The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 7, 1902, Page 4

bl HE SUNDAY CALL. m 2 CONDUCTED BY ‘ B. 6. LATHROP. | WHAT FIRE You TV = s ¥ s me ex preface the = € er grewsome 1 £0 g s to the moti; of s was decided regulation. What if it the ! fair mea H th led upon by the "Sray, CONSTABLE, I WANT T0 SEE POT INTO THAT OPEN I7T. heap his fall from grace on the shoulders tre h been chi around evidence of his last crime in the shape of this great metal collar, but he puts on a Mayor of the town, with the result that the bold Hugo is taken in the act of fir- ing shells containing plans of the fortress and defenses out into the French camp and receiving from their gunners in re- turn shells loaded with money instead of explosives. Hugo is arrested forthwith and imme- diately put on the rack to answer the preliminary hearing of his case. Upon being asked his name, he gives a differ- ent one for each country that he has ever isited. To the question of his religlon— e has adopted every faith from an Augs- burg confession heretic to a devil wor- shiping Manichee. And for occupations s run the gamut from low to high high to low. But it is upon the ques- tion of his past crimes that his judges receive their greatest shock; for he pleads guilty to the whole category of deeds for which the law of the day prescribes cap- ital punishment. . Che learned lights of the law are at a loss how to proceed in such a remarkable instance, the wheel is the punishment ygamist must be divided e accused has already been carved ns? Also, it is decreed that the right hand of a forger be cut off; the servitor But if the nsumed by flames, how will it be possible to bray him to pulp in a mortar ted uxoricide? Or, how carry s of the law which pre- rvation for the wretch who is guilty of cann After much del wisdom of a Solomon, *“The prisoner, the prince, with the cided as follows who Is arraigned at the bar ng confessed to twenty-one E relate to the court mt of each individual crime, he shall be sentenced according crimes found by the judges to us.” of Hugo, the man of many names, rel and crimes. In all of the criminal credited to his doing he relates such plausible stories and gives so many extenuating proves n even himself so h better a g a creditable lieand gives res with so much more of a 3 than even >n Munchaus- for the court end on the.one in that instance he makes a le showing in effort to ” bold front and goes into a village with all the confidence which only so adept a criminal is capable of feeling: They wanted to know where I came from, where was I going, who and what was I and how I dared to have the impertinence to beg in their city. I replied that I was a pilgrim from the Holy Land; and that instead of thinking it an im- pertinence for me to beg from them, they ought to conmsider it a distinction to have in their community a mendicant Wwigh an fron collar around his neck. ’ But the Brandenburgers are inclined to be- lieve themselves more clever than the rest of the world. The bailiff seized me, dragged me to the market-place, where he proceeded to question me for the benefit of the whole city. ““Who are you?"” he Inquired. “I am hu I said in reply. ““Where do you come from?"’ *“From Jerusalem.” “Don’t you attempt to deceive me, sirrah! lem. Through what “Through Marcomannia and Scythia; through Bess Arabla -and Arabia Petraea; through Bactria and Mesopotamia; and now m Caramania 1 come direct fr maps, and know The way to ria, Paflagonia, Cappadocia nted India.” ‘Well,” 1 e I did travel through those countries too, but it was at night, when 1 couldn't see to read their names on the guide- boards.” ans that iron band on your t. your honor, neck by the black Sult me captive fifty-two years “You are not yet thirty yea “No, in this part of the world I am not; but in Abyssinia, where the sun is so hot, the days contract to such an extent that one of your years here would be six there.” “Wh: onable llar you are,” ex- claimed the balliff. *'Heat does not contract On the contrary, it expands, which accounts for the days being longer In summer than in was fastened about my winter. We Brandenburgers know that very well. He seized me by the collar, to drag me to prison, but I held back, and said in a loud voice—ioud enough for the crowd to hear: ‘I tell you 1 am right; heat does contract. t you sit on a hi ove and see if your her breeches don't sl 1 up under you.” e crowd wae on my side; but that trial in the market-place might have resulted disas- trously for me had not a knight just then chanced to ride that way Allin Winfield. “Allin Winfield,” by George Ethelbert Wals the author of “The Mysterious Burg Is a story of Boston and the high seas in the early days of the repub- lic. The hero, who gives his name to the book, life in a very quiet way on a New land farm. While still a goes to Boston to seek his There he finds the maiden of his dreams and meets with the first of a series of thrilling adventures and hair- b dth escapes from death. Most of the ts narrated the book take place while Winfield is in the power of pirates, who kidnap him and take him off to the pirate lair, : nd in the tropies. 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Volume 1I of the series has just come to hand and the work will not have reached completion until 1906. There will be over 8000 pages in the entire work and some 2000 illustrations. The publishers estimate that the cost of its production will be over $600,000, Volume II contains over 700 pages and 150 illustrations and extends from Apocrypha tc Benash. It contains every archeologi- cal, historical, theological, philosophical, ILLUSTRATIONS FROM “TOLD BY THE DEATH’S HEAD” Copyright, 1902, The Saalfield Company. " TEos of another. Below is an example of the worthy gen- tleman's versatility when put to an ex- . He has but barely escaped with life from a dungeon, where he has ed to a rock from an iron band neck. 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The frontispiece is in colors, showing Duse in costume; there is also a por- trait of the author and reproductions of scenes from the stage productions. The price of the book is $1 25. Literary Notes. A book of fairy stories for children by Edith Ogden Harrison, wife of the Mayor of Chicago, will be published in October by A. C. McClurg & Co. The Isaac H. Blanchard Company, New York, announce that they will publish on or about the 15th of September a novel entitled “Hazel Pierce.” They prom se a good story by an unknown author, who signs the name “Tlo.” Just before his death the late Sir ‘Walter Besant completed a novel he had been working on for some time, entitled “No Other Way.” The announcement is now made that the story, the last by this popular author. will be published in the fall by Dodd, Mead & Co. Gelett Burgess, who has been known heretofore as the humorist, has made a radical departure from the nonsense work Wwhich first brought him into prominence when editor of the Lark. Intelligent and sympathetic readers of that magazine were quick to discern a serious, albeit an optimistic, note, which has always been as sincere and as spontaneous as his wit, and the forty essays on “The Romance of the Commonplace,” soon to be publish- ed by Elder & Shepard. San Francisco. “ T 700K rry LATTP, DESCENDED 70 THE CRYPT'" THE HAIRKIAND JSreoro Proro — have taxen up and developed the original vein of philosophy first exploited in the Lark, The author of *“The Century Cook Book,” Mary Ronald, is preparing a new volume with the title “Luncheons,” which she calls ““A Cook’s Picture Book.” It is a guide to the preparation of dainty dishes for dainty meals, and while it con- tains no general rules for cooking, it is designed to suggest quick and pleasing dishes, especially for luncheons. It will be elaborately {llustrated by photographs, each showing some tempting dish prop- erly garnished, ready to be served. 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A novelty In fall books from the Baker & Taylor Company, which promises to be very attractive, i1s a compilation of cof- fec history, coffee anecdote and coffee verse, including recipes for the making of coffee from the leading chefs of the coun- try, by Arthur H. Gray, one of the col- laborateurs of “Bath Robes and Bach- elors,” and a contributor to “Tobacco in Song and Story.” There will be a trade edition of this work neatly bound and WiLnis G FORGE ErERsoNn—- RUTHCOR OF “BUELL RRMPTON.” ILLIS GEORGE EMERSO) whose recent novel, ‘“Buell Hampton,” is already in the third large edition, emexges, somewhat like Hopkinson Smith, from a successful career along in- dustrial lines into the story-telling fleld. Soon after leaving college, Mr. Emerson enlisted in the movement to convert the cattle range of: Southwestern Kansas into an agricultural paradise, and was one of the founders of Meade, Kansas, where the scenes of his story are lad. Since those days he has been a lawyer, a town builder, a mine operator, has bullt the first smelter ever operated in the State of Wyoming and is now at work on the longest aerial tramway in the world. During all the years that he has been en- gagad in these various enterprises, “Buell Hampton” has been slowly crystallizing. Mr. Emerson has put himself and his varied experiences in the new regions of the West into his book. Politics, banking and journalism come in for a large place in the story; while the natural phenomena of the region—the prairie fire and the hot winds—are no less vividly portrayed. His entire life has been spent amid the life and scenes he writes about and he says in his preface: “There is so much in the tale that is based upon facts and ac- tual happenings that I hardly know where history ceases and fiction begins.” Mr. Emerson is well known and well liked throughout half a dozen Western States. His home State, Wyoming, hon- ored him with the appointment of com- with a striking cover, and a gift edition in leather, which ought to sell from the novelty of its make-up. It is bound in heavy coffee-colored ooze leather, stamped in gold and done up in a coffee sack of rough bagging, tied at the cor- ners and labeled. This miniature bag of coffee holds a book for lovers of coffee and lovers of books. “The Bookman' for Eeptember con- tains, among other features, the following interesting articles: “The Homing Bird" (poem), Richard Burton; “Some Humor of Some Humorists” (illustrated), La Touche Hancock; “Charles Paul de Kock,” Beverly Stark; “The Quest of Ann Achron” (some blurred impressions of the Omnipresent), Charlton Andrews; “Was Talleyrand Born in Mount Desert, Maine?” Jane Marsh Porter; “A New English Poet,” Joseph B. Gllder; “French Men of Letters in Caricature” (the second empire period, illustrated), L. E. 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Another story of worth but in lighter vein is *“The Shining Gloss,” by Gertrude Lynch, in which the psychology of beau. ty’'s attitude toward itself is most cun- ningly and clearly portrayed. James Branch Cabell contributes 'a delightful story, entitled “As the Coming of Dawn,” and Emery Pottle writes “The Youthtul- ness of Wilkins,” a clever social study. A story of interest, entitled “The Logie of Circumstances,” is from the pen of the late James Hazleton Willard, while Jus- tus Miles Forman contributes “An Exper- iment of Jimmy Rogers’s,” and there is a dainty idyl, “In a Bachelor's Garden,” by Temple Balley. An article written with a beauty worthy of its subject is, ‘“Newport, the Apostle of Estheticism,” by Douglas Story, in which the author seriously interprets the significance of missioner to the Paris Exposition. Kan- sas made him a Presidential elector. His ability as an eloquent orator led to his appointment as vice chairman of the speakers’ bureau of the Republican Na- tional Committee during the second Mc- Kinley campaign, and he is credited with having bad virtually entire echarge of the bureau. It is as interesting as it is s g- nificant of the man that during the time he was engrossed with his duties on the bureau he found time to flnance one of the largest copper mines in Wyoming and to put the finishing touches on the book which has just appeared. “Buell Hampton™ tells a love story of the Southwest and the present day. The plot, with {ts dramatic settings of a prai- rie fire and the usual properties of life on the cattle ranges, is replete with ex- citement. The two figures that hold the center stage are Major Buell Hampton, a philanthropist, philosopher, editor and proprietor of the Patriot, and Ethel Hor- ton. Ethel is an American girl with an ambitious and rather unscrupulous moth- er. 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