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THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. The Lives of Two Colonial Builders ast two or three has been a grow. vement in augurs es of the ng and colen- Until r f biography student casual read- thy ied by With 1t oprietary he keynotes of his the Q heart f the most impor »de of ernment - spirations of Quaker t troubles which h n 1 his colo dur- Sact of g Pi's coinei- ng heard one the tenets of th I n and once near ndon, Buell draws the George Fox, founder of berately “set” Loe th malice afore- that the new church from the mno- f the author's confirmation worthy one to ung seeming P »f Penn's in vy of West Jerse; efforts in behalf of perse Quakers which led up the proprietary al granting of the Charles 1I, sticks reliable authority— rnal. His estimate of ja charter is not as rded by the histor- ns that it contdined a Penn of the of fee Quaker weak ele- s religious puts upon es II and the nder the elm Penn and the Indians— which lingers picked of everyone with all yaldness of the school text he bi pher oppor- comment upon his sub- ' incts. “It re- agination,” before the r hand. the re- Myles Standish, en uvon his grim ed cap-a-pie. in . sagussett; and on v the pacific Penn, his at aglow with ‘a smile nd bland,’ and his "al presents, set- s, by innuendo hoary sentiment good, making 3 des shake the great for his lands part of the rest of the au- tive is devoted to an ex- how all the internal troubles history of the Pennsylvania ere f Quakerism. The peace theory se which left their boundaries enemy, the division of A TET DGEL ZIIPIRN>F— FOONDER OF GEOGR GI COL IO OF 7Hf~ should be great- effect, the pe- > Quak , according to Penn's ylvania, r nad >n needed—the the doctrines problems of He found iful his “except to further futility of John to deal with act if not in Established lvania was in the to the sight, im- nd frresponsible but still an thwarting e touch capable everything, though ating anything.” Throughout the of incapable of whole of his biog- raphy, even in those parts Penn does not appear in the u glory which beats about the throne of s, Mr. above all Buell tain: elze, the quality of honesty, cardinal in 2 biographer. His effort has been to sh William Penn the man only through the worl of William Penn the founder of new empire and ruler of me {is biography is more historical ¢ perso an absorb- (D. Appleton & Co., New York; price, Of a far different sort of a man than lliam Penn, the gentle Quaker, does riet Cooper have to write in her biography of James Oglethorpe, found- er and first Governor of the royal col- ony of Geor Each a builder of the new empire ¢ .as, each an or- ganizer, Jegislator executive of e ability, the supr difference be- tween the two lay in this: Penn, the man of peace, had the desire for push- the frontier softened by ing back the gentleness of religion; Oglethorpe, the warrior, was ever ready to carve out a larger destiny for his colony by the ography, one of the Appleton’s Lives Ser is .not so pr »us as the work mentioned in the this partly S 1 watur placed upon of the work by the comparative meagerness of original sources. With no detraction from the credit due the author, be it said that her work is more a compilation from and condensation of ajl authorities than the attempt at any original re- search. Here again the character of t Historic Lives Series—designed as it to give first glimpses at little known characters—prohibits in a large measure any deeper treatment. One of the most interesting passages in the author's book is that describing the conception of the Georgian project in the mind of Oglethorpe and the car- into execution by himself and of the scheme of philanthropy of which was born the new colony. It is a fault which should be remedied that the first impression of Georgia colony gained by young America from his school history is that of a penal settlement, an early Botany Bay, in fact, where dangerous criminals from the purlieus of London were shipped in chains. The biographer clearly points out in her opening chapters the fact that Oglethorpe’s design for the coloni- zation of Georgia was purely a phil- anthropic measure far in advance of the humanitarian thought of the time, and directed solely to the betterment of those unfortunates imprisoned for debt. No convicts or desperate char- acters were allowed to embark for Georgia. The colonization was open not only to the debt-ridden English, but to the persecuted Protestants of Europe. The hardships of the first settlers at Savannah, the incursions of the In- dians, wars with the Spaniards, the mutterings of a new stirring of liberty and the final overthrow of the royal government—these scenes, in which Oglethorpe played an active part, are detalled clearly and completely by the author. When she has completed her work the result is a brief, correct and lively account of the part one man played in laying the foundation of the republic. (D. Appleton & Co.; price §1.) A Powerful Novel of Pa(is Cqmmune N William OVELS of Paris smiling are interesting novels of n the thunder fit of revolu- ver enthralling. * So it is that better written than s “The Dayspring would be accepted with eagerness. Dr. novel deals with the tinsel poleon “the Little" and the sudden blackness and madness of the Commune. Robert Chambers' book, Ashes of Bmpire,” which had guch a wide vogue a few yvears ago, turned the rich opportunities of Paris' last revolu- tion to account in no more tell mannér than does this*latest ron of those troublous times. Dr. Barry's lling enough to satisfy the tastes of any devotee of Erckmann- Chatrain The piot onens with the hasty flight from England to France of Henry Guiron, an Irish lad who has murdered his hard-hearted landlord and seeks to escape the conseauences of his crime in the purlieus of Paris. Opportunely befriended by a young Frenshman for whom he had once done a service, ¥ ng Guire an alias, of course— finds hin among friends when once in Paris and the chapter of his ad- ventures begine. Cast into kindly places by being made the secretary of an Englishman who is, rather strange- , deeply concerned in French politics, refugee has an apportunity to profit by his native Celtic wit and ready address to the extent of becoming an accepted member of a very select lit- on, over which there presides iame Kingswood. This throws his fate under the same favoring star as that of la Comtesse de Montalis, a beautiful and romantic young widow whose time is divided between deck- ing her late husband’s grave with ll- ies i consulting a necromancer and modern Casanova, Hiram Temple by name. Against the sinister and all-pervad- ing power of this charlatan spirit con- juror the hero finds himself set. Tem- ple has succeeded in gaining such an ascendenc over the credulous ladies of Mn the ronm a combination tated and arr Kingwood's salon, especially ntic widow, that Guiron finds of circumstances, dic- nged by the necroman- cer, forcing him into a dishonorable position. In despair he rushes out from all this gay and rose-colored life to Jose himself in the siums of the great city in pursuit of a new-found zeal for the cause of the Socialists. It is in the unfolding of the hero's wild enthusiasm for the propaganda of rev- olution, kis association with the hare- brained fanatics and journalists of the red flag, his garret conspiracies and secret meetings with the “miserables” that the author does his best work. The terrible, seething pot of sedition and anarchy which boilled under the fragile throne of Louis Napoleon. the mutterings of a distant holocaust to throne and state, the blind fury of the Reds lamenting everything on to hoped- for destruction—these elements of grim portent introduced into the story give it a quickening thrill. With the general crash of everything in the horror of the Commune the story draws to a close. Vindicated of the stain of dishonor falsely imputed * to him, triumphant over Temple, his enemy, and heroically outlined by the fires of the Tulleries before the eyes of his lady, Guiron wins the heart of the fair and romantic Comtesse and the cooling ashes of Paris are sifted upon the last page of the story. Admirable in the main as Dr. Barry’s story is, it admits of criticism on two points. His introduction of the ele- ment of the occult through the spirit medium, Hiram Temple, weakens the plot by just the measure that it fails to win the credulity of the reader. Th= occult should either be the absorbing feature of a story—so persistent as ef- fectually to put the reader under the AL Mt s i ( | | spell of its domination—or it should be left severely alone. ‘Even Dumas felt Cagliostro somewhat a heavy weight upon his hands at times. The second fault is corollary to the first. Where the author has made use of the psy- chic, spirituo-magnetic flubdub he has. sacrificed the sustained interest and~ action of his story. !The Dayspring" would be a better novel without Hiram Temple. (Dodd, Méad & Co., New York; price $1 50.) Roosevelt the Man, a Personal Diew 1y HE Man Roosevelt,” a por- trait sketch by Francis E. Leupp, !s the eighth volume in Messrs. Appleton & Co.'s excellent Historic Lives Beries and appears at a most opportune moment. Mr. Letipp Is editor of the New York Even- ing Post. He has been privileged to enjoy the almost life-long friendship of the President. This intimacy with the subject of his work has enabled him to publish a large amount of val- uable information regarding the Pres- ident, his political and public actions, that has not hitherto beeh. known. This, combired with his attractive lit- erary stvle, developed during his dong years of labor on the New York press, has assisted him to carry out his de- sign “to give Americans of the rank and file a litle more yivid impression of the American at the front, and to bring them closer to him, so that, without losing their perspective view of the leader, they could see more of the man.” The book onens with a reference to the right good luck and extraordinary geries of fortunate accidents that raised Roosevelt from the pesition of an obseure politician to the highest of- fice in the land. As is well known, he did not gain the Presidency like many of his illustrious predecessors by force of mental ability alone; for as Leupp says, “Roosevelt is not a genius, He is a man of no extraordinary nat- ural capacity. As author, lawmaker, administrator, huntsman, athlete, sol- dier, what vou will, his record contains nothing that might not have been ac- complished by any man of sound physique and good intelligence. Such prestige as he enjoys above his fellows he has acquired partly by hard work and partly bv using his native wit in his choice of tasks, and his method of tackling them.” Accidents gave him his opportunities and positions; his good sense in choosing his advisers and his strict attention to the injunc- tion of his favorite motto, “When in doubt what to do, go ahead,” have en- abled him successfully to carry out the multitudinous tasks allotted him. Throughout his life Roosevelt has found that wherever he has worked for a position to the best of his abil- ity and failed, some power has inter- vened to turn defeat into a surprising success. It is clearly seen now that had he gained the Mayoralty of New York in 1886, as he dearly wished to do, he would have been content with civic honors, probably, and would have kept too far away from Federal poli- tics to have nad ambition to become.a candidate for the position of Assistant Secretary- of State under President Harrison. He worked hard for this po- sition and failed; but was awarded a civil service commissionship. In this office he gained considerable publicity, which was afterward increased on his appointment to the polfce commission in New York City. This office paved the way for him to the Assistant Sec- retaryship of the Navy. On the decla- ration of war with Spain he applied for a position on the staff of General Lee. Had he obtained this position there would have been no rough riders. His application failed and he set to work and organized the rough riders; as their colonel he became the most picturesque figure in the voluntesr army. The prominence he thus gained assisted him to the Governorship of New York. His popularity clung to him. He obtained his election to the Vice Presidency, and, finally the tragic death of President McKinley placed Roosevelt at the head of the KILLIIM 1 WA, FOUNDER OF PENNSYZVANA nation. Our histor contains no parallel that exhibits such a record of rapid advancement by means of the concomitance of so many eventful accidents Leupp gives an ingenious explanation for the gingular reticence the late Sen- ator s exhibited when asked whether he intended running for the Presidency thi ar and the ap- parently coquettish way in which he seemed to enjoy the idea of his pos- sible nomination. According to Leupp, “No one well acquainted with Senator Hanna's personality was deceived as to where he stood. He was not of the Presidential mold. The Senate suited his taste and his powers. He wanted a free bard. He hated infinitesimal worries. He lacked the patience nec- essary to deal with all sorts of men at once as a master and as a suppli- cant. He loved authority more than ingignia. He would rather administer the affairs of the nation in the name of another than let others administer them in his name. Nature had marked him for a kingma not a king. * * * There probably was never a moment when he felt the slightest temptation to enter the lists for the nomination, but neither was there a moment *Wwhen he would have been willing to forego the power to award it to some one else. If Republican or- ganjzations anywhere saw fit to name Roosevelt as their choice, why should he put obstacles in their wav? He was entirely friendly with Roosevelt and looked to see him nominated; he would not accent the nomination himself if it were offered;him, and he did not expect it to be offered; but to go into the convention with a large following at his'back and prevent a bad mistake if it threatened, would be a great sat- isfaction.” Roosevelt's love of sports and ath- letics, his family life, his religious tol- erance, his interpretation of the Mon- roe doctrine, the Booker Washington incident and many other happenings of his administration which have had either a nolitical significance or the mere worth of anecdote, are recited by the author in a clear and entertaining manner. On reading this book one cannot help but enjoy it, no matter what his po- litical convictions. may. be. In truth it is a bold and an unorecedented ac- tion on the part of the publishers to bring out a work upon a man who is yet living and whose political career is still in the making, vet the reputa- tion of the publishing house and the sincerity of the author should be’, enough to scout the idea that in this work there is anything which could be construed into an attempt to fur- nigh material for a political campaign. Whether or not Roosevelt becomes the next President, there is enough of mark in the man to warrant the pub- lication of an intimate view of Him. (D. Appléton & Co., New York; price, $1 00.) Her Dispensation of Psychic Light GOOD old Dr. Channing once sa‘d: “It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with su- perior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all.” Blessed boon! Were it not for the old German who learned how to set thé letter blocks we of to-day could ‘not be receivers of the “‘Psychic Light” which ‘flowe in golden streams from one Mrs. Maude Lord-Drake of Kan- sas City, Mo. It is through the medium of a book that her superior mind has sought to hold out the beacon of “Psychic Light” to us blundering mor- tals, who see as through a glass, dark- ly. To do this, to point the way to the acme of continuity in law and life, to reveal the secret workings of the spirits lpd to tear, the veil from the ) COPONY. mysterious powers of a few rare minds, Mrs. Maude Lord-Drake has only to tell the “truly” story of her life. This she does in “Psychic Light"—within the modest limits of 598 closely printed pages. Though not the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter; born in- the dark o’ the moon, Mrs. Maude Lord-Drake created a precedent—a surprising one, perifips—by being born with a double veil oyer her face. “The father, with all of his religious prejudices aroused, was certain that the devil had some=- thing to do with this veil.” Sympa- thies cannot all be with the father, however, if the truth must be said: Mrs. M. L.-D.’s psychic powers be gan to manifest themselves at a very early age. Her cradle would rock with no hand moving it. The spirits would twine her baby curls into angels’ ring- lets and even tie them up with sky blue ribbon while she was slumbering peacefully. When burned with 1ye at the tender age of five this bundle of radio-active spirit dictums reached up with her poor scalded arms, took from the physician's pocket a pencil and tablet and wrote a preseription for her cure. Since then she has been favor- ing various parts of the globe's sur- face with a fleeting presence thereon, materializing astral banjoes, locating buried treasure and making herself useful generally. She is now 52 years cf age and is still going. This in a book of 598 pages! “It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds and these: invaluable méans of com- munication are in the reach of all.” (The Frank T. Riley Publishing Com- pany, Kansas City, Mo.) ¢ i Current Literature in the Magazines CRIBNER'S MAGAZINE for J‘ March opens with an account of a little known but very fruitful expedition—one of those brave ad- ventures which had so much to do with the development of this continent. It is called “The Search for the West- ern Sea,” and gives dramatically an account of the twenty years of effort on the part of the persistent M. de la Verendrye in his attempt to reach the fabled ocean, whose narrow waters were supposed to lie between the val- ley of the Great Fork River and the empire of China. Verendrye never reached the Western Sea, but his ex- pedition blazed the trail through half a continent, discovered the Rocky Mountains, and was a powerful im- petus to the development of the North- west. Miss Laut, who writes the sketch, is the author of “Lords of the North.” Captain Mahan's notable narrative of the War of 1812 reaches in this in- stallment the fateful contest between the Constitution and the Gueérriere. Mrs. George Bancroft’s Letters pic- ture with great vivacity the court life in London more than fifty years ago. Bunsen, Canning, Thomas Carlyle, Lady Byron,. Sir' Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington are described as they appeared to an American woman. The art feature of the number is & series of elaborate pictures in tint by Howard Chandler Christy, giving vari- ous vhases of “Music and Life.” The fiction of the number is varied. Robert Grant’s great serial, “The Un- dercurrent,” describes the coming-out ball of the leading young woman in Benham society. Edith Whayton in “The Descent of Man" depicts with humor a college scientist who became a popular author. The author of “Kitchen Sketches,” Mrs. Gilman, has a new series called “Home Sketches," in which the same characters reappear. The illustrations in tint are by Jessie Wilcog Smith. There is another fire- man's story, “Private Morphy's Ro- mance,” by H. J. O'Higgins. John Bassett Moore, LL.D., who contributes the leading article to Har » per's Magazine for March on “Begin- ning of American Diplomacy,” is the chief authority on this subject. He has formulated some of the Govern- ment's most important diplomatic dis- patches. Professor Moore is the man, who, after graduating from the Uni- versity of Virginia, entered the State Department as a law clerk in 1885 at a salary of $1200 a year and in one year rose to the rank of Third Assist- ant Secretary of State, later becoming Assistant Secretary of State. e has now been for some years professor of international law and diplomacy in Co- lumbia University. Mrs, Stepney Rawson, Robert W. ROBERT W RITCHIE Chambers, Roy Rolfe Glison, Alice MacGowan, Margaret Sutton Brisco. Grace Lathrop Collin, Kate Whiting Patch, Charles B. de Camp and May Isabel Fisk ute .the shorts fie- tion. The March Centu Is.a pen pict from Cleve trations are only Bourse, as bals of the New Yo the 3000 of Bourse existing ar Governmen an¢ Londor leading .artic Paris. Bourse, t vith is one kne p with laws that are b only because of i eptance. Cleve picturesque style story of the lif place of maddenin to a strange his “stronghold seventy, the at financia of France,” be well reading Rollo Ogden, editor of the New Evening Post, has prepared for the March Century an essay on “The Mak- ing of Public Opinion.” the discussion being thrown into the.form of a lunch table talk between a Senator, a collegs president, a doctor of divinity and an editor, in which there is a good deal of genial recrimination, if so harsh a word may be ce The klover came out with the first of the year in a handier size and a dress the reputation which it has acquired with true love ers of the artistic and the sterling in literature has been increasing an hun- dred fold. In the crowded fleld of the monthly and especially in the rapidly filling province of the critfeal magazine The Booklover has suc- new ceeded in appropriating for itself an entirely distinctive mission. It an- swers all the demands of the bib- Holater, the collector of literary prizes, the devotee of sparkling fiction and the lover of true poesy. The mechan- fes of the magazine's makeup leaves nothing lacking. In the last number the opening pages are devoted to a delicately lined little pastel, “The Shepherd's Hour Glass.” There follow, articles upon “The Influence of Environment Upon Men of Letters”; “Thomas Nast,” the father of American caricature; “Omar Khayyam,” by John Hay; “Types in'Fiction” and’'a baker’s dozen more of the same high order. The Reader is another magazine which .is coming to the front with rapid strides. With the March num- ber it makes its initial bow under a change of owners, for the Bobbs-Mer- rill €Company of Indianopolis have evi- dently felt that to be in line with all of the big Eastern publishers they must have a magazine with their name upon the cover. They ¢ould not have a better one. The character of this publication seems to be the proguet of a ‘blending of fiction 'and review— all having a light breezy tone which is calculated *o appeal to the dilettante in lterary appréciation rather than to the scholar. Some very clever stories about newspaper life from the pen of the veteran correspondent, Julius Chambers, serve to lighten the pages. The March number cgntains stories and sketches by Clara Morris, Regi- nald Wright Kauffman, Vance Thomp- son, Kenneth Brown and a score of other clever and practiced writers. NewBooks Received THE DAYSPRING, Dr. William Barry; Dodd, Mead & Co., New York; price $1 50. THE STORY OF SUSAN, Mrs. Hen- ry Dudeney; Dodd, Mead & Co., New York; illustrated; price $1 50. ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE, Josephine Caroline Sawyer; Dodd, Mead & Co., New York; illustrated in color; price $1 50. AN ADVENTURE IN SPAIN, 8. R. Crockett; Frederick R. Stokes & Co., New York; illustrated; price $1 50. DENIS DENT, Ernest W. Hornun, Frederick R. 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