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es from Panama to SSONS IN PHYSICAL AND coM- | | (;1 AL GEOGRAPHY embrs {1 Som “piers have shown that the geo- | | *phere of the (Panama) canal | | l. Amazon basins, the Ar-| | o e w plaing and the Andes| { { A | western pampas of Argentina to the Pa- cific and to ” i McClurg Company, Chicago, $2.50 FOR EASTER TIME book for Easter reading is the was made by our own Cali- , the venerable Joaquin Miller, “The Building of . the City A new and enlarged edition A good work New has recently been brought z. "®lout. As for the small editions of 1884, mber of 1t Panama | (De¥ &re comparatively unknown. As the ts it * “The Building of the City tiful’ was never really v so far as the press and public cerned, roughly fa- book. A America . o fons being absorbed mainly by per- S e al friends.” The book is pious. fanci poetical, allegorical, mystical, fs—perha all it superlativ t of faith in resurrection, essay for Easter t know just how particular division map ws It is not a r the sense - ucation: per- s E biographical; it »e altogether error to label & lines and put it on the sheif by s ents is t ilgrim’s Progress; some might ew T h of sociology and con- pt £t e on political economy ction, like Bellamy's or More's opla’; priately be classified as were no dictatorial ob- ms conservatively safe may mystically thing which t appr hood and fol- hese idea brought close home a seer on So rife is it PNt expectation n that for Cali- g this Easter week e premier poet of st will surely be in sweet eternal fitness of things. ters, each one mot- hort poem by the author, he Sierras” tells of the " s cation of a man of this new tiful woman, who is a & spirit from the old n t with the small voice. Mirtam Jew 2 to vision her from uggestive fragments 1 gather for from here and there: “It was a sad and the serenely beautiful face nt woman. * * * “This tall, rk woman on the outside of the group Christians was very patfent.’ ot ber sable gar- her great dark eye ow grew dark: Her of hair seemed to take tinge of the fire about the the tips.” ‘The tall, grand her 1oo mantle more about her throat, and lifting her away toward the hill, on of Titus when rown, and without lly knowing that she locked entirely above the mgn r as she went on in an earnest, voice.” are to imagine her person as gory she teachesesthe spirit of the great lessons of life. Just roment above described she was r platonic lover and pupil meaning of the few plain Christ about its being a camel to pass through a eye than for a rich man to enter That has been so often misun- to signify that heaven shuts its door in the face of rich men. As Miriam i the figurative language it is a t sublime lesson about the on. The rich man “must lay aside his wealth at the door of death and enter the kingdom of God as poor as the vel stie effect s us i flating Perhaps the most elaborately eloquent series of ers describe the ption of this Miriam—this strong, ant & the coast—E - | beautiful spirit, reincarnate as a fair P Lima s tre | wom is given in an account of her en- Lake Titicaca | covn ith a terrible llon of the desert. . Chile and Bo- | She and a man companion are traveling ere apter on waterways | in Egypt. It is a story of an incident in her life during a long distant, other in- carnation. The lion was about to attack | the man, when the woman sprang be- tween the intended victim and the king of beasts Her companion of the night | relates what followed thus: *“I would | have followed her, but the same force, which I can now understand was a men- n | tal force and not at all a physical force, aggressic | held me hard and fast to where I stood.” e let her robe fall as she eprang forward ¢ stood only as the hand of God had hioned her: a snow-white silhouette of per- comeliness against the terrible and blood: “a new basis of | in which the a sort bolitical | t written very nder the héad of trav- tion. In many places it is | mouth and tossing mane of the lon & necdota ‘Who was this woman hedre “hl:l stepped be- e xoir %25 ol | tween death and me and stood looking a esting among the vol- | TF0CE, 2 on in the face? Was this Judith many pictures is one of & DIE| _ciip incarnate? Or was this something more statue of Christ which stands on | then Judith? * * Was it the old and for- . t ns-Andine road, com- | gotten mastery of all things animate which ¢ S 1 Moses and his sister knew tuat g her do— from Los Andes through | PURS Sl "tne king of the desert? Or was Pass to the Argentine|; .. nome Mary? That Mary, it you will, s to her side, God In heav- who won all thix en, God vpon eai this road is ecompleted h, by the gad, sweet pity - e e O ir; | of her face and the story of holy love Umt Lo P was written there? n operation in 1907, but | Vo2 FFER TEECC ., L, . P cet Spirit to spirit! Soul to soul! AT T s, So the allegory goes on and on. From this glimpse you can imagine both the story’s fancifulness and the nobllity of jts planned import. I will clogse by giving you an extract from far toward the book’s end., which Is suggestive of that gold thread of resurrection hope which tuns all through the volume. The hero of the story, Miriam’s pupil, has sadly failed in his attempts to build an earthly “city beautiful,” and after long absence he is going again to meet the woman who had inspired him. He is high up in the clouds in an airship. - seat, bowed his head an ned 740 ME ahe would be with met” Atter a time he lifted his face, for he felt that he was not ajene, and lo! there she sat im, in ail the :Tr"flr::fl? wnd - divinity of presence. All the ey of perfect womanhood was with her T vever, Indéed, had e seen het so ra- tween Vatparaiso and Buenos dme"e‘zw'm’:gh":«wm“'gn:ug:‘ e same be considerable, but Tt promises | {737, 7"in" the Madonna face, It Is true. but ven more beneficial in bringing the ! gper “and above this there was & scnse cing, designed to “break Cordilleras, which will its completion. The is lne and tunhel, which the Chilean Government. %,000. Here is what is said | statue which is pictured | the page ] bronze statue, resting on a umn, the Christ of the Andes, ery pinnacle of the Cordilleras, is g monument along this railway just on the boundary between Argenti: and commemorates ace treaty without which the rail- stems of the two republics would e been joined. The idea of the rative statue was due to Senora de Costa of Buenos Ayres. The of this trans-Andine raflway on commerce of Chile and Ar- 2blishing through communi- publish=d | “The | plendor of youth and | the small and unfinished | gled of Buddhistic and Christian be- | being so appor- | | the Jewish prophets were | eaching of God's | is the name | | { T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 1906. T DRy RS | >y s | § crrxEz, g 4 =2 i 7 oL | z =OTT | T 0, } T L GAI LA | . ,’vr“l I ile infatuation. The distinction of Jen- nette Lee's story is that she introdpces us §o a third class—a type of men and women who will neither sin nor will they kill love out of fear that they cannot hold it high above wickedness or felly and absurdity. There are many ways of loving, and the wife in this case ex- pressed her experience-forced realiza- tion of this truth—when she said to her husband and ‘to her husband's dearest friend, “I love you both, and (her voice grew_ deeply tender) I love little Mary. And, please Ged (the words broke with a little laugh) I shall love a good many others before I die.” ‘When her husband’s intelligence fully took in the situation he said, “I feel as if something black had gone by us,” and the wife laughed softly as she said, “Come, we will keep it In the light.” To comprehend all the meaning and beauty of the story we must think of the motit of the author when she selected for its title the words from Genesis: “On the face of the wnter'..". . On the principle that it takes a poet to properly explain a poet, the article entitled “Joaquin Miller at the Heights,” by Charles Warren Stoddard, published in the April number of the Natlonal Magazine, may be accepted as an apt in- terpretation of the Poet of the Sierra’s fancy for living hermitly high up on the hills across the bay. The author of “The South Sea Idylis” and the “Isl- ands of Tranquil Delight” makes quite an idyll of this, his description of the tranquil delight that Joaquin Miller has sought and found In His eyrie perch that overlooks the Golden Gate. - He tells of a loving visit he made to his old friend and confrere of the pen, and tectural style in a cottage ‘hope to own the house beautiful as well as their more wealthy neighbors who can dwell more palatially but not necessarily with more exquisite taste. In an article called “Planning the House; Good and Bad Design.” are given of comparatively homes wherein could be lived the sim- ple life that might be at the same time highly artistic. Another interesting thing in this number i{s a beautifully illustrated ar- ticle about the artist's home at Cress- kill, N. J. A full-page frontispiece shows one end of this attractive eot- tage. A collection of other pictures shows the other parts of the home, both interior and exterior. The artist owner had to study how to build with com- bined economy and artistry. He aid the trick by building his house out of railroad crossties for the framework! and out of bowlders in their natural| state for the chimneys. Of uncut | bowlders also are some of the walls and pilasters. As the owner expresses it, the module of the architecture was @ railroad tfe. The success of the ex- periment is astonishing and beautiful, and the little home has the distinction | of being uncommonly economical and uncommonly artistic. It has made the| superlative - most of money and mate- | rial, and must therefore be a delight to | the sources of creative power as they | contemplate the work of this man and | artist. The chestnut ties only cost| one-third the price of ordimary lumber. If young men were more universally i economical and artistically inventive as is this Cresskill artist, then happy | home-making and house-bullding beauti- | of the eccentric but sensible abode ful need not be S0 needlessly long post- | | +1 | { | | | | o ZTTE , JOURNALIST, DEALI SPECTS OF THE PA MA 'RATION FROM A NEW BOOK BY OW 3 WITH SOM CHARLES M. PEPPER, A WELL NOT GENERALLY CONSID- CANAL AND ITS POSSIBILITIES, strength and directness and hmortality such as you feel when the sun is rising. (Albert Brandt, publish Trenton, J.; $L50 net; by mail, $L BOOK ILLUSTRATED BY GREAT MASTERS An exceedingly pretty little book and one very appropriate for Easter reading is “The Childhood of Jesus Christ,” written by Dr. Henry Van Dyke, pro- fessor of literature in Princeton Univer- sity. It contains twenty illustrations from paintings by great masters. These give representations of the annuncia- tion, the adoration of the shepherds, the visit of the Magi, the holy night, the flight into Egypt, the return to Naza- N. | reth, the presentation in the tethple and | | { | | i tragic sadness that mingles the the finding of Christ conversing with the doctors of the law. Among the great masters represented are Raphael, Correggio, Murillo, Holman, Hunt, Ros- setti, Van Dyck, Velasquez, Rubens and Burne-Jones. The reproductions of these masterpieces are unusually clear. They are on fine satin finished paper and so arranged with broad margins | and an opposite page of pure white as to make them show forth much more effectively than we find them in most of the art books. As for the text, Henry Van Dyke is a thggname of Dr. rantee of its | tasty lterary quality. In simplicity and beauty he tells of the reasons why the story of the Christ child furnishes so much inspiration te poetry and to paint- ing. The story of Christ’s childhood is one we have often read, but there is a fresh originality in this telling of it in | connection with the twenty beautiful works of the great masters which we look upon as we read. The words of this pastor and master of literature give us interpretations and suggestions that greatly help us to appreciate the pictures. There are three special considera- tions which make these pictures of wide appeal to humanity. One is the univer- sal love of religion, which makes the childhood of this founder of the great religion of such absorbing interest; the second is the attractive mystery of motherhood, which makes these ideal- izations of the world's most perfect artists a subject of reverent admira- tion, -and, third, there is the pictorial interest that/'comes from the love of a good story just for the story’s sake; the intense human interest there is to it; the combination of joyousness and ele- ments of heaven's bliss and earth’s mis- fortunes. There is at once regality and poverty, homage and persecution, the coming of the world's savior and the cursed environment of evil that made the slaughter of the innocents an ac- companiment of that coming; the fas- cination of “the Eweetest story ever told"—the incarnation of a God because | God so loved the world: and then the wonder tale of & martyrdom to of the most intensely beloved man who ever trod the earth, and that martyr- dom infinitely more painful than any mortal's death could be, for as the marvel story has it the Christ suf- fered the sufferings of all the ages con- densed into that one bitter cup of death upon the cross. Even to the infidel who thinks it all a fiction, if he but have his literary faculties well developed it must be a story of surpassing interest —call it sublime truth or call it poetic the | e j invention, as you like it, and in either case it is the superlative literary gem of all thé stories ever known, read, heard, imagined or dreamed of. (Frederick A. Stokes Company, York.) LITERARY NOTES. The double X, or let us say triple X, of commendation can unhesitatingly be marked upon the short story by Jennette Lee in the latest number of Collier's Weckly. If you wish to read something that will delight you from its realiftic start to its idealistic finish, that will sur- prise you with its distinction of sane and wholesome beauty over the ever-pressing crowd of nominally first-class but dis- tinctly lesser literature, and that will give you a daringly original but true, sensible and delicious view of the higher possibili- ties of life and love, then be sure to get the glimpse of a woman's heart as given by Mrs. Lee in this story of the way Mary Searle dealt with a love that came involuntarily in her heart. Jennette Lee, it will be remembered, is a mistress of English literature. She has trained the girls at Vassar how to appre- ciate its excellences and how to use its spell-charms. She now holds the chair of | English language and literature at Smith College, and is writing books and dotng literary work for various first-class pe- riodicals. She won one of the Colller prizes by writing the short story pub- | lished last summer called “The Village Child.” .The name of the new story is “On the Face of the Waters.” This title is prob- ably taken from the words which are among the sublime sentences at the begin- ning of the Bible. There had been dark- ness over the deep until the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, and then came the command that there be light—and there was light. The skill with which that title was chosen you do not become fully aware of until you have read the last line of the little story. The sub- title of this little masterpiece is “An Old Story With a New Ending.” There is a rare pertinency in that secondary title, too. The “old story” to which the author refers is what is sometimes called “the eternal triangle,”” meaning thereby the man and his wife and the other man. A story that is so old, indeed, that as com- monly told, literature is flooded with it, and it is tediously stale—and, as often told, it is as offensive in its staleness as is that quality in eggs. Oh, but the “new ending” that this writer of prize stories gives the old theme of the muititudinous story writers—that S0 surprisingly fresh and so delightf: satistying! The world of men and women might jroughly We divided into two general classes as to the great matter of love jand the sin love. One class boldly or i weakly yields to the inclination to sin New when they love contrary to convention's regulation; the other ciass in a similar case of involuntary affection are afraid to love at all, for fear of sinning—as if the {love itself were a guilty thing—though lwnhom one act of impropriety, and be- cause of this cowardice they deliberately cultivate coldness of heart where natural | promptings nad swakened affecti other words, they murder the In of a love which might become divine, if rightly controlled and directed, because they dare not drag that love out of the darkness where it trembles on the preci- pices of possible sin or silliness out into the open light, where they can bholdly confess it and by divine help iift it beyond the danger of either shame or fu- where the poet cries “aloud from his mountain top, as a seer.” The paper will be specially noted just at this time when thé new edition of Miller's “Building of the City Beautiful” is pub- lished, and by consequence many peo- ple will like to\have a glimpse of the present life of the premier California poet. Miller i8 putting Parson Wag- ner's principles into practice. “The sim- ple life prevails at the Heights. It isa life of contemplation and kindly deeds. Joaquin Miller is harsh to none, full of kindness and charity for all and in his sympathy liberal as the sun.” The poet's home is a chapel; the spot has been doubly consecrated by the cher- ishing of the last feeble years of a be- loved mother and by devoted affection to a daughter, both of whom now lie buried on the hill by the home—where their graves can be frequently flower- strewn in homage to the unreachable spirits which once dwelt in those bodies. One of the impressions one gets from this narrative is that the Poet of the Sierras is a combination Christian and Buddhist. There is a Japanese Buddhist philosopher who dwells up there in friendship and sympathetic toleration, and as for Miller's Chris- tianity it is best told in.the eloquent opening paragraph from Stoddard's pen: “From the Alameda marshes, lifting one's eyes unto the hills, one beholds a cross of yast proportions resting upon the summer bronze-brown slopes. It is In reality a thicket off evergreens plant- ed so densely and with such mathemat- ical accuracy that at a distange it looks not unlike the cross itself, or at least the shadow of it. The planting of this forest of a thousand perennials was the lglvel scattered - glimpse: reverent thought and act of Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sierras; it is the crowning glory of the heights, his home for the last score of years; and seen from afar, it seems to set there the hal- lowed seal of silence and seclusion.” ' .. . Charles Warren Stoddard is made the subject of a brief and appreciative sketch in -the Easter number of the Overland Monthly by Henry Meade Bland of San Jose. The famous author of “The South Sea Idylls” has been re- counting to Bland some of the details f his adventurous life. The article pictures him as he is today, and then of his life from boyhood. The poet I8 now 63 and is still doing good literary work. His recent poem, “The Bells of San Ga- briel,”” Bland says is among the best poetry he has written. Fondness for reading the Scriptures is said to be responsible for much of the excellence of Stoddard’s style. He read the whole Bible a dozen times, studied the psalms and proverbs, and delighted in the flery imagination of the Jewish prophets. “Thus it came that multitudinous beautiful phrases of Holy Writ were burned into his brain, and his style was given a cast for all time” Stoddard was reared a Puritan, but that faith falled to satisfactorily solve for his bovhood’s heart and brain the painful riddle of the universe, and he tried to be rid of his doubts by this assiduous reading of-the Scriptures. He did not succeed in conquering his doubts until he became a Roman Cath- olic. This happened in 1867 when he was 34. The story of his conversion is told by himself in “A Troublea Heart and How it Was Comforted at Last.” ‘When Stoddard was living in Cam- bridge he was so severely ill that a report was circulated that he was dead. When this news of his reported death reached the West the Overland Monthly “published laudatory articles of his.d and great contributions to literature.” “It was worth dying for,” remarked St rd to Bland, in telling about the Overland's announcement. .. . 5 The ‘April numbér of “The House Beautiful” will have an especial interest to those people of moderate means who cannot afford a mansion-like home, but nevertheless love to live in artistic sur- roundings and by the choice of archi- poned as it alMost universally is. . e The Pan-American Raiiroad. The broad idea of the Pan-American Railway may be grasped from a glance at the map, where it appears as a pro- Ject in profile. The general direction is northwest and southeast along the giant chains' of the Andes. A thorough inter- continental railroad should follow the route most advantageous for opening up undeveloped resources and for insuring immigration and permanent settlement. The governing principle of a long con tinental backbone line with rfbs in- cludes development of mineral, agri- cultural and timber resources. while climate is not to be overlooked. To temper the tropics is feasible by fol- lowing the plateaux of the Andes. All of these considerations were given form in the intercontinental sur- vey, which was made during the years from 1892 to 1898, inclusive. The sur- vey was organized im accordance with the recomynendations of the first Inter- national American Conference. The funds were provided by the United States and by proportionate coatribu- tions from the various other Govern- ments. The principal object was to de- termine whether a feasible railway line at a reasonable outlay could be con- structed. The purpose was not specifi- cally the location of a railroad. but rather a reconnaissance and explora- tion, tracing a tentative line of develop- ment and collating information regard- ing natural resources. The result, as embodied in the printed reports and the maps and profiles, was monumental. It was not only a most meritorioats labor of practical prelim- Inary surveying; it was also a valuable contribution to international geography. From “The Railways of the Future™ —The Pan-American Railway, by Charles M. Pepper in the April Serib- ner's. . -ae second edition is announced of “Impressions of Japanese Architecture and the Allied Arts” by Ralph Adams Cram. This book has been reeceived throughout the world with a good deal of interest as the best interpretation of Japanes. art and ideals. " Not only have the Japanese themselves shown great in many years,” “A pow have every young man an the better for reading,” sions. read. RICHARD G. BADG L | | | fqually valuable to human welfare | ing tHeir pay. 2 interest in it, but it has had its success in England, and negot.ations are under way for a German translation. .. . The project of the Pan-American Railway Is dramatic in conception. In execiftion the exterprise will rank high among the great railways of the future. i It involves the co-operation of fft republies. They will make for ¢ peace of the western hemisphere, these 5000 miles of rail links which will cost ‘3!00.000.000. and will bring New York into direct communication with Buenos Ayres or Alaska and Hudsen Bay with Patagonia. * ¢ ¢ For the United States the project is | the commercial corollary of the Mon- ine doctrine. The moral influence lmkcs for the increased stability and political progress of the various Latin- American republics, and there is the trade benefit of industrial development and enlarged commerce. There is espe- cially the reciprocal imfluence of the Banama canal. And it may be added that an additional good is derived from the enforced knowledge of geography. —Scribner's Magazine (April). .. . The* recent publication of a book of extracts from the writings of Dr. Willlam Osler under the title of “Counsels and Ideals” has called forth a disquisition on the subject of “The Spiritual Attitude Toward Old Age.” by Professor Felix Ad+ ler, leadér of the New York Soclety for Ethical Culture. It is published as Ethi- cal Pamphlet No. 12. It will be remember- that Osler's book. “Counsels and Ideals.” is not by any means written on the subject of old age, nor are the selec- tions In it chosen with any speclal re- latfon to the doctrine or opinion popularly known as Oslerism; but that is no matter —for the mere mention of the name of Osler stirs up the discussion of senmility. and as the thought is much in print these daye it is timely to hear a pronoupcement from the head of the ethical society Professor Adler begins his essay by say- Ing, in re of Osler’s recent book: “When the physician speaks the world Hstens. The physician occupies in modern soclety a position of unique influence and im- portance. He is the custodian of heaith, often the savior of life” This expert | in ethics praises some of the counsels in the doctor's book of ideals and is doubt- ful of others. Adler does not stick very closely to the caption of his essay. but to get swiftly and briefly to his conclusions, his idea of the spiritual attitude toward old age is similar@§® the ethical ideal of the Bible which says, “Before the grey head thou shalt rise.”” Probably the most interesting para- graph in the essay Is one wherein he explains a special way in which such old men as have preserved their faculties and energies ‘may have a usefulness to them- selves and to soclety %0 as to make them re the powers of youth. Adier in advoeating the value of old age does not try to mini- mize the worth of young men. His is the | sane conclusion that both are needed for the best world's work. The extract that T wijl give you is interesting just at this time from the fact that Congress fs just now considering the question of what Is the measure of usefulness of the oid mén in the civil service, and of greatly redr Here is the way Adler puts one advantage of old age: Judgment is the ability to read a given situa- tion, to Interpret it and to decide on the ap- propriate course of action. The man of judg- ment is the man_who, when placed face to face with a certain set of circumstances, wiil at once recali similar circumstances and rapidly pote the points of difference between the previous and the present group of eir- cumstances, and remembering the course of action whieh was adequate on the previous occasion will quickly decide whether it be edequate on the present occasion or whether it needs to be modified and how. It stands to reason then that judgment depends om the richness and variety of previous experience, ¢n one's having at command a store of ele- ments from which to select for comparison, and it is evident that richness and variety of experience are gained only In the course of time and cannot very weil be the possession of young men. It Iy judgment that dis- tinguishes the seasomed man from the movics, and it cannot be acquired from a study of textbooks and formulas, but only from ex- perience. .. . White Magie. BY VAN.TASSEL SUTPHEN. Omnge more, upon the dear endeavor benmt, The substance of my Inward sight I sought. From tapestries of cunning work emwrought 1 rapt my spoil—the rose of Leda’'s lips, Ot Dido's eves the violet eclipse, Godiva's viush and goiden hair of Ewve. And with these diverse threads I swove to weave Thbe lovely pattern of my heart's content. 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