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THE W / == \ ) “DEAF, BLIND, AND INSOLENTLY INORANT,” s a phase describing the ament and quoted by Gold- | new book, “Irish History Question.” The’ author | on who eaid the shillalah- | , but he admits the said | was not om the right track. »fender of England’s policy, but temperate man as to his language, he comments ter quotation from the mouth | else excusing the Bri r being a little and appeals of “‘a motley gang | needy adven e blood 3 expressions from away they serve well the p ting you at T n of the uj d Ireland. Gold over | once into a o explain this row to us, and to clear why BEngland does not ne rule to He succee to hear from Ire ler have reach- awells the phically ca: kind of kr eeing ourselves as do S0 W sentences scattered | the author wr places he e Of the r himself b are capable of e of their ¢ disguis: pt to be urther along he b ble eriticisms of will perhaps be mo ection is given in his s en he states reasons not be detached In case of sep he Irish gentry would be extin- shed. He seems no lover of these ndslords. He says he record of .. irish landlordism is not bright here have been hideously cruel evic- tions.” But the absence of these gentry peasant Irel d would fall into the bands of the priesthood. His Eng- sh and Protestant reason for objec- ion to such a fate is that: “The moral aracter of the Irish priesthood in the | pinion of impartial judges is high. | + * * But the Roman Catholic relig- | jon is medieval. o training of its | ministers inevitably shuts out light which would be fatal to medieval be- ef. An Irish peasant lad, having | lectually secluded for seven | Maynooth, comes out proof the intellectual influences and ng science of his time!” at vanc “Apropos of Irish landlordism, there le ention in the book of that i sry recently wittily used by the wit Irishman, George Bernard Shaw, in re- to actor Arnold Daly being a ted in New York for producing w’'s suppressed play, “Mrs. Warren's | ofession.” The story is that an agent n Ireland sent word to the absentee landic whose interests he was serv- t his (the agent's) life was In The Irishmen had threatened | him. All the satisfaction ti got was this reply: “Tell the vil- hey need not hope to intimidate by shooting you.” There are several such entertaining es to brighten up a bit the sad book. Some of the amusing things show the extent to which the gentle art of vituperation and epithet using were carried. It must have been very prevalent in those old days of hearty between Englishman and Irish- for there was a law enacted to im- pas a man for a whole year if he another “English Hobbe” of “Irish Dog.” A remarkable instance f vituperation and epithet flinging is 14 bf the truly great Irishman, Grat- tan. He, by the by, seems to be the Irigh leader whom the historian ad- mires most. It happened that Grattan gave way to his temper in a verbal at- tack upon another Irish patriot, to wit, Flood. Being thus a family row, an Englishman could, of course, stand out- eide and laugh at the situation with more zest. Goldwin Smith says of Flood: “A man of solid sbility and powerful in debate, while the purity of his patriot- ism was not so clear. On Flood's side, or perhaps, as the event proved, on his flank, there presently arose the far] more illustrious Grattan, whose purity and patriotissn were unquestionable, whose, oratory was brilllant—his admirers ioought divine” ¢ o = “Grattan and Flood having parted company in politics, and Flood hav- ing defamed Grattan, Grattan poured upon Flood a furious torrent of the most personal invective, telling him uis talents were not so great as his life was infamous; that he had been silent for years, and silent for money; that he might be seen passing the doors like & gullty spirit, waiting the mo- | everywhere | subj | Before that he wrote | British is not possible. | cates. ment at which he might hop in and give his venal vote; that he was a kettledrum, battering himself into popularity to catch the vulgar; that he might be seen hovering over the dome like an ill-omened bird of night, with sepulchral note and broken beak (Flood having a broken nose); and winding up by telling him in the face of the country, before all the world and to his beard, that he was not an honest man. Flood retorted with equal fury, and a wild scene ensued. It is cult to believe in the genius patriotism of these orators, but ficult to believe in their unim- 2 d wisdom.’ In these gentler and more courteous f the twentieth century the thing that will strike the reader as somewhat hristian is the cruel reference Flood's facial misfortune in possess- ir a “broken beak.” An outbreak like that must be something similar to what in medieval times was believed to be demonic possession; and in the ca; of a brilllantly gifted man like Grattan it would have been worth while for all the Christian persuasion of the country 0 try to exorcise the devils that were in these two and lead the men out of whom fhey had been cast calmly back up to the Christian condition “where dwells the soul se- rene.” he new book will be of importance because of its author be- ing of much note. He has held high positions as historical instructor, and has written voluminously on historical cts. He is now quite an old man 1o be producing books—he is about 33. Although an Englishman by birth, he is now called a “Canadian publicist,” because he has been living in Toronto since 1871, Ie has been a prominent exponent of tho idea that Canada is destined to merge her political life in that of the United States. He has long been interested in the subject of his present book, and in 1852 he wroto ‘The Conduct of England to Ireland.” “Irish History In 1898 he wrote treating in with, tland. It is a book well worth re- ng in connection with this pres. ne about Ireland, for “The United and Irish Character.” “The United Kingdom,” that of the relations of England Be Kingdom” was somewhat roundly Scored by that canny Scot and very able writ and critic, Andrew Lang. Lang did not like what the English historian said about nd. So if Irish crities do not like what Smith says in this present discourse on the Irish question 1 not be alone in claiming that orian leaves the bars down to fon. Lang says of his his- thod that it is literature, but or professes as a friend of I's best interests to see no good uld come to her by separation. men of Ulster would still be there spoil Two Parlia- are More evil that the than ments f the political. and he is naturally a grazing ot fitted to be divided up to and oat farms. e most favorable things he says Ireland is passage: “Ireldnd in having been cut rodigious development of nd dissipation, which, as social tell us, has been taking place is overpopulated; is smail pot the other side of the channel, as from the domination of the stock exchange. She may in this way a saving element in the soclal S r of the United Kingdom.” Perhaps the most significant remark 2 the book is this: “Millions of Irish children haye found homes in i the colonfes. To sever Ireland from Great Britain is still pos- To divide the Irish and the 1a both islands 1 the colonies the two races cannot be put sible and in are now joined and asunder.” (McClure, $150 net.) Phillips & Co.,, New York. - “AS A MAN THINKETH” BY JAMES ALLEN. Bound in burnt leather and condensed enough to stick in your pocket, and short enough to read in half an hour as you sit sunning on a park bench or rest by the ocean's roar is the booklet “As a Man Thinketh,” by James Allen. It's “new thought” book as its title indi- As a man thinketh, so he is. that molds a Mind is the master-power and makes, And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand flls— He thibks in secret and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking-glass. ely the Spirit of the Age must think very much in need.of these pages and pages of insistence upon the power of thought, for they pour out continu- ously with the same old lesson, only varied with more or less beauty of ex- pression or clearness of illustration. It seems that the only excuse for them is human nature’s requirement of line upon 1 and precept upon precept to make 'mind.” This little book talking about “ircumstanc says: “Suffering is al- s the effect of wrong thought in direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being. The sole and supreme use of suffering is to purify, to burn out all that is useless and impure. There would be no object In burning gold after the dross had been removed.” Speaking of “Visions and Ideals” the author says: “The dreamers are the saviors of the world. * * * Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; It knows them as the realities which it shall one day see and know.” “The greatest achievement was at first and for the time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.” (The Science Press. Republic Building. Chicago. 60 cents.) FORMER CALIFORNIAN ON “SOUL SERENE.” RS «“Where Dwells the Soul Serene” is the title of & book written by a man who seems to have discovered this ~Where'—as yet all undiscovered by the majority of mortals. Evidently .to him Paradise is a condition ‘and not a place. We can 80 to the Heaven of Serenity whensoever we strongly will it. The sale of the second edition of this work has been put in the hands of Paul Elder & Co. of this city. The author is Stanton Kirkham Da- vis, who is the oldest grandson of the late General Kirkham, U. 8. A. He was born in Nice, France. At an early age he lost both parents and was brought up by his grandparents, Gen- eral and Mrs. Kirkham of Oakland, Cal. For the last twelve years he has resided in the East, being engaged in One | | nature study A THOGSH)IDP f}'zofi THE FOAD OF ‘SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 1906 . BAEBAEA A + and literary work. B sides “Where Dwells the Soul Seren Mr. Davis has written “As Nature ‘Whispers,” and he is now bringing out a book on travels. Although the pub- lication is not a freshly new one, thc revival of it here by a local book store will be of interest becauSe the writer | was bred close to our San Francisco | homes and s related to Oakland people. The author is evidently an admirer of Emerson and of his style of expres- sion. He seems to have so thoroughly sunned himself in that master's thought and manner of saying things that the reflection of it is apparent on every page. The New England sage | is a good model, and it would make an | opportunity for curiously Interesting comparison if a steeping in the style of Walter Pater would not be a still better schooling: for the purpose of writing’ essays that naturally come un- der such caption as “Where Dwells the Soul Serene.” However, this work is halcyon enough, and we need not bother the author by asking if the most superlative serenity of literary mood can best find its expression in the style of Emerson or Pater; he may have got his from nelther, but from the calm blue sky and the pools of water that are deepest, clearest, and stillest. It is a book full of spirituality, but it has not religion as the orthodox re- vere it. He says that: “It is equally true that to doubt the evidence of any authority recognized as absolute or in- fallible is the first step in true relig- fon.” So it will make its main appeal to the many who love religion and are seeking truth, but who do not recog- nize Christ as the Master in the sense of his saying “I am the way, I am the truth.” He admires Christ, something perhaps in the way Renan did. He says of Jesus: “He dared so assert the su- premacy of the soul that men repudiate their God.” The work is probably to be classed among the ‘“new thought” books. It dwells much on the auto- cratic power of the indiyidual mind. It contains essays on such subjects as “Elements of Freedom,” “The Idea of Re- ligion,” “The Nature of Prayer,” “Char- acter and Its Expression,” “Higher Laws,” and, the longest one, “The Soul of Nature.” A very interesting one is that on the nature of prayer. In it you can find several of those apparent contradictions which are one of the characteristics of Emerson's- expres- sions. They probably come from taking such an all-round view of things that necessarily one.side or one facet does not reflect the light of truth exactly as some other. If you take some one sentence from his essay on prayer and isolate it you might think he meant to teach you not to pray; that the appeal to the eternal silence was both futile and fool- ish. Take another sentence and isolate it, and you feel that he means to im- press upon you that to forego the privi- lege of prayer is as foolish as to ex- change your humanity for the being of a baboon. He says: “He that apprehends the nature of prayer bends not the knee, but towers in majesty.” in on the subject of formal praying he has this sarcasm: “We see in the world a steadfast ad- herence to form which usurps the office of prayer; a kind of ecclesiastical dust thrown in the eyes of men. Here. is not prayer, but an expression of faith- lessness in the Divine Order; a weekly report, as it were, from the officious heads of departments to an incompetent Executive, with suggestions for govern- ing the Universe and directions for the amelioration of apparently untoward conditions.” It we continue this as a caustic eriti- cism of man “who builds him fanes of fruitless prayer,” we find we have to modify that view when we read on and find this: your striving and pray, for Prayer is the royal road to wisdom; but we must learn to pray wisely—to rise to the full heights of Prayer. To recognize that life is prayer is to abjure triviality. The abil- ity to control and direct the spiritual forces, to discern and keep well in mind the intent and bearing of all thought and action—in a word, the faculty of - prerog- manhood and worship him as| this, its pure form, Prayer is the short cut to the attainment of Ideals."” A beautiful chapter in the book is the one called “The Beauty of Poise.” In it he says: “The majestic base upon which are erected the loftiest characters is that spiritual poise which arises from the inner controlling econviction that Love is the flnest fruit of life as well as its governing principle.” And again of love he says this as to its power to glve poise to character: ‘“Whatsoever it receives, counterfeit, copper, or sil- ver—it pays always in gold.” (Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco. $1 25.) s ‘WONDERS ALONG COAST ROAD DESCRIBED. “The Road of a Thousand Wonders" is a sign which if we saw nalled up at some diverging of the ways when- we were wandering free to choose our course would be sure to allure us whither its finger pointed. With somewhat sim- ilar force of appeal the enticing words as they appear in the title to the beau- tiful new book issued by the Southern Pacific and printed by the Sunset Press will attract the Eastern traveler to this “Road of a Thousand Wonders"—' by which is meant the Coast line and Shasta route of the Southern Pacific Company, extending from Los Angeles, through San Francisco to Portland, a journey of over 1300 miles; attractive, always alluring and instructive.” The work has been prepared to ald the movement, which is to be specially pushed this year, to divert to California and the western coast a part of the great sums which are spent by Americans on foreign travel. Many Eastern people go across the Atlantic and spend their money | seelng alien picturesqueness, while they are still in ignorance of the grandeurs of their native land. They should at least make their.initial tour one of in- spection of the greatness of this country. This would be patriotic, and it would save them from being ignominously un- able to meet the challenge to their intel- ligence about our own country which might come from men they meet in for- eign lands; and which it would be hu- miliating to have to answer with a con- fesslon of ignorance. It cannot be denied that there are spe- cial attractions in the old countries which will always have their just inter- est not to be duplicated here, as of his- toric, art and literary value; but to people who can afford to see both these and the Wonders of nature which our West affords, surely second trips . to Europe in preference to coming this way are a folly and a lack of civic pride. For an outdoor land this part of the world is unexcelled. All who are seeking health and recreation should try the Pacific Coast. Money that is spent {n European travel is probably lost forever; but the expense of trips through the scenic glories of the United States may well in _indirect ‘'ways redound ‘to the up- building’ of the fortune of the traveler. ‘We may not be able to trace the exact course of the return, but certainly all general prosperity is apt to help in some large way each Individual fortune. The book tells of the attractiveness of this coast in eloquent words that will set the heart wishing to come to what they call, and the many handsome pictures, done in tints, will make the eyes of the ‘Basterner long to see the realities whose beautles they suggest. Here are some extracts from the text: “The population of Santa Barbara and suburbs is made up very largely of peo- ple world-weary and climate-weary, driven by stress of storm or cold from 'more rigorous climes.* Here, upon these foothills, -mnn%:lh tkg“mnn's lavish bounty, they have r homes, pre- pared to face their future in climatic comfort. ~ Santa ‘s chief attrac- tion is Mission Santa Barbara, serving the work to which it was consecrated when peace had but come to the Ameri- can colonies, and our statesmen were struggling with the question of a consti- tution. The church is of dressed stone and adobe, with massive walls, heavily buttressed. The two-story towers yet chime bells, and the famous £ A SWAN FLOTILLA OF ZAGUNR DEL REY, DELIMONTE FEOM "THE FOAD OF R . THOUTAND WONDER). and to-day is probably the most inter- esting and imposing of all California mis- SIONAT L ® CH U “Around here at Ocean and Arroyo Grande enterprising seedsmen are grow- ing peas, peas by the million, but they | | are sweetpeas, whose value is in the blos- som and not in the pod. It is & sight worth crossing many continents to look upon—a sweetpea farm in full bloom, acres upon acres, pink and white, and blue, and rose-tinted and purple-tinted, and all hues of a properly regulated rain- bow."” I say God's kingdom ls at hand Right here if we but lift our eyes: I say there lles no line nor land Between this land and Paradise. ¥ BOOK, (Southern Pacific Company, 431 Califor- OF A THOUSAND WONDERS. ! nia street, San Francisco.) SPORTS OF THE TRACK AND | THE WATER. “The American Sportsman's Library"” series, edited by Caspar Whitney, has a valuable addition in the 450-page volume entitled “Rowing and Track Athletics.” Of this the rowing section is written by Samuel Crowther, and the track athletics by Arthur Ruhl. The greater portion of the rowing information was gathered by personal contact with and by personal letters from men who have been active in that sport. The other part was taken from the sporting periodicals and the newspapers. A plece of curious information in this rowing talk which will be more widely interesting than just to oarsmen is an ftem which seems to suggest what are the limits of light or heavy weight which make the ideal.of bodily size for men— so that they shall have all the strength possible without, by overweight, losing the perfection of activity. The author states that he has no knowledge of any crew being really fast the members of which were either very heavy or wvery light; ‘“‘an average below 150 or over 175 is bad.’ The light men have not the strength to pull, the very heavy men cannot pull on a force in proportion to their weight. It may be said that this is only a test for the one speclalty of rowing; but, on + print, smooth white paper and strong and neat binding that this book concern is continually providing the country with: ¥ ‘‘Essentials in Medieval and - Modern History,” by Samuel Bannister Harding, Ph. D., professor of European history, Indiand Uunversity; 8vo, half leather, 65 ?fiées' with maps and illustrations. Price, 0. This work. published in the “‘Essentials in Histor: eries, edited by Professor Hart of Harvard University, begins with a survey of the world from the fall of the Western Empire to the year 800. 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