The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 12, 1906, Page 27

THE SAN . FRANCISCO CALL SUNDAY, AUGUST 12,. ¥ — - — ( are enterin the & (The D. D. Publishing - Company, of the recognitic the | 46 und Boulevard, Chicago. $1.25. "W' ajesty of the mind.” is a 5 B 2 it which witl stronsly| College Romance. E of the new book alle losophy of Life,” which @y Florence Kingsley. briefl H tifully proclafms 'y % . rxfi‘:r\'.,,“l, “The Intellectual Miss Lamb” by b t £ the lit RN Florence Morse Kingsley, is a hundred- Cherles Gilbert Davis, & Chicago physt. |P28® frolic In learned phrases by a In anether semtenes o PRYS!" | clever writer, who playfully —makes s K we are reminded of the fact | {0 Of @ YoUng woman student who is g 5 b men can run faster | C20€AVOTINE to be entirely too intellec- o S&n run fASeT | {ual for the sensible uses of this e e e whe world—especially the sweet uses of love. Miss Lamb is so feverishly seeking to win her doctor's degree that she is in great danger of beeoming womanly emotions. She oty pretty and naturally at- ¢ Sting more tracted the admiration of her fellow | students, but “the incisive coldness of Miss Lamb's demeanor upon such occa- | h of scates and rage faddists of the cult meant reader be ng persons who, t . appy ght whiclk th s force of ggestion h takes i« the fear that he may be a fa b e of th 1gh = ser sick by ' misdirecte ught and they cam c mseives of dals by the noughts giving as of s er is < esired res s may be P control. He empha- s ef that his ufficient to chill the most her of vouthful re is nothing more un- one to under- the term means.” comes mb's college career ends in a instead of a The happy change in ws of love and matri- Miss L ffair Lamb’s v ught about mainly by a b hc undertakes to ake dy of from the standp :rt in physiology and psy e way the thing told is quite pleasingly amusing, but little time to gain, that takes Another Romance of Money and Politics. the prevalent la political and f am Sage The Distriet Attor- New Hampshire State believed to ef strongholds of the n of whic he writes, s quite possible he has been roused »s» home experiences with the ev this exposure of its metho ough the of fic- t suggestion of the conditions »f the world may had tter written by the Lincoin n Club to Winston Churchill, the new novel on political ‘Coniston.” tee says Hampshire of hat the course her es not run free and un- 2 government of, and fcr the people should” * * * "To claim that this State !s exempt from the generai conditions w bur book describes would be ininess” w Sage's vook is, of course, nothing like £o powerful a story as is “Coniston,” but it Is fairly well done and efficient as a corrobora- tive The author of very “The District Attor- ney” spent eight vears in Wall street in the office of one of the largest bank- ing firms, and his description of the father of the hero of his story is said to be drawn tics of a famous New from life, the characteris York banker be- admirers | objectified reluctantism, | Company, Meéw York.) | . . } | P 7o 7T E DOOTRS MAN BY VAN FALSELL c/’V]',{“'/_J_xf’ =" ‘J (7 / 7 large cities much of the destruetion | was caused by fire. The theme seems perhaps to been chosen in order to give | writer's powers of deseription a free rein to tell of the most sweeping de- struction and wide spread calamity. Reading this strange fantasy prompts { the thought that the genesis of this | freak of fietton might have been from | the San Francisco disaster. It is just such a nightmare of a story as might | be suggested by a personal experience | | of April's awful eighteenth. have e | In the lawless condition of society | that succeeds this great destruction | there are many stirring adventures of | war and love. | Harper & Brothers, | $1.50.) . :Flor'enline Love Story. By Neith Boyce “The Bternal Spring” is the attraet- Ive title chosen by . eith Boyee for a love story, the scene of which is lald in Florence. Some of its characters are Americans and some Italians. As a re- sult of her experlence in Florence, one | of these Americans expresses this opin- | ion: “I'd like to be born an Italian. 1 | think they get more out of life than we do. They live more intensely. And | then they have so much back of them— all sorts of queer complications and un- dercurrents and things going on in the | dark. It's drama—their life is—better | plots than D'Annunglo makes.” | The story is told, to a large extent, by | the expedient of long conversations. There are half a dozen {llustrations by Blendon Campbell. The young girl of the story, who is loved by the American, Carleton, loves him in return, but she hesitates to hecome his wife because of her father having been insane. “He (Carleton) felt the fear that held | her back—a fear that reason could dis- sipate for the time, but that ever re- turned, formless and terrible. It was the effect of a habit of mind. fixed from New York, O D e ) ‘e 1oz 45 Al I5¢ < g vy /i N2 | E3 have lavished upon him, and prefers to | business of literature is with the whole | make his own way, guided by his own |of life. His aim is through the medium ideals of business honor and unaided of an impressive story to embody a by anything but his own talents and | moral that shall reveal itself from the energies. As the author puts it, he events narrated. decides to “belong to himself.” There is a suggestion of the book's The usual mingling of a love story | moral in the plan of its division into with the politics and finance is ar-three Looks—The Builder, The Hous ranged by telling of the romantic at-|on the Sands and The Housc on the tachment between young Haverland | Rock. The chief character ot the story, and the daughter of a man whom Sam- | Richard Grey, a talented construction | uel Haverland was trying to ruin in|engineer, builds as his greatest| business rivalry. The young man | achievement a wonderfully strong makes a success of his independent life | structure, the Snail Rock Lighthouse. and is elected District Attorney, in|Up to the age of 30 he is =o intensely absorbed in his engineering work that he gives little time or heed to any phases of life outside of his work When the great llghthouse is finished a friend takes Richard to Paris to show him the life and pleasures of the gay world, The serious minded engineer watches | which office he prosecutes a State Sen- | ator-elect, for bribery. William Sage, | speaking of the renunciation of wealth by this young man because it was ac- cumulated by methods he did not rec- ognize as honorable, says: | Richard had not lost everything. * % * And the peopls always seeking a | man among men, recognized him and fixed their choice upon him agaln and again. So he rose high in the service of the nation, and in this service he | gave his best, not because it paid, but because there dwelt within him the the gay and vicious life of Paris with | the studious disdain of a philosopher until he meets Toni,.one of tne most fascinating women of Bohemia's sub- strata. He Imagines she is a very dif- ferent and superior character to tae | 1N ovelist Pictures | Doomsman,” by Van Tassel Sutphen. It | describes a condition of this counmtry, | when the novelist begins to outline his | subject the serious-minded reader will ok 5 SR her childhood. She had ‘been taught to see herself in a particular light, and no effort of hers or of others had been |able to alter it materialiy. She had seen herself marked as a victim of fate; she could not forget it." (Fox, Duffield & Co., New York.} . . . ! |Aotes Gathered From | Literary World. A California writer, Mrs. Willlam Beckman, author of “Backsheesh, a Woman's Wanderings,” has written a new book with the peculiar ‘title, “Un. clean and Spotted From the World,” a name which will be recognized as a re- versal of the expression used in the injunction of St. James. Through many pathetic pages demand is made upon our sympa...es to feel a pardoming compassicn for this woman's error. Al though the title would seem to indi- cate that the love story was the chief feature, it is not that sad romance which makes Mrs. Beckman's new worl of most worth, but its value as a sketchy book of travel and eloquent cast the love of her out of his life. He returns to his work in England, and t last book is called, both in refer- ence to. his lighthouse and to his re- formation, the House Upon the Rock. (Dana, Estes & Co., Boston. $1.50.) . . . Gerrible Catastrophe. Imagination is allawed to range very free, almost with an extravagantly odd license, in the new novel called “The and especially of New York City, in the year 2015 D., when our present civ- ilization is imhgined to be a thing of past history and the human race set back to semi-primitive conditions. It is such riskily fantastle fiction that he very much disposed to smilingly put it by saying, ‘'twere te consider too curiously to consider thus.” | We are asked by the author to| fmagine that in the vear 1923 a great ¥, the sub things eccle side, after reason with ng iscursive the evidently and chu upon earnest irquiry inte the m verse . . The little called “Pri Christian Doc! by Milton professor of Christian rett Biblical Instituty, i for the use of Sunday beok ne, schools and help to private study and de condensed form endea s to eov that is of ¢ Christian faith. is to embedy most valuable crder to an promote the them in the memory New York.) We jolts may of 1 progress. ting out ¢ ground we cover They punctua of diseomf yot these also their purpose. They teach the lesson of life—that e vietory stop forward, has its price to the vietor the spoils T wer- coming of dif s Let us therefo mean that in something we have lived up to the bhest there n s at wa are victors and can claim victor's reward.—L. C. Ball, in Philosopher” (July) Books Received From the Publishers UN THE man San Fran DARK The Brett Company, shilling: THE REBEL Beals. 50 cen LAFE AND ology—By Dr. = THE MAKING Dr. Wilhelm Mey LOOKING FORWAR the status of womar growth of the By Phillip Rap Library of Soclal S Kerr & Co., Chicago. FOIBLES OF THE S Wilcox Legal Literature Company THE SANDS OF PLEA sen Young (Guy Thor N AND SPOTTE WORLD—RBy Mrs. W The Print Auckland AT LARG 50 ¢ 2 a ry (of o & Co., Boston. $1.50 PLATO., AND THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL—Alden Bro New York. THE PHILOSOPHY OF By Charles Gilbert Davis. M. D. D. D, 4630 Grand Boule Publishing Company vard, Chieago. §1 INDIA AND HER PEOPLE—By Swami Abhedananda. Published by the Vedanta Soclety, New, York FROM POVERTY TO POW By James Allen. The Science Chi- cago. §1. ames D. Blake Charles F. Graeber Any Reviewed or Mentioned Page Can Be Obtained “At the Sign of the Lamp” 643 TURK STREET Near Van Ne: The First New Book Store Since the Fire ncipal Cities of Couhhy —By Will Sparks. working in the neighborhood of Lake Tahoe and Fallen Leaf Lake. He has just returned to the city with a large number of sketches and will open a studlo as soon as possible . . . Henry Raschen has buckled down to work in Alameda. He has improvised a studfo and has a couple of large dec- orations well under way Brow &h « 4 ar. Sobah i | catastrophe comes upon the whole civ- | gescription of fine expression of nature p t of life is the develop- s suggestion for the por- "'“"’"“’“ a8 _‘“'""""’1'3 R ::‘n;e,‘;o:;cz,:: };::“;:’,:::fl?;d,::dk:s,;mzed world, destroying all the blsiwouh‘l‘p. : ¢ man soul ‘,'s a tenet to g Samuel Haverland, an (Little, er:n &.Co.,. oston; $1.50.) [her. In fact, he bullds her into his| citles and all the crops in the country | . . . nsiste y. Of 8- unrcrupulous financier, whe, in form- “ - hopes of happiness, and this part of the | and annihilating all but a remnant ol: From Auckland comes to us a book . ing his business combinations, doesnot| ““‘Sands Of Pleasure. | story is called The House on the Sangs. | the human race. This is called “The|for reyiew called “The Dark Ages.’ ehould we reject hesitate to ruin those who stand in 7 The author uses all his skill to explain | Great Change,” and “The Terrar,” and | written by Richard Marsh, a writer who ginat Is not the bright | opposition to his will $y Fz[son Youflfi | the peculiar fascination of the waman, | the clear detalls of how the awful has become acquainted with The Call n the east that led man always ~The son of this rich old man be-| The English novel calldd “Ihe Sands |to show the mental tortures It cost|calamity performed its work of de- |because of extracts from it which every he that he has conquered? comes convinced of the injustice of |of Pleasure,” written last year by Fil- |Richard to free himself. | struction are not givem, but in the|rleased him as he read them in an Eng- ne nducted him from cave his fathe siness methods and re- son Young and now published in this| Watching the girl's mercenary he- | s— -~ lish magazine. It is a book .written the mountain top, where he fuses to be subservient to them. He|country by Dana, Bstes & Co.. is tne | havior at Maxim's gay resort in Paris | Do You want to keep posted on the by a freethinker and this ratienalist ght the first glimpse of his God?" | foregoes the fortune his father would |work of a man who belleves that the |so disgusts Richard that he is able to | e Sign of the Lamurc > © POStal o | i cs to his work. which he calls aa, * ~ - - e = ~ et ) binson s Picture of the FMire t xhibited in Pri jie. San Franeisco fire has been|fascinated. The horror of the evént| It is only by using a very large can- | The foreground color is a wide rnngelsured that it is free from sensational- | extended notice and reproduces two of | 7 on canvas and will be exhib- was subdued, even stified, by the gran- | vas that the detail of the enormous af, browns and brown-greens. All|ism. his pictures. One' of these is the one the principal citles of the deur. There was nothing sensational area shown could be adequately con-|through the pieture the prismatic col- 4 ¢ b4 entitled “The Pines, Monterey,” and | The work in many ways about it. In years to come our mem- | veyed. There are more than four miles ors appear and glve varlety and ais- | Praise for McComas owned by Dr. Harry Tevis of this elty. mportant that has ever of the event will be that of a roar- of flame stretehing almost from slde to| tinction to the different parts. I The work of Francis McComas is at- | Mr. McComas did his first important been undertaken in California anc will ing sea of living light that swept all | side of the ploture. The upper dome of | With all' this it is evident that Mr. | tracting a great deal of attention and | work here about seven years ago, sines no doubt attrect a grest deal of atten- | before it | the smoke cloud passed beyond the ob- Robinson has produced a picture |favorable comment in London at the | which time his progress has been tion. Teo some it may seem that this That these impressions will he con- $erver's view and o is not shown. Thluy,wnr!hy of himself. At any ratg he is|present time. A late number o: the |steadily upward. attention is not desirable and that It 18 | yeved to the people of the East who Smoke cloud was measured and taund{aallmed with it, which means a great | Studlo, the leading artistic magazine of . * L4 ot a good thing to perpetuate o0uUr/ seo'the ture that is going to them |to be at leu‘taur miles high. ‘deal, and San Frnn’clncu may rest as- |the world, gives Mr. McComas quite an E. W. Currier spent the summer sfortune on the other hand, it | pave every reason to belleve, for it . | % B 3 be well to remember that the of one of our most noted| ODICCLS Seen Dimly Yo e g « Francisco is one of nson. He has heen| From the eleyation selected, the ob- | reat s nd will| it ever since the fire | server on Twin Peaks looks down upon | £ tten as human measures twelve by | the burning city, and n though it 1s | interested past we know g ever the opportymity to t scene as the eastern side ¢ la of San Francisco pre- n se three terrible days v he 18th of April. Our only pe is at future generations s k b event will be ¢ danger of painting a pieture « aneisco in flames is that of L sm. The theatrical painter 4 ad such 1 opportunity. But tures would certainly do harm :nt of their untruth The o fire did mot present the » hnic features that are produced some of those outd perform- ces such as “The Last Days of Instead of the flash and the impression was rather that| ow, irresistible, destroying force at overpowered the beholder with its | Man felt his inslgnlfi-l as painted in Los An- no st Franc Shows Fire at Midnight All du Rot tained ng the progress of the fire Mr son worked day and night and ob- ge number of sketches in r and penc It is these that the big picture pain The ac- companying reproduction is from sketeh made for The Call by Mr and being so small conve is s Httle more than an idea of the composition. But there Is enough to show that the lines of the picture are strong, the light and shade well balanced and eoncen- trated and even suggests a dramatic quelity that appeals to the mir The particular view was taken from the side of Twin Peaks about on 2 level with the Burnham bungalow and an eighth of a mile to the south. The “moment” is about midnight on Wed- pesday when the fire was at its height. Market street extends almost directly in front of the obsery insox o avallable | al Rob- | night olijects all about show dimly. In along the sky line, the ings can be dimly seen ze of simoke and flame. | There is not much suggestion of move- | ment, but the .cplumns of smoke and | fire rise evenly toward the zenith. The | fleld of fire orcupies the center of the picture and can be seen vividly beyond the dark brown hillside of the foreground. There is no suggestion of ife close by, but about half a mile off | | small houses are visible and there seem | | to be relief camps here and there. All! | this 1s velled in a mysterious haze of | thin smoke assisted by the semi-blipd- | ! ness caused by the Intense light of the | fire beyona. The color scheme of the picture is gray, vellow and brown. The flames | {are a very light yellow where they rise | | from ‘the groung and as they mingle | | with the smoke take on a red glare | | that spreads over a large part of the smoke field of the canvas. The upper smoke canopy that appears to hang over the burning city is a cold gray.| Made for The Call by the Artist. Enormous Panoramz of the Burning of San Francisco That Is to Be Exhibited Through the Eastern States by C. D. Robinson.—From Sketch