The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 24, 1907, Page 13

The San Francisco Sunday Call. » mill Commander old Bolce dith Nicholson F. King Jr. Grover Cleveland Cross’ ome the ted to nd not n f Lydia Kingsm Rroblem direct her b ook its first th tance r’ edicating 1t as “a e of e soctal proble to Theodore v “who first aroused the na- tion to the danger race suicide. the strength of such a dedication ght become a political in the hands of the Presi- enemies if the Roosevelt plea ore babies were not a personal on rather then a political policy. Commender has written with the that the President was not fully ed upon the social and other considerations =affecting the multipli- of the race, and she has set the digging out of facts and engage his thought e exclusion of every blem of public welfare. . She has shown ,a@e dffigénce In consulting iistories, philosophies, newspaper editorials, cov- m ancient Rome to York, and from the bar- rder to the mere he social butterfly to with an unwelcome horities quoted fill fifty dix h Malthus and as the favorites. “The American consists of the average siring to limit its ¥ and a girl. It e t, but Mrs. 1e conven- st part, the pages e can be turned without f her work shg t written to to call at- n which will in the next £ e expects to find the in “working ment of social en meay work rhood. And 0ok to the - ployed in professions, busi- t t ts perpetua- point o ew gives Mrs. Com- . Jortunity to ar- of wemen, the d apartment- children and care “The idle woman natural life, her<in- degenerates menta 0 morally and produces fldren or worthless ones.” ian who practices g the idle and luxurious as saying £ e “idle =8 oc Sk L. Sats she their one ambition is pleasure w” and another physician in the practice as saying that “they lives and overfed have hink of but their intrigues.” he chapter on et would seem breach t of e sources of Commander, all through s made telling use of the Mrs. end opinions of Dr. Dr. B. and a “prom!- ian” in this, that and strict of New York. She ed the family doctor almost en- in making up the chapter upon st Women Suffer?” and that suffer- ing and the woman's right to choose oro made arguments In faver of limit- % the visits of the stork. The Price of Motherhood” is the ost appealing part of the book. The or has used her friends, her ac- it might almost be ar every mother of children she as met in the streets. And for the most part it is an unlovely picture— i enough in the maternal feeling ‘of egret that cHildren should come and and bother, to make one feel that .fter al]l the birth in the manger was ,rtunate and destined to lose the of its influence upon all of manity Children are shown to be en interference. a cause for sacrifice; but here end there in the indiscriminate interviews is a rebuke out of the past, n of the mother of ten e opinion of her grand- to whom two infants are too iological side of the ques- 2 r does not agree with Roosevelt that large families the race. She declares that er standard of American living i not quantity, in bables that two are enough; that kingman now wants the best rket affords ‘n his “full dinner amusements, clothes, furniture, a nd a watch and chain. These gs and big families do not go to- her9 She points out the trend to this end in the dismal fallures of the prophecies of Ben Frankiin and others of 100,000,000 population for the United States in 1900, -Ides falling short the high makes qui The Americanldea, by Lydia Kings- The New Internationalism, by Har- The Port of Missing Men, by Mere- A Boy’s Vacation Abroad, by Fisr!i ing and Shooting Skeiches, by Life’s Shop-Window, by *“Victoria @ of this expected increase, there are in eddition 13,000,000 foreigners and 15.- 000,000 children-of foreign parents in- cluded in our popu This, she savs, Mmay mean another form of race Statistically, Mrs. Commander handles ively. She seeks to education is reducing the t six classes of Harvard > years out of college, r two children to each ma does a little better with three; Mawr, of a elass of twenty- th ten married in fourtee: s its n o eh there red wdlord’ and dogs not wa rerican idea, declar ckly taken up by the a foreigners. shores are In yme. the poor u ontinues and fills e sweatshops, the coal mines and the r ils with child labor. Religi 2 certain hold, but it is dimi 1 Roman Catholics and Jews the largest families. the whole book the most ing idea is that “the nation can- not afford working babies and idle women (A. 8. Barnes & Co., New York.) e Harold Bolce Preaches Against the Protective Tariff Protectionists wil} take serious ex- ception to Harold Bolce'’s book, “The New Internationalism,” and free trad- ers will find in It a promise of the com- mercial millennium. Both sides will find this exposition of trade conditions good material and the reader who has noth- ing of either politics or economics will be Informed and entertained by a con- sideration of the mass of facts here analyzed and compared. Irrespective of deductions the statistician may have a perfect debauch with Mr. Bolce's book. Each paragraph teems with in- formation, facts, dates and. figures. In.the Mfst chapter, uhderighe rather . poetic caption “The Arcady of Mam- mon.” Bolce announces: “The New Internationalism, rapidly welding the world into an economic unit, is not“utopian. It is nothing less than a financial and commercial amal- gamation of the units. There is noth- ing anaemic in the programme, nor is there anything altruistic. The men who are inaugurating It are not poets. They carry their fatorite book in an inside pocket. and the quotations with which they are most familiar trip through a ticker. Plato to most of them would be of far less consequence than a company’s prospectus.” Noting specifically some of “the men” cngaged In the “world’s greatest eco- nomic innovation,” the writer says that one of the leaders, James J. Hill, has conquered more territory with a coupling pin than Caesar did with a sword, and adds: “This new master of money and domain, realizing that busi- ness knows no boundaries—that the world, commercially and financially, is ready for unification—has merged iropean gold with American genius and Oriental opportunity, and thereby transformed the industrial life of half nt and multiplied the profits dends of three.” According to Mr. Bolce the great in- ternational movement is still in fits swaddling clothes because, as he as- sergs, only in the past year or two the new gospel of trade has rewritten the foreign policy of eight leading nations of the old world. With these basic statements Mr. Bolce develops his argu- ment by massing the facts of commer- cial achievements and by showing the way by which they came, but the while he is sounding notes of warning to the United States because it is “standing pat” and taking no account of the world’s commercial progress, well sat- isfied with what .. calls the great American religion, the tariff. The Boer government is cited as a modern example of the proposition that no nation can live unto itself. The judgment of Washington and John Adams is cited on the location of ship- ping centers to show how the world has outgrown the things once held to be the final expression of fact. Mr. Bolce endeavors to add proof of h contention by noting Napoleon's mis- take In using the census as an esti- mate of a people’s strength. The re- cent war between Japan and Russia furnishes “proof” to him of a signifi- cant progress. Of the United States, Mr. Bolce say “But now prosperity has piled up so high that it {s running over into the sea. The tariff wall can no longer contain this continent. It is the part of wisdom, therefore, to build trade gates and get them down toward Lhe level of internmational traffic.” The chapter on 'international ad- vance is calculated to make an Amert- can strut until he comes to the record of old world progress. For example, the growth of Chicago and New York are noted, but, according to Mr. Bolce, Berlin has been growing at the sama rate for sixty years. In 1868 some Japanese, who had just acquired two Occtdental anchors, had to call upon Americans in port to show them how to 11t them from the mud, while today Japan, says Mr. Bolce, “has a greater merchant marine on the Pacific than Americe hes on all the seven seas.” The -~ author does not disparage American progress, and, speaking of transportation, says what every one is learning nowadays by annoying ex- perience that freight cars cannot be bullt fast enough to haul the harvests from the farms or the finished goods from the factories. But, he adds, * similar oondition prevails in Europe.” In a chapter on “Reprisals and Panics,” he s “It was the new in- ternationalism that prompted the United States to step into Cuba.” He says that the news of the Lisbon earthquake In 1755 was three weeks reaching London, while that of San Frencisco was caught én midair gl most immediately by the Marconi ope: ators, giving men on board ocean liners opportunities to send instructions In New York about the handling of West- ern securities likely ‘tp be affected by the catastrophe. 1In 'the former in- stance there was practically no effect on the commercial market, while in the latter the trouble was taken ac- count of Ly every nation. Every contention of this writer is toward international interdependence. He classifies the financiers of New York city in the last two or three years as types of the new interna- tionallsm, in that they all stand ready in the time of stress for any ¢he In- terest to finance it back to solvency, thereby averting panie. He has con- siderable that is kind to say of trusts, but in this capacity calls himself the “devil's advocate. In considering the “monopolization of commerce,” Mr. Bolce calls pointed at- tention to the paltry trade of the United States with South Awerica, and says that while Americ ha been preaching the polit®al gospel, tha Mon- roe doctrine, G®rmany and England and even Italy *have ween taking up the collection.” Everything in the book leads up finally to reciprocity, which, he says, is practical and not an academic theory, although he gives congide rle spac 1o its “tangles. Reciprocity or the merging, of com- mercial interests, he says, will be a bond against “the universal disruption caused by the panics and war.” Any- thing is considered possible under the new dispensation because of electricity, cables, telegraphs and steam. The pos- sibilities with all these agencies are to be made possible and practicable through an international commercial constitution. In a word, the United States is ar- raigned for its tariff attitude and warned that Germ~ny is taking the lead in the new internationalism, (D. Applaton & Co., New York. Price $1.50.) g S An American Youngster's Amus- ing Book of Travel “This is my first book.” writes C. F. King Jr., “and I lost a lot of fun writ- ing it.” Young Mr. King 18 a student at a military academy in Manlius, N. Y., and “A Boy's Vacation Abroad” is the title of the book. He explains: “This book is the result of a promlse which I made to my father. He told me that If I would be good in school and ‘catch up in my studies and also if my brother, Cabaniss, was good and caught up in his studies, and T would agree to write a complete diary about my trip and write it every night, he would take me with him on his vacation to Europe.” Everything came out as they wished; the author and his brother Cab started from Boston on the Arabic and found a bevy of-young school teachers on the boat and other merry, companionable people, & Altogether they had sucli a fine sum-, mer vacatipn that he is constrained to say: “If you have a chance to go to Europe and see something of the Old World, don’t miss it.s It's worth while.” Master King i 17 years old and as bright and keen in his observations as the American youngster should be. In London one day he dined with “Colonel ‘William Jennings Bryap, who may be our’ next President” The colonel “wasn’t a bit stuck up and was just like an ordinary nice American.” An observation called forth in Lon- don is worth repeating: “A funny thing about London is that the circuses are what we call squares in American cities. I thought we were going to have a bully* time in London, for I heard the different circuses mentioned, and .m very fond of tented shows, peanuts and lemonade, even if it is pink.” Young -King did London pretty thoroughly and went aleo to Paris, Switzerland, Italy and Greece, through Germany C NDER. g 730t ARESICA 108 glimpse of Constantinople. He earried a Camera everywhere and took pictures of éverything. The bgok is filled with them and they are, as we would say, “All to the good.” Not the least interesting part of the book is the “Dedication” and the story which the publishers teil with it. They suggested to him that he write it and they would producé it in his own hand- writimg. He followed their suggestion, saying: 1 wrote out that dedication the best I could and hope it is the cor- rect thing, but must say I think to print it in type would look much better, for I write like a hen and do not like the idea of writing in this book. Am afraid it will queer the book.” On the opposite page appears the apology for the dedication, and his writing is in- deed “llke a hen”: but there s no danger of its *queering” the book. Again, to » his own phrase, “It's all to the good (. M. Clark Publishing Company, Boston.) pAsiE Meredith Nicholson’s New Story Goes at a Gallop Tt’s a-great thing to be able to jug- gie words as Meredith Nicholson does, especlally ih titles. One must needs stop and look. The label alone would have sold “The House of a Thousand Candles,” even if no word of advertise- ment or praise had blazoned its merits, “The Port of Missing Men” 1s even more alluring as a title. The story is g00d, too; but, unhappily, not as good as thé title. It is a galloping story of adventure and romange, with a real surprise at the end.. The hero is worthy of Anthony Hope—so perfect, so flaw- less. He deshes at a breath-taking pace through the book, living always under an alias. Of course, one knows it is for some political reason, and that he is in reality the soul of honor and all that, but he does not disclose him- =elf in propria persona until the very end. on the earth, an American girl is chosen for the heroine. and she is all that a series of exacting situations de- mand of her, The political intrigues constantly in Austria, and particularly ‘the tale— widely crédited until a few vears ago— that the Archduke Karl and his son, Frederick Augustus, were alive in America and only waiting some big up- heaval to go back home and take the throne, is the plot around which the Austrian-American story is written. The Port of Missing Men, 2 gorge In the mountains where a handful of rebel soldiers retired and died rather than surr¢nder, plays no large-part in the story. Much of it Is roundabout the Virginia homestead. In the midst of which is the “Port.” Many prominent political personages make their ap- pearances for a brief moment, and the time of the story being so recent, March, 1903, the events are quite clear. Much of the story, really all the story, is pure fiction, but founded in spots on contemporary historical facts. Tt is well written, swift In action and in- teresting in a degree. (Bobbs-Merrill Company, apolis.” Price $1.50.) / EARr Grover Cleveland's Sketches of Field and Stream Let who will rise unrefreshed from the little while it takes to read Grover Cleveland's “Fishing and Shooting Sketches.” Such a one has no soul for nature; he is not “blooded to the open and the sky”; he is no true son of the empire of all outdoors. One learns here that the true sports- man {s not cruel; that those Who have a natural love for outdoor sport are neither wanton nor wasteful of the game they hunt and are enthusiasts in keeping the game laws of the land. And after the more studied papers, political and otherwise, of this most distinguished author, papers ponderous, Indian- Americans being the finest people- _ true, and few fishermen are liars! 21/ >SS RN L2 A SR Sy el 7o re2? - e L 78 MRS LK. s, JyrHoR SHIRLEY CLAILORNE JSrom “THE DORT QF MISSING surprised-to find these writings so nn- manly simple and natural. Here the sage of Princeton is your ardent sports- man, of a fine, dry good humer and with a ready reply for all who would cavil at his love of sport.’ He has but pity, he says, for those narrow people who might have made their own lives better and sweeter if they had yielded to the enticements of the frivolities they senselessly-deplored. : “Not many years ago,” he writes, “while residing in a nonsporting but delightfully cultured -and refined com- munity, I found that considerable in- dignation had been aroused among cer: tain good neighbors and friends be- cause it had been said of me that I was willing to associate in the fleld with any loafer who was the owner of a dog and gun. At the risk of doing an ap- parently ungraclous thing. I felt inex- orably constrained to check their kind- 1y efforts by promptly conceding that “the charge was too nearly true to be denied.” # i — + But when he is called one of the “lazy” fraternity, then he defends him- self—for laziness has no place In the constitution of a man who starts at sunrise and tramps all day with only a sandwich for provision, floundering through bushes and briars and stum- bling over rocks or wading streams in pursult of the shy, reluctant trout. He has a naive and delightful ex- planation of “Fish Storles”; the most startling are not too improbable to lgg o man can be a completely good fisher- man, he holds, unless he is truthful, generous, sympathetic and honest. As to the claim that rodmen greatly ex- aggerate the size of fish that are lost, and Holland. and had a platitudinous and vastly Prolix, ome is it is both ignorant and malicious. Rea- CONDUCTED BY ¥ the western part of America and Eng- : 00 Q son and experience prove these tales of lost fishes. It must be plain to every one that large fish are. much more apt, both by reason of weight and strength, to escape than small ones; besides, they are older and more experienced, their trickiness and resourcefulness give the " ability to tear out hooks and expose any weakness in line, man. Fishing and the hunting of ducks or quail or other small game make up the i book of sketches than which no more delightful bit of reading has appeared this vear. (Outing Publishing Company, York. Price $1.25.) rod or fisher- New pi A Novel by “Victoria Cross” Not Conventional Fictien The author who has taken for a pen name “Victoria Cross” has done a rather remarkable novel in “Life's Shop-Window.” It may be questioned it 1t is fit to place indiscriminately upon the market because of its possible effect on the Impressionables of any age. It Is a strong presentment of a woman's life {n which every emotion, physical, mental and moral, is intl- mately presented. Lydia Is not a type; she is unlike anything of record in real life or in fiction. A half sug- SN C R RING. IR, AUTHOR oF 4 Boy's VACATION (ABROAD' ,’ > gestion In the early chapters of the book leads to the conclusion that some of her instincts may be accounted for by heredity. Her supposed father and mother are plain, ignorant country folk; but in her veins runs the blood of another class, the inheritance of her mother's sin. And with that inherit- ance go a love of books., ambition and a questing mind that fit ill upon the drudge of a farmgr's family. Other- wise Lydia is a wiblesome voung ani- mal. Little is left to be imagined In the -descriptions of the love-making that leads to her marriage with a re- spectable middle class farmer. They g0 to Arizona and live most happily for six years. The developing changes in her temperament - and emotions hardly prepare one for her abandon- ment of everything to elope with a visiting Englishman. From this on the book deals with Lydia’s happiness in her irregular life and -her absence of regret or remorse. There is suffering for a time but hardly the retributive pangs that the conventions of book and play prestribe. The description of the country in which the story is set, land for the most part, are unusually fine. (Mitchell Kennerley, New York. Price $1.50.) = Gossip of Books and Those Who Make Them Not lohig ago Wilbur Nesbit, author of “The Gentleman Ragman,” was sent a list of questions by a woman who was arranging a symposium of some sort for a publication with which she was connected. One of’the questions was: “Who, in your estimation, was or is the greatest woman in the world?” Mr. Nesbit's reply was: “The unknown woman who invented apple ple. She was, and is, and ever will be the woman who has done more :zn any other to gladden the heart of B i . . . Like Thackeray, Mrs.. Margaret De- land began her career as an artlst, in- stead of as an author. After recelving her education at one of the best of apli fage H. H. COOL girls’ schools, she—then Margaret Campbell—went to New York City and studied drawing and designing at the Cooper Institute. She graduated at the head of her class, and her ability was so marked that she was promptly asked to take the place of instructer in design at the Girls' Normal College in the same city. She accepted the offer, and it was ‘while holding this position that she met her future husband. Lerin F. Deland. They ‘were married in 1880, and since then their home has been. in Boston. Her real name is Margaretta Wade De- land, but she prefers to sign her work simply Margaret Deland. Mrs. Deland 1s a most methodical worker. . . B A life of the late Mrs. Craigie, better known by her pen name. John Oliver Hobbes, is to be written by her friend, . Brown, who deli at L Mrs ( he ola faith after s t to England to live. It is said that a large number of her letters will be published. . - . Anne Warner French, author of the Susan Clegg stories, gives an infinitely more intelllgent and readable inter- view than most of the succe: ers. She says that edltors can do nothing for vou unmtil you have made a success. - The editors, like God, help those who help themselves. . . . Mrs. Lew Wallace, devoted to the memory of her distinguished husband, has kept everything in the Iibrary where he wrote exactly the condi- tion in which he left it- Even the book ich he was last reading lies open at w the page as he laid it down. Robert Hichens’ publishers announce that he is in Naples at work on a sequel to “The Call of the Blood.” As every charac in the first book, in whom the reader could have any in- terest whatsoever, killed off, in- cludin with the the need is not apparen SR Books Received The Warrfor Spirit in the R lle, by Anna Robertson and Brown Lind- say The Macmillan Co.. New York Westward the Course of Empite, by Montgomery S ler; G. 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