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paper, are designated by the name of
pa per dolls. These dolls are carefully seq
regated as to their nationalities and are
again subdivided into epochs, historically
speaking. They are kept in large envel-
opes procured for the purpose, and many
OF them have several changes of costume,
designed with fidelity and intelligence by
their small owner.
The individuals of the little historians
large and growing family are not by any
means exclusively feminine. Kings, phil
osophers, martyrs and generals dwell IN
peace and concord with the nymphs OF
poetry and DANES of the First Empire.
Each dolly has its name inscribed
upon the back. If the picture is not OF
a celebrity of any age or land it IS given
cognomen possible to its character and
assigned to its proper epoch.
| Not only is the ''mother" of the paper
dolls unconsciously absorbing great store
of historical knowledge, but all the house
hold and many who dwell outside the
recollections of the heroes and heroines OF
life and letters. Papa, who was Py-
thagoras ?" and when did the Frenchmen
begin to wear Wellington boots" are
questions not to be left unanswered.
Stately minuets have to be da need by
our family of paper dolls, and great care
and study are necessary in order to be sure
| ILdI no III pOSS4D1S pc1SOdS d1C ALN1ICO'
| Napoleon must not dance with Mrs. Wash
ington, because he never saw her, and
an Apache Indian must not come to the
party, because the ladies would be fright
ened.
When battles are fought the right gen.
| erals must win of course, and the Red Cross
nurses must not go out to take care of SOL
diers who died too long ago.
| 1t is easy to see that there is chance
| for the child to learn of the progress OF
| the world in better way than any book
has ever taught it. and to form an accurate
idea of the changes in the people, their
costumes and their natures.
Pictures are to-day almost a new Ian
guage, flowing from the fnger-tips of men
who could not in endless columns express
so well the real conditions, past, present
and imaginary. Give the children the full
advantage OF the world of pictures, and art
will have fulfilled its greatest possibilities
for good
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-12
Evolution of the Paner Doll.

The evolution of the paper doll has
reached stage which makes those erst-
while frivolous creatures interesting even
to the wise and the dignihed. In the first
place, some clever person invented dolls
with wardrobes historically accurate. That
is to say, dolly with her hair dressed
after the fashion INDUCED in by Marie
Antoinette would be possessed of a series
1 of costumes in the styles worn during the
AEeign of that unfortunate sovereign. Colo
NAL dolls, Greek dolls, early English dolls.
all were pretty and, quite incidentally
very instructive. One small girl of nv
acquaintance has, with suggestions and
practical assistance from some of her cid
ers, carried the plan of historic dolls a
long way. "
From illustrated periodicals. posters. adj
Yertlslng cards, in fact all conceivable
sources, she has cleaned an enormons
number OF people which, when carefully
cut out after being mounted upon stiff
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-12
The Helpful Science.

In these days, when physics, social and
political science and accounts OF slum life
divide with fiction the honors of public
interest, it is novel and pleasant sensa-
ton to have ones attention arrested by an
essay in purely philosophical thought.
Such an essay is st. George Mivart's "The
Helpful Science" just issued by Harper
q Brothers.
While travelling far afeld in the realm
of metaphysics, the author has particu-
larly clear and simple habit of thought
and expression that renders him easy to
follow. His essay starts with the attempt
to bring home to the reader the fact that
certain very practical questions have been
crowded out in the unconscious COMPETE
ton for the attention of mankind which
may be called the struggle for existence of
the arts and sciences. Three things are
necessary in order to enter upon the in
vestigation of the ultimate foundation of
all physical science and all rules of con-
duct. These three things are perceptions
ceptions of certain facts and per
captions of the validity of certain
arguments. Into a consideration of these
principles, facts and arguments the essayist
enters at length. What hesterms ''the
helpful science" is the science of meta
physics, study of which is incumbent on
all who desire to lead well-ordered and
reasonable life. Reason he postulates as
the ultimate test of certainty; while sem
sations are an aid to Judgment, yet it is to
intellectualism as opposed to sensism that
all questions must be referred for final
Indication. To the realm of pure reason,
therefore, he confines his entire argument,
leading the reader by almost imperceptible
degrees into the domain of metaphysics;
metaphysical knowledge, he insists, lying
at the root of all that is either good or true
in human life. In study of this science,
those who are willing to undertake the
needful self-interrogations and observa-
tons of things external will find the COM
mon foundation upon which repose the
first principles of religion, morals art and
the physical and social sciences. The book
is timely, and will prove useful beacon
light to the many who feel the need of
guidance in the wilderness of materialistic
thought, which we seem at present to be
traversing. New York: Harper & Bros.
For sale by Payot, Upham & Co., San
Francisco I
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:seven-league boots for stepping from the
!: habitat of one order of child to the domain
:. OF another. The Spectator has found a
: certain interest in walking for block amid
~ the swarming children of squalor and
filth, then Just turning a step aside to
!: find himself in another world for babies.
: 1t is better world, of course; but to the
;: eyes of a newcomer New York is the
: hardest of cities upon its children,
whether born to the gutter or to the
purple.
. With a flutter of laces and velvets.
silks and satins, the baby-carriages of
the favored sweep by like triumphant
chariots. Little toddlers walk beside
their nurses, sedate in their harlequin ap-
parel-clothes seems a word inadequate
Are these the dear delights for boyhoodP
The Spectator has passed down such line
of nurses and their royal charges with a
longing born nightly in his soul to give
d party-a Pinafore party-the pinafores
provided by himself and made OF brown
holland. AT the entrance door all apparel
should be exchanged for pinafores, the enter
tainment in the reception-room should be
sand-heap for "Sebastopol," that delight
full game of the Spectators childhood; nor
would the wherewithal for mud-pies be
absent.
Though the street-child on its native
hearth is not happy sight for any child
lover, by law of contrast it may become
relief to see the children playing freely in
the cutters To reach this state of mind
a one must first share an experience which
S>gas the Spectators not many days ago.
Discovering an immediate need of 4cent
article, be ventured into an emporium"
: where he was told to seek it, or rather he
let himself drift with human maelstrom
and was swept into the salesroom. Having
waited ten minutes for clerk. the Specta-
tor secured one, selected the purchase, paid
for 1t, and waited again for the system of
checking and wrapping to be carried out.
After q second. ten minutes thus wasted
Give minutes for each cent spent) the
Spectators mounting impatience resolved
itself into a question, "Why is this?"
There seemed no dearth of clerks, and all
worked with nervous haste. The reason
was not far to seek. The clerks were for
the most part children. There were few
women scattered here and there, but chill
dren were the chief employees. AS the
Spectator watched their work he wondered
that anything was correct or on time
The Outlook
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ALitt1e Sister to the wilderness.

Under this charming title Stone & Kim
ball send out a beautiful little book by
Lillian Bell. Stone & Kimball are doing
some very handsome bookmaking, and the
present volume, both within and without,
is above the ordinary. The scene is laid in
the West Tennessee bottom land.
Mag, the heroine, is a veritable little
sister of the wilderness. She knows the
birds; she loves every beast of the field
and creeping thing of the earth. She loves
nature as natures own child always does,
and she knows little else. Wealth, educa-
ton, refinement she imagines must of
necessity bring goodness, nobility and
happiness to their fortunate possessor.
When her eyes are opened to the fact that
they do not the shock is a terrible one. In
a storm, on the levee, she saves the life of
a famous circuit-rider named Camden,
with whom her own life and spiritual ex-
periences become closely knit up. Together
they nurse the whole countryside through
siege of yellow fever, and out of great
tribulation Joy comes to them. The char
acter of Camden is strongly and artistically
drawn, but the chief interest of the story
centers about Mag, or Margaret and the
development of that strong, pure, but
fettered and inarticulate soul, under Cam
denis influence, is skillfully portrayed.
The book is well written, in simple, I'M
affected way, aud favor which the long
suffering American public is in position
to appreciate is that the author has es-
chewed dialect, and tells her tale in ''plain
United States" which, it seems, is after
all spoken and understood in West Ten
nessee. Chicago: Stone Il Kimball.]
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-12
A Scientist in Fiction.

In the preface to clever enough novel
just published in this country, the author,
Mr.. Grant Allen, gives, for the benefit of
young aspirants in letters, some data re-
garding his own progress. He calls it a
record of his upward path to a modest de-
gree OF popularity with the reading public.
In reality it might be called the record of
his literary unmaking.
Grant Allen says rightly that he was not
born a novelist, but was made one. Phil
osophy and science were the first loves of
his youth. In the days of his enthusiasm
he did considerable work that was literary
as well as scientific. He had that rare gift
which few scientists possess, of putting
scientific facts so clearly, SO simply that he
who ran might read, yet with such grace
full literary facility that the scholar could
but enjoy.
In an evil hour temptation came to Mr.
Allen as it comes to most of us. He
yielded, as do many of us, deserted the
thorny path of science, with its few emolu-
ments, and took to romance writing as
many another man has taken to stock
brokerage and the produce commission
business-because there was more money
in it. He expresses the truth very patty
when he confesses that an enterprising
publisher turned him from an innocent and
impecunious naturalist into a devotee of
the muse of shilling shockers.
IT'S pity-for while the muse of shilling
shockers (Grant Allen is more severe
upon his own fiction than any one else
would be) has devotees a plenty, there are
few writers in this age and generation who
can turn out such works as physiological
Esthetics," Mr.. Aliens first book, or even
such as his delightful "Vignettes from
Nature and the various scientific papers
that he has from time to time sent forth.
These are by far his best work. Kegan
Paul published physiological aesthetics"
nearly twenty years ago. The book found
some lovers. Darwin and Herbert Spencer
and other people of that sort read it, liked
it and welcomed the young man as
coming kindred spirit. "Vignettes From
nature and series of popular articles
on certain phases of evolution appeared
in the St. James Gazette, and were after
ward published in book form. And yet
Grant Aliens contributions to fiction
some half dozen romances, not one of
them much above the mediocre-are the
work upon which his reputation rests.
Some time since the present writer made
the rounds of the local bookstores to pro-
cure one of Mr.. Aliens books of scientific
essays. In one of the leading bookstores in
the City the proprietor greeted the searcher
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-12
Judge Ketchum's Romance.

Jack Tantallon, Earl of Tantallon, a
British nobleman-the British commoner
is rara avis in English fiction-is crossed
in love, and comes to America, to Cali
fornia, in the good old style. He makes
an enemy of a member of the Bohemian
Club, who, when Jack goes up to the
mines Gall English noblemen who are
crossed in love and, come to California go
to the mines), gets some one to assassinate
him. OF course, Jack does not die. He Is
nursed back to health by a half-drunken
Justice of the Peace, Judge Ketchum, a
true backwoods mining camp original, IN
whom Jack discovers son of the black
sheep of the house of Tantallon, the real
Earl and heir.
OF course, Jack Indicates at once and
takes the long-lost uncle and his nretty
daughter back to England. The Judge"
has, it seems. in early life run away with
the wife of Jacks best friend, man much
older than Jack. When confronted with
the man he has wronged the American
born Earl of Tantallon has the grace to die
of apoplexy. The pretty daughter proves
to be not his daughter, but the child of the
deserted husband so that Jack is again
Earl of Tantallon. He is reconciled with
his old sweetheart and becomes bright
and shining light in the British peerage.
The author, Horace Annesley Vachell,
tells his somewhat inflated story very well.
New York: J. Selwin TAFT q Sons. For
sale by the Popular bookstore, 10 Post
street. San Francisco
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-12

year 1704, when it was still classed as cur
rency on the Connecticut shore. In 1890
the first issue of paper money in America
was made by Massachusetts, in order to
pay off the soldiers sent on an expedition
against the French in Canada. From that
time on the facts as compiled by the
author go to show that paper money came
continually to the relief of the colonists
from the rapacity of England. Later,
when the British yoke was thrown off, the
era of service began for the treasury note,
which in turn was succeeded by the green
back era.
But while as collection of facts con-
corning the growth of the American money
system Mr. Leavitt's book is of value, he
who goes to it for enlightened leadership
upon questions of finance will find little
satisfaction. His theories" are for the
most part the editorial utterances of par
tsan newspapers from all parts OF the
country. His panacea for all our financial
ills is convertible currency. He deals at
length with the great historic financial
panics of 1887 of 1857, 1878, 1885 and 1898.
and finds for each separate explanation;
finds each to have been the result OF a
series of circumstances that might have
been averted by different financial policy.
That there may be, underlying our regu-
larry recurring seasons of hard times, law
based upon something permanent in our
industrial institutions, and only indirectly
affected by the Vaccinations of foreign
operators" domestic gold bugs" Wall
street "manipulators' or even by the
theories of well-meaning populistic ''infia-
tionists,' seems not to enter Mr.. Leavitt' s
calculations.
He has weakened what might have been
the wholesome influence of his book by in
diligence in personal vituperation of the
various leaders and blunderers who have
from time to time undertaken to steer the
National bark among the rocks and shoals
of finance. While he is unquestionably
right in many of his arraignments his in
temperate presentation of the matter in
hand is enough to cause the rejection of
his work, save as book of reference. AS
such it will be found exceedingly useful in
a variety of ways. Boston: The Arena
Publishing Company. For sale at the
Popular bookstore, 10 Post street, San
Francisco
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with, "Grant Allen2 Grant Allen is a
writer of fiction. He has never published
anything of a philosophical sort" The
incident was amusing at the time, and had
a very pleasant sequel. Being used to
point moral and adorn tale" in an
other connection, some kindly and we'll
informed reader of the CALL took occasion
to send the writer copy of the very
book of Aliens that had been sought for
in vain.
But to all intents and purposes Grant
Allen is now known only as writer OF fic-
ton. The better promise of his young
manhood is forgotten by all but few. To
the world at large he is a novelist, whether
he be regarded as good, bad or Indifferent.
The measure of success he has attained in
this line. he tells us, is the result Of ten
years struggle that has left him broken in
health and spirit, with all the vitality and
vivacity crushed out of him. His advice
to other men of aspiration IS: Don't take
to literature if you've capital enough IN
hand to buy a good broom and energy
enough to annex vacant crossing"
All this is very sad, and essentially weak
on Mr. Aliens part. That he has met the
world and been CONQUERED by 1T IS not
wholly the fault of the world. There are
some successes that are more humiliating
than failure, and of these he is one. He is
in the position of that worthy OF old who
sold his b1rthrlgnt lot mess OF poIage.
Only, he nows sits wailing his bargain
and warning others away from the feshpot
rather than from the barter. The shame
of Grant Aliens position is that, able to do
the greater thing, he chose the lesser.
Such being the case, it would seem the
wiser part for him to practice manly abb
stinence from such feeble wailings as char
acterize the preface of his book now under
consideration.
This book, "At Market Value" is a story
of English life. A certain nobleman, de-
sirous to be known and loved for himself
alone, disappears, becomes common sea-
man, then struggling artist and finally
an Arctic voyager. He loves girl who re-
turns his affection. but he goes away from
her because he fancies she has all along
known his real rank and position. He sits
supinely by while in the House of Lords
he hears himself declared legally dead, and
his successor recognized. Then he turns
to authorship, wins name in fiction, dis
covers that his ladylove was true after all.
They are married and settle down to life as
Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold Willoughby, his
claim to the title being fully abandoned.
The story is we'll and interestingly told in
Grant Aliens best style. [Chicago: f.
Tennyson Neelyl.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-12
..The Fair Maid of Fez.n

A wretched tumble of a tale, by St.
George Rathborne, who takes his reader
by flying leaps from the Occident to the
Orient, of a sort that would have turned
the celebrated flying horse of the Arabian
Nights" wild with envy. Andy North, the
hero, to recover certain papers, the import
of which the reader never does find out,
starts for Morocco. In six weeks he is
back in New York, having journeyed to
Morocco, made his way through desert
sirocco to Fee, where he rescues an Ameri-
can damsel in distress, kicks up shindy
between rival claimants to the throne, and
in the melee attacks and wounds the Sui
tan's Grand Vizier, who has the sought-for
papers concealed in his bosom; has a
hundred or so hairbreadth escapes, and
returns with his documents. The Grand
Vizier, VINO is a renegade American, fol-
lows him to New York, takes Inspector
'Byrnes and the entire finest in the world
into his confidence and hires them all to
assist him in gigantic scheme for truly
oriental revenge upon his foe. At the last
moment Byrnes and the force declare
themselves. The villain is caught in his
own tolls and the ridiculous tale ends.
New York: The Home Book Company. ]
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-12
The Mystery of CIoomber.

A. Conan Doyle's book, 1.-THE Mystery OF
Cloomber," although written in an interest.
ing style, is scarcely equal to some of his
other productions. If his fame rested
solely on this volume he would probably
never have been heard of. Although not
a startling mystery" there is enough OF
the supernatural to keep the readers at
tention engaged to the end, for though one
can almost guess what the fateful crisis
will be, still he reads on and on to make
assurance doubly sure. The general at
mosphere of the book is weird and IN
canny as COMFORTS with mystery" but
there is just enough of romance to make
pleasing rift in the cloudy sky. One can
scarcely help wondering how the flower OF
love could thrive in such murky cline.
New York: Z. E. Fenno & Col
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-12

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Your nights are restless.
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Your sleep is not refreshing.
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You have dumb chills.
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'when your system is thoroughly poisoned
with malaria every organ of the body becomes
inactive" so said the doctor.
After leaving the doctor called on neigh
boring druggist asked for bottle of joys
Vegetable Sarsaparilla. He did not want to
sell it. He tried to sell his own. He told me
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a bottle of joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla, for
refused his substitute.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-12
Gods Light as 1t Came to Me.

A little book, imbued with a deeply
religious spirit. The author, whose name
is not given, but who is evidently a
woman, gives an account of her entrance
from mere intellectual acceptance of doc
trines into the fullness of the higher Chris
tian lie. Her argument leads to the con-
clusion that Gods principle of love, which
is the foundation of his universe. vitalizes
all, and endures through eternity. How
ever suffering may be our conditions, they
eternally fulfill Gods law of infinite
growth, and the believer becomes, himself,
ceasing all conscious effort, part of the
divine principle. Boston: Roberts Bros.
For sale by the Popular bookstore, 10 Post
street, San Francisco