The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 29, 1900, Page 4

THE SUNDAY CALL. = ] e t o hen £ \ v § € & r 1 . r g he marvelous adminis » by a Chinese Jud n carries the old ndon is off to the ain can get nortt Yok unw Not the a-trick for €1y anims bea w Ge and not “Co'den Horseshoz.” al's “'Gold has justly Torse- been re purports to be a reprint } at the outbreak ppines bet States army ted aitered and some letters being omitted, but r changes being made. the mind of a brilliant young officer, who entered war an opponent of expan- , as the result of the liber- s of a voyage to the Phil- of the Suez canal, came to imperial destiny of the He sees Ceyion, Singa kong, of course, and runs g Portuguese colonial o. Being modest. open- pen-eyed, he hears frank ve speech from Yankee skip- pers c missionaries, colonial Judges and exiled men of business. He siruggles at the risk of his life through the Chinese quarter of & Chinese port, Ve in, but pe a st of the kI 1 H. B. LATHROP. Story of Christicn Ecience Water! wrote The S 1 a novel, “The hich are weighed in the found wanti he preten- Scien and others of i € fai “truth seekers” of the o truth finders, In the devotees of ew thought” nto tw those who in their belief, but in whom all = for hun rrow ems dead- in the t ened by trus or non- lity of vain 1 those who make pro- fession of the new faith serve as a schemd for ) ing. Mr. Waterloo, to be sure, does rot tell whether the science attra able people or whether unpi ties are developed, by the religion in its herents. As unprej Christ 10 the valu ok is scarcel convinein story it is possit eroine, Kate Va man of business , bri m her home in the ¢ her young . Narcissa, who is out of k ing been under th without deriving bene trations, next tries what a he; untry an do for her. Finding Clay Narcissa joins the c of Dr the teacher of a & hilosophy, which he calls *“Truth which he pretends to have originated g over Narcissa and suspeci- it to be harmful to her sister, also Z if she ca lowever, K somewhat to Zadski 1 the latter leaves town tion, Narclssa disap- ir, unable to trace 3 d from her lover, Jc fre she has been estran, ’ lack of sympathy w faith. Yule ophy whicl to have swerable fo! loss, turns from to the old her childho Waterloo. - Co., Chicago. $12.) “Barbara fri.tchie.” je Fitch, not willing to let a play- ¢y rest on its lau won behind ights, must ds issue it between e story of Barbara Frietchie 1s based upon Whittier's poem—that is to say, the flag-waving climax is. In other respects there is iittle resemblance. Barbara is described as “a ravishing young crea- instead of the elderly person we known since we used to “speak piec The other characters are also new to us. Butl “‘the author disclaims any intention to the writing of an historical play,” 2nd “he has endeavored merely to picture of an imaginary story some of the spirit and atmosphere of a certain period of our history.” For stage purposes he has done all that be assumes to do. and he who reads with Modrations e, = from frnest felonThomprony The Diography 0%\3:‘; o.“j (rizzly setting and action will de- band. But it it to be the book ¥ issued for a it to be an eve to st lled ance, 1l absorbed poetics arm ir at it Is u d in a billowy ma L it will seen, alas the dress’ s b tive Is not striking, the lines And yet your theater man why the play has made a hit. E ut se and contrasts bus But we are e book. Publishing cents.) fe Mun cipal Government. Bird S. Coler, Comptroller of the city of New York, has compiled a series of par deal with some of the salient of the administration of that city under its new charter. Most of the prepared orig- or as lec- does not E ‘tory account micipal administration time one of the most in- £ political topics to the Ameri- and the in taken in Gre important venture which 3 @ made in this country in solving the prob- “He struck BN asas ferctal 0 crashing blovw s >3 PR NN lems of city government. The theme of which Comptroller Coler has written is therefore one on which a notable work might be fo , but the volume he has given us inadequate, It does not even explal form of government the new charter provides. The various Goubtless in ng when papers avere the ¢ published in gazines or delivered as lcctures, for they were then timely to some lssue occuping public at- tention. They are not & resting in a book, and far too nd slight to be accounted v L ' dealt with are: City “Public Charity,” v Regulated Income and Ex ‘ater Supply Transportation “Cit Development, “The Chure i Polittc Political Machines. all good topics, but in not one has the troller given uvs anything more serious review suitable for the al magazine reader. (““Municipal Govern- ment as lliustrated by the Charter Finances and Public Charities of New Yo! by Bird 8. Coler, Comptroller of Published by D. Appieton & Co. “Through Firz to Fortune Mrs. Alexander is too well known as a writer of bright, readable books to need a word of comm tion. Her latest g rhro’ Fire tc Fortune,” will not e a disappointm for, although it is \ferior to her work at its best, there is s of touch and a mod- »f treatment which will appezl par- rly to the younger class of movel readers. The plot is a hackneyed one. but the heroine is distinctly likable and the hero has the neccssary amount of fascina- tion, 80 that one can find entertdinment in the book if not in an exacting mood. (R. F. Fenno & Co., New York). The Free Trade Movement. One of a series of volumes designed to deal with the prinhcipal features of the Vietorian era in Great Britain is “Thi Free Trade Movement and Its Results, by G. Armitage-Smith, principal of the Birbeck Institution and lecturer for the London Society for the Extension of Uni- versity Teaching. The work is much more of a plea for free trade than an impartial record of history. In his preface the author says: “The old controversies still remain and bhave, in fact, been renewed with fresh vigor, partly owing to the persistence of the United States and other countries in a protective policy, and also to the move- Bh\ ment for federation with our colones most of which are committed to protec- tion.” It is therefore as a contribution to an existing controversy rather than as a review of the controversies of the past that the work has been written. Those who look to it for a comprehensive account of the great agitation in England which resulted in the overthrow of the corn laws will be disappointed. It deals with that agitation, it true, but the st par- y been ing the arguments of the w e now increasing and f refu rders in t Britain rather than of composing a book which would be fair t number in Gre a correct h s of the ed by all parties as one of the most notable even torian age. A single passage from one of the early speeches of Cobden will s why free trade has bees serve ritish and why Addre th I am neither a Whig Under the corn law the family of a nobleman pays to the bread tax about one halfpenny on every 100 pounds of income, while the tax tak from the income of the family of a labo ing man about 20 per cent.” Of course, a monstrous tax of that kind upon a neces- sary of life could not be maintained in a free country, and it was repealed. Pro- tection in the United States does not en- tail a bread tax nor impose such unjust burdens upon the laboring man. It is, on the contrary, a benefit to him, since it builds. up imdustries which provide him with work and wages. The wide difference which exists be- tween the conditions of the United States and of Great Hritain affords ample expia- nation why a fiscal system injurious in the one country can be advantageous to the other. Professer Armituge-Smith, however, Is an intense art noon (h‘) subject and undertakes to maintain that free trade is right everywhere, that all the nations of Europe and America are wrong and that Great Britain alone has the true lizht. He has made an interest- ing work and those who wish to go over again the old trove at raged around the ff issue in this cguntry during the Cleveland administration will find the work worth reading. (“The Free 1 am a iree trader. Trade Movemgnt and Its Result by G. Armitage-Smith:; Victorian Era Series, published by Herbert 8. Stone & Co., Chi- cago and New York; price §1 %.) The City Problem. Under the title “The City Problem. bert A. Hoskin presents a city puzzl and 2 solution thereof that ought to have been cast in the form of a Utopian no; or a chapter from the philosophy of Py imism. Mr. Hoskin can carry his the straight through more conflicting ts than on munic is an es any man that has ever written 1l problems. says the city iblished factor in social econom, that the genfus of the clty is corrupt and that it must be puritied or perish. ‘The man who does not work should not be al- lowed to eat whether he be a tramp or a miillonaire, Mr. Hoskin continues, and that law is violated in the city. The city is a non-producer and the rural di are taxed to support it, and along with the city they have to support also the city slum. Moreover, the ¢ is destruct- ive of the home. It divides ils people into two classes, one of which has mansions larger than the owners can oc and the other has no home at all. city is unsacial, for, says Mr. Hoskin, sociality is democratic, but society is aristocratic, it is autocratic, it is pluto- cratic, 1t is royalistic. And all this is un- natural, unbrotherly and cruelly unkind.” Finally the conclusion is reached that we can never find an ideal social compact within a city, and therefore the solution of the city problem is to abolish the city. Mr. Hoskin proposes’ that every family shall have forty acres of land to live on, and be made to live on it. That would enable the people to live near enough to- gether to have sociality, or as the author puts it: “We would in such manner reach the result of stimuiation without conges- tion: of emulation without envy; of am- bition without contention; of aspiration without greed, and of combination wit! out competition.'” (“The City Problem,’ by Albert A. Hoskin. Publishéd by John B. Alden. New York; price 50 cents, ““The Successful American.” The third issue of *“The Successful American,” published monthly by the Press Biographical Company of New York, is devoted to the history of official Washington. It contains excellent pic- tures, in half tone, of the United States Senators now serving, the respected mem- bers of the Supreme Court, a group photo- graph of Mrs. McKinley surrounded by the “‘Ladies of the Cabinet 1d specially posed pictures of the President and his Cabin In addition are given valuabie and authentic hi al sketche data of importance. The publi taken u new and interesting field from the superior results thus f tained merit the success which will doubtedly be thi Concerning Mexico. to M title of a handy little tex: pages from the pen of Christobal Hidalge. Besides a map and excellent photogravures illustra- the book contains detailed information up- on every p ¢ to be of value to an American contemplating a visit to Mex-co either for business or pleasure. It com- prises statistics, the agricultural re- sources of the count descerip of its cities and railroad: ployment in different and points of interest for the sightseer-— altogether a quite valuable and handy lit- tle volume, (The Whitaker & Ray Com- pany, San Francisco, §1.) possibilities of em- branches of labor, *“Autobiogrophy of a Cuzck ’ “The Autoblography of a Quack™ 18 a psychological study of a man who is more rogue than quack irn the common accepta- tion of the term; for we do not usually symbolize by “qu dowrright villainy, and Dr. Mitchell has taken for his subject the description of the character who is-the embodiment of degener whose life opposes the theory th ronment is able to overcome dowments of nature. Dr quack, engages in pra of nefarious work, love of gain, and a induced to some passing. impulse., His metho all dishonest, and as they are em by a clever man, who is m ally the opposite of w in ing of dis that one rises from Mitchell's book—d the unvarfed rascality of the le: ter and pleasure given by the skill of the author in cloth ith interest the exs ploits of even a ous rogue. In the same volume is the imaginary ease of Richard Dedloe, ar army surgeon, who loses his limbs in the war of the re- on. The case excited a gréat deal of atten- tien and sympathy when the article ap- peared in the Centur; pd a number of subscriptiors were sent to the “Stump " 1t was then that Dr. Mitcheil ed that he had written up the case, not having Intendea it to fall into the hands of the bublishers, which it did through & friend. The descriptions of Dedloe’s sensations are painfully vivid, not only where he loses his limbs, one by one, but after he has be- come a “stump.” The story is not pleasant reading to one who is affected by horrible pictures, suer as could alone come from the pen of one who, like Dr. Mitchell, has been a lifetime in gathering such data, but it is certainly fasciratingly weird. (The Century Com- pany, New York;: $1%.) Guide to Paris.” Laird & Lee of Chicago have just issued an eighth edition of their Guide to Paris, which is to all purposes an entirely new book, to be known henceforth as “Lec's Standard Guide to Paris.”” This work was successful from the start, but in its present form it is undoubtedly the best gulde of the size ever published on either side of the Atlantic. Its maln new feature is a series of twelve eity routes, with dia- grams, covering every possible point of interest in the great city, and giving crisp, accurate descriptions of all mozu- ments, public buildings, churches, the- aters, museums, bridges, parks, ete. These routes have taken the experienced Paris- ian author months of close study, as his ambition was to give the tourist a chance to see everything and miss nothing, while covering the ground in a minimum of time. A second novel feature introduced in the book is a short vocabulary of words and sentences in German and lialian that will prove most valuable to tourists visit- ing Switzerland, Germany, Austria or Italy after or before their trip to Paris. have been added. picture of the recently ais, and the former derably strengthened. Lee's Several half-tones among them a burned Theatre Fr. chapters cons Guide thus becomes a standard not only in.na: but in fac ( ird Le flexi- ble cloth, 50 cents; full leather, full gilt, $1, with large plan of exposition, in colors, and diagrams of the Louvre museums.) Mod:rp Jc urnahs';) Expounded. Mr. Curtis Haven, ‘‘Jour: Author and Te: er of Over Tw rs’ Ex- perience,” has published handbook entitied Modern Journa ture.” The work pr count of the workings of @ paper departments and the of editorial, local and special writers, to- ther with practical examples and ex- Manatfons of proof-reading and adve ment writing. The author also give vlluable hints to the amb A Pra story writer. The book eon ges. On the South ¢ frican Troublz. 2, 7 Ought to Win? Oom Paul or is the title Queen Vicioria?" account by Si Afrfean stru February 19, the facts in 3 b the history of the Boer settlers, first the ast India pany during depend tion: Com- ally » ap is given; ai i int ve resdng. th, Romance of Bagdad nce of the time ch the Khalif be A very of Harun 4 ben Frederiek A Cverheara by the B-okworm br. rwo The London ( 1 extraor- dinary mind con- cerning a per- take have hed th When Columbus Amer: occurred to others 10 likewd: N hat Captain shua Slocum has alone jund the world, and told the wou!d how he did it, another hardy sailor has proclaimed his intention of doing, or trying to do, the same thing. It would not be surprising if, re long, “ocean greyhounds” would have to steam at half-speed to avoid running down would-be Slocums, trying to cfr the globe alone. Stanley Waterloo’s new novel, “The Secker has called forth a striking tribute from Dr. Dowie. This eminent preacher, who claims to have performed miraculous curcs and holds crowds en- thralled by his emphasis if not by his elo- quence, says that “the hottest place in hell is reserved for Stanley Waterloo.” Mr. Waterloo has therefore abandoned his project of going to the war in the Transvaal, and is remaining in Chicago by way of fitting himgelf for so foble a vocation. Frank K. Young. wile known by his articles on the strategy of the Beer war, is the author of a serles of books on chess playing, known as the” “Minor,” “Major” "and “Grand” tactics of chess. Mr. Young believes that the mathematics af chess and of war are identical, and that chess play and warfare differ only in ers of relatively minor detail. This idea he will bring out more ciearly in a fourth volume “Chess Strateglcs Il trated,” which Little, Brown & Co. pub- lish next fall A timely novel, taking its plot and char- acters from the “Oberammergau Passion Play”—in fact containing almost the full text of the famous drama—will appear the latter part of April. It is called “The Crucifixion” and is written by the bril- lant English Jjournalist, William T. Stead. Great popularity is predicted for the book on account of the decennial per- formance of the play occurring this sum- mer. It was written in a most unusual manner. In 1890 Mr. Stead realized a long standing wish to see the “Oberammer- gau Passion Play.” He attended several performances of the drama and grew so enthusiastic over it that he secured—at much Jabor and expense—the best text of the play extant. In this volume Mr. Stead has gone a step further and thrown the play into a narrative—novelized the drama. The is one of the me vivid imagina th the week of Ch r th written. The book is pub d b, & Co., Chicag In “Bird Lore” (the Macmillan (¢ pany) for April a new camera h, like a . may ment it i3 enabling ¢ been drawn same magazine for the spring tudy month at W in Ver in pert from the Postma gard the ¢ e matle by featl meraus illustra- “The Farmstead of the Rural Home and of the Farm,” ume in will be the R : lished imme by the Macmillan director of 1 author, I. P. Roberts. The : the College of Agriculture, Cornell how pplie tt explains may be ie and 1a out ter on wealth, but rathe which one ma iive a happy life se ness ersations nvi. ess to e 1 ttie hil first of hird on t rical kn wl m this bholy woman. as ever pictures that have com her life. Eocoks Received. “The Redemption of David Corson,® Charles Frederic Goss. rill Co.. Indianapolis. by Bowen-Mer- “Robert Tourny.” William Sage, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston and New York; $150. J. B. Lip- “halmette,” b: pincott Co.. P “The Imme Robeson Brown York. Cloth, $1; ¢ s “Ezra Hardman, of Wayback College,” and by a B. Rogers. Dod New York. man. Long- York; $150. lections from Fiske, Arm- strong and Howard & Hutbert, New York: 4 About My Fat ess.” by Aus- tin Miles. The New York; $150. Twentieth Century Kn ries of addresses to young Louis Albert Banks, D.D. F ralls Co. ew York: cents. Who's Who in America.” A blograph- fcal dictionary of living men and women of the United States. Edited by John W. Leonard. A. N. Marquis & Co., Chicago; Lee’s Standard Guide to Paris ana Every-day French Conversation.” Laird & Lee, publishers, Chicago. Cloth, ¥ cents. morocco gilt, L.