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WRITES Jeremy Taylor. i t sology, bu m hie rare s that appeal and the beat of re has been ra :ppre- hy as this patient and f v 1 Gosse's. It etters had to the shade v that f the ese 150 again grapher. His toward an ex- life and inspira- Jeremy seventeenth f the position the world re a biog- ogian than of th= Gosse finds a fertile fund $ of Taylor's ophy which a hing its bi s directed more sweet ht which was review ho ngs the on with a erest—Taylor’s s definition of future pun- ; discreet- he uncom- the old school the rest, which with definite <A the Pit kable depth and sensibility. ot = in Inverse free h set it ) vy with a defin'te he whose poet boundle: 2 out, no ur English literature h of the poet as Tay- the uage of the s he intellect, J n some of his grandest s is nothing else but the poet Wit rue poetic insight he - is ever r the thought in the t suit the harmony, lest and yet the y which to bring out Like a poet, too, true poetic. life to death f fa the terful purpose that was h he biographer is able. to picture for the first time Jeremy Tay- Jor, the man (The Ma n Company, New York.) 1703 s FOLK SONGS @nd English Ballads. HIONE d that w Walton, the 1gs and D poetry but 15 the ra are tal dance of the inspiration from classic Greek a eys and n formed the f perfect poetry or has the song sed with the full ac- our national English remains to-day and the strong force of letters, expressing m of the sim- f patriotism and a view to bringing alth of Doric verse ich shall express both e < e ment a affiliation with § ‘movements and national sen- essor Charles Mills | Professor Martin C. University of Cali- red the book, “Poetry polished re is r ever remain have pr tion of verses the joint editors have erial from English, Irish, American folk songs, bal- ds le hymns, covering a range which makes it complete. Reaching far pack into the early @ays of English when poetry of the as yet ming, they have their work with the rare old of “Sir Patrick Spens,” “The of Otterbourne” and selections the “Gest of Robin Hood.” Then follow the stirring English battle songs, erouped according to their historical epochs, and songs of sentiment from palladists, both of the old and latter unique com th fo te 3 time. The same arrangement s fol- lowed with Irish, Scotch and American verse, until the lateat worthy writings of the class serve to close the volume. To elucidate the archalc diction in some of the older ballads and to supply a y context of comment upon the subjects of the poems and songs lected, the editors have devoted pages to glossary and notes, In a foreword Professor Gayley has something to say about the value, here- tofore underestimated, of the study of these poems of the people, He feels thet this golden treasury of rhyme from all ages of the history of our Eng lish Janguage is a part of our literary inheritance no less than the more class- -l- fifty ical works of the great poets. They should make an app he rightly be- lievy to the s!mple sense of the ro- mantic, the sentimental and the patri- otic that is in us all, for poetry of this nature is far more the poetry of the heart than is that high! polished 1t - call ature of the intellect which we classics. Such verse as that which the editors have collected has a lesson of pure esthetic pleasure which can be ore readily felt than that derived the higher forms. For those who can remember with sorrow the agony, once endured in of committing to memory intelligible “Thanatopsis” * bit by bit “‘Tintern r Gayley would carry balm, for he belleves that ‘ger grinding” of dur mmster- by vouthful mindsnot capable understanding and appreciaition is an egregious sin—as do all of us who have passed through that fiery furnace school da the the this pleces 1l arvel that it i ave any love for good literature left in us. sor Gayley: little book can contribute toward exploding the fal- that poetry something other t poetry—mater forsooth, for translation, pa trope-hunting, rhetorical exe platitudinous preaching or anvthing else extraneous to art—it will have accompli q at least half the purpese of the editors. Of course good poetry has a Jesson for him who can feel it Like all good things it cannot heip blessing those who take it on faith. The favors are not for those who conquer, those who surrender. The best v study it is not to study but to er (Ginn & Co., Boston; price, 50 ¢ ) Gt 21 JAPANESE System of ‘Jiu-Jitsu.” LMOST every cable is humming accounts of the startling ty of the Japanese in their struggle with Russia. Even those in Europe who are not ardent sympathiz- ers with the little brown men are forced to applaud the lightning strokes of their and the telling blows which have landed upon their pondero adversary even before-he ha 1 to pull himself together for the This Japanese “fiu- pon a grand nifestation into practice u is the direct m system of bodily training more serfect than was ever taught In Doric schools, which has been used in Nippon for more than 2500 years for the train- ing of her warriors. To read the recent book upon “jiu-jitsu” from the pen of H. Irving Hancoc is at the present time to supply oneself with a key to the proper understanding of the Mikado's campaigns up to date and to an appr ciation of the it which moves J pan’s fighting men. Mr. Hancock says that he undertook the task of writing “Japanese Physical Trair * in order that he might dem- onstrate why it is that the diminutive Japanese possess the greatest endur- ance of any people upon earth, and are likewise the strongest and happiest men and women in the world. Besides revealing all of the intricacies of this unusual system of bodily culture, the author shows how it is that the dietary standards, the free use of water and love of fresh air affected by the Mika- do's subjects result in their almost perfect physique and lightness of spirit. Without the simple rules of right living and proper dressing followed by the Japanese the remarkable muscular de- velopment attendant upon assiduous practice of “jiu-jitsu” cannot be ob- tained. One has only to read the opening chapters of Hancock’s book to dis- cover the cause for the rapid successes which have come to the Japanese arms, It seems that “jiu-jitsu” was discov- ered and practiced by the old Samurai or warriors of the earliest Japanese dynasties, who occupied a position toward the common people somewhat similar to that of the ancient Spartans to the helots and were of a conse- quence forced to maintain their posi- tion by strength of arms. From that time “jiu-jitsu” became more and more popular until at the present time there are schools of the art throughout the whole of Japan, and it is made com- pulsory in both branches of the mili- THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. tary. The effects of it upon the Jap- anese army were shown in the ad- vance of the allles in China in 1900 when thev outmarched our own Amer- ican troops by 50 per cent, and Russia will doubtless tness such results again and to her sorrow when serious land overations are commenced. grand work of “jlu-jitsu” is based unon a proper diet and the prac- tic a perfect hydropathy. The Jap- anese believe that we meat-eaters and full I'vers work our stomachs altogeth- er too much. A handful of carefully prepared rice, some fish, a little salad of greers and fruits, according to thelr idea, are amnle to support the body and the greatest play to an-active.and thy mind. This frugal dlet, coupléd with constant draughts of pure water and innumerable baths, serve to bring the b in “jiu-i up.to the very pink of condition. Not only that, but the 1 that such a s tem ad nary or diges tive disorcers & rheumatism is known only to the very old. The secret of the actual practices of Jluzjitsu™ lies in the constant appli- cation ry muscle to a hardening and tighte ying process which permits greatest exvenditure of foree least tax of energy. Muscular development is attained through en- tirely different means than those em- ployed in Western gymnasiums. All paraph 2 is sensed with. By the simple vroces: the struggle be- tween two contestants, modified in va- rious forms wherein hand grips, leg holds and falls are the only mediums for development utilized, a “jiu-jitsu” student w g 120 pounds may learn to wors h or American ath- lete half again as h y He is quick to cause the very efforts of his oppo- nent to re upon their source with red He knows how to paralyz rsary by a blow with the edge of the hand so that he may become uttérly helpless. A pinch in the muscle, a cuick trip from hind and the heaviest man can be put on his back in an instant. As war bulletins read now it looks as if little Japan’'s scheme for the per- fection of the body and the alertness of the intellect is doing all that Han- cock claims it. One reading his book cannoct but feel that he has made out a good c; for *“jlu-jitsu,” and that it might be introduced into our own country with profit to the race. (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York; illustrated.) CORPORATIONS Subject of Legal Tome. VERY few additions to the science be- for of the law have equaled elther in scope or importance the remarka- bly exhaustive work upon “Corpora- tions” which comes from the pen of Judge Seymore D. Thompson in the form of volume 10 of the American Law Book Company’s Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure. This comprehensive study of a peculiarly knotty problem of the law, the result of twenty years of labor- on the part of the leading legal author of the present day, may be said to be monumental both in its compass and in the authority which the author’s name imparts to it. It is now about nine years since the first volume of Judge Thompson’s “Commentaries on the Law of Corpo- rations” was given to the public. By that work the author, whose fame was already established in this country, achieved international reputation. The work has’taken a high place in coun- trles where a knowledge of the lan- guage in which it is written is con- fined to the erudite. This work is now out of print. On.this account, there- fore, the pyblication of the new treatise by the same author, citing as it does the recent cases, and tracing the later development of the law, is a matter which must be of the greatest interest to the profession, both here and abroad. The space actually taken up by this treatise covers 1363 pages and is equal in size to three ordinary volumes of textbooks. The whole law of private corporations having a joint stock is ‘kerosene, ammonia, tea, embraced, except that which properly falls under the head of foreign corpo- rations and which will be treated un- der its own title in a later volume by the same author, Some idea of the exhaustiveness of the treatment and of the carefulness with swhich the detail is worked out may be gathered from the fact that the analysis covers 142 large octavo pages. The writer has taken whatever space seemed to be necessary to the full and_clear statement of the law The notes are voluminous and include everything useful-yand necessary by whay ‘of explanatfon and ‘Hiistration. The examination of the authorities cited must have involved a tremendous amount of labor, since the.citation em- braces on a conservative estimate about 25000 decided ca Owing to many recent cases in corporation ltiga- tion esnecial interest attaches to Judge Thompson's chanters upon “Consolida- tion or Amalgamation of Corporations,” “Liability of Shareholders to Creditors of Corporations,” “Rights and Reme- dies of Shareholde! b and Crimes of Corporations” and “Actions by and Against Corpdrations.” When the layman a‘temnts a review of a work of this character, unlettered in the law though he may be, he cannot fail to note with wonder the remarkable fund of knowledge wkich has been brought to bear upon iis preparation. Before such a heaping up of citations, opinions of Judges and decrees of courts the untutored mind shrinks and turns back uvon itself as if suddenly brought face to face with the revelation of another world. (American Law York; sold only REVIEWS s, New opedia.) Book Comp: h entir ey E all remember that delightful In Form More Brief. member of the trio in “Three W Men in a Boat ho greed de- voured the nages of doctors’ hooks un- til he was not certain v ther he was possessed of locomctor ataxia or house- maid’s knee. Any one reading Aristocracy of Health,” by, Dr. M Henderson (femme), will be in a far worse plight than the third man in the boat, for if ever the sins of frail man- kind were called un to torture craven souls with their grisly shapes this is that time. All of the Woman's Chris- tian Temperance Union lectures of ail time rolled into one cannot begin to ap- proximate the overwhelming condem- nation of human vices which. rolis its sonorous message from ‘“The Aristo- cracy of Health.” « “The human race is il. The human race i{s anaemic; and the world, which is a paradise, but by man converted into a hospital, is seen and judged through the eyes of the invalid”—this, the opening paragraph of Dr. Hender- son’s book. To this cheering declara- tion is added eftsoons, “Human life is but an apology, a makeshift, a com- promise. The decadent condition of human life is such that some kind of a poison habit is supposed to be neces- sary in order to live presentably and comfortably.” ‘“Wae's me that I should read Dr. Mary Henderson's book and still have a care to live,” says the trembling ‘‘drug-soaked wretch” who hears all too late this high clarion call of the life beautiful. The author prefaces her general sur- vey of the “polsons” to which human frailty has fallen heir by defining health. “Health,” she would have it, “is more than mere consciousness of the existence of one’s body; it is posi- tive pleasure in having a body.” No one will dispute the author uponm the profit and pleasure which comes from the possession of those ‘raiments of the soul” which are ours, save possibly the spiritualists. But it is when the lady doctor launches into the terrify- ing aspects of general unhealth that the mind of the average reader, stunned and bewildered, follows haltingly. Tobasco sauce, candy, rum, pepper, “old. twist chaw” and Viiginia pickings, chloral, wines, miik punches, heer —these are noisons to which ate humankind iurns for sweet épenthe. Th are the drugs which would nea pig thre: minutes, but which only serve to bring lingering decay and final sudden ¢ soluticn to the highest animal in the ale. “It is first to enjoy the pleasures arising from irritation and then the pleasures derived from paralysis that the human race i to mort- gage itself—to enslave itself to a poi- son.” Scientific it is fortunate t t >uched upon in the book have become so hack uee on the lecture nlatf as a consequence, be to such an extent with co and blue goggles that ev hysterical tr on's not gain many Upon ubjects of diet, im- ty from contagion and the happ ness which comes with a healthy be and mind, the author has written more restrafnedly and, it would seem, to better purpose. (The Colton Publishing Company, Washington, D. C.) “Her Infipite V. ‘Whitlcek, s the first vel of the year to be brought out by the Bobbs-Merrill Company. It might better be called a noveleite if that word were rot of somewhat doubtful worth, for the tale atment of them than Dr ould 4 ety,” by Brand iteelf is not long encugh to be cla as anything but a short stofy marginal deccraticns and coplous il- lustrations by Howard Chandler Christy have to serve as very artistic padding in order that the book covers may not be too near together. ‘Whitiack, who will be remembered as the author of that strong story of po- ltical life, “The Thirteer has cast this story into a political mold, the scene being laid in the legislative halls of Illinois’ capitol. A very hand- some and rather self-important young State Senator who wishes to bring to the eyes of his belcved a somewhat loftier conception of the game of poli- tics vigorously espouses the cause of woman’s® suffrage at the Legislature. A dashing young lady attorney who is pushing the cause succeeds in so en- tangling the Senator in her meshes that he 1s not certain whether it is for the cause of many women or one that he is working. Finally he awakens from his dream of enthusiasm to find that he has all the soclety women of Chicago,includ- ing his own flancee, about his ears. By the clever manipulation of one of these matrons the young Senator’s own lady love is the innocent cause for the loss of the suffrage bill, but she herself is satisfled that her {'enator means well at least and everything is serene. ‘Whitlock has not written much of a story in ‘“Her Infinite Variety,” for at first blush it cannot readily be seen to which of the ladies in the book the “Her” refers, nor wherein lies any infinite variety in either. It would seem that the story was modeled after some of Paul Ford's shorter skits, say, “Wanted, a Matchmaker.” The borders and Christy drawings serve to carry out the idea, but the keen-edged clever- ness of the late Ford is lacking in this book. EDMUN Avg‘noa? COPYRIGHT BY cURREN T+ [VOSSE . oF y TEREMY TAYLOR ™ - LTeRATURE (Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inaianapo- lis.) “The World Destroyer,” Horace Mann, is a peculiar tale. reads it with gathering wonder and not a little surprise that such a plot rould get into print and then the very last page the seeming inanity of the whole story is explained away by a paragraph and the reader catches If making apology to the author the hard things he hgs thought during earlier pages. The conception of the story has the merit of being altogether unusual, but the author malies the mistake of not glving the hint of the story's explanation earlier the last chapter, for it is a long ade through the preceding ones and some readers may not have that divine ndowment of patience. (The Lucas-Lincoln Company, Wash- ington, D. C.) a novel o Laird & Lee, the school textbook pub- lishers of Chicago, have brought out a new and abridged Webster's dic- tionary of handy desk size for school use and ready reference. The book is well printed in bold type and well bound. If there is any criticism to be made upon it it is that the edito sacrificed material to the die- ates of a handy volume size and that the dictionary is too greatly abridged. (Laird & Lee, Chicago; pri 0c.) BREVITIES About the Authors OLLOWERS of Izaak Walton will welepme a »ok on Putnam’s new list, entitled “The Angler's Secret.” The author is ( arles Bradford, who is already known for h “The Wild Fiov mined which v sensible ve kind,” v This new book, is trated, ts sporting both frest ater fish tiny mount it to the striped the ocean. It ous tac m of f catching these fish, to- W tes of their hab bitats e latter part of the book considers, rot so much t wds of actual 1 the gl of the chase— purs air, the natural exhilaration more than general s angle the 1% of the creel Ma be taken for a good proof of a g&r Providence watching over literary persons that none of the three men of letiers who were at | 1503 was even hurt? The lady who was cruelly said to stand for the heroines of Lettres de Femmes'—a very arduous post—missed M. Marcel Prevost; Mr Kenneth Grahame's erratic assailant suecumbed to th uence of the Bank gland’s water hose, and Dr. Max fearless champlon of our equ own pOOr country, was tunate in his escape. None 1 this shootinz at literary persons is a pew and discuieting sign. In the cas of rovalti we have it on the au- thority of ¢ of themselves that as ssssinatior ites of the positi Perhaps literary persons n to pay the penalty of the popular ame bestowed by paragraphs and il- lustrated interviews. Edgar Stanton Maclay, author of «The History of the American Navy,’ is preparing a unique series for the Baker & Taylor Company, which prom- ises to be of great popular and histor- ical interest. The first volume of this series will be “Moses Brown, Captain, U. 8 N.” Not even Mr, Maclay, who has written the most authoritative and comprehensive history of the United States navy, knew of Captain Brown's two sensational victories over British ships in the war of the Revo- jution. The record of these seems to have been lest save in England, al- though Captain Brown has thousands of descendants who have radiated from his Newburyport home. He was one of the stern old privateer captains of the Revolution, who afterward entered the regular service, commanding the Merrimac and conducting himself for emany vears with great valor. The gen- eral title of this serfes will be “Un- known Heroes of the Navy.” and Mr. Maclay promises enough of them to startle the average student who feels that he knows the history of the navy. At least one of Frederick Palmer's friends takes issue with the reviewers who say that the idea of “The Vaga- band” is too romantic to have oceurred in real life. Certainly if any one knows real life either at home, where the scene of his novel is laid, or abroad, it is Mr. Palmer himseif, who, at 30, has been in flve wars, has encircled the world both by India and Siberia and has roamed the length and breadth of his own country as a correspondent. He is nov rting a s war, working | write then month v he 1o revi such a bo a on A corre Vorld makes a histeric n the February nmber. Among othe well chosen the writer says “Now 1t that the wr! of hist » not always ex pert ogists, and_ so car tmplicitly reifed upon; but as they a ly always deal with perfods whos s tory is tolerably well known to the edu cated they are not likely to injure them and as for t n other words, the average gi v at least learn that Queen Elizabeth and Henry of Navarre were conte: raries, which is something t e go It is surely better for the fiction-devouring ‘young person’ to read of gallant knights than gilded youths; the poorest of the his- torical nmovels are safer companions than ‘“Wooed But Not Mate r ‘Broken Vows.' Som rical vels even lead to his tory. Then, ve has in a mea: the proble ve £ char- acter meant the attrib to the very meanest " The identity hor of “A Key- E ne of Em 1 of “The Martyr- dom of an Empress” Is the subject of many letters that reach the Harpers, who publish these books. In accordance with the auth; r's wishes her publishers her anonymity. But the Iy put to them, “Is the author's autherity on these subjects genuine? Is she really a woman of title, who has known the royal person- ages of whom she writes To th question the publishers are free to re- ply. The lady has personally known the nobility of whom she writes, and has an mate knowledge based upon experfence of the Austrian and other courts. Though now residing In this country, she is still in close touch with some of the most eminent crowned heads of FEurope. Am war ting to the present ast s Archer Butler Hulbert’s romance, “The Queen of Quel- parte,” a story how Russia by in- trigue and deceit conquered Korea In 1897 in order to have something to throw over to Japan to keep her from prectpi ment of the lease of Port Arthur. Hulbert went to the Far East in 1807 as a representative of several Amer- ican newspapers and located in Seoul, Korea, t as now, the pivot in east- ern polit He galned close and In- timate knowledge of Russian politics and of Korean life. This knowledge he has incorporated in his romantic novel, Iparte,” published . Boston. The Baokman announces an interest ing series of articles on the making a newspaper, This series will describe rk of the men whose the lives trained intelligence American newspaper paper in the series will deal War Correspondént:” Tt w tell who the war corespondent is, A his qualifications are, how he starts for Japan, or for the Balkans, at a moment's notice, what his equip- T is, ¥ he gets the news of a great ba , more important still, how he gets the acquired news on the wire and transmits it to his paper. It be a narrative ing with the intimate side of great ts that have made hi A volume of considerable importance to students of philosophy will be pub- lished shortly by J B. Lippincott Com- pany under the title, “The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant” The au- th Professor Edward Franklin Buchner, who is ¢ ected with the University of Alabama, and the work a ulation of the conceptions of the great philosoplier, as exhibited in his lecture-notes on pedagogy and lections from other of “his mos¢ thoughtful itings This week Maemillan Company will publish “The Adventurés of Eliza- beth in Rugen,” the new book by the author of “FElizabeth and Her German Garden. Elizabeth is as charming as ever in her new volume, which tells the story of her adventures and experiences during eleven happy days which she spent driving around the beautiful is- land in the Baltic. To those who appreciate dainty eol- lect. of dainty verse Miss Ruth Lawrence’s little volume, “The Beg- gar's Garden,” will be one of the most satisfactory books of the season. It contains selections breathing both love of outdoor life and intense patriotis besides one or two poems which sug- gest Austin Dobson. It has been got out in a most attractive manner, with a cover of pale green cloth and a spray of apple blossoms in theif natural color, The book comes from the press of Brentano's. b S New Books Received. JEREMY TAYLOR, Edmund Gosse; The Macmillan Company, New York. HER INFINITE VARIETY, Brand ‘Whitlock; The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis; illustrated by Christy. POEMS OF THE PEOPLE, Gayley and Flaherty: Ginn & Co., Boston; price 50 cents. THE ARISTOCRACY OF HEALTH, Mary Foote Henderson: Colton Pub- shing Company, Washington, D. C. MILITARY POLICY OF ~THE UNITED STATE Major General Emory Upton; Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. NEW MODERN WEBSTER'S DIC- TIONARY, ou ed Laird & Lee, Chicago; price 50 cent: CORPORATIONS, being Volume X of Cycicpedia of Law and Procedure, Judge Seymore D. Thompson; The American Law Book Company, New York. Not sold singly.