The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-07

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lowers of Cleveland aud the opponents of
the policy of protection 10 American labor.
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The CALIFORNIAN ILLUSTRATED-The
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energy has served to place the magazine
upon popular plane, and each successive
number shows evidences Of Improvement
over the one which preceded 1t.
THE COLONEL BY BREvET-This novel
by ST. George Rathbone is crammed full Of
exciting adventure. deep-laid plots and
narrow escapes. In the first chapter, ac-
cording TO the table of contents, "a man
trap is sprung in Vienna" and at the end of
book three 1.-THE curtain falls in the Moor
ish court" 1t would be cruel to reveal
what occurs in the immediate pages, for the
earth is frequently red with gore while the
air is thickeued by the smoke of helching
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OF THE WORLD, WoRLDLY-This is a
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Duchess, TO whose school of story-telIers
she belongs. Published by Lowell. COryell
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cloth 81.
THE HEIREss-A new translation of this
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Literary Notes.
Frances Eleanor Trollope, the author of
That Wild Wheel" new novel Just
issued by Harper 81 Brothers, is the wife of
the famous novelist L. Adolphus Trollope,
to whom she was married in 1866. She has
written several successful stories, all of
which are distinguished for their freshness
and originality. Her faculty for making
vigorous and lifelike eharacter-studies is
especially noteworthy.
"a little farm we'll titled. little house
well filed. a little wife well willed," tersely
expresses the success of the California
fruit farm. which is interestingly and ably
written about in the August Cosmopolitan
by w. &. Fitzsimmons. who goes into de-
tails on the inception and ultimate success
of the project at Riverside in this State.
The second article by Archibald Forbes
on abraham Lincoln as a Strategist" APP
pears in the North American Review for
August, and presents further proof of the
Presidents strong hand IN the direction of
military affairs.
All thoughtful women in America will be
interested IN the August issue of the Arena
Ii contains the most brilliant and compre-
hensive symposium on "Women's Clubs
ever published.
Jenness Miller Illustrated Monthly for
August contains numerous articles of spe-
ciai interest TO women. Mrs. Miller writes
interestingly of Liberty, Love and Art"
Miss Mary +. Seymour has timely article