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23 lusicians; and Soms other | | w'bnnlfiy‘@@ S es will happen in the best regu-| the thing is and how it operates. Now 1 good of aur knowl- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY. NOVEMPER 12, 1905. UNMIXED v == i gy i N “Actre. VDD [\ lated families.” *The ways of the trans- | to get the practica gressor are smooth.” “There is no time|edge let us listen to the assurance of . { like the pleasant.” | a physician who claims to speak wita \ | | “Commands” is a_pamphlet printed on|the authority of many convincing ex- a fine quality of Japanese paper. Its | periences: “Learn to Influence the in- frontispiece is reproduction of the | voluntary mind and yoa can influence painting by V m Stratt, Munich, | yourself mentally cally as the little child, with a palm|you desire, but the involunt mind in his hand, leads the lion and | must be reached through the voluntary the lamb. Many of the beautiful and | mind. Seek then to control the volun- impressive commandments are gathered | tary thoughts.” from vayious parts of the Bible and mn-‘ (Suggestion Publishing Company, ¥ saicked. It begins, of course, with the new | 4020 Drexel boulevard, Chicago; 175 . commandment, “That ye love one an-|cents.) - other.” Some others are these: *Be still —— and know that I am God." “Call upon e A e st vion| < LITERARY NOTES. thee great and mighty things, which thou | H knowest not.” “Let not mercy and truth| The death of Frederick Laurence forsake thee: bind them about thy neck: i knowles is a distinct loss to American ittle episode in the life of “When Liszt serself expectantly, also with long Havanas § ess sprang up from caught hold of Liszt and that we were all interim her long opped her dear, big, semi-publicly er, as the lit- : b ..‘h‘f.‘fia:ff,"’;‘o“hf m"‘:“",:fdm’l‘fd fhine | tetters. Not only was Mr. Knowles a . | Be strong.” Give not that ‘which is holy | Poet of decided gifts,. but he was & - o unto the dogs, neither cast your pearis|critic who knew how to get the best ’ woma | before swine.” ‘“Be not afraid, nor dis- (out of oth: Only 35 s of age, he . ve | mayed, for the battle is not yours, but| had still his life work before him, but GU&‘ o ,t;;h;"_?i f";g:‘::‘! L‘;;’;gj "g:\v‘t’“i; nevertheless he has left enough good an ail . 8 . oTse to Kee = me e spoken unto you, that in me ye might| YorS¢ to keep his mory green. I have peace.” quote “Love's Awakening” as a worthy ‘ (Paul Fider & Co., San Francisco; 75| eXample of his quality: cents; 30 cents.) When Memory was a desert And e a ¢ mn wi + @he “Qeath of Chopin ~ HOW THOUGHT ‘ GROWS INTO ACTION “Remember this: Thought tends to take form in action, and mental pictures tend to materialize.” That is a sentence emphasized by heavy type in the chapter on “How psychic pictures are made real- ities,” in the little book called “Auto~ Suggestion,” by Dr. Herbert A. Parkyn. | That physielan and writer believes the sentence is only another way of saying. “As a man thinketh in his heart so he is.” He believes more than that, to wit: “that | our thoughts or mental pictures, bcs(desi \ Kobbe, in the fair name of Pal- do not let us pardon it in At least ne ture. rolyne. about the other the one that bore illegitimate children, is r to get a di- vorce fr in order that she mig marry composer the drew herself up proudly, for her ed husband was a Count, 1 Liszt was untitled sured him that being a Countess 1y sink so low never Liszt. Kobbe hits morals by commenting inly none but a French would have been capable of ly under the same circum- ohe in this y about the noble acquiescent hus- Countess’ conduet; another the rich con- is support he ex- having been a y Liszt, pressed the opinfon that throughout the whole affair the pianist had be- Laved like a man of honor.” A person of a satiric turn of mind and a taste for the material on which to feed it could surely find immense amusement in studying typical irreli- glous love affairs. Some soclal phil- | osopher has sald something to the ef- fect that a fine gift of humor and a keen sense fof realizing the ridiculous would have saved many a woman from folly where all the restraints of social obligation, generations of family pride, and the most solemnly strict Sunday- school or convent bringing up have ut- terly failed. No doubt if the keen critic would search sleuthly for (it there surely must be enough of the con- temptibly ridiculous in nine-tenths of 2ll the Iirreligious passion arrange- ments that blaspheme by calling them- selves love affairs to turn a humor- alive woman from the naughtiness of it because of sheer dread of being laughed at; although fear of law, hu- man or divine, was never felt until the h of mocking laughter sent her fly- ing for shelter to the high, white altar. It was a queer lax crowd that the Prin- | cess Carolyne mixed herself with to grat- | ify her love of Liszt. Let ce how the great composer, Richard Wagner, mixed | himself and his greatness pith the same musicianly great and morally little set of law-defyjng emotionals. ‘Wagner | comes next in the book's list of “the {loves of the great composers.” Of his | three principal loves, the one for Cosima is here given the place of honor. Cosima was the illegitimate daughter of Liszt. Remember her mother was the she who would rather be a man's mistress and keep her title of Countess than to become a wife and be called merely Madame. So you can hardly wonder that Cosima was willing to abandon her husband and be- come Wagner's mistress. Nor can you wonder that Liszt gave the girl to Wag- ner. Wagner himself says that Cosima's husband was a fine young fellow and a fit mate for Cosima. The couple were guests at Wagner's house in their early married life, and again when he urged | them to return. The tale, in spite of all the glamour of romance that is sought to be thrown around it, seems like a double blasphemy; first, of the sacred name of friendship—friendship consecrated by hos- pitality given and accepted, and second, of the name of love when Cosima left her busband and went to live with Wagner, who was at the sedate age of 57 when he thus cosseted himgelf with a young woman who was the wife of a man who {had been Wagner's trusting guest and ot in a case like | as to become | summation it is more satisfying to our sense of the true romance of love to turn back to the renunciation of stolen love as exemplified by Chopin and the Coun- tess Delphine Potocka: “‘She was one of those rare and radiant souls who could bestow upon this delicate child of genius her tenderest friendship, perhaps even her love, yet keep herself unsullied and an object of adoration as much for her {purity as for her beauty. ‘- Because she as Chopin's friend, because she came to m in his dying hours, paths unseen by those about them . her voice threaded its way to his. very soul, no life of his is complete without mention of her, and in the mind of the musical public her name is irrevocably associated with his.” (Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., $1 50; art leather, $2 50.) TRUE SPIRITUALITY 15 ADLER’S THEME The disposition of the religious man to regard a man who is banking on the favorable opinion of his fellow men, ‘flnd even basing-the hopes of his im- mortal welfare, on the good quality of | his ethics, as one over trustful of “mere morality” must have often touched like a stab of steel the sensibilities of Felix Adler, the president of the Ethical Cul- | ture Society../If so there is a sentence in his new book, “The Essentials of | Spirituality,” which might be taken as a reply to the users of the phrasé “mere | morality,” and which shows a view of’| ethics as something so high that it completely merges in religion. Adler in summing up the leading thoughts of his book says: “Spirituality is morality carried out to the finish.” Defining | morality thus, the most notable ex- | ponent of ethical culture in America makes of morality something more | than the mere humble handmaid of re- | ligion or second cousin to spirituality. It is a big subject—that of the essen- tials of a saving spirituality. Certainly the church could hot wholly indorse Felix Adler’s teachings. Neither could it indorse those of Matthew Arnold, and hig definition of the difference between religion and ethics was that “religion is morality touched by, emotion.” ‘Whatever may be the ultimate re- sults of a man divorcing his ethics from a union with what the church re- | gards as the essential dogmas, this book of Adler's on spirituality, in which he “draws the thing as he sees it for the God of things as they are,” may do much good by virtue of its being of wider appeal to men than would any dogmatic teaching of the essentlals of spirituality; for under its comprehen- sive Interpretation every aspiring soul might take heart of hope, be they Christian, Buddhist, agnostic or Jew. It it be denied that this will “carry out to the finish” of a quality of spiritual- ity that is equal to true soul salvation, no one will dispute that it will lift the minds of those who read toward the great goal. We learn from this master In the art of ethics that first among the essentials of spirituality we must have the “hunger” for it. He says that mere definition of the word is too abstract, and we must combine definition with some types of character. In a lesser way we have such men as Savanorola and Howard; but the finer types are among the Greeks, the Hindus and the Hebrews. “The spiritual life, then, may be described by its char- acteristic marks of serenity, a certain in- New York, because along| tle of glory over him, minded of the true end of human exist- ence.” In the closing paragraph in which' Ad- ler sums up the leading thoughts of his essay on the essentials of spirituality oc- curs this—to help us love our neighbor as oursel “The ultimate end in itself is to elicit worth In others, and, by so doing, in one's self. The indispensable condition of this attitude is to ascribe worth to every human being before even | we observe it, to cast as it were a man- to take toward every fellow being the expectant attitude, to seek the worth in himh until'we find it.” (James Pott Company, New York; $l1 net.) LONDON TELLS OF HIS ADUENTURES Jack London's new book of short sto-! ries, “Tales of the Fish Patrol,” consists of narratives of his adventures when he was a boy about 16 years of age, serving as deputy fish patrol to police the waters of San Francisco Bay. He had a ljttle slocp called the Reindeer, and as he was skillful in handling it, and knew thor- oughly all the coves and hiding places about the bay; the Fish Commission em- ployed him to aid in the capture of the violators of the fish laws. His pay was in a percentage of the fines imposed on the convicted violators of the law; and he also had the chance of capturing the re- wards that were occasionally effered by private parties. To a boy so adventur- ous as was Jack London, however, the best of the pay must have been in the opportunities the occupation gave of per- ilous and exciting action. The work re- quired skill in boatcraft, strategy, gener- alship, and was spiced with danger. It is a book that will be very entertain- ing to boys, and the fact that the scenes of the stories are on and'around our own bay gives the storles a local flavor that is sure to enhance the interest in them here. That, added to its being written by’ a favorite local author, will cause the collection to receive a wide reading. Each of the storles has an illustration drawn by George Varian. As the fisher craft that broke the laws were virtually pirates, the very name must have added much to the excitemeflt of the boys in thus daringly hunting them down. One of'the stories is about the Chinese shrimp fishers, who make a spe- cialty of that industry round San Fran- cisco Bay. As the Chinese boats operate in fleets it required a great deal of nerve in the boys to arrest and bring in the offenders when they fished unlawfully, The other class of fishermen are prin- cipally Greeks, and London is careful to state that they must not be considered as altogether a bad lot. They are rough men, he says, gathered together in iso- lated communities and fighting with the elements for a livelihood. “‘They lived far away from the law and its workings, did not understand it, and thought it tyranny.” So they regarded the men of the fish patrol as their natural enemies. One of the exciting stories is about a Greek fisherman of this type, named Demetrios Contos. He had an unusually fleet hoat and was a fine sailor. He de- fled the fish patrol more by way of a ¢hallenge to race than of any evil or greed of nature. After some adventures with the boys and conflicts With the law he became & firm friend of London and his companion, and they found him a very generous and grateful character, .~ Perhaps the best story of the collection is one about “A Raid on the Oyster Pi- rates.” It is quite a yarn, and very well + | | ILLUSTRATIONS FROM “LOVES OF THE GREAT COMPOSERS,” A LITTLE IN WHICH THE WRITER PAINTS IN- TIMATE WORD PICTURES OF HEART AFFAIRS OF HARMONY CREATORS. VOLUME BY GUSTAV KOBBE, o 3 1 R o A many of the verses are satiric shafts almed at the enthronement of the Al- mighty Déllar in this commercial age. Here are some fragments from the 110- page comically illustrated book: THE INNOCENTS. Says Mr. Armour, as he makes A famine rate on stews and steaks, ““There's doubtiess truth in what you may, That evil Trusts exist to-day, But kindly note, before you go, There is no Beef Trusi—mercy, nol" TRET AT TN o YR G e T R With fresh foreclosures in his hands, The saintly Rockefeller stands. "These mergers when unchecked,” he sighs, “I have no doubt demoraliz But Sin_will Retribution bring— An Oil Trust? Nonsense—no such thing!” Says Mr. Satan, as he draws His flery trident throughyhis claws, ““The world, no doubt, to Sin is quick; But wherefore blamé it to Old Nick, When circumstances plainly show There is no Devil—mercy, nol” One" of Irwin's best is “The Panama which is a parody on Tennyson's “The Brook.” Listen how promising it begins, and from that you may guess how good the rest of it goes: 1 come from haunts of Washington And make & sudden sally, rouse the sleepy Isthmian And bicker through his valley. Another good one is'“A Letter From Home.” It is written by the Princess Boo-Lally at Gumbo Goo, South Sea Islands, to Her brother, Prince Umbobo, a sophomore at Yale. It_is spring, my dear Umbobo, ©On the isie of Gumbo Goo, And your father, King Korobo, 2 "knd “Your mother lons for You. We had missionaries Monday, Much- the finest of the vear— Our old cook came back last Sunday, And the stews she makes are dear. - > influencing ourselves mentally and physi- cally, actually affect the people around us, * * * s0 subtly does the mind work in its endeavor to make our thoughts realities.” It seems scarcely necessary to define “auto-suggestion,” but as our author di- vides the wonderful thing into three va- | rieties, let us get at the meaning of the | divisions. Auto-suggestion means an im- | pression made on one’s self, or an impres- | sion arising within one’s own mind. The | divisions are: Voluntary, Involuntary, and the seemingly involved one of “volun- tary involuntary auto-suggestio Per- haps the easiest to understand example of auto-suggestion is the common expe- | rience of a man impressing his mind with ‘the thought that he must rise at an early morning hour. Many people can accom- plish this auto-suggestion so perfectly | that the impression will awake them from a deep sleep as infallibly as an alarm clock set to some unusual hour. Saint-Beuve remarks that an example Is always the best definition. So now we | know w! t is. This case is one of | “volun! auto-suggestion. | A case involuntary auto-sugges- tion is that of a child’s seemingly in- tuitive dislike of some .person of whom he knows no ill. Its explanation prob- ] ably is that the child once noticed a man with a stmilar face do some un- kind thing or speak a harsh word. The child may have forgotten the incident, | but the resemblance calls back the im- | pression of disapproval, and so a kindly man may sometimes suffer dislike be- cause of the meanness of his double in some distant city. It is a curious specu- lation to wonder if this same explana- tion, would not furnish a clew to that | familiar adult experience of: “I do not | chapter. | “The Martyrdom of able comment because | and | interest to know I M. | this country her a tenth printing | not the fruit of some e Wh Hope became a b That _lured me to my When June had Jost | And Poetry its glow There flashed a sen: Of joys The thorns beca Upon my bieedmg brow Night fled: the world was sunrisel— O deare was thou And though ‘tis still a marvel— The rapture and the wings— My heart h arned wonder Of love tha s ngs; Now I can welcome J again, And wateh her roses biow Once more I find th A conflict, which serve ident auther of an Empre while way as a feature attracted consider- of their unusuai ther weird merit. It may be of that these selections were made by the author from her own unpublished poems. The signature M. refers to a pet name—Princess Muzzi, Marie Muzzi—given her by her triends. The lines of verse headings in "The 1 the Net,” by the anonymou: not intended of the novel, in any have Just as Miss May Sinclair Divine Fire” lands in goes to There has peen question among critics and readers whether “The i Long Day” is riment rather than the unvarnished record of actual facts. To a recent query on these points the author of th now a profes- sional woman in N nswered em- phatically: “Every true. in is “The Every character I have had occa- sion to draw, or even to mention casually | in the unfolding of my story, is some par- word Long Day’ girl, or man with whom circumstances threw me into mere or less intimacy during my long, hard apprenticeship as a working girl in the city of New York. The incidents are like- wise true evén to the most t 1 detail. And my experience is not a rare one. — BOOKS RECEIUVED. COMMERCIAL GEQGRAPHY — By Henry Gannett, Carl L. Garrison and Edwin J. Houston. American Beok Company, New York: $1 25. THE WHEAT PRINCESS—By Jean Webster. 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P cnnnnyt say; but ¥don': like you, Ybr. 2}{“, 30,2:._,.571 ’E?“;*i.ff,:'-"fi“so.“"""' fully e n:;\u scene, had n;«gle:‘led i h;ar‘::lak. jFurmebr- merely the .(.l,.,:.uo'n ‘atter vl:ue or oy&:-;m t;m«émun’ i R i Grey.” [ "THE MYSTERY OF JUNE THE 13TH— which s leeply e musicians | more it was after he enjoyed the! after a lofty i ut to a Y » » v b T B i | Bl ot o oo ) S5 LT emodiment o i CYNIC'S CALENDAR | > Sonsiect piesesy tmteey 2y o L, s, Dedd, Hoad & . BOr SImmanT b the pure and poetic Mathilda Wessendonk, | jdeal in the 1ife.” i 7 A 3 3 - w t married woman, | who had inspired all his greatest music. Here is a definition of the meaning of IRw’N PUBL'J‘HEJ‘ BROUGH T To D'”TE ::1‘;:: ;\: l;ee';lve: ’;;:“:.takl::d't‘;:: edn:: | o,ins:;y‘é;r::v ‘likf nasxv?lArada-wn_nr:y who ha ne him \'u‘;.:nxni:‘gfimcmme it is true that he iegitimated this Cosima | spirituality which the memory of a cer- SOME MOREJINGLE at the hour set, saying to himself, “I| Lilie Hamilton French. James Pott & .f ;u{ ',],, : p;‘-'a :;‘; ! fmu!r ‘l:l' ah ‘;elli‘lt‘d marriage a year|tain great masterpiece of pu‘lft(nt will B Two of the neat little books from the|am using this medicine to calm my ner- | Co., New York; 31 50. ot DA el | ‘!“‘{) e him Seigfried. | help to fasten in your mind: *Moreover local publishing house of Paul Dider &|vousness, so I oan sleep soundly to- | THE MAN FROM RED KEG-By Eu- D a ta) o Kobbe condones all this. He writes of it | the spiritually-minded seem always to be| Of considerable local interest will be | Co. are: *“The Complete Cynic's Calen- | night.” This o(;’n acts as so impera- | gene Thwing. Dodd, Mead & Co., Néw « . dl‘_} .<'ltd he ;«aS,nslr u‘werca pretty romance. That may | possessed of a great secret. The air of | the little book of humorously satiric|dar of Revised Wisdom, 159, by the|tive a command to the bedy that It York; i1 50 « casonedly spoiles before | be & Continental view of it; but to the | interior knowledge, ‘of the perception of | yerses. under the significant title of .“’At|three sages, Ethel Watts Mumford, Oli- | obediently sleeps. [ Tfli; ROSE PRIMER—By Edna Henry e © obbe save. png | love ideals of an Anglo-Saxon, a Briton, | that which fs hidden from the uniuitiated, | the Sign of the Dollar,” by Wallace | ver Herford and Ad.son Mizner’; and | This - physician grants inat well | Lee Turpin. ; N ”i A d‘?!)\ & e Jor & Celt, it would have made a much|is a common mark of all refinement, Irwin. Mr. Irwin is now in New York | “Commands,” which is one of the Bible|known ‘“dual mind theory,” of which, BELEMENTARY PHYSICAL SCIENCE Liszt an ie Prin- | prettier romance if the young husband of | esthetic as well as moral. In studying | writing poetry for the daily press, and| Mosaics compiled by Agnes Greene Fos- | Hudson in his “Law of Psychic i —By John F.«Woodhull. = were frankly acknowledged, and | Cosima had come In upon old Wagner|the face of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona | what is much more extraordinary than COMMERCIAL CORRESPONDENCE— ter. Phenomena” makes use, and for his the world as frankly accepted, as| cosseting himself with her, and failing| Lisa, for instance, one will find that it | writh e reac! sale § g ¢ iy < . $ 0 ng poetry, he is said to support a| The s calendar has hed a s 1 of exposition hi - 1 e T o e M i T s et e o o interior insight that explains the | housenold by the rhyming art. " Loeal| of mfl."’i@u Tt 16wl Hinetiassn | vment Lhe. Jandbctrve” and. “sablectiver e TIIRS: Duiks 11 avd ITE-WHb ‘whom _ one don 8 i . so-called ‘cryptic smile.’ " He gays | pride in the young man will hold in re- | and decorated in black and red. It con-|mind as the “voluntary” and the “in- s v ton. i l,a e :.:.w of Fr::!i!z:r.\flmfl;}dl! hurled the one terse sentence Tennyson ! that the secret of moral refinement trans- | membrance how he worked his way | talns “clever twisted maxims.” Consider ?ul':m'.‘ary?"!n is ‘:he‘l:vo]unlal‘yem!:d m;;fx-:glyl:;\i'i‘é‘ 'Ollfml;;f‘gufllvz GE- s z ' :‘r - o” .‘x‘('..n;\, hat | has _pu( 4|m.9 the'mou(l‘l”.ot the husband | cends esthetie refinement by as much through school and also through Stanford ! these few: *Let him that standeth pat|that controls us during sleep, and that ! OMETRY—By Charles E. Ferris. ay "ruml:“mfi;‘.l :;‘ ngrznerx;:mi:, ;7; {;eeul‘:;mmarks way!” and clove him g%‘;dneu I‘: ‘:llpt;r‘l:r to mer‘:u clh"':e University; where he won prizes as a|take heed lest they call.” “Don’t take|controls every function and every| FIRST YEAR IN ALGEBRA—By Fred- 3 o sicianis 3 “The secr case consi n the writer of prose and verse. 1 X g E i e degenerate worship of genius: but, oh. | After such stories of snatched at con-|insight vouchsafed to the spiritually-| The significance of the title is that .m-w..wx Whmumm‘etntmhe Loy orsn;«mth&'b:d;;m“h“'wn of what gmm. s iuo":r;{nrb"e- AL