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The Third Dolume of Lee’s History “History of to be complet- umes under the ip of Professor Lee, we have already had general notice, with first two volumes, ation” and “In- The third in the South,” milton, next de- history, that of southern part of * the greatest ro- the clash of nations v the actions of the er, the groud, boast- courtly, insinuating and persevering 2 rving and tenacious 1 and the stolid and indus- rman. All of these peoples, the strange conditions of i, worked out their desti- hat were full of the spice e. It is the recognition phasis laid by the this element of the his- t colonization that inently readable. by briefly review- irit of western T d the motives that in- Spaniards to seek a footing he sum- enterprises i explorer: Florida became some- nd conquest definite policy of archy, with the result X was made Ca, The story of ation of the s well as the which for some v, the people, gulf, nore important b ea a taking posses- Ca ast. The author t extremely inter- in 1565 only ts settled at Fort Caro- Johns River. We are ore than the well- French colony; exploration made by the various settle- by him, among others of Helena—Port Royal. The clos- bject present us tanding of the rela- veen the Spaniards and the d give us an account of the practical side of the Spanish under- taking in the description of the forts of known attack on ents effected at and of the administrative measures adopted by Menendez to place the Spenish settlement on a solid basis. In the same way are presented the causes and conditions attending the settlement of French Filorida. The story, of course, turns on the ill-fated expedition of Jean Ribault, who ar- rived with his Huguenot colony on the river May (St. Johns) in 1562, and after taking possession for France sailed northward to Port Royal, where he established his settilement of “gen- tiemen, soldiers, and mariners,” men who we learn from the description be- fore us were il fitted to found a colony in the land of promise they had reached. We have also a vivid tracing of th: expedition led by Laudonniere which was to supplement the colony Ribault; of their arrival in the May &nd their building Fort Carolina; of their lack of thrift and foresight, and their distress; of their succor by Sir John Hawkins, and, finally, of the arrival of Ribault, who had returned to France after making & settlement at Port Royal. In the story of the bitter struggles of the Spaniards and French that ended in the slaughter of the French colony, Mr. Hamilton has found a way of tell- ing 2 well known story which gives added confidence to the reader. We confess we can never read of the in- famous incident without bitterness; we believe in the charge of savagery which is generally credited to Menendesz; his treacherous conduct we have ever re- garded ag & black spot on Spanish his- tory. The present author manifests his delfberate and judicial temperament in discussing this harrowing episode, while not in any way minimizing the horrors of the circumstances; and it may well be that historians have not given due regard to the motive that prompted Mehgndez in the execution of his savage act. But revenge could not be long stayed, and as an offset to the Spanish cruelty we have the ac- count of De Gourgues’' expedition to Florida and of his destruction of the Spanish settlement which had replaced that of his countrymen. With a re- view of the Huguenots in France and the influence of the Spanish massacre in Florida on the future colonization of America the subject closes. Next are told the various incidental causes that led to the exploitation of Virginia under the charter granted to Gates, Somers and others. The history of the Virginia Company is told in its expeditions and settlements, the admin- istration of affairs and the exploration of the colony by Captain John Smith; the extension of the colony, the life of the =ettlers, the reorganization of the company and its renewed activity; dis- couragements and intrigues, the exten- sion of the company’s powers and juris- diction, the beginning of tobacco cul- ture and the institution of slavery. The [C}mem King, < o JHE SUBITECL Qx e Cr iR LIareG LIErroms . & progress of the colony is closely fol- lowed, its historical finger-posts re- viewed and the conditions set forth that by this time brought the colony into a stable position. The story of the company discloses the causes of the conflict between the corporation and the crown, and while recounting the overthrow of the former carries along the tale of the actual de- velopment and material gains made in the colony.. The political factors lead- ing to the end of the company’s term had deep significance for the colonists; these the author traces, as well as the more immediate causes of the termina- tion of the company’s rule, in a perspic- uous and an informing style. After following the fortunes of the Carolinas the reader is led to the con- sideration of the share in the coloni the North accomplished by If the results of that work of rance. are not seen to a general extent in the institutions that prevail, the actual contribution of France to the coloniza- tion, or at least the development, of North -a is very considerable. Mr. Hamilto: story of the founding of Louisiana, the establishing of French government there, the extension of French influence from the mouth of the St. Lawrence, along the shores of the Great Lakes, through the Illinois country and down to the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, is a tale of magnificent nterprise and daring, almost match- ess in interest and romance. Few men, either from acquirements or predilec- tion, could so ably tell that story as the author of the volume we are con- sidering. Beginning with a brief but clear sketch of the conditions in France that led to the colonizing policy of that nation and sufficlently glancing at the settling of Canada and the policy it necessitated, the author follows in the steps of Marquette and Joliet, De Tonty and La Salle, Iberville and Lienville, and the agents of Law’s great M issippi enterprise. Then the story of Loulsiana under royal guvernors is given. The telling of all this vast enterprise of the French dis- closes a wealth of thrilling adventure and fageinating experience, and opens up to the reader a fund of unusual information not often available and much authoritative history hitherto un- published. The author’s further consideration of the opening of the Illinois amd Ohio River countries, the change of owner- ship of the Floridas and Louisiana, the settlements of the Germans and the Scotch-Irish, gives clearly and suc- cinctly the facts of history, clothed with all the romance that comes of the clash of the pioneer traders, the in- trigues and counter intrigues of the opposing nationalities in their rela- tions with the Indians and the early struggle of the settlers. (George Barrie & Sons, Philadel- phia; illustrated; price $6 per volume.) A Warm Tribute to King’s Memory EW men live such lives of sunni- Fneu and comradeship as to com- mand to their memory a memo- rial such as has been offered the late Clarence King by the memorial com- mittee of the Century Assoclation. Fewer still are there men in whose honor are contributed tender récollec- tions and heartfelt appreciation by such men of note as John Hay, James D. Hague, Willlam D. Howells, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Henrv Adams and John La Farge. To those who never heard of Clarence King, physicist, geol- ogist, author and man of affairs, this testimonial, “The Clarence King Me- moirs,” must reveal a personality rich in individuality and those subtle quali- ties that make for a wholesome spirit of comradery for every one with whom it comes in contact. Those who knew King, even though not so thoroughly as did the contributors to this volume, will find thelr remembrances made warmer by ts reading. The volume opens with a reprint of the little 1dyll of Spain, “The Helmet of Mambrino,” that King contributed to the Century Magazine back in 1886, a rarely fascinating bit of writing. Fol- low thirteen chapters of blography, reminiscence and appreciation by near friends of the scientist and teacher. ‘William Dean Howells tells of “Meet- ings With King”; Edmund Clarence Stedman writes of King—"The Frolic and the Gentle”; Edward Cary de- scribes the mountaineering work of the author of “Mountaineering in the Sier- ras”; Becretary of State John Hay shows the man and the scientist. Such a wit and a merrymaker was the sub- ject of his eketch that Hay declares that “his reputation as a great physic- ist suffered somewhat from the daz- THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL rling attractiveness of his personauty. ness and the rind of artificial material- It was hard to remember that this pol- ished trifler, this exquisite wit, who dif- fused over every conversation in which he was engaged an iridescent mist of epigram and persifiage, was one of the greatest savants of his time. It was hard to take seriously a man who was so deliciously agreeable. Yet his work on ‘Systematic Geology’ is a master- piece of practical and ordered learning, and his treatise on ‘The Age of the Earth’ has been accepted as the pro- foundest and most authoritative utter- ance on the subject yet made.” (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York; {llustrated; price § .) Nothing Remains + If Beauty G R OBERT HICHENS, 1 novelist who mag ne known through " - Car- nation” and added # %« .« to that recognition by - the infinitely better 80 “Felix,” has now brought forth another book, “The Woman With the Fan,” which certainly will not detract from his reputation as a good story- teller, even if it adds little. For *“The ‘Woman With the Fan” is, in the main, a strong novel; its grasp on life rings true and it leaves the stamp of plausi- bility throughout. Were it not that Mr. Hichens has yielded only too read- ily to the popular impulse to be “smart” his latest novel could be un- reservedly praised. But this desire to put into the mouths of characters epi- grams wholly incompatible with their several degrees of intellect and to light- en the dull places in the plot by scin- tillating aphorisms, bandied back and forth with utterly impossible swiftness, takes away from the convincing power of the writer's story. The depth and seriousness in the plot loses by this froth of cleverness. The general atmesphere of Hich- ens’ book is one distinctly of the de- cadent in modern society. In drawing his characters wholly from the world- tired, open-eyed circle of the ultra- fashionable of London Hichens has thrown his story into a plane of life that is to most of us unpleasant in its ugliness—unpleasant but interesting. The peepls who see all, knowall, whose sated tastes strike Inward to blunt the soul and wither all delicacy of senti- ment and beauty of ideal—these are the people whose every breath exhales a deadening materialism. The air they breathe is heavy with superficiality, thinly cloaking the bald animalism of their hearts. It is into this Dead Sea barren that Hichens conducts his readers, revealing to them with ear- nestness and a seriousness of purpose all the rank growth encumbering the abnormal soclal fabric that rears it- self here. 4 About one woman of this unhealthy social world th uthor draws all his plot lines. Vicla Holme, a peerless beauty’ and acknowledged leader of the very smart London set, is the typical woman of the world— of the social world, to be kind to her— that moves through Hichens’ book as the personification of all that is life among the decadent elite. Following & unique symbolical idea, whence comes the title of the book, Hichers seeks to show us this woman, first as she lives under the shell of worldli- ism and then emancipated and be- come hér true self. throughout the major portion of the book, Lady Viola Holme is a magnifh\ cent animal, such a 'woman as De Maupassant would picture. She holds the fealty of her British hus- band and commands the adoration of other men by physical attraction alone. She knows her power, she glories in it, she recognizes no other hold of woman over man save that of the flesh. Then all is changed. Swift misfortune robs her of her beauty, leaves her nothing but a grotesque mask of ugliness, from which men flee. All but one; he, cynic and rep- robate, scoffer at all ideals, comes to her in her wretchedness, seeking from her grace to live a clean life in the love of her true self, the woman of native purity. Though Hichens attempts to mark ~ out strongly the point of cleavage be- tween Lady Holme the worldling, the frankly animal, and Lady Holme re- generate, so deeply lined is the char- acter of the woman who rules by the flesh that when we think or perceive in her the inner purity and worth of character it is hard to be quite con- vinced of its genuineness. After her beauty has been turned into shocking caricature and it becomes evident to her that her power to inspire love through sensuous appeal is gone, the inner self which Hichens would have us consider resident in his heroine comes to the fore rather tardily. In- deed, convinced that the world has nothing left for her, robbed of beauty, Lady Holme is on the point of self- destruction, when the errant sot and libertine, Rupert Carey, comes to her to plead that she may lead him out of the pit by her love. Rupert Carey is quicker to see the shimmer of white wings In the heroine than the reader. Of the score of other characters, finely drawn and all seeming true to life, Lord Holme, the arrant hedonist, and Robin Plerce the idealist, are es- pecially convincing. Were one to de- cide upon Hichéns' chief merit as a novelist it would be this very power ::flproducln‘ a perfect character por- t. (Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York; price $1 50.) “Being Done Good”’ By Edward Lent HE cheerful end unselfish optim- ism that will move & man, pain- fully, almost helplessly crippled with disease, to write humorous- ly concerning his fight against {ll ‘health is in itself compelling of appre- clation even were his book not in the least mirth-provoking. But when & racy humor and rollicking fun lights up every page of these Job-like lamen- tations one cannot stint his praise for grit and genius alike. To Edward B. Lent, a New York newspaper man whose record of four years’ suffering from the attacks of chronic rheuma- tism is iIncorporated in “Being Done Good,” this praise must go. He has wrought admirably. Mr. Lent, who confesses that, like Btevenson, he had to write propped up in bed and using his old reporter’s pad and pencil, gravely tells his readers Autthor o~ Yz Worzmr WitE 1E Fens T As we see her / that the cause ror nis magnum opus I8, briefly, that while men write books on big game, the north pole and flying machines, the great field of endeavor in chronio rheuthatism has been left untouched for these §5500 years. He, therefore, constitutes himself a second Btanley to give to the book-world the first authentic report of “being done good” In this grim region of mustard- plasters and bake ovens. For the telling he brings to his task a humor reminis- cent of Bill Nye in his palmiest days. It is the typical newspaper fun, as was T HIcHrns, K X o Nye's, frothy in its essence, catching the laugh by ludicrous exaggeration and unexpected turning of phrases. Barring persistent fallures at punning —they are very bad indeed, those puns —Mr. Lent’s humor is infectious, de- lightfully so. ‘With the regulation “pld school” the author's experiences with the medicos commenced. He took “everything which had ever killed or cured a hu- man belng or been avoided by a dog,” and at the end of two years he began to make side excursions into the realms of the occult along the borderland of medicine. Electric and medicinal baths offer Lent the opportunity for mproariousfun-poking; the “liver cure” auses him to mourn the loss of “the %undn and dome effects” that once ophamented his bodily architectural sgheme; mineral springs force him to 5: conclusion that “when you find the ueer thing in nature, build a fence around it and set up a sanitarium for rheumatics. There will be millions in &% Osteopathy, the penetrative unguent cure, the orthopedic treatment, cata- phoresis, static electricity—all of these dire-sounding preventives are each the subject of Lent’s witty appreciation. An extended criticism of homeopathy and a decidedly clever satire upon Christian Science offer the best read- ing in this emphatically readable book. ((Brooklyn Eagle Press; Brooklyn.) A Purpose Story on Civil Service N attempt to expose some of the wrongs of the Washington Gov- ernment service is made in a novel called “The Other Side of the Story,” by Leslie Derville. The name is suggested by the current opinion that a position in the clvil ser- vice of Uncle Sam is a soft snap, and this book purports to show the other and the seamy side of the supposed semi-sinecure, The story tells mainly of the trials of girls who'go into the Government service at the capital, and incidentally of the misfortunes of some and the meannesses of other of the men who work with or over the women of the force. Where these are petty, though provoking, a story may best serve to assall them, but if some of the graver charges are well founded the proofs should be obtained and the wrong ex- posed more boldly, definitely and with accepted responsibility by the maker of the serious charges. If these accu- sations are not well founded the book is a sort of literary fraud, seeking to excite sympathy for those who are either not so badly hurt as the tale proclaims, or else not herolc enough to strike the first blow for their own grievances’ redress. The graver charge is something more than an Intimation that chief clerks and heads of departments show favor- itism to women employes of the Gov- ernment more because they are im- properly complaisant than because they are capable. So virtuous women are “laboring for their vread side by side and closely assoclated with the mistresses of certain statesmen and gther officials of the Government,” “winking their modest eyes” at this state of affairs. Letters from home to the struggling girls, implying poverty of dear ones, show how they stick to their slavery and stifle down their In- dignation because Circumstances 1is master with a lash. Nor is this en- forced affiliation all they are said to endure, for some of the girls, it is al- leged, are tempted themselves and made to understand that promotion and big salaries follow as rewards of something less” admirable than strict virtue combined with selected capac- ity. ~ If this be true and the author of the book sincere, surely there should be proof showable and appeal possible to high executive power. If that availed not because of politics and pull, then the purifying effect of authentic pub- licity should be tried. Such is seem- ingly the right remedy if the condi- tion novelized were real: the attempt wt are ror civil service sake is uncon- vincing. 2 (G. W. Dillingham Company, New York; price $1 50.) Magazine Notes— July Monthlies HAT the publishers claim to be the most sensational feature any American magazine has captured in years i{s Thomas W. Law- son’s “Frenzied Finance, the Story of Amalgamated Copper,” which begins in the July issue of Everybody’s Magazine. Mr. Lawson was one of the organizers of that gigantic corporation, and he knows exactly what happened to the millions that were lost through its manipulation. His first article is an announcement of distinctly dramatic interest and promises revelations of S the highest Importance to every one In the country. He frankly states that his purpose in telling the story is to set himself right with the thousands of investors who, through his instru- mentality, put their money into Amal- gamated and have been plundered; also, because his conviction is thaf the best way to educate the public to re- alize the evils of which such affairs s Amalgamated are the result is to expose the brutal facts regarding the conception, birth and breeding of what he says is the worst offspring of the modern system of finance. The main narrative will deal with the real heads of Standard Oil and Amalgamated: H. H. Rogers and Willlam Rockefeller and James Stillman of the National City Bank. Addicks of Delaware, Heinze of Montana and James R. Keene of Wall Street will figure among its chief cHar- acters; and we are promised such a showing up of financial personalities and methods as this country has not vet had, despite the disclosures of the recent shipbuilding trust expose. The July Atlantic in its handsome new dress opens with an article on “Washington in Wartime,” drawn from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Journal of a visit to that city in 1862, record- ing pen pictures and notes of conver- sations with Lincoln, Seward, Sumner, Chase and others. Archibald H. Grimke contributes a thoughtful paper upon “Why Disfran- chisement Is Bad,” holding that, apart from its illegality, it is distinctly in- jurious to the b interests of the white South as well as bad for the negro, and that it forebodes a sometime future contest in consequence ‘be- tween the labor system of the South and the labor system of the rest of the nation.” Professor Norton’s third installment of Ruskin’s Letters covers one of the critical and most interesting periods of Ruskin’s life, and shows Ruskin's fine contempt for the United States during our Rebellion period. John Burroughs writes forcibly and entertainingly upon the much dis- cussed topic, “The Literary Treatment of Nature;” and Charles Mulford Rob- inson discusses “The Artistic Possi- bilities of Advertising.” Arnold Haultain, whose delightful paper on “Walking” will be remem- bered by Atlantic readers, contributes a capital article on “The Mysteries of Golf,” and “The Day We Celebrate™-is amusingly depicted in a long series of records of the day and its doings from the diaries of an old-time clergyman. Robert Herrick's strong story, “The Common Lot,” approaches a dramatic climax. Complete short stories are “Mahala Joe,” a touching Indian story by Mary Austin; “A Dissatisfled Soul,” a psychological romance by An- nie Trumbull Slesson, and “Ars Amoris,” a whimsical character- sketch by Arthur Colton. Adventure and recreation are prom- tnent notes of the exceedingly timely articles which appear in the July num- ber of The Booklovers' Magazine. As to timeliness, the articles by Dr. Wil- liam Powell Wilson on “The Philip- pines at St. Louis”; by W. C. Jameson Reid on “The Forbidden Land” (Tibet); by Harrison Morris on “A Great German Portrait Painter” (Len- bach), and by H. D. Jones on “Gods, Gems and Mascots”—descriptive of the life-work of the late Maxwell Som- merville—are typical. Mr. Reid's article on Tibet is full of the epirit of adventure and has the personal note that carries conviction; while the account that Mr. Jones gives of Professor Maxwell Sommerville's life-quest of “‘gods, gems and mascots™ reads like a fairy tale. Mr. Boice con- tributes to this section a characteristic article on “The Dawn of a New Era in China"—the fifth of his series on “The Two Pacifics.” The Arena for July appears in an entirely new make-up and contains twice the amount of reading matter given in its monthly issues during re- cent years. It is now one of the very few magazines in the English-speaking world printed on all-rag paper and sewed. The cover is printed in colors. The | frontispiece—a new portrait of Dan Beard, the eminent artist, illustra- tor and author—is printed in deep sepla on India tint paper. a Among the contributors to this issue are Edwin Markham, Joaquin Miller, Professor Edwin Maxey, F. Edwin El- ‘well, the curator of ancient and mod- ern statuary in the Metropolitan Mu- seum of Art, F. F. Mackay, the well known actor and director of the Na- tional Conservatory of Dramatic Art, Hamlin Garland, Albert Bigelow Paine, Irving Bacheller, Will Allen Drom- goole, Captain W. E. P. French, U. S. A., Daniel L. Cruice, Frederick W. Nicolls and Dan Beard. Thereare peopls who declare that the country is going to materialism a_nd degradation. There even are people who prove this awful condition by isolated examples of individual degeneracy. But ot last we have the final word on the other side. The World's Work devotes itself-in July to showing the finer side of American life, and to proving. by most interesting articles and interest- ing pictures, that the conditions are becoming better every day; that our schools are better; that we buy more pictures and books than any other peo- ple in the world; that our charitles are conducted with more skill and judg- ment than they ever were before; that there is less dishonesty, and that the cultivation of the arts and of the high- er life is making rapid strides—keeping pace, In fact, with the great Increase in the material advance of the peo- ple. This helpful review has been worked out with sueccess, and the ple- tures add very greatly to the interest of the number. JSchool Books for General Use HE American Book Company has recently added to the bibliotheea of pedagogy by several notable publications. Worthy of especial notice are the further additions to Rolfe's revised edition of Shakespears in “Twelfth Night,” “Midsummer Night's Dream,” “Hamlet,” “The Tempest,” “Othello™ and “Macbeth.” These volumes of the new edition have been entirely revised and reset and appear with every pos- sible' mechanical improvement. The books are smaller and more con- venient in shape and plentifully sup- plied with attractive {llustrations. The changes made in revision have been mainly due to the change that has taken place In educational methods in the last thirty-five years and reflect the results of the editor's studies and the experience gained by the use of the first edition in schools and clubs. The greater part of the notes on textual variations have been omitted, as the text of Shakespeare is now virtually settled. In place of many of the “critical notes” Dr. Rolfs has substituted notes of his own, and has also added more of the same kind in the appendix. A concise account of Shakespeare’s meter has also been in- serted. Minor changes have been made throughout, the notes having been abridged or expanded, as seemed best, and new ones are added in many instances. While the present edition is substantially new, yet it may be used together with the old edition in the same class without serious inconven~- fence. The old stand-by, Fisher's “Outlines of Universal History,” is in a new and turbished form. This standard work comprises within a moderate compass & narrative of the most Important events id the world's history, with their causes and consequences. The specially significant and Interesting detalls have been singled out for treatment, as have the development of sclence and literature. Tables of bibliography direct the inquirer to ad- ditional writers on the varfous topics. Numerous clear maps and genealogical tables furnish ample aid. 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