The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 17, 1906, Page 19

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1906 1 like Jo! n South connect e stopped do forward s and ing him t p e le describ and t does not see enough o ted w recomin e story i s as to enga employe vexed in by were of two strong £ a position his bride to make feel speaking n visite ankly fon of con the he e he had to negro.” To this o is soon |*0 bot yrant, wi es npot e the wasp” to om he engaged. Once he had @en 20 enamored of her beauty that L. e told her he would be willing to . himself in her hair even as the of Clarence did in his cask of avorite Malmsey wine. But his ion passes, and he finds he truly lov r feeling that w t woms The “steel D ? “"""”"‘ in & great wever, deve s into a much more { such a w teresting ¢ ter than the reader er seems frc vill be apt to expect in the first half be & x.rr-duv!‘ if the hoc Read on expectantly. ghte as he has 1 sne not fire enough to mate with down, one might al he honest manliness of John Mayrant, be the son of a it she has passion and courage as rn of a Southern w rell as wonderful =exual attractive- thus, “born of a Sout a nd one does not_wonder at May- best to express 2 enslavement te her charms. nt kinship to the § E ortt E ents the young the spirif§ of him would were | ho tells the story to be-| the §0 telling its appreciation of | .ome quite in love with the little Caro- ? portrayal of their character ina town. Port al, which is 'the t chivalrous way of npliment ene of the nc One of the chiet ing his authorship, for whatsoever of | yceilencies of the book is the skill those more finely strung chords whict th which the conversations are man- | he South specially loves to find ¥, to a large extent, ne's character, the South, of cou 1= itself in cdnversations. § ~ould say must of necessity come from | good summing up of ne’s mother. | the megro que can.pe found on The title, “Lady Baltimore,” asman: | jage 168, where er répresents the w by this time, refers not to Sorthern man as saying, dfter he had but to & cake. It is a kind of | nade a study of the Southern town and in this particuldr story i1| .nd the Southern people in it: cake that caused the who P *hilanthrooy does not walk always love romance that Owe and with wisdomy * * genius has told for us. “The 1 am friend to Kot mpny 1 pegun it, the cake had c uperlatives and perceived no it, the cake had brought saying to be more true than the one gether; and in Elisabeth’s retrospect extremes meet: they meet indeed, w 1 doubted if she could find the ¥ is tWir meeting place. Nor ent when her love for John had say in the case of the negro wakened; but if with women there which folly were the more ridiculous— er is such a moment, then, as I have which expects a race which has fore said, it was when the girl be- lived no one knows how many thou- and years in mental nakedness should put on suddenly the nd the counter looked across at the ndsome, blushing boy and felt stirred help him in hiz stumbling attempts be businesslike about that cake. "uis voung lady, “The Girl Behind Counter,” as the author gives ber e in several of his chapter head- gs. is the feminine character to +hose portrayal the author gives most his zttention; and she is pictured for us by the artist when she is at w in the “Woman's Exchange” and "x ing & specimen smile” and hav- | g a sharp but polite and good-na- red combat of words with the North- young man who ix visiting her sthern town and trying. because of charm of her, to meke her Sflkulh:l rit comprehend his “American’ an:."m is 0:« of the goid girls that | Chicago. which dec the African, already w him.” (The York.) BOOKS CONCERNING if Hampton ha Macmillan Company. Two little books vividly dese with words Fan Francisco by fire and earth One them is of and readers, t s beloved fed to| svertheless his io in , feels him- the time | profitable through himself would, not her. Mayrant, | Caro p under the jealous fon of olonial h ft hi n stically | d so Wister be him prejudices f attrac with a makes cterize Caro- having ng one s John » what a very of the negro mak- President | Collector of s he Southern Iy ob- to the orders and . negro boss of the nt objects to the op- old the com- or and om he represents fesses, ques like “take puzzle .. white man's intelligence, or that other folly ares we can do nothing for| d not | ght excellent things for New RECENT DISASTER ribing and pictures the disaster to quake heve been published by Laird & Lee of called the | | mpses of the San Francisco Dis- ter,” and contains 116 pictures of scenes showing the ruin wrought by the two forms of destruction. Some show the effect of the quake before the fire reached the buildings, some the beginning and progress of the fire and some the desolation after all was over. an hour after the rude wakeup. They are printed-on heavy enameled paper, | b y 7. Some of the pictures show the destruction in the neighboring | towns—San Jose, Santa Rosa, Palo Alto and the Leland Stanford Jr. University. The other book is called “The Doomed City” and is written by Frank Thompson Searigift, one of the refu- {gees, who went through the cataclysm | with his eyes and ears very attentively open for what was picturesque in the experienc It correctty has the sub- title of “a thrilling tale,” and if it were possible for such a lurid event to be too luridly written up the little book is gpen to that charge. The author con € that no words re adequate to express the sensations xperienced in such a calamity and to describe the unusual scenes, but he tried to put into it whatsoever power and ion he could summon. Perhaps by making some slight cor- rections in a future edition the little volume may serve as a quite authentic part of the history of that fearful time. One of the needed corrections is on | page 63. It is in a chapter of “Scenes and strange experiences,” and s con- cerning a report made to the author by one who was an eye-witness of the ouebreak of the great fire. He says: | “The Call building, at the corner of hird and Market streets, as I passed, 1 saw to be more than a foot out of plumb. nd hanging over the street like the leaning tower of Pisa.” Now, as a matter of fact, The Call building main- tained its plumb so completely that the picture of it, now published to all the world as it stands straight and un- shaken amid the miles of ruins around it, is the best and biggest advertise- ment ever made, and, perhaps, for a century to come the biggest advertise- tisement possible to be made of the | power of properly bullt steel-frame 3 crapers to withstand earthquake ghocks and fires. The book has a large number of pic- tures showing earthquake and fire ef- fécts. At the close of it there is a chapter called “the cause of it all,” a { | wherein are given by Professor Larkin | of the Mount Lowe (Cal.) Observatory | a number of theories ahout the reason of the occurrence of temblors. The book has a useful appendix, giv- ing dates and figures of other great disasters, some brevities about the unique greatness of San Franciseo and California, and a short list of the méan- ing and pronunciations of Spanish and Indian names of places as used in Cali- fornia. (The Doomed City, 188 pages, paper 25 cents, cloth.50 cents; Glimpses of the San Francisco Disaster, paper 25 cents, cloth 75 cents. Laird Lee, | Chicago.) G. B McCUTCHEON'S COWARDICE COURT Even though you know in sober rea- | son that' such incidents as those de- scribed in George Barr McCutcheon's story, “Cowardice Court,” could never happen, vou become intérested In the playful thing which the light and easy touch of the fampus author of “Beverly of Graustark” his created for the mere amusement of an idle hour. It is & pretty little book illustrated in colors by Harrison Fisher. It is a story of ome of these pictures were taken as | |early as 6 o'clock on the morning of | the calamity, or just three-quarters of | | |an original and very playful varlation | | coveted his | friends, the Count and the Duke, con- | “THE GIRL BEHIND THE COUNTER."” FROM OWEN WISTER'S NEW NOVEL, “LADY BALTIMORE.” latively pretty one, in which Dan | Cupid trespasses, and then a ghost, and last the author trespasses. It |u: on that time-honored foundation for a story—a family feud mixed up with | a love affair. The principal persons concerned are: Lord Cecil Bazelhurst, husband to a | rich wife who has bought an estate in the Adirondacks*and prefers living there to preside over her lord's an- cestral home in England; his wife, who | is a very proud and vindictive person; | Randoiph Shaw, a big, handsome Ameri- ’ | can bachelor, who owns the estate ad- joining that recently bought by the Bazelhursts; Penelope Drake, a charm- ing English girl, sister to Lord Bazel- | hurst; Bonaparte, a big dog owned and | loved by bachelor Shaw; a French| Count and an English Duke who make | bors want fight they shall have, —_— Itrxendshlp to warm up the emotions, in & romantic love. Unfortunately the feud is not taken as fun by the lord and lady, and the hate they bear their neighbor increases to such a mean pitch that BaZelhurst orders his men to shoot the fine dog, Bonaparte, if he trespasses over the border line. The first pathetic scene, one excellently well drawn, comes when this friendly dog is shot and killed and Penelope finds the big man, Shaw, seated on a log in the deep woods and weeping Yike a child over the blood-spattered body of his dead pet. Then she pities | her neighbor, grieves for the dog, and | our form of government. thusiastic about Roosevelt's strenuous becomes ashamed of her brother for his cruel and insulting orders. Shaw gives way to his rage- then, and de- clares that if fight is what his neigh- In the pretty chapter entitled, “In which Cupid trespasses,” Penelope, who has 8o bitterly quarreled with her sister-in-law that it is intolerable for her to remain an hour longer at the home of the Bazelhursts, starts out with a lantern on a stormy night to go by Shaw's house and ask him to protect her and arrange for her im- mediate return to England. The poor girl is very much overwrought by the heat of the quarrel, and added to that up the house party ‘at the Bazelhurst ‘*excltement the violence of the stormy villa; and Tompkins, Bazelhursts. As Penelope expresses it, Randolph Shaw is a real man, and it is thus ex- pressed to contrast him favorably with Bazelhurst, the Count and the Duke, who are the fimitation men whose cowardice gives the tale its title. Hard feeling comes into the hearts of the Bazelhursts toward Shaw because they land, which was richer, higher up and more commanding in it views. They had negotiated to buy it, but Shaw had been beforehand in get- ting the pick of the ground and he refused to sell out to the persistent requests of Bazelhurst's agents. ‘So when the English famlly came to live on their Adirondack estate they start a feud with Shaw because while fishing he trespasses a few feet over his land line into the estate of his jealous and angry neighbors. Lord Bazelhurst, who is five feet four and as small in his mind as in person, gives orders to his hired men to throw Shaw in the river if they ever see him acroes the line again. When they try it and fail, Shaw, who is an athlete, douses his assailan”s in the river, and then when they are about to drown he magnani- mously rescues them. So the fun be- gins and the feud is on in earnest. Lord Cecil Bagelhurst and his visiting servant of the sidor Shaw a cad and they resolve to call him to account, but they are all three afraid of the bold and good- natured American, though they talk very brave and try. very hard to keep up an appearance of such courage as befits their dignities and titles, Tt is a comedy ef cowardice, and Me- Cutchéon lightly disports himself in making these three cowardly, would-be brave men seem absurd in the eyes of his readers, and -he makes some very laughable situations. The mingling of the pretty part with the ridiculous begins when Penelope takes a liking to the trespassing neighbor, and in frolic mood trespasses on hgs ground just to see what would come of the adventure. Shaw, who has sworn to retaliate on his enemies by sternly preventing them from coming on his land, takes Penelope's horse | by the bridle and leads him and her back to her brother's side of the line as if she had been a ¢hild. ~That scene is prettily pictured by the artist. Penelope says: “So you are putting me. off your place? Oh, how lovely!” Thus the flirtation begins. Between Penel- opé and Shaw it is just playing at night gets her almost bewildered as to what it is best for her to do in the complication of circumstances. As she nears Shaw's house she becomes abashed and afraid to meet him be- cause for the first time she begins to realize that he is something more than a friend and that she loves him. Her heart beat faster and the sudden glow in her cheéek was not from the exercise. Somehow, out there alone in the wilderness, the moet | amazing feeling of tenderness sped on abead v Randolph Shaw. ~Shetried_to put 1t from r, but it grew and grew. Then she blushed deep within herself and her eyes grew tender with the memory of those stolen, reprehensible ours along the frontier. Sometking within her breast cried out for tuose shining, zone-by mo- ments, something seemed to close down on her ihroat, something flooded her eyes with a soft- s that tolled up from her entire being. Thel line! Thelr Insurmountable barrier! An absurd yet ineffable longing to fall down and kiss that e came. over her with compelling force. faults -and perfections given equal prominence. and with certain almost indescribable peculiarities handled so | sympathetically as to call for a simul- | taneous smile and tear from those who | know best the original thus depicted. —Augusta, Ga., Herald. Lo S S i And what a hero! John Myrant is a creation as lovable in his way and as fine a type as “The Virginian.” In John is found the combjination of honor, courage; moral and physical, and perfect manners that makes a gentleman the world over. The nar- rative of his love and life must stand with the masterpleces that form only too short a procession in ..ctitious his- tories. * * ¢ It is true that none but a true gentleman can portray the heart and motive and manner of the gentleman, and that such are either in or out of the author’s profession. * * * In style “Lady Baltimore” is unaffectedly distingunished; in concep- tion it is so natural that its real im- pression can only be received by actual reading.—Louisville Courler-Journal. . . clers speculating in the future prices of imaginary commodities. Judging | by the treatment his insistent urging of his hobby has met from some Brit- ish statesmen it might be inferred that these statesmen regard Mr. Smith's ob- jection to option gambling as hys- terical. The King of Italy, though. through his ministers, treats his views | and communications with more distin- | guished consideration, and evidently agrees with them in the main. For a glimpse of the opinion of the British | danger of leaving a single column un- statesman, Lord Balfour, we may take | Protécted in the new part. and in the this quotation which he uses approv-|O0ld part it was shown that cast-iron ingly from Emery: | columns should have ne place in first- Two things werer shown in the case of the Chronicle building: one was the “It is the universal testimony of |¢lass fireproof buildings.—Fireproot those who speak and write on the sub- | Magazine. ject that under the system prices are . . - steadled and are steadler than they| In the July number of “Harper's used to be, while the grower reaps ar | Bazar.,” Mary Stewart Cutting, author advantage by being able to sell his|af “Little Stories of Married Life.” will produce, and therefore to know his | be; a striking series of “Talks to position much earlier and with much| Wives.” Mrs. Cutting has made a spe- more certainty than would otherwise | ~lal study of matrim problems | be the case.” and of feminine psye In her His Lordship adds: “It must be ob- [Jlrst article she will advise the women vious to every one who gives considera- | whose husbands are “¢ ‘—a large tion to the subject that nelther deal- | ind pathetic band, as every observant ings in futures nor any similar trans- | person knows. Mrs. Cutting’s con- action can overrule the law of suppl) | clusions are singularly sane and her and demand.” suggestions are very original. Later, It has been the lifetime desire anc |she is to talk to the wives who are work of the author of this book to, losing their husband's affections, and combat this view' of the harmlessness still later to these who have not been of stock gambling. He claims to|able to keep pace with their husbands, speak with the authority of nearly|intellectually or socially.—Harper's half a century's experience in editing | Literary Gossip. the reports of the world's mnrketsl. and | - - . he says that the other principal ex-| p, w 3 oL perts on the subject colncide With his | poorees s “rhe Tridert Soa rhe wern views that the gamblers in stocks and | g3ng other works by the same author futures dominate the world's markets| yj} pe interested to learn that the and are the cause of flnancial panics.|prench Government has just bestowed Th(s‘ form of speculation, l(xe is of "’e;upon her the gold palm leaves of the opinion, does a great injury to all{grgre ge PInstruction Publique, which honest capital and labor. It is. he|s the grade immediately superfor to says, a disgrace to Western civiliza- | pat of Officer of the Academy. This tion that it Is not condemned as are|gigtinetion, rarely granted to women, the other forms of gambling. and such|ig conferred in recognition of literary restrictive legislation passed and en-|meriv'ang in this instance may be re forced against it as will put a stop garded as the appreciation by the to the injury to agriculture and com-|jrench Government of the efforts of a merce of the world as is caused by it.| ,.4ive of Brittany, living in America, The three countries which he calls the | ¢ mave known here in an attractive gambling countries—the great gam-|)ign¢ that most Interesting portion of bling countries—are England, France|prance’ Tne nterocean, Chicago. and the United States. The chief cen- | Cmassreias ter of this stock gambiing is in the e The fact that Winston Churchill United States, and he blames England |, "0 fact that Winston Shurehitt for not having any laws against gam- | ,o5u1ar novelist in the United States bling in this form, although gambling is recognized as a great evil other modes of operation. The author notes that their Majes- ties the Emperors of Russia, Germany of gambling in “futures,” and that consequently laws against them are in force in their respective countries. and he urges upon President Roosevelt and King Edward VII to use their in- fluence to have similar laws passed in Great Britain and the United States. He is anxious to have these two coun- tries act in the matter, for he says that they are most prominent as hot- operations. Right here this English author makes a critical comment on He is en- efforts to reform the abuse in the financial world, but he thinks that owing to the mechanism of our gov- ernment Roosevelt is virtually in the hands of the Senate. “A split, there- fore, between the Senate and the Pres- ident spells the paralysis of the Gov- ernment, had many such examples.” Speaking of the dishonesty of such operations he says that there is no a British Judge in summing up a case about them, when he pointed -out, in a “future” contract, “whieh, though for a certain reason, saved them from being gambling in law, they were in effect as much gambling as if they a race-course.” There are more than three hundred pages of this market expert’'s contention against the curse of this form of gambling which is in- the world, but a summing up of his opinion may perhaps be had in this: it the expense of a third and helpless narty, and thus indirectly stab mil- tiops of people behind their backs. >f the nations themselves. Ter head grew light with the thought of those noments when their lorses stood with thel uzzles togotlier "as it kissiag by proxs—th fdush_grew deeper, though her blood went cold wnd she tremhled. ' * * 1t was as though some one had whispered the truth Into ber ear and she was beginning to believe. (Dodd, Mead & Co.: New York.) VOLUME OPPOSES STOCK GAMBLINC “The Economic Ruln of the World is the somewhat startling title of recently published English book b, Charles W. Smith, who with vehemen crusader’s spirit would start an inter national crusade against gambling i “options” and “futures.” The ful title of his work is “International an Financial Gambling in Options and Futuges (Marches a Terme Economic Ruin of the World. author has had forty-four years’ ex. perience in studying and reporting the larger financial affairs of the world; he wi for twenty-one year: editor of Whitaker, Whitehead & Co.": “Trade and Financlal Circular,” s the author of various books on financial gambling and claims to be acknowl edged as one of the world's experts 01 these subjects. The aim of. Iis bool is to arouse such strong public senti ment against this form of gambllng as will result in an international con- forence that will plan restrictive legis lation to put a stop to the evil cautious observers could with plausibility say that M: Smith rides his idea very hard as : hobby, nevertheless he puts up a ver! trespassing told in seven chapters, in | feud, and they call the border line “the | strong arg t, backed by abundan the first of which a young man tres- | frontier,” and they meot there many |figures, that the chief cause of th passes, and in the next a young woman | times in a merry war of words. These | world's econamic _ this trespasses, and then a dog, and then |encounters, by the skillful strategy of | turbance of the the truth trespasses, and, a -\!m-'\ Dan id, eve te, via mild real &% (P. 8. King & Son: Orchard House, | Westminster, London. 5 shillings.) GOSSIP OF BOOKS AND THE AUTHORS A book of more than present day ‘nterest, to be issued this menth, is|of in its and Austria have recognized the evils| beds of these international gambling | and American history has question of their being considered by | the honest men of England as being | gambling, and he quotes the words of were done on the Stock Exchange, at|present value. Monte Carlo, or in the betting ring at dulged in by the great financiers of “They constitute a form of gawmbling They are -gradually causing ruin to il leading national industries. They | wre affecting the prosperity as well as| wige experience says that, in his opin- he honor of governments. and indeed lends special interest to the announce- ment by the Macmillan Company of {his new novel. “Coniston.” Primarily a love story, Mr. Churchill's new book derives part of its interest from | politics, but much more from its su- |perb character-drawing. Those who |have read it pronounce it by far the |most vigoyus, attractive and en- | gaging movel that Mr. Churchill has |ever written. The volume is freely | illustrated from pen drawings by | Florence _Scovel Shinn.—Macmillan's | Literary Notes. | > Hymen. Winds kiss and twiney Leaves of the vine Birds meet their mates i tha blue. Heart of the rose Honey-bee knows. Heart of my heart knows youl | Rising tides reach Arms to the beach: Star_mates with star in the biue. Dawn weds the Goou, Lol weds the moc ove of my life weds v. “\farie Van Vorst in June Lippincott's. g . Seven years after the death of | Shakespeare, his coilected works were | published in a large folio volume, now known as “The First Folio Shake- speare.” This was in the year 1823 The price at which the volume was or- iginaily sold was one pound, but per= haps we ought to take into considera- reference to the technical wording of tjon the fact that at that time meney had a value, or purchasing power, at least eight times that which it has at | present; Halliwell-Phillips estimates it jat from twelve to twenty times its For this ecircumstance, however, full allowance may be made by multiplying the ultimate result by the proper number. This folio is regarded as the most valuable printed book in the English language—the last copy that was of- fered for sale in good condition having brought the record price of nearly $9000, so that it is safe to assume that perfect copy, in the condition in which It left the publisher's hands, | would readily command $10,000. | . . . A prominent New York lawyer of ion, ninety-nine out of every hundred -of those who make money or inherit it lose it sooner or later. | How many thousands of good, honest | men and women there are in this coun- | try who have worked very hard and | made all sorts of saerifices of comfort {and luxury in order to lay up some- | thing for the future and yet have { reached middle life or later without ! having anything to show for it; many them, indeed, finding themselves “The City That Was, A Requiem of Without a home or any probability of Nid San Francisco,” by Will Irwin (B.| V. Huebseh, New York). | getting one, without property or a cent for the | of money laid by for sicknes: This ap- | inevitable emergency or for their de- ared originally as an article in the jun, three days after the earthquake de- | rastated San Francisco, and it aroused | clining years! For the sake of your home, for the protection of hard earnings, for your o much favorable comment that the Peace of mind, your seif-respect, your dition containing It was speedily ex- In preparing the book none »f the snap and brightness which ‘haracterized it fn its original form was sacrificed, yet the marks of its hurried writing—for a copy boy stood Irwin's elbow—were deleted. T'he story, expanded and revised, neat- y bound in boards, will be offered at That Mr. Irwin is thor- »ughly competent to picture the real rausted. it Mr. 70 cents, net. dan Francisco goes without saying. He Is one of the bright school nanaging editorship of ‘—From B. W. Hoebsch, New Here at last he world be more welcome? of ‘ounger writers typical of the spirit -f California. The author has just left (In Owen Lister's “Lady 3altimore”) we have the South as her overs know her. Could unnln‘c" in |1 must soon resign. me self-confidence, whatever else you do do not neglect a good, solid business training and get it as early in life as possible.—Orison Swett Marden in Success l.nl.ino. & 2 The Word of Summer, BY ELSA BARKER. Dropping roses from her hand Came dear Summer down the lana, ‘With her hair a tawny banner By the breezes fanned. And she looked and laughed at me ‘Where I sat all mournfully Counting over my lost labors, Near’'a cypress tree. And she said: “Oh, why repine?” All these patient works of mine— Leaves flowers and fragrant apples— . ’ fter time has this dear Southland of | “Not one blossom will remain! -