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Hunter re ewport is w n [ rson wh of re clever el r is an unprincipled s Mr. Fairthorne to his secretary and to intrust gement of his affairs. It she goes to live in to the sorrow and an- who is pow- ct the evil influence which her uncle and ter succeeds in Fairthorne to add to his large sum of r on the pro- th him when he Fairthorne can rrying his secre- r he w has made not turn out as suc- hose which she has made ig proves worse than use- for which he works. A which he perpetrates for him to leave Phila- ite of his sister's ig fails to win the of Katherine Morrow. Hunter finds it no long- her to remain in Phila- d of the Fairthornes ap- Iscovers in Mrs. Hunter whom he had been divorced b after she had done to ruln his life. To save from further injury he sant Mrs. Hunter that the wife frc some years what she co the Fair tells the sol rnes less she takes herself out of the way l:‘e will expose the history of h hast, with all its dishonorable episodes. s. Hun- ter prepares to leave the Fairthorne house. 2 the eve of h r departure Mr, th secures for vy which she has lly to obtain. Kather- v her own tress, fore and goes with Mrs. Hur.- line of the story has been 1 the nov mber of im- ced and the di- 1volved S0 great ted it must be read in e several love stories Valentines Laden with Scntiment, Or Gay with Frivolity. No Lac: Paper. Various Prices from 50 gents 0 ........ 10c. Eider and Shepard, 238 POST STREET. TYPLCAL TIBETAMNS OF THEMSELVES PRAWwN BY ONE plece of book- h by the United ty of Christian Endeavor is a fine volume of nearly 300 large pages, ed on heavy paper with hand- pe and bound in a strikingly at- e cover. ig “Adventures in Tibet,” by arey. The author is a Baptist ry in India, a leader in Ch ian Endeavor work and great-grandson of that William Carey who was the pioneer of modern missions. More than half* the book i HE most ambitious making yet put fc occupied by a description by Mr. Carey of the most mysterious country in the world, a title bet well deserv The con which Tib g portion is the diary Annie R. Taylor, that most remarkable woman Ww! made the famous journey ough the t of the forbidden land Zvery page pwded with thrilling in- terest. The book contains seventy-five handsome illustratio and is sold for $1 50 net, the postage being 20 cents addi- tional. Here are some interesting excerpts that will gi an idea of the general char- acter of the work: A Land of Lamas. is land of lamas, Mr. ‘What that means it is not very easy for us, in our Protestant environ- ment, to understand. The lamas are monks. A hundred, or a thousand, or even five thousand of them may be herded together, if not exactly under one roof, yet in one great building, whose ramifica- tions root themselves like a fortress in the rocks, and whose walls and windows frown upon the surrounding fields. says The rest of the timid Tibetans huddle in huts at tes or till soil and tend their flocks that the lamas m e at Deeper than the roots of the lamase er of the lamas ts of the people. Every fam- 1 the o ease. s sink into the r lodged in the b as at least one representative ily ters. Often there re two, and not seldom three. It has been reckoned that every sixth person of the entire p on is either a lama or a lama novitiate, The only is monkish: gthe only architecture at of the temples and monas- teries, which seem to grow cut of the crag heights on which they perched; the one universal .and unceasing religious rite the twirling of a “prayver-wheel” and the mum- bling of a meaningless sentence. The lama holds the people in the hollow of his hand, and many forces meet in that magnetic and master- ful grip. Boys who are destined for the cloisters in Tibet go off to school. They have rather a tough time of it there, being beaten across the chest with a broad. leather /strap for every failure to remember the lesson and every de- fect in writing, Their slate is a wooden tablet painted black smeared over with fat sprinkled with red chalk. The writing is done with a wooden pen, which removes the chalk and re- veals the black. If & boy disgraces himself by continual lazi- ness or incompetence . his tutor is publicly caned. What do you think of that? An Audience With a God. The Grand Lama, or Dalai Lama, is the . g "‘;;;‘;f"’ man who is worshiped: by Tibetans as a god. He often holds public receptions. Since his wWorshipers are in thousands, and it is only to those who are wealthy or of high t he can afford to address even a tence or two, this is always done in deep, hoarse voice, acquired by training In order to convey the idea that It emanates from and wisdom. d on a platform some six ssed to he worshiped in festhood, red and yel- rms, and holds a rod hangs a tassel of silk, 1 color low, and with & from the end of which white, red, yellow, green and blue. The pil- grim, coming in, advances with folded hands as If in prayer, and, resting his head against the edge of 1tk form above him, mentally ind hastily repeats the petitions he would Lama .is understood to compre- njtively; he ouches the pilgrim’'s head nchof silk in token of his bless- worshiper is hurried out of the Iy too happy if he has passed say e in the presence. Persons of rank are permitted to mount the plat- obeisance there, recelv- by actual touch of or substa 1 n and ¥ required i Lama bless hand. A Big Bible. The Kah-gyur, or Tibetan Bible, con- s of one hundred and eight volumes one thousand pages each, making one thousand and eighty-three separate books Each of the volumes weighs about ten pounds and forms a package twenty-six inches long by eight broad and eight deep. This cologsal code requires a dozen yaks for its transpost, and the carved wooden blocks from which it is printed need for their stor- age rows of houses like a good-sized village, The contents are chiefly translations from Chi- nese and Sanscrit works. The original blocks are still being used after two hundred years, and almost every monastery has its complete printed edition. In addition to this voluminous text there are the Dala THE SUNDAY CALL. por X s My ron e B R B o, V "‘é\:‘?’? iz P Y ! RN e ‘!...‘ o W 7 225 volumes of commentaries, including works on general subjects, such as grammar, rhe- toric, mechanics, alchemy, etc. Tea Bricks. The Tibetans consume immense quanti- tles of tea. Thousands of camels from Mongolia, and a still larger number of yaks from the Chang, come down every year to carry up the tea. One of the high- ways through ‘the country is called the “Tea Road.” ‘What tea they get from China Is poor stuff at the best, being excessively coarse. It is pressed, with the stalks and stems, into solld bricks, which are afterward sewed up in skins. The size varles a little, but an average brick STRATIO 7 28155 TAYLOR! IN TIBETASN DZ" b ¥ 3 =00 B 4 will weigh about elght pounds. Poor as the tea is the Tibetans could not live without it. Mixed with butter and tsamba, or barley flour (the suttoo of India), it forms the staple food of the country. Many housewlives. keep the pot boiling all the day. In some parts a sort of stock solution j& prepared, the tea being boiled with soda for several hours till all its strength Is extracted, and then the liquid is strained off and kept. A little of this solution is added to each fresh brew of tea while it lasts. Ordinarily the process is this: A handful ot brick tea is taken from the leather bag and put into the pot. Butter, always rancid, is added, and the liquid®is bolled for about ten minutes. Then it is strained, and afterward wooden disk worked up and down: and finally the beverage thus cooked Is poured out into small wooden bowls. Every Tibetan carrfes in the folds of his simple robe or sheepskin one or more of these little cups, and also his own bag of tsamba, from which he thickens the liquid according to his taste. The bowl is replenished with tea again and again, until he has had enough. Then he invariably lcks it clean before re- placing it In his bosom. It is never washed. Neither {s he. His greasy fingers are merely rubbed on his hair or drawn across his-gown. Rich and poor alike eat this common food out of this'common cup. The cup is made of red woed from the root of a tree, but it is sometimes lined with silver and so richly or- churned in a bamboo tube by means of a namented as to cost £20 or £30. which find a happy or unhappy termina- tion during that part of the career of Mrs. Hunter which touches their lives. The plot of the novel is an interesting one and skillfully developed. 8till, the particular merit of the book lies in the brilllant series of character sketches which it offers. The characters are of wholly different types; vet the reader is made to feel so distinctly the individuality of each that they excite in him an almost equal degree of interest. Perhaps the in- fluence of Mrs. Hunter is felt somewhat more strongly than that of the others. Even in the drama of real life it is often the persen with a genius for iniquity who manages to gain for himself the center of the stage. (Published by the Century Company, New York. Price, $150.) A Glimpse of 0ld Mexico. Under the general caption, “A Glimpse of Old Mexico,” and the explanatory sub- title, “Being the observations and reflec- tions of a tenderfoot editor while on a journey in the land of Montezuma,”, James H. Wilkins of San Rafael has pubd lished a series of letters in book form. In a brief preface to the little volume Mr. Wilkins says: “These letters were writ- ten, as they purport to have been, dur- ing a two months’ stay in Mexico, with 1o other object in view than to fill 2 little space in a country newspaper.” Fortu- nately during Mr. Wilkins' absence the employes of his printing office gathered the series together and published them in pamphlet form. These copies were so highly appreciated that a demand has been created for the letters in pérmanent form, consequently the appearance of the present volume. Those who take up the book expecting merely the usual guide book stuff that is generally found under the title of “glimpses’ of countries have a pleasant surprise in store for them, Mr. Wilkins writes of the mining country, the lumber regions, the land of the sportsman and the investor. He tells you just what you want to know and all in a light and en- tertaining way that holds your interest from start to finish, ‘While it is true that the book was writ- ten during a two months’ stay in the mountains of Mexico, still one must not be misled by that statement into the be- lief that Mr. Wilkins’ knowledge of the land and its people is limited to that two months. He is not a parlor car window writer—one who dashes through the coun- try and then writes volumes. It is easy to be seen in the first few pages that he bhas gone into his subject heart and soul; that he knows whereof he writes not only hy varied personal experience but by close study of books and attention to the tales of other travelers as well. “A Glimpse of Old Mexico” contains matter that the embryo prospector who feels he must seek the hidden gold of foreign lands will find valuable. For the general reader the book is equally inter- esting, for Mr. Wilkins has the knack of the clever newspaper man, that happy faculty of seeing everything that goes on and then the still more happy sift of be- ing able to tell about it in a way to hold his hearers. On this particular trip Mr. Wilkins took with him a fine setter dog called “Dew- ey A recital of the dog’s troubles serves the double purpose of a good story on the dog and also calls the attention of the reader to what a difference there must ‘be between this fairyland and our own California: His first exploit on the trail was an attempt to jump a cactus fence, from which he emerged With more stickers in his hide than a porcu- pine. The new forms of animal lie, also, nearly made him idiotic. He tried ever so hard to get down to business, flushed an lguana, an interesting lizard about six feet long and do less would have come to a stand at a calman or alligator, if one had happened along. Then he became footsore and traveled most of the time on three legs, holding one in reserve for emergencies. He wilted under the severe heat till he had nbdt energy enough left to raise his tall, and if it had not been for humerous water holes along the trall, caused by recent rains, his bones would now be adorning the landscape of Mexico. But that was not all. Every house along the trail and very pack train swarmed With native dogs. These are the most wretched looking and odious curs that the eye of man ever rested on. If you were to compare them in appearance to a. coyote, the coyote could Justly accuse you of throwing mud: And their disposition is on a par with their looks. Nat- urally, they regarded the opportunity to chew up a dude setter as a kind of windfall never to be overlooked and attacked .our poor, quad- ruped in numbers at every turn of the trail Now, Dewey, in his far-away home, showed none of the warlike characteristics of the great admiral, His ways were distinctly those of peace. But when he found himselt assailed inv a forelgn land, without just cause, he defended the dignity and honor of the American dog with a spirit and gallantry that would have fllled his fllustrious namesake's heart with pride. Though beset by overwhelming odds, he proved victorlous In many sanguinary bat- tles, and soon, encouraged by uniform success, and further by discovering that there was not much fight in his cpponents, anyhow, he took to charging the enemy with the utinost aban- don, without walting for overt acts. After that his troubles with the curs were at an end. It Dewey ever returns to the United States he will have lots to tell the gringo dogs about his travels in Mexico, and will doubtless become & canine Sinbad the Sallor among them. Mr. Wilkins has filled his book with excellent half-tone reproductions of snap- shots taken during the trip, which serve to illustrate the text and make the little volume one of the best works of the kind that has come to our notice.' It is pub- lished by the Whitaker & Ray Company, San Francisco. Novel Valentines. Elder & Shepard of San Francisco have demonstrated that there really can be something new under the sun by publish. ing the most novel set of valentines that has ever appeared in San Francisco. Wal- lace Irwin has one from their press that matches his book of “Love Sonnets of g Hoodlum”—the verse is very funny and- the drawing, by Gelett Burgess, quite unique. Price 35 cents. “The Youngster Series” will doubtless prove popula There are four in this series, and each one is very delicately done in color and with thymes to give the proper valentine spirit. Price 40 cents each. The “Jackass Valentine” has an appropriate verse u der the photographic head of a donke that gives a delightfully personal toucl to the valentine and is sure to make a hit with the recipient—whether for better or ‘worse depends upon the discretion of the sender. Price 25 cents. On the same order is one with a photo of a cat at the top and another. with a dog; also 25 cents each. A valentine for “The Strenuous one for “A Riddle” and another for *““The Fool's Confession” add to the varie- ty of those already mentioned. The pub- lishers are certainly deserving of great praise for at last having broken away from the old conventiomal and stereo- typed fashions in valentines that have been in vogue for so many years and giv. ing to the public something new and ar- tistic as well. Literary Notes. Dodd, Mead & Co. will shortly begin the publication of a new monthly magazine, the Bibliographer, devoted to bibllography and rare book news. The new periodical will be issued only in the year, publication be r the months of July, Aug .mber. Photograph facsimiles rare Dbooks manuscripts, e will be frealy used e the editor of Paul Leicester the Bibliograpne The contents Monghly for Febr par ym discus- sion and reviews, are as “Stellar Evolutic 1 gearch,” P “Winged R Hston; F. H. tlon to Otis T. Leader in the Worl W . H. Thurston; s B Black The D ley M. Ke Some of the in poems “Business Versus t 8 v Mar Become Operatl tnan; “The Credit Man's Story H. Spearman; “Don’t Make ¥ Garret,” by Cyn “Submarine Boats fare,” by Lewls Edwir er Astir to Improve Schools, y Charles D. Mclver; “Habits That Make Men and Women Boomerang Targets, Ellar Wheeler Wilcox; “American Rule Giving Cuba New Life,” by o Nu- nez; “What Musician Will V Always at the Beginning, James Lane Allen; “During One W Lin- coln’s Life Presence of Mind and Courags Meant More Than an A 3 lusha. A. Grow, and \of Home Life,” an enlarg: of the world the new the cc frontisp! New lustrated by mals under uniq “The Trees” is & covering the two ce pages o s and pract ‘An Exp With t C tells of yea growing a Kinds of flow plants; and there are also construction and care of the & suggestions for starting ea and flowers. A series of | devoted to “The Abandoned Farm Coun- try.” The World's Work for February pub- lishes entire for the first time in America Rudyard Kipling’s “The Islanders,” which of discussion the author of has raised a veritable in England. Frank N “The Octopus,” in an article entitled “The Frontier Gone at Last” shows how the Anglo-Saxons have at last encircled the globe with conquest. Captain Mahan adds to an interesting series of papers which have appeared in various publica- tions one in The World’s Work on “The Growth of Our National Feeling.” George Iles, author of “Flame, EI city and Camera,” writes of Marconi's triumph. An intimate view of Dr. Lyman Abbott is given by Hamilton Wright Mable, Dr. Abbott's associate on the Outlook, and the striking career and personality of Tom Johnson is described with particular ref- erence to his work as Mayor of Cleve- land. A plea for better wages for teach- ers is made by Willlam McAndrew, and the consolidation of American railroads is described, with a colored map for illustra- tion, by M. G. Cunniff. Some striking pictures of California big trees are accom- panied by text written by Richard T. Fisher. 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