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2 Tlore ) music” running motif through a great sympk the dream of Rose r ran through 1 Landor’'s long varied experienc A thing which the remembra Aylme ified ¢ Ro reaming of he was far from a completely His wife en Mate spiring woman been of much his achievements more wor have qualit ters are ‘“The and “The A beautifully writ- book cannot be ace, b for which a ntion 5 a p solut in us tak of the urageous It Pazzi 0 Her Romola Al interpr repre Romola for sm. Geo speaking to er life begins we renounce rtal of yo s ‘I ved before the f d.’ And that K d and whose ear is ghtest |« God that has been s e My to teac it hangs come 1 of him these 3od, stan: nd with my vent, I now What 1 have said and he is my wit- what I nonition faith just rdcm were sence of red Host, es already in the c P . * Of th ce I shall be at ar 1 vou in heaven thar v 1 d power to do for ( n & Boston. $250 net.) veriod | NEW CREATIONS . this IN F’liANT Lng g is believed breedi to greater Burbank of any ot s been improve- In the new \oritative account of Luther Bur- S. Harwood, and New Crea- we find in the His place world" stated reput. is of in t sneral g hority Californ the us gh au David - - Jordan, president.of Leland Stan- by L rsity L Jordan's estimate is not ritative because of his po- ead of ag reason that hi Bgerescas especially proficient as and an investigator - of is known and ought the world about evolution. The nat- {ural bent of his mind and the sco; = jot 1 search particularly qualif pass judgment upon the its of Burbank and to com- . work with what has been ‘ ng added to by experts ne of endeavor the wide g Jordan expresses Bur- € world in these In his field of the application >wledge of heredity, selection g to the development of = stands unlque in the world. % lse, whatever his appliances, Aot as much as Burbank or dis- : | d as guch of the laws governing b | phenomena. * ¢ * His work is | already an inspiration to botanists as | wen horticulturi irther confirmation of this work- igh place in the world exists in act that the Carnegie Institute owed him with ten thousahd a ’ o, Heromgtbu diign i ar for ten years in recognition that - ki o he is doing a great and worthy world Tts membere are | WOTk. One of the principal objects of hor Bt Shrec ool institution is: “To promote origi- - g “they wrs} earch as one of the most im- ; ey resde sndmed | nt of all subjects; to discover the 3 of Soclety, art and | €Xceptional man “and enable him to e | make the work for which he seems es- | pecially; designed his life work. * *” So in Burbank the Carnegie Institute - | discovered the “exceptional! man” in a very important line of research, the | success of whom and of which is of | great value to humanity. | Care should be taken by enthusiastic | Californians not to spoil this high praise rola, 1is £ » I " | by superfluous superiatives, which Mr. of the “Imaginary | Byrhank would be the first to deprecate. Landor has repre- |mpe potent possibilities of his discoveries a as conversing with the | ung creations are magnificent, but ‘at f San Marco. It was originally | present they are mainly potent possibili- . “In all Landor’s lit-| yjex and have not as yet actually revolu- ing more impressively | yjonized the world. Millions of pounds of esty of his spirit than this | s are eaten which are not Burbank’s pru !prunes, and Ireland could exist even if { the Burbank potato perished. Because he ican at his wizard wish bring into being 1a blue rose, the white rose need not ) blush with shame nor the red rose pale i with envy as though all their glory’ was { to be eclipsed because of some grand new {blue era inaugurated by Burbank. | Whether he develops the daisies to a foot and a half in circumference or more is | not so momentous, for there will always | be pecple who love the little daisies and | some few who may think it is the heredi- | tary duty of the daisy tgebe modestly j and unobtrusively smali. ho has not | beheld some rose of cabbage bigness and longed by contrast to caress some lovely, graphy offered any in- Savonardla that so abso ir wonderful in sympathet- uts into Savonarola's ¢ of his martyrdom these is beginning in this look beyond it. * * * y pass away, but nev ywe' now neglected. on of this great Domin- art and learning the ine life, through - the ure but openad ¥ to achieve that ccomplish o belie ¥ he t we me Here vy note the apt- | delicate little one more daintily petite? of the quotation used as motto for | This semi-creative power of geniug Bur- book. It i to mind that Saint | bank is something to marvel at, and infe, the Tounder of the brotherhood |something for the development of which onks to which Ba arola belonged, | he deserves applauseful credit. but as to hat same idea about continuing his | the sweeping benefits to humanity of the ns after hif Boldy's burlel | whole long list of creations we must vo work begun shall ever pause for |await the test of time. He himself, emulating and copying on a magnificent fine chapter of the book is|scale the processes of natural evolution of Rose Asime: It has|out of the million plants that he pro- itk u romance of Landor's |duces, ruthiessly eliminates all but the one elected millionth; and we must ever remember that there are vastly other evolutionary forces buey eliminating mil- tose was a girl’ of ses ghad us s whe bim the romanee for |lions of things and electing just a few his poem. rly their paths divided, | to permanently live in the struggle for She died at 2. “Like & strain of ethereal existence and the survival of the fittest. e and his is the fact that did not understand | the in | shows a dainty woman in a barbarous the resulting danger of explosion and | bonnet, balancing on her finger tips even coilapse.” | great Atias himself, with the globe borne | Yet another issue is a linen-backed upon his shoulders. She does this feat | “Joke Book Note Book,” invented and de just as a side issue, too, for she is playing ! signed by Ethel Watts Mumford. It con meanwhile with the other hand some | tains blank pages on which to set down merry melody on the plano. As for the v thing that occurs to you, or bit title, it .comes from Sarah Grand, who of humor that you catch on the fly and wrote this: *‘There is a strong presump- | wish to make permanent by committing tion that ‘Mere Man' so dubbed himself ' the crime to paper. “We dedicate this when in one of his many moods, and he ' hyumior trap--merecly remarking, Verbum | probably wanted something that an hum- sap 1t has pictured i ble attltude might win the sooner.” ‘A woman's crowning glory is her hair,’ sald the poet. Had he sald ‘her hat,’ he would have been no poet, but a mere man Paul Leicester Ford said this of man: s s in supposing that some d others ‘bad,’ and that a sharp line can be drawn between them. The {ruth is that every man has both qualities in him, and in very few does the evil overbalance the good. Among the many good ones about sov- ereign woman occurs thi “Women d vour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner time, keep back the téars and lock a little pale about the catch places so you can quickly | allotted place to jot down your little joke | For instance, if it's a coon joke you put’ { your thumb on the black face and shir | eye and turn up the blan sheet that awaits your scintillation. If you wish to { write a jingle, your thumb turns up the | | sleighbell- index. It is done in the wick | edest red and black and is very com containing even a place for the unprint- | ables that help to keep your philosophy in ¥ poise. Every section starts you with a good one to get you in the mood and help you begin. Consider s starter on the | subject “Ladies it might have been sent with compliments to King Leopold: | “Will you always love me?” he beggeti | lips, and In answer to inquiries say, ‘Oh, | passionately. She crossed to the piano. nothing.’ Pride helps us: and pride IS ' “ag long as the con goes!” she sang not a bad thing when it only urges us to | soeely. hide our own hurts—not to hurt other —George Eliot. Cardinal Newman said thus: “It is al- most a definition of a gentleman to s he is one who never inflicts pain.” We get the two subjects of the little book playfully put together in this from Thomas Hood: |~ After that starter if you can’t go ahead | like a great river you can at least go on forever, like a babbling brook, and never have to bid good-by to the joke book note | book habit. Not to be forgotten in this collection is in the “Psychological Year Book,” now o B its second series. It consists of “‘quc When Eve upon the first of men e 3 - The avple passed with specious cant, tions showing the laws, the way, | Oh, what.a thousand pittes then means, the methods for gaining lasting That Adam was not Adamant. health, happiness, peace and pr: A-third booklet is, “A Critique of So- | These are gathered by Janet Youn, clalism,” which is an essay that was read | takes as her motto this from Orpheus: by Edward, F. Adams beforé the Ruskin | “Round thy flery throne stand labor-lov Club of Oakland, Cal., said to be a con- | ing angels, whose business it is that al for things be accomplished men.” For| every date in the year little book furnishes you with a dainty or nut bit of psychic food. Having only vocation of fervent socialists. Upon his subject Mr. Adamsg is decidedly anti, but | he has not let his antagonism carry him so far away from the sentiment of his { What becomes of t Burbank aerial Irish potato if he of Erin and all h | kin in blood and palate think that that grow under ground are just Perhaps by all odds the thing promise on the long Burbank the thornless edible cactus. The 7 succéss of that would indeed ® | revolutionize the world in a way. It | would even make race suicide wholly un- necessary for centuries to come, and make the great reclamation act of the United States Government seem an insig- nificantly small matter by comparison. However, if perchance it be not the in- | deserts from the face of the éarth, then the edible cactus is destined to nothing much but-its brief prediction period. This is not mentioned merely to try to belittle | Mr Burbank's whrk; that would be fu- “iio and foolish, for Byfbank is great. It | is only saying that man proposgs and God | disposes. The subject of that thornless cactus |is an gentbusiasm arousing theme. The glory ©f the promise of it, the immensity of the figures of new prosperity it sug- gests as possible, the arousing of the imagination to delight hopefully in the poetic prophecies of Isalah about the conquest of the desert places of the earth and the making of them to blossom with fruitfulness and beauty. Some one has said—Ferguson, in the “Religion of Democracy,” is it not?—that the truly great prophet is he who strongly sees to it that the thing prophesied really comes to pé Let us Californjans allow our- selves to gush and glow\ over Burbank enough to hope and half expect that he will prove one of those strong prophets who can compel by his genius what he predicts to come to pass. That he is a man thoroughly leavened with the relig- fon of democracy no one who reads of his life and work can for an instant doubt. If it seem a wild dream when | we are in our more matter-of-fact moods, we must remember that every great achievement was first a dream—a thing that scemed to come haif hesitatingly out from chaos ipto tamgible and pos- sessable form. If the thornless cactus achieves but a tiny fraction of its promise it will be a very great victory for human- ity in compelling nature to serve its \ needs; and the same can be said of the sum total of Burbank’s life work. To close I will quote you a few words from this man who has known what the of semi-starvation, “who in privation bravely borne has been “hard by the gates of death,” and yet persisted with {a heart of “‘perdurable toughness” to the far accompiishment of his purpose: “The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy; the next is to make them think.” “No man ever did a great work for hire.”" (Macmillan Company, New York. $17.) ! —_— A VERY DAINTY LITTLE VOLUME A beautiful little brochure is' “The Wind of the Western Sea; and Other Songs,” written by Mrs. May Gibbons Cooper of Oakland, Cal. It is local, and something more, for some of the poems have had the wide circulation that Har- per's, Magazine, the Ladies’ Home Jour- nal and the Boston Transcript give. It is a very dainty booklet avith rich, rough- edged paper and the admirable new fash- fon of loose braid stitching which allows | tention of nature to utterly eliminate the | strenuous life means, even to the extent | the leaves wide open, unresistant to read- ing, and docilely, welcomingly willing to stay spread at the place you turn the leaves. What a comfort that Is, espe- cially after bothering with books that won't. Tt is illustrated by the author of the verses with a frontispiece giving an impressionist- glimpse of wave and sail and cloud. It's from the Murdock Press and does its source credit. Here are some samples of the verses: MAY. 5 “Now, who art thou, my dainty maid? m April's sister, sir,”” she said; Then smiled so 'heavenly sweet, And making me a court’sy fine, She dropped an armful of sunshine Right down about my feet. Her blush was like the apple-blow; Her eyes like violets that grow Beside the meadow stream. Oh, buttercups alone would dare To match the bright gold of her halr, And all the alr did seem Rich freighted with her fragrant breath, Now surcly happy Nature saith, “Thrice welcome, matden May." And here is a fragment of “A Song” that will no doubt sound pretty to those happy ones who have been so long hap- pily mated that they can feel their mat- ing is a thing secure: What though your song be in the minor key, If only 1 am with you in the singing! The sweetest moments of the day come winging Upon the dewy twilight hour, may be, When carth is resting, and cool shadows falling— It then I hear and know your loved note's calling, Dear heart, what matters all the rest to me! (Published by May Gibbons Cooper, Oakland, Cal. Printed by Murdock Press.) BOOKS MADE IN - SAN FRANCISCO The local publishing firm of Paul Elder | & Co. are Issuing some neat little | books, which will be very desirable to those hunting for simple little remem- brances and well wishing gifts for - the coming holidays. One of the wittiest of these is A Child’s Book of Abridged | Wisdom,” by “Childe Harold."” Although {1t is called a child’s book there will sure- 1y be enough of the child in every good- natured grown person to find amusement in its comical pages. It is printed on double-leaved manila paper of fine qual- ity and rich color, and is bound in tar boards hinged with strong hemp ecord. Here's one plece of sage advice given therein: Don't treat the hems with cold disdain— They're humble, It is true; But they are most vindictive and Some day thev'll lay for you. And for a briefer rare-bit, | this: ' M ke It cross, you Nl find. - Another of the little books is “Sovereign Woman Versug Mere Man,” which is a medley of quotations compiled ‘ ranged by Jennie Day Haines. consider Don't comb your hare, and The - \tispiece is done by Gordon Ross, fi versal of the direction of the force with - FTIEOM _"POPULAIE. WEST CORST FLOER Y. | | 1 A Gift of Wild Flowers From many a haunt amd the forest's dimness, - Where shadows chase cach other all day long, And wild birds, nestled neath the grey chff's gnmness, | Break the dread stillness with delicious song, I_Q By river’s fringéd brink —among the rushes That greenly nse beside the meadow grass, And 'mid the tangle of wild vines and bushes | That thickly grow to guard the rocky pass, | 1 gathered these pale treasures of the wildwood, Just as we used to cull them years ago, Far back among the free, glad days of child- hood— The dearest days our hearts may ever know FEONTHE WIND OF THE WEST SLER g — L P ILLUSTRATIONS FROM RECENT BOOKS BY LILLIAN WHITING, AUTHOR OF | | “THE WORLD BEAUTIFUL’; BY MRS. MAY GIBBONS COOPER OF OAK- LAND AND BY LUTHER BURBANK, ALL REVIEWED ON THIS PAGE. | + | hearers ‘but that his concluding paragraph | to give you one of these, I will choose the ' contains a bit of wisdom that surely | one of this very day and date, to wit, | must draw quite close together the | November 25 It s a quotation from Crer. | thought paths of the wisest individual- | ald Stanley Lee, and happens to be just| ists and those of the most advanced so-| the sort of psychological thing you might | clalists. He says: expect to come out of a Psychological | s % * = It appears to me now at any | Year Book: ! rate that we shall make most.progress “Things are for me! And they shall be | toward universal happiness if we recog-| to thee,” said my soul, “what thou bid-| nize that out of the Increasing strenu- } dest them.” ousness of our conflict there is com-| (Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco. 75 ing constantly increasing comfort and bet. | cents, §1, 75 cents, 75 cents, 50 cents.) ter divison thereof, and If we direct that portion of our energies which we devote LITERARY NOTES. | to the service of mankind toward such | changes in the direction of the social | fmphise as can be made without impairing | The Macmillan Company will publish | shortly a new “Dictionary of German | force of the evolutionary movement, rather than to those which involve the re- | Quotations,” said to be notably full, in- | clusive and informing. It is said that ne | and of Sargent’s p !a | Uve, but the girl he | Hough; Maemillan Company, New r ly good work in this fleld now ex- ist: b b “Maln Currents in Ninetgenth Century Literature,” the important work in six olumes, bv Professor G Brandes, pich the Maemillan Company have been publishing for several y , is to be completed next week by the issue of vol- ume VI, which is concerned with “Young Germany."” The death of Henry Irving will prob- ably start thousa ple on the search for the be: t of his life. The newest velume dealing with the great actor and e theater so closely connected with his name is “The Lyceum and Henry Ivvin ten by Austin Brereton (MeCl Mr. ton has 1 mitte to reproc Jects from his cellection of mementoe | The book Is richly illustrated. containing, for Instance, reprod win Long's pictu Lady Macbeth very compl personality, the environme hievement of s great Miss May Sinclair, or of Div The | in its ninth pr ¥ large succe a this fall. book, already comfort to the about the public ta. erary merit. B started hav e it they chain recom- rly appearance of friend purchasers with the we I want to read R W. 8. Harwood, who wr: e recently published articles on Luther Burbank in The Century, has written for the same magazine the story of how California’s crops are savec by the work of the United Stat ment of Agrict ture. 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