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THE SUNDAY CALL, time last scason in reviewing k of ege tales called s Stor by C. K. Field win we expressed the ) 3 soun be afforded the f ng a work of be the enthusiasm s st in college life s at cge stories hemselves e ed to matters erefore most appro- re: *“Travis Hal- k Norris, g he Lazy Student . The Confraternity by Hariey M. Leete. has made a name for world of letters and this ve and a narrow es written before his the shows writer ¥ 01, blossomed hor of a college * which played 1 theater and with a pro- represented le story on order dealing with t f a ege student who 1 € entangled in a Tut and his vaca- fve hos- Agnes Crary, of Honolulu, 1 with just an ir f a love affair to give it Another. which appeals to »es a piece of delicate 1 sden china, 1= “The Little 3 h b Mary 9%, and ' the one which will be alr sex as “the best in appropriatedy been Aae lde Wheeler and M « ( shed by M. Rob- er T izco. Price $L) thing to be regretted Arsonaut Letters,” recently pub- y Jerome Hart. That cause of disap- are not enough t is Mr. Hart's style, nd £0 keenly ob- averer been that the » with him the whole not be limited by a mene 1" around the Medi- d through a part of ym & lished in book £ to i, we mu content with what lit- be gives iy when that little is good. A first giimpse at his book might icad der to believe there was & great deal, for it includes over 400 pages; but then Victor Hugo's “Les Miserables’ Jooks like a whole library until you have read it ard after that you are sorry it was not ionger. In a prefatory note Mr. Hart offers this apology: “A word of explanation and may not be amiss here. These sk were written in the little leisure that travel affords—sometimes on a steamer, often on a train. Therefore profound and matured thought may scarcely be looked for in them. They were orally dictated, hence their familiar and colloquial tope.” As a “word of explanation” this is quite acceptable, but as an apology unneces- sary—unless Mr. Hart wishes to apolo- gize for the very thing that gives life and work and places it far material ly offered as of travel.” s far as seelng the world Is best to 8o i= to go yourself; ‘but possible, ow- fortu habit railway panies and hotel peo of expecting remuneration for = rendered. Falling in a personal , the next best thing is to talk with some friend who has been and seen. If his is not to be done then all you have left to get your Information from books; unless you care nothing about any- is thing outside a radius of twenty miles from e arly all Americans, how- ever, have th pioneer biood them which develops curosity concerning other countries and other people and are seek- ers after information if you have to depend upon books, the best one to hold your interest and impress 1 on your mind is one by a person facts who with a trained eye, which lets no 1 escape, and who possesses that rare faculty of being able to get his thoughts on paper just as he would talk to a friend. Suth a book is Mr. Hart's “Argons ters.” The fact that these letters were orally s P! 3 most im In read- he re- r im- > reproduc- greatly to the The book is B, LATHROP. e Richard Yea and May. 1d Yea and D i 1 dealing with love Saint Pol. It is a work s been commended by many crit- therefore it is o about which two opinions. The feature = which will first strike the It s the style in which it is writt t readily described which Vietor rt sentences in hted. It has the turgid mass- ing ¢ vy words into which Carlyle t erre It has archaic forms the lish have been written in nard was alive and F ome a language we are told he was half a human leoy The on: “Furtive was not, crouch for a spring: not primed for savagery: not vick on the affront and on r it He was neither a rogue ¥ e Was as cun- heedless as the rrogant, but his smile you saw it best in a had. His blemishes were ses two. He trusted rce too much a despised else in the worli. Not that them knaves; he was certain P4 the way the heroine appeared n Abbot Milo, who is supposed i e chronicles out of which the co “He watched her and describ for us with the meticulous part of his time was wet gray per. The iris of her eves but ringed with black and shot with yellow, giving =0 the effect of hot green: her mouth was of an ex- srdinary dark red color. very firm in close-grained like the darker sort wherries.” The Abbot says of her I knew soon enough how her case stood; how hope doubt in her and cheked to 1 guessed how within those reticent members swift love ran like wine; but because of this proud. brave mask of hers I was slow to un- and her worth ane sends Richard Richard; yes, m have the King" and Jehane byre. Eagles do not mate Then to escape Richarc to please her brother certain Sieur de Gurdon. As the altar on the wedding came Into the church and this is what happened: *“Not the lust of the flesh but of dominion ravened in him. This woman, this Jehane Saint Pol, this hot-haired slip of a girl was his, The leopard had laid his paw upon her shoulder, the mark was still there: he could not suffer any other beast of the forest 16 touch that which he had marked for himself. * * * When Jehahe touched by Saint Pol on the shoulder shivered and left staring, and stood up In turn, sway- ing a little and held out her thin hand; when the priest had the ring on his book and the two hands, the red and the white, trembled to the touch—Richard rose from his knee and stole softly forward with his lon soft, crouching stride. ®* * * 8o softly he trod that the priesi, ofd and bicareyed as he was, saw him first. With Jehane's hand in his own the priest stopped and blinked. Richard had stopped too, tense, quivering for the spring. * ** 1t was done in a flash. From his erouched attitude he went as it seemed at one bound.” 85 Richard carries off the girl, mtending to marry her; but as ail the world knows, he was devoted more to war than to love, and went on a crusade to the Holy Land and married Queen Berengaria. For the development of the romance and the story of how the love of Richard and Jehane fared, the reader must consult the book itseif. (Published by the Macmiilian Com- pany, New York. Price §1.) te and strove awar, king sister ying the king must g0 back to the with buzzards she love and n she stood by Richard ag A Master of Life. . In “A Master of Life”” Zola M. Boyle has made the subject of hypnotism figure very prominently, It is a story written to show the power of a hypnotist. The writer 18 an enthusiastic beiiever in hyp- notism as a he & power in mental, moral and physical ills. As a story’the bock is without merit. The characters are mere puppets introduced to present in a more attractive form - this ' rather gloomy subject. Quackenbos of Columbia College con- siders the book of sufficient importance 1o preface it with a lengihy discouise upon hypnotic influence. He says the incidents of the story are in perfect harmony with possibilities of hypnotic suggestion. The soothing into a refreshing sleep of a man which causes a successful crisis in an acute disease, the inspiration of an ac- tress by a man of strong personality, the estrangement of the lover caused by Selwyn, who had unintentiénally deflected his rival's subliminal self from the per- icular of loyal attachment are all ble to the hypnot The novel tells of the meeting of two subliminal selfs in the theater. The aetre is unconscious of the influence at work upon her, and the suggestionist is not conscious of exerting this power. He becomes so interested in the play' that he unconsciously inspires the heroine, who makes genuine life out of her acting. s Wentworth rises at once to the sum- of fame. Objectively the two do not mi know each other, but - their subliminal selfs recognize each other, and Marjorte Wentworth searches for her inspirer. Quackenbos thinks that the unintentional hypnotism is very possible, and goes on to that much of the love that has a spiritual side is kindled in this way, and that it is a common thing for a strong subliminal attachment to spring up be- @ il part of the world and the upshot s that they live happy ever after. Ex-Tank No. 3, for instance, tells the story of St. Paul awakening in a bug-ward making friends with the next inmate and forming a partnership to get home to Chi- cago. No. § visited a barber shop, ran upon a man who was “beefing to his bar- ber about the lagk of typewriting facili- ties around the hotel.”” No. 3 offered to “dig up a machine somewhere” and write the man's tweaty letters. He went to & typewriter agency, and, “on pretext of trying the different machines, ran off the letters in an hour.” No. 3 next speculated in Henry Irving seats and by the time he was through he was able to take his partner to Chicago. The partner, once there, lifted his dis- giise and turmed out to be the fairy prince millionaire who put No. 3 on his staff as confidential man. The stories are told in modern slang and have an about-town twang. They are snappy in action and easy in style. They are tales of men and for men. Such lines as “San Francisco being the worst ever in ‘ladling out the frapps to the busted also-rans” would be Greel to many women without a glossary. (Published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York. Price §125,) el ol @ JAMES LANE ALLEN. AMES LANE ALLEN has grown to be considered one of our lead- J ing American novelists—and quite justly is he entitled to that dis- ction. His work possesses a lifs and fire, and yet a dslicate refine- ment, that placcs it at onc: among the best in the literaturs of to-day. For scme time Mr. Allen was a suc- cessful magazine writer in New York, contributing meritorious ys and short stories to Harper’s Magezine and The Century, but it was not until the appearance of that charming taie «of old Kentucky life—“The Choir In- visible”—that his name rose above those of his contemporaries. Mr. Allen com rom good old Vir- ginian and Kentucky stock on the ternal side, whils his mocther was a Miss Helen Foster of Mississippi. His birthplace was on a farm in Fay- ette County, about :n miles from: Lexington, Ky., and it was here that he spent his early childhood and de- veloped a love for that courtry whic! h: has sinc: made famous thrcugh his boolks. He was educated in his native State and’in 1872 graduated from the Kentucky (Transylvania) University. He began his way in the world by teaching school, first in the district schools at hore and later in Miscouri. He gave this up to accept a position as a private tutor and then finally tween two persons without either one ob- jectively suspecting the fact. ‘The passion of Selwyn for Marjorie Wentworth produces in his mird such an antagonism to the thought of another's possessing her affections that he converts Henry Winchester's love regard for the heroine. Qtackenbos b lleves that the hypnotist can make and unmake love, When Selwyn discovers what he has done he dehypnotizes Henry Winchester &nd the novel ends happily It is 2 pity the idea could not have been better worked out. Miss Boyle sacrifices everything to bring forward her theori She shows herself to be a thor- ough student of this subject. Published by G. W. Dillingham Company, New York. Price, $1 % Tales of the ex-Tanks. Clarence Louis Cullen calls his volume of tales “A Book of Hard-Luck Stories, und he further adds the remark on the title page that “you can't keep a squirrel on the ground So much is all the key to be found before one comes to the intro- ductory note. If you have been speculating as to the kind of tanks referred to by Mr. Cullen, his_early reference to the Harlem! Club of Former Alcoholic Degenerates enlight- ens you. The long and short of the mat- ter is that the book is a budget of twent. five stories concerning heroes who have emerged from the golden haze of tank- hood to find themselves “‘on their uppers.” And because these heroes are the squirrels which can'f be kept on the ground they wedge themselves into the Bsead-winning succeeded in obtaining a professor- ship in hi 'n university, from which he progressed to a similar posi- tion in Bethany College, West Vir- ginia. It was not until 1854 that Mr. Al- len decided to give up pedagogics for the hazardous life of a writer, and went & New York. His stories which appeared in the magazines have been collectzd and published in book form under the title of “Flute and Violin."” His books “A Summer in Arcady” end “The Blue Grass Region of Ken- tucky” have enjoyed some pcpular- ity, but nothing as compared with that of “The Choir Invisible” or his later works, “A Kentucky Cardinal” “Aftermath or the volume which appeared last year, ‘“The Reign of Law.” During the holiday &eason The Macmrillan Company published a very utiful edition of “A Kentucky Cardindl,” and in the same volume is “Aftermath,” the sequel of this pret- ty story. In “A Kentucky Cardinal” the au- thor shows his close communion and sympathy with nature and the simple life of his home is exquisitely de- scribed. The present edition has ke'n revisel and a new preface appears, as well as a hundred or more charming illus- trations by Hugh Themson. (Price, $2 50.) Ovid’'s Selectzd Works. An attractive edition of Ovid's selected works, edited by Frank J. Miller, Ph. D., professor of Latin, University of Chicago has -just been published. Tts appea ° 1s opportune, now that teachers in sec- ondary schools are wlive to the need of an easler and more Interesting text for supplementary rapld reading. Neverthe- -less it will also be welcomed by advanced students. Tnstead of the ordinary, unsat- Isfactory edition of selections, selections are given here from the different works of the poet, with an analysis in English, and with all ‘'omitted parts K:lj(‘n in epit- ome, each fn its proper plaed. The stu- dent will therefore be able to connect the long array of stories as written by the poet. The notes give abundant assistance in the translation and syntax of difficult passag: with much historical and arch- aeological information. The vocabulary and {llustrations have been selected par- ticularly for this edition. (Published by the American Beok Company, New York. Price §1 40.) Stephen Decatur. In a recent issue of the seties of “Bea- con Biographies of Eminent Americans” Cyrus Townsend Brady has told in an admirable way the story of Stephen De- catur, one of America's greatest naval heroes. To use the words of Mr. Brady . in his preface, Stephen Decatur was the most conspieuous figure in the naval his- tory of the United States for the hundred years between Paul Jones and Farragut. While the fame of most of the early naval captains who shed such imperish- able luatey UPGR Awerican axms by their exploits on the sea rests upon a single battle, Decatur, in at least three of our eerly wars, was the hero of half a dozen ‘adventurous undertakings, any one of which .would have given a fair clalm to immortality. More than any other cap- tain of his time his name is cherished by his countrymen, for he represented to a greater degree than any of his contem- poraries those fine qualities which a par- dcnable national vanity inglines us to con- sider peculiarly American. (Published by Small Maynard & Co., Boston. FPrice % cents.) As the Light Led. “As the Light Led” is by James New- ton Baskett, author of ‘“At You-All's House.” The title of this book is taken from Newman's famous hymn, “Lead, Kindly Light,” but in this instance the light led In uncertain and dubious ways. The story is rather poor and is one con- tinual quarrel between the hero and hero- ine. They disagree before their marriage on religious questions, and afterward are uncongenial because of petty jealousies and on account of the woman being better educated than the man. Thelr children are the cause of further discord, and it is not until the nearly fatal fllness of a grandchild that the man comes to his senses. The characters are the educated but marrow farmer class, and though the story is poor Mr. Baskett shows skill in picturing these people. He is evidently a’ close observer and lover of nature, and he glves promise of a very good future, as his style is simple, clear and refreshing. (Published by the Macmillan Company, London. Price $150.) Songs and Song Writers. Henry S. Finck has written a book whick should find its way to the library of every musician and every music lover. Historically, as well as musically, it is in- teresting: for Mr. Finck begins with the songs of savages and explains the origin and development of each period of musie. He will anger many. for he unblushing- 1y asserts that most of Beethoven's songs are poor stuff, and that but a small num- ber of Schumann's are first class. But even if his opinions be not received with conviction the book Is practical and will prove a sort of song-Baedeker with bib- liographle foot-notes for the benefit ‘of students who wish to pursue the subject further. His list of song writers is com- plete and the book will be of inestimable value to a person wishing to coilect the best songs. He has Ignored what is anti- quated, trashy or commonplace. men- tioned. as far as possible, what is good, and spoken with enthusiasm only of the best. (Published by harles Scribner’s Bons, New York. Price $1 25.) Madame Therese. C. Fontaine, director of Romance language Instruction in the high schools ot Washington, . C. has edited for school use an edition of ‘“Madame Therese,” by ckman-Chatrian. In this new editfon the text has been reduced about a third, and especially adapted for classroom work. The notes are very few, vet furnish all Information needed for a thorough comprehension of the text when used in connection with the vocabulary. This book is one of the se- ries recommended last December by the committee of twelve of the Modern Lan- guage Association of America as a preparation for college. The style is simple and easy. The text contains about 3300 different words. The book should be taken up during the second half of the first French yvear or at the beginning of the second, according to the are and grade of the pupils. (Published by the American Book Company, New York. Price 50 cents.) Seed Thoughts for Public Speakers. There has just been published “Seed Thoughts for Public Speakers" by Arthur T. Pierson, D. D. Six hundred and fifty paragraphs of lllustrations chiefly for the use of preachers and other writers and public speakers on religious toples, are conveniently arranged in this new book. Throughout the illustrations there is a varlety of wit, humor, his- torical fact, anecdote and wise sayings— in short, an abundant fund of material with which to adorn or strengthen a di: course, speech or article. A copfous Ir dex is provided at the end of the volume, by consulting which any of the contents and their topical bearing, as also the author or source of any quotation whose origin is known, may be quickiy found. (Published by Funk & Wagnalls Com- pany, New York. Price §1 Fortune Hunters of the Philippines. A book that may appeal to an adven- turous lad is ‘“The Fortune Hunters of the Philippines,” by Louis Charles, which relates the adventures of three wide- awake American lads who become pos- sessed of an anclent Spanish document pertaining to a treasure of dlamonds said to be secreted near the crater of one of the burning mountains of our new pos- sessions. The three lads journey from n Francisco to Manila and from Luzon 1o another isiand, anu far into the inte- rior, meeting many strange people and no end of thrilling and surprising adven- tures. (Published by the Mershon Com- pany, New York. Price 50 cents.) The Salt Box House. Jene de Forest Shelton hes published rather an unusual book, which is a story of eighteenth century life in a New Eng- land hill town. “The Sait Bex” is an in- teresting descriptive study of the house- hold of vesterday. The scene is laid in the old town of Stratford, Conn., and the book shows the manner of life among persons of the better class in the country districts. The usual descriptions of spin- ning-bees, huskings, etc., are excluded and the more uncommon customs of that pe- riod are presented. The story is in reality a record cf life in the last century and shows the mest careful research work by the author. (Published by The Baker & Taylor Company, New York. Price §130.) The Wild Animal Play. Ernest Seton-Thompson is too well known to need any more praise for his power of depicting the life of wild am- mals. He has just taken a few of his wild animal characters and for the ben- efit of the children has written a little drama for those who might wish to im- personate the characters of “The Sandhill Stag” and “Wild Animals I Have Known.” The play is In every way a practical working plece and can be got up by children with very little trou- ble or makeup. Music has been added that they can be eagily taught to sing, so alto- gether the plece will make a charming ‘little operetta. The dialogue is easy to learn and it will doubtless prove great fun for entertaining young people to occupy their time with during the long winter evenings. (Published by Doubleday; Pags & Co,, New York. Price 50 cents.) ) Snow White. Laura E. Richards has written a rather unusual story, containing’ a very pretty child's adventure with an affecting love story. It tells of a little girl who runs away from home. of her adventures and return. Mrs. Richards is well known as a clever writer of child’s storles and “Snow- ‘White” will be a creditable addition to her work. (Published by Dana, Estes & Co., Boston. Price 5 cents.) et S Literary Notes. The Atlantic Monthly begins the twen- tieth century and its eighty-seventh vol- ume with the first of its series of articles on that remarkable movement of the last thirty-five years—the reconstruction of the Southern’States. The first paper is by Professor Woodrow Wilson of Prince- ton, who gives a broad outline of the try- ing epoch. “The Religlon of Democracy,” by Charles Ferguson, which was reviewed at length in the Sunday Call of August 13 last, is being brought out in a new edi- tion by The Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York. The book has recelved very favorable notice from the critics, and the present volume, with its attractive bind- ing, should receive a hearty welcome from Mr. Ferguson's readers who desire to pre- serve his work in a permanent form. Price per copy $L. The December number of the Political Science Quarterly (Ginn & Co., Boston) treats in a comprehensive manner several questicns bearing on the present political and economic situation. In the leading article Edward Van Dyke Robinson makes an exhaustive study of “War and Economics,” a subject of unusual inter- est, forcibly presented. The writer reviews the great wars of history and discusses each In its cause and effect relative to existing economic conditions. ‘““War to- day is not a conflict of arms. bat of civ- {lizations, and is as permanent as hunger, since both spring from the same source— the law of diminishing returcs. With in- creasing population every nation must ex- pand or die.” The report of the Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station for 1899 has just been received. In addition to the report of the direztor, Professor W. O. Atwater, which gives a brief review of the work of the station for the year, it contains several articles by the director and his associ- ates discussing certain departments of the work in detail. Professor H. W. Conn shows the importance of bringing the dairy bacteria unfer a distinct classifica- tion, as is done in the case of water bac- teria, and describes a method of classifi- cation of dairy bacteria which he has de. veloped and found of considerable cox venience in his own laboratory in the ex- periments: on the action of bacteria in milk, cream and butter, carried on by hir in behalf of the station. ssifica tion is proposed in the hope that it may supply what is exceedingly necessary—a means whereby dairy bacteriologists may compare species of bacteria in one loca. ity with those in another—and thus be of aid in simplifying the study of dairy bac- teria. The report will be sent free on ap- plication to ime Station, Storrs , Conn. The following is taken from an interest- ing article on “Sir John Tenniel's Fifty Years on Punch,” in the American Month- Iy Review of Reviews for January: “He was edvcated at a private school and early devecloped a taste for drawing and painting. He never studled art, how- e in any regular way, but was self- er, taught, like most of our American car- toonists. While in the twenties he painted some creditavle pictures In oil, but his taste. for {llustrating and for line work drawing developed very early, and al- though he has long been a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colors his real life-work is to be found in the files of Punch. At one time he drew charming fllustrations for books and showed a decided aptitude for fairy pict- ures. He was the original {llustrator, for instance, of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and its sequel. “He joined the staff of Punch to take the place of Doyle, who was leaving the staff, just at the end of 1350, and after some smaller and mors incidental bits of drawing his first important political car- toon appeared in February, 181, on a page facing a cartoon by Leech, his great pre- decessor and contemporary. John Leech had been on the staff of Punch for nearly nine years when Tenniel joined it, and his brilliant and varied work continued to enliven its pages until his death, in October, 1564, when In his twenty-third year on the staff of the paper. From the death of Leech, John Tenniel, whose rep- utation was already well established, came naturally into a still greater prom- inence. “His political grasp {s wide and vigor- ous, and his cartoon work has always been enriched by his familiarity with lit- erature, and espectally with Shakespeare. Thus he has been enabled, on occaslons almost innumerable, to apply a Shakes- pearean quotation to a current event in a manner exceedingly apt and felicitous. “Since the invention of photo-mechani- cal methods of reproduction, the work of most pen and ink draughtsmen is no longer reproduced by wood engraving. But Tenniel has to this day persisted In his old-fashioned plan of making his drawings directly on thé boxwood blocks: and for a grea: many years the engraving has been done by the familiar hand of J. Swain. Thus, in the right hand lower corner of all Tennlel's drawings appears his familiar monograph which looks a lit- tle like a Chinese character; and In the left - hand lower cormer appears the equally famill ‘Swain, Sc.’ This method gives the reproduced work a pe- culiar sharpness, and it also helps to keep the artist faithful to his idea of giving the highest possible value to the fewest possible lines.” AR SRR Books Received. CONCERNING CHILDREN—By _Charlotts etson) Gilman. Small, Maynard & 1 25 Perkins Co., Boston. THE DISCOVERY OF MUSCOVY—By Rich- ard Hakluyt. Cassell's National Library, New York. In paper, 10 cemts. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY-By Thomas American Book Company, New RELIGION arles Ferguson pany, New York 1 RELIC MOVEMENTS FOR SOCIAL BETT T—By Jostah Strong. The Baker OF DEMOCRACY—By Funk & Wagnall's Com- & Tayler Co., New York. 50 cents. NERVOUS BREAKDOWN—By Albert Abrams, M., M. D. (Heidelberg), F.R. M.S. The Hicks-Judd-Company, San Francisco. HEROD—A tragedy in three acts. By Stephen Phullips. John Lane, New York. 8150 AN AMERICAN INEER IN CHINA— By William ay Parsons. McClure, Phil- lips & Ce., New York. $§ Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske. INNIE MADDERN FISKE coming to town. She is to bring us “Tess of the & Urbervilles” and Sharp,” and give us a chance to wpat we please about them. This is more than most of the big Eastern ars are willing to do with thelr pet pleces, so we are likely to show a vigorous gratitude. Mrs Fiske s always been the most stubborn of dramatic people; hence it is that she comes unheralded by syndicate trumpets. She has kept persistently on in her own way and her talents belong to nobody but nerself. It took her a good many vears to convince New York that she was an actress, as she bore no letter of introduction to its favor signed by big managerial names; but she convinced at last. The way she did it is an instance of her own stubbornness. She decided to play Tess and *people laughed in her face at the idea. She, the wiry, intellectual woman whose brain overbalanced: the thought of her as the warm, lovely, pas- sionate daughter of the soil, was prepos- terous. She played the part. People forgot their prejudice and flocked to see her. is The role demands intensity of emotion and tragic depth. It is the tragedy of a woman cast off by her husband when he learns her sorry secret. The final under- nding and reconciliation are followed close by Tess’ unhappy death. Those who have read the book re mber her seeking of refuge in the an t Stonehens This scene closes the play Last season when Mrs. Fiske followed Becky Sharp’s career crit lit. Some said she was she to worldly, selfish, fascimatir others complained that she blunted Becky's wit and that held her in the act n Franeisco, bas always been either too w foolish to pay much heed to ot opinions, will think as she likes. ‘The play is sald to be pic delineation of the high military society of ‘“Vanity eriod It depicts the scene of the ba B sels on the eve of the battle of Waterloo. It shows up the arts and artifices of Le don life. Both of the plays are thoroughly up to date in being dramatized nov It is time for us to be dusting the cobwebs from our Thackeray and Hardy. the edle point of ay version up- which Mrs. Fiske. at the California Theater,