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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 14, 1906." )OCH WITH YOUTH is E He replied: “Let me tell you how it devoutly to be | seems to me that we come to know about € or by aged | our Heavenly Father. It is from the o ,,,'.,m: f‘f(““powr-r of love which is in our own SO 30 Fpiah Few bisrts.~ | _On the occasion of her first visit to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes her fingers ted on a volume of Tennyson's | poems. As soon as the blind girl was told t book it was, she began to recite: Break, break, break e cold gray stones, O sea! yand then she stopped suddenly, for she felt the tears of Dr. Holmes upon her hand. Evidently the reminder of the | touch of some “vanished hand and the | =0 a voice that is still” was too at you take e with much for the poet’s feelings. wrote to John Greenleaf Whittier upon the occasion of his eighty-third birthday a hat if she were with him she give him eighty-three kisses, one Repl to her the aged says: 1 was very glad to have pleasant letter on my birthday. I two or three hundred others was one of the t welcome of * * 1 do not wonder thee thinks ghty-three years a long ti but a very little y no older than thee. a good one from Robert Louis which he deeds away his sen she le since I ving because her birthday fell mas, and so by this combination | 5 < to cancel one 8f the two great a child’s life—on which they mrde much of and lovingly remem- ed with gifts. The little girl wrote g back to him that maybe he would live forever, since he had given away his thday mas Hood's letters illustrate a most ppy knack of writing to the little folks. tells about Tom Hood juni who ‘was very ingenious and made cork model of a diving bell that wouldn't About being by the seashore with hildren and watching the graceful = birds with black-tipped wings, and e called the birds lis” and “they = t mind it His n ense of that N quality the more utter the better. He asks one little girl if she wouldn't like “a nice little ocean thdt she could put in a pan. Oh, those dear diminu- poctho tives, where is the limit? Surely that ap- - pr tes it. But consider this one: I . knew little girl who was promised a baby whale by her saflor brother, and | who blubbered because he did not bring love, | jt.” the > & Miss Grace Bedell told Abraham he shouid wear whiskers. He ap- & re me that obeyed her, for he did adopt k tters from 3 daughter in Booth wrote to his little mother- hter Edwina quite condescend- from tragic dignity to utter non- ingly sense. Making believe a letter to her was | . from the pet canary, he makes the bird | 3 “l1 have the nicest seed you ever s That sounds Thomas Hoody but who would ever have be- t of Edwin Booth? Having little ems to have such a funny effect on a man—even upon the greatest nified! But here is Booth him- n: “You know I have acted Hamlet for many years and many hun- dred times. Well, I am just learning | gs that are hidden all this the obscurity of its wonderful »f thought; so when you are 365 old you will give up guessing 's all about, anvhow.” of all in the book, however—so y. easily best that the very ease of its excellence c ms you into submis- sion to its spell, is the genius of the let- ters written to little girls by Lewis Car- the author of ‘“Alice in Wonder- you would know it was his work at without my telling you: Birdie: I met her just outside walking very stiffly, and I think trying to find her way to my rooms, “Why have you come here without she said, ‘'Birdie’s gone! and e! and Mabel fsn't kind to me!" le waxy tears came running down Dear Gat was So I said, . how stupid of me! T" as all the time! It was your new doll as very glad to see her and I took her to and gave her some vesta matches to at and & cup of nice melted wax to drink, sor thing was very hunery and thirsty never told you w 10hg walk. So I said, “Come and = wn by the fire and let's have a comfort- cha "Oh,, no! no she said, “Td er not. You know T do melt so very easily.” (Hinds, Noble & Eldridge, 31 West Fif- teenth street, New York; $1 postpaid.) Book of Revolution | would | | s e ot by Robert Chambers I vou will write T o) L : w my best love to Robert W. Chambers has written +a your most af- | dashing story of revolutionary times un- der the title of “The Reckoning.” The bcok is one of a series of four or five romances dealing with that part of the war of independence which affected the great landed families of Northern New York. The first of this series was “‘Cardi- gan,” the second “The Maid at Arms,” | the fourth is the present volume, which | comes out ahead of the story which is regularly the third of the series, for that is not completed. The author believes that he has not misrepresented history in pre- paring a framework of facts for his ro- mance. The prelude of the romance ic they grow tall and marry | three stanzas of verse, of which the fol- able persom. Then the spell | lowing is the middle stanza: k Standing upon his blackened land, He saw the flames mount up to God, He saw the death tracks In the sand, And the dead children on the sod; He saw the half-charred door, unbarred, The dying hound he left on guard, And that etill thing he once had wed Sprawled on the threshold dripping red; Dry-eyed he primed his rifie pan; This the New Yorker, this the Man! The hero of the story is a spy, Carus Renaalt, who served the continental cause by risking his neck in the city of New York during the time the British gov- erned but that one city in America. He is a brave, noble, well-born boy and a splendid lover to whom the heart of the reader will warm at once. As might be expected the villain of the tale is on the Tory side. He is Walter Butler, one of the wealthy landed gentlemen of the north of New York, and as he was of the type of soldier that believes with General Sherman that “war is hell,” he did some terribly ruthiess deeds in his efforts to crush the rebels against the king to whom he was loyal. He made use of the Indians in this truly savage warfare and by his system of extreme severity he offended some of the more humane of the loyal leaders, who foresaw that such conduct would for- ever estrange the hearts of the colonies . Sir Peter Col- ville expressed it thu: “I tell you, loyal as [ am, humble subject of my King whom I reverence, I affirm that this blackened, ns with some v to his nieces L r s also a at lover of wrote playfully, making child for the sake of the chil- letters | The | ith was another lover of the He wrote to one little lady | always be very fond of row tall ®* * * and marry disagreeable person.’ ¥ true to nature that is, albeit he sald is so delicious to love the “what would e without arithmetic but @ scene of nd this: “Don’t tear your not “in itself @ sign of od ones is from the ml‘ as Huxley, to his grand- ulian had been reading | Kingsiey's poem, “The Water Htt boy began to wonder such things as water d seen a picture of Thomas K ey examining a bottled “‘water b with a magpifying glass, so he must have seen one. He “Dear Grandfather: Have cen a water baby? Did you put it Did it wonder if it could get I see it some day? Your lov- y replied thus: r 1 nmever could make sure water baby. 1 have seen bables in babies in bottles, but the baby in r was not in a bottle, and the baby was not in the water, My friend story of the water baby was a n and very clever. Perhaps he d see as much in the water as are some people who see & 4 some who see very little in When you grow up 1 dare - one of the great-deal seers and ul things than water bables, can see mothing. Ever your GRANDPATER. 1t is Interesting here to recall that | blood-soaked frontier is a barrier to Eng- Kingsley wrote in his dedication of the | Jand which she can never, never over- poem come, * * * that barrier will re- Come read my riadie, each good lttle man, | main, year by year, fencing us in, crowd- If you cannot read it no grown-up folk can. ing us back to the ocean, to our Helen Keller's letters from her friends, |ships ¢ * ¢ .” The romance of the book is that the young girl, the Hon. Bisin Grey, who at Brooks writes her most beautiful com- | first loves Walter Butler, later finds out fort for her afiliction in being blind. She | the cruelty and treachery of his nature, wrote and asked him, *“Please tell me|and as Carus Repault had been her something that you know about God.” | friend she discovers that her real love is - herself by prominent place in the collection. Phillips to her friends, hold a When Helen | and | to me | to a little girl friend who had | and | Here is a fragment—so like him | | for the spy. Fisin, who is a fine young woman, asks Carus why It is that Walter | Butler so dominates her. That youth, | who at the time felt nothing more than | sincere friendship for this girl who |imagined she was in love with Butler, re- plied: “l do not know. I do not understand | the logit of women's minds, nor how they | reason, nor why they love. I have seen delicacy mate with coarseness, wit: with stupidity, humanity with brutality, relig- ion with the skeptic, aye, goodness with I evil. I, too, ask why? The answer is ever the same—because of love!” “Because of it, 1s reason, is it not?” “So women say.” “And men?” “Aye, they say the same; but with men it is another sentiment, 1 think. | though love is what they cali it.” | The most thrilling part of the story | comes, when Butler discovers that Re- nault is a spy and prepares to denounce him and have him turned over to the loyal forces to be executed. He in- suits Renault in Sir Peter Colville's house and is challenged by the noble- man. In the hurried arrangements for the fight, which Sir Peter feels himself { honor bound te go into, his duelling pis- ! tols are hidden by Miss Elsin Gray, and she and Lady Colville become the dramatic figures who reach the grounds in time to prevent the fight. Renault confesses to Elsin that he is a spy. She, in order to shield him, affirms falsely that the letter to Washington which incriminates Carus was written by her as a joke. By this ruse she gains time to persuade Carus to mount a fleet horse, and she on an equally swift one insisted on accompanying him through the lines of the two armies. She had guessed that-trouble was | coming ‘and so in time had procured from Sir Henry Clinton a pass through the lines for both herself. and for Carus. In order to carry her point she told Sir Henry that she was going to closed in everywhere; on, on, the wind whistling in our teeth, her hair blow- ing, and her gilt lace hat flying from the silken cord that held it to her shoulder. How grandly her black mare bore her—the slight, pale-faced figure sitting the saddle with such per- fect grace and poise!” * * ¢ “The ascent was steeper mnow. Our horses slackened to a canter, to a trot, then to a walk as the road rose upward, set with boulders.” * * * “From the shadow of these same rocks sprang two men, long brown rifles leveled. And in silence we drew bridle at the voiceless order from the muszzles of those twin barrels bearing upon us without a tre- mor.” (D. Appleton & Co., New York.) Artist Writes About China’s Woman Ruler “Her Majesty is universal, the Em- peror is typically Oriental,” is one of the most graphic sentences from the new book about China's remarkable ruler, Tze-Shi, written by the portrait painter, Mi Katherine A. Carl, who undoubtedly admires the great po- tentate, of whom she made a many months’ study for picture-making pur- poses. The paintings of form and feature being duly finished, the temp- tation to make & pen portrait of the character and life of subject was too great to be temptation and committed the ‘which, bound in imperial Chinese low, is entitled “With the Dowager.” The book is 80 clever, so interesting, | | ! 80 almost necessary to - enment’s sake, that }?B“u‘n‘;m of etiquette and a betrayal of confl- dence. Here are some extracts: “I know I publish this account at the risk of offending the sensibilities of my Chinese friends, for many of them will never know what called it forth. I know that by doing 8o I may change any favorable opinion they may have formed as to my good breeding and discretion. I was on sufficiently inti- mate terms with her Majesty and'the ladies of the court to know that this account will be looked upon by them l; ’a.n ‘indiscretion,” to say the least of it. “In this story of my life at the pal- ace I must naturally give some descrip- tions of their Majesties and necessarily make some comment upon their charac- ters. In doing this I will transgress another long-established rule of Chi- nese propriety. * * ¢ If my com- ment on their Majesties and discussion of their acts be favorable, this will be| 6. The Chinese ideals of delicacy should have held one bound in in such a case, inasmuch as their hos- pitality had been accepted and their ican. do they, in this particular instance? If an artist is invited to en- Jjoy the intimacles of & home while painting a portrait of one of its mem- bers, would it be in good taste to use the material thereby her “ready to Nray elope with Carms because she had de- cided not to marry Butler, and this plan was necessary to give him the slip. Carus, who is a chivalrous youth of 23, is very slow about discerning that the maid is really willing to make this pretended elopement become one of reality. So comes the opportunity for a pretty love scene which the author | utilizes excellently. The description of e + A3 e \ ) LETTERS FroM DHHEAN SIR HENRY SIONEY "’mp,/;n R | 70 P, AN ! 0 IS SON FHILLE ) py iy o VRSN FEON THE LCECHONING * DY KUEET W In a book of old letters,written centuries ago, are these words - “Sir Henry Sidney, to his son Philip Sidney, at school at s Philip) then bei wife had asked Miss Carl, “What's in a | Shrewsbury, 1566 Ninth year of Elizabeth, (Philip) ne name?” she would have had to answer, . “Ob, in America, almost everything.” 1 twelve years old. o Wl |Hnws;lvpr. as the author explains it to us, the secondary wives of Emperors | “eha £irst ' at the Chil | ? ° ¢ And as this is the first letter that ever I 85 tha Chinass dowrt: Are: frdmi the point of Chinese morals, entitled dia write to you, 1 will not that it be all empty of some good to exquisite courtesy, and they get it. ‘ advices. A\Irnreuvelr, ;he says, they are not | chosen for their physical charms by an | > Emperor’s caprice from th, t | o ¢ ° Use exercise of body, but such as is without P! m the mass o peril to your joinus and bones. It will increase your force, and l‘ T SRl are: MENENG W e enlarge your breath. In telling about the religions of { rge y i : I China the author brings {fito deserved Give yourself to be merry, for you degenerate from your d:a— ‘f;g";‘“f;;ngz Py o4 t{*gfi ::e;hle:;triesufel:m cher, if you find not yourself most able in wit and body to a religion, namely, the worship of Na- anything when you be mOSt mMerry. | ture. The others are just outward hos forms, or systems of morality and phil- Above all things tell no untruth, no, not in trifles. The ';:“;,‘f;““,;'emgg‘;e:"(‘;‘z’;‘Ph;’fh-"'fl'“"v in custom of 1t is naughty. And let it not satisfy you, that for an invisible Deity, Is :hasp:::sl(d;grg a time hearers take it for truth, for after it will be Known as I of religion in China" Plctures are 3 '@ cannot a 'eater Irepr given of a magnificent temple for this it 1s to your shame; for ther: er oach to & f f 1 leman, than to be accounted a liar. i worship, In Peking, and in the park of gentleman, b the Temple of Heaven there is an im- | mense altar to “The Invisible Deity.” s ® s = | “The worship of the Invisible Deity has £ S ;lo’hierarcr;ly'. The Emperor of China n the fear of God. s its one high priest.” Your loving father, so long as you live I ! (The Century Company, New York; ) $2 net) =3 = Do/l Book to ‘Please ! Little Gir/ Readers A great delight will LUSTRATION FROM LATEST NOVEL OF ROBERT W. CHAMBERS, AND FROM INTERESTING VOLUME OF LETTERS all good little a;gm- wh::;’:‘:’: e WRITTEN BY FAMOUS MBEN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD TO CHILDREN. THE LETTERS SHOW THE REMARKABLB of the n hook . copies POWER OF SOME MEN IN RBTAINING PERFECT SYMPATHY WITH CHILDHOOD. il called “The Three 4 - h‘;h;ngy Jouprg::t Scribner Gates, who ® & spe 'y and a success of the midnight ride for life and love| cold-blooded capture of its m: acter of the Chinese ruler, will seem | Writing doll books. The publishers, is well done. Here Is a fragment of it: | which was taken from the unsuspect- | very flimsy to the Empress. She will | Bobbs-Merrill Company, are sure the “Our horses plunged on again, fret- | ing hand of courtesy itself while the |no doubt regard it as a most reprehen- | bringing out of this book will be an event ting at the curb. She rode a black | author was a guest at the palace of | sible Americanism and regret that she | Of very great importance in the largs blue mare black as a crow save for three| the Chinese Empress. The artist was | was so kind. However, she may be | e¥es of all nice little girls; and we may silver fetlocks, and my roan’'s stride| invited to come to the Chinese court | charitable enough to regard the indis- | 8dd that not only this fairyland type of distressed her nothing. Into the Kings- | to paint a picture of the Empress—not | cretion as a mistake natural to foreign | 80ld hair and blue eyes, but the brown- bridge road we plunged in the white| to write a book about the imperial | barbariang, who are centuries behind | eyed and black-eyed and those ¢ all river mist that walled the hedges from | household from the vantage point of & |the fine culture of the Chinese. shades will find joy In its pages. our view, and there, as we galloped | most hospitably treated guest. The| The objecting Chinese will have to| It has nine large, cleverly drawn full through the sand, far behind us I|excuse the author gives for this rather | admit, however, that they are very ge pictures and numerous smaller ones thought to hear a sound like metal | ruthless exploitation of a golden op- |magnanimously treated in the descrip- | that ornament the beginning and end of clipping stone.”” +* * * portunity does but emphasize the fla- | tions given of them. That is done with | éach chapter. The lllustrations are by “Into the sand once more we for she plainly | & kindness and falrness quite chaym- Virginia Keep. “The Three Dolls” is only plunged, riding a sheer run through itands perfectly | ing and becoming to one who had been the first of the eight short stories that the semi-darkness of the forest that| the Chinese will consider it a breach | their guest. There s no least at-|compose the volume. One of these is the tale of two little darky girls who felt very gore-hearted because they had no nice new dresses to wear to the coming examination at thelr school. The story is called “Borrowed Feathers.” The little that Miss Carl bent to kiss her Ma- | 8irls saw hanging on the clothes bars of jesty’'s long-nailed hand In homage, | one of their mothers who took in wash- which was probably as close to kow- |ing the beautiful and freshly done up towing as an American could stoop to | dresses of the little white girls who sent do. The work gets much of its value | thelr laundry to the honest old colored from the fact that “no man or woman | Woman to be cared for. The little darkies from the Western world, of course, has | cOuld not stand the temptation of the pret- tempt at belittling the dignity and vi fue of the Chinese court. The Empress {s described as not only a strong and wise woman, but as a most winsome and charming one. So much so was she ever had oportunity to gain so true |ty frocks hanging there within their reach, « and so they took them without leave and intimate a knowled; f the Em- . v sty i and went in gay, borrowed plumage to press Dowager—one of the most inter- esting and important figures in modern | the examinations. It is quits amusingly history—and the unique and fascinat- | {014, and the little sinners were more ing formalitles of the Chinese court.” :’:'y‘m;z by thelr own remorse than by The many .illustrations are from else. b sketches and photographs made by the | After they got home and took off the author, and they add greatly to the | Clothes which did not belong to them and interest of the volume. The portrait of | Went out to play in their plaln, faded the Empress is the principal one, of | dresses, the old mammy called out to course. It is now owned by the United | them: “Just ‘member, chilluns, dat fine States Government and is in the Na- |fedders nebber did make fine birds, and tional ,Museum at Washington. The |98t Deople aiwers gits a fall jus’ when $dea of having this portrait prepared | 2eY t'inks dey are sot up in the worl'!" foe: Auiirits ok shygostod by - Mips (Bobbs-Merrill Indianapolis, ister Conger, and it was hoped the sight,| Ind-; $1 net) favorable impression of the Chinese ruler. . The chapter about the Emperor fif Actoyntarm- plece of go‘r;rs;:dnra flu;x' ‘t:u ul!gm repro- duction of e Inting press. and Ho 15 ot an imbecils by any means, | ouporation Accounting ooa Comon of the reins of government. He is :EIIWMI‘ because he trusts in | is a kind of work that and feels that she s closer | mand, for, though there to rule until they | one on the subject of his sharper doses | is a rarity. This one is a manual poliey. Miss Carl speaks | perate organizal “secondary | treats of the face would give Americans a ¥ Serviceable Volume seems, just in the words of it, a finer h he does let the old Empress Law,” by J. J. Rahill, ready tism than 4 | on bookkeeping, he, an general thereby better fitted receive is officially indorsed and recommended by a specially appointed reviewing commnittee of the board of directors of the California Soclety of Certified Public Accountants. In addition to technical instructiou ther is this: “While positively disclaiming role of moral preceptor, the author has not failed to call attention to what he has conceived to be defects in the law. and flaws in business ethics, and to point out allke (o incorporators, stockholders and accountants the standards to be at- tained and the evils to be avoided in re- spect to corporate organization, manage- ment and auditing.” l (Published by the author. ! et ik iFefw Moments With i Books and Writers § The January number of “Suburban Life” is a beautiful issue and one that will be particularly interesting to people of this State because its leading articie is about ‘“California’s Ideal Suburbs.” The article was furnished at the request of the publishers by the California Pro- motion Committee, and is written by Au- gustin C. Keane, a member of the com- mittee. “Suburban Life” for the new year promises to be still finer than it has been in the past. This year it is printed by J. Horace McFarland Company of Harrisburg, Pa. It is claimed that from their establishment, the Mount asant Fresno, Cal) | Press, " there have sed the most pertect specimer rzine making that this country has ever seen. They have done printing for “Country, Life” and for the “Country Calendar.” Mr. , Horace McFariand has a special fitness for getting out periodicals of this class, for during the last five years he has been one of the leading exponénts of country living. and as president of the American Civic Assoclation his work has been aiong lines in accord with suburban life. rautifully illus- nburban homes, trated with specimens of many of them being close around San Francisco. It is headed with one in the | old mission type of architecture—a thing beautiful in itself and for almost any- where; but especially lovely and appro- priate to California, as it links itseif by assoclation with the sweetest romance of this land, and the one which, we con tinuing worthy, is most likely to bring down permanent blessings from heaven For it was from the old missions that there went up that great volume of prayer to heaven from the first devout and heroic founders of peace and pros- perity here, and from such architecturs rang out the bells which called all the in- habitants of the land to such prayer. Keane says: “The suburban home has no u.usual types of architecture, nor is there any- thing about it which is characteristie, ex cept gardens and lawns, simplicity of con- struction and an atmoesphere of the real home.” He shows that California leads the world In the development of suburban life. It is an article which will not only give pleasure by its text and pictures, but will do good by inspiring people to ambi- tious efforts to own and maintain the real homes of house and grounds, of loveli- ness inside and out. of material and of spirit, which, of course, flourish most naturally where there is room for nature's beauties to environ them. (Colonial Press, Boston, year.) Mass.; §1 per It seems almost impossible that there should be a plant that flowers naturally outdoors In the depth of winter. But it is a fact. The Christmas rose answers this description. From the end of Octo- ber until February its white flowers (about three inches across) may be gath- ered at almost any time, and even when the ground Is covered with snow, the Christmas rose is producing its flowers. ‘We don’t often see them in December and January, because we mnever think of brushing off the snow to look at the plant that is growing underneath. The flowers are of a dazzling whiteness when young, but become faintly tinged with pink after about a week.—January Country Life in America. LB A Under the pendulous plumes of the palm, Drowsing, I dream In the odorous calm; Dreams of delight and of rapture 1 capture Out of this bower of the bloom and the balm. Over me carols a bird on the bough, Passionate melody, amorous vo All of his happy song spel And tells me Fly to her, lover, and speak to her now! Sweetheart, I send you the song of the bird; Dared 1 interpret the message | heard, This were the whisper above you— love you! This were the music, the secret. the word. —From “A Southern Flight by Frani D Sherman, N. Y. Times, A new issue in the Century Company's educational series is S. E. Forman’s “Ad- vanced Civics,” which treats, in addition to more familiar topics, of the care of the poor, labor disputes, secret ballots and the dutles of a voter,. civil and constitutional liberty, and the American spirit. 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