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A POET RECOGNIZED.
Lueius HarWood FOOte of San Francisco
Is Meeting With lppre.
ciatiOn.

General l.. H. Foote has been cherished
as a poet by his California friends for a
long time. His worth is now receiving
appreciation abroad. He has recently con-
tributed to the New York Sun, Boston
Transcript and Pail Mall Magazine. He is
now secretary of the California Academy
OF Science. General Foote is an old Cali
fornian. Twenty-Five years ago he was a
prominent in a Sacramento literary guild
wherein Governor Booth, Albert Hart
and quite number of ladies and gem
tlemen were conspicuous. He was adiu-
tant-general of California under Governor
Booth and was subsequently, United States
Consul at Santiago Chile, and during his
service there acted as United States Min
lister. He was first United States Minister
to Korea and resided four years at Seoul
when Korea was known as the Hermit
Kingdom. He passed through exciting
scenes in Korea and was in the palace
when murder was committed in the room
where he sat conversing with royal attend
ants.
Here are the two latest poems by Gen
eral Foote:
HAR-MA-KHU.
The Sphin1.
To hold eternal vigil DER the place.
BY GhiZas royal tomb it couchant lies
Beneath the solemn arch of kgypts skies
a
The toll and torment OF a patient race,
Thou must have seen with fixed and stony eyes
Have heard their hapless means, their helpless
cries.
With that same tranquil and impassive face.
The seal of silence on thy lips is laid,
The myths dumb, tradition gropes in vain
To solve the voiceless records of the dead;
And while the broken tablets fall and fade,
Deied by thee, the ages wax and wane,
nd baffled Time goes by with noiseless tread.
TYPES.
The new and the old
The dross and the gold,
The chaff and the wheat
Commnge and meet,
Here. where the banners OF sunset are furled
On the rim OF the world.
New forms and new faces
Confront the old races
And challenge the scions of Saxon descent.
Such wonder to-day,
On the crowded highway,
FLASHED on my sight for a moment, and went.
Like the Goddess of Dawn,
With the step OF fawn,
And 1.-THE as leopard, she passed. and was gone
Her sire Is Celt and her mother was born
Where the bountful light of the Tuscan morn
Falls on the bill0ws OF ripened corn.
Escutcheons are nothing to her, although
One ancestor fought under Cesar in Gaul.
And another went down by the bastion wall,
When Sidney AT Zutphen, beleaguered the foe
Though her marvellous face, with its halo OF hair
is so hauntingly fair,
There's sInolderng fire which fickers and
flashes
Beneath her lashes,
And the ghost OF an old patrician-d -disdain,
Like the phantom OF pain,
Is lurking
In the swell of her nostrl and shade Of her brow.
In fine,
There is pride and passion in every line,
From her finger tips
To the arch OF her foot and the curve Of her Inns
Men have gone 10 their death for women like this
And counted it bliss.
In the hush OF her chamber this very night
She will tell her beads in the chastened light
And pray to the Mother of God to keep
Her soul in sleep.
All me-
Both saint and sinner is She
But who can tell what the end will be ?
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REFLECTIVE PHILOSOPHY.

The Philosophical Union of the Uniyer-
sity of California has issued volume of
eighty-four pages. The scope of the dis
cussion is indicated thus by the title page !:
THE Conception of God: An Address
Before the Union by Josiah Royce, Ph.D.,
Professor of the History of Philosophy in
Harvard University, together with com
ments thereon by Sidney Edward Mezes.
Ph.D., Head of the School of Philosophy
IN the University OF Texas; Joseph LIE
Conte, Md, LID, Professor of Geology
and Natural History in the University of
California, and G. II. Howison, NJ. A.
LID. Mills Professor of Philosophy in
the same"
In sphere of intellectual activity much
higher than the average mortal-even the
college mortal-can hope to ascend Pro-
lessor Royce is a master. Two college men
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE WANDERING JEW, by Eugene Sue.
Fully illustrated; 2 vols, II mo. Pub
lished by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New
York and Boston.
THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF DYNAMO
ELECTRIC MACHINERY, by MacFadden and
Ray. Illustrated and indexed 165 pages.
Published by Laird & Lee Chicago.
DICKS AND JACKS ADVENTURES on SABLE
ISLAND, by B. Freeman Ashley. Illus
trated; 312 pages. Published by Laird &
Lee, 263 Wabash avenue, Chicago.
My SISTER HENRIETTE, by Ernest Renan.
J. S. Ogllvie, publisher, 81 Rose street,
New York.
THE PURPLE HYAcINTH, fairy story, by
Juniata Salisbury; illustrations by Hooper.
Published by the Transatlantic Publishing
Company, So Fifth avenue, New York, %
Henrietta, Covent Garden, London.
THE PROPHETS OF ISRAEL; by Carl Helm
rich Cornill. published by the Open Court
Publishing Company, 324 Dearborn street,
Chicago. Illustrated and indexed; 1874
pages; 81.
SUccEsswARD; by Edward K. Box. Pub
lished by the Merriam Company. New
York. For sale by the Popular bookstore,
San Francisco; 81 70.
How TO STUDY STRANGERS; by Nelson
Sizer. Published by the Fowler e. Wells
Company New York. Paper; 70 cents.
HADAssAH; by Mrs. T. f. Black. Pub
lished by Laird & Lee, Chicago.
ADRIFT IN THE CITY; by Horatio Alger
Jr. Published by Henry T. Coats & Co.,
Philadelphia.
SKULLS OF RocKFIsH; from the Hopkins
Seaside Laboratory. Published by Stan
ford University, Palo Alto.
THE DELECTABLE DUCHY, by 80" No. 7
Macmillan's Novelist Library, 320 pages.
For sale by William Doxey.
My JAPANESE WIFE, a japanese Idyl, by
Give Holland. Macmillan & Co., New
York; 165 pages.
The HoRsEMAN's WORD, novel, by Neil
Roy. Publishers Macmillan & Co., Lon
don and New York; ABS pages.
In THIS Our WORLD, and other poems,
by Charlotte Perkins Stetson. James H.
Barry and John II. Marble publishers,
San Francisco; 1S4 pages.
AS THE WIND Blows, a novel, by Eleanor
Merron. Publishers, Lowell, Coryell & Co.,
New York: $50 pages.
A Son OF 7HE PLAINS, By Arthur Patter-
son. Published by Macmillan & Co., New
York and London; 26l pages. For sale at
Popular Bookstore, 10 Post street.
The FLOWERS OF ENGLAND's FACE, by
Julia G. r. Dow. Macmillan & Co., New
York and London; 269 pages.
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FIRST AMERICAN ENVOY III JAPAN.

Existing conditions in the Far East lend
an additional interest to this volume,
which is, in itself, a valuable contribution
10 the literature of this country's diplo-
matte relations with Japan. 1t will do
much 20 fill the gap which English his
torians have left between the records of
the work of Commodore Perry and that
OF Lord Elgin.
Townsend Harris, whose journal is re-
produced in the book. was the first Ameri-
can envoy TO Japan. In fact, he Yves the
first recognized agent from a civilized
country to reside in Japan. He went to
that country at a time when the idea of a
representative of a foreign power
was all but intoleTable to the sensitive
Japanese, and played an important part in
the evolution of that extraordinary
product of modern civilization-the new
Japan. The volume under consideration
is a record of tentative attempts at nego-
tiation with an unknown power rather
than of actual diplomatic relations be-
tween two countries. The Government of
Japan at that time was supposed to be
vested in the Tycoon, the political head
of the Empire. with his court at Yeddo.
The Mikado, the real although spiritual
Westerners. unrecognized factor in di-
plomacy. In Mr.. Harris credentials the
Tycoon was referred to as His Majesty
the Emperor of Japan"
The tongue of Holland-the only Euro
pean power with which Japan had had
any extensive dealings-was the only Eu-
ropean language of which the japanese
knew anything. It was the basis OF their
extra-Asiatic culture. Moreover, the kind
" offices and recommendations OF the
Dutch Government had been powerful fac
tors in aiding Perry to accomplish the
treaty under which Mr.. Harris was sent to
Japan as Consul-General, being appointed
by President Pierce August 4, 1855. This
appointment was in itself a curious. one.
To intrust two such difficult tasks as the
making of treaties with Siam and japan
to an untried envoy who held rank below
. mipistsE vas, q Mg, HsEEiS' bi2grspAeE
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he published his first volume OF poems,
and year later he went to Italy, where
he made his home up to the time of his
"the true soul of harmony and his
friends always felt that he might have
expressed himself therein with greater
power and felicity than in his chosen pro-
fession, sculpture. Among his contribu-
tions to the literature of his age are his
poems, one Of which, "Cleopatra," twas
not born to die" the drama, Nero, J"
Joseph Story" His portrait busts ard
statues are works of art. Among the
principal ones are the statues OF his father,
Chief Justice Marshall, Edward Everett
George Peabody, William Cullen Bryant.
Among his ideal statues best known are
Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Alcestis, Sap
pho, Electra and Medea.
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tions of heredity and utility. As regards
heredity, he restricts the discussion almost
exclusively to Professor Weismann's
views, while in his rather elaborate review
OF the utility question he goes at length
large school of scientists who have OF late
years gathered to the acceptance of his
theories. This must necessarily be in the
discussion OF questions that must still be
regarded as entirely debatable; but Pro-
lessor Romanes was ever a liberal and fair
minded debater, and fortunately his editor
has conducted his some what delicate task
in the same spirit of appreciation for the
services of fellow-scientists as character
lied the author himself. The announce
ment is made that the discussion, of which
the present volume is but a single section,
will be completed in a third volume. relat-
ing to questions of isolation and physio-
logical selection. [Chicago: The Open
Court Publishing Company. Price 81 so. |
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Bury of Trinity COLLEGE. Dublin, on
''Browning's Philosophy" and by Profess
sor B. f. Westcott, DID,, on "Brownings
View of Life"
HISTORICAL.
The Confederate side of the Aabama's
history is told by Lieutenant Arthur Sim
clair, chosen by the survivors to present
the story which he gives in 1.-TWO Years on
the Alabama"
SCIENTIFIC.
The Rev Franklin NJ. Sprague, author
of Socialism" has written book on
1.-THE Laws of Social Evolution"
"Hedonistic Theories From Aristippus
to Spencer has Just come from the press
and is the work of John Watson, LID,
professor OF moral philosophy in the
University of Queens College, Kingston,
Canada, and author OF two works on the
PHILOSOPHY of Kant"
JUVENILE.
"The Carved Lions, story for children,
by Mrs. Molesworth, appears this month.
AS writer for children Mrs. Molesworth
has been characterized by A. C. Swinburne
as the most mastery and delightful since
the death of George Eliot.
POETRY.
In "a Century of German Lyrics" Kate
Freiigrath Krocker has attempted some-
thing original in her clever selection, ar
rangement and translation into English of
pretty verse of the Fatherland.
Because L Love You" is the title of
volume that will delight all lovers and
make an acceptable token from one friend
to another. 1t is a compilation OF the best
love verse of old and new poets.
Poems of the Farm" collected and ex-
tensiYely illustrated by Alfred r. East
man, is a new volume, the main theme of
its verses being a peaceful. longing. back
ward glance upon the pleasures of rural
"On Winds of Fancy Blown" is a recent
volume OF verses by Mary Yale Shapleigh,
with dainty half-tone illustrations. The
volume is a collection of verse impressions
gathered during the authors varied resi-
dences in different climes.
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the narrative, by the exercise OF hypnot-

the narrative, by the exercise OF hypnot-
ism, obtains dominating influence over a
young girl, and thereby brings disaster
and evil upon her. There is a great deal
of high-wrought and absurd mystery in
the unfolding OF this idea, and the book
abounds in the jargon of occultism. Wood
ford becomes a reformed character, and,
knowing that the power he has obtained
over Isabel can only end with his death,
he magnanimously resolves to die, and
does so, going down with sinking shipin
full sea of woe and self-sacIifice. The book
has no special literary value, and as
study of psychic forces it is so purely su-
perfcial as to be almost wholly negative.
[Chicago and New York: f. Tennyson
Neely
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WILLIAM WETMORE STORY.

One of the most versatile men of his
time was William Wetmore Story, who
died in Italy last week.
Though the world knew him best as
sculptor, his memory would have been
safe from oblivion had he chosen either of
the other three professions which he fol-
lowed from time to time-law, literature
and music. He was born in Salem, Mass,
in 1S19. Justice Story, the eminent law
yer and iurist, was his father. Before
turning his back on the legal profession,
W. W. Story had published several works.
some of which are still in USE
Mr.. Story was his class poet when he
graduated from Harvard in 1888. In 1S47
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and Horses" a story by Brander Mat
thews; "a Pilgrim on the Gila," a story
by Owen Wister; Recent Impressions of
Anglo Indian Life" by Edwin lovel
Weeks; ga Thanksgiving Breakfast by
Harriet Prescott Spofford Literary Bos
ton Thirty Years Ago. by W.D. Howells; !;
"Out of the World at Corinto, a sketch of
travel, by Richard Harding Davis; "Plum-
blossom Beebe's Adventures" Chinese
character sketch, by Julian Ralph. The
illustrations are by c. d. Welden, E. l.
Weeks, G. W. Peters, 7. de Thulstrup, W.
Hatherill, T. V. Du Mond, n. T. Smedley,
Frederic Remington, Harry Frenn and
others.
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KINDERGARTEN PHILOSOPHY.

The Mother Play of Froebe's Philoso-
ply" Cd. Appleton g. Coz is the latest
volume of the International Education
series. In the translation Miss Susan E.
Blow has drawn upon all the resources of
her experience and study to make this
edition a perfect handbook for English
speaking mothers and teachers. She has
enlisted the talent of the poets for children
to translate with taste and discrimination
Froebels rhymes. New music has been
dren's songs
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The Cosmopolitan.

I. Zangwill has stirring story of the
Jews in Rome, entitled "Joseph the
Dreamer" in the Cosmopolitan magazine
for November. Theodore Roosevelt of New
York gives his opinion in regard to
Taking the Police Out of Politics."
Herbert B. Tuttle puts salt on an equality
with coffee, tea, tobacco and whisky, and
argues that too much salt is used.
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THE CHARLETAN.

This story, by Robert Buchanan and
Henry Murray, is founded on the drama
of the same name. 1t is tale that dips
deeply into the mysteries of theosophy,
hypnotism and occultism, but without pro-
ducing the impression that either of the
authors is particularly familiar with any
one of these subjects.
Philip Woodford, the heavy villain Of
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THE MAGAZINES.
American Law Review.

This sterling legal authority is edited by
Seymour D. Thompson and Leonard A.
Jones. The most interesting feature OF
the current issue is Judge Taft's address
before the American Bar Association on
"Criticisms of the Federal Judiciary" :"
Walter Clark declares the telegraph and
telephone service to be essential parts of
an efficient postal service. Review Pub
fishing Company, 2l5 Pine street, st. Louis,
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SCYLLA OR CHiRYDDIS.

A charming volume from D. Appleton g.
Co. of New York is 'Scylla or Charybdis ?"
It is novel by Rhoda Broughton, and is
an original, interesting story, containing
some surprises and showing all the phases
of true mother love. For sale at Doxey's.
Price in paper 80 cents.
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The Literary Digest.

This weekly compendium of the con-
temporaneous thought of the world is
edited by Edward J. Wheeler. 1t deals
with the most important subjects of the
day by presenting extracts from the writ
ings of the leading thinkers of the world
Published by Funk & Wagnalls Com
pany. 80 Lafayette place, New York.
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Pleasant Hours.

Young people will find much to interest
and please them in the November number
of Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours for Boys
and Girls. There is a capital short story
by Oliver Optic; an article giving some
excellent hints for boys on buying and
using a gun, by Wifi P. Pond, and many
other features for the young people of the
country.
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Popular Astronomy.

The leading article in the November
nun Der of this magazine deals with ''Vari-
alton of Latitudes, /" illustrated. Professor
E. E. Barnard's -Four Little Sky Travel
ers" is repubished from the San Francisco
Examiner. Edited by William w. Payne
and Charlotte r. Willard. Published by
Goodsell Observatory OF Carleton College,
Northfield, MINI.
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Modern Art.

Emma K. S. Sawyer says some wise
words about ''Frencn Symbolism in Poetry
and Painting" in the current issue of
Modern Art. Then there is translation
of part of Puyis de Chavannes' views on
the conflict between the schools of art, old
and new. Nordau's Degeneration" is
slashed by G. Bernard Shaw. Published
by Prang & Co., 286 Roxbury street, Bos
ton Mass
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LIVE LITERARY NOTES.
FICTION.

A descriptive and reminiscent series of
charming pen sketches of years stay at
great country house has come from the
titled ''Notes From a Grey Nunnery."
"The Wonderful Visit, daring concep-
ton of II. G. Wells, already known for his
humor and satire in his ''Time Machine"
is the title OF new story soon to be pub
hshed in book form.
Bohemia Invaded is the title story of
a volume of James l.. Ford's short sketches
OF all sorts of New York life and character,
from Coney Island and the "tenderloin
district to the families of the nouveau
richie.
"Zoraida," story of the Great Sahara
and the Harem, by William lie Queux has
recently come from the publishers. The
author is that young London journalist
whose story of the 'Guilty Bonds was Of
ficiaily prohibited circulation in the Rus
sian Empire and whose romance of "The
Great War of 1897" has attracted favorable
comment from several of the crowned
heads of Europe and from Gladstone, Sails
bury, WoIseley and others of England's
foremost men.
Aunt Billy" by Allyn Yates Keith,
author of "a Hilltop Summer and "a
Spinster's Leaflets, is the title of a book
of interesting sketches OF New England
y
and humorous charm that many of US
might not recognize in the reality
Oliver Optic, whose writings have long
been such delight to youth, has in his
recently published "Half Round the
World" furnished a story of exciting ad-
venture and not little useful informa-
ton. Louis Belgrave, young million
aire, is the hero, and, accompanied by sew
eral OF his young friends, he is making
voyage around the world in his steam
yacht. This volume deals with adventures
along the coast of India and among the
East Indies.
Rudyard Kipling's new "Jungle Book"
to be published by The Century Company
November 10, will contain great number
of ornamental cuts-initials, emblematic
headbands, etc., made by Mr.. Kipling's
father.
A new Lincoln book has been issued by
Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. 1t is a COM
speeches and writings OF Abraham Lin
coin. The same publishers announce the
second volume of the "Secret of an EN-
pire Series," which deals with the person
ality of Napoleon III.
1.-THE Mahattaners," book by Edward
s. Van Zil is romance of New York So
ciety and journalistic circles. The book is
praised as clever and clean. Lowell, Cory
ell & Co. publishers.
MISCELLANEOUS
a beautiful ''Book About Fans" has lust
appeared. Mary Cadwallader Jones has
a chapter on fan-collecting and the history
of fans and fan painting is treated at great
length by NJ. A. Flory. The numerous
illustrations are from photographs of the
finest of antique and modern specimens of
the art.
Browning Studies" is a collection of
papers read before the Browning Society
OF London, together with special articles
by Professor Corson of Cornell on 1.-The
Idea OF Personality in Browning" by John
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