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our national fever, when added merit of time- worth. in this insti- n up without b t tion of the c tution, ted in n actice ations were decided Chamber se: 1 the dest al aspirants were w cal expediency. hardly state, this al procedure, tolerated widely proclaimed land freedom, was somewhat 24 that the clamor for a representative nominating body aucus holders give way, and ew York State nominating conven- consisting of es many’ delegates es there were members in the Assem- bly, met to nominate candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. Then ceme the national Republican party, with the mnational convention ides. At the first national convention thus ordered under its dictates in Bal- timore, December, 1831, Henry Clay re- celved the unanimous vote of the dele- gates for Presidential nominee. “Old Hickory” Jackson, desiring to obtain the nominetion of Van Buren as his the running meate for & term, next called & Democratic convention for the purpose, and by his characteristic edroitness saddled the same With the famous “two-thirds rule”—the lasting heritage of Jacksonian Democracy for all succeeding voters of that sterling political stripe. The three tragedies of national oon- ventions, centering about the heads of Webster, of Clay and later of Blalne, offer the author opportunity to trace the course of political events, which in each instance brought to these luckless espirants to Presidential honors crush- ing @isappointment. In the cases of the twe old-school politiclans, less familiar to us of the new century, Clay’s com- plaint seemed to have covered the cause for the fallure of both when he exclaimed, ~I &m the most unfortunate men in the history of parties—always run by my friends when sure to be de- feated, and now betrayed for a nom- ination when I or any one, would be sure of an election.” Of peculiar interest is the author’s description of the proceedings at the Chicago convention of 1860, wherein the new Republican party first tested its strength and Lincoln was nominated to run for the Presidential chair, al- ready tottering before the storm of se- cession. Here it was that that peculiar feature of modern conventions, organ- ized uproar, first found its power and became a fixed adjunct to all subse- quent meetings of party hosts. We are told that while the jubllant supporters of Seward were busy parading through the streets the display of their strength the Lincoln “shouters” thronged into the convention hall and occupled so much space that when their opponents sought standing room even, they found at a premium. Then followed a re- markable demonstration, each faction endeavoring to outshout the other In the general pandemonium, until, to quote from Murat Halstead, “hundreds of persons stopped their ears in pain.” Truly this bizarre feature of the pres- ent day political convention had a rousirg Inception. The second part of Bishop's book is devoted to a study of the part political cartoons have had in the campalgns of the country. This ground, though cov- ered in part by a recent book on “The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature,” by A. B. Maurice and F. T. Cooper, throws Interesting light upon campaign methods, past and present. It was during the Jackson administra- tions that the cheaply printed, execrably, THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. men take the though with a lampoons of tics began to each figure prodigious g from his mouth and innuen- self: tereotyped the of a few res the hed off in the heat of po- e were of an effect more po- pages of editort. He cites as examples the famous \\'mvd:\lle" travesty upon Linc black Republicanism and the *§ sion Movement" oon which repre- sents ghe States riding to their destruction on the backs of don- keys. In his closing chapters upon inaugu- ration incidents in the history of the Presidency, Bishop draws almost the entire fund of reminiscence incorporat- ed from the dlaries of the Presidents and the narratives of contemporary spectators. The incidents surrounding the installation of Washington as chief executive are famillar traditions; the simplicity of ceremony made a prece- dent by the great President held as a tradition until Jackson galned the/high seat. Then it seems there were festivi- ties and roysterings'almost approaching & bacchanalla. Such was the crush of ardent supporters of ““Old Hickory” and importunate office seekers that when the White House servants endeavored to set out orange punch for the refresh- ment of the guests there was a wild stampede, in which glasses, tubs and liquor were stamped under foot and the new President himself had difficulty in protecting his ribs from sudden assault. With a spirited description of the sin- ister preparations to prevent a tragedy &t the first Inauguration of Lincoln, the author brings to a close this exception- elly interesting study of the side lights in American political history. The book is valuable both as a sketch of histori- cal outline and & rich fund of person- alia. (Scott-Thaw Co., New York; trated; price, $2. Guardian Angel in Gingham Print llus- HEY'S two things that they’s no use worryin' about—jest two. One of 'em is the thing that a body can’t help. T'other is the thing that a body kin help.” This gem of philosophy from the lips of Huldah of the Wagon Tire House down in Blowout, Tex., is the index to that genial lady's whole scheme of life. Though she gathered under her wing every tattered little “orphant” of the cattle ranges for miles around and ofttimes was hard put to it to discover the ways and means for continuing the Wagon Tire House in its wonted prosperity under all this load of charity, Huldah was convinced that there exist only two causes for worry and with the limits of these thus defined she played the game of life with a smile ever. About this motherly figure in her faded print dress—the guide, phil- osopher and friend of every cow puncher in Wild Hoss Colnty—the collaborators, Grace MacGowan Cooke and Alice MacGowan, have written a very charming little story. Times enough have we had the cowboy and the ranger of the fast fading wild West held up in pictured fiction; even the fringes on his sombrero have become familiar to every novel reader. But this new departure, this delineation of the typical woman of the border, ma- tronly enough to defy the advances of the romantic, is distinctly novel. Wea are glad that a Huldah has been put in her right place in the literary scheme of things Western. Only a very slender thread of story serves the authors in their delineation of this mothering angel of Blowout. [ id-stwmer— B ‘?"%/hq “Rol ster enough, the book opens with Huldah drawing up the sheet over all that remained of the outcast who had come to the Wagon Tire House to die and to leave her little one to be yet another addition to the waifs gathered under Huldah's protecting wing. This puts us directly in touch with the lit- tle colony of strays that makes Huldah’'s roof its ablding place. Through her own mouth we learn that Huldah the self-appointed mother of all the motherless. Then through a series of simple little incidents the life of Huldah and her reflection upon all the lives about her are brought out. Of course there is a light love thread throughout the story and there is a bit of real tragedy in the pathetic filgure of Lone Deatherage—both sub- sidiary elements, blended well with dominant motive of the book. Huldah’s philosophy—every book that carries a patronymic for a title is supposed to contain its quota of homely saws nowadays— Huldah's philosophy is indeed of a wholesome order and optimistic enough - to be tonic In its effects. Ready always to excuse backsliding rather than to con- demn and willing to ses good in the world even through a veil of evil, Huldah is right well fitted to teach ail of us a lesson in charity and in the Joy of right living, (Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indian- apolis; {llustrated; prlce $150.) Another Volume of Encyclopedia F that really remarkable complla- tion of the historical and arch- aeological lore of Israel, the Jew- ish Encyclopedia, the seventh volume is now issued—a book as rich in fact and scholarly effort as those that have preceded. This volume, em- bracing in its range from “Italy” to “Leon,” nearly 1800 topics, is especlally valuable for its expositions of Old Tes- tament and Talmudical literature, in that its alphabetical allotment em- braces such names as Job, Jephthah and Judah I, patriarch and redactor of the Mishnah. The average gentile, and for that matter the average Jew, will be sur- prised to learn from the reading of the present volume Qf the encvclopedia of the vast store of Jewish literature that has been lald up since the last book of the Talmud was written. We find that 30,000 does not cover the total number of Hebrew books written from the time of the final fall of Jerusalem before the Roman arms to the present day. Before the twelfth volume of the encyclopedia appears the editors so we are assured, will have given their attention to at least two-thirds of these publications, written in all ages and a dozen different tongues. -In the seventh volume the works of the two early Hebrew singers, Judah-ha-Levi and Eleazar Kalir, recelve attention, the article on Kalir being of especial interest owing te the haze of mytho- logical tradition surrounding the head of the liturgical psalmist. The Biblical characters that are given attention in the present volume offer the opportunity for the Introduction of anclent Hebralc folklore relative to the lives of the several worthies. In Hag- gadic literature it seems that many of the storles of the Old Testament were FEL2AY ox s WAGoN 7R o=, CREATED BY 4ricx A Gorpan PTAC Gorszan -s0 distorted by the interpretation or tne ancient rabbis as to bear little resem- blance to the original. The story of Jonah, according to this popularized version, is as rich in Imaginative quali- ties as any of the “Thousand and One Nights.” ‘When Jonah went to Joppa he found no ship, for the vessel on which he in- tended taking passage had sailed two days before his arrival; but God caused a contrary wind to arise and the ship was driven back to port. In his joy Jonah paid his passage money in ad- vance, contrary to the usual custom, which did not require payment until the conclusion of the voyage. Accord- ing to some he paid even the full value of the ship, amounting to 4000 gold de- naril. When the storm arose the kind- hearted sailors, evidently respecting the rich passenger, first lowered Jonah only far enough for the waters to reach his knees. Seeing that the storm sub- sided, they drew him back into the ship, whereupon the sea at ®nce arose again. The sailors repeated the opera- tion several times with the same resuit, each time lowering him deeper and deeper, until figally they threw hith into the sea. The fish which swallowed Jonah was created in the very beginning of the wgrld for that special purpose. There- fore this fish had so large a mouth and throat that Jonah found it as easy to pass into its belly as he would have found it to enter the portals of a very large synagogue. It had eyes which were as large as windows and lamps lit up its interior. According to another opinion a great pearl suspend- ed in the entrails of the fish enabled Jonah to see all that was in the sea and in the abyss. The fish informed Jonah that he was to be devourefl by Leviathan. Jonah asked to be taken to the monster, when he would save both his own life and that of the fish. Meeting Leviathan he exhibited the “seal of Abraham,” whereupon the monster shot away a distance of two days. To reward him for this service the fish showed Jonah all the wondrous things in the ocean (e. g., the path of the Israelites across the Red Sea; the pillars upon which the earth rests). Thus he spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish. In the department of history the pres- ent volume is no exception in point of excellence. In reviewing the reign of John Casimir, King of Poland, the writer lets in the light upon a particu- larly misty period of that turbulent country’s early history, giving us some quaint provisions adopted by the Jews for certifying the legitimacy of their marriages after their release from the bondage of the . Cossack hetman, Chmielnicki. The history of the Jew- h colony on Jamaica and the details of Columbus' early favoritism for the Jews also fall into the province of the historical writers. The articles on Jesus of Nazareth, three in number, are furnished by men known among Jewish scholars for their breadth of mind and knowledge in the higher criticism. They are Joseph Ja- cobs, formerly president of the Jew- ish Historical Soclety of England; Dr. A Cregs ~ CPamE, K. Kohler and Professor S. Krauss of Budapest. Upon the personality of Jesus, his Jewish characteristics, his attitude to rabbinical law, and his claim of divine origin, these three writ- ers treat fairly and in a manner which can lay them open to no charge from Christian students of New Testament sources. A word should be sald concerning the pictorial illustrations which embel- lish the book. A novelty especially in- structive In all its particulars is the fourfold map of the city of Jerusalem that forms the frontispiece of the vol- ume; another reproduced very clearly is the panorama of Jerusalem as it is to-day. Interspersed throughout the book may be found portraits of many Jewish worthies and reproductions of those valuable antiquities which are especially characteristic of the Jews, their manners and customs. (Funk & Wagnalls Company, York; price. $6 00.) A Pirate Craft of Modern Build New OT one of the least Interesting phenomena of present day liter- ary activities is that of the fran- tic striving after the new and sen- satlonal on the part of our writer folk and the corresponding avidity with which the results of thelr ingenuity are sought after by the dear public. Despite Emerson's preachment, it is not to the door of the man who can build a better mouse trap than his neighbor that the literary world makes a beaten path, but to the threshold of him who can fashion a stranger. By that token is the door mat before the sanctum of G. Sidney Paternoster des- tined soon to be worn to a frazzle. “The Motor Pirate” is certainly the medal mouse trap of the summer’s book sea- son from the point of view of the seek- er for sensation in fiction. Here we have the story of a strictly up-to-date Dick Turpin who straddles, not a good black mare, but the guiding wheel of the fastest motor car in the world. By night he sallies forth from the fastness of his garage and scours the roads over the whole of lower Eng- land, levying toll upon every belated motorist whom chance may throw in his path, cutting up didos with terri- fled mail carriers and even holding up his august Majesty Edward himself, One hundred miles an hour is nothing to this motor pirate. Space and time reel out behind the wheels of his rak- ish craft like thread off a yarn skein. He is a devil. But after indulging him- self for the length of full 240 pages this fiend on wheels is hoist by his own petard. After kidnaping the fair young thing who plays the heroine in the story and being chased by the aven- gers in one of his own miraculous con- traptions, the motor pirate very fitting- ly choses to select Lands End as the piace for his extinction and his exit from the story Is accompanied by a loud splash and a smother of foam. This is all sensational enough to sat- ert iRg—" VrRitebie— ¥R e ‘«9 isfy the most ¢xacting, but with that statement all laudat ections upon the nature of “The Motor Pirate” come to a natural close. Sensation, pure and perfect, is to be found in ti ck Car- ter Library of choice lite growing boys or the Fires fon. It is not yet the “co: opinion on the part of the wise ones in criticism that an unusual plot or the intervention of some strange god from the machine is sufficient pallia- tion of the sins against canons of style. That is why we call the volumes in the Nick Carter Library ‘penny shockers” and not literature. That is why, likewise, “The Motor Pirate” smacks of the “penny shocker” order of fiction. Rapid, breathless even, as the actfon In Mr. Paternoster's book is, and hair- raising thou, yme of the incidents may be, the reader noad not have ‘more than the ordinary mc standing the story. cum of under- to find the fatal weakness in Almost by the time that the third “peg” or his . SQu: the mystery the identity of the man in the piratical motor car ceases to be a mystery for the reader, even though the Scotland Yard detective flounders through a dozen more chapters before his eyes become oOpened. The author makes his villain so obvious from the very first that the reader is wont to arise and revile the hero and his de- tective friend, who are doddering around for clews—revile them for their crass stupidity. hem has had “Man and Woman,”’ a Study of Sex HE study of sex relations and dif- ferences, only seriously undertaken by the scientists within very recent years, has been productive of re- sults as pertinent to the science of so- clology as to existing theories of psy- chology and anthropology. Not only do problems of industrialism hang upon a rational review of the relation of sex to sex, but the whole agitation for an elevation of the sphere of woman and a recognition of her equality with man on an intellectual, even a physical plane, awaits for Its justification the authoritative deductions of specialists in this realm of scientific endeavor. Au- thorities unite In agreeing that Have- lock Ellls in his “Man and Woman,” published ten years ago, succeeded In drawing all the lines of thought in this field to the most complete and logical conclusion yet determined upon. His book, now revised and made to Incor- porate the results of recent experiment, agaln comes to the hands of thinking men and women. The chief aim of Ellis’ book is to fix upon the extent to which sexual differ- ences are artificlal, the result of tradi- tion and environment, and how far are they due to actual physical differences between man and woman. To pave the way for an analysis of the question the author has first to consider the general physical characteristics of the sexes, their similarities and differences, bring- ing to bear the evidence of anthropol- ogy and the tenets of evolution. This done, he has yet the fleld of natural and morbld psychology to deal with, with emphasis upon special questions of hypnotic phenomena, emotional af- fectability and the variational tendency. Throughout the entire course of his ex- position the author is careful always to distinguish between those manifesta- tions of mind and activities of body that are the result of purely functional processes and those undoubtedly in- duced by acquired customs of thought and action. Civilization acts to eradicate artificial sexual differences, according to Ellis. The advance of soclety has witnessed a mingling of the domains of man and woman, In the primitive stage so rigidly prescribed. But, physically, a woman is a woman and a man a man; as a consequence a masculine and a feminine mentality must ever be un- like, stripped though they might be of the artificial traditions of custom. Be- cause woman has the weaker body, be- cause she is less able to defend her- self, ruse and deceit are naturally attributes of her mental life. Because from physical reasons woman's life is always along the path of a rhythmic curve of physical and psychic variation, she is variable, always In a change. Man, on the other hand, from the very nature of his unvarying existence, lacks the nimblenéss of intellect, the nervous activity of resource which we call tact, that is woman's. Thus does the author carry his in- vestigations down to the fundamental phenomena of our psychic life. Broadly, he concludes that in the scheme of life man has shown a greater tendency to a change of type than woman, woman belng more prone to remain closer to the physical and psychic type of child- hood. The alleged inferiority of woman to man cannot admit of proof, for the law of compensation operates to keep the balance neutral. “The hope of our future civilization lies in the develop- ment in equal freedom of both the mas- culine and feminine elements in life.” (Inwported by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York.) Notes on Writers | and their Work ORD BYRON'S hair has becoms a rare commodity. A considerable price has to be paid even for small locks at Puttick’s, London. Shortly one will be put up there to his sister, panied th her friend. » be sold with a letter from Augusta Leigh, which acec lock when she semt it Many pounds are expected to be real- ized from the sale. This is a rather amusing indication of the “Byron re- vival” in England In most striking symptom at pr the success “T% astawa Rives' glowing romance based on thej facts and fanci of his life. Byron's career see: de to the hand of the novelist, mystery, adventures, genit affairs. “The Castaway.” interesting, not only as a story m nd 1 )t color) and incident, but as a ge s esti-{ mate and an Ingenjous defense of & man much hated and much misunder- stood. If it attains the vogu sted by ea'lv rea early sale: Byron Colla “The Byron Tw ron Five-Cent Ci A book which one of the most popular novels of season is “T Loves of Ed L »p Publishing Compa Y'\ Rose Cecil O'Nefil, the well- istrator, whose pictures in P elsewhere have attracted mu tion. So great has been the a demand of this unique romanc is embellished by, over sixty tions by the author, that the pubiish- ers have decided to increase the size of} the first edition and have postponed! the day of publication from the 15th to the 29th of August V. pro: Mrs. E. L the author of) “Olive Latha lives an old-fash- loned house in Soho; this she makes her working place as well as her home, during the bu hours of the day. In it she and her husband have gathered an extraordinary collection of manu- scripts and be s. Her husband, Wil- fred Michael Voynich, is a collector of books who is known in every corner of! the world. During at least twelve of the fourteen years which he has lived in England he has made a study of the history of books the main object of his life. His attention was first called to this field of study by Dr. Garnett of the British Museum, and from a mod- est beginning he has developed the business associated with his name. which is of world-wide reputation. He oynich, r it is filled to the brim with{ recruits the larger number of his col-} lections from mornastic institutions \nf out-of-the-way places. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the author of “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” whose story of childhood, “In the Closed Room,” is now appearing in McClure's Magazine, has returned for the summer to her English country home, Maytham Hall, In Kent. Mrs. Burnett's estate is a very old one, lying in the most beautiful part of England's most pic- turesque county. The foundations of the house are over 700 years old, and the o'd church on the grounds is men- tioned in the Doomsday Book. Attached to the hall are two quaint villages, Rolvenden Street and Rolvenden Lane. The section of Kent in which Mrs. Burnett lives is very popular with literary people. Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Ford Maddox Hueffer and Madame Albanes! all have homes within a few miles of Maytham. There never was a list of the dred Best Books™ that pleased every- body, Sir Gilbert Parker, author of “The Right of Way,” has recently ex- pressed this emphatic opinion of the latest list of the kind: “It is enough to make Isaiah (who had a sense of style, at least, and some profound philoso- phy) turn in his grave to see White's “Natural History of Selborne” and Smiles’ “Self-Help” side by side in this selection. Any one who could digest and be nourished by both those books could digest and be nourished by any- thing.” “Hun- An interesting story of the discovery of one rising young author is told in connection with the appearance of & short story by James Hopper, in the August McClure's. One of the mem- bers of McClure's staff, while in San Francisco, was told by an instructor in the University of California of a young man who had done wonderful work in English In that Institution, who was then teaching in the Philippines. A letter to Mr. Hopper was productive | of several stories which were at omce accepted. Mr. Hopper then returned to this country and has been writing suc- cessfully for McClure's ever since. “Problem novely” were scored so heavily a few years ago that there have been hardly any since. It was enough to term a book a probiem novel to condemn it at once. But there has come a change. This year “The Woman Errant,” very frankly a problem novel, has the field to itself; and it is already well along through its second edition. It promises to be more discussed for the ideas contained In it than any other novel published this year, except, pere baps, “The Singular Miss Smith.* i S covn New Books Received TURK—Opile Read: Laird & Lee, Chicago; fllustrated; price §1 50. PLUCK~—George Grimm; Germania Publishing Company, Milwaukee; {llus- trated; price $1 50. A BOOK OF VERSE—John Lewis March; Richard G. Badger, Boston; price $1. DRIFT O0' DREAMS—Lola Lanehart; published by the author, Los Angeles. CLASSIC GEMS — EXPOSITION PICTURES—Laird & Lee, Chicago, TOPICAL DISCUSSION OF AMERI- CAN HISTORY~W. C. Doub; The' ‘Whitaker & Ray Company, San Fran- cisco; price $1 10. PUPIL'S OUTLINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY—W. C. Doub; The Whitaker & Ray Company, San Francisco; price 25 cents. JINGLES FROM THE FAR WEST-— M. A. 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