The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 9, 1901, Page 6

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(Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON...... «e+...Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. ..30 Tribune Bullding CHICAGO NEWS STAND! Sherman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel. - : - WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. ...1406 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayesr, open until 9:30 o'clotk. €33 McAllicter, open until 9:30 o'clock. €15 Larkin, open until 9:30 o'ciock. 1961 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 109 Valencia, open uptil 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. | 2200 Fillmore, open until § p. m. AMUSEMENTS. Central—*‘Beacon Lights.” Aleazar—Too Much Johnson.” Tivoll—"Masked Ball.” California—Herrmann. Grand Opera-house—*'Hamlet.” Columbia—*'Florodora.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. . Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afterncon and evening. Alhambra Theater—*The Brownles in Fairyland.” Alhambra—Royal Italian Band, Sunday evening, October 13 Fischer's—Vaudeville. Sutro Baths—Open nights. AUCTION SALES. By J. 7. Dovle—This da , at 11 o'clock, Horses, Wagons, etc., at Sixth street. By Wm. G. Layng—Thursday, October 10, at 11 o'clock, Road Horses, Buggies, etc., at 721 Howard street. <y —— THE EXCLUSION ACT. NDER ordinary circumstances it would be-a U useless waste of time and energy to assemble a State convention i any part of California 10 consider the Chinese exclusion act. Upon that question the campaign of education has been com- plete, and the opinion of the people upon it is well nigh unanimous. It happens, however, that the cir- cumstances surrounding the issue at this time are by no means ordinary. The advocates of immigration have managed to appeal successfully to powerful in- terests in the Eastern States. and accordingly the op- position tc any comprehensive and adequate system of restriction has already become bold and outspoken in that section of the Union. Such being the case it is well to have a convention for the double purpose of rousing our own people to a renewal of the fight against the yellow peril and of impressing upon the Eastern mind the fact that upon this question the people of the Pacific Coast -are united and will accept no compromise. As has been pointed out in the call for the conven- tion issued by the Mayor and the Supervisors, the cxclusion act, after having been in existence for about ten years, will expire next May, and accord- ingly the Guestion of its re-enactment will have to be decided at the coming session of Congress. The Chi- nese have learned of the richness of the United States and are eager to obtain an opportunity to pour their millions cf workers into the country. The Chinese Minister at Washington has made appeals both to the North and to the South for support. He has sought to win over'the Southern peaple by promising them abundant cheap labor for their manufacturing cnterprises, while in the North the merchants and the manufacturers have been informed there would be a much bigger and more profitable trade for them in China if only the exclusion act were repealed and the Chinese immigrants were treated like friends. It is safe to say that a man so adroit as Minister Wu has not confined his work against the exclusion act to the speeches and the writings he has addressed to the public. He has doubtless had heart to heart talks with persons of influence whose interests are likely to be advanced by permitting the act to pass from the statute books. He and they will have in- genious ways of postponing the issue and preventing action upon it. It is not improbable, therefore, that the fight for the re-enactment of the law may be a much harder one than has been expected. At any rate, it will do no harm for California to speak out on the subject. To us an unrestricted Chinese im- migration would bring ruin. Our fight on this issue is not one of politics merely, but for life itself. — In the trial before a Pittsburg court of a suit brought by.a physician to recover payment for pro- fessional services the defense was set ‘up that the charges are excessive, whereupon the leading physi- cians of the city were called to testify as experts in fixing charges, and one of them testified that soime 1 people should be made to pay more than Others, be- cause when they are in good health they are always criticizing doctors and abusing the. profession; so it will be a good rule zitér this never to make light of the medical profession when there is a doctor within hearing, for you may have to pay for it. The New Jersey Democrats have nominated Mayor Seymour of Newark for Governor, and they are bragging now that they will elect him by a majority big enough to give him,a boom for the Presidency in 1904, but after the election there may be another song. 4 . Clara Morris, who some time ago retired from the stage and announced an intention to betake herself to literature, has now decided to make a lecture tour. It seems a sure thing that vaudeville will get her at last. 5 T~ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1901 THE GREAT CONVENTION. AN FRANCISCO has proved worthy of the S kindest conception of her quality, and perhaps better than her fame, by-the interest of all her people in the great General Convention of the Epis- copal church that is sitting in solemn session here. We have frequent political conventions that meet to consider temporal things, and as our temporalities touch us daily and we often mistake them for the real quick it is only natural that'such conventions are at- tractive and that our interest in them asserts itself in many ways. But here is a great body of solemn and earnest men, gathered from many zones, met to con- sider things eternal and not made with hands, and in- stantly among all our people runs the voice of the Spirit, crying that these things ineffable are the real quick, the highest concern of man. In this convention are gathered those who come from places wide apart. The preacher of the Word whose shelter is an Indian tepee, and who spreads | the sacramental elements in a forest temple, sits be- {aidc him who breaks the bread of life in the cathe- idml, in light dyed to softness, in air sweetened by | music. It is a spiritual democracy in convention as- sembled, to which all kindreds and tongues of men are welcome, coming in the name and countersign of a common form and fzith. The people are faithful readers of the daily proceed- ings of this convention, and among many there is surprise at the revelation. The Episcopal church in | this country works as quietly as the forces of nature. | It affects but little grandeur in its churches. Even iin large cities these are quite plain wooden struc- | | tures, imposing but iittle burden upon their builders and leaving the parish free from mortgage and inter- est. The church charities are administered, its place in society held and ‘its mission executed with such absence of ostentation that awhen its general conven- tion reports aggregate the work done men are aston- |ished at the grand :otal. It is still a missionary church, as when Heber wrote “From Gieenland’s Icy Mountains,” and from many lands come affiliated delegates, to bring tidings of the gospel progress on far continents and islands. | There is a morbid conception of religion that re- lates it solely to death, to the last incident of mor- tality, and turns its hope to a dirge, its song to a ! threnody, and its purpose inte the disposition of things unseen, forgetting this world and its sunshine and the baniiers which the seasons unfurl upon its mountains and plains. Those who hold this morbid conception may take great comfort in the wholesome ways of this conven- tion, and may learn that whatever world the eye of faith may see beyond, this great body is inspired by the conviction that ncthing in this present world is too good for man’s reasonable enjoyment in prepara- tion for the world to come. | The debates have been | which training, genius and courtesy have most highly illustrated rhetoric as an art of persuasion, and the discussions have disclosed an abiding interest fn the church, hand in hand with a genuine patriotism which inspires confidence in that feature of our system which keeps church and state apart for the good of each. In another respect the great convention gratifies {and charms our people by its gentleness of- spirit | toward all other religious bodies. This spirit was ut- |tered in Dr. Huntington’s vision of the future Church of the Reconciliation. So, in its lesson of charity, activity, union of the humble and the high, in the universality of its sym- pathies, this body has entered the heart of our peo- ple and has raised San Francisco perceptibly higher than before above that which is merely gros$ and sordid. The prayer uttered by the English dean in his memorial poem on the death of President McKinley embraced in the scheme of faith all who are, and San Francisco cries out with him: intellectual combats in Oh, guide thy peoples by the way of peace Through cleansing splendors to the gates of light. During the month of September the public debt was decreased by $4,825,401, and still the treasury has a larger surplus than it likes to handle. Evidently Uncle Sam is financially able to undertake those much desired river and harbor improvements in Cali- fornia if he feel like it THE ILLS OF PENNSYLVANIA. VE of the severest arfaignments ever made O against an American commonwealth is that published in the Atlantic for October under the title, “The Ills of Pennsylvania.” The writer, who signs himself “A Pennsylvanian,” begins by pointing out that when Philadelphia recently tried to borrow $9,000,000 at 3 per cent she obtained only $5000, and adds: “When political knavery reaches the point where the State’s financial credit is im- paired, then even calloused Pennsylvania realizes that it is no longer a mere cry of wolf, and begins a searching of hearts.” The writer asserts that politically Pennsylvania is the most corrupt State in the Union, and he quotes with approval the saying of a Philadelphia editor: “I have lived in Nevada in the boom times, I have lived in New York through several administrations, I have lived in the easy virtue of official Washing- ton; Pennsylvania beats them all. Pennsylvania has every kind of political deviltry I ever saw or heard of elsewhere, and a few kinds that she has evolved her- self.” After citing numerous instances of official corrup- tion in Philadelphia and in the State, and several | illustrations of the toleration of the abuses by the better class of citizens, the writer goes on to explain that the evils are due mainly to the fact that the peo- ple are so much absorbed in business affairs, or in the maintenance of the Pennsylvanian idea of a dig- nified social position, that they not only neglect poli- tics, but occasionally even scorn men for performing their political duties. He says: “Pennsylvania is a State of large corporations; office in them is more attractive than political office. The president of the Pennsylvania Railway gets $50,000 a year; the Gov- ernor of the State gets $10,000. The presidency of the railway lasts for life, the governorship for a thorny uncertain four years. There are in the Penn- sylvania Railway system more than 200 officials that have more pay and more power than the Governor of the State; and there are in the State a score of corporations only a little less imposing than the Penn- sylvania Railway. Is it any wonder that the best of the young men take to the corporations and devote their every energy to promotion therein, leaving! politics to the less capable, the less intelligent and the less moral?” In addition to such inducements to unite with the corporations the abler young men of Pennsylvania are further carried away from a performance of their duties as citizens by a social sentiment among men of wealth and of good birth that is distinctly averse 110 a political career. It issaid: “Had Senator Lodge and the lzate Governor Wolcott been.born in Phila- delphia they might have attained fame as goli cham- pions’ or cotillon leaders, but never as writers, col- ! lege professors or politicians except at the sacrifice of social position.” The writer finds the primal cause for the difference between Fennsylvania and Massachusetts in the dif- ference between the spirit of the early Quakers and, the spirit of the Puritans. “The Puritans were a church militant. The Puritan went to church with a Bible in one hand and in the other a musket for | hostile Indians. The Quaker. settled his difficulties with the Indians by rcading tracts to them. * * * The Puritan insisted cn governing his common- wealth in his own way. The Puritan formed the dom- | inating habit, and to this day Puritan ideas domindte | | the essentially non-Puritan population of Massachu- | setts. Among the Quakers, on the other hand, meek- ness was a cardinal virtue. The early Quakers, in- stead of strangling doctrines not in agreement with their own, instead of casting out the apostles of strange creeds, welcomed them and tolerated them. Put in a minority by the unrestricted immigration of | less worthy people, and lacking the strenuous, domi- nating spirit of the Puritans, the early Quakers soon let the control of the colony pass into the hands of | the least desirable elements, and there it has always remained.” Such is the theory which a native of the State puts forth to account for the surrender of Pennsylvania to a control which has made her pblitics a byword for corruption. The moral seems to be that expressed by President Roosevelt in the words: “In the long run a class of professional non-combatants is as hurtful to the best interests of a community as a class of professional wrongdoers.” The statement merits | the earnest consideration of those people in San | Francisco who deem themselves “good citizens” but | who neglect their civic duties. Goldwin Smith says the best way to eliminate | anarchy from the land is to give more time in the | public schools to the teaching of music. It appears |to be the theory of the professor that a man who sings or plays upon some instrument never commits murder, but he ignores the frequency with which singers and musicians tempt other folks to shoot or throw a brick. JOSIAH QUINCY AS A MOSES. OME time ago Chairman Jones of the Demo- S cratic National Committee predicted that Mr. Bryan would be dropped from the list of candi- dates before the next Democratic Presidential con- vention, and that the nominee would be some person | now living in obscurity and unknown to the great | masses of the people. The suggestion has of course given hopes to a good many men who have no na- tional fame but enough of local reputation to give them at least a chance to be heard of by those who are looking in obscure places for the new Moses. Among these men is Josiah Quincy of Boston. Of course Mr. Quincy can hardly be classed as an obscure man, for no resident of Boston can be that, nor could any Quincy. A Quincy of Boston must al- ways be more or less conspicuous and he will always rank as a great man in Massachusetts. Nevertheless, this particular Mr. Quincy is just about the kind of man that Jones of Arkansas referred to as obscure, the difference in the appearance of Mr. Quincy being due solely to the difference between the Arkansas and the Massachusetts point of view. To his fellow Democrats of Boston, at any rate, Mr. Quincy is a man who merits a boom, and they have arranged to give him one. They propose to nominate him for Governor this year, and, foreseeing his defeat, they offer to add to the nomination the promise of a renomination at the next election. It is like inducing a man to buy one gold brick by prom- ising that if he will return to the same place about the same time next year he will be given another. Meeting his friends in the spirit in which they ap- proached him, Mr. Quincy has written a letter in which he announces his views concerning the wide sea of politics and the situation of the Democratic crew. He says: “The first efforts of the Demo- cratic party should be to harmonize and consolidate itself; to that end it should bring forward such issues in harmony with the fundamental and unchanging principles of Democracy as will attract to it the | thoughtful and independent citizen.” Proceeding to explein what these issues are -and Low they should be presented to attract the thought- ful and independent, Mr. Quincy says: “The Demo- cratic party should be uncompromising in opposi- tion to certain Republican policies, and in its advo- cacy of progressive legislation in the interests of the mass of the people. In the nature of the case it must tend to favor the side of labor rather than that of capital where their interests are antagonistic, just as the Republican party is necessarily capitalistic in its tendencies; but the Democratic party need not put forward such a radical programme that the Ameri- can people, who are at bottom pretty conservative, cannot be persuaded to accept it; and it need not rest its case before the people upon any principles | lacking scientific foundation. * * * In my view statesmanship must be to a large extent based upon opportunism rather than upon abstract principle, in order to accomplish any results.” - ‘Whatever view may be taken of the obscurity or lack of it on the part of Mr. Quincy himself, no one can accuse him of obscurity in his platform. It is a plain' and clear declaration of support to any policy that promises to catch votes. Mr. Quincy is in favor of a platform that'will array labor against capital, but sufficiently mild to obtain support from the thought- ful and independent. Whatsoever opportunity of- fers, he will take advantage of. Such is the leader whom Massachusetts offers to Democracy as a Moses. It remains to be seen whether Jones of Arkansas will approve the choice. et A New York man who found a burglar in his house held him up at the point of a revolver, searched him and found in his pocket $10, which he took, as he said, to pay for some crockery the burglar had broken. He then let the fellow go, and now the burglar is wondering whether he can have the house- holder arrested for robbery. Political experts figure out that the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana con- stitute the Presidential center of the country, and no candidate who lives outside of it can be counted as available .for either party. Mr. Bryan’s view of the theory has not yet been stated. —_—— The trial and conviction of Czolgosz were excellent enough in their promptness and their justice to serve as a model for all trials for murder, and it is fo be hoped the courts will be wise enough to follow the precedent. Somehow or other the Schley court of inquiry ap- pears ‘to have lost Historian Maclay in the shuiffle, but he hasn't been missed much. — MASONIC FRATERNITY IN ANNUAL SESSION| o~ <, - Cocacoccl £s PRESIDING OFFICER OF GRAND LODGE, FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF CALIFORNIA. HE Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of California met in annual session in the Masonic Temple yesterday. A P young men than at any Grand Lodge that has ever convened in the temple. Among those present was® William S. Moses, the only living member of the fra- ternity who was present at the institution of the Grand lodge of Californiz, April 19, 1850, The followirg grand officers attended the session yesterday: James A. Foshay, grand master: Wililam S. Wells, deputy grani master; Orrin S. Henderson, senior, and Charles W. Nutting, junior grand warden; w Coleman, grand treasur- er; George Johnson, grand secretary; Ed- ward B. Churé¢h, grand chaplain; William nd lecturer; John A. Hos- mer, grand orator; Harry S. Johnson, as- sistant grand secretary; Henry P. Umb- sen, grand marshal; Henry Eversole, grand Bitle bearer; Walter Jensen, grand sword bearer; Emanuel J. Louis, grand tandard bearer; Samuel Prager, senior, and John P. Greeley, junior grand deacon; John W. Linsentt, senior, and Thomas J. Baker, junior grand steward; Willlam Kettner, grand pursuivant; Samuel D. Mayer, grand organist, and G. P. Adams, grand tyler. on was called to order by the grand master and opened in due form. After the report of the committee on cre- dentials the grand master presented his annual report, which shows the fraternity to be In a most satisfactory condition. There is a membership of about 23,000 dis- tributed in 271 lodges, showing an increase during the year of more than 1200 mem- bers. During the year a new lodge was insti- tuted at Oxnard, in Ventura County, one was instituted at Manila, P. 1., and the Hawafian and Philippine Islands were added to the California jurisdiction. The public ceremonies during the year were laying the corner-stones of the courthouse at Madera, High School at Oakdale, High School at Berkeley, post- office at Stockton, High School at Ana- heim and Masonic halls at Bakersfield, Oxnard and Hanford. At the afternoon session there were presented the reports of the grand secre- tary, grand treasurer, grand lecturer and the several committees, which were re- ferred to the committee on distribution. The Grand Lodge decided to go in a body to the Masonic Home at Decoto to-day; therefore there will not be any session. The lodge will meet again at 9:30 o'clock to-morrow morning. The visitors to the home will leave this city at 11 o'clock this morning by special train, During the present session William 8. ‘Wells, deputy grand master, will be ad- vanced to the office of grand master; George Johnson will be continued as grand secretary and Edward Coleman as grand treasurer. The .only contest will be for grand senior warden. There are several candidates for this office, which is the one that leads to that of grand master. Judge Carroll Cook appears to be in the lead. The twenty-third annual meeting of the Masonic Veterans will be held to-day. @ el beefeiefelel ool e o @ ANSWERS TO QUERIES. | MARY ANDERSON—Eng., Sacramento, Cal. Mary Anderson made her first ap- pearance on the stage in the character of Juliet at Macauley’'s Theater, Louisville, | Ky., November 27, 1§ e i THE ALERT—Mother, Santa Rosa, Cal. | The United States ship Alert is at pres- ent at San Diego. Letters intended for any one on that vessel should be address- ed to the United States Pay Office, Phelan Building, San Francisco, Cal. Such let- ters will be forwarded to destination. VOTER—I. W. G.,. City. In order to vote in the State of California the citizen must have been a resident of the State one year, of the county in which he claims his vote ninety days and in the precinct thirty days next preceding elec- tion, provided he has complied with the law regarding registration, THE WALTZ—Dancer, City. It has never been definitely settled where the waltz originated. It is claimed by Germany and by France. It is-claimed that it had its origin in Swabla, and the French claim that it was derived from a dance in Pro- vence called la volta. The Germans claim that it was derived from the drehtanz, or turning dance. The latter was introduced in France by Louls XIV after the con- quest of Alsace, 1681 e * COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY—L. B., City. There is no such branch of the Coast and Geodetic Survey known as the “United States Geodetic Survey of Cali- fornia.” There is what is known as the western division of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. It is in charge of Otto H. Tittmann, superintend- ent, with office at Washington, D. C., and is officered as follows: A. F. Rodgers, BE. F. Dickjns, Fremont Morse, H. P. Ritter, Ferdinand Westdahl, Benjamin A. Baird and F. W. Edmunds, assistants at San Francisco; J. J. Gilbert, assistant at Olympia, Wash.; J. D. Brough, clerk, San Francisco, and H. S. Ballard, tide ob- server, San Francisco. — Choice candies, Townsend's, Pulace Hotel* —_—— Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* —_———— Drunkenness and all drug habits cured at Willow Bark Sanitarium, 1839 Polk. * —_—————— Townsend's California glace fruits, 50c a ound, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- gets. A nice present for Eastern 639 Market street, Palace Hotel bui’l‘;fi:ng‘?si —_———— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men Trass CHuping Bureats (Allew's oo Liols® gomery strees. Telephone Main 1042, * —_—— Among the drawbacks of civilization ar, the people Who think they know us. sy much better than we know them. _ “Go Away Back and Sit Down.” It 1s sald that certain people cannot sing this song, but anybody can go away back East and £it down in the comfortable trains of the Nickel Plate Road. These trains carry Nickel Plate Dining Cars in which are served American Club Meals at from 35¢ to §1.00 each. Call or write for free book showing views of Buffalo Pan- American Exposition. Jay W. Adams, P. C P. A., 31 Crocker Bldg., San Francisco Cal. PERSONAL MENTION. E. W. Runyon of Red Bluff is at the Palace. John Ross Jr., a mining man of Sutter Creek, is at the Lick. Dr. G. F. Faulkner, a prominent phy- sician of Salinas, is at the Grand. M. H. Murray, a well known business man of Santa Cruz, is at the Grand. D. M. Barringer of Philadelphia, who owns large mining interests in New Mex- ico, is at the Palace. William C. Russell and A. Spring Jr. are among the arrivals from Nome and are staying at the California. Samuel Rea, fourth vice president of the Pennsylvania system, is at the Pal- ace. He is touring the coast In his pri- vate car. Judge G. W. Hunter, Judge J. M. Me- lindy and Hon. A. J. Monroe, all of Eu- reka, are here attending the Grand Lodge cf Masons and are guests at the Grand. Charles Fay, secretary to Mayor Phelan, who has been confined to his home by an attack of appendicitis, is slowly can- valescing. His physicians reported him vesterday out of danger. R. M. Wood, editor of the Pacific Wine and Spirit Review, has gone to Southern California for the purpose of Investigat- ing the conditions of the wine industry in that section of the State. He will return about the middle of the month and ex- pects to bring very encouraging reports as to the progress of viticulture in Los Argeles and San Bernardino countles. i e Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Oct. 8.—The following Californians have arrived: San Francisco—C. Baumgartner, at the ‘Westminster; W. Jackson, C. W. Mandell and wife, at the Herald Square; C. E. Straussberger, at the Grand Union; D. Libby, at the Hoffman; C. J. Rowley, at the Sturtevant; Miss Bishop, G. M. Haw- ley and wife, at the Gilsey; I. Holz, at the Sinclair; W. S. Rheem, at the Murray HIL Los Angeles—Mrs. L. Ormsby, at the Gerard; C. E. Ichelberger, at the Im- perial; Mrs. J. W. Monahan, at the Man- hattan; E. H. Cutter, at the New Amster- dam; H. L. Gordon and wife, at the St. Denis; J. C. Taplin, at the Grand Union. Pasadena—W. H. Hill, at the Sturte- vant; H. H. Sherk, at the Vendome. San Diego—Mrs. Whelock, at the Man- hattan. Oaklagd—S. D. Chittenden, at the Astor. ————— Mr. Flatbush—Handwriting is so fllegi- ble that doctors should be forced to type- write their prescriptions. Mr. Bensonhurst—But, heavens! think of the mortality that would ensue while they were learning to typewrite and were sending out such prescriptions as, for instance: = AqUa fOIlltis % saL *%£ 97 NUx m7es &[day. —Washington Star. ————— juestion of the Son solves the - ? our sin. o SUMMER RATES at Hotel del C Coronado Beach, Cal., effective after April 15; $60 for round trip, including 15 days at hotel. Pacific Coast S, S. Co., 4 New Montgomery st, o[ou THRee ti JhaLf Z$$ YZ% The tion of IGOSSIP FROM LONDON WORLD OF LETTERS A book that will probably throw a flood of light on the childhocd of Queen Vie- toria is promised for early publication. The volume is being prepared by Mrs. Gerald Gurney, the granddaughter of the Jate Bishop Bloomfield, one of the late Queen's early advisers. She has had placed in her possession for purposes of the work a number of exceedingly inter- | esting letters written by the Duchess of |Kent and other personages comnected with the Queen's girthood. Mrs. Gurney is the wife of a well known London act | and is the niece of Sir Arthur Bloomfield, | the famous architect. Mrs. Gurney’s pre- { | vious efforts in iiterature have not been ambitious, but she is the author of the words of the pathetic hymn, “Oh, Perfect Love!" Everybody has heard of that remarka- ble woman, the Empress Dowager of China, but not, perhaps, her name. It is | Yehonala. George Lynch, who was with | the allies in China, mentions it in his | forthcoming book. He thinks Yehonala the most marvelous woman in the world, and the Chinese not the least remarkable nation. Mr. Lynch makes no pretense to erudite knowledge. He thinks the Chi- nese were to blame, but he seeks to sec | out their case fairly. He offers an ac- | eount, “disjointed, lopsided, incomplete,” of much that appeared to him as a “for- {eign devil” during the recent conflict of China with Western civilization. It is really a notebook, as its title implies. It has been generally supposed that “The Aristocrats” owed its conception to the sudden craze for epistolary fietion. As a matter of fact, I hear that Mrs. Atherton’s book was in the hands of the publishers last September. The story was, I believe, issued anonymously, because all of Mrs. Atherton’s work has been re- celved with 2 certain amount of abuse in America, and she wished the work to stand the test of unbiased criticism. It may be guessed, then, with what rel- ish she found the newspapers which had been most consistent in denouncing her were loudest in their praise of “The Aris- tocrats. The Sketch draws attention to the fact that there has been no notice in any Eng- lish journal of the remarkable life of the Prince Imperial which was recently pub- lished in France. “The author,” says the Sketch, “had the audacity to combine a kind of drama with biography.” The book is a dialogue, with a running com- mentary. It reproduces, for instance, a conversation which is supposed to be ex- changed between father and son on the battlefield of Saarbrucken at the begin- ning of the Franco-Prussian War. It dramatizes a scene in a miserable inn in the Ardennes, where the fugitive Prince enters for a moment with Duperre, who is conducting him out of France. The writer rises to the supreme height of sen- sationalism when he represents imagin- ary conversations between the unfortu- nate Prince and the equally unfortunate Charlotte Watkins on her daily journeys between Woolwich and London. It is not a pleasant book to read, especially when its author deals with the tragedy in Zu- luland. Miss Marie Corelll is one of those who suffer most from the penalty of great- ness. Like other leading lights in litera- ture and in politics, she has her enemies who refuse to leave her alone in the se- clusion for which she yearns. One of the bitterest attacks ever made upon her has been that for which she is most unjusi accused—namely, the publication of her geography in a series of biographies of eminent people which she has been ac- cused by certain irresponsible writers of having published as an advertisement of herself. Now, nothing could have been more unjust, for if ever any person de- sired to live a retired life, with only inti- mate friends around her, it is Miss Co- relli. She could not even have a photograph taken lest it might be seized upon by some one for publication in some illu trated magazine or paper. 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