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12 THE SUNDAY CALL. CONDUCTED B B. G. LATHROP of fiction who en- the Wolf” and Fathers"—those ks of short stories Jack London ter of the Snow ovel that Lon- his other n limited to mediocre news- mber of good short h that Mr. particularly in theme the tribes 2 of of es, some t story erage fiction the hand of the r in uction of the movel. n{A Daughter of the Snows” is rather & collection of connected sketches with the eame persons playing a part in all of them than 2 novel according to the gen- erally accepted idea of that class of fic- tion. As the title suggests, this is a story of the north, Mr. London's chosen field The great interest of the book lles first in the characters and then in the descrip- tions of different phases of life in the Imporlant Books The Philosophy of Despair. David Starr Jordan. 75 cents, $1.50, $5.00. The Romance of the Commonp'ace. Gelett Burgess. $1.50, $5.00, $15.00. he Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom Herford, Mumfofl, Mizner, 75 cents. The Children of the Thornwreath. Gertrude La Page. $1.50. The Tomoye Catalogue Ilustrated will be sent upon request. Elder and Shepard 238 Post Street, San Francisco ’ Most _complete ever issued in the OUR BOOK est. " Gontaing 260 pages. Ar- ranged by titles, GATM_UGUE authors and sub. Jects. Sent grs on application. We are wholesale and retai] dealers in HOLIDAY EDUCATIONAL (BOOKS AND LIBRARY TEE WHITAKER & RAY COMPANY, Publishers and Bookseliers, % 723 Market Street......San Franciseo prorreTey TITVICETORIO, SO R RS SSSSOIIR NN, v land of ice, snow and gold, and on the trail. The heroine, the “Daughter of the snow, and in the sunny lands of the tem- woman, strong, courageous and beauti- ful, that Mr. London so delights in mak- ing the center figure. .The first four chapters of the book concern themselves with the trip of Frona from the sea over the Chilcoot to Dawson. Thisnds sup- posed to be at the time of the great Kiondike boom and this part of the story is particularly interesting for the pic- tures, vivid and strong, which it offers of life on the trail—its tragic and bright sides. Here Frona meeéts Vance Cor- liss, a mining engineer, young, good look- ing and the right sort—as after events are to show. Frona has been away from the land of her birth, this frozen land of ice and snow, and in the sunny 1ands of the tem- perdte zone that she might acquire the education and cultivation requisite for the daughter of so important a man as Jacob Welse—the great man of the Klondike, whose hand appears in every investment or industry of note in the land. The cleverest parts of the story are those in Which the author works out the problem of a suitable mate for this daughter of the north. Frona has not had the sterling worth of the ice-zone thawed out of her veins by her southern ecucation, nor has she lost any of her heritage of moral and physical courage from that ploneer of ploneer stock—Jacob Welse, her father. She likes Vance Corliss; and as the author develops his character through various adventpres peculiar to so rough and new a country, the reader comes to ilke him too and to wonder if really in the end he will lose Frona to the dash- ing, handsome braggart, St. Vincent. That is one point in which Mr. Lon- don cannot be too highly complimented— his art in. keeping the reader on the needle-point of uncertainty about the final outcome of the love story until pra tically the last paragraph. It is easy to see for our own satisfac- it that St. Vincent i a coward, but it rd to tell whether Frona sees it or > author makes this contrast of nd cowardice the keynote and v A man in a new coun- survival of the fittest a knave and command some respect somewhere from somebod: but he cannot be a coward—and Mr. Lo don makes this specially evident in this story of the Klondike. One of the strongest scenes in the book is where St. Vincent is accused by an old miner, now a Klondike king, and also the early and lasting friend of Frona. Matt McCarthy knows that St. Vincent has won the love of Frona under false pre- tenses and he knows the man to be a faint-heart. He goes to his cabin and accuses him to his face—the denouement is startling, to say the least. The trial of St. Vincent later in the story is also worthy of notice and is really a short stery in itself. Another section of the book deserving of special mention is the account of the bravery of Frona and Corliss in striving to rescve a courier from the ice in the river. One of the pictures on this page shows them in the boat and fighting with the breaking ice of the Yukon. “Del” is another. character of the story quite unique in its way and a most finished pro- duction in the art of character drawing. He is the typical pocket miner, who mines as much for the excitement as for the money he may find; a man who would rather fight fhan eat, straight as a string, and every inch a man, but absolutely without refinement or any of the graces of civilization. “A Daughter of the Snows" gives the reader a fine idea of life among the early ploneers of the north during the first fever of the gold rush, and, moreover, is a good story. It is well worth read- ing. (Published by the J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. Price $1 50.) S e e ““Children of the Frost,” just from the press of the Macmillan Company, New York, is the third book of those short stories of the Land of the Midnight Sun in which Jack London excels. Mr. Lon- don has this field practically to himself. Ever since he made such a hit with his two books, *“The Son of the Wolf” and ‘“The God of His Fathers,” he has been the recognized authority in fiction dealing with the peoples of the frozen zone. If anything, these new stories that go to make up the contents of the present book are more finished as literary works than his former short tales of similar char- acter. They are very much like his other storfes, inasmuch as they tell of deeds of “sweat and blood” in the land of ice and snow—where men must be men or fall by the wayside. The present book includes ten stories that vary in motif through the whole gamut of the rudimentary emotions—a very simple scale when it is run and prin- cipally composed of love, hate, friendship, war, kill your enemies and preserve your friends. The first story in the book, “In the Forests of the North,” is one of the strongest, for it tells of the love of a native woman for a white man who has been for years with the tribe and who has become her husband. At last an expedition of Americans happens on this little village and its leader recognizes the white man and persuades him to re- turn to his native land and abandon his dusky wife. The woman knows the re- sult of this conversation by a woman's intuition and her pleading with the leader of the expedition to use his influence to have her husband remain with her is a notable bit of writing. The second story is a pen picture of unpleasantly vivid reality describing the abandonment of the sire of his race by his tribe because- he is no longer fit to live the life of the trail. It s’ called “The Law of Life.” “Nam-Bok, the Unveracious,” gives the reader a new thought and light on the Jifference between our ways of life in the heart of civilization and the limited range of vision among the natives of the Arctic. It tells of the return of Nam-Bok to his tribe after he has been over seas and into the white man’'s coun- try, and narrates how he is turned out from his village to return to the land of spirits from which he came, for his wonderful tales secem those of a dead man back from the dream-world and im- possible of comprehension to the minds of his tribespeople. “The Master of Mystery” is the ac- count of a trick in magic and a play upon superstition that is deserving of credit both as a bit of grim humor and as a study of human nature. It marks the rise of one wizard, the fall of an- other and the demonstration of the fact that even the doubter had his heritage of superstition o inborn and deep rooted that at the cruclal test it came forth to prove his undoinz. “The SBunlanders” tells of the fight of the white men who came to dig gol who remained to fight for thewr live who practically annihilated a whole trive, and then came again the next year with reinforcements and made the poor rem- nant of the natives dig the gold for them. If it could be transiated and read to every tribe of savages the world over it would probably have a more salutary effect than a missionary sermon and score several points for the ‘advancement of clvilization according to our lights. Of the remaining stories in the book, all of which are interesting, that par- ticular one which tells of “Li Wan, the Fair,” is the best. The climax is strongly dramatic, for it portrays the feelings of a woman who has been raised as a na- tive untll she is stolen from the tribe and carried away as the wife of *‘Canim, the Canoe"—so-called for he is a great frav- eler—to the white settlement, and there it dawns upon her that she herself 1§ like the white women she sees. Her struggle to remember the lost tongue—her birth heritage—and to make herself known as an equal in blood to those around hcer that Canim may not tear her from them 18 peculiariy thrilling.” Report of the Smithonian Institution, One of the functions of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington is the diffusion of knowledge in language ‘“‘understanded of the people”; so that, while most of Its works are intended primarily for the spe- clalist, there s an exception made by the secretary in publishing an appendix to hie report, which is in fact an annual summary of the most interesting events of the scientific year, prepared for that large body of the public which does not care for professional memoirs, but has a general interest in such mafters. This popular volume for 1901 is before us. It contains fifty articles, many of them il- lustrated, nearly all prepared by masters of the respective subjects, but telling in clear and interesting language of the latest progress In all the principal branches of knowledge. A short sketch of the history and ths work of the Smithsonian Institution be- gins with a paragraph from President Rceosevelt’s first message to Congress, in which he calls attention to the intitu- tion’s functions and its present needs. ‘The paper further states that the Smith- sonian Institution, which is composed of the President and his cabinet, and the Vice President and Chief Justice of the United States, has a remarkable organi- zation for the administration of funds for the promotion of science. Its activities could be still further increased if it had greater means at its absolute disposal; while those who are thinking of giving for some special scientific object may yet find the regents, on account of the peculiarly disinterested position they hold, the best counselors in suggesting the channel into which gifts for public purposes might be directed, even should they not see their way clear to accepting such donations for the institution itself. “Bodies Smaller Than Atoms” is the title of an interesting paper, and as we read YThe Laws of Nature,” “The Great- est Flying Creature” and “The Fire Walk Ceremony” at Tahiti, we are reminded of the wide range of subjects included in the report. Wireless telegraphy, transatlan- tic telephoning, and the telephonograph, are discussed by experts in electrical pro- gress/ Attention ought also to be .cnlled to papers on utilization of the sun’'s ens ergy, the Bogosloff Volcanoes of Alaska, forest destruction, irrigation, the chil- dren’s room at the Smithsonian, the sub- marine boat, a new African animal called the Okapi, pictures by prehistoric cave- dwellers in France, automobile races, the dinosaurs or terrible lizards that once lived in America, and Mr. Thompson Se- ten’s paper on the National Zoological Park at Washinggon. The whole volume has been called *the best popular scientific periodical published in the world.” The Smithsonian Reports are distribu- ted by the institution to libraries throughout the world; may be had by purchase at cost from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington City, and may also generally be obtained free of charge from the applicant's member of Congress. Folly in the Fores: The Henry Altemus Company, Philadel- rhia, has just published an attractive book of fairy tales by Carolyn Wells en- titled “Folly in the Forest.” In Miss ‘Wells’ books there is always ‘‘something geing on” from start to finish, and for this reason they are interesting to young people. It certainly requires mental adroitness to evolve a ‘“forest of the past” and people it with the creatures of mythology, history and literature, but when the perennially interesting ‘‘Folly™ is Introduced the whole becomes little short of inspiration. Miss Wells' treatment of her characters is consistent. She has a genlus for hu- morous exaggeration, and this, with her play of imagination, leaves with the reader a charm of quaint suggestion and flavor that is alluring to a degree. No child.can resist this charm, and, better yet, can fail to acquire a taste for the literature from which the author has taken Pegasus, the Sphinx, the geess that saved Rome, Crusoe's goat, Poe’s raven and other famous denizens of this famous forest. (Price $1.) Literary Notes. ‘While Theodore Roosevelt was Gov- ernor of New York and before his nomi- nation for the Vice Presidency he wrote expressly for the Youth’s Companion an article' on “The Presidency.” Nothing could have been further from the thought of the distinguished author and of his countrymen than his elevation so soon to the office whose duties and prerogatives he discusses in this paper. In the light of events that have since occurred these ut- terances-of Mr, Roosevelt acquire unusual THE CONQUEST Mrs. Dye’s great American romance will be published November 12. “The ~J true story of Lewis and Clark.” public interest and make the coming num- ber of the Youth’s Companion a notable one. The first annual exhibit of contempo- rary art in bookbinding by the Bookbind- ers’ Guild of California will be held at 238 Post street from November 14 to Novem- ber 30. The number of studios recently opened in California having for their pur- pose the production of bookbinding of the highest technical quality, combined with decorative design of art value, will be a general surprise. This exnibit will pre- THROUGH Tae \ ) | AP 6P rsue p \ AR AwHIP L. ININD oF VYAPOR: N7 SIS sent examples of local work together with those of French, English and American binders. The exhibit marks an import- ant advance and will be distinctly inter- esting. Though Anthony Hope writes so well about women, and can picture them in their most fascinating moods—and no- where more effectively than in. his latest story, “The Intrusions of Peggy—he him- self seems quite impervious to feminine attractions. He has at present a bachel- or’s flat in the Savoy Mansions, close to the Savoy Hotel on the Thames embank- ment, whicu i8 furnished in old-fashioned mahogany. The walls are hung with a number of rare colored prints, of which Mr. Hope is a discriminating collector. He is alse fond of gport, and was former- 1y an enthusiastic and prominent football player, but for some time past has aban- doned that stressful sport In favor of golf. The Whitaker & Ray Company, San Francisco, has just lssued three pam- phlets of interest to educators. One of these is volume one in a series of “Practi- cal Aids to Literature” and contains the two selections, “The Legend of Sleepy Hol- low” and “Rip Van Winkle,” from the “Sketch Book” by Washington Irving. Both selections have been very ably pro- vided with notes, questions, suggestions on teaching, ete., for school use, by J. W. Graham, Superintendent of Schools of Kings County, California. The other u;\ pamphlets are Nos. 1 and 2 in-the Western Mathematics Seéries. No. 1 is by Professor J. 8. Hunter and is a “Business Man's Arithmetic,”” centaining an application of a natural principle eof numbers to the solution of all business problems, independent of set rules and with fewer figures than are used in oper- ating with any other method known to business men. No. 2 of the series is an ‘“Elementary Arithmetic of the Octimal Notation,” by George H. Cooper, a system that does away with much of the tedious and involved work of the decimal system now in yse. The price of each pamphlet is 25 cents. Other than the interesting bits of art and literary gossip from the pen of “The Lounger,” the following make up the con- tents of The Critic for November: Imaginary ~Conversation at Skibo,” “Emile Zola,” lllustrated, Walter Little. field; “The Apotheosis of Henry Jame: J. P. Mowbray; “The Topical Point of View,” Geruld Stanley Lee; ‘“Eleonora Duse,” illustrated, Walter' Littlefield; “Literary Landmarks of New York,” il- listrated (fifth paper), Charl Herm- street; 7 neau; Phillpotts; From Last Century'; “‘Irls’ and Her Predecessors,” J. Ranken Towse; “‘Views of Reviewers on Reviewing,” George Sands Goodwin; “Philip James Balley,” ¥F.dmund Gosse, ‘Pletro_Mascagnl (with drawings by Carlo de Fornaro), G. P. Centanini; “Books of To-day and Books of To-morrow,” “Arthur Pendenys”; The Book-buyers Guide, Library Reports on Popular Books. “Letters and Reminiscences Sunset, a magazine under the able ed- itorship of Charles Alken, published monthly by the passenger department of the Seuthern Pacific Company, has a par- ticularly interesting number for Novem- ber. The follawing is the contents: “Thanksgiving at Rocky Guich” (poem and frontispiece), Arthur J. Burdick; “Sal- mon Fishing Off Monterey,” J. Parker Whitney; “Discharging a Philippine Army” (in four parts—part three, study of the important work of the United States Army at Angel Island, San Francisco Harbor), Captain John P. Finley, U. S. A.; “A Californian Thanksgiving”’ (poem), Charles Keeler; “Mine Eyes Unto the Hills” (a romance of the Coast Range of California, chapter 1), Flora Haines Loughead; “The Strong Eternal Sound' (poem), John Vance Cheney; “To the Wild - Aszalea” (poem), M. Brewerton de Witt “Why?" (study of recent convention Fed- eration Women's Clubs), Mrs. Robert J. Burdette; “In the Shasta Country,” Em- ma Seckle Marshall; “Rubber and How It Grows” (a sketch of the industry in Mex- ico); “Opportunity” (poem), John J. In- galls; *“Anita’s Sacrifice’” (short story), Arthur J. Burdick; “On the Western Rim of a Busy Continent” (first paper, sun- shine and shower), Alexander McAdie; “Celery for Commerce,” Auguste M. Ca- hill; “Churn Creek's Bear Hunt" (short story), Charles Howard Shinn; “The Mes- The photographs on this page are by Frederick C. Yohn. They form a part of the illustrations, in color, of Jack London’s new novel, “A Daughter of the Snows.” (Copyright, 1902, by Jack London.) | TR o DT B S i sage of the Bell” (poem), Amy Dudley; Scuiptor Aitken's bust of the late Presi- dent MecKinley, full-page illustration; “Range Improvement in Arizona,” David Griffiths; “Klamath Lake in Oregon,” Caspar W. Hodgson; “Among Oregon Apples,” “A Harvard Man”; “The East and the West” (essay), Kathryn White; “California Mineral Products,” Lewis E. Aubury and G. E. Bailey; “Quicksilver Mining at Libertad” (full-page illustra- tion); “At Close of Day” (pocem), E. C. Tompkins: *“School Extension as Begun in San Francisco” (essay), Victor O'Brien; ‘““California” (poem), R. E. Boyns. 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