The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-26
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ever, is different from that presented in
either of the books mentioned. 1t is the
question of life for the artist-the conflict
between art and life, between lie and
death in mans own spirit. Matthew
Strang. the artist, is Nova Scotlan, and
the pictures of his life in that land make
the early chapters of the book OF fascinat-
is an artist. He draws as other boys
make kites and, in winter, sleds, in the
land which is his birthplace. Poverty,
toll, hardness and deprivation are
the conditions of his boyhood. His
life is GRIM. pitiful, but he has
artist, and he refuses to be beaten by his
surroundings. In time he goes away to
Halifax; saves money to take himself to
London; is obliged by a sense of duty to
use 1t otherwise. He sees life, tastes of its
pleasures. but the artist within him shrlnks
back from the stream of sensuous delight
it loathes yet longs Tor. The ideal of his
than are shown, the souls struggle to find
itself. The story of Matthew Strang is the
story OF every earnest man or woman be-
fore the problems of soul-life. He reaches
London; he faces poverty, pain-almost
starvation. Trouble at home compels him
to return. Temptation comes to him there
In the form of an opportunity to marry for
money. He yields, ana the devils bar
gain eats into the very fiber of his spiritual
integrity. Fame, wealth, position, honors,
all come to him after that, and at last-years
later-love. In the final fierce, supreme
struggle the tortured, thwarted soul
arises once more, and turns from love to
duty. And duty leads the man back,
through sordid paths and bitter to travel,
to art, and its mastery, through mastery
of his own soul. He had been saved from
love and happiness and sent back into
sympathy with all that works and suffers.
And thus, the note that had trembled
family and then died out in his work was
struck strong and sure, at last--the note
of soul. He had toiled and hungered,
he had Toasted and made merry; he had
known the lust of the flesh and the pride
of the eye. What he had wanted he had
not got. And out of all this travail of
soul was born his art-strong, austere,
simple"
The book is a strong study, strongly
worked out. AS said before, we have had
of late no higher work in fiction. New
York: Harper & Bros. For sale by Payot,
Upham & Co., San Francisco
Answers to Coin.
If it be true that the success of book
can be best estimated by the antagonism
it arouses and the efforts it provokes in
others, then Coins Financial School"
may be Justly accounted the greatest
polemic success of the year. 1t has not
only excited adverse comment more or less
vigorous in the newspapers, but has been
the cause of the publication of quite
little library of books on the relative merits
of bimetallism and the gold standard.
Five of these books, written in reply to
"Coin," are before US for review. One of
them, bearing the title of "Coins Finan-
cial FOOL by Horace White, is little more
than pamphlet, and is written in di-
rect, logical way without any attempt to
initiate the dialogue style of "Coin," or to
follow him in the use of pictures to illus
trate the points OF the argument. The re-
naming four-"Cash VS.. Coin" by Ed
ward Wisner. ga Freak in Finance" by ].
F. Cargill, 'Coin at School in Finance" by
John E. Roberts, and The Official Book
Answer to Coins Financial School" by
Stanley Wood-follow the style adopted by
Coin" himself, and are profusely illus
trated
All of the books are designed for popular
reading as campaign documents, and none
of them treat the financial problem any
more philosophically or with greater de-
gree of impartiality than Coin did. Horace
White contents himself with pointing out
some of what he calls the 'falsehoods,"
"forgeries" and "jugglings" of Coin. The
OlHcI UOOhS dlC llOlc cldDOIdtt dUu unu6I-
take complete refutation of all the argu-
ments of Coin, and in many cases
of his statistics and facts also.
While none of the reuters write with
that snap. vigor and vivacity that has
made Coins book so notable throughout
the country each of them piles up good
array of arguments against his conclusions.
and reading of either of them will have
the good effect of inclining the reader to
think over the subject again before reach
ing a conclusion.
The appearance OF so many books of this
kind, dealing in a popular way with great
political issue during year in which there
is to be no National election, is a new
feature in American politics and seems to
be decidedly commendable one. While
to the exact student of financial matter
none of these books will be of any particu-
lar value, they will certainly have the
good effect of interesting the general mass
of the people in study of both sides of
this important question, and therefore
may be welcomed as desirable addition
to the passing literature of the day.
Coins Financial Fool" by Horace
White, issued by the Reform Club, New
York; price 10 cents.
"a Freak in Finance" by J. F. Car
gill; Reed, McNally & Co., Chicago: price
Is cents.
"Cash VS.. Coin" by Edward Wisner;
OAullco II. heTI O. CO.s OuiCdSOs prize 20
cents.
1.-THE Official Book Answer to Coins
Financial School," by Stanley Wood; A.
B. Sherwood Publishing Company, Chi
cago price Is cents.
Coin at Soho oil in Finance" by George
E. Roberts; w. B. Conley Company, Chi
cago; price Is cents. For sale by the San
Francisco News Company.
Church and State.
Under the title of Loyalty to Church
and State" the addresses delivered in this
country by Archbishop Satolh since his
appointment as apostolic delegate have
been published under the editorship of the
Rev. j. e. Slattery, rector of St. Joseph's
Seminary for Colored Missions at Wash
ington. D. C. The profits of the sale of
the book are to be devoted to the work in
which the editor is engaged. 1t is prefaced
by brief review of Satolli's work and
travels in the United States by Cardinal
Gibbons, and contains in addition thereto
an epitome of the principal events of his
life.
Cardinal Gibbons points out that the
Language of the addresses is not that of the
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