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oHAUTAUQUAN JEWISH STUDIES.

1t is perhaps not generally known that
Chautauqua-the peoples college for educa-
ton at home-has a department for Jew
ish studies. The innovation was begun
two years ago, and is now carrying on its
special line of work most successfully. Its
membership has already reached nearly
500, located in nineteen different States, a
number of its students being in this State.
Interest in this work has also been awak-
ened in foreign lands, notably in Great
Britain. An enthusiastic Jewish Chau-
tauquan travelling abroad has carried her
enthusiasm into England this year
and is making propaganda. The National
Council of Jewish Women, organized
at the Women's Congress of the World s
Columbian Exposition, has taken up the
Jewish Chautauqua courses, commencing
them in the highest terms to the members,
and the various study circles OF the coun-
Gil are following out these readings.
Special courses in Jewish history and lit
erature are now announced. These courses
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HBROINES ON THE
STAGE,

Mr.. Charles E. L. Wingate, managing
editor of the Boston Journal and Boston
correspondent of the New York Critic, has
gathered into this sumptuous volume an
extraordinary amount of fascinating in
formation relating to Mrs. Bellamy, Mrs.
Cibber, Miss O'Neill, Mrs. Abendon, Eliza
beth Farren, Louisa Brunton, Ellen Tree,
Mrs. Mary Robinson, Julia Marlowe, Nine.
Modieska, Mrs. Langtry, Mrs. Siddons,
Ellen Terry and dozens of other famous
actresses who have identified themselves
with Juliet, Beatrice, Hermione, Perdita,
Viola, Imogen, Rosalind, Cleopatra, Lady
Macbeth, Queen Katharine, Portia, Kath-
arina, Ophelia and Desdemona. 1t serves
as running history of the English stage
in one of its most interesting phases; anec-
dote, gossip, criticism, appreciation, ro-
nance are mixed in just the right proper
tions. 1t is work of deep research and
written in delightful style. The illus
trations are many of them copies of rare
prints and are most attractive. The book
certainly serves as contribution toward
''the one missing book in Shakespearian
lore" 1t has ffty-three illustrations and
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JOHN GALT's NOVELS.

The growing public demand for stories
of Scottish life brought about by the recent
successes of Stevenson, Crockett and
Barrie has led to the republication of the
more interesting works of John Gait,
whose novels are an important part OF the
literature of Scotland century ago. 1t is
the intention of the publishers to make
the republication in series of eight vol
umes. OF these two volumes have now
appeared containing a critical review of
Galts works as pictures of Scotland in the
last century, biography of the author
and two of his best known stories: An
nails of the Parish" and the Ayrshire
Legatees."
Mr. Crockett, who furnishes the critical
introduction to the series, warns the reader
at the start that Cats best books do not
contain even the rudiments OF a plot and
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the interests of remonetizing silver. One
of these forms No. 8 of Coins Financial
Series, and is mainly occupied with press
comments on the Hoar and Harvey debate
in Chicago. The most interesting portion
of the contents is an able address on 1.-The
Relation of Debtor and Creditor" deliv-
cred before the Arkansas Bar Association
by Judge Henry c. Caldwell of the United
States Circuit Court.
The second pamphlet bears the title of
"Facts on Finance, or Apples of Gold in
Pictures of Silver" 1t is announced as
the first volume of series to be issued
quarterly by NJ. M. Smith of Salida, Colo,
contains seventy-four pages and is illus
trated by numerous cartoons of some
merit. The contents consist largely of
statistics and include good deal of gen.
eral information on financial subjects.
icons Financial Series No. g." Chicago
Coin Publishing Company; price 25 cents;
the San Francisco News Company. "Facts
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A MODERN WEBSTER.

DIR. Edward Thomas Roe has here com
piled handy pocket dictionary. Into q
neat volume of 432 small pages he has
aimed to put words of ordinary usage tc
the number of 10000, giving accurate and
concise definitions and the most approved
modern spelling. Phrases, maxims, mot
toes and familiar quotations from foreign
languages are also given, as well as COM
mon authorizations and few helpful illus
trations. The work is especially designed
by reason of it's handy form, as well as its
price (25 cents in limp cloth up to 81 in full
Russia) for the use of school children, bust
ness men, stenographers and others
Laird & Lee, Chicago.
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and the routine of existence went forward IN
from the men of-war ana the mellow trumpet
proclaim the march of armed men. At times
war party would halt at our front veranda,
house and DINE melt pce dSn ne away again in
the forest, with perhaps q feu de joie in honor
of their host-a compliment that he would
gladly have dispensed with. Meals were often
served in the great hall of Vailima, NOBLE
room over fifty feet long and proportionately
broad, of which Mr.. Stevenson was pardonably
proud. At halfpast the clapping of hands
announced that ava was prepared-that pecu-
liar beverage of the South Pacific
and when every one was assembled
it was called and distributed in the
Samoan manner, Mr.. Stevenson receiving the
first cup according TO the dictates of etiquette.
There were always visitors living in the
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GRANIA.

Here is book by new woman-the
Hon. Emily Lawless, name well known
in London literary and political circles.
1t is sad tale of lonely life on one of the
barren isles of Arran, off the North Irish
coast. 1t is tale with a moral undoubt
edly. 1t pictures in detail the life of the
Irish islander, and the plot suggests that
certainly here is field for philanthropy
and educational systems and progressive
sociology. The heroine, "Grania," is a
type of noble .womanhood far above the
class into which she was born. She has
high ideals of manhood which her be-
trothed, cowardly fellow, fails at the best
to fulfill. She undertakes heroic task
which he will not attempt-that of rowing
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work fills a demand which American
writers do not adequately supply. Not for
many years has there been the clamor for
good reading on topics purely American
that there is at present.
One of the books of the week, elsewhere
revie wed, is "Grania," by Hon. Emily
Lawless, an English woman of note. AS a
study of womankind it is entitled to rank
Mrs. Rumphry Wards STORY of Bessie
Costrell'' about which the critics have
ioyfulIy chanted. "Grania" is a strong
character study as well as book with a
purpose. "Bessie Costrell," the. gossips
say, has already brought Mrs. Ward over
$4,000, and now it is to be put on the
stage. Mr.. du Maurier and Mrs. Ward
NAV sympathize with eachsother.
Edward Townsend's new book, treating
of New York tenement life, will soon be
published, and all Chimmie Faddens
friends are waiting to give it welcome.
Another young Californian who is going
to be heard down the corridors of time, in
my Judgment, is Lincoln Steffens, son of a
Sacramento banker. He is in New York
journalism, but puts in his spare time on
magazine work of high class.
From New York comes the news that Miss
Harraden, having enjoyed a soiourn of
several weeks in California, will soon turn
out novel based on her observations. 1t
is to be hoped that she will make amends
for her last Santa Barbara ranch story,
which as fiction was almost puerile.
Mr.. Garland, fraternally alluded to by
the Philistine as ''Ham" Garland, is also
said to have several California sketches up
his sleeve, and Owen Wister, since he spent
fortnight with Us, seems to have barreled
up enough ammunition to bag hundreds of
stories. Mr.. Fernald, young San Fran
ciscan, is at present marketing number
of California fiction studies in the New
York magazines.
Upon the best authority-that of the
author-it is learned that a well-known
San Francisco writer, long in newspaper
service but now retired, is soon to publish
a political history of San Francisco. 1t
will be a critical study and should make
excellent reading, for it will cover topics
in the citv's inside politics never before
put into book form. In his leader writing
this author was noted for calling things by
their right names, and hitting nails square
ly on the head, in trenchant style that
made him both feared and admired.
In the current number of Scribner' s
Magazine Lloyd Osborne has a delightful
description of Robert Louis Stevenson s
home life at Samoa. He writes:
The current of life ran very placidly in Vail
ina in spite of the little agitations and bitter
nesses of the tiny world ct our feet. The conch-
shell awakened the household at daybreak
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THREE COLONIAL BOYS.

Everett T. Tomlinson, who has beer
doing good work in inspiring patriotism
among the boys of the nation, here makes
a good story of three lads of the times Of
'76. 1t is designed as the first OF series
The fortunes of John Shotwell, Joseph
Swan and Evart Van Slyke, in the early
DAYS OF the Revolution, are here traced
and a subsequent volume will tell of their
doings as soldiers in the Continental army
There are lessons in the story for the boy;
of to-day. while the stirring narration Of
the adventures of the lads is of absorbing
interest. NV. A. Wilde & Co., Boston.]
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Jokes and Gibes at the Expense of Prominent
Authors,

okes and Gibes at the Expense Of Promine
Authors.
One autumn day when skies were fair,
For summer tarried late,
Three score and four celebrities
Resolved to give fete.
Harriet Beecher, Stowe the basket full,
To Cabot Lodge Wen speed,
And after dinner we will have
Thomas Buchanan Read.
Mary Hallock Foote trips DER the lawn,
Her Armes with Hawthorne piled,
And Swift beside her runs Apace
LYDIA Maria Child.
Came Thomas, Hardy, stout and Strong;
Was Edward Everett, Hale;
wonder If an Aikenside
Made Rider Haggard pale.
Did Washington GLADDEN. many hearts'
Then why did Bret Harte fail?
AS looking on he saw with glee
Rose Terry Cooke his quail.
Charles Dudley, Warner not to burn
For Roberts, Browning toast.
Francis Lord, Bacon nice will fry;
And Mary, Lamb will roast.
Oh, Dumas. look! here comes youth,
A Longfellow and lean,
His suit of Black-more stylish is
Than Gray, or Holland green.
While Aro Bates his hook;
Howe quickly will he Thoreau his line,
And fish in shady nook.
Jones Very soon will start a game
OF baseball. pool or golf:
See Mary Mapes Dodge Irving's blows
And Humphry Ward them Off.
Victor, Hugo and get some cake
And help your Motherwell:
While Robert Burns the chestnuts brown
We'll stroll in Wood and dell.
Go, Helen. Hunt the woodland DER
For Wilde flowers Young and fair;
Eugene Field daisies White has found;
Watts prettier or more rare?
Across the Brooke by the Stone wall
Wen Cary Hay and bark;
Trilby such fun to pile il high
And Burnett after dark.
Joaquin, Miller, and take a seat;
Our feast is nearly DER;
When Margaret Fuller heaps your plate
Wen seek our Holmes once Moore.
Here's Boz-Shelley go home with US?
He says the sun is low;
His Wordsworth needing, and think
We Riley ought to go.
Sophia May, take boat and Roe
With us across the Barr;
Ouda not need to take a guide,
The distance Kant be far.
William, Black coffee last will serve,
Sarah Grand hostess makes
Howell her guests have been RECALLED
With reason, rhyme and cakes.
Fresno, Cal, 1895. HELEN AUSTIN
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visitor through forest and jungle to his glow
ing house under Vaea, the juxtaposition OF
gent, Lemon and VIII H. Low, the sculptured
work of Rodin and Augustus st. Gaudens. with
rifle-racks, revolvers and trophies OF savage
weapons And the conversation was to match !;
English literature and vopra, Paul Bourgeois
new book and the rebel loss at Tifitif, European
politics and the best methods of suppressing
head-taking.
When he was detained in town at night or
by some mischance was late in returning to
Vailima it was his pleasure that the house
should be lit throughout so that he might see
il shining through the forest on his home-com-
ing. AS l must now be drawing to an end
where better could stop than at this picture,
the tired man drawing rein in the "Road of the
Loving Heart" and gazing up at the lights OF
home.
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wheel very violently becomes in the end
quite an expert rider and thoroughly
addicted to the bloomer costume. The
humor is not of very high order, but it
may be amusing to those who have had
enough experience with the wheel 70 sym.
pathize with it. ["Betsey Jane onWheels,",
H. E. Brown. Chicago: w. B. Conkey &
Co. Price 25 cents. San Francisco News
Company.l
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-29
IN WILD AFRICA.

If all juvenile literature was as healthful
in tone as that of which Colonel Thomas
w. Knox of New York is the author it
would be great relief to parents. This
author knows enough about men to re-
cognize the influences that make good
men. No boy can read of the doings of
s'the boy Travellers" or, in the present vol
ume, of the exciting adventures of brace
of New York lads in Africa, without feel
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ALL DISEASES.
The Treatment for All Chronic Diseases
Is Only So Month. Medicines
Included

Are you afflicted with DEAFNESS?
Do you suffer from DYSPEPSIA?
Have you severe BRONCHIAL trouble
Are you sufferer from ASTHMA?
Do you suffer from RHEUMATISM
Do you suffer from HEART troubles E?
Do you suffer from LIVER complaint Z?
Do you suffer from NERVOUS troubles?
Do you suffer from any CHRONIC DISEASE
1t you do, the only cost for all treatment and
medicine is So a month, and no better treat
ment is known than that of the Copeland
System
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DIANA.

This is new edition by the United
States Book Company OF one of Mrs. Oil
plants popular novels. 1t is good read
ing for those who love to linger over the
love-making incidents of an English novel
in which rectors and curates and lords and
ladies usually constitute the star attrac-
tons. Mrs, Oliphant, as everybody knows,
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THE MYSTERIOUS VOYAGE OF TIL.
DAPHNE.

Here are fourteen short stories, well
illustrated, that boy readers, as well as
older folks who are yet boys in spirit, will
enjoy. The title story of lad who ran
away to sea is by Lieutenant II. P. Whit
marsh. Other adventurous tales are:
'sThe Powder Monkey" by Jane G. Aus
tin; "The Railroad Gut" by William O..
Stoddard Elder Leland's Ghost" by
Hezeklah Butterworth; IAN Unconscious
Hero" by M. A. c. Willard. w. a. Wilde
e. Co 25 Bromfield street. Boston,
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are under the direction of one of the ablest
of the American Jewish scholars, Professor
Richard ]. III. Gottheil of Columbia Col
lege Professor Gottheil has outlined the
readings according to the well-tried and
successful plans ofthe Chautauqua system.
He has based these outlines on Graetz' S
famous History of the Jews. All persons
desiring to take up these studies should
address Henry Berkowitz, department of
Jewish studies, G. l.. S. c., box S25, Phila-
delDhia Pa
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BETsEY JANE ON WHEELS.

The bicycle craze has been made the
subject of a semi-humorous sketch by III.
e. Brown under the title of ''Betsey Jane
on Wheels The story narrates the expe-
rience of Vermont farm family with the
bicycle the tale being told by the mother
of the family, who at first opposing the
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THE NEW TREATMENT.

cordial invitation is extended by Drs.
Copeland, Neal and VIM to all their friends
and patients, old as well as new, to call and
test the new treatment. 1t has passed the stage
of experiment and has been demonstrated
complete success, particularly in those cases
which have withstood the other and older
methods of treatment. They have added
to their already complete offices the new appli-,
ances, and are ready to treat all those more
stubborn cases which in the past have been
thought incurable. 1t is to their financial in
terest, as well as their medical fame. to cure,
for one cured patient is worth many dollars Of
advertising. They have the best treatment and
the new and direct means of using it.
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ing manly stimulus to brave and noble
deeds. The author has the graphic descrip-
tive faculty of the trained journalist that
he is, and older readers as well as boys
will enjoy this tale of the Dark Continent.
w. A. Wilde & Co. New York.
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to the mainland for priest to attend a
dying sister. There IS dense fog and she
is lost and drowned in carrying out her
heroic effort. 1t is sorrowful story, but a
good one, since it makes the reader think,
that is a great deal more than many a
modern novel accomplishes. Macmillan
e. Co.: London and New York.
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THE ToRTUREs OF CATARRH.

The Symptoms as Described by Mr.. G.
w. Moore-What the Treatment
Did for Him.
Mr.. George W. Moore, an old resident of this
State and who has lived at the American Ex-
change Hotel on Sansome street for the past
eight years, is another who has been made
happy by the inexpen sive specially treatment
of Drs. Copeland, Neal and VIM. He says:
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at the Copeland MedicalInstitute Under their
treatment began to improve almost at once,
and now feel as though had a new lease Of
life. feel better than L have for years, and
cannot find words adequate to express my graf
itude to Drs. Copeland, Neal and VIM. 1 cam
not recommend them too highly.n
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RI. Meeker, Occidental, CAL, writes: SCI
will not need any more medicines, for l am sure
that am cured. There has not been sign of
the symptoms for some time and feel splendid
again. viii always recommend you to any
one suffering, as L have confidence in your
treatment. 1t cured me-"
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F. NJ. Melton, Ripon, CAL, writes: 'I am
cured of a chronic catarrh of the head, throat
trying many different physicians and remedies
that were supposed to be cures. had been
disappointed so often that never expected to
be cured. You can publish my statement to
that effect as want to do all that | possibly
can to get others to try your treatment, as I
know it will cure them"
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TREATMENT BY MAIL.

For those desiring the treatment by mail the
first step is to drop line to Drs. Copeland Neal
and VIM for a question list or symptom blank.
Return same with answers filed out and treat
ment may be commenced at once. Every mail
brings additional proof of the success of the
mail treatment.
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NJ. S. Weeks, Santa Margarita, CAL, writes:
sI visited you last November and had you pre-
scribe for me, and now am happy to say am
entirely well and have been for several
months
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GEO. W. MOORE, Ameri

GEO. w. MOORE, American Exchange Hotel.
'.For ten years or more suffered all tie tor
lures of chronic catarrh, and all the treatment
and medicines had in that time gave me no
relief 1t began with cold in the head, which
terminated in catarrh of the head and throat.
1 began doctoring for it, but it seemed TO grow
worse and soon extended to my bronchial tubes
and then to my stomach. spent whole lot
of money trying to get well, and would have
been satisfied if I could have had some relief,
but nothing helped me until began treatment
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NOT MERELY The Low FEE,
But The Copeland Treatment Is Known to Be Certain
and Speedy Cure.

That Is Offices
sttute Are Always Crowded and 1t Is
Enables Them at S. a Month, Includ-
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THE MONEY QUESTION.

Two additional pamphlets on the money
question have recently been published in
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A LITERARY FETE.

an index. TT. Y. Crowell & Co., New York
and Boston; 355 pages, cloth 81.
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MRS. EvERARD

MRS. EVERARD
COTES
(SARA JEANETTE DUN
CAM,
Author Of "a Daughter
of To-Day" "a Social
Departure" "Vernon's
Aunt" IAN American
Girl in London" 1.-The
Simple Adventures Of
Memsahib."
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MAARTEN MAAR-

IENS,
Author of "The Greater
Glory" goods Fool"
"Joost Avelingh," etc.
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Park Music To-Day.
for the Park concert to-day
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work fills a demand which American
writers do not adequately supply. Not for
many years has there been the clamor for
good reading on topics purely American
that there is at present,
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In the current number of Scribner' s
Magazine Lloyd Osborne has a delightful
description of Robert Louis Stevenson s
home life at Samoa. He writes:
The current of life ran very placidly in Vail
ina in spite OF the little agitations and bitter
nesses of the tiny world at our feet. The conch-
shell awakened the household at daybreak
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Edward Townsend's new book, treating
of New York tenement life, will soon be
published, and all Chimmie Fadden's
friends are waiting to give it welcome.