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12 The Cavalier” George W. Cable has written a historical novel of more than ordinary merit. The story it tells is of sustained interest, while its style the usual charm of Cable's work. those pas: to be su perhaps there is no par place for them in record of the which this is. The scene Jf is laid in Mississippi dur- ralier the closing period of the Civil War. e principal c cter is Edgard Ferry- Durand, an ‘officer in the Confederate - Ferry, as he is usua 'my. Durand, or b of g Ferry is the of cavalryme: se men young Smith is at &tory is supposed to man named Richard Smith. first a ¢ te in the Confederate forces, and one of Ferry’s sc There is at the time the story opens a ‘woman med C! lotte Oliver living s of that division of army to which the scouls s woman is the wife of whose cruelties have become so unbearable that she has had to separate from him. In order to support herself she has become a war correspond- ent. Mrs. Oliver is beautiful, fascinating end intensely loyal to the South. Ske is & spy for the Confederates. Under a pre- tense of devoti the North she i gratiates herself h some of the North- ern commanders stationed in the Soutl end from them obtains passes through the Union lines. She even pretends to serve the North in the capacity a se- cret agent. The liberty of movement lowed Mrs. Oliver is utilized by her, o course, for the benefit of the South. Fer- ry and Mrs. Oliver meet, and betwe: them there grows up an affection whicn e none the less deep because it is un- avowed. There is a despicable character in the book, Beott Gholson, who is a clerk of one near the the Confeder scal of the Confederate generals. This Ghol- son endeavors to make a simulation of re- ligious devotion concea he envy and hatred he feels toward those who possess the good qualities he lacks. Gholson en- tertains a particular dislike for Lieuten- ant Fe partly through jealousy of the esteem ch Ferry is held and partly because he suspects Ferry’'s affection for Charlotte Oliver, with whom he himself is ove. The c cter of Gholson, th ixture of low cunning, hypocrisy and eem, is very cleverly rawn. The following scene takes place etween Richard Smith and Gholson, 1 Smith is not yet acquainted with 1 esked if Ferry came often to headquarters. Yes, quite 88 often as he's any business ha!” thought I, and presently said I had heard he was & great favorite. Wel he—he is—with some.” Don’t fke him Who, me? Oh!—I—I1 admire Ned Ferry. r of things. He's more foolhardy he's confessed as much to me. Women call him handsome. He sings, beauti- 1 suppose; I can't sing a note and 1an't if I could. Etill, if he only wouldn't arinking songs—but, Smith, T thini g songs—and all the more to = as some folks think he does e drinking, and to advocate dri dc to excusing drunkenness' “‘Then Ned Fe: doesn’t drink?” “Indeed, he does! I don’t like to say it T don’t say he drinks ‘too much,” as they call = m is to ad- voca ne: king is but, Smith, he drinks with men who do! Oh, I dmire him; only I do wish— Wish what C 1 wish he wouldn't play cards Emith, I've seen him play cards with the shells bursting over us!” For my part I privately wished this saint wouldn't rub my uninteresting surname into me me he spoke. As we dismounted near I leaned against my saddle and asked acerning the object of his loving anx- Ned Ferry generous, pleasant, in outward manner, yes; but, Smith, aised to be & Catholic priest. I could & beap sight easier trust him if he'd sometimes show distrust himself. I{ he ever does I've mever seen it. And yet—oh, we're the best of friends, and I'm speaking now only as a friend and to & friend. Oh, If it wa'n’t for just one thing, I could admit what Major Harper =21d of him not ten minutes ago to me that you never finish talking to Ned Ferry without feel- ing = little brighter, happier and cleaner than when you began; whereas, talking with some men it's just the reverse.” I looked carefully at my companion and asked him if t ajor had said all of that. He had, and Gholso out taking & Ferry,” 1 said “‘Oh, yes—it would be—if it were only so. Trouble is, you keep remembering he's such a stumbling block to any real spiritual inquirer. Yes, and to himself; for, you know, spiritually there's s0 much less bope for the moralist than there is fc p-and-down reprobate! You know th h. My eilence implied that I knew it, though I @id not feel any brighter, happier or cleaner. Smith, Ned Ferry is not only & Romanist, he's & romanticiet. We—you and me—are re- ligionists. Our brightness and happiness air the brightness and happiness of faith; our cleanness is the cleanness of religious scruples. Worst of it with Ned is he's satisfied with the difference, I'm afraid. That's what makes him #0 pleasant to fellows who don't care & sou marquee about religion.” I said one might respect religion éven if he @1d not— *Oh, he's always polite to it; but he's—he's read Voltaire! Oh, ves, Voltaire, George Sand, all those men. He questions the Bible, Smith. Not to me, though: hah, he knows better! Smith, 1 can discuss religion and not get mad any one who don’t question the Bible; but If he does that 1 just tell you I wouldn't risk my soul in such a discussion! Would you ould hardly say, and we moved pensively { DRooks hide had turned it with- scratch. “That's fine—as to Wedding Bresents Growing in General favor Beautiful and Rare volumes B Elder and Shepard 238 POST STREET toward Mejor Harper's tent. Charlotte Oliver's husband and her father-in-law become traitors to the South. Their treason comes to tho knowledge of the Southerners. Char- lottes husband is taken prisoner by Ferry's men, but succeeds in mak- ing s escape to the Union army. Thereafter he strives in every way he can to kill his wife and Ferry, of whose love for each other he is aware. In pursuanc of his plan of vengeancehe gives to a Fed- eral officer information which leads him to ke an attack upon some Confederate ldiers, among whom are the Scouts. lerals are beaten and taken pris- ir leader, Captain Jewett, who y wounded, 1s taken with the other prisoners to .a house where arlotte Oliver is staying. When the captz ying he asks Charlotte to sing to him *The Star-Spangied Banner.” The hern weman. very loath, at last con- Outside of the house are stationed deral prisoners under guard. ren the T otte began guardediy to sing: , can you sce by the dawn's early light, so proudly we hailed at the twilight's t aming?” ¥ guarded'y as she began, the effect on adled crowd below was instant anc ectric. They heard almost the first note; look- ing down anxiously, I saw the wonder and en- thusiasm pass from man to man. They heard the first two lines in awed, ecetatic stience; but at the third, warily, first one, then three, thea a dozen, then & score, bereft of arms standard and leader, little counting again to e freedom, flag cr home, they ralsed their <. by the dawn's early light, in their song zonge. Our main body were out In the highway, just Wh facing into column, and the effect on them I could not see. The prisoners’ guards, though instantly sblaze with indignation, were so ta- ken by surpriee that for two or three seconas, h carbines at a ready, they—and even their rgeant In command—only darted fierce looks and there end up at me. The prisoners bave been ured to singing in ordered chorus, for one of them strode into their middle, and, smiling sturdily at the maddened guard and me, led the song evenly. ‘‘No, sir!’ he cried, as I made an angry sign for them to “one verse through, if every damned fool of us dies for it—let the captain hear Jt, boys 5! The rockets’ in air— ¥ Charlotte had ceased in consternation, not for the conditions without more than for those within, With the first long swell of the song from below the dying leader strove to sit up- right 2nd to lift his blade, but failed and would have slammed back upon the pillows had not she and s Harper saved him. He lay in their arms gasping his last, yet clutching his seber with a quivering hand and listening on with rapt face untroubled by the flery tu- mult of cries that broke into and over the strain. “Club that man over the head!" cried the sergeant of the guard, and one of his men swung & gun; but the Yankee sprang inside of its sweep, crying, “'Sing her through, boys!" £rappled his opponent and hurled him back. In the same instant the sergeant called steadily, “Guard, ready, alm—"" There sounded & clean slap of leveled bines, yet from the prisoners came the tinued song in its closing couplet: “The star-spangled banner! Oh, long may it wave!” And out of the midst of its swell the oaths and curses and defiant laughter of a dozen men crying, with tears in their eyes, “'Shoot! shoot! why don't you shoot? Bat the command to fire did not come; sud- ienly there was a drumming of hoofs, then their abrupt stoppage, and the volce of a vigi- nt commander called, *‘Attention!” With a few words to the sergeant, more brief than harsh, and while the indomitable singers pressed on to the very close of the stanza with- out a sign from him to desist, Ferry bade the subaltern resume his command and turned to- ward me at the window. He lifted his sword epoke in a lowered tone, the sullen guard stood to their arms and every captive looked up for my reply. “Shall 1.come?” he inquired, but I shook my re red glare, the bombs bursting car- con- head. “‘What! gone?’ he asked again, and I nodded. He turned and trotted lightly after the departing column. Charlotte Oliver, fearing that her hus- band’s method of executing vengeaace upon her will involve an unnecessary los: of lives, both Northern and Southern, goes to a general in the Federal army and implores him to have Oliver sent North to some place where he will be un- able to send innocent men to their doom. When Charlotte reveals her identity, a she s compelled to do, she is arrested a spy, and sent, for safe keeping, to the .home of some Unionists. While she is with these people they give a dance, which she is induced to attend. The festivities are interrupted in a very dramatic way by the arrival of Ferry and his men, who have come with the intention of capturing the Federal officers at the dance. The ending of the dance is described in this way: Now the third couple clasp hands, arch arms and let the whole countermarching train sweep through, and & beautiful arch they make, for they are the aforesaid captain and Charlotte Oliver. *Hands round!” hurrah for the whirl- ing ellipse, and now It's “‘right and left”” and two ellipses glide opposite ways, 'to quile dat golden chain.” In the midst of the whirl, when every hand is in some other and men and giris are tossing their heads to get their locks out of thelr eves, at the windows come un- noticed changes and two men loiter in by the front hall door, close to the fiddler. One has his sword on and each his pistols, and their boots and mud-splashed uniforms of dublous blue are wet and steamy. The one without the sword gives the fiddler a fresh name to sing out when the spinning ring shall stralghten into its two gay ranks egain and bids him— commandingly—to yell it, and with never a suspicion of what it stands for the stamping and scraping fiddler shouts the name of the man who ‘loves & good story with a positive passion.’” “Come a-left, come a-right, Come yo' lily-white hand, Fo' to quile dat golden cha-ain, 0, ladies caper light— Sweetest Jadies in de land— Ned Ferry's a-comin’ down de la-ane!” Cries of masculine anger and feminine af- fright filled the hall, but one ringing order for silence hushed all ‘and the dance stood still with Ned Feiry in its center. In his right hand, shouider high, he held not his sword, but Charlotte's fingers lightly poised for the turn in the arrested dance. “'Stand, gentlemen: every man is covered by tv;o: 100k at the doors; look at the windows.” During {he excitement following the capture of the Federals Charlotte ig shot by Oliver, who has stolen near. Ferry rushes up and strikes Oliver with his sword. Both Charlotte and her husband have been wounded serzously, but both recover eventually. For some time, how- ever, it is supposed by Charlotte and her friends that Oliver was killed outright, During that time Ferry begs Charlottc to marry him, but to no purpose. In Char- loite’s refusal lies the crucial point of the story. Charlotte feels that if ghe marries the man who killed her husband the world will have the right to censure her, and that this censure will work to lower the standard of a love which until then has been kept upon a high moral plane. After a prolonged period of suspense Olfver is at last killed, and in a way that furnishes one of the several very dramatic incidents in_the book. Besides the romance of the love Chaglotte Oliver and Ferry, Rich: Smith has one to relate on his own ac- count. The love episodes lend an added attraction to a series of war pictures which would be interesting even alone. Not only is the whole story interesting, but it is eminently clesn and wholesome. It makes clear what some writers of war tales are apt to, ignore—that actual expe- rience of warfare is not necessarily de- grading. (Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York.) o~ THE SUNDAY CALL A RBock on (Califcrnia by Charles Warren Stoddard. == BOOK of special interest to Call- fornians is “In the Footprints of the Padres,” by Charles Warren Stoddard. In it Mr. Stoddard has glven in a very delightful manner his mpressions of that part of the iife and scenery of California which has ap- peared to him most worthy of record. The personal element which has been intro- duced into the book makes it all the more interesting, and serves to keep it from be- ing merely a guide book to points of past and present historic interest. Under the heading “Old Days in Il Dorado,” the first half of the book is devoted to an ac- count of a voyage from New York to San Francisco by the Nicaragua route, which Mr. Stoddard took in 1855, and to a de- scription of San Francisco as it appeared in the early period of its existence as an American town. At that time the Mission Dolores was a settlement by itself, lying far beyond the limits of the little city. Of the appearance of the mission Mr. Stod- dard says: 1 remember the Mission Dolores as a de- tached settlement with a pronounced Spanixh flavor. There was one street worth mention- ing, and only one. It was lined with low- walled adobe houses, roofed with ted, curved tiles, which add so much to the adobe houses that would otherwise be far from picturesque. The adobe is & fun-baked biick; it is mud color; its walls look as If they were molded of mud. The adobes were the native Califor- nia habitations. We spoke of them as adobe: although it would probably be as correct, ety mologically, to refer to brick houses as bricks, There were & few ramshackle hotels at the mission; for in the early days it seemed as it everybody either boarded or took in boarders, and many families lived for years in hotels rather than atiempt to keep house in the wilds of San Franclsco. The mission was about one J0use deep each side of the maln street. You might have turned a cormer and found your- self face to face with the cattle in the meadow. As for tha goats, they met vou at the door- way and followed you down the street like dogs. At the top of the strect stood the mission church and what few mission buildings were left for the use of the Fathers. The church and the grounds were the most Interesting fea- tures of the place, and it was a favorite re- sort of the citizens of Shn Francisco: vet 1t most likely would not have been were the church the sole attraction. Here, in appropri- ate inclosures, there were bull fighting, bull baiting and horse racing. Many duels were fought here, and some of them so well adver- tised that they drew almost as well as a cock fight. Cock fighting was a speclal Sunday di- version. Through the mission ran the high- way to the pleasant city of San Jose; it ran through & country unsurpassed In beauty and fertility. Above the. mission towered the mission peaks, and about it the hillslopes were mantled with myriads of wild flowers, the splendor and varlety of which have added to the fame of California, Next follows “A Memory of Monterey."” In 'this there is a description of the changes which have taken placé in that picturesque town in passing from the do- minion of one nation to that of another. Chinese life, too, with most of its phases so incomprehensible to us of the Occldent, comes In for its share of notice as being a very real factor in the development bf California. The chapters entitled “A Mysterious History” read like a romance. They con- tain the history of a lawsult famous in its time, that of Yelverton vs. Yelver- ton. The mysterious woman In the cas once lived part of her nomadic life in and about San Francisco. The chapters de- voted to her and to her history are by no means the least interesting, Certain incidents occuring about the Bay of San Francisco form the subject matter of the remaining portion of the book. In a description of the Farallones there is given an entertaining account of the search for wealth made by egs-gathercrs on those sea-girt rocks. ‘Without any pretense of offering any thing which approximates a formal his tory of California, “In the Footprints of the Padres” will help to keep fresh the memory of some of the leading features of the most picturesque portion of Califor- nia history. (Published by A. M. Robert- son, San Francisco. Price $1 50.) — Real Latin Quarter of Paris. There is a seductive charm about that famous Bohemia of Parls—the Latin quarter—which most persons know only by reputation. Wherein this charm con- ts is but vaguely understood. The casual visitor, who has wandered through the Quartier, or who, perhaps, has been £0 fortunate as to be taken through it by oneé who knows it, cannot tell you of jts fascinations. He cannot portray its life or interpret its spirit. He cannot give you any of the real atmosphere of the place or the true inwardness of its throb- bing, sad-and-gay existence. He lias seen very “little of it himself and has under- stood stll less. It would be even more impossible for a native, or one who has spent all his there, to give you the part of it; all is ar to him and arouses no surprise or curiosity. He does not see the contra or the unique manifesta- tions of life in their full color values. To him it is a common and an every-day af- fair, and if he attempted to describe it he would try to pick out the things that seemed to him unusual rather than the multiplicity of things that go toward making up the real, perpetual charm of life in the Latin quarter. The one who can best tell you the story and paint the picture is the one who has gone from other surroundings and habits and has stayed to see and to study with eves and ears open, with senses alert, sympathies keen and with a quick ap- preclation of all that will appeal to the uninformed outsider. Just such a man has made the capti- vating book now under review, “The Real Latin Quarter of Paris.” F. Berke- ley Smith has put the seeing, and hear- Ing, and feeling of ten years of intimacy natural and fami with the real Latin quarter into his book.- His celebrated father, F. Hopkinson Bmith, says in his introduction to the book: Nowadays when a man would write of the siege of Peking or the relief of some South African town with an unpro- nounceable name, his habit is to rent A room on an uptown avenue, move in an inkstand and pad, and a collection of il- lustrated papers and encyclopedias. This ‘writer on the Rue Falguiere chose a dif- ferent plan. He would come back year after year and study his subject and com- pile his impressions of the quarter in the very atmosphere of the place itself; with- inastone’s throwof the Luxembourg Gar- dens and the Pantheon; near the cafes and the Bullier; next door, If you please, to the public laundry, where his washer- woman pays a few sous for the privilege of pounding his clothes into holes. This being his method of work, he could not fail to get at the intimate secrets, the subtle charm of the quarter. When he pictures for us with brush and pen and camera the balls and studios, the gri- settes, models, bicycle girls, shop girls, sweethearts, students, singers, poets, bez- gars, sculptors, cafes, shops, boulevards, etc., we see them, not as figures m a guide book, but as the real, pulsing elements of the most fascinating Bohe- mian spot In all the world. We come into closer touch with them than would be possible in repeated summer tours. Something like a hundred sketches and photographs by- the author, two carica- tures in _celor by the noted French caric- aturist Sancha, and a water-color frontis- piece by F. Hopkinson Smith illuminate the book, and, with the handsome cover, make it particularly available as a gift book. (Published by Funk & Wagnalls Co., New York. Price, $1 20.) March of the White Guard. The fact that a book has the name of Gilbert Parker on the title page is a guar- antee that the story which it contains is one of interest and well written. “The March of the White Guard” is a short story, but is full of the vital interest which is excited by a graphic account of a strong situation. The White Guard, which gives the book its name, is a small band of men from one of the northern posts belonging to the Hudson Bay Com- pany. Word has come to the post that a civil engineer of considerable fame, Varre Lepage, who went into the far north to investigate copper mines, has not returned to his home, and that the Hudson Bay Company, in compliance with the wishes of the man's wife, desires a relief expe- dition to be sent to discover him, if pos- ble. Several men volunteer to go upon this expedition, although the chance of the success of their object, or even of "R WIZARD IN ERHAPS no other branch of art has taken a greater stride in the past few years than has that of photography. Where formerly it was confined to a purely mechanical method of trans- ferring a face or a scene to a mnegative, it has developed possibilities that closely ally it with a higher art. No individual has done more to confirm the advance- ment in this comparatively new field than bas C. H. Anderson of the Blite studlo, Sen’ Francisco. During his three years'’ devotion to the camera he has brought to light some of the most wonderful produc- tions known to the world of photography —that of making = with living models coples of original paintings by old and modern masters. Some of the results of this unique idea are equivalent to art inspiration. In these reproductions the models are ar- ranged like the original paintings, and many of the plctures are almost perfect imitations. The photographs are en- dowed with a life and soul; the camera searches out and exhibits a detall which the artist with brush seldom produces with the same perfection on canvas. Mr. Anderson furthers the artistic suc- cess of his work in photography by paint- ing his own scenery or background, by designing the costumes for the models and by carefully selecting the models themselves. Many of the fanciful con- ceits and the unusual poses are not only attractive as pictures, but they can safely be termed camera triumphs. The first page of this Sunday Call's Magazine issue is an example of his splendid work. This number marks the beginning of a se- ries of studies that Mr. Anderson has made especially for this paper. Mr. Anderson is the youngest artist of his kind in America. He was born in Nashville, Tenn., 22 years ago. As he at an early age developed a talent for draw- ing he was given opportunitles in that direction by private instruction, followed later by a course in the Chambers School of Art in Nashville. While the artist has not entirely deserted his palette and brush, he has become a sincere devotee to camera craft and means by serious in- vestigation and time to prove that pho- tography will with the passing of the years become a most important branch of the higher art, = B TRE FIELD OF PROTOGRAPHY. their own safe return, is a matter of grave doubt. The leader of the relief par- ty is Jasper Hume, who has a particular reason for going to seek Lepase. Hume and Lepage were once intimate friends, mémbers of the same profession, and in love with the same woman. Hu.mc had just perfected a new invention, wiich he had not yet published, when his health failed, and he was ordered to a warmer climate for a year. When he returned home it was to discover that Lepage had married the woman, and had given to the world as his own the invention of Hux ‘which had bee world as a genius. Hume retired into distant north, and there for ve d and waited until he had bro to perfection another invention. Hume was about to make this public when ther arrived at the post of the Hudson Baj Company, where he was stationed, the message about the disappearance of Le- page. Again Hume decides to sacrifice himself for the sake of the happiness of Lepage's wife. He leads the relief expedition. Aiter a terrible journey through the ice and snow of the Arctic region, The White Guard, as Hume has named his party, discovers Lepage and carries him back to the post. Lepage has been lost in the snow and is almost dead when rescued. ‘When he recovers from the long illness, which follows his exposure to the Arctic cold, Lepage confesses to Hume his crime and begs forgiveness. In the end the genfus of Hume meets with acknowledgment and reward, and the reader takes leave of him endowed ‘with the fame for which he served a long apprenticeship. (Published by R. F. Fenno & Co., New York. Price 50 cents.) Dupes. “Dupes,” by Ethel Watts Mumford, is an unpleasant story of successful char- latanism. A woman, Madame Bonzales, comes to America from Europe in order to make converts to a new system of phi- losophy which, so she believes, has been revealed to her by angel visitants. Mad- ame Bonzales is a stupld, ignorant wo- man, and yet one who sincerely believes the nonsense which she preaches. On her arrival In America she meets a clever, unscrupulous man named Clendenin. In Madame Bonzales Clendenin recognizes a possible agent for his material advantage. Madame Bonzales, so he thinks, has only to be brought before the notice of the public by a clever manager in order to be- come a fashionable fad, and, consequent- ly, a source of income to such a manager. Clendenin persuades an acquaintance of his, Thatcher Mitchell, to write clever ad- dresses for Madame Bonzales to deliver in public. Soon, in fulfiliment of Clendenin’s prediction. Madame Bonzales becomes a fashionable *‘prophetess.” When Mitchell discovers that he has played a prominent part in making the sueccess of a fraud he is filled with remorse and tries, but in vain, to open the eyes of the public to the real character of Madame Bonzales and her manager, Clendenin. To make mat- ters worse for Mitchell, the girl he loves falls under the influence of Madame Bon- zales and bids fair to give up her fortune to further the interests of the new cause. But Miss Bond soon finds out the falsity of Madame Bonzales’ pretensions to wis- dom. So in one case Mitchell is relieved of the mortification of having assisted a false prophetess to dupe her victims. (Published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York and London. Price $1 25.) The Bears of Blue River. A book full of thrilling bear storles, wkich will delight not only boys, but girls as well, if they care for the recital of hair-breadth escapes from wild animals, is “The Bears of Blue River,” by Charles Major, the author of “When Knighthood Was in Flower.” In this story for chil- dren Mr. Major shows that he can hold the close attention of the young as well as he once did that of older readers. The youthful hero of this present story is Bal- Ser Brent, a boy whose home was in In- diana at a time when that part of Amer- ica was still a frontier wilderness. Balser is as courageous as a lad should be who lives in a country where bears appear at the most inopportune time and in places where their advent is least welcome. Bal- ser has encounters with all sorts of bears, but by his pluck and skill he manages to escape from their compu#y in a way to cover himself with glory. The book will give the boys and girls of to-day a good idea of the perils which the brave fron- tiersman and his family had té endure, and also of some of the pleasures of their free out-of-door life. (Published by the Doubleday & McClure Company, New York. Price $125.) The Most Famous Loba. Mrs. Nellie K. Blissett has written a distinctly readable story in “The Most Famous Loba.” The scene is laid in the romantic time of the Troubadours, when men turned with equal ease to feats of arms and to deeds of gallantry. “The Most Famous Loba" is a woman re- nowned for beauty and for independence of thought and action. She moves a strik- ing, picturesque flgure among the stirring events of her time. In the chronicle of the most interesting period of the life of this beauty whose fascinations are great enough to make all men who know her her slaves, the author has caught well the spirit of the time of which she writes, and the reader is made to see the beauty as well as the cruelty of the period which we know as the Age of Chivalry. (Pub- lished by D. Appleton & Co., New York. Price $1) Navigation. “Richard’'s Navigation and Nautical As- tronomy,” by Eugene L. Richards, gives a complete treatment of the elements of navigation, and a mastery of it will give a knowledge of the theory of the subject, syfficient to introduce the student to the' plactice of navigation. The first part is devoted to navigation by dead reckoning, and the remaining portion is given to the subject of nautical astronomy and teaches how to determine the exact position of a ship in terms of latitude and longitude, by means of the observation of heavenly bodies, The book is illustrated by dia- grams and contains an alphabetical glos- sary of the terms used, and a part of the Nautical Almanac of 1898 for reference in the solution of problems. (Published by the American Book Company, New York. Price 75 cents.) The Times and Young Men. “The Times and Young Men," by Josiah Strong, is an address to young men, writ- ten for the purpose of offering them a solution of the peculiar problems which spring from the complex conditions of modern life. Dr. Strong discusses the ills arising in the social and industrial world from a conflict of Interests. He then shows that the only cure for these evils is to be found in a strict practice of the golden rule. While of religious tone, the book is free from the cant of a narrow spirit of religion. It is a sensible, practi- cal plea for an appreclation of the value of the great moral truths which form the tundamental part of all religious systems. (Published by the Baker aylor Com= pany, New YorK. Price 75 cents.) The Story of the Art of Building Amoc the books contained “The the history a review lution of tk a dis 1s Pandora. Mrs. Selz: ider, is a& ed story, wri presuma- s of divorce. Some of our own town. The of the laxity of Life of Dan Rice. A biography of Dan Rice, the famous clown, has been written by Marle Ward Brown. Besides a full account of Rice's life, the book contains sketches of many of the famous men with whom Rice came in contact in his long and varied career as jester and circus owner, together with quotations of many of his witty speeches. Rice was something more than a mere He took a deep interest in the < of his day, so that his biog- s references to the stirring buffoon political event h immediately pre- ceded and fol the Civil War. Thé book, as the history of a unique personal ity, 1s, In its way, very entertain (Pub- lished by the author, West End, Long Branch, fel Souvenir Postal Card: Edward H. Mitchell (San Francisco) s fssuing a very attractive set of souvenir postal cards which illustrate bits of lifa among the Indians of the Southwest. The ds, which originated neral that as use of the colored ca has become so in Eu ope. a conseque! all tha most beauti in our American scenery is being plc- tured with a view to showing that ric ruins has not ex- of the picturesque. The de in the art of pho- r it possible to make even thing of beauty, Indian rope with its h hausted all typ: improvements tography rend a postal card life loses its = and shows only its esthetic side i This set of cards, with tr ring, make ve creature who live s to know him as per dozen.) the Indian seem he is supposed to too far from his ha he really is. (Price 3 Literary Notes. The January Arena th announces that its February issue will give San Francisco’s municipal affairs thoughtful discussion: *In part demonstration of the practical outworking of democratic ideals in American affairs we shall pre- sent an article in the February Arena on ‘San Francisco’s Union Labor Mayor,’ written by Leigh H. Irvine, whose re- markable new book, ‘An Affair in the South Seas,’ was reviewed in our No- vember issue. No mare striking proof of the vitality of that masterplece American litera- ture, “David Harum,” could be found than the fresh announcement from the publishers, D. 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