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THE SUNDAY CALL. Book MReviews and Literary Ch at. ¢ of which seems comes ouz t meal In 2 Sacramento board- is as unreal and preposterous er so-called pictures ficult to imagine America— ornia—peopie would be ngers with such con- Here is a bit of th 1 ces seemed un- g ie had met few 1 and this sudden plunge into soclety was & portentous experience. le and sllent under the glare of the delier, she nitbled at her food, hav- neither heart nor courage to speak. ed Ler eyes she saw the t Seymour had hin Bart Nelson, our prize g man’—staring at her over his plate 2 steady, ruminating air. As be met ves for the second time he said: reply to the colonel’s look » Jerked his head toward Mrs. Seymour ain’t goin' to lose any- g by her." Mrs. Seymour replied that she wanted ebody like that to even things off t such an appetite as Mr. Nelson's, Jaugh then was on the prize young man and be jolned in it 2s heartily as the others. Miss Mercer, who, it appeared, was a school teacher, and who had the tight- mouthed visege and dominant volce of those who habitually instruct the young, #aid ehe guessed Miss Reed was trying to put Mrs. Seymour off her guard; it was a case of making a good impression in the be; ning. “The voice of the little girl here rose with penetrating suddenness: ‘She don’t ever eat much. She’s too thin.’ * > ® 9 There i# another character of promi- nence in the story—a Miss Letitia Mason. St is a stupidly honest, bovine person, loves Gault and is the sister of ult's brother's wife. Poor old Colonel Reed goes to the great beyond and Viola returns to San Francis- ©o to earn her own living and forget, if she can, the bitter past. Whether Letitia eaptures John or finally marries the slangy but attentive young man, also of her own set, who is respon- tred, of ¢ by some to » been In that country there e Chr! whole suggests monasticlem. Tt readily be understood why no definite institution can be and no date eassigned for its It did not commence at any fixed 1d definite place. Various philos- les and religious customs traveled in uries from country to country, re- ng in similar resemblances and dif- plan cause for the monastic glven ferences between different ascetic or monastic se It would be imvossible in the space available to give any more than a brief scope of Mr. Wishart's work. In con- sidering the effects of monasticism he finally concludes Monastic forms and vows may pass away with other systems thAt will have thefr day, but its fervor of faith and its warfare against human passion and hu- man greed, its child-like love of the heavenly kingdom will never die. Tha revolt against its superstitions and ex- cesses is justifiable only In a society that recks to actualize its underlying re- ligious ideal of personal purity and soclal service.” (Published Albert Brandt, Trenton, N. J. Price $2 50. Observations of Jay. Morgan Bhepard is the author of a book that should prove e interesting to young and old and one that will doubtless be very popular as an attractive holiday present. It is a tastefully bound volums in the regular edition, excellently printed on heavy paper and with artistically fan- ciful full page illustrations. The title is “The Observations of Jay (A Dog),” and the sympathetic touch of the author will be well appreciated by all loversof “man’s best friend.” Nothing can be better than early to instill into the mind of youth a kindly febling toward dumb animals and especially in their dealings with the ca- nine race to make them feel that even a dog appreciates good will and really has ideas of his own tucked away under his woally head. The book is sold by D. P. Elder ,and Morgan Shepard, San Fran- cisco. The price of the regular edition is $1. A special child’s odition, bound in gay fabrics, price $1 50. A few coples will be done In rare old brocades and silk—price Recollections of a Naval Life There died, a few days since, at his residence In Georgia, one of the few sur- viving officers of the Confederate navy. Early in 1861 Captain John McIntosh Keil, after twenty years' honorable service in the navy of the United States, resigned his commission and offered his services to the .Governor of his native State. After a brief gervice as commander of a #mall steamer flying the Georgia ensign and engaged In conveying troops and arms to different points on the coast, he was ordered to report to Captaln Raphael 3 s g Semmes, then fitting out the steamer Sumter at New Orleans as a privateer. For a year the Sumter cruised with vary ing success until she was condemned and sold at Gibraltar. Then Semmes was ordered to the command of the ecrulser *'200,” which afterward won fame as the Alabama. Kell accompanied Semmes and remained his executive officer up to the last, to that memorable contest off Cher- bourg, when the Alabama was sunk by the United States steamer Kearsarge in June, 1564 After the loss of the Alabama and his escape with his commander in the Eng: lish yacht Deerhound, Kell succeeded in reaching his home in Georgla, where, on reporting to the Confederate Government, he was placed in command of one of the ironclads in the river fleet below Rich- mond. Here he remained until the close of the war. He lived in retirement. until 1885, when he was appointed adjutant general of Gecrgia byvGovernor Gordon, an office ch he continued to fill up to the time rief outline of a career which Captain Kell, in his “Recollections of a Na Life,” published only a months before death called him h , has deseribed in a most entertaining man- ner. The reminiscences of the old navy, 4 wE Ny e including an account of Perry’'s expedi- tion to Japan, in which Captain Kell took part, will be read with real interest. ‘While attached to the frigate Savannah as midshipman he took part in the raising of the flag at Monterey by Commodore Sloat in July, 1848, when that officer assumed formal possession of Califor- nia. It s unfortunate that Captain Kell, like many soldiers and sallors, accepted de- feat with so poor a grace. He could not comprehend that the Alabama was fairly beaten by the Kearsarge and could see nothing discreditable in the act of his commander in tossing his sword into the sea and seeking refuge under the British flag, rather than delivering himself and men to the enemy to whom he had sur- rendered. Beloved by his family and honored and respected by his fellows, Captain Kell lived past the biblical three score and ten in happy contentment. What more could man wish? (Published by The Neal Com- pany, Washington, D. C.) 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