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for that kind of work there is no particular
reason why they should not have the emolu-
ments But some Of these days venturesome
young Scot, who has been fighting his way
through Edinburgh University on sixpence .
day, will put on his bonnet and kilt, grid on
his dagger and slip skene-dhu into his stock
ing. Then he will sally forth into the literary
there will be as pretty fight in the literary
way as there has been since the old days OF
Christopher North. In the meantime Ameri-
cans will buy unlimited quantities of the
books of chieftains and usurpers, and, with
their usual Indifference, will become more fa-
milisr with the traditions, history and dialects
of a country 5000 miles sway than with their
own States. And they are little to blame for
it because many of our own writers, as soon as
they become tolerably adept in the business,
are apt to go abroad and spend the rest of their
ing about them The American reader, with
his usual acutcness, prefers the real foreign
novel to an imitation of 1t by one Of his c0un-
trymen; and he is about right in his prefer
ence.
The little volume closes with an appeal
for the patriotic novel in these words:
Our novelists would rather analyze the per.
turbations of the heart of an immature girl, or
the rascalities of "gilded youth" than show
us the development of the character of really
patriotic man who stands in his community
for integrity, fidelity, enthusiasm in all things
relating to his country. his State, his own town,
his home. He is not dead by any means. for
almost every hamlet has him In some stage OF
development. He stands for the best Ameri-
canism, and the encouraging thing Is that he
has the respect and often the admiration of the
community in which he lives That is strong
enough proof that the country at large knows
real patriotism when it sees 1t. But surely it
ought to be in our fiction. French. German
and Italian novels are pcrmeated with 1t. for
their novelists realize that they are appealing
to the strongest passion but one in the breast
of man. Looked at merely from the side of art,
we ought to have more of it, for 1t is inspiring,
elevating, often dramatic. And then it Il
clean and decent and manly and g.brained
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MY LITERARY PASSIONS,

To give an account of ones reading is in
some sort to give an account of ones life
This w. d. Howells admits in his intro
duction to the account of his literary loves
He has, in fact. given US sort of literary
biography, and it forms exceedingly pleas
ing and interesting reading.
Many critics will quarrel with some of
Howells' estimates. They are often the
records of individual opinion, rather than
of critical literary judgment, but he has
apparently aimed to be reminiscent rather
than critical. In some instances, however,
he records the impression of his maturer
manhood beside that of his book-loving
bovhood, as when he scores Thackeray. one
of his earliest literary heroes, as the chief
snob and humbug of all the snobs and
humbugs he had called into bookish exist
ence. This condemnation of Thackeray as
a time-serving, world-ruled and artificial
workman comes curiously from the same
pen that writes glowingly, lovingly even,
of Tennyson, whose ifeless, polished verse
has never ceased to delight him.
But literary criticism is, after all, largely
a matter of individual opinion. Judging
from apparent standards he is the best
stuff for critic who has the largest stock
of prejudices and the least modicum of
knowledge and conscientiousness. In his
essay on critics and reviews Howells him
self gets off not unreasonable summary
of the average reviewing.
at is monstrous," he says, "that for no
offense but the wish to produce something
beautiful and the mistake of his powers
in that direction. a writer should become
the prey of some ferocious wit, and that
his tormentor should achieve credit by his
hghtness and ease in rending his prey; it
is shocking to think how alluring and de-
praving the fact Is to the young reader,
emulous of such credit and eager to
achieve it." New York: Harper & Bros.
For sale by Payot, Upham & Co., San
Francisco
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THE PHILIsTINE.

=
'sThe taste for literature in homeopathic
doses seems to be growing" says the
Philistine, which calls itself ga periodical
protest printed every little while for the
Society of Philistines, and published for
them monthly at East Aurora, N. Y" The
editor is II. P. Taber, who goes to John
Calvin for his motto, "Those Philistines
who engender animosity. stir up trouble
and then SMILE" The Philistine is an
other instance of the effort to free literary
journals from ponderosity. 1t contains
about thirty small pages and is devoted TO
subjects most interesting to book-readers
and other students. The editor indicates
that he does not propose that the San
Francisco Lark, the Chicago Chapbook
and the Portland Bibelot shall monopolize
the held for out-of-the-way and unusual
literary matter. The following jeremiads
are announced for July: "Interview With
the Devil" Walter B. Hart; Where Lite
nature Is At" Eugene r. White; ga Free
Lunch League" William Macintosh; ''The
New Hahnemann," Herbert L. Baker:
AS ii wishing to disclose its true philis-
tinistic character the editor publishes the
following screeds:
Mrs. Frank Guesslie has written an article on o.
chow My Husbands Proposed" 1t will be
syndicated by the National Thought-supply
and MISUNDERSTANDING Company.
Rock & Bum ball of Chicago announce new
volume by Gallbert Faker. Its title is "Scenes
in the Boshy Hills"
chow to Garry Cat in Basket" is the at
tractive title OF an article to appear in the
forthcoming Ladies' Fireside Fudge, from the
pen OF its gifted editor, E. W. Sok.
Judge Tourgee is still making straw without
bricks in the basis.
Now that Mrs. Cady Stanton has launched
her Woman's Bible, let her prepare to enter q
womans heaven. The men won't be in it.
''The Napoleon on the Hearth" is a new
magazine announced from New York. 1t will
bear the subtitle, every Man His Own Bona
parte Revival"
GLOW Wrote the Account Of How Wrote
My First Book" by General Louisa Wallace,
author Of Bob Hur," is announced.
1t runs in the Howl family. W. Dean has a
daughter who put her poems under display
ad. heads in Scribners. The decorative head
is the thing. The poem just belongs.
Mrs. Robert Humphrey Elsmere Ward has
quit twaddling for space. "Bessie CottrelP'
is ended, and it's toss-up between -jubilate
and nunc dimitis.
The current Atlantic is very pacifc-not to
say mild.
The following carping advertisements
appear at the end of the pamphlet:
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call the most bourgeois piece Of music he
knows?
2. What was Svengali's real name?
3. Where does the author state that he is a
social lion? Where does he deny that he is 9
snob?
4. Where does he bring Little Billee in con.
tact with Punch?
5. What did the Laird call NJ. le general
Comte de la Tour-aux-Loups?
g. In what places does the author compare
Gecko to dog?
T. How old was Trilby when she died?
8. What was Little Billees physical expIana-
ton of his inability to love?
8. What verbal description of one of the he.
roes eontradicts almost every one of the au-
thors drawings of him?
10. What incident of the story is inconsist-
ent with the authors own argument in behalf
of the nude in art?
Replies may be addressed to the editor
of Life, New York, cash prizes being
offered for the best responses to the ques-
tiOns.
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ELEMENTS OF NAVIGATION.

A clear and exceedingly compact little
handbook on the art of navigating ship.
The book is intended for students for
whom the more purely technical works on
the subject are too technical. The funda-
mental principles of navigation are made
clear, but no attempt has been made to
elucidate the higher mathematics of the
subject. The explanations of the uses
of the tables aud the nautical almanac
are new features in work of this kind,
which will be appreciated by beginners in
navigation. The author is w. ]. Hender-
son, MA, ensign in the first naval bat
talon of New York. New York: Harper
& Bros. For sale by Payot, Upham & Co.,
San Eranciscn.l
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have passed and the dust of recent struggles
has been laid the history of modern prog
ress will be more clearly discerned. 1t
will then become evident that our century
has been the era of what Huxley emphati-
cally styled new reformation, in which
be has been one of the most efficient lead
ers. It is probably due more to him than
to any one else, unless perhaps it may be
our own Professor Asa Gray, that the
reformation has partaken nothing OF revo-
luton, and that religion has emerged from
it stronger than ever, with no material
change, except that blind superstition has
been replaced by scientific truth"
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Confessions of a Young Man." and in
the decidedly readable volume of Sim
pressions and Opinions" which he issued
last year, this tendency crops out every
now and again, to be. apparently, re-
strained by an occasional reappearance OF
his really sound newspaper sense.
But in "Celihates" he has given his fancy
full swing, and the result is something as
curious, as anomalous as is George Moore
himself. The heroine of the most impor-
tant story in the book, Mildred Lawson, i.
an orphaned young woman of good Eng
lish family and moderate wealth. She i.
housekeeper for her brother and engaged
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ANTON DECIo, ARcATA, CAL.
sT have been cured of case of catarrh by
Drs. Copeland, Neal and VIM, and 1 want it
known SO that others may know what can be
done for them. My trouble began twelve or
thirteen years ago. I was then living in Santa
Cruz, where am very well known. At first it
did not amount to much, but it gradually grew
worse, until was suffering all the tortures of
chronic catarrh. doctored continually, and
took all kinds OF patent medicines, but nothing
helped me. had about made up my mind to
give it up, when l read of the good work of the
Copeland Medical Institute. l decided to try
them, and did, with but little faith. Repeated
failures had made me very skeptical, but my
friend, C. G. Richard, had been cured, and
felt certain that if he could be cured there was
q chance for me. took the home treatment
and began to improve, at first very slowly, but
now am as we'll as ever was, with the excep-
ton of my throat but that is due to some of
the treatment had before want to recon-
mend Drs. Copeland, Neal and VIM, and can:
not find words to express my appreciation OF
their good treatment.
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to model young man. But she breads
marriage. She meets college-bred woman
and becomes imbued with ambition for
career. She breaks her engagement and
enters upon the study of art.
She is a born coquette. She longs, above
all things, for a lover, but while she in
spires love on every side, she is herself
enters mems art class with several other
young women, and moves in a circle of
society quite without the pale of respecta-
bility and scarcely within that of decency.
We are introduced to a number of types of
the new woman, and also to several speci-
mems of what must be the new man. If he
exists he is detestable. George Moores
new men talk freely to their young women
friends about their amours and liaisons.
They yearn frankly after new sensations,
and, like his women, they are gossippy,
curious and vulgar. Mildred Lawson is,
save for her money, a sort OF feeble Becky
Sharp, only, instead of a husband, she de-
sires a lover. Her hunger for emotional
sensation, which she is incapable of feel
ing, is insisted upon with an iteration that
grows nauseating. She is divided between
longing for love and sickening faintness
when in its atmosphere. She encourages
various men, whom she vainly hopes she
can love, only TO turn back each time,
longing, yet afraid, and one last glimpse
at her reveals her lying across her bed,
weary of art, of life, of intrigue and of her.
self, with the prayer upon her lips, "Give
me passion, for God or man, but give me
a passion. l cannot live without one."
The other two tales are of minor i'm
celibates and the new man in still other
aspects of his curious and unpleasing ma
ture. New York: Macmillan & Co. For
sale by A. M. Robertson, San Francisco
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OBLIBATEs,

This is the title George Moore has chosen
for his latest book, which consists of three
stories of three different deyotees of celib-
acy.
George Moore might be characterized as
a literary anomaly. A hardworking.
painstaking journalist, with a genius for
plodding, he seems to have but one ambi-
tion-to pose as an apostle of decadence.
In Esther Waters" in his interesting
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THE CRITIC ON PROFESSOR HUXLEY

1.-THE death of Professor Huxley will be
widely regretted" says the Critic, mot
merely as the extinction of bright light
of science, but still more as the withdrawal
of an important directing force from the
intellectual and moral arena. How impor-
tant this direction has been is as yet only
imperfectIy understood. When few years
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A QUESTION OF COLOR.

A wretched tale by ]. G. Phillips, whose
novel GAS In Looking-glass' will be re-
membered. IA Question of Color is a
story of a wonderfully beautiful girl who
throws over fine young fellow to marry
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a full-blooded negro of fabulous wealth.
The negro kills himself in despair at some
revelation of his wife's horror of him, and
she makes an unsuccessful effort to win
back her first lover. The tale is revolving
to all sensibility, and has no literary merit
that would atone for its other shortcom-
ings. New York: Frederick A. Stokes
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The San Francisco Press Club having

The San Francisco Press Club having
withdrawn from the International League
of Press Clubs, local newspaper. writers will
not be shocked by Philistine's hooking
paragraph: "Our neighboring city of But
falo is to be congratulated. The Interna-
tional League of Press Clubs will convene
there next summer. A plumber, who was
accidentally blackballed by the Buffalo
Club, writes me that they will come,
some in rags and some in iags.'"
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ALL DISEASES.

The Treatment for All Chronic Diseases
Is Only SIS Month. Medicines
Included.
Are you afflicted with DEAFNESS?
Do you suffer from DYSPEPSIA
Have you severe BRONCHIAL trouble7
Are you sufferer from ASTHMA?
Do you suffer from RHEUMATISM
Do you suffer from HEART troubles
Do you suffer from LIVER complaint?
Do you suffer from NERVOUS troubles
Do you suffer from any CHRONIC DISEASE
II you do, the only cost for all treatment and
medicine is S. month, and no better treat
ment is known than that OF the Copeland
system.
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"Punch.''
Shouting himself Smooth face and Mr.. Whistle
{,oith eyegldss).
Photographer-No smoking here, SIT.
Dick Tinto-Ohl A thousand pardonsl
was not aware that -.
Photographer tinterrupting with dignity
Please to remember, gentlemen, that this is
not common hartist's studiol IN. B.-Dick
and his friends, who are common artists, feel
shut up by this little aristocratic distinction,
which had not occurred to them.l
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NEW TO-DAY
LII Is GOOD POLICY
NEW TO-DAY.
To Practice Economy and Cut Down Your
Expense Account
At All Times, and More Especially
These Hard Times, When We
Should Strive to Make Every Doll
lar Go Just as Far as Possible.

The successful business man is the one who
keeps his eye on the expense column, and
never buys an article because it is selling at
fabulous price. If he does not know the value
of an article he investigates and then buys
where he can get the best at the least cost.
This is what every one should do, and the first
place to make the cut is in the account that
makes the biggest iproad into your pocket
book, which is the doctor bill. One of the great
est impositions practiced upon the people is
that of q certain class of practitioners of medi-
cine, who call themselves specialists, but their
chief speciality seems to be to charge exor-
bitant fees. One of the most radical innova-
tons the medical world has ever witnessed
was introduced by Drs. Copeland Neal and
VIM, when they removed the tariff off of the
medical services and placed it on the free list,
thereby enabling the public to obtain expert
medical services for which they had been pay
ing so, $50, $40 and 500 month, for S. a
month, with medicine furnished.
THE SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT
OF Ono Case Always Leads Others to
Heed the Warnings.
That nothing succeeds like success is shown
in the statement made by Mr.. Anton Decio q
well-known and popular business man of Ar
cata, Cal. He says:
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man can feel that he is not engaged in the
work of a woman novelist if he writes q
really patriotic novel.
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons ::
New York. For sale by Doxey, 81 ISL
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1. What does the author claim as the king OF
all instruments? Who does he claim was the
greatest violinist OF his time? What does he
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-11-25

Tie utility Of the tailor made gown
for every DAY wear has established Il as
a part of every well dressed woman s
outfit. The full skirt is plain and the
Jacket is usually made with short rimple
back. aud strapped seams. The old fash
ion OF using jet embroidery velvet Is one
of the most popular fancies OF the win
ter. a trimming of velvet is a necessa-
~ part of every out door as as well as
II, door garment, and vest OF some
bright colOred velvet tends 70 tighten
chafmingly dark cloth jacket. The
lining for the coats and capes Is very
Gorgeous The richest brocades and sat
ius il the newest designs being employ
ed. some Of the newest capes have high
inside collars faced with real antique
lace. In the latest mum eTs OF Fashion
Magazines published by A. Mcdowell
4 Co. are large variety Of these latest
STYLES. These periodicals. are always very
attractive aud are constantly increasing
popularity, la Mode de Paris" and
s.Paris Album of Fashions" cost $3.50
per years subscription, or 80 cents a
copy. The French Dressmaker" IS
$500 per annum or 80 cents copy; and
s.La Moden Sl.50 year or Is cents a
copy.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-11-25
SOUTHERN railway.
For H. Cotton States and Information.
al Exposition, at Atlanta. Ga.


The Southern Rsilwsy operates nesrly
five thousan miles Of DAD in eight Of
the southern I tases snd its lines enter
Atlanta Ga, from five different points
OF the compass Washington. -. g, Is
the Ia rth srn or Eastern terminus o. one
of is lines, which - o erats q IN copnec-
ito with tie Pc nsvivania Ri road, -
sfhe stasra 4 railroad ~ America" be
tween Nca York thfaugh philale phia.
Ballim8rp, Washington ~ q Lynch
burg and p nviise Va. Gre, nboro snd
harlotte N & Sparlanshurg aud Gfeen
Vile. :. g Al snta. Ca, Montgomery
and Mobile. A a and New Or'eans with
c spneciinn gt Salisbury fer Asheyille,
Hot Sp1in s. KnoKgiii- and b At sn0o-
ga, 81 I harlotir o Coin nbia Augusta.
Savannah aud jacksonville. snd at At
lansa for Biz inghsm, Memphis, Macon
and Southern Georgia Solid yestibu'ed
Ii nited trains, with through day coachee,
Pullman Drawing Dom Sleepers and
Dining-cars. Time between Washington
end Atlanta, eighteen hours, without a
change of cars of any clsss.
The Southern Railway Is the only line
which enters and lands passengers In the
Exposition Grounds and no effort or ex-
pense has been spared By the manage
ment In the improvement Of lis roadbed,
increasing the number OF It's coaches and
inauguraling its own dining car service
preparatory 10 handlinS xpeditiously
acd comfortably the heAvy travel tosand
from Atlanta during the Cotton states
and international Exposl s,n, which will
open September 18th end close Dec mber
31st, 1895. On Tuesdays and Thursdays
from September 17,h TO December oath,
inclusive, excursion tickets will be sold
from Washington, ID. u, 10 Atlanta,
Ga at s 400, good for return ten days
from date of sale. Excursion tickets will
be sold every day from S. ptember 10th,
until December 10Th, inclusive, from
Washington at 1925, good for return
twenty DAYS from date OF sale, and ex-
cursiOn tickets for the entire Exposition
season with final limit OF January 7th,
1896, will be sold from September 10Th.
until Decembes 18th. Inclusive, at $50 %.
Map f,Idc furnished, Pull man Sleeping
Car reservalioIs made up n application.
L. s BROWN,
Gen'l. agt. Pass. ID. pt.
J. NJ. CULP. w A. URR,
Traffic Manager, Gen Pass. Agt
Washington, ID. T..
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How,s This 1

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
r. }. CHENEY & CO., Props. Toledo, %
We the undersigned. have known +
j. Cheney for the last Is years, and be,
lieve him perfectly honorable in al
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligation made by
their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists
Toledo O. " aiding, Kinnan & Marvin
Whoselesale Druggists. Toledo, Ohio
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internal
", acting directly upon the bloods and
mucous surfaces of the system, Price
75c per bottle old by al! Druggists
Testimonials free.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-11-25
Y. M. c. A. Entertainment.

Tuesday, November 26, at s p. m. a
the hail of the association. Lecture By
Rev. ID. W. I. 5. Beaver, Subject: "A
Man aud His Message.
/. Piano solo, Miss McCusker.
2. Song, Miss Maud Feldmeyer.
3. Reading, Mrs. Arthur Carter.
4. Piano Duet.
5. Song DR.. George L. Feldmeyer.
6 Piano Solo, Miss Annie Sinclair.
:. Reading, Mr.. Harry j. Hopkins.
s. Piano and Either, Misses Stable.
8. Song, Mr.. Thomas Brewer.
10 Piano Duet.
Admission 10 cents.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-11-25

Mrs. w. II. Meek, who resides 4
Camptonville, CAL, says het daughter
was for several years troubled at times
with severe cramps in the stomach, and
would be in such agony that it was nee
essary to call in Il physician. Having
read ab ut Chamberlain s Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy she concluded
to try it. She found that it always
gave prompt relief. 1t was seldom nee
essary to give the second dose. 1T
has not only saved us lots of worry and
time, y she says, "but also doctor bills.
1t is my opinion that every family
should have a bottle of this remedy IN
in the house. +" For sale bY Feldmeyer
Bios