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THE SAN FRA APRIL 2, 190 ntribute to 1d history and so new th these in twenty- lumes un- John Greek in vering the countries ome, are lu- few con- ning vol- are work in the reader is a which the and AVOr. nt of , name- y its gnitude es to antiquity, t and West- beginnings of hu- life, litera- a f the gr s Central and East- the early ro-Baby- ble re ies. Anent an- ed: “From gion, from = and our J an Rome marvelous story of the the Tiber which became r f the wo: This story volume IV, will prob- teresting to the gen- f all the five on an- n volume imperial we have the glories of the age of found Rome brick and lumes are devoted to the Ages and tell us of the races swept over Europe from Asia m which we are descended; the Franks-and Lombards, and Age of Charlemagne” of the ents of the firet and greatest Emperore who ruled over “the an empire”; the fascinating f the crusades, and, last of that comes the “Age of the Renais- an age of great wars and great ectual progress, Modern history takes up ten volumes, of which tells of the establish- he first er Prc tantism and “‘the new h of Roman Cathc sm.” The French revolution is in volume XVI and is written by Theodore Flathe, pro- fessor of history of St. Afra, Saxony. of that series is “Contemporary Asla and Africa,” which is Charles McLean Andrews, fessor of hist it Bryn Mawr Col- lege, and Willlam E. Lingelbach, as- t professor of modern European ory at the University of Pennsylva- Three volumes tell the story of erica—colonization, by John Fiske; jependence of the New World, by and the modern development of e New World, by John Fiske and our Henry Morse Stephens, professor ritten by vD f history a, in which there is a narrative of the Civil War devoid of sectionalism. Some of the especial and some of the que merits claimed by this big work are that the plan of it is tp take up e history of the world “period by pe- and not nation by nation; that t is an absolutely original work, not a llection of extracts pieced together by editorial laborers; that it is a modern histor and that great civilized na- tions have been vying with each other the diligent publication of state pers and documents and in throwing n to students the libraries and archives which hitherto they had jeal- ously guarded; that this work meets for , | tions n the University of Califor- | | ' 7773 { world should be revised in the light of | | recent discoveries in all the sciences | Which affect our race—biology and so- . | ciology have joined hands with arch- ‘aeulugy and paleontology to widen our | conception as to the greatness, the sol- idarity and the antiquity | and that everywhere immense activity | in investigation has been met with in- | | creased facilities for the accumulation | | of material unknown to past genera- The whole of the last volume is | devoted to a complete general index of | the world history in one alphabet, cov- of our race, ering both proper names and important topics, and th red a unique feature d a fitting conclusion to the monumental work cor Perhaps the most interesting of the | first five volumes series, the age of | antiquity, the fourth volume, “Re- publican Rome.” It contains so much | | @bout those notable actions ‘and those impr personalities, which even | to modern times still dominate the at- | tentjon almost in equal share with the great events and the pre-eminent | characters who come =0 much closer in time us. We read of t rise of Rome > universal dominion; of the great struggle with Carthage when the Senate left it to the people to decide whether they would fight or no; of the pre of the cycle, from virtue to power, from power to wealth, from® wealth to luxury, from luxury to vice and the downfall of the great republic and the rise of the empire. We find the stories of thoSe person- ages of Rome's rise 8o well retold that we are glad of their recall thus to re-enact their parts before us. Has- drubal and Hannibal have their pages of vivid presentment; Scipio Africanus, who by his victory over the Car-| thaginians made Rome the dominant | power of the western world, is treated in one of the best passages; the de- | scription of Tiberius Gracchus, who, | gress “with the eagerness and impetuosity of | youth, evile in to the undertook to cure the worst | the state,” but who could not noble aims and great talents “join knowledge of men and their pas- | and the experience in the af- of state, which time alone can give, and which were indispensable for the task before him” is vivid and in- | structive; Cato, the “foremost of the | peasant democr_cy of his generation, | | and who made ‘the strictness of Cato’ proverbial for all time,” is well | sketched as the history hurries on; | Marius, “a vigorous self-made man who | despised the incompetence and in- dolence of the officers from the no- | bility,” rises first to our admiration and then quickly sinks below it when, on meeting with scorn and hostility, “the ambitious homo novus was filled | with a flerce and persistent rage against the nobility, which later drove | him to frightful excesses”; there are | Antony and Cleopatra, spectacular, of | course; there is the great Caesar, who though “himself early fell, was sur- vived by the many reforms in adminis. | tration, and by other creations, which | are the monument of the incredible activity and wonderful versatility of | the mind of this great man"; but above | all these picturesque characters the | auther of this fourth volume seems to delight in spending his best talent in | making us consider attentively hls% presentation to us of the hero of the | Punic War, Scipio Africanus. Here is a fragment of that presenta-, tion: “ * * * When Claudius Nero| had shown himself unequal to the task ! assigned him, the Senate decided to | | commit the conduct of the war to a| jgeneral with pre-consular authority, | who, as an extraordinary measure, | should be chosen by the people. The | place was sought and obtained by a' youth of only 24 years, Publius Cor- ! nelius Scipo, the chivalrous and uni- | versally beloved son of the dead Pub- | lius Scipfo. Around him the grateful ! remembrance of contemporaries and the homage of later ages have thrown | a peculiar halo. It was never forgotten | that to him fell the glory of finally con- quering Hannibal and of putting an | end to the horrors of this war. His for- | tune was greater than his military ! | gitts, though these far surpassed even ' | those of Marcellus; but to his contem- | | poraries the youthful hero was a fasci- | nating personality. Chivalrously PN TIR CEN - TURY B. C. 7N FH, » R T e | self the attention of the people, | of this type, | Much of the epirit of those times must | much of it will indirectly act around | woman of the pioneer’s 5 IN X ZOURSE firmly believing in his star, not uncon- scious of his power to attract to him- with lofty ideals, a clear comprehension of the relations of events, of extraordinary energy and true Roman strength, mod- ified by Grecian culture, Scipio, a rare exception in that fierce struggle of the nations, had kept in his heart a place for the feelings of humanity and mag- | nanimity that, after long years of mur- | der and destruction, had become almost incomprehensible.” The volume closes with an account of | | the downfall of the republic because it | was impossible to continue it after the | virtue which had formed its true foun- | dations had ceased to be. It tells of the | magnificent luxury in those last days, | when villas and gardens were made | with prodigal expenditure of the mar- | bles of Greece, Italy and Africa. A | handsome colored plate gives a glimpse | of the beautiful interior decoration of a | Roman house of that age. It is ex- | | quisite as a sample of the fine art of | home ornamentation; worthy of a| purer people and worth copying at the present time. Alas, the feasting in these artlstic rooms was carried to shameful excess and the luxury could not last, for “Along with this a deep immorality penetrated social life. The noble dignity of the Roman women had long since disappeared; countless di- vorces on slight grounds went hand in hand with loose intrigues. Family life | in all classes was shaken to the foun- dation. Venality was common in all | clesses; perjury and forgery were usual | crimes.” (Lea Brothers & Co., New York.) CALIFORNIA NOVEL BY WESTERN WOMAN Geraldine Bonner, in “The Pioneer,” has produced another story, which should have added interest for the people of this State, because of its local coloring. Like her previous book, “To-Morrow’s Tangle,” it tends to fa- miliarize us With the way in which the conditions of our environment have | helped to mold the characteristics of the people among whom we live. Books wher they are good studies of human trial and conduct, ag this is, double such advantage as they possess for the general reader when they come to the attention of those who are being played upon by the forces of the same environment of which the story makes special study. This new novel, by a woman who knows her California as the alphabet®| links the picture of life on this coast in the exciting times close to the financial frenzy of '49 to the life of the succeeding generation in the seventies, still have destinies and the of our natures by assoclation; direct effect upon our insensible molding and us and upon us by the force of hered- ity still holding the children of those pioneers to the traits of the energetic adventurers, and so setting a pace which new blood and new conditions may modify but not control. Considering the feature of the book’s interest as apart from its study of a most romantic Jand and romantic period, it is the tale of the fatherly love which a man of middle age, with- out family ties, felt for the daughter of the woman he had wished for, and expected to marry. The man is Colonel James Parrish, “the pioneer.” When he found himself foiled of his dream of wife and home he stayed. strong through the stifling process. and turned his attention to building up a fortune in mining ventures. The man, to whose | jmpetuous but - ignoble wooing the first love ylelded, did' not stay strong; and so there came about the conditions in which the daughter of the weak man needed the saved strength of the pio- neer, and beautifully at the last some of the bitterness of the thwarted pas- sion passed away In the joy of its magic fulfillment by transformation to a love for the young girl—pure and un- selfish, like the love the guardian angels feel. There are interesting, well presented side issues to this main one in the the need that the entire history of the | brave, handsome, gracious in giving, | story, but it is that which chiefiyp —— oF 225725 FIRS STORY = AND=NEW- e ‘A7z, i . Ve 70 _—— G ERIATZDINE LERIINTES: BOXNER, TANCIEN T BRONZE * Bosy, L - ILL FROM THE REMARKABLE WORK ““THE HISTORY OF ALL AND PHOTOGRAPH OF A WELL-KNOWN WEST) N WRITER. LATEST NOVEL, “THE PIONEER,” HAS A CALIFORN SETTING. kX 2 gives it whatsoever of charm and the prankful mixing of the babies at power it possesses. Gibsonville in 1857, which story has (Bobbs-Merrili Company, Indian- | been woven by Owen Wister into the apolis.) RECALLS OLD DAYS IN GOLDEN STATE Like listening to a good talker, whose mind is full of recollections of facts as fascinating with the romance of real- ity as is the richest of imaginative fic- tion, and who tells them easily, in sim- ple, reminiscent style, as one seated In a comfortable, big arm chair, by the fireside among his old friends, and gives out the stories as they rise pic- turesquely to his memory, is the read- inx (.> new book, “The Gold Hunters of California,” written by the pioneer, Thomas Edwin Farish. The words “written” and “read” are here used in order to stick to the matter of fact, but really the mental Iimpression left after the perusal is that we have been listening with eager ears to tongue-told stories. The subject of this old-time talk of old times is good, and the manner of handling it is so admirable that it must delight all Californians, old and young; we feel so sure that we are getting the information at first hand, and that the bistory told has been a live thing to the mind which thus vividly recalls it. The sketchy biographical additions it gives to our knowledge of the early days is one of the features of the book. We get fresh views of the writers, Bret Harte, Mark Twain and Phoenix; | accounts of the men on whom fortune smiled so bountifully that she seemed gone mad with generosity—O'Brien, Flood, Fair, Mackay; presentations of the striking pergonalities of those who won by so much of sheer energy and pluck—Stanford, Haggin, Miller, Tevis, James H. Keene, and, perhaps, most romantic figure of all, Ralston; we are told of the fighters jn those fierce duel- ing days, and out from among them stands brightly forth, challenging to this ‘day our admiration, that demo- cratic scion of English nobility, Fair- fax, who broke all the records of chiv- alrous fighting by staying his hand when his assailant's life was at his mercy, saying: ‘“Remember, I have spared your life for the sake of your wife and ~children.” The book was worth the writing to fix that one inci- dent ih the memory of men. There is an Interesting bit of gossip to the effect that General Albert Sid- ney Johnston left it to his wife to de- cide if he should cast in his lot with the Confederate States; and there is this tribute to his honorable action while waiting for Lincoln to accept his resignation of his post in Californi: “Regardless of section a grateful peo- ple will ever revere the memory of one who kept faithfully his trust, though | at the sacrifice of that which he held dearer than life itself.” An interesting item is the account of play of “The Virginian,” now running at the Columbia Theater. Another is that Haggin, one of the great workers of the early days, is now, though an octogenarian, mining in Peru and building a railroad across the Andes, one of the largest enterprises in South America. (Cunningham, Curtiss & Welch, San Francisco; $150.) BRADY DEALS WITH TEXAS STRUGGLE “The Conquest of the Southwest” by Cyrus Townsend Brady, is a brief historical sketch of the series of opera- tions which began with the coloniza- tion of Texas and closed with the Gadsden purchase. It has for sub-title, “The Story of a Great Spoliation,” and shows forth that part of our history in such a way as to make its contempla- tion a strong argument for the avoid- ance of war. As a mere question of economy the acquisition of the new territory by the methods pursued is ex- plained to have been spendthrift folly, for it could have been bought from the Mexicans for one-third what it cost. He quotes a paragraph from the works of President Roosevelt which proves that Roosevelt could approve the sub- title of the book, for in his life of Ben- son he speaks of our encroachments upon the boundaries of our neighbors in these words: ‘‘What became known as the ‘manifest destiny’ idea, which, reduced to its simplest terms, was that it was our manifest destiny to swallow up the land of all adjoining nations who were too weak to with- stand us; a theory that forthwith ob- tained immense popularity among all statesmen of easy international mor- ality.” The most interesting part of the book is that giving an account of the revolu- tion in Texas, with sketches of the fighters who took part in it. The story of the famous defense of the Alamo is briefly but well given, and there are two spirited pictures, one of “Bowie's Last Shot” and the other of the “Death of David Crockett,” to help us imagine that desperate fight to annihilation of the brave 180 Texans against the 2500 ‘Mexicans who Stormed the old mission church. He says: “The defense of the Alamo was the most heroic exploit in American history. * * * The in- geription on the monument erected aft- erward to the defenders of Alamo, at the State capital at Austin, lis entirely tru Thermopylae had its messenger of defeat, the had nope.’ " (D. Appleton & Co., News York.) NOTES OF WRITERS AND THEIR BOOKS Frank A. Vanderlip’s concluding.pa~ D - -+ per in Scribner’s for April, on the “Po- litical Problems of Europe,” will dis- cuss “Paternalism and Nationalism,” as shown in modern European experi- ments, such as workingmen's insurs | ance, accident liability, sick insurance, etc., all of which have been worked out in Germany and elsewhere to a degree | that will astonish Americans. - He also expounds the great system of Govern- ment canals which Germany has un- dertaken. Mistah® Johnsing—Can’t yo' gib me no hope, Liza? | Miss Jackson—Once an’ fo’ all, Mis- | tah Johnsing, I tells yo' T won't be no man’s cullud supplement.—Puck. = e . A ‘new book by Ernest Thompson Seton, “Woedmyth and Fable,” is on | press for issue by the Century Com- pany in April. Meanwhile Mr. Seton's ‘“Biography of a Grizzly” has been printed in seven large editions; and | fourteen different shipments of sheets hhve been made to the English pub- lishers. . The first book on the market by the new publishing house, Moffat, Yard & Ce., will be Richard Barry’s “Port Ar- thur.” The author is the young San Francisco journalist who went to Port Arthur last autumn with only $200 and no overcoat. He has been featured in Collicr’'s and other American mag- azines, and in London has had lead- ing articles in the Westminster Ga- zette, Fortnightly Review, Black and White, Sphere, London Illustrated News and others. . “Africa’s Appeal to Christendom" will be voiced in the April Century by Prince Momulu Massaquoi of Ghen- dimah (Gallinas) of the British Pro- | tectorate of Sierra Leone, a remarkable character. The parents of the young | prince placed him under the tuition of a Mohammedan priest when he was § years old. Two years later he came under Christian influence at a mission school, and after several years' resi- dence at the mission was baptized and confirmed. . One of the most widely discussed ad- dresses given by Dr. Felix Adler before the Ethical Culture Society was that on “Marriage and Divorce,” delivered a few months ago. It was a finely spiritual talk, lifting the subject—one admittedly the most Important in American social life to-day—out of the realm of sordid personal interest and personal feeling, to a nobler plane. The widespread interest in this address has |led McClure-Phillips to bring it out separately in book form in brown boards uniform with their “Letters of a Chinese Official.” .« . Little enough is known by American women about the life of one of the few women of genius the world has pro- duced—Rosa Bonheur. Much light is thrown on her remarkable career by Theodore Stanton in his article in the | April Lippincott’s. . Startling is the revelation of the methods of -the ever-rapacious “Sys- tem” made by Mr. Lawson in the in- stallment of his “Frepzied Finance™ published in Everybody's for April Mr. Lawson describes the getting to- gether of the properties that compose Amalgamated; and in doing so tells how the owners of the Utah Consoli- dated found themselves obliged to ask assistance from the “System”; how they got it and the price they had to pay for it. Foremost among the short stories of the number stands “Human Nature,” by Katherine Ceecil Thurston, author of the most successful nevel of the year, “The Masquerader.” In Public Opinion, March 25, Denis Donohoe takes direct issue with Mr. Lawson's statement that there is a ne- farious “system” whose object is to rob the people savings. of their hard earned S e Paul Elder & Co. of San Francisco announce for early publication a Ma= saic essay on the subject of “Love,* uniform in method and issue with the Mosalc essay series, “Friendship,™ “Happiness,” “Nature” and “Success, of which upward of 80,000 copies have been sold. The quotations from various authors are classified and woven inte an essay of continuous thought, the method of treatment suggesting the title of the series. . . The one hundredth anmniversary of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen, April 2, will renew interest in the Danish fairy tales and folk tales that have delighted two generations. The Century Company publishes a “memo~ rial edition” of Andersen’'s fairy tales, v e Intense interest has been aroused everywhere in the fate of Maxim Gorky, the celebrated Russian author, who, after having been held prisonep in the military prison at St. Peters~ burg, has just been banished to Riga. One of his plays recently produced in St. Petersburg came to an end in & scene of uproar and the author's friends and enemies sought to outde each other in their demonstrations. In New York another of his plays was produced during February by Heine rich Conried. It pr:sented an appall- ing picture of the unfathomable mis- ery of Russia's submerged half. Con= temporaneously with these events is a growing demand for Gorky's writ ings. One of the best collections of his stories is found in Nesbit Bain's translation of ‘Tales From Gorky" published by Funk & Wagnalls Com~ pany. It eontains nine of his most important shor.( "f““_— Here are some nuggets of wisdom from Annie Payson Call's new book, “The Freedom of Life” (Little. Brown & Co., publishers, Boston), in which she preaches the gospel of orderly live ing: It is not the work that tires you. It is the way you do it Concentration does not mean strain- ing every nerve and muscle toward our work—it means dropping everything that interferes, and strained nerves and muscles constitute a very bondage of interference. Circumstances, however difficult. are always—without exception—opportuni» ties, and not limitations. Self-pity is one of the states that interferes most effectually with making the right use of circumstances. To pity one’s self is destruction to all possible freedom. “There are three things that prevent sleep—over-fatigue, material distur- bances from the outside, and mental disturbances from within. In nine cases out of ten it is the unwillingness to lle awake that keeps us awake.” Here is a typical passage from the recently published “Memorials of Ed- ward Burne-Jones,” by his widow: “I believe one thing that drew both men and women to him was that he never suspected them beforehand: to him each fresh acquaintance was new-boru. Never in any sense did he become a man of the world, and up to a certain point it was always easy to take ad- vantage of him; press that advantage too far, however, and he was gone like a bird from the snare.” ool Books Received. WONDERS OF LIFE, by Ernest | Haeckel; Harper & Bros., New York. MY APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, by Charles Wagner; Me~ Clure, Phillips & Co., New York; for sale by Payot, Upham & Co., city. THE MONK'S TREASURE, h, George Horton; Bobbs-Merrill Come pany, Indianapolis; price $1 50. RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, by Conan Doyle; MeClure, Phillips & Co., New York; price $1 25. HEALTH AND DISEASE, by C. G. R. 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