The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 11, 1903, Page 12

- (] THE SUNDAY CALL. sz‘ e se o TR X Sl 3 5 % 2 S o fumph of Tempera on" 2 e ifferent book son. ‘I'M goin’ north. An’ when I've found example, In “The Tri "re lumped. g warm in cotton and send 'em down to T T (e e sy Roaiiag All ,'7;:-' eald ‘step up to the and have 'em hatched. That's whe :hn ves (B Rl o€ M fottte dws &% elves and we'l Now here's farm’ll come in. You've got' to have & over mysell. farm and turkeys or big hens if you want to opening fight to go to the bedside of the s to bave a v nings in raise auks Then Il go on leokin, and, most woman who had onee been her rival, but ¥e Sinie = k. ofe e “TH get & coupis marer who now lies sick and in dire need of help Elegant Extra * sald Joe; That'll be a good thing.' sald Abner; ‘the “The Btory of a Friendship” may weil be ar o re the merrier. T'll go In with you, Jos the story of the friendship that existad #o perfectly between Augustin Daly anl Ada Rehan. The sad life of Georgia Cay van also furnishes the motif for anothe: arson. That's the sort of business that'll Just suit me. But I'll tell you one thing, Joe: 't put the price of them eggs down T'd walt until & couple of dozen had E,” said Abner, Jaid and blowed, and then, perhaps, I'd one of the storles; and so on through [ he price down.' ¢ the 5 = them all it is easy to piek out from No, sl said Joe; ‘I'll_put the rice 2 ny o R e e~ down at the Wary beginting. Slxtoen Banired stories the threads that trace thelr con up the search. ‘I don't believe there's a book JOlars, or three thousand for two, lsyencugh ception back to the stern rea of ‘!"r any eges, and we oughter be satisfled wita b d place,’ said he, he hasn’t got no the wh real theatrical life. This little volume makes very good reading and Is a gift book that would be appreclated by any devotes of the theater. A Tour in Mexico. “A Tour in Mexico,” by Mrs. Edwin Morris, is a book that will appeal on eggs ‘ ‘And when are you goln' to start north? Abner. t's Kow Spm ey the p'int’ sald Pearson, ‘that's You eee, Abner, I ain't got no fam- I can start north whenever I please, that's ned. But there's ob- ne thing. I ain’t got the right then there's other things. immediately answer, ts of stlent considera- and closed it ¢ by James p p ' Un’ out on\g business to lovers of books of travel—particularly e AR e (e to those interested in Mexico and her 1o it, Joe.' said Abnmer. ‘1 progress. This work is full of informa- u can do it. It be black- tion on the financial and intellectual de- 3 g i but yowll be blackgum, country. THe Hiustra- s sa A sta back. n- and y 1 all right.' K \|elovmenlh:: ;::rL:,-u\n:n{y :nlf-tone re- e given .1 can’t be blackgum nor nothin’ else,’ sald tions num ot hs taken espe- y If T don't get o help; speclally if BRANCHoSa: 61, photogts phs e I don't get no help from the party what's goin: clally for the volume and serve to illumi- H to get a lot of the money.’ nate fully the three hundred and odd : Abner reflected ‘If we was to set any auk eggs next month it'll be on Into next pages that make up the contents of the [ mer before we'd have eg, book. It is published by the Abbey Press, A - r ‘earson also reflected. ‘Yes,' he sai New York. Boston have just = cht be a little later than that. You _— 3 2 ; : Bits of Stable Lor : R eave a margin. I allus leave a mar- cking Rhymes. CONDUCTED BY r I'm sate Rollicking Rhym the well know D . fhen Tl Poems on the good old alphabetical plan gtk B. G. LATHROP o man of resourcetul dis- are always In favor. Such a book is “Rol- D00k which ept h - - — . by N. W. Bingham, published by Henr ¥ t aafl to you d il o Voo ase ,”;?J‘u;:j‘l‘ ,.‘,:,3 A{' chkermnn‘h San.p Boston. The pla; ed from photographs c Ll b 10 other man know nothin’ about ft. I a of the book fs a plcture and a verse for v elze should hear of this thing, and 3 and get ahead of me, it would be— n't know what to gay it would be, feelin's about it. I've offered tu because vou've got a farm, and n, and would Those who enjoy a good story of good, wholesome people wi asure in readin Farmer and Fisherm Sibley. Mr. Sibley know oody Here is one well, each letter of the alphabet. for the letter Y: Y s a Yankee, long-legged and lank, Commonly called by the sobriquet “‘Yank." Yanked in: and Mexico, John Bull ana auks when they was Spain, E i i ot i e And is Teady, If need be, to yank them again, 2N DFings the sturdy people of the M r ¥ time tablex; YANKANKEROUS YANKEE. :'800231 b_:_fh‘m you in a viv 131 1n: rest- & top in to-morrer, — ng way. The story appeared in shorter azain Animals Before Man. form last spring in the Boston Her: a serial and attracted sufficient atte: PRI e A B 14 as In “Animals Before Man,” bv Dr. F. ton PRLAPIED WAKING been a great A. Lucas, curator of the division of com- to warrant its preservation as & book. It ne on_eggs & teat one on eggs parative anatomy, United States National Is published by John S. Brooks & Com- e 3 x Abner. hteen 1 ever knowed 189 1o, now. the thing Museum, Washington, the author gives pany, Boston. Price, §1 50. i 4503 “u'd be just as good 4~ dome. en she knows Great auk what us an authoritative study of an impertant subject. He has pictured the early life of our continent, telling of the extinct he has been at work for nearly two years, d"of us she oughter go In t to say about {t." ““The significance of these reflections depend- That's six all I've Churchill Willlams" new novel, on which « : " se f cha Joe Pearso ed !;fxl;'r(h; v.uhm:v V[Ll[ B-mrm] 'hlrdh:: and well-nigh forgotten animals of the it s now stated, will be ready in January. pe at_are atkin’ abo small inco as upon this a & & a ab akin there devended the other fact that t e e three meals a day In the Batterfle! hold. It was this fact, also, which was ths “When Abner reached his chamber he found Tu wite .q;unz quietly by the table, on Which with a jealous eye. Finally it is instru- jurned & lamp. g 2 Wellot said he. I thought you'd be abed Mental in blowing up his plant. As the and asieep!’ trust magnates control the Legislature of © 'l didn't want to do gy talkin' out front,’ the State Jarvis has no hope of securing The great ofl trust watche: his progress “maw illustrations on this page are from Frank R. Stock- ton’s last book, “John Gay- ther’s Garden.” imma0 Charles Scrib- —— show you the figures.” w sat down and lea of 'em—fresh on visit to the Iibrary. quainted with Abner, gl- Batterfleld but slightly; of Lve Pearson" as very well ac lough he knew Mrs. but he was aware of h “After refiect or half an hou s readers when : 8 - | Apart from scerce- no bettern any other in market now, Ing for about twenty minutes n the exciting proposition de to him, Abner grew very use of my stayin' here,’ »dy goin’ ‘to get out em’s blowed.’ 50 T'll just shut up shop I never did want to see Mrs, uch as 1 want to see her now.’ Libraries seem to shut up early,’ husband walked sald Abner, and go home. tterfleld as m your idea about # hat's what I'm going’ There's a general notion that ‘In summer- the Stocktonian their exgs are so _ “All the way from town he had been re- hearsing to himself the stor: 2 y he was going to wanted to get it all s 80 he walked on an inverted raight before he began. all straight he comcluded not after super. ed, and everything had b you find ‘em traight before he began, Over to the barn and sat down horse bucket to get his story When he got it to- tell 1t until But when that meal wi been cleared away, and , Batterfield had gone to sit on The sront porch, as was her evening custom, he by her and told his story. s ‘‘He made the tale as attra bly could make it. that Joe Pearson intended to for sixteen hundred instead dred, and he diminished by very many hun. dred miies the length of Joe Pearson's probable journey te the north. of variety to the stories great auks somewhere. 1 out where them great ut of possibilities in £ pogbicogh six hundred * “Would you ctive as he possi- He even omitted the fact sell his first eggs of eighteen hun- , or perbaps a t if we get a lot e reading is that rea You can't catch dn’t sell no exgs at all t T'd keep the busi- Abner, I've been 1 about this thing. You've out the lively sixpence and the slow seil them auk . had his suppo- the rematni; ercat auk would have bee erate dispositions, so far specimens of the birds of very temy latitude was concerned. “‘Mrs. Batterfield listen s made 8o many happy as has Frank R. Stock- ed with great atten- She was enkaged upon some sewing on yes were fixed, but her ears dranl rd that Abner said. t finished she laid down her sewin, beginning to get a little dark and remarked: some warm clothes? Furs, I suppose? i sald Abner; n extract from one of the * Thunder.” Ab- two for $3000. When he had g, for it was for even her ‘And he wants )t make me believe that two such fools.” e of my life,” £ald the Old Pro- “I have known several of them.” P inquired the &harp eyes, the world—to becbme, like the rvious to lightni expect they'd be /And traveling expenses? she asked. 1 suppose he'd want help in that r makin' me such a he'll expect me to put in some- t at first daunt the suddenly ner, o he goes to the st step on the road to ces to guard the mething just as impra Of course, since he’ the Mistrees of the House. G aid ““They are more likely friends were to find what Abner looked at would be better than , “Mrs. Batterfleld made no reply, but folded up her sewing and went indoors. He waited until she had time to retire, then he closed ouse and went up himselr, She'll want to sleep on that," said he; 41 be a good thing for her to sleep on it. She mayn't like it at first, but I'll go at her &g'in to-morrer, and I'm goin' to stick to it. 1 reckon it'll be the worst rassle we ever had: but it's blackgum ag'in thunder, t of his in- which ter. times for Ab- xplains thelr ct them eggs? rth,’ said Pearson; r Torth you go the more likely you are r ter - . € ny books on eggs? * ‘But I don't want you to Mme. Adam, whose pen name, Jullette Lamber, Is also her malden name. The present volume is the first of a series of autobiographical recollections which she is now writing. It relates to a childhood and-youth that were remarkably roman- tic. Ehe has toid the stoiy only a brilliant French woman can. Mme. Adam bhas Leen a writer since 188, At the time of the Franco-German war her husband was Prefet de Police in Paris. She remalned with him during tLat eventful period and published an ac- count of expericnces in 1575 Since then she has been the author of a long line of successful volumes in almost every department of popular literature. More than thirty years ago she started the Nouvelle Revue, which she has continued to conduct ever since with marked ability and notable succe: Her fortnightly ar- ticles on forelgn politics have attracted wide attention. Under the emplire she had in Paris a political salon which was much frequent- ed by the best men of that time and the memory of which still survives among the older lights of Parisian soclety. It is understood that her memoi have been in process of production since 1385. The: are certain to arouse an interest to which few books of French memoirs in late years have been comparable Plerre Loti has already given an ap- preciative and appropriate word of wel- come to her first book. In writing a re- view of “The Romance of My Childhood and Youth" for the Figaro he finds the keynote to the whole book in its first sén- tence. ““As I advance in age,” says Mme, Adam, ‘“one of the things that astonish me most is the singular clearness of my recollections of my youth. The youth of this “great ardent soul,” as Loti calls her, was so filled with inci- dent, so thronged with beautiful deeds, and was so beautifully quick and alive that the promise of these recollections is singularly alluring. She is reliving her life for a younger gemeration, and -l who read may share in the delicious freshness and purity of a spirit that was once ung but which can never grow old. “It is a curious thing,” says Mme. Adam, “the effort of an aged spirit to bring back its earllest memories.”” But lerre Lot! thinks, and all who read this book will agree with him, that the young, fresh spirit portrayed therein was en- dowed with*so much of youth that it must ever remain young. “We are to have her as she was,” says Lotl, “her actual personality, the little Juliette, living a life so fresh, one per- ceives, by a consclentious and superior power, and presented to us without being retouched—exactly as she should be. And one prefers'her so, one already loves this little girl with her open heart. She im- presses herself upon our affections from the day that she enters the chiidren’s €chool and confesses to the rabbits, ‘My good rabbits, T have a grandmother who no longer loves me.’” Toti' sees an ex- quisite picture, unconsciously drawn by the writer, of her own girlhood The Romance of My Childhood and Youth” is published by D. Appleton & Co., New York. Price §1 40. Eshek—The Oppressor. “Eshek—The Oppressor,” by Mrs. Gert- rude Potter Daniels, is a novel of de- cidedly melodramatic cast, published by the Madison Book Company, Chicago. The purnose of the book Is to arra'gn capital as opposed to labor. This gives some slight interest to the work, as its author is the daughter of riches. The story savors too strongly of theatrical effects to have any lasting value or real worth, Here s a synopsis of the book: Jarvis Kennedy, a friendless youth, out of work and with no money, steals a ‘woman’s purse. Later in a quarrel over its contents he accldentally kills a man, a low character, who had been a witness to his act. In his desperation Jarvis turns to the West as a refuge. In Arizona he falls in with two invallds, a husband and wife, and journeys with them. Upon their death he assumes the guardianship of their little daughter, Theodora. Jarvis goes to Texas, where he places Theodora in a conyent. Years pass and Jarvis rises in the world. He becomes interested in the oil industry and forms a company to build a refinery. s s taid she. for tiere anight be people passif’ redress throush recourse to law. The peo- sis B e o ackink You said this, Waf 1 plo decide that the only way to defeat g y Yes,' saic Abner, in a somewhat uncer- the Eastern company is to elect a Gover- fin- tain tone. nor who is privately the business enemy . Well. then.' mald Mre. Bauerfeld. ‘TMm of the trust. Jarvis accepts the nomina- sk n day 1 2 tion. On the eve of election day he is 3 g < “It was very late when that couple went to b bed, but it was very early the next morning charged with the murder unwittingly t when Abner rose. He split a great dea! of @ré- committed years before. Theodora, grown i Tood before breakiast, and very soon ~Aief to womanhood, has learned to love him. ' . that meai he vot his Eos on bis shepider 964 1, Sho"Hour of his meed dhe -Temaneh ) . there were three rows of corn which he had steadfast ; : ! hoed upon only one side.' Jarvis has a friend who through his K — experiments in_electricity has discovered e Romance of My Childhood and Youth the secret of life and death, and while One of the most interesting women the police are planning to arrest the whom French society and public life have cuged man this friend carries him off to known since the time of Mme. de Stael is his home. When the officeks arrive with the warrant the m they seek is dea.l. The final curtam falls on Jarvis showing evidence of reviv. Essentials in Ancient History. Among the winter publications of the American Book Compa New York, is “Essentlals in_ Ancient History,” by Arthur Mayer W n. Ph.D., assistant in history De Witt Clinton High School, New York. This is the lirst to appear of a four-volume series, prepared on the plan recommended b the committee of seven, under the al editorship of Professor Albert Bushnell Hart of Har- vard. It is a concise book, with a definlie purpo: inciudi only the essentiais, presented In a way both comprehensibie and interesting to boys and girls. It con- tams+ work tor one school year. each pter being intended for a week's study. The book deals only with influential men and mportant piace s0 that the pupil will gain a clear idea of the charac.ers and careers of the great men of antlquity and location and importance of ail the centers of ancient eivilization. The nu- merous maps indicate physieal and po- litical conditions and show only the places menticned in the text. At the end of €ach chapter are lists of topics for further study and research, bibliographies of parallel reading and references to both anclent and modern authorities. The illustrations, while adding to the attrac- tiveness of the book, have been chosen primarily with the purpese of accurately explaining the text. The book is an im- portant addition to the volumes avail- able for college preparatory work in his. story. The price of the book, half leather, 8 vo, 528 pages, is $1 50. Glimpses of China. “Glimpses of China and Chinese Homes,” by Fdward S, Morse, is a book that will interest all those who have any curiosity regarding the, to us, novel home life of the Chinesa. Edward Morse wus formerly professor of zpology in the Im- perial UniverSity, Tokio, and besides hav- ing made a close study of affatrs Orien- tal has also several books to his credit. His four years' residence in Japan, r sulting in his well-known book, “Japan- ese Homes and Their Surroundings,” an- the quarto “‘Catalogue of Japanese Pot- tery,” published by the Museum of F Arts, Boston, was a thorough training for the journaist's work in China. During a ehort visit to China, Professor Morse en- dexvored to study more particularly the dumestic w of the people, and espe- ciaily to skeich in rapld outline their rooms, kitchens and the homely details of domestic life. His deseription of street scenes, a Manchu drill-room, Chinese mob, street magicians, a pottery town, food, ciothing and many other details of Chi- nese life are particularly interesting. The hook is iliustrated with more than ffty sketches from the author's journal. The closing paragraph of the work shows that Professor Morse regards Chinese life in a different light from that generally ac- cepted by our civilization. Here is what he sars: “The Chinese must certainly lament that they are not strong enough to issue an edict excluding the foreigners from their country, for the forelgners have al- 1eady wrought untoid calamities for their people, just as the free admission of the Chinese to our country would in the end werk untold miseries for us.” “Giimpses of China” is published by Little, brown & Co., Boston. Price, $150. By the Stage Door. Good stories of theatrical life are ever acceptable. There is a romance connect- €d with stage life that séems to appeal to Americans and it only needs a clever writer to find the willing ear of the read ing public. A volume of short stories has 1ecently been published by the Grafton Press, New York, that will be found filled Wwith good entertainment of this kind. It is "By the Stage Door,” by Miss Ada Pat- terson, a young New York newspaper woman of talent. The author’s newspaper duties have brought her Into close con- tact with the people of the theatrical world, so her work savors of a realism that is generally found lacking in stories of this character. The present volume contains eleven stories in varying veln, many of the characters of which evident- ly have their prototypes In real life. For hat its title wil The publishers announce be “The Capta who fllustrated most completed the The chief figure in the st an American wi every one in th 1t will be publi ishing Compa been published by The University, t paper and is 10xI2 In the fishes that once swam about R = in swamps and the mammais that roamed the Western plains. one see examples of them in some great ne includes all the bet pletures of the buildings a gether with many new ones. that some brought from another world of research have pl paratively speaking, u Lucas, com- on familiar terfs age, and his manner of treating his topic in a book not importance, but readable and of It is published by D New York. That Frederic Remington should rly as he draws arouses comment new volume, the contrary, Mr g for some yea has been wri Literary Notes. comments of The Lounger The Critic for January, 193, con- “Sundown Leflare & Brothers, for whom most orK, both with pen and b “Mr. Howells' Rechauf- “Letters and Remi- from Last Century;” “What M de Nolhac Has Done at Versailles “Everyman,” (Nustrated), “Bjornstjerne John Nilsen Laurvik: Maxim Gorky,"” J. P. Mowbray New Rochelle, New York, wt To this dwellir . is one of the most interesting In the cc try—a veritable museum of “propertie used by Mr. Remington in his drawg and paintings of Indian and cowboy in the great Southwest. with his wife, will spend of the winter in Caiifornia. a morality play (lustrated), (illustrated), “The Decay of Charles Hemstreet: Novel,” Benjamin Swift; “The Previcus- ness of Perlodicals,”” Annie Nathan Mey- er; “Chateaubriand” (with portrait) A. L A batch of ““Aladdin O'Brien,"” “Lord Alingham, Bank- Captain Mack- “The Henchman," M. H. Vorse; “The Darling of tha Gods” (a Japanese play criticized by a Japa- Ballade of Francois Vilion, Books of Belles-Lettres: “An Introduction to the Sclentific Study of English Poetry,” 2. “Fashions in Literature,” A. L du P. Coleman; ‘“Books of To-day and Books of To-morrow,” Arthur Pendenys; “The Book-Buyer's Guide” ports on Popular Books. the remainder Atwood Pratt; 2. ROLLICKING Isabel Moore; 3. Norman Gask; 4. A. Dickerman & Sou THE LOVER" A TOUR OF.ME) D. Swain: ob EFODES AND CARME “The Burled Tem- SAECULARE—E HISTORY— By Wolfson, Ph.D. The American Library Re- ited by Isidore Singer. Pt b Wagnalls Company, Ik Funk & Messrs. Little, Brown & Company of