The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-04-22
RECENT PUBLICATIONS

INJURIOUS INSECTS AND THE USE OF
INSECTICIDES book. written by
Frank w. Sempers. is Of great value
to the agriculturists and horticulturists
of the United States. The Canadian en-
tomologist, James Fletcher. in an adj
dress delivered at Washington declared
that the agricultural products OF the
United States were estimated at yearly
value OF about $500, 100000 and that of
this amount nearly one-tenth, or $780,
100000 was lost by the ravages of insects.
The utility of a work which describes all
the enemies of the products of the farm
and the orchard and at The same time gives
the best methods of fighting and dealing
with them, needs no long proof. Taking
the various fruits and cereals in order Mr.
Sempers describes the individual pests
that attack each and in exact words
and by means of illustrations so clearly
describes them in their d fferent stages of
develOpment-egg, larva, pupa and image
that any ordinary child could readily
identity them. The methods of destruc-
ton. too, are so explained as to become
easy Of use IN the hands of any one. The
only general drawback to the book is that
not enough attention has been given to
natural enemies of these pests. The ex-
peIience of California hortlculturists goes
to show that these do better and more
effectuaI destructive work than decoctons
or Insecticides. There is no men ion
made of the insect enemies of the olive,
fig or the citrus fruits: these flourish not
in the East, for W bose farmers and garde-
neTs the book was primarily Intended.
With regard to other fruits and cereals
The work will prove very useful and bene-
fetal to Calfornians interested in These
products. philadelphia: W. Atlee Bur-
pee & Col
THE BEDoUIN GIRL.-ThIs story, by
Mrs. S. j. Higgnson, is a pleasant one to
while away an hour or two. There are no
hairbreadth escapes or awe-inspiring adj
ventures in the story, it is simply the lar
ration OF the love of Feydeh, a girl Of the
tribe of Benz Sokbr, for handsome Turk,
who saved her from loveless marriage to
the chief of her tribe. In this narration
are woven the troubles that ever ath CT the
loves of true lovers; in the end, however.
come union and happiness. The scene of
the story lies chiefly in the vast desert and
in Egypt, and gives occasion TO many
happy descriptions of their peculiar modes
of life. The making up of the caravans for
the sacred pilgrimages; the slow march in
one long, undulatinE line; the call to rest
aud the summons to marrh, the sutferings
of the cattle and men after three days OF
marching from one well 10 aDOt06r, all
are painted with brush of marked power.
The description of the terrible effects of
the Simeon is vivid in the extreme and It's
horror interspersed by the suggestion of
the destruction of hole pursuing tribe
in few minutes. The dress, habits and
conversations of the various characters are
in accord with their nationality and the
local color of the story Is remarkably exact.
Scattered up and down the book are some
grammatical faults, but in other respects 1t
is much above the average. New ork:
j. Sewin TAFT d Sons. For sale at the
bookstores.
THE REJECTED SYMBoL.-This novel
by the Rev. Charles Edwards has been
written with purpose. That purpose is
in general to show that the red flag of
anarchy does not represent destruction but
brothe rho od-an idea somewhat at var-
anee with the generally accepted one. The
Haymarket tragedy in Chicago. May 4,
1884, the events that led up to it. the par
ties implicated, and the narrator's con-
necton herewith. make MP the story.
Beginning with an account OF his
career as clergyman, the Rev.
Darby Jones describes how he came
to change his views on the questions OF
socialism and anarchy, and how. by at
tending mass-meetiDg, which was dis
perseG by the police, one of whom was
killed, he was forced into close connection
with the leaders of the Haymarket affair,