The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-05
LITERARY NOTES.

ME AESSRS. Funk e Wagnals, New
AXHB York publishers, announce that they
6SNTA have arranged for the authorized
~ publication of Edwin Arnold's long
heralded poem, The Light of the World"
1t will be printed from manuscript, and will
be issued in this country before it appears in
England or elsewhere. 1t Will be volume
of $50 pages. In the poem the writer pre-
sents Christ as the Light of the World. as in
his previous poem he presented Buddha as
the Light of Asia. The publishers will issue
this poem, which the author regards as his
most elaborate and best work. in the latter
part of this month.
Zone of Berrian's Novels" by Mrs G. II.
Stone. is new book just issued by the
Welch-Fracker Company of New York. 1t
is handsomely bound volume of 2l0 pages,
in which is told in charming manner
story of the twentieth century, suggested
by certain criticisms of the conditions de-
scribed in Bellamy's Looking Backward"
The author believes such condition AS de-
scribed by Bellamy possible, and in her
story, which in part takes the conditions in
'Looking Backward" as setting, Berrian.
she says, must be remembered as the novelist
of the future time. In the preface to the
twenty-first century edition Berrian writes:
There was a singular incident in a novel of the
nineteenth century-"Ihe African Farm"-illus.
trating The struggle which began for wOmanhood
when IL first awakened TO Its higher uses, and
found Itself indlssolubly bound by traditions;
terrible traditions that had gained an lDnnile
strength through those necessary ages OF evolu-
ton, when there could not be an Ineligible hint
OF this womanhoods coming divinity.
Women were slow in awakening to the impera
tive need for recOncilng these Gushing interests,
and While they ignored the woes OF less fortunate
maids aud wives. the struggles OF evolution to
adjust them unaided assumed many strange
foims and the strangest was the resolution OF
Lyndall In the book referred to.
OF course there came time later on when. as
usual, the problem could be evaded no longer,
and, as usual, IL took its terrible revenge upon
those who had neglected It,
The book contains many bright thoughts
and novel ideas.
The latest publication from the press of
Laird Il Lee of Chicago is Labor" by
Count Lyof Tolstoi. the author of "Kreut-
ger Sonata" translated by Mary Cruger.
Labor" is the work of Count Lyof TolStOi
and of the peasant, Timothy Bondaref,
who inspired the social theories of TOlstoi-
the two laws of humanity-that of labor for
men, that of motherhood for women. Bon
dareff prepared the manuscript for a book
he wished to publish, but its printing was
forbidden by the Russian authorities. Toll
stOl read the manuscript, became impressed
with the truth of the peasants theories,
and introduced into his own life the reform
that Bondareff had preached. He set him
self to follow the plow, to use the awl, and,
in word, to work with his own hands.
The ideas Of the peasant are given by Toll
stoi in Labor"
From Yellowstone Park to Alaska" and
From the Land of the Midnight Sun to the
Volga" are two companion volumes, is
sued by the Welch-Fracker Company OF
New York. These books, printed on good
paper. well bound in attractive covers and
beautifully illustrated with photographers,