The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-11-04

subject; not the subject for the dress.
"A Flash of Summer" is the story OF
girl brought up without love or affection.
forced while young to marry man whom
she dislikes and who only marries her
for her supposed fortune. The honeymoon
is spent at Windermere and in the Lake
country, and that land of honeymO0Ds
never witnessed colder or mCre unpr0m-
Using one. In London the husband neglects
and i'll treats the wife, even strikes her
and. in frenzy. seiZing a favorable opp0r-
tunity, she runs away and goes 10 Italy.
| There she becomes acquainted with an
old lady and her son, and II is the lie
with these two for few months that is
her Flash OF Summer" In love with the
man. and pressed to marry him, she tells
her sad story, and by them is counseled to
make overturrs for a reconcile alton with
her husband. They return TO England, she
! spends short time longer In Italy and
| then determines to act on their counsel.
| She writes the necessary letters and re-
turns 10 England prepared to meet her
! fate. But she was not prepared TO IND
the man she loved dead. and the mother
! deep burdened with sorrow Tor his loss :;
still less for the fact that her husband will
meet her IN the first flush of her grief
! Here the author draws the curtain, and so
must We. "A Flash of Summer" is indeed
an interesting story, full OF exquisite de-
| scrIpt'ons of beautiful places in Italy and
I lhHu' lie Ucob pdLb VI NV ou"hs nv w
ever, is the psychological development OF
/ the girl, an accurate, logical and extremely
natural bit of work. New York: ID. APP
| pletOn 81 Co. For SAFE by the Bancroft
| Company.
THE SPECIAL CoRREsPoNDENT.-1t is
a pity for jules Verne that in the early
part of his career he wrote such interest
! ing books as Ten Thousand Leagues
Under the Sea-" From the Earth to the
Moon," etc, as his later work must needs
be compared to them, often dis
advantageously. The present story is
ney. by rail and steamer, to AZun
Ade on the Caspian. thence by the
Grand IraDsAsiatic directly over the
Pamirs to Picking in China. The account
is written by the special correspondent Of
a Partisan journal. The Twentieth Gen.
tnIy, and nothing like this reporter in the
journalistic line ever crossed in dreams or
waking life the mind of an American
| newspaper man. The book was evidently
written when France was in the throes of
her friendship with Russia. as Russia and
| France are ever to the fore, while Amerl-
ca, Germany and England lag far behind
10 all things. The people who are sup
posed to represent the aforementioned lands
are exaggerstions. even OF the absurd and
impossible figures which certain French
men fondly ana fOOlishly hug to their
souls as true types and ideals of other
! races The presentation of such characters
might be forgiven in the work Of an
Ignorant and untravelad man; In Jules
Verne they are un pardonable, for neither
wit nor brightness llghtenS the aDsurdity.
Ihere are three interesting incidents 10
the book: the brlsands' attempt 10 seize
the treasure on the train. the attempt to
wreck IT, and the journey OF kink0 tn his
sweetheart, Zinka, in n box marked This
side up. with care" The descriptions oil
places ike Bokhara and Samarkand. etc.
smack oil encyclopedias and guide book;
and not of visual knowledge. 1t is lone
journey from the work From the Eartf
20 the Moon" TO the present one. New
York: Lowell. Coryell & Co. For sale BY
William Doxey.
The GOSPEL IN PAGAN RELIGIONS
This book is made up of five articles
The Gospel According to Jesus" 9TH,
Gospel Condition of Salvation" 9TH,
GOSPEL in Pagan Religions, "a Savior tn
Desire OF All Nations" and "The Caus
OF Christian Missions" The matter wa
suggested to the writer. "An Orthodo,
Christian" by the Worlds Parliament o
Religions, and shows. that the gospel i
contained, more or less clearly, In Pagal
. religions. 1t holds that all systems o
religion, whether Christian or Pagan
which rest the hope of human salvation
on Gods mercy for sinners. contain th
vital and saving power of the gospel
however its brightness may be dimme
under cloud of erronsous doctrines, o