The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-10
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THE ART OF TAKING A WIFE. -Paolo
Mantegazza, the writer Of this book
though little known in the United States,
enjoys wide reputation in Italy, and on
the continent OF Europe generally. Edu-
Gated as a physician at the universities of
Pavia and Pisa, at the age OF 70 be was
chosen professor of chemistry in the Tech
meal School at Milan. Thence he went
to South America, where he practiced his
profession for several years. Returning
to his own country be was appointed pro-
lessor of general pathology at the Univer-
sity of Pava, while for the last ten years
he has teen the professor of anthropology
at the University of Florence. He has
written many volumes of travel, romances
and biography, but his reputation rests
largely on his anthropolOglcal works
These have been many, the widest known
being "Physiognomy and Expression"
Paolo MantegazZa also has the rep
utatl0n Of introducing cocoa to
Europe. "The Art of Taking a
Wife" deals with marriage IN modern
society, the art of choosing well, the in
tiuence Of race and nationality, age and
health, the harmony of the feelings, of
thoughts, the incidents and accidents OF
marriage, and concludes with three pic
lures. He'll, PurgaiOry and Paradise. There
is mucn wisdom and solid advice in the
book, but there Is much too with which no
Christian can agree. Professor ManlegaZza
strikes the keynote of marriage in SYM
pathy ana gives as the motive OF mesalli-
ances Decunlary interest or interests OF
rank. Difference of nationality in Two
married people is point that lessons the
probability of their happiness, aggravated
hundred times if a difference of religion
is added to the scale. There are MANY
m NH oh 10 pofy L
disputed. Though marriage is very
ancient fact, the art Of choosing well has
by no means been developed into scientific
certainty. New York: G. w. Dillingham;.
For sale by the Ban croft Company
THOUGH THE GODS AND THE YEARS
RELENT.-This novel, by Mrs. Edmund
Nash Morgan, is very neat book. well
printed on good paper, and the story would
be fairly interesting had 1t been told Some
what differently. A certain Jack Howard
is the hero-one of that kind that has no
existence outside certain peculiarly con-
structed feminine imaginatiOns, before
whom, however, women go down like
wheat before the reaper" For love
of him his Venetian model browns her
self; numbers of English ladies and girls
openly and secretly pine for him, while Jack
marches on cODQuerOT, leaving his vic
tins to sorrow and grief, and as the writer
with curious moral twist says, After ali
he was not to blame; the duration of a
passion is no more in our power than the
duration of life" There is mucn TO inter
est reader in the story, and some of the
brief glimpses of Venetian and Italian life
are good, but there is an ignorance and
carelessness in dealing with the facts and
the English language that detract consid
erably from the work New York: Home
Book Company.
ESTHER WATERS. - The latest work
from the pen of George Moore is un-
doubleday his best book. II is picture,
or rather a series of pictures, Of the habits
and manners Of the masses" in England,