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around the entombed treasures, and the
Dance of Death was mingled with the
fierce, painting life above and below
ground. When Mount Davidson's mil
lions overwhelmed San Francisco III a
golden tide, the pulse that beat in the
mountain city throbbed by, telegraph
down at "The Bay" Mad, wild, bonanza
daysl Speculation brought with it strange
scenes of dramatic life in the two States.
In the early seventies the golden and sill
yer tide had reached its highest point. and
around the bonanza kings were gathered
all the princes and princesses of the House
OF Belshazzar. Here, in these pages OF
Miss Devereux of the Mariquita, one who
lived and moved among those scenes az
boy and man has written the story of a
mine. The strange history of the inherit
ance OF friendless girl. The story of an
unpunlshed crime. Schemes which
reached out from San Francisco to Vir-
ginia City, New Y ork, London and Paris
are herein drawn from life, with phases of
a wild, Walpurgis night social revel which
has now happily passed away forever.
The remarkable Southern adventurer who
ught to be lone of natures noblemen
the Queen of the Night, the great King of
Forgers and the social and mining ad
yenturers of that "time of storm and
stress, are real human units who have
"strutted their brief hour" upon the scenes
OF bonanzadom. The matchless miners of
Nevada. brave, bold and resolute. are
herein called back from the misty past
and, while to-day, the streets of Virginia
City are not brilliant with life and excite
ment, and the glory of the past has died.
the romance of the old still lingersl The
story OF Miss Devereux of the Mariouita
tells of modern Una, who walked nm
harmed among the lions. 1t is the history
OF princess "who came to her own
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CHRISTIAN CONSCIOUSNESS.

A work which presents many religious
problems under new aspect, and is likely
to give rise to considerable discussion in
theological circles, is "The Christian. Con-
sciousness, by Joseph Black. The author
places what he calls Christian conscious
ness along with the Bible, the church and
reason as a source of authority for arriving
at religious truth and right conceptions of
moral conduct. 1t is, moreover, according
to the author, the only source from which
| there can come an evolution of morals and
continual advance toward perfection in
our ideas of our duties to God and man.
Mr.. Black says it seems strange, at this
end of the nineteenth century of the
Christian era, that there should be an un-
developed and partly unused function of
Christian life function which not. only
accounts for moral and dogmatic phe-
nomena, but also makes God more real to
men. 1t comes in a time of need. The
glory of the Reformation was the exalta-
ton of faith and the substituting
of the infaIiible Bible for the in
fallible church. The immedi ate result
of the reformation was the formu-
lation of several creeds and orders of
church government, each of which made a
practical claim of Instability for it's own
faith and discipline. The Christian con-
sciousness had to hid its diminished head
and even doubt and condemn itself.
Times have changed the Christion con-
seriousness has its part to play in the mo-
mentous era OF change and development
on which the world seems to be entering.
To Christian consciousness we must look
not only as a source of authority in one of
itself, but as a touchstone for trying the
Bible, the church and reason.
The style of the work is strong. scholarly
and suggestive. 1t throws clear light on
the evolution of morals and assists in ex-
planning how it is that evils. such as
slavery, which are approved in one gener-
alton, become universally condemned in
another. The Bible and the church re-
main unchanged, but Inconsistencies
grows and men may acquire truer ideas as
the race progresses: The argument de-
serves the attention OF all intelli-
gent Christians who have accepted
new conceptions of morality, new
ideas of Gods dealing with men,
and who are seeking to reconcile
these new phases of religion with the old
faith held by their fathers. AS the author
says in concluding his book: ''The doc
past difficulties and promises a future
OF gracious possibilities 1t is always
reverent. 1t believes in the indwell-
ing Christ. The dispensation of the
Spirit can never thrill the world
with holy purpose until the Christian con-
sciousness is heartily recognized and ac-
cepted. The Christ in us struggles in vain
for fullest expression, until we hail the
Christian consciousness. The Christian
consciousness has ultra biblical sanctions,
but it has no ultra Christian sanctions in
morals and in dogma, For other founda-
ton can no man lay than is laid, which is
Jesus Christ"
1.-THE Christian Consciousness, It's Rela-
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previous efforts. His charm rests in see
ing just what any wide-awake young Amer
lean would see in the great French capital
and in telling it SO that the reader
feels that he has seen more than if
he had been to Paris himself. The volume
is charmingly illustrated by Mr.. Gibson.
The authors conclusions as to the figure
the rich American girl who marries
foreign title makes amid Partisan sur
roundings are readable, though harsh.
Her husbands relatives in France are
more disappointing, says he. ''They GER
tainly cannot be expected to see her in
any different light from that of an outsider
and nobody. They will not even admit
that she is pretty, and they say among
themselves that SO long as Cousin Charles
had to marry great fortune it is a pity he
did not marry French woman, and that
they had always preferred the daughter of
the chocolate maker, or the champagne.
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PASSING THROUGH THE ORDEAL.

The experiences OF a man who, after q
wild and reckless youth. seeks by repent
ance and atonement to win his way back
to honor among men, furnish the Incl
dents out of which is woven the story of
Passing Through the Ordeal" by Arthur
Pratt. The adventures.of the hero are i'm
probable, and he has more in the way of
luck, good and bad. in a comparatively
short time than ordinarily falls to the lot
of dozen men in their whole lives. 1t is,
moreover, novel of the old style. The
characters are the conventional hero,
heroine. villain, and benevolent patron
who. at the close of the tale when the vii
lain has been unmasked, bestows his
daughter on the hero and gives him wealth
besides. The style does not display the
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GOETHE-SOHILLER FAIR.
The Festival Promises to Be a Grand
Event.

The Festival Promises to Be Grand
Event.
AT the last meeting of the central COM
mittee of the Goethe-Schiller festival it
was reported that the interest in the
affair had grown beyond all expectations.
1t is believed that it will be the most sue
cessful event of its kind ever held IN this
city.
The committee on invitations submitted
list of guests to be invited, which COM
Drised all the municipal, State and United
States officers, all the regents and profess
sors of the different universities and col
leges, Mayors of the surrounding cities
and many other people of note and those
who have or will aid the festival in a sub
stantial manner.
The music committee reported that at
the matinee on Saturday, November q
music will be discoursed by full orchestra.
Probably the most original feature of the
entire fair will be the Hungarian czarda,
which will have all the different nationali-
ties belonging to the Austrian empire. and
will have the original gypsy music and
genuine gysies in their costumes to assist
in producing tableaux and scenes such as
frequently take place in Hungary.
The following additional contributions
have been received:
Cash received up to October 6, Si237 OIL; E.
Kornel and commander of Company F, Angel
Island, So 80; ]. Z. Knoche, San Jose $40
Captain w. Rasch, $15; G.. Gutsch, $40; j. R.
Freud, 20; John ID. Siebe, $25; Fred C, Siebe
$25; total, $1336 81.
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WAYNE AND HIS FRIENDS.

This is the season of the year when the
book for boys appears on the literary hori-
zon. The philosophy of this fact is va
rously explained. 1t Is possible that the
summer vacation among boys at the
springs or the seaside may suggest juve-
nile theme to the weary author. 1t is Dos
sible, too, that he has an eye to the main
chance in getting out book suitable for
holiday gift. The present volume is well
fitted for that purpose. 1t was written by
Mr.. Selwin TAFT, and is published by his
own firm. The stories were written for
the amusement of Mr.. Tait's little friend.
Wayne Connor, and the chances are that
all young readers will enjoy the tales as
much as be. There are nine short tales of
boyish adventure, and all good reading for
youngsters. II. selwin TAFT G. Sons, New
York
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Sierras, and Joaquin Miller still wears his
crown of the drifted Western pine, but Ne
vada IS almost an unwritten, songless
land. Mark Twain, Dan de Quille, Rollin
M. Daggett, Sam Davis, Arthur McEwen
and few of their companions have merely
touched the outcroppings OF the great lode
of romance that lies ready to the hand of
the novelist.
Over the old emigrant road, down the
Geiger grade, came the Washoe rush of the
late fifties; the early sixties saw the wan
derers from the East toiling over the plains
of the Sioux and Cheyenne, and then
creeping timidIy under Brigham's rocky
battlements at Echo Canyon. Life painted
itself luridly in those flush days" of Vir-
ginia City. Adventurer and bravo and
toiling miner, desperate and keen opera
tor fought, delved, drank, gambled,
schemed and struggled for the shining gold
and silver. Fresh hearts tailed, weary
hands dropped nerveless by the wayside,
plot and intrigue wove their dark web
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MISS DEvEREUx OF THE MAR1oU1rA,

This is story of Nevada bonanza days
by Richard Henry Savage. The State
OF Nevada enjoys the boast, in its recent
history, OF having unbosomed to the
greedy hand of man the most compact
mass of treasure ever discovered. Its gray
mountain buttresses hide to-day un-
counted millions. Its sagebrush plains.
Its stony wastes, its alkaline lakes, it's
Wlnd-swept gorges, never invited the
thrifty Mormons, who fifty years ago were
lmpelled by that uncrowned monarch,
brigham Young, to deftly seize California.
The trlt1ing evidences of gold found in the
Carson and the Humboldt were ignored
by the Mormons, who seized few fertile
oases IN this gloomy land of the Piutes.
1t was land without q history. until the
secret of the mountain gnomes was stolen
by Comstock on the tiinty breast of Mount
Davidson. In 1S45 the splendid mind of
Brigham Young was turned to Mexico, to
Arizona, to California, to even the smiling
Sandwish Islands, those gems of the
blue Pacific. To the dreary waste of
Washoe came Comstock, prospecting for
gold; Gould, Curry and other humble men
were near at hand when the shout went up
which called the whole world to "Silyer-
ado" No land in the world ever made
history as rapidly as Washoe, and Nevada,
from 1858 down to those royal bonanza
days, when the Nevada silver barons
stormed San Francisco, and building their
Pinestreet fortress, made themselves bo-
nanza kings of the world
In the wild rush of Washoe the infant
Territory was filled with a mass of hetero-
gtneous humanity and "womanity" who
wait, in the fading visions of the growing
gray gloom of "recent history" for their
Bret Harte.
California boasts the magician of the
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THE SNOWFALL.

Stanley J. Weyman, whose Gentleman
of France" and other historical tales have
caught the public, is all the rage just now,
and this publication in tasty form of one
of his early short stories is welcomed. ''The
SNOWFALL" is an ingenious tale woven
about incidents that are assumed to have
occurred at the French court in the early
part of the seventeenth century. A snow
ball thrown through carriage window at
courtier is found to contain note of
warning, which subsequently leads to the
exposure of plot against the King. It is
a well-told little story and prettily illus
trated. The volume is one in the Violet
series published by the Merriam Company,
New York
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again" after many days. In vain to
search in the worlds financial history for
a parallel to the upheaval brought about
by the delivers in Mount Dayidson's flinty
bosom. No such men and women now
exist, for the fierce light which PLAYED
upon the Silver Throne has faded forever,
and this story lifts for few tableaux the
curtain which has fallen for a time, for
the play is played out and the actors, are
dead or hidden in the gloom of obscurity.
IF. Tennyson Neely, publisher, 254 Frank
lin street, Chicago.
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grower, or the Hebrew banker-all of
whom were offered to him. The American
Princess cannot expect people who have
had title and ancestors SO long as to have
forgotten them to look upon Sallie Sprigs
OF California as anything better than an
Inolan squaw, and the result is that all
which the American woman makes by her
marriage is the privilege of putting her
coronet on her handkerchief and the hum
bic difference of the women at Paquin's or
VIrot's, who say, Madame the Baroness
and Madame the Princess at everv
second word. 1t really seems very heavy
New York ~
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A LITTLE BooKWoRM.

Not a noise throughout our dwelling
OF the urchin's presence telling:
Did he sleep?
Where had flown the dimpled laughter
Wont to ring from floor to rafter?
What saw, q moment after,
Made flesh creep!
he had rent my Lamb in pieces,
There was nothing but the heeces,
And Horne Tooke
He had taken in a twinkle:
Young looked old, with many wrinkle;
Other poets, quite sprinkle,
Strewed each nook.
My new Gay was sad, Hood tattered,
And my Bacon sliced and scattered;
Spoiled my Locke:
Pollock's Course of Time had run:
Browning was indeed quite done;
Vandal fists had just begun
Knox TO knock.
The Decline and Fall of Gibbon
Swiftly came; to many ribbon
1t was rent.
Steele was twisted there was pillage
In my fair Deserted VILLAGE:
Beaconstield was past all tillage;
Hook was bent.
Would that I had caught the rover,
Ere this cyclone had blown oyerl
Fateful billowl
There he lies could be rude
On such slumber to intrude?
Zimmerman on Solitude;
That's his pillowl
MONROE II. RosENFELr
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LAVENDER LEAVES,

The waving corn was green and gold,
The damask roses blown,
The bees and busy spinning wheel
Kept up drowsy drone,
When Mistress Standish, folding down
Her linen, white as snow,
Between it laid the lavender,
One summer long ago.
The slender spikes OF grayish green,
Still moist with morning dew,
Recalled garden sweet with box
Beyond the oceans blue,
An English garden, quaint and old,
She nevermore might know:
md so she dropped homesick tear
That summer long ago.
The yellow sheets grew worn and thin,
And fell in many shred:
Some went to bind a soldiers wounds,
And some to shroud the dead.
And Mistress Standfsh rests her soul
Where graves their shadows throw
And violets blossom, planted there
In summers long ago.
But still between the royal rose
And lady lily tall
Springs up the modest lavender
Beside the cottage wall.
The spider spreads her gossamer
Across il to and fro
The ghost of linen laid to bleach
One summer long ago.
From the New England Magazin
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RHYMES OF OUR PLANET.

Will Carleton, poet and lecturer, will ever
be best known from his "Oyer the Hills to
the Poorhouse " and " Betsey and I Are
Out" in which homely poems he struck
chords that must ever endear him to the
popular heart. His latest compilation con-
tains recent verses, many of which have
appeared in various magazines and period
icals. "The Saints Love-" the longest of
these, is an ambitious effort in pathetic
composition and contains many strong
passages. Fight 1t Out has ring to it
that means something.
Does destruction seem TO iurk
All about?
Don't believe it! Go to work.
Fight it out.
Danger often turns and flies
From steady pair of eyes;
KUN always camps apart
From an undefeated heart
III the spirit there is much
Do not doubt
That the world can never touch;
Fight it out!
Do the portals of your brain
Freedom lack?
Never let them thus remain:
Push them backl
Do not give to efforts DER,
II they number half d score;
When hundred of them fail,
Then a thousand might prevail.
Germs beneath clod must lie,
Ere they sprout;
Fight 1t out!
Have your foemen come to stay?
Never flinch
Make them win their little way,
Inch by inch
Scan them well and fight them fair,
Give them honest blows to spare;
There are meaner things possessed
Than a trst-claSS second best.
Time may come when you have turned
To rout
Every triumph they have earned:
Fight it outl
All the lessons of the time
Teach fair
'TiS blunder and crime
To despair!
When we suffer, tits to bless
Other moments with success
From our losses, we may trace
Something better in their plaace.
Everything on earth aud sky
Seems to shout
Don't give up until you die;
Fight it outw
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HILLS PRINCIPLES OF RHETORIC.

This is a new edition of a textbook well
known among educators. The author is
Professor Adams Sherman Hill of Harvard
University. The book was first issued in
1873. The present edition is a revision
which includes many changes suggested
by criticisms of earlier editions. The chap
ters, on description and arration-features
of rhetoric, which rlodern teachers now
recognize as of more Importance than tech
nical rules-haVe been extended to cover
much broader scope than formerly. Pro-
lessor Hill considers the function of
rhetoric to be, not to provide the student
of composition with materials for thought,
nor to lead him to cultivate style for styles
sake, but to stimulate and train his powers
OF expression-to enable him to say what
he has to say in appropriate language.
1t IS just such books as this that indicate
the wonderful changes that recent years
have brought in the standing given to Eng
lsh studies in our secondary schools and
colleges. Formerly it was almost assumed
that student could acquire a sufficient
knowledge of English language and litera-
ture without any special discipline. Now
the subject stands at the head of the curri-
culum, and many students would much
prefer struggle with an examination in
Greek or ''trig'' to the sort of test that the
high standard of teaching English de-
mands. Harper & Bros, New York.
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GYPSY,s COUSIN JOY.

Ever since the days of the Trotty Book
and the Gypsy books, Mrs. Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps has helped to amuse and to
entertain children. Now comes new
edition of one of the Gypsy books, and
if the stories are thirty years old it
makes no difference, for even children s
literature should be like wine and
gainwith age. Gypsy Breynton is a
mlscnievous sprite, but her SHINING, on the
whole. is of the sort that always ends we'll
The present edition is admirably illus
trated by Mary Fairman Clark. [Dodd,
Mead 81 Co New York
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Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley. The
number of members will be limited and
the names of applicants will be submitted
to committee appointed from the club.
Miss Kickoff says: 1.-THE classes to be
established are similar to those conducted
by Mr. Lincoln in New York and Phila-
delphia. Their object is the study and
discussion of the modern novel, com bined
with training in spontaneous expression
and the art of conversation. Such discus
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pastors of churches of all denominations,
was first published in 1881, and the present
volume is the fifth edition of the book and
brings the list, of offenders down to the
present year. The list is transcribed from
newspapers, and certainly makes an i'm
posing array of crime committed by pro-
fessed teachers of morality and religion.
Grimes of Preachers" New York: Truth
Seeker Company; price % cents.
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ABOUT PARIS.

So eminent literary critic as Richard
Henry Stoddard designates this volume of
Partisan sketches as the best work yet
done by that versatile young author, Rich
ard Harding Davis. Here are four tales,
all in Mr.. Davis breezy, tersely put and
somewhat self-assuring style, but showing,
if anything, much more painstaking in
his style of composition than many of his
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cisco DR.. A. ]. SHORES has added to his
offices a special department for the cure of
private diseases of both sexes In this depart
ment DR.. Shores has surrounded himself with
the latest scientific instruments for the cure
of these diseases.
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ability to cure these troubles DIR. A. ]. SHORES
is WILLING TO WAIT FOR HIS FEE until
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DIR. SHORES terms are within the reach of
all, so no one need suffer on account OF high
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SARAH MARTHA IN PARIS.

Sarah Martha in Paris is the title
given to sketch of the possible adven-
lures of an American girl visiting the
French capital for the purpose of studying
music. The book was intended to be racy,
but it does no more than limp around the
old familiar course of midnight suppers,
secret designations, clandestine meetings
and loves that live for night The story
print and broad margins expand it to the
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Harper & Bros. New York;
THE FRONT YARD AND OTHER STORIES.

All admirers of the late Constance Feni-
more Woolson will welcome this COM
pilation of six of her last stories. They tell
of Italy, the land where her last days were
passed. They are reprinted from the At
lantic, the Century and Harper's maga-
zines, and are prettily illustrated by Rein
hart and other artists. The stories are /:
THE Front Yard, ""Neptune's Shore" "a
Pink Villa, lathe Street of the Hyacinth, "
"A Christmas Party and "In Venice" I"
Harper & Bros, New York