish to present a practical statement, more complete than formerly, of the best in current literature, touched frequently with the Impressions we have personally recelved from its reading. To this we shall add short articles bearing on ‘old books’ and art antiques, with epecial reference to the interest of Cali- fornia collectors; and finally, which in- terests us much, some pages devoted en- tirely to children, done for them as they would have it, with simplicity and sym- pathy.” Bird Lore (the Macmillan Company) for February, the first number of volume IT, publishes a list of over fifty prominent ornithologists, residing throughout the United States and Canada, who have con- nted to assist students of birds by re- sponding to their requests for informa- tion. The same issue also contains an obituary and full-page plate of the late Ellfott Coues; “Methods of Teaching Or. nithology at Oberlin College,” “Every. y Study of Birds for Busy Peopl “Where the Grebe Skins Come From Abbott Thayer’'s “Appeal to Bird Lovers” and other articles and illustrations of in- terest to bird lovers. There is a striking resemblance between the latest years of the life of Goethe and those of Herbert Spencer. Goethe dled at 53, and spent the last three years of his life In revising and giving the final touches to a complete edition of his own works. Herbert Spencer is now %, and since the publication of his last volume, over two years ago, has devoted his time to making such changes in his writings as will conform them to the discoveries and advancement of scientific research made In the years intervening since the publication of his volumes. Few men have been permitted so fully to round off and complete a literary carcer. Generally the work of an author, like that of most other men, is cut short by death, and that writer is singularly fortunate who is able in the maturity of his experience to give his works that form in which he desires them to descend to posterity. His staries of Jewish life have by upon the head of the unlucky Zlngt‘l‘l‘!h: storm of indignation, his fellow religion- ists complaining bitterly that he has mis- represented the spirit of modern Judaism, that it is no longer a rule of letter and ceremony, but a faith of the heart and a guide of life. The poet novelist is taken severely to task by not a few learned rabbis, who declare that, instead of a pho- tograph of Judaism, he has presented a caricature. a Jewish periodical, says, in substance, that Zangwill has misrepresented Juda- ism, because he has no sympathy with the enlightened movement of spiritual emancipation carried on by the leaders of Rabbi Schulman, writing in ug Interesting. modern reform, the movement which has freed woman and made her the equal of her brother and her husband in the syn- agogue. = BESEER The Magazines. Everybody's Magazine for March éon- tains an article by G. W. Winterburn, M. D., entitied “A Glimpse of the Germ ‘World,” which puts the microbe world in a new light—that is, from the standpoin® of good they do the human race, and not In the light of a plague to man. There is also presented the first of a series of ar- ticles on “Great American Industries,” namely, “The SilK Industry in America.” by Theodore Tracy. Besides a nmumber of short stories ghere are some clever haif- tones of snap-shot interviews, and picturs paragraphs on up-to-date subjects rather out of the ordinary. East and West for March contains some charming verses and short stories that will be enjoyed by those who wish to while away a few hours in light reading; also an article by Willam Aspenwall Bradley on “Paola and Francesca” that will be perused with interest by those who delight In the verse of the English poet, Stephen Phillips. The March St. Nicholas has quota of good Teading for the ple, combined with interesting fliustra- tions. An article that will be read with zest by our young Californians appears under ‘the title of “Storm-Bound Abova the Clouds,” by Brigadier General Fred- erick Funston. It is a story of General Funston's own personal adventure, moun- tain-climbing amid_sno peared in the St. Nich but has been reprinted t cial requést. its usual young peo- The March Scribner Is out, with a con- eplcuous article on the Boer w tajled account of the fighting Methuen's division, illustrated with author’'s photographs. The contemts clude a continuation of Roosevelt's ar ticle, “Oliver Cromwell”; J. M. Barrie's serial, “Tommy and Grizel”'; an Interesr- ing article on “New York a James B. Carrington, with sc half-tone reproductions own photographs; Edith novel, “The Touchstone, cludes in April, and Renaissance of Lar with a plan George F. Pente ost Jr. ed Ernest als I Have The many who have Seton-Thompson's ¥ Known,” “The Biography a Griza) and other charming tales of al will read with interest his articie in 2 March Century on “The Na Zoo" at Washington,” in which he shows wild animals to be as interesting in captivity eny. as in their natural state of freedom. Th article is illustrated with Mr. Sete Thompson's own clever drawings. serial by Dr. Weir Mitchell is b this number and is said to be better story than his popul Wynne.” Other features are of Robert Herrick,” by Thomas Aldrich: “Paris of the Faubourgs, by Richard Whitifig: “The Giant Indians of Tierra del Fuego,” by Frederick A. Cook; a continuation of John Mo Oliver Cromwell” and also teresting paper on ith leon.” from O'Meara’s newly discoversd St. Helena diaries—the possibilities of escape being one of the questi con- sidered. The composer Moszkowskl writes of “The Composer Meyerbeer"” Captain Slocum gives the lines and me: urements of his famous sloop, the Sprav; H. Phelps Whitmarsh describes “A M winter Tramp™ in hot weather from San tiago to Havana:; Alexander Hume F writes of a matter of great timely inter- est. “The Warfare of Railways in Asia”; fiction is furnished by H. B. Fuller, Cath- arine Yung Glen and a Wilder Brod- head: poetry by John Burroughs, R. H. Stoddard, J. V. Cheney, Arlo Bates and others, and Cole’s “Old English. Masters” are Turner's “Dido Building Carthage™ (frontispiece) and “The Fighting Temer- aire.” Californians will read with inferest Pro- fessor Joseph Le Conte’s article entitled “A Century of Geology,” which concludes in the March number of Appleton’s Popu- lar Science Monthly. Besides this the contents include: “The Transplantation of a Race,” by N. S. Shaler, dean of the ientific school of Harvard University; Modern City Roadways.” by Nelson P. Enginecr of Highways, borough of Brooklyn; an illustrated article by Samuel G. Smith, LL.D., on “Typical Criminals,” and besides other popularly sclentific papers an article by E. W. Scripture, director of -the psychological laboratory, Yale University, on “Cross- Education,” a psychological theory well worth investigating. Among other readable articles in Me- Clure's for March is a study of the author of “Cyrano,” by Cleveland Moffett. It re- lates particularly to Edmond Rostand's personality and methods of writing. Thers is also given “The Voyage of the De- stroyer From New York to Brazil,” by Captain Joshua Slocum, better known as the man who took a trip around the world alone in a small yacht. The contents also include a continuation of “The Life of the Master,” by Rev. John Watson, D.D., author of “Besls the Bonnie Briar Bush.” Hon. Richard Olney per on the “Growth of Our Foreign Policy,” in the March Atlantic, will greatly help to clear up the new problems arising out of our foreign relations. Mr. Olney discusses our new duties, now that we are an Asfatlo as well as a purely American empire; what changes must be expected In regard to foreign relations, alliances, etc.; and the necessary enlargement and improve- ment of our army, navy and diplomatic agencies. - He considers the Spanish war as having been but one step in the neces- sary changes resultant upon our gradu- ally assuming that place in the family of nations which commercial and national development have rendered inevitable. —_— Books Recelved. «A History of the Spanish-American War” by Richard H. Titherington. D. Appleton & Co.. New York. $130. "By the Marshes of Minas,” by Charles G. D. Roberts. Silver, Burdett & Cao., Boston, New York and Chicago. $135. Chants for the Boer,” by Joaquin Ml ler. The Whitaker & Ray Co., San Fran- o he Man of Galilee” by Frank W. Gunsaulus, D.D. The Monarch Book oany, Chicago and Philadelphia. 2 75, O ba Lovely Malincourt,” by Helen Mathers. Charles H. 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