The San Francisco call., 1895-05-19

hinges upon the legislation of the past few
years regarding silver The effects of the
demonetlzation of silver, and of the Sner-
man law and It's final repeal, are brought
OUT IN startling relief in the story of the
undolng OF HOpetown. The susnense
waiting for news from Washington. the
breaking up of homes, when the miners
scattered like grouse over the hills 70 ricp
up their daily food, the paralysis of bnsi.
ness and the wave of despair sweenjng
over the Impoverished West, when the sill,
yer mines closed down, are all graphically
pictured. The story is a strong plea for
restoration to silver of the power that it
had from the time of the Patriarch Abra-
ham to the time of the President Abra-
ham," Boston: The Arena Publishing
Company. For sale at the Popular Book
store, San Francisco
SOME COOP INTENTIONS AND A BLUNDER-
By John Oliver Hobbs, is dainty violet
booklet, gotten up in very pretty style. 1t
is written in the authors characteristic
style, always a little jerky, sometimes cpl
grammatic. The tale is amusing and clev-
erly constructed. John Oliver Hobbs is so
thoroughly artificial in her Workmanship
that one small blunder will not excite
surprise. She makes the hero of her sketch
wear in his buttonhole 1.-The petalless calyx
OF rose" She does not tell us what it
looked like, but declares that sit might
have been the emblem of his creed of
beauty in unloveliness" New York: The
Merriam Company. For sale by Payot,
Upham d Co.
CORONA OF THE NANTAHALAs-By Louis
Pendleton, is an entertaining little pastoral.
young girl brought up in the mountains
OF North Carolina learns to read, and hav-
ing a volume of Shakespeare, and few
Others of the ancient Greek writer's grows
to young womanhood with no knowledge
beyond that cleaned from these sources,
and no companions save her foster-father
and mother and their deaf-mute sou. Here
she is found, wooed and won by young
man who succeeds in unraveling the mys-
terry that surrounds her parentage. Some
OF the scenes are exciting, and the whole
conception is original and well carried out
New York: The Merriam Company. For
sale by Payot, Upham & Co., San Fran
CISCO.
THE One Too MANY-By Mrs. E. Lynn
Linton. The discoverer of 1.-THE New
Woman" dedicates this book to 1.-THE sweet
girls still left among US who have no part
In the new revolt, but are content to be
dutiful, innocent and sheltered" The
story deals with the question of higher
education for girls. There is one girl, sthe
prize girl at Girton,' who comes in for
regular breeze OF disapproval. Her desire
was for owledge-knowledg of life and
men and things; and if she soiled her
hands when digging at the roots, well, she
would rather have the roots than clean
hands" The whole story is full of warn
ing to girls of the dreadful creatures they
are likely to become and the equally dread
full things likely to happen if they elect to
have a masculine education, which must
inevitably mentally unsex" them, what
ever that may mean. [Chicago: F. Ten
nyson Nicely.
The ROMANCE OF THE SEvERD, from the
French of George Duval by Mary ]. SAT-
ford, is another phase of our present
Napoleomania. It is tale of the days of
'93. The scene is laid in London and in
Paris. The events of the rise of the great
Corsican make vivid background against
which very readable historic romance is
displayed. New York: The Merriam
Company. For sale by Payot, Upham &
Co., San Francisco