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OUR BOOK TABLE.
Moaocco-THE CHINESE CONQUEST OF
THE PACIFIC COAST.

English Literature-French History-A
Tallahassee Girl-Revisw of Some
Late Magazines.
| A SHORT AND TRuTHYuL HISTORY TIN TAKING
OF CALIFORNIA AND OREGON BY THE CHINESE IN
| THE YEAR A u. 1899. BY Robert WoltIr, Sur
| vivor. San Francisco A l.. Bancroft u Co.; 81.
The evident purpose OF the writer of this
| book was to present the Chinese question, as
understood by the people of this coast, in the
strongest possible light. This he has accom-.
| plisted by casting his scenes some years
| ahead of the present, and By anticipating
| what the people Of this coast believe mast IT,
evitably happen if Chinee immigration Is
not restricted. OF courss it is most exsrav-
agant view; of course the writer has MADE
the most OF vivid imagination and quick
| fancy and Of course the whole book is an
| imaginative one OF the broadest kind, Bat il
presents many truths in manner that Is very
| f0rcible, and no one can read the little work
| and not feel that the Chinese question IS one
| of grave Importance. 1t is probable that It
! would command the attention even of the
most set and pronounced pro-Chinese citizen
| of the far East, though it do,s nos follow
! that i5 would result in his conversion to the
| California view. Tae little book mas some
SlslCSS III tu5 pIcsStlb bll1e SsP5tAal
attention before thu reader enters upon the
| question Of the various conqueses that the
| Chinese enter upon, and almost Invariably
| come off victors Ia. Oae extract we present
| as follows It is supposed glance backward
ut the year 1881 from the standpoint of 1899
| The probable total population of the United
States placed at so, 10000 souls spread over an
AREA of COS, SS4 square miles. The estimated pop
ulation OF China proper ,o0O,o co., spread over
Of 1854 953 square miles in other words,
the populiti of China was s Ito times greater
than that OF the whole OF the United States, and
was contained in an area q times smaller Besides,
to make the above figures appear more startling, it
must be borne in mind that, from well known
causes, the proportion OF children to ADULTS
among the Monaghan race Is much sinai er
than among the Caucasian aso that
males form the great maj lrity; and we must also
remember that our American desert is
small and fertile oosis in comparison With the shift
ing sands of Cobb. Considering also the sudden
and increasing emigration from China, and taking
it for granted that the total cosmopolitan popula
ton Of California amounted to but SEQ, 0c0 sous, |
of which nearly 900 were Chinese, it will then
merely be necessary to glance at the preceding fig |
and at the fact that the whole Caucasian race,
scattered throughout the world, was Estimated at
$50 900 of souls, whilst the entire Mongolian
race was calculated at $50 900 000 Of which 405 Co.,
O00 were collected in China Alone to realize the in
applicable want Of foresight in our Government and
people in matters appertining to the future welfare
Of the Country.
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and not by any means in sympathetic |
spirit It is then shown how the Chinese |
began and accomplished their conquests |
From the attack upon the labor remunera- |
ton necessary to enable the American work |
ingman to raise family according to Ameri- |
can ideas, and by which the white man was
forced to live as did the Chinamsn, in order
to subsist, and by which style of life all the |
essential clements of our civilization were |
"a he nj =t fp
consideration of how the invaders entered |
upon social commercial and other contests,
in all of which the American was forced to |
the wall, because he could not maintain his |
civiiiza tion as against one demanding so little |
of comfort, luxury, refinement and intelli |
gence. Then comes the account OF the phys |
ical demonstration, the appearance OF Chi |
neze fl 3et on the coast, the uprising OF the
resident Chinese, who 80 far outnumbered the
native aud other population that resistance
was impossible, and there followed terrible
scenes Of cruelty, bloodshed and all the
horrors of conquest by baTbarlans. But
with all his extravaganza and his Wild lm-
aginipgs. the writer of this history, who con-
ceals his real name beneath the cloak Ut nc
tioD 1.-THE more to give an cir OF reailty to MS
recital with broad margin Of fact, and
corner stone that has in it the elements OF
TRUTH has constructed with no mean art a
marvellous story. His fancies are Of the most
extravagant but 1t is q truism that some OF
the greatest truths are most easily taught IN
exactly that manner. The literary history
of the world is full of examples that give war
rant and excuse for the method adopted in
the case IN Ter notice.
ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE TINE OF VICTORIA. By
Henry Morley, Lii. ID. New York q. T. Put
nsn's Sons. San Francisco : A. l.. Bancroft q
Co. VOL, large Syo., muslin.
Morley ia Professor ct English Literature
at the University College, Londen, aud as
man Of profound learning is familiar TO the
litersry world. This book is reprinted, By
arrangement, from the 2 000th volume of the
Tauchntz collection of British authors.
Baron Tauchni.z himself requested Morley
to write the book, he furnishing the design.
o -iginaly it was the intention to i. Guide in
the scheme some of the literature of Amer
lea, but it is probable that the intention was
abandoned because it was found that the
literature of this country was worthy a
separate and complete volume. Morley givs s
30 reason himself, except that there is ample
time to incorporate such book into the
Tauchnitz series Tauchniz however, has
| stated that our literature has distinct in
! terest from that of England, and is of such
value as to demand separate treatment. We
may therefore look for another memorial
volume ia the Tauchniz series. The volume
before Is opens with frontsipieca Of twenty
pages giving the sgnatures-by fac smile
Of authors 10 the Tauchniz edition. These
| have been Photographed from their corre-
| spondence and contracts. Professor Morley
| begins his work with glance ct literature
| from the beginning to the beginiDg Of the
reign of E iz4beth. We cannot follow him
through this very interesting chap.er-nor is
| it necessary, as the reader must be presumed
| to be well informed conceruiDg that period
| about which SO much has been written. The
second chapter treats of the period from the
reign of Ehz bath to that of Anne, when the
| bsst intellect Of the English nation was on
| the side of the reformation in the Church,
and fully half of the people were inclined to
stand in the old ways. The third chapter
treats of the literature of the country from
the reign of Anne to the reign of Victoria.
This period he treats of in the following order:
| o. those writer's who were old at the begin
ming Of the reign and of the pets. Words
worth, Southey, and Lander. Next, Of
| journalists Of the elder generation, esssyists
and poets; of women who wrote in
the early part of the reign; OF
thOse by whom cheap literature was made
useful, and Of the earlier life of Thomas Bsb.
bington Macaulsy; of writers who were be-
tween fifty and sixty years ola st the begin
ming Of the ieign; of men of the next decade
of years; CT Thomas Carlyle. and of the di-
| vines and wits. The concluding chapters are
in review Of TIE conflicts and battles in the
| literary field, and of the best yigor Of the
time, and what remains OF it. On this sub
| jet Morley says: The best vigor of Cur
time is in writers who were between twenty
AID thirty years old at the beginning of the
reign. To their group belong Tennyson, and
| Browning, Mrs. Browning, Dickens and
Thackeray, the Misses Bronte, Mrs. Gaskell,
| Gladstone, Darwin, and Others Who repro sent
activity in many forms" OF each of these
| he treats in detail. But there are others also
who receive his attention beside those named,
as Lswes, Forster, Reade, Eliz,b Sewell,
| DR.. Liddel, Sir Arthur Helps, Burton,
Thomas Wright. Mines, Florence Nightin-
gale. Tyndsli, Huxley, and so on TO the end
of long and interesting chapter. The work
is one of great value to the student, and
scarcely any literary man can well afford to
h.