The morning call., 1893-03-26
RECENT PUBLICATIONS

LIES SUNBEAMs AND SHADows.-Un-
der this appropriate title John c. Pelton
has issued wel-printed volume of poetry
and prose, from the sale of which It is hoped
he may be enabled to spend his declining
days in comfort. The work is not all his
own. There are poems by such writer's as
Joaquin Miller. John Kendrick Bangs. Rose
Hartwick Thorpe, Oscar V. Shuck, Ella
Wheeler Wilcox, David Starr Jordan and
John Vance Cheney. Nothing could be in
better taste nor more gracefully expressed
than the introduction. Here we have the
story of Mr.. PeltOn's life retold by one who
has known him for over quarter of a CEN
tuTy.
It is needless to 60 into the full details of
this strange eventual history" Everybody
in California already knows that the splen-
di6 system of public schools of which the
State is justly proud was founded by John
c. Pelton, who has lived to see the seed
which he planted in this rev El Dorado
ripen and bear fruit a thousandfold Like
a romance reads the tale of his early strug-
giles and success in the lace OF ar, Arently
insuTmountaDle obstacles; but Iost tragic
in its pathos is the recital 81 the misfor-
tunes of his later years.
Physical inirmities were followed quickly
by business reveISes, and 1t is sad
to learn how he who implanted in
the minds Of many of our best
have enabled them 10 amass millions
is to-day a pennies author. Yet men
whose faith in true worth is great venture
to predict that when future historians come
to sketch those who transformed the wild,
reckless mining camp Of 40 into the great
law-abidng city of the present day the
figure of John c. Pelton will be drawn OF
heroic size.
There is much verse in this volume that
Will repay perusal and some stauzas that
will linger in the memory. No reader OF
the following can doubt that the author has
an ear for the music of rhythmical express
sion, and the evident personal application
Of the lines make it an appropriate selec-
tion from his book:
HOPE.
Hope An. yes. It's beauteous thing,
Like the fiossy tints OF IA rvs wing;
beautiful, Joyous, blissful thing.
Fresh as the dew at the blush OF the morn
When the shadows uplift and away are gone,
And the stars fade out and day is born.
Sweet as the breath OF the new.mown hay.
But Ike flower aud fruit OF May, sweet May,
Or the bloom OF the cheek, it paSseth away
Hope tits the spring with It's Hower-decked down,
Like a maid mid her smiles uncIouded by frown:
But relentless comes autumn sere, somber and
brown.
Yet still on thy bosom unconsciously blest
ON thy warm bosom beating with thy tender caress
will walt till my sun shan go down in the west
The prose parts of the volume, aside from
the introduction, consist of a very interest,"
ing account OF Mr.. Pelton's educatio nal
work in early days, pioneer school laws,
press notices and references to some of his
old pupils and friends of later years. TPub-
lished by the Bancroft Company
THE LAND OF THE O-O.-Although no
Yankee could guess it from the name, this
is book about the Hawaiian Islands. On
the title page the authorship is attributed
to Ash Slivers Sr.. lumberman. 1t has
leaked out, however. that this is only
non-de-plume adopted by c. c. Burnett, a
well-known citizen of Cleveland, O., only
one o.
In the preface to his double-O book Mr..
Burnett holds brief imaginary conversa-
tion after the style Of Walter Savage
LandOr
How then it may be asked, did you
happen to write itP'
Il reply briefly, as a soporlfic'"
Viewed from the authors standpoint the
book is undoubtedly success.
The volume is we'll printed and lavishly
illustrated, couple of round kodak views
again suggesting the title. Some of the
pictures are really good. These are repro
ductlons of photographs, and have recently
become familiar to the readers OF Hawaiian
news in the daily papers.
IL Is seldom that an illustrated volume
reaches an office so opportunely. The pic
lures for which the camera is not respon-
sible were presumably drawn by Ash Sill
vers-at least they have that appearance.
In the absence of positive evidence of guilt
Mr.. Burnett should be held innocent
A map of the Hawaiian group of islands
accompanies the volume, or. possibly, it is
accompanied by the rest of the book The
first chapter is headed "The Reason Why."
a phrase which might appropriately have
been reprinted on the last page, followed
by an Interrogation point OF o! TPub-
lished by the Cleveland Printing and Pub.
fishing Company, For sale by the Hagel
Book Company, Cleveland, 0hio.l
THE CULINARY ART. = Although pri-
marily intended for the use of nurses in
training-schools and those who care for the
sick. "A Handbook of Invalid Cooking"
by Mary A. Boland, will be found to be
most welcome aid to any housewife In min
istering. to the culinary wants of her family
Some htly pages are given 10 explanatory
lessons on the preparation of food, the
preparation OF the different classes of foods
ana articles on air, water, milk, digestion
aud nutrition. Detailed descriptions appear
to have been given so that those who know
nothing OF cooking may be able, by ntelli-
gently following the instructions, to make
acceptable dishes. A chapter. replete with
admirable instructions is devoted TO telling
how to serve the meal after 1t is cooked
and another, containing many valuable