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HEALTH NOTES FOR YOUNG WIVES.

Under the title of Health Notes for
Young Wives" Aimee Raymond Schroe-
der, MD, has written a small volume
calculated to be of important service to
those for whom it was intended. This
volume does not cover the whole subject
of health under ordinary conditions, but
deals with it solely in reference to child
bearing. In a brief preface, the author
says that in such critical periods of a
woman's life a good physician should be
the chief source of information, inasmuch
as each case differs from another in many
particulars so that it is difficult to lay
down general rules. On the other hand
busy practitioners do not always remember
to give information upon minor points un-
less specially consulted upon them, and as
women are sometimes too modest or too
ignorant to ask about their symptoms,
they suffer quite needlessly for lack of a
little simple instruction. 1t is to supply
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THE STORY OF PORT PRAYNB.

F. Tennyson Neely has just published in
handsome volume the "Story of Fort
Frayne," to which THE CALL has already
treated its readers.
Captain King is in his own field when he
describes killings, and his accounts of gal
liant fights with rebellious redskins stir
the blood.
Stevenson would have left out the love
making, and he found it easy to lead all
masculine minds in thrall with tales of
meaner battles than those of our frontier,
as Captain King describes them.
Cne cannot doubt the gallant captain
has himself ridden forth in the teeth of
May their patriotism and devotion be re-
membered among our boys.
The book needs the pencil of Rem
ington, whose work only seems fit to
use in connection with that of this fellow
artist of the plains.
Captain King shows no real hatred of
the harassing red men, for he pays grace
full tribute to 'the days when the Sioux
followed the settlers for long, long marches,
not to murder and pIllage, but to restore
to them items lost along the trail or ami
mails strayed from their herds" All this
was changed when to our shame and cost
these people were fired upon for resisting
an unjust demand.
From the day of the Grattan massacre
beyond old Laramie" writes Captain
King, there has been no real peace with
the lords of the Northwest. They are
quiet only when subdued by force. They
have broken the crust of their environ
ment again and again and burst forth in
the seething flame of volcano that is
ever boiling and bubbling beneath the feet
of the frontiersmen to this day"
IF. Tennyson Neely, publisher. For sale
by the Popular Bookstore, 10 Post street.
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THE OLD MAIDS CLUB.

The increasing popularity of Israel Zang-
will, who is, perhaps, the leading writer
of the day in England, has called forth an
American reprint of this one of his earlier
books. Zangwills latest novel, "The Mas
ter" is by far the most powerful work he
has yet done, but his reputation rests prin-
cipally upon his Ghetto pictures and his
equally great novel. 1.-THE Prince of
Schnorrers. 'tThe Old Maids Club is.
however, well worthy of his singular abil-
tiles. 1t is full of the clever cynicism, the
good-natured whimsical satire and the de-
licious inconsequence of which he is past
master. The illustrations, by F. H. Towns
end, are exceedingly happy. New York:
Lowell, Coryell IL Co. For sale by Doxey,
San Erancienn /
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To THE GOLDEN GOAL,

From San Francisco publishing-house
comes very creditable sample of artistic
bookmaking in the little volume of sketches
from the pen of the late DR.. J. G. Tucker.
DR.. Tucker was well-known figure in San
Francisco and Oakland from the time of
his arrival on the coast in the days of '49
until his death in Oakland some three
years ago. The present volume of personal
"reminiscences and sketches are now pub
Iished by his widow, who in the preface
expresses a modest hope that they may
prove of interest to his friends. That hope
will probably be realized in a larger sense
than is thus implied. DR.. Tucker had a
very charming literary style. His story
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regarded as most important contribution
to our historical literature. The high
opinion then formed of the authors abil-
ity to deal with the story of the Nation
will be increased by study of the third
volume, which has Just appeared, and
which covers period from the Presiden-
tial election in 1860 down to the spring of
1862.
Before entering upon the story of the
civil war; Mr.. Rhodes devotes chapter to
an elaborate review of the industrial and
social conditions of the people at the close
of the ante-war period. This will be found
one of the most entertaining in the volume.
While the war affords sharp dividing line
between two widely distinct phases in the
social life of the people of the United
States, Mr.. Rhodes does not believe it was
the main cause of the transformation. A
study, he says. of contemporary Europe, a
close examination of social forces, will
show US causes more potent than the civil
commotion in bringing about the altera-
ton that is so striking a fact in the last
half century. These far-reaching forces
are the railroad and its adjunct, the tele-
graph, which by their direct effects upon
the industries of the country have mate
rally influenced the entire social organism.
Effects not infrequently attributed to
the war and the legislation which grew out
of it had begun to show themselves before
1860. The legislative and executive de-
partments of the National Government
were as much tainted with corruption in
the decade preceding 1860 as they have
ever been since, although in that decade
there was little or no bribery of State
Legislatures except in New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania, and it was very
rare that there was ever any suspicion that
a candidate for the United States Senate
had obtained his election by buying votes
in caucus or in a Legislature. The use
of money in carrying elections moreover
was substantially unknown, but, on the
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PILATES QUERY.

Medical students of long ago used to en-
Joy Joking about the spleen and used to
handy about this little skit:
spleen, sir?
Student-I-I did know, but I've for
gotten.
PROFESSIONALISM pity! The only man
who ever knew has forgotten
All that is changed, evidently, and
doubtless the medical world is quivering
with excitement over the revelations made
in S. c. Clarke's remarkable book.
"The spleen receives this invisible force
from the atmosphere" we read, this
nameless something. which is more than
fresh air. this breath of mountain pine and
briny wave, the elixir of the interstellar
ether tthe akasa of the ancients) and passes
on this indefinable magnetic or spiritual
quality to the system. Now a sponge
whose cells are filed with sand cannot
absorb the water in which it is immersed,
neither can the spleen absorb vitality from
the universe to transmit to the organism
if its pores are likewise closed. 1t is one
of the most important gateways between
the physical and spiritual man"
Pilates query, What is TRUTH" seems
scarcely answered in this curious treatise
upon theosophy, Christian science, spirit
ualism and the occult generally.
Introducing the arguments in the mask
of love story seems slightly disingenu-
Gus, but the author earns forgiveness from
the fact that the book is exec edingly funny
in spite of occasional indications that it
was intended to be quite otherwise. Arena
Publishing Company. For sale by the
Popular Bookstore, 10 Post street.
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MANS WRONGS AND WoMAN's RIGHTS.

A smattering of Voltaire and Tom Paine,
feeble rehash of Schopenhauer and Jules
Michelet, and great deal of nonsense of
various sorts go to make up this ambi-
tiously entitled pamphlet, which the au-
thor, Charles Narcotic, calls "a most earn
est endeavor to fairly present all views of
politics and governments. What he
really presents is his own very narrow and
very intense view. He attacks about all
the known institutions under the sun, and
in the hundred and thirty odd pages of
the first part of his great work, which form
the volume under consideration, says
nothing that is of value or of interest to
any well-informed reader. kansas City,
Mo-: Charles Narcotic.
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MAUREEN,S PAIRING.

Readers of 'Irish Idyls" will welcome
another collection of Irish tales by Jane
Barlow. These in the present collection
really antedate the "Idyls," but they are
full of the same subtle sympathy that
characterizes all Miss Barlow's verse. This
quality is, perhaps, the greater part Of the
charm of all the sketches-they can by no
means be called stories-that this writer
has given US. Her field is new-we have
had little of Irish fiction or of Irish folk
lore, and Miss Barlow shows us an exceed
ingly lovable folk, but the vein she has
struck seems after all rather thin one, and
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CYCLING POETRY AWARDS:

The poems cycling submitted to the best lyric
writer this Coast without question That gentleman
has international well national reputation and
it is his opinion that the best poem amongst those sub
mitted in artistic and poecal is that by Annie
Mcclure of 2oS Grove street. this City" He further says
that Mabel Sutton of Seattle Washington has told her
submitted by Alice Kenny of this City is eight, easy
and graceful and evidently written by pracced writer
Miss Mary E. Speakmans contribution is praised for
being Smooth harmonious and of considerable merit"
For personal reasons the of the Judge is not
published here but will be sent to any contestant
application.
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GoETHE-sGHILLER SOCIETY.
A Festival to Be Given in This City
Next November.

A Festival to Be Given in This City
Next November.
The committees of the Goethe-Schiller
Monument Society held meeting last
evening, and were informed that it would
be advantageous to the society to have a
central organization.
Resolutions were passed placing the date
of the festival, which is to be given for the
purpose of procuring funds for the erection
Of the monument. from November 6 to
November 9.
The finance committee was ordered to
advance necessary funds to the press and
printing com mittee for the purpose of ap-
pealing to the German residents of Cali
fornia, asking their assistance and partici-
patton in the festival, in the endeayor Of
making it a grand success.
Mr. Green6latt mentioned that there
remained a surplus of $500 from the last
German festival, which was held in this
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MOTION is LIFE.
Oh, ever restless sea,

Oh, ever restless sea,
This question answer me:
What mean thy ebb and flow in ceaseless motion
Thy tides and currents swept from bay to ocean;
Thy blowy breakers sobbng sleeplessly-
What may their purpose be?
Child Of humanity,
Why CONTEST thou to me?
Hath earth its wisdom all to thee revealed
And science naught from thy keen eye concealed,
That thou doSt seek to know mystery
In questioning the sea?
Motion to me is life:
Without its storm and strife
With no soft wavelets singing to the shore,
No swelling tides no billows overpour-
/ should lose purity and soon should be
A vast, dead sea.
Oh. heir of earth and time,
This mystery is thine:
Thy soul is like the ever-heaving sea;
Its life is in its motion ever more,
And every surge which frets its mortal shore
Must the condition and essential be
To thy spirits purity. j. E. Il.
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RHODES, HISTORY OF UNITED STATES.

When, about two years ago, there ap-
peared two volumes of a history of the
United States by James Ford Rhodes, the
public recognized that a new historian had
arisen endowed with more than ordinary
vigor of style and impartiality of iudg-
ment. His work showed wide study of
all phases OF our National life, a mastery
of the important details, as well as the
general trend of the development of the
country. And the work was everywhere
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SOME RECENT REPRINTS.

THE SExUAL1TY OF NATURE.-The Massa-
chusetts New Church Union has issued
a second American edition of Leopold
Hartley Grindons essay on sex in nature.
The authors endeavor is to show that sex
and the marriage union are universal
principles, fundamental alike in physics.
physiology and psychology. The book
had a certain vogue, number of years
ago, among thinkers of the speculative
and sentimental schools, ard its republica-
ton would indicate a revival of interest
along its particular lines of thought.
Boston: The Massachusetts, New Church
Union.1
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FOR THE WORKING PEOPLE.
The States Free Labor Bureau Has
Filled Many Orders.

E1IIed MANY Orders.
Since the States Free Labor Bureau was
opened, about ten days ago, nearly $500
people have applied for work and en-
ployment has been found for about 26O,
exclusive of twelve men who will be sent
to Yolo County to chop wood tomorrow.
Yesterday places were found for nine
women and ten men.
The decision of Judge Ross will prevent
Mr.. Fitzgerald from sending ont between
200 and 400 laborers. An order was placed
with him for this number of men TO work
on a big irrigation ditch near Turlocl,
Fresno County, and the men had all been
selected and would have gone to work in
about ten days. Now the irrigation
ditch company's bonds cannot be foated,
and from what Mr.. Fitzgerald can learn
the work of construction has been in
definitely abandoned.
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HE CALL to-day makes special mention
IN Its book review of volume by DR.. ]. C.
tucker, recently issued from William
Doxey's publishing house of this City.
This is distinctly California production
ana 1t Is on this account that The CALL
gives 1t prominent position. If all Cali
1ornla papers would pursue similar
course IN regard to the industries of Cali
tornia the result would be beneficial to the
commonwealth.
Elizabeth W. Bellamy is publishing
story in the Ladies' Home Journal called
The Luck of the Pendennings." In
choosing her title, the lady evidently felt
her obligation to Bret Harte and Thack-
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LIFE AND TIMES OF GENERAL JOHN A.
SUFFER-.

A neat little volume, printed for the
author, t. J. Schoonover, at Sacramento.
Mr.. Schoonover is evidently a great ad
mirer of the famous Swiss pioneer, whom
he considers to have been greatly wronged
by those who came after him. His brief
story is told without any attempts at his
torical effect and the book is dedicated to
the society of the Native Sons of the
Golden West. [Sacramento: D. Johnston
81 Co
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FOR LOSS OF HIS LEGS.

Switchman Brigance Sues the Southern
Pacific Company for $4,000.
J. H. Brigance, a switchman who was
injured in collision of engines at the
local railroad yards last month. has filed
complaint against the Southern Pacific
Company, demanding $4,000 damages
Delmas & Shortridge are his attorneys.
Brigance's right leg was cut off three
inches below the knee, and the left leg was
SO badly broken and crushed that it may
yet have to be amputated.
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tended mainly as study of character; the
incidents serving merely to bring out dif-
ferent phases in the natures of two sisters,
one of whom is strong and brave, and the
other delicate, sensitive and timid. The
authors style is equal to the story, and if
it is not marked by any impressive beauty
or vigor, it never fails to do justice to the
scenes described and carry the mind of the
TAppleton & Co., New York. For sale bv
William Doxey; price, paper covers, 80
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CHrFrRoN's MARRIAGE.-From different
publishing houses we have two issues of
this pleasing little novelette,, by Gyp (Com-
tesse de MarteD. The translator of the
issue by Lowell, CoryelI & Co., New Y ork,
modestIy hides behind the initials NJ. l..
J., while the volume sent out by Hurst &
Co., New York, bears the name of Mrs.
Edward Lees Coffey as translator.
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THE MISTRESS OF QUEST.

A readable novel of the conventional
type, but with something more than ordi-
nary excellence, will be found in 1.-THE
Mistress of Quest" by Ade]ine Sergeant.
1t is story Of English life with well-con-
trasted characters and considerable va
riety of incident. That some of the events
are improbable does not detract from the
merit of the story, which makes no pre-
tense at realism and was evidently in
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the lover of rare types may have cause to
trembl should there be an onslaught OF
the literary pick-wielders into the compar-
atively unexplored field.
This for the future, however. "1rish
Idyls" and sMaureen's Fairing' are still
unspoiled, and long may they remain so.
New York and London: Macmillan q
Co. For sale by Doxey San Francisco
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information of this general character that
the book was designed. 1t is a small
volume OF 2lO pages, but covers the sub
iect effectually, and is written in a clear,
simple style without technical terms.
William Wood & Co., New York For
sale at Popular Bookstore, 10 Post street;
pricA 81
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DISHONESTY AND CASTE.

A collection of sensible essays on home
making, house decoration, entertaining
and kindred topics. The author, Ethel
Davis, enters vigorous protest against the
many shams of our modern social exist
ence and advocates return to simplicity,
honesty and directness in our home
making. The book gives many useful
hints on the subjects treated. Boston:
Home Science Publishing Company.
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City some years ago, and it was proposed
that Drs. Kern and Magnus, who were
members of the finance committee of that
festival, should endeayor to procure the
surplus for the use of the monuments
society.
The San Francisco call., 1895-07-28
JOAQUIN M1LLER's CITY BEAUTIFUL

The Building of the City Beautiful, by
far the best prose work Joaquin Miller has
ever done, is now in its fifth edition. THE
CALL reproduces to-day new portrait of
the poet, taken at his home on the heights.
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FRoMoNT JR. AND RIsLER SR.-By AL
phonse Daudet, issued in the Globe Library
Series, by Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago.
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DESPERATE REMEpIEs.-A reprint from
the press of Rand, McNally & Co. of an
earlier work of Thomas Hardy's.
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TERMINATIONs,

A new volume by Henry James, pub
lished under the title of Examinations"
contains four short stories, all of which are
psychological studies of the examinations
of life. None of the tales contain much in
the way of incident. Mr.. James finds his
characters involved in some problematical
position, and leaving them there proceeds
to analyze their thoughts, feelings and
emotions at his leisure. If story of this
kind is not in itself important, it can, at
least, be made amusing by cleverness of
style, and Mr.. James being past master
in that art has given these studies liter
ary grace that charms the reader and holds
attention even when the problem of life un-
der discussion is by no means interesting.
There is in the moral of the stories a GER
i've, breathes through all the phases of the
problems presented and sounds over each
termination with something like wall of
despondency. This mournfulness suits
well the utter futility of the characters
whose careers are here studied in the clos
ing scenes, and in its subtle suggestiveness
may be accounted one of the charms of the
work. While the book will not increase
the fame of the author, it will retain for
him the wide circle of readers he has al
ready won and assure his admirers that he
has lost none of that delicacy of sentiment
and felicity of phrase which have made
him, in his own domain, without rival
among the living writers of the English
language. Harper & Brothers, New York
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HOW TOMMY SAVED THE BARN.

Little folk who reveled in the adven-
lures of "Toby Tyler" and the Country
Boy at Country Fair" will be rejoiced to
know that Mr.. James Otis has written an
other children's book. Mr.. Otis is an ideal
writer of stories for children, and "How
Tommy Saved the Barn" is one of his best.
Californian children will, perhaps, not en-
ter as fully into realization of the local
color in the tale as will those in the East
where the scorching dog days make long
vacations necessity, and the "fresh-air
fund.- philanthropy is the greatest god
send the children of the poor ever knew.
But if they haven't such warm weather
Californian children have warm hearts,
and these will be touched as well as de-
lighted by the character and adventures of
one little Gresham boy" New York:
T. Y. Crowell & Co. For sale by Doxey,
San Francisco
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-14
OPERA FOR EASTER WEEK,
Return Of the Favorites, Grau's Opera
Company.

Tomorrow night, Easter Monday.
Graus popular company will play It's
farewell engagement in Fort Worth.
Commencing with that great bandit
opera, Fra Diavolo," which was SO
well presented by this same company
about eight weeks agONduring the very
cold spell. The Dallas News of April
says.
The man that "hath no music in his
soul" would have been painfully con-
splcuous at the opera house last night
at the production Of that popular
opera. Fra Diavolo," by the Grau
opera company. This comic opera,
which has met with such favor wher-
ever It has been presented, was seen
here but a few weeks since by the same
company, at which time II was fully
noticed in these columns.
The worth OF FRA Diavolo" is too
well known to demand extended notice.
II Is held today as production to COM
pare new operas with and has long
since been recognized as holding "a
prominent position in the front rank of
comic operas in which tuneful music
and considerable scope for histrionlc
ability are commingled together in an
artistic manner. 1t Is gratifying in
view of ting fact that Mr.. Grau does
not herald his troupe with enormous
glitterlng promises to the public and
does not claim grand opera stars. but
promises and gives theater-goers a
smooth performance. to commend 10th
the opera and company TO the hearty
reception OF our play-goers. This in
itself. let 1t be said. is worth a passing
note. ina9much as the recent production
in Dallas OF robin Hood" by an over
rated company slgnally failed OF full
filling managerial and public eXpectu-
tlon. Era Dlavolo" was staged and
costumed and was rendered in most
acceptable manner or the cast the
News has often given individual mem
tlon and a repetition OF what has been
said is deemed unnecessary. 1t is suf-
| iicicnt to state that the leading mem
bers were fully up to their respective
roles and ably sustained their reputa-
ton for earnest endeavor and artistic
Interpretation.