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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29

without resort to cancellations. Hence
the publication is as important to Califor-
mia at large as to Santa Clara in particular.
The value OF this declaration will be
appreciated when it is reflected that Santa
Clara County, by reason of its large extent
and the great variety of its natural and
developed conditions, embraces many of
the charms and resources that distinguish
California in the sisterhood of States.
That is to say, among its industries may
be counted the cultivation of wine and
table grapes, prunes, oranges, peaches,
apricots, almonds and all the ordinary
large and small fruits of general consump-
ton, all grown as commercial enterprises;
the most famous quicksilver mine in the
New World; stone quarries, medicinal
springs in great mum Der and variety, and a
hundred other things. Added to all the
natural sources of wealth is climate par
taking both Of coast and interior condi-
tions--ocean breezes tempered by an en-
vironment of high mountains and extremes
of heat and cold modified by the influence
of the near ocean. This produces a total
absence of zymotic and endemic diseases,
makes the mere fact of living in the valley
a continual pleasure and renders possible
the remarkable variety and success of the
industrial occupations which assure the
prosperity of the people.
All these facts and many others are set
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29
IN WAsHINGToN,s DAY,

At time when strained relations with
reference to popular American doctrine
exist between England and her giant off
spring OF the western world, and when
statesmen on either side of the ocean ad-
NIT the gravity of situation that has
stirred up the fires of patriotism in this
country to an ominous degree. such work
as that which, in its first installment, con-
stltutes the leading feature of Harper's
Magazine for January-''In Washington's
Day"-comes rather opportunely and will
be widely read for the light it throws on
the American colonial days; those days
wherein was nodded that sturdy, potent
character which was destined to bring
about mighty change in the history of
na1onS-a character, or amalgamation of
character, which should compel and COM
mand respect from the old powers of the
earth and eventually make the name of
American" title of just pride and honor
1t was the late Henry Grady who so hap
PLY welded the respective qualities Of
Puritan and cavalier in that ideal type of
Amerlcanism, Abraham Lincoln. The
opening chapters go far into the early
colonial history to show the gradual evo-
luton undergone in the process OF forma-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29
The Sense of Hearing.

OF the five senses with which human ma
ture is gifted. that of hearing seems to be
more constantly increasing in value than
any of the others. This may be accounted
for by the fact that in the progress of sci
ence OF late years such important inven-
tons as the telegraph. telephone and
for their very existence; and when this
sense of hearing is educated by long prac-
tice in these and other directions, very i'm
portant and surprising results have been
attained. By way of illustration, the tele-
graph operator can. by sound, recognize
an acquaintance at the key who is sending
a message from a distance. simply by his
or her style of sending, on the same prin-
ciple that one can recognize another's
handwriting with which they are familiar
by sight. while to the ordinary observer
the clicking of the sounder would be the
same, no matter how many changes were
made in the senders.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29
A SUPERB SOUVENIR.

The highest point of excellence obtaina-
BILE by writer's, engravers and painters has
been touched in superb publication en-
titled Sunshine, Fruit and Flowers" a
volume devoted to Santa Clara County.
one of the garden spots of California, and
issued by the San Jose Mercury as souv-
enir. 1t is a book of 375 pages, 9xl2
inches, is printed on heavy enameled pa
per and illustrated with 939 photo engrav-
ings.
Its direct purpose is to exhibit the re-
sources of Santa Clara County. In pur-
suit of that aim it has given picture typi-
cal of California. and this is made all the
more valuable by particular and intimate
representations of conditions as they exist,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29

ton OF an American type, and the author
Woodrow Wilson, has drawn an excellent
picture of the state of affairs on this con-
tinent at the time OF the birth of the
Father of His Country.
Those who took counsel in England
concerning colonial affairs writes Mr.
Wilson, had constant occasion to mark the
sharp contrast between the easy-going
Virginians, who were no harder to govern
than Engiishmen everywhere, and the
men of the northeastern colonies, with
their dry reserve and their steadfast reso-
luton not to be governed at all. These
seemed unlike Englishmen elsewhere-a
whit sitter, shrewder more self-contained
and circumspect."
Virginia had been resorted to by those
who had no other purpose than to better
their fortunes, while New England had
been founded to be the home of a creed
and discipline. OF the newcomers to Vir-
ginia at the period of the Commonwealth,
a great multitude had left England as
much because they hated the Puritalfs as
because they desired Virginia. "They
were drawn out of that great majority at
home to whom Cromwell had not dared
resort to get new parliament In the stead
of the one he had 'purged.' Many of them
were of the hottest blood of the cavaliers"
1t was in the years when the Common
wealth stood and those Immediately fol-
~
her character and leading gentry. Among
the rest in the great migration came two
brothers, John and Lawrence Washington,
of stock whose loyalty was as old as the
Conquest"
The history of this branch of the Wash
ington family is given at some length, and
attention is paid other notable families of
the Virginia colony. The irritation bred
by the navigation acts is referred to as
"erowing with the growth" of the colonies,
"and strengthening with the consciousness
of strength and capacity. Not because
sucb restrictions were uncommon, but be-
cause the colonies were forward and exact
ing"
The following idea is given of Virginia
at about the time of Washington's birth:
"Virginia had got the character she was 20
keep. From the Potomac to the uncertain
border OF the Carolinas she had seen her
counties fill with the men who were to de-
eide her destiny. Her people, close upon
a hundred Thousand strong, had fallen into
the order of life they were to maintain.
They were no longer colonists merely, but
citizens of a commonwealth of which they
began to be very proud, not least because
thew saw a noble breed of public men
spring out of their own loins to feed them.
The work. which is, in reality, new
biography of Washington, will appear In
monthly parts during the new year. and
will doubtless take prominent place IN
our literature. Illustrations by Howard
PYLE accompany the text.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29
A PASADENA AUTHORIZES,

Southern California in particular, and
all of California in general has the right
to be roud of certain neat little volume
just published by Stone & Kimball of Chi
cago. None of the stories in the book are
of California scenery or people, and its au-
thoress, Grace Ellery Charming, lives more
In the East and abroad than in California
Yet her home is in this State-the home of
the Channlngs at Pasadena-and it was
the inspiration of Southern California skies
that led her first TO write-that and the
fact that she is the granddaughter of the
father of { nitarianism and the daughter
of well-known scientist and litterateur.
If there are such things as she tells
about in some of these tales it is well that
men and women who eat three times
day and go warmly clothed should know
about them. 'The Sister of Saint" is
the title of the book, ana also of the first
of the six stories it contains, five of which
have the blue Mediterranean, where it
washes the shores of Tuscany, for back
ground, and the sim pie, wretched, tragic
life of the Italian peasantry for theme.
After reading the Lucky Number" one
hopes that the authoress has overdrawn
the plcture-but hopes in vain. There is a
magnificent irony in the, humor it might
almost be called, were it not SO
fearfully grim. Little Settima is
the seventh daughter OF household that
can afford one scant meal day, when
times are good-and nothing more. Little
Settima has the fever and loses her eye
sight. OF course, the medicines and the
nursing still further reduce this one scant
meal for the rest and even all the bed
clothes are carried TO the pawnshop. Yet
Settima, being the seventh daughter, is
lucky. In the course of the tale she re-
gains the sight of one eye land has the
other taken QUIT and becomes the proud |
and envied possessor Of a cheap toy horse
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29
lards' MELODY; the Story

OF Laura E; Richards MELODY; the Story
of Child
The objects of the hereditary societies
ana military and naval orders that have
sprung up In recent years, and the re-
quirements for membership, have been set
compiled by Eugene Zieber and published
by the Banks & Biddle Company OF Phila-
adelphia
Outing for January is beautiful num-
Der. An elegant holiday cover and many
line. illustrations please the artistic eye,
while this golden promise is fulfilled by the
quality OF the text. The worlds magazine
of sport, travel and recreation never cele-
brated the birth of the New Year in more
charming guise.
The December number of the Political
Science Quarterly closes the tenth volume
OF that publication, and accordingly the
editors present ga Retrospect" reviewing
briefly the main features in the work of
the ten years.
The true name of Elizabeth Hastings,
the author of "An Experiment in Altru-
ism, is Miss Margaret Pollock Sherwood.
She is an instructor in rhetoric and Eng
lish literature at Wellesley College. 1t is
reported that her clever story has reached
a third edition.
Matthew ArnoId's Letters" have met
with hearty reception, and Messrs. Mac
milan announce a second edition. The
same firm will issue in January, in two
volumes, with portraits, the life of Car
dlnal Manning by E. s. Purcell, one of the
important books of the new year.
Robert Grants "a Bachelors Christ
mas" has taken the public fancy; although
but recently published it has reached
sale of 10, 600 copies.
Francis Wilson, writing of his friend,
the late Eugene Field, in the Philistine,
says: Next to children, Field loved books,
ana the last page of manuscript he ever
wrote was upon the Love Affairs of Bib
lomaniac'; the book he thought was the
effort of his life." This book is now on
press OF the Messrs. Scribner, and will be
published as soon after Christmas as it can
be got ready. Apropos of Mr.. Field, the
presses of the Messrs. Scribner have been
kept busy ever since he died in printing
new editions of his poems
The social side of Parliamentary life is set
forth by Mrs. Humphry Ward in her new
novel in the Century. With the dinner
parties IN Parliament buildings and open
air receptions ON the Thames Embark
ment, 1t presents picturesque contrast to
American Congressional customs.
Mr.. Marion Crawfords novel, "a Cigar
ette-maker's Romance" is being drama
tized. The fact that the action only covers
thirty-six hours makes the task of drama
tization specially easy one.
Macmillan g. Co. announce a work on
alternating Currents and Alternating
Current Machinery" by Dugald G. jack
son, BIS, C.E., professor of electrical en-
cheering in the University of Wis
consin.
The leading article in Frank Leslie's
Popular Monthly for January upon 'Great
Ship Canals" by Arthur Vaughn Abbott,
C.E., describes the worlds principal ar
titcial waterways of the present day, in
Guiding the new Baltic, the Manchester,
and the Corinth canals of Europe, and
the Welland. the Sault Ste. Marie, and the
Harlem, in America.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29
OLIVER BRIGHT's SEARCH.

"Oliver Bright's Search; or, The Mystery
of a Nine is juvenile story written by
Edward Stratemayer. divers father, a
retired Eastern merchant. is lured by a
smooth sharper into fraudulent mining
scheme in the far West, and the fortunes
of the Bright family are wrecked through
the rogue designs. The father has never
visited the West, and Oliver, approaching
the distressful condition OF the family, Sc
cures a description of the alleged mine,
and after many exciting adventures reaches
the site of his fathers claim. He tnds
the sharper in the vicinity, and runs
him to earth. 1t is discovered that the
mining claim really includes some bonanza
property. This is made to yield its treas
ure, and Oliver reaches home just in time
to save the family domicile from the
clutches of merciless creditors, lift his
father out of financial distress and fill the
old home with happiness once again. The
Merriam Company, New York. Price
81 25
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29
CONSIDERATIONS ON PAINTING.

A series of lectures given by John
La Fargo at the Metropolitan Museum,
New York, and now issued in book
form. The subject-matter of the papers
is largely technical, and addressed in par
ticular to art students, so that the general
reader stands, of necessity, in somewhat
remote relation to them, but as the author
Justly says in his preface, there is always
something in work done for special
practical purpose which through its very
conjecture makes a practical answer to
many questions. New York: Macmillan
e. Co. For sale by Doxey, San Francisco.
Price 81 25.1
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29
THE LAUREATES.

The yet unsettled question of England's
laureateship lends certain interest to this
work, by Kenyon West, on the different
men who since the days of rare Ben JON
son have held the position of poet-laureate.
There is long list of these, some famous,
many now quite unknown to fame. The
book is rather gaudily upholstered for IL.
brary purposes, which seems an error OF
judgment on the part of the publishers, as
it has little else than a reference value,
but the illustrate ons, by Frederick G. Cor
don, are of an excellent sort. New York
and London: Frederick A. Stokes Com
pany. For sale by Doxey, San Francisco.
Prica 81 IN
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29
THE STORY OF THE EARTH.

In this little volume, which is one of
Appleton's convenient, us eful Library Sc
ries, the author, Professor Seeley of Kings
College, has endeavored to tell the story of
the earth SO that its past history may help
to explain it's present condition. He gives
us the record of the rocks in plain terms as
free from technical phraseology as is COM
patible with exactness, and his little hand
book is admirably adapted to awaken
interest and lead to further study of ge-
ology. New York: d. Appleton & Co.
For sale by Doxey, San Francisco. Price
N cents
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29
THE JOURNAL OF COUNTESS KRAs.
INSKA.

A translation from the Polish of the
journal of Countess FRANCHISE Krasinska,
great grandmother of Victor Emmanuel.
The sad story of this poor lady, privately
married to prince whose inconsistencies
darkened her whole life, and who lived for
years under apprehension of the divorce
so often threatened, is known to students
of Polish history, but, beyond the few for
whom such reading has special claim, it
is not likely that her girlish journal will
attract many readers in this country.
[Chicago: A. c. McClurg & Co. For sale
by Doxey, San Francisco. Price 81 25.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29
OTHELLo.

The latest issue in John Dent & Co.'s
beautiful Temple Shakespeare. Each lit
tie volume contains single play, with
preface and glossary by Israel Collins,
MA They are printed on fine paper,
with wide margins and fabricated title
gether models of the printers art. New
York publishers, Macmillan & Co.; Lon
don, J. M. Dent & Co. For sale by Doxey,
San Francisco. Price, in cloth, limp, As
cantS1
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29
BEAUTY FOR ASHES.

This is the curious title of a venture into
the realms of occultism, by California
writer. The author of Beauty for
Ashes" Mrs. Kate Clark Brown of Ala
media, sets herself to read the riddle of
publication by suffering, and gives US q
curious psychic study, powerful in GER
tain way, but marred in its artistic values
by too great improbability. The doctrine
OF reincarnation is hardly sufficiently
formulated to bear the strain to which
Mrs. Brown puts it in making it the basis
for story of modern life. One feels moved
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29
UNCLE JEREMIAH IN THE SOUTH.

This story. by G. M. Stevens. relates to
the adventures of Yankee philosopher
below Mason and Dixon's line. Jeremiah
takes observations of the negro; gets a
taste of everyday society in the South /;
visits battlefelds and typical Southern
cities; mixes in sundry love affairs and
goes through startling adventures; wit
nesses the Chlckamauga celebration, and
winds up at the Atlanta Exposition. The
edition is cheap one, in conformity with
the quality of the story. IL. A. Weeks 81
Co., publishers, Chicago.]
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29
LITERARY NOTES.

"Half of the history of the world has
been written in stones and blood between
the sea-line and the ranging mountains"
says Marion Crawford in "a Kaleidoscope
of Rome" which will appear in the jan
uary Century. This is the first of three pa
pers on Rome and the Vatican which Mr..
Crawford will write and Andre Castaigne
illustrate for the Century.
A new illustrated holiday edition has
been issued by Estes & Lauriat of Boston
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29
THE CHRISTIAN KALENDAR.

The Church Kalendar Company of New
York bias issued a church calendar for
1895, which is replete with information
and statistics valuable to Christians of all
denominations. 1t very satisfactorily
answers most questions that are likely to
arise concerning the tenets of various
denominations.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29
THE SWEATER AND OTHER TALES.

These are Scotch tales told for the most
part in their original dialect. The author,
Fiono Macleod, disclaims any intention to
give rounded and complete portrait OF
the Gael, but has merely jotted down, as
it were, from personal observation and ex-
perlence some of the more poignant char
acteristics of the Celt and Gael in certain
particular environments
The book contains some dozen stories,
within which are included many strange
and fantastic legends of the Scotch. Their
folklore is admirably treated, and, though
the tales are of very sketchy nature,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29
IN THE SANCTUARY.

This is the first issue in Doxey's Pro-
jected Californian Author Series, in which
it is proposed to issue, quarterly, volume
by some Californian writer. The present
work, "In the Sanctuary" is by Professor
Van der Naillen, whose former book, son
the Heights of Himalay," was published
in the East, some two or three years ago.
and reprinted in England. [San Fra ncisco,
William Doxey. For sale at the book
stores. Price SO cents.l
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29
FROM q photograph.

bilious of becoming a novelist. To this
end he wrote book. which has been pub
lished under the title of "An Appalling
Passion 1t is about as melodramatic as
anything ever put upon the Bowery stage.
ana neither IN plot, style, delineation OF
character, nor in the management OF the
means by which the mystery of crime con-
tanned in it is solved, does it come within
the domain of literature. The incidents
might be worked into fairly good blood
and-thunder play, but they will never be
tolerated in the form of a novel and Mack
ayes reputation has been diminished by
the publication of the work. IAN Appall-
ing Passion" Steele Mackaye. Chicago:
Z. a. Weeks & Co. Price % cents
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29
THE GERMANIA.

The Christmas number of Die Germania,
the local illustrated German magazine,
has fairly outdone all former efforts on
the part of its enterprising publishers. Its
pages present really interesting selection
of timely articles, stories and poems, with
iudicious sprinkling of light reading ap-
propriate to the season, all in the highest
style of typographical art. and further
adorned with several half-tone engravings
and per-and-ink etchings.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29
THE LITTLE ROOM AND OTHER
STORIES.

The story from which this collection
takes it's name appeared first in Harper 8
Magazine. Like the others in the volume.
it is vague and indefinite, opening out with
all apparent sincerity toward number of
apparently interesting avenues. Chicago:
Way & Williams. For sale by Doxey, San
Francisco. Price 81 %.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29
LAKEWOOD; A STORY OF TODAY.

A great deal of cleverness has gone into
the making of this particular book. The
author, Mary Harriott Norris, has given
US a capital picture of certain American
society-more strictly speaking, New York
society types, with which she is evidently
thoroughly familiar. There is a pleasing
thread of a love story running through the
book, which terminates in the marriage
of rich and thoroughly good fellow, al
belt bit of a prig, to very lovely girl,
the last survivor of a once wealthy and
aristocratic family. The book nowhere
rises to any artistic height, but has a cer-
tain passing interest of its own, as por-
trayal of a small and not particularly rep
resentatlve set. New York and London,
Frederick Stokes Company. For sale by
DoxeY San Francisco. Price 81 %.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29
GAN APPALLING PASSION"

The late Steele Mackaye seems to have
been unsatisfied with the success he won
as writer OF melodramas and was am
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29

to regret that so much of really good work
should have been expended upon SO
faulty motif. Boston: The Arena Pub
fishing Company Price IS cents.]
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29

they would serve as valuable bases for
other and larger essays in the same field
of fiction as has been entered by the
author.
The book, which is tastily bound, is
dedicated to George Meredith ''in gratitude
and homage and because he is prince of
Celtdom." Chicago: Stone & Kimball. |
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-29
MISS POLLY LAPP.

Opie Reads latest volume is made up of
a collection of short stories and sketches,
of which the most pretentious one fur
nishes the book-title. The author is MOD
est in his introduction of the work, an
nouncing that the only claim set up for
the sketches is that, for the most part,
they have been gathered from; life. AL
though what fame Mr.. Read has already
achieved among Southern writers is not
enhanced by the work to which attention
is herein directed, still the Polly Lapp"
stories make very interesting reading for
leisure hours. Published by E. A. Weeks
& Co., Chicago; paper covers.