The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 21, 1905, Page 23

*THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY He now | calmly re- now and then a dim con- ‘Your path dispensation so far and continue a life schools of our feflow a truth all the advan- nis thought wit is gs we do w unconsciousness in any way influence other lives y, even by the slight ant, serve as turn ¥ to people who are | is iee Forn B ] er, tried to study p! his pastor. d at each ma time it | the farmer under- | . pastor.” He also In way @id | help Jorn Ubl to tide | of evil and loneliness.” | first sin is told » delay in a| 9 a 5 ® carting Jorn Uh » to say when he | youth? What Want have I , but never 8in.' But inevitable, as if > best, must needs s boots and spots on his nd carting came, and Jorn's of honesty got a mighty rent 1 have came to know die n in m fair robe in it.” Then to explain how that could hap- pen t0 a ma strong and soberly stern with him Jorn it is neces- | sary for the ay to give us an in- | sigl to the ¢haracter and fate of the | pure-hearted girl who caused that rent in the voung farmer’s honor. And so the novel goes; stor within stories. | | and all well done. { in this novel writing the pastor-| author does not fail to get in some skillful sermonizing. He does not do it, though, o untactfully as to spoil the story. The chapter wherein the father of the bero is stricken with an incur- | able calamity closes with this para-| graph. which is a good example to show what manner of book it ie: AUTHOR OF- " JORN UHL" ne | tnto Jorn UT I's soul : | 1ove of mor: hty s hitherto beer ke ¥or, as a w is to the it ewielr By Maurice H e Hewlett added an eighth pr his literary g he holds the world of tion writing, it is ,interesting to gives of his youth. He | time. I s too big the every fa very dr failure; ed. 1 god; I » and | willingr 18t calling_the lady's pro- | ective P Series.” gently cuitivating mag- ing it to others, can laugh at this fing, have some fun oc- their outlook never | must were not be denied that many readers ing’s writing, and to outlook beautiful will be icor about such things as e: The delusion of death; realizing | ideal: friendship as a divine relation real worid: the supreme purpose | the mir- baur. | and teach that death, as the conceives it, is a delusion. From the book | she cuils the passage be- what body they | king of what she calls the} by which she means the accept the supreme will, fect silence when the lips and heart | and we no longer entertain mperfect thoughts and vain of nions. a tour query of why should we be that the idea of « to commune with “that bar- field came with | ren voice,” she puts in her own words Bh g Many readers wiil | thus: “Why, indeed, should one live in | SR sending that sickness | dark and discord rather than in loveli- DRAWING BY o A | STANLEY L.\WOO ; | ness anc all magic and music and en- - P w05t important of the four sto- | chantment?’ Nearing the end of what » FROM "CURL o > new book is called “he | ghe has to say about this “inward still- ase.” 1t is the chase of threc |ness,” illustrating what she deems ideal lovers for a feir slip of a girl, and |friendship, and in friendship's name, she cach one of them once tastes the bliss | uses that poem of love which begins: f— — of her. One of the |y 1ove were jester at the court of Death, | somE iLLu (S FROM THE W BOOKS AND A PICTURE OF THE Simone, t And Death the king of all, still would I pray, | GDR: WHO HAS WRITTEN A NOVEL WHICH HAS ATTAINED anothe: al r me the motley and the bauble, yea, AN UNPRECEDENTED SALE IN HIS COUNTRY. poet, scholar and | p-‘ugu il be vanity as the preached saith, 2 S . Shi e A N mirth of love be mine for one briel breath: lo Nelli the «n would I kneel the monarch (o obeY. |45 trugt that ‘“instinct of our lives” be re-enacted in the approaching battles f Pavia has not yet reveaied.” ‘L“ “‘i’}" ";‘fl’;"“fig ““mhe‘; ““""“::"m““‘ Mrs. Browning speaks of, and then, | iD ‘;‘5( s i » 5 = hat the racle momen: ay Vi £ 5} i N\ York; love: was his Kminence the | that, the mivacle mom o S 2 | makiug our Karma the best we can, ac- | o (MCClure, Phillips & Co, New Yori; Gonzaga, and such were the | 8BY hour, she r B M Bt B Karms i o) mauners in those old italian days that | SOBtinuous chain—a series of sequences in | Cept the sequence Karma as it comes. ems only a half-way dreadful | Which we are what we are to-day and | (Little, Brown & Co., Boston: $1) Tal R 4 L “hat *'the “nominally cepnte | (hls year because of what we were yes- ale of Ranch Life should ex to have thoisrday and RSt Jeat. £ ZXCH R [ SRl PXPESt to have the | icom there may be in the inexorablencss | Azonymous Volume From Pen of Pocock sweet heroine of the tale, once intend- ed become the mistress of this, the highest in rank of her lovers. She writes of her purpose to her war- rior lover, but in language so discreetly veiled that the stern wooer only learns that he is about to lose her. When her poet lover, Nello Neili, tells Simone of the Cardinal's designs, the poet mingles with the bitterness of losing the girl, who once had promised herself to him, the joy of seeing her saved from the disnhonor of | giving herself up to the Cardinal's love. | ing of that inward silence, which is will- Ths final encountcr of the three men and the girl furnishes the opportunity for Hewlett to show his literary power, and he does it, Another strone scene is where Nello Nelli beafs a letter to this girl whom he loves, and the youth, who 18 secretary to the Cardinal, knows that the message is from the churchman, and that it is an answer to a letter from the girl in which he had consented to become Gonzaga's Under the sting of the youth’s out- spoken reproach the girl changes her mind and piedges her faith to Nelio Nelli. S0 she is in the position of having icdged herself to three men. Hewlett's art, however, holds her aloft above. ail the men, and as love-worthy through it all, an embarrassed and puzzled woman, rather than a false and calculating one. She seems merely the victim of the chase, and at last passes to the possession, not of the man she loves, but of the man who was strong enouga to take her. Into the strength of this man's taking she yields | herself happily, and feels no regret for | either poet or Cardinal. Nelio Nelli afterward marries a mag- dalen whose repentance dated from a song the poet sang for her once at a voluptuous feast. It was the one pure thing in a mass of ribaldry, and the wom- an, being in just the mood to appreciate beauty, from that day forth put away wickedness from her life. Perhaps that scene is the best one in Hewlett's new book. Nello Nelli tells the repentant woman: “Adieu, be your own poet, your own poem, live your music before the world.” And so she did, unwavering. (Harper & Bros., New York; § 50.) “Outlook Beauriful’’ By Lilian Whiting ‘When Lilian Whiting published her new book, “The Outlook Beautiful,” a clever and perhaps in some moods cynical crit- ic ou one of the best of the metropolitan | heart upon our sleeves for daws to peck, papers tried to twit her about using so |and that being true, how deeply should often the word beautiful in the titles of ; We shrink back into the triple her books, conjuring with the hypnotic spell that resides in the title of a popu- lar book to make its successor commer- “Then for the first time there came ' cially profitable. He playfully resorted to ! ’ of this thought of Karma, there comes this gleam of light from Mrs. Browning: Whate'er our state we must have made it Now, while the world is expectant of news at any hour reporting what may be the greatest naval battle since the inven- tion of the terrible equipments of modern war, is a time when thrilling interest can be felt in reading those graphic descrip- tions of the big conflict in the Far East, which are anonymously written In the book called “The Ycllow War,” and sup- posed by some to be from the pen of the once, And though that state displease us, ave, dis- please us warrantabty, Never doubt that other states, though possible once, And then rejected by the instinct of our ltves, 1f then accepted, had displeased us more. What this of Mrs. Brovning’s may wish or will to us, beyond the Karma that's plainly in it, is, for a guess, a teach- ingness to the supreme will, and in order that as true courtiers to the King we may, unsullled by a sullen thought, bow to that will, we must make high the in- stinct of our lives, and so trust to fits guidance that if the path be pain we can belicve that the other choice of path, though possible once, if then accepted, had displeasea us more, 4 Still harping on friendship, Miss Whit- ing uses this from Emerson: “My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right 1 find them, or rather, not I, but the deity in me and in them, both deride and cancel the thick walls of individual char- acter, relation, age, sex and circum- stance.” And further of friendship this: “It is fit for several days and graceful gifts, and country rambles, but also for rough roads and hard fare, shipwreck, poverty and persecution.” Now as to this saying of Emerson that ‘“my friends have come to me un- sought,” it is not easy to link the truth and beauty of it to the teaching of the Scriptures that we should seek friend- ships. We are told that he who would have friends must show himself friendly, ‘We feel, though, that the finer things of ; friendship have come to us unsought. | We know that the friendship we possess | to give is first given to us from a source beyond our will, and to be given where itsell claims to go, and never is a gift that we can willfully grant, even though | » the petition for it held the completest grace that should go into such pleading. What can be by kindness of will power granted is but friendship's empty name. ‘Within what limits then can we obey the ! Bible and seek friends by being friendly? | First, we might think the effort should a man of thirty who has seen more varied fighting than any other of his age. *“O" is the initial under which the author- ship of the beook is concealed, and the stirring descriptions are by the hand of a man who was eye witness to many of the scenes, and got other of his informa- tion from personal contact with the ac- tors in the conflicts. The majority of the sketches first appeared in Blackwood's Magazine. = The book is well pictured as all such works should be in order to help the au- thor manage the completer bringing of the exolting scenes before our imagina- tion. In the froatispiece we have the duel at close range of big battleships, and we can think more realizingly of what must have been the strdin on the nerves of the commanding officers “‘when black, hissing and battered, the boat was clos- ing on ug like some hideous sea monster.” Here's a fragment of the story of an- other fight. “The great ship quivered—then quivered agaln. It was only the twelve-inch guns. But they made the conning tower rock. Great projectiles were ricochetting over- | head and raising geysers of salt spray all * * The admiral clenched the hand- ! rail. His face was still pale, but the fight- ing light was in his eyes. ‘Make the fleet signal—close up—foilow me.’ At the same moment there was a report, and the vessel SWung so that every one {in the mnnlnAs tower v‘vnu thrown against have the courage to open wide the door | *un&xmamed as if 5 '::LSE" uv- to risk of rebuff, betraval, or mistrust, | eps eame hurrying forward. Mo reported else it wouli be too calculating to be | that a large !h'fil had hit the after called friendship. To check that we | twelve-inch turret. * * * ‘Awfull Poor o Trank aboat our Tite”and Thinge 08 | Serm the: deck WA comtot g Tt so e an ai - would be the error called wnrtnm[ou: - the g VeIl ¥ S ““Then the vessel staggered from two terrific blows forward. A man jumped o deck. His left arm, sever reserve of eaution, coldness and conseien- wm was dangling by a llng.‘ : tious regard for the right of reserve held l are killed, the admiral, all’ " the figure by others whom the accidents of fate throw our lives in contact with? Per- haps a good amswer to the puzzle is D n’..gzmiédgm ank fainting to ¥ On the Present War| war correspéndent of the London Times, ! I Roger Pocock, the author of 3 new story of ranch life, called “Curley,” has had such a long and varied experience in wild Western life that the scenes for the book’s adventures have the great aid of memory to assist his imagination in their depicture, and he has listened so often to the language of the cowboy that the expressions of the punchers come easily to his describing hand whatever the situation he wishes to write about. His story has for its central figure a girl brought up on the plains and trained by her father to rustle like a boy, ana all the accomplishments of riding, shoetigg, herding and camp bantering are hers. A fine character is Balshannon, a British lord, who bas bought a ranch in the West because he had been hounded by revenge- ful tenants in the old country, and he hopes to find peace for his wife and him- self in the new land. The revenge seek- ers are thorough scoundrels, and as they also come to America and find Balshan- non is happy on kis ranch, they scheme and struggle for the Britisher's ruin. The cowboys sympathize with the Eng- lish rancher, and out of all this there are | plots and gun fights and racy dialogues in plainsmen's dialect, and general excite- ment enough to make quite a stirring story. It is to be remarked that the illus_ trations which help to make the tale vivid are very good, and there are many of them. They really deserve as much, or more, credit than the text of the tale. They are from drawings done by Stanley L. Wood. (Laittle, Brown & Co., Boston; $150.) New Novel Written About the Dunkards Dunkard characters are used by Armi- stead C. Gordon in the making of & good story called “The Gift of the Morning Star.” The title has been suggested by “He that overcometh * * * 1 will give him the morning star,” and it is the story of a man , recognizing in himself an inherited -weakness of char- acter, strives against it until he over- comes it. The sympathy and love of a young Dunkard woman for this man, Benammi, give to the tale its glow of romance, and the rest is an account of spiritual struggle and beautiful descrip- tions of nature. 3 ing religious service Benammi unwonted- 1y comes into the meeting. The sermon is-about the lost shéep, and Tirzah, the heroine of the novel, becomes h"“&.fl in Benammi as the one man in the community who impressed her as the | I [ {the hills away, far off from the gates ! of gold,” hers was the best voice in the | congregation, and the sympathy she felt | passed into her tones and so reached him with a message that besan the change in_his life. The imploring tenderness of the ap- | | peal caused the meaning of the parable to come to him with all its grave sig- nificance, and the music had reached him where the sermon had fafied. After that, when he closed his eyes he saw ‘“as | through a mist the vision of a radiant face turned toward him, and the glint of braided black hair flecked with gold | In the sunshine under a crimson bonnet.” It was to the reality of that inspiring | vision he came back after he had fought his inward battle and won. Not to marry her though, for he decides to be a | Dunkard preacher, ‘“bearer o' the un- | bought -word,” and as the early faith of the sect's founder believed that he | who preaches the word should remain | single, he lives up to that ideal. So the | last chapter is platonic, and is entitled | “Love is Enough.” | (Funk & Wagnails Yogk; $§150.) Company, New Young Author Shows Promise in New Book | ., Among the new books is one entitled “Judith Triumphant,” that immediately arouses more than a passing Interest and gives rise to the thought that per- haps there has appeared a new .‘terary | star that, instead of twinkling briefly, will gTow in effulgence’until it becomes | one of the recognized among the ga- | laxy. When one learns that this book, | full of fine passages and- replete with | dramatic action, is by a mere youth in | | the New York newspaper field, there is created almost a certainty that an au- | thor whom the years will ripen into | one of the larger figures of Americ literature has entered the field of fic- u Thompson Buchanan, who with “‘Castle Comedy,” his first effort, | which ran through Harpers, is the au- | thor of “Judith Triumphant.” The book deals with the siege of Bethulia by Holo- fernes and the descent of the beautiful | Hebrew woman, Judith, into the camp of the invaders that she might offer her- | self as a sacrifice for the safety of her | imperiled city and people. The story cov- | ers the period of five days, at the begin- | ning of which she presents herself at the tent of the dread Holoferres and at the | end of which, unsullied, she again enters | Bethulia, which has been delivered through her efforts, there to become the wife of the Ammonite chieftain Achior, who has been her champion during her stay in the camp of the enemy. The five days are filled with thrilling incident, the author having a remarkable genius for keeping all his characters moving and also keeping the readers’ ex- pectancy at the top notch. The style is generally excellent and much of it is beautiful. There is the fault that at times the writer drops into the method of deserib- ing incidents as he would record them for his paper and at times situations are ar- rived at too abruptly. There I8 every evi- dence, though, of that style which im- presses the fact by impiession rather than blunt statement, which is the high art of composition, and there is little doubt that this young author will develop it by prae- tice to an exient that will give him a place among the word painters ofethe day. “Judith Triumphant” is a book worth reading. Short Notes About Books and Wrriters In the decorative scheme of the new Capitol at Hartrisburg, Pa., Miss Violet Oakley received a commission for thir- teen decorative panels, forming a frieze of heroic size for the reception room of the Governor of Pennsylvania. Six pan- els are now complete, and these have won for the artist a special gold medal from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine The June Century will contain an made a hit | tor of the Pennsylvania Academy of.the Fine ¢ ¥ § | n B e 'y - - . Professor Edward A. Ross of the Uni- versity of Nebraska, author of “Social, Control,” has written a book which the { Maecmillan Company will issue soon un- der the title of “The Foundations of So- i | l ! | | L L —— N theatrical eriticism ‘written entirely by herself. Both of these famous women are contributors to the first issue of Tales,” which will soon be published. Among the other authors whose stories will appear in this issue are also the two leading women writers of France and Germany—“Gyp” (Comtesse de Martel) and Baroness von Heyking. i e In the Architectural Record Magazine for May J. Robie Kennedy writes of the houses of the Greek r I at Tusca- loosa, giving examples of old colonnaded houses. Some of the ve beeri put up in the South little place. The article that many will think of most importance is entitled “New Dreams for Cities,” written by Charles { Mulford Robinson, and has to do with the ! movement that has become very general for large cities toward replanning and embellishing their “civic centers.” The article sums up everything that has been dome and gives the status different plans and schemes. the author of “My Mary Imlay Lady Clancart: other romances, should write ¥ according to Mrs. Leslie Carter. Having rea ‘My Lady Clancarty,” this well-known actress wrote the publishers, Little, Brown & Co., as ffMows: “I have received the book, ‘My Lady Clancarty,’ which you were good enough to send me, and I have read it h a great deal of interest. It is beau- tifully written and the story Is most fas- cinating. Why does not the authoress try her hand at a play? She would seem to have the ability for that form of writ- ing.” The recent death Chauncey Woolsey, better known as Susan Coolidge, Newport, R. L, at the age of 70, removes another favorite of Miss Sarah author of stories for young people, whose books, like those of Louisa M. Alcott, will be by boys and girls of the second eration. “The Katy-Di of which was published in 18 > en- joyed widespread popu a new edition being printed annually to sup- ply the demand. Her publishers, Little, Brown & Co.. were a ing a new book from her, for many her sudden years, when death was received. . A new book of Lloyd Mifflin, called “The Fleet mph and Other Verses,” contains a short poem with the title “Tseult,” of which the following lines are a part: Beneath the moat They found Death could not, at The marble beauty of When by the tarn, 1 saw the wh I prayed that ‘That saintliness th (Small, Maynard & Co The Londen Boo, note in the clamor of raging about the B econstructed Ward’s latest novel, “The Ma William Ashe.” Lady Kitty, accord to the Bookman M Humpl Ward's “Frouf one t knows anything of nch plays. says this critic, “has or heard about the touching story ca frou.’ We begin with an intention tragic. We begin with an intention of severity, h ¢ ot be deemed whi forgiving excessive; light-minde who dies in grief, simply overcome by those terrible forces, that she never understood, of life and passion. A rose broken from its stem, and its leaves scattered to the winds; sugh is ‘Frou- by eaded creature frou.' Here is the same tale, partly Anglicized, washed er in pelitical water-colors, transplanted to London That it was borrowed di- Why should we? and Venice. rect, we do not say. Situations in romance are common property, to be seized on by the strongest. * * * Poor Kitty is emeo- tion, blown hither and thither. ke mist on a_ March morning. But ‘Froufrou’ has always drawn tears, and those who delight in shedding them will read her tragic tale omce more.” New Books Received During the Week SEA AND CHANGELESS Jewish Pub- Philadel- BEATING BAR—-By Jacob Lazarre. lishing Society of America, phia. THE NORSK MGHTINGALE—By William F. Kirk. Small, Maynard & Co., Boston; 75 cents. CHARLES THE CHAUFFEUR—By S E. Kiser. F. A. Stokes & Co,, New York; $1. A COURIER OF FORTUNE—By A. ‘W. Marchmont. F. E. Stokes & Co., New York; $150. AN EMBARRASSING ORPHAN—By W. E. Norris. John C. Wiaston & Co., Philadelphia: $1. ON THE FIRING LINE—By Anna Chapin Ray. Little, Brown & Co., Bos- ton. 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THE IBERIAN—By Osborn R. Lamb. Ames & Rollinson, New York: §150. THE BISHOP'S NIECE—By George H. Pleard. H. B. Turner & Co., Boston; $125. © SERENA—By Virginia Frazer Boyle. A. 8. Barnes & Co, New York. LA CHUTE—BY Vl;::l‘ l';llx Amer- ‘Company. New Yol mmmm‘ Pl-rnxs REMOTE—By John Merritte Driver. Laird & Lee, Chicago; "c‘:v'nx.n—w Roger Pocock. Little, Brown & Co., Boston; $150. Gusta: