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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-10
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receiving much the same sort of education
as her brother. Judging from her CONVEX
sation she is interested in much the same
subjects She rides a wheel, she boats and
hunts and fishes, plays tennis, and even
golf, camps out and goes on long tranps,
and, in intelligence and attainment, she is
usuallyquite his equal. But, as compared
with that provided for him, her literature
would almost justify the belief that she is
an entirely different order of being. Fancy
books of travel and adventure, of mechan-
les and sdynamo-electricsw written for girls.
As readily can we fancy love stories and
romanices written for boys OF II.
The modern girl of that age is carefully
instructed. if her mother has any sense,
that she is too young to think about lovers.
As a general thing, if she is q normal
minded girl she does not think about them.
And yet in the books written for her, writ
ten, too, by earnest. high-minded and
thoughtful women, who desire above all
things the girls good. the inevitable lover
appears as surely as fate, and the book
ends in a wedding, apparently by the same
law of nature that DEGREES it shall end at
all. If girl wishes to read books that
deal with the broader human interests OF
life she must resort to her brothers. book
shelves or to the family library. An ex-
animation of the leading girls books OF
the day, the books that may be called the
classics among their type, reveals the TACT
that, treat the subject wholesomely, deli
cately, purely as they may, they are one
and all love stories; that each and
all proceed upon the hypothesis
that the one story of a girls life
and interests is, inevitably, love story.
1t is pity that this should be so. 1t is a
pity that while the rest of the world con-
tinues to move our writers for girls, even
the best of them, should stand still. But
the fact being what it is,'we have SIN all
occasion for wonder that so many, even
among our modern school girls, continue
to think and talk over-much of lovers. a
fountain cannot rise higher than its source,
and, after ali, each of US draws his concep-
ton of the realities of life from the litera-
ture that we accept as its exponent. In
the case of the girl the stuff is usually &C
cepted for her by careful mothers and
guardians who are anxious, above all
things else, to put ''good books" in their
daughters hands.
There is broad and profitable field here
for the coming school of writers for girls
writers whose books shall be live and
wholesome and true, who shall deal with
life as whole, and not with the one
phase of it that has heretofore been deemed
the only one likely to interest girls.
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HOW TO STUDY STRANGERS.

A director of CALIFORNIA; now famous
railroad monopoly once said to the present
writer that he owed all his business success
to his ability to study ard read human ma
ture. In all probability the statement was
overdrawn. However one NAV under
stand his fellow-man one must still act ac-
cording to his own nature, and it is proba-
bly, not given to all men TO possess or to
acquire the particular order of character
which goes to the makeup Of successful
director of monopollstic railroad COM
pany Nevertheless, there can be no doubt
but that knowledge of how to study tenn
permanent, the head, face and manner of
strangers and to understand some
thing of the nature of the peo-
pie with whom you come in contact
will often prove of value in every
relation of life. At all events books that
treat of this particular branch of study
are always of interest. The present vol
ume is by Nelson Sizer, the veteran
phrenologist, and is quite an exhaustive
work of some fifty chapters. The author
makes comprehensive study of tempera-
ment; of what talent consists and what are
its DETERMINATIONS from culture; what
capacity signities, and what are the essen
tiais to success The work is especially in
teresting in its character analyses and is
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THE ENCHANTED BUTTERFLIES

"The Enchanted Butterflies is the title
of sweet little Christmas volume fresh
from the press of Frederick A. Stokes &
Co., New York and London. Miss Ade-
laide Upton Crosby is the authoress, and
she tells the story of the enchanted butter
flies in delightfully."- fresh and catchy
style. The tale is in the nature of a
mythical allegory. Two fairy Princesses
are the moving figures" Sunshine" so
named because she was the very light of
the old SunGod's eyes, and "Moonbeam, !"
only daughter of Lady Moon. They were
constant playfellows. and the story deals
with their adventures with the enchanted
butterflies and description of their fairy
bowers couched in delicate and artistic
language as sweet as the perfume of the
flowers amidst which the butterflies and
fairy Princesses disported themselves, and
as pure as the honey extracted therefrom.
Though designed for children, the dainty
little volume, exquisite in Typographical
sons of all ages. Frederick A. Stokes
Company. For sale by A. NJ. Robertson.l
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HOPKINS RAILWAY LIBRARY.

The catalogue of the Hopkins Railway
Library, compiled by Frederick J. Teggart,
B.A., assistant librarian at the Leland
Stanford Jr. University, is valuable addi-
ton to the literary department of the
university. Mr.. Teggart has immediate
charge of the Hopkins Railway Library
and the catalogue was prepared by him
during the past year. This library num-
bers 9245 books and pamphlets.
A writer in the Railway Gazette a few
years ago, after giving considerable space
to the consideration of the large collection
OF books and publications pertaining to
railways in the catalogue of the library of
the Prussian Department of Public Works,
deplored the fact that there was then no
similar special collection of railway litera-
ture in the United States. There is no
ground for such depreciation now. Mr..
Teggart's full and accurate compilation
fills the requirements and must be of in
estimable value. It's value and impor-
lance is not confined to the university.
Published by the Leland Stanford Jr.
University, Palo Alto, Cal.
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QUARTERBACK And FOK'SLE.

Miss Molly Elliot Seawell needs but little
introduction to American young people.
Her other stories, "PauI Jones'" ''Mid-
shipman Paulding," etc., have long since
familiarized her name to this important
class of readers, who will give this new
book of hers a warm welcome. Like all
Miss Seawelfs stories those comprised in
the present volume are tales of the sea-
They are founded, moreover, upon historic
exploits of the American navy, and are
well calculated to quicken historic interest
and patriotic feeling in both boys and
girls. The second story of the two is
rather the more interesting. 1t deals with
the time of the English occupation of
Newport, r. l.. during the Revolutionary
War, when General Prescott was captured
in his own house by handful of Ameri-
was played by boy, and the u story ,pi is OF
how and where he played it. fBoston,
Mass. w. A. Wilde & Co. Price, ST. 25. |
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE SECOND JUNGLE Book; by Rudyard
Kipling. Century Company, New York (;
12mo. 324 pages; 81 so.
The NABoB OF SINGAPORE; by st. George
Rathbone, author of DR.. Jack. Street %
Smith, 25 Rose street, New York; 21S
pages; paper; so cents.
Practical CHRISTIAN SocIoLoGY. A spe.
cial series of lectures delivered before
Princeton Theological Seminary, and Ma.
rietta College, by Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts,
Ph.D. Cloth, 12mo; illustrated with q
portraits. New York, London and To-
ronto. Funk & Wagnalls Company; 524
pages; 81 so.
The CENTURY Cook Book; by Mary
Ronald, with $50 illustrations from pho.
tographs, 12mo, CLOTH 587 pages. New
York: The Century Company. Price 81.
LEES SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE UNITED
STATES, by Susan Pendleton Lee; cloth
gilt. B. J. Johnson Publishing Company,
Richmond Va.
CH1LHowEE BOYS IN WAR TIME; by
Sarah E. Morrison. A tale of the war Of
1912. 1 volume, 3s2 pages, three illustra-
Crowell & Co., New York and Boston.
THE HOUSING OF THE WORKING PEOPLE;
by E. r. Gould, Ph.D. Government Print
ing Office, Washington, d. G.
YELLOW BEAUTY; by Marion Martin.
minated cover, 43 pages; so cents.
PATRICIA; A SEQUEL TO Two BAD BROWN
EYES; by Marie st. Felix. Published by
the Merriam Company. New York; 800
pag es, paper, so cents.
A CENTURY OF GERMAN LYRICS; trans
lated by Kate +. Kroeker. Published by
the Frederick A. Stokes Company, New
York. For sale by A. NJ. Robertson.
THE ENCHANTED BUTTERFLIES; by Adel-
aide Upton Crosby. illustrated by Mrs.
S. H. Clark and the author. Frederick A,
Stokes Company, 80 West Twenty-third
street, New York.
THE RIGHT TO LOVE; by Max Nordau,
F: Tennyson Nicely, New York and
Chicago.
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work. The time that has elapsed between
the earlier and the later poems seems not to
have been period of growth with the poet.
1t is difficult to think of the writer of ''Sim-
liar Cases." 1.-THE Lesson of Death" and
1.-The Rock and the Sea" descending to
such wltless platitudes as 1.-THE Pig and
the Pearl" or the rather commonplace
smartness of the poems by The Satirist.
'In re Andromaniacs" is the only
one in the batch that shows a
CLEAN of the brilliant power that char
acterized the poets earlier work (for
hard though she has ridden Pegasus,
making of him veritab BILE hobby all
work, Mrs. Stetson has done in the past
work that entities her to be called poet).
There is feeling, both poetic and artistic
in the ''Songs of San Francisco" that are
included in the present volume. One can
almost forgive the singers hysterical
shrieking over all things unmentionable
for the sake OF such lines as these, descrip-
tive of San Francisco's hills:
Up and up till you look to see
Along the cloud kissed top
The great hibrealSers curve and comb
In crumbling lines of falling foam
Before they settle and drop.
And OFF to the north and east and south,
With wldering mists between
They ring round with wavering hold,
With fold on fold OF rose and gold,
Violet, azure and green.
San Francisco: James III. Barry and
John FL. Marble, publishers. Price so
cents
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LITERARY NOTES.

ain Defiance of the King" the new
American historical romance by Mr.. G. C..
Hotchkiss, which has been published, has
been received with remarkable favor by
the reviewers. who seem agreed that new
literary light has arisen. The publishers,
D..Appleton & Co., report that the book is
finding large circle of readers.
corruption" the new novel by Percy
White, author of "Mr. Bailey Martin, is
said to offer a very striking and internal
view of political and social life in London.
One OF the interesting literary questions
of the day is whether dialogue is to be the
prevailing form of fiction. Sir Walter
Besant predicts that novels will shortly be
written IN dialogue, and that descriptions
will be almost entirely done away with.
He cites Miss Violet Hunt and Anthony
Hope as two of the most successful users
OF dialogue, and his argument is REINFORCED
by the brilliancy of Miss Hunts new work
OF tction, "A Hard Woman"
Among the attractive novels of the
autumn from the press of Lowell, CoryelI
d Co. of New York is romantic story
entitled "As the Wind Blows" by Miss
Eleanor Merron, graceful exponent of
refined light comedy, formerly q member
of the New York Lyceum Theater Com
pany and skilled and fascinating writer.
The scene of the story is New England, it's
motive being the contretemps incident to
a concealed marriage.
Herbert D. Wards ''Dash to the Polei
is the brightest and liveliest of narratives
ever given to the public on that will-o'-
the-wisp of the time-an aerial voyage to
the pole. The story is skillfully constructed
and graphically written, the illstrations
adding interest to the book.
In "The Land of Promise" Paul Bourget
has taken as his theme the extent to
which the author of another's being is
responsible for the proper care and watch.
fulness over that being future. A young
Partisan learns, upon the eve of his own
marriage, that he is responsible for the birth
of beautiful little girl, whose mother,
while the wife of another, had given her
love to the young man. The struggle be-
tween the young mans desire to make all
reparation possible and his eagerness to
follow his love affair to its happy fulfill
ment forms basis for some of the most
interesting dissertations upon human
duties and inclinations.
Max Nordau, whose Degeneration" re-
Gently excited so much controversy, has
written powerful play entitled "The
Right to Love-" 1t is the story of a
young and beautiful woman, whose hus-
band a worthy and practical business
man OF quiet tastes, fails to fill her life
with the mental excitement she believes il
her privilege to obtain.
So rapidly has Miss Coolbrith's new vol
ume of verse sold out here that, with the
exception of a few copies, the Pacific
Coast edition is already exhausted. An
other edition, especially for the holiday
trade, will appear the latter part of this
month. Miss Coolbrith has dedicated the
book to Edmund Clarence Stedman, the
banker poet, who has ever been an appre,
ciative and encouraging admirer of her
genius.
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ress than has that of "Cld Testament Re-
search" The present volume. series of
popular sketches from "Old Testament
History" will prove material add1-
literature of this great subject. The
author is Carl Heinrich Cornill. doctor of
theology and professor of old Testament
history in the University of Konigsberg.
Professor Cornill takes the modern view of
the prophet, based upon derivation and
the ancient Interpretation of the word,
and regards him as the preacher and
teacher rather than as the seer, and his
book is made up of a number of studies of
the old Testament prophets as expounders
and teachers of the religion of Moses. He
writes from the scientific standpoint, but
with real and thoroughly scientific ap-
probation of religious truth, and with a
sympathetic understanding of the re-
Iigious, literary and educational progress
of the chosen people. [Chicago: The Open
Court Publishing Company, Price ST.
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North American Review.

The opening article in the North Ameri-
can Review for November, "Quick Transit
Between New York and London by Aus
tin Cashin, is bright, breezy and novel in
its construction, and the subject is han
died in very unique way. There is a
highly interesting and amusing essay by
the late Professor II. II. Boyesen on 1.-The
Plague Of Jocularity." 1t is strictly appli-
cable to; the American people. Edward
Atkinson writes upon "Jingoes and Silver
ites," while Major-General Nelson A.
Miles treats in another chapter from his
forthcoming book ''From New England to
the Golden Gate" on 'Our Acquisition of
Territory" A contribution of interest is
that on the Industrial Development of
the South" by the Hon. W. c. Oates, Gov
ernor of Alabama. An interesting paper
is 9'The Girlhood of an Actress" by Mary
Anders on de Navarro.
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KATHERINE LlUDERDlLE.

The principal impression received from
MI. Crawford's story, of which new edi-
ton has been put out by the Macmillans,
is one of wearisome detail and vulgarity.
We are treated at length to explanations
of the Ralston and Lauderdale family
trees and made to assist, as it were, at their
planting and to watch over their growth.
The reader is initiated into the various
minutia of drunkenness, and participates
drinks" ''short drinks" 'pilot's two
fingers" cocktails and what-not that he
might readily be pardoned a little dizzi-
ness and bewilderment as he traverses the
misty mazes of the volume. New York:
Macmillan & Co. For sale by Doxey, San
Francisco. Price 81.
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UP-TO.DATE CRITICISM.

About new book that London has
lately become enamored of, to wit: elm
pressions of Aureole," Joseph Hatton
writes with paste sparkle not often found
in London ink. 1t says: "a painful
social document. 1t is: Dolly dialogues
and alcohol; green chartreuse in beer
house mug; the life of lady with the
restrained impulse of a Germinie LAGER
teux''; but it is clever, sparkling and what
is called up-to-date; book TO read for its
sidelights upon phase of society that
makes toll of pleasure, and lays up for
itself a rickety and melancholy old age.'
1t makes one curious, to say the least,
does that enthusiasm Can it be that Mr..
Hatton is becoming another Jeanette
Gilder?-The Chicago Echo.
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BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

Now that Christmas is but few weeks
off, the booksellers windows and shelves
are filled with juvenile literature, and in
dividuals having young people on their
gift lists are already beginning to make
selection from among the leading books
for boys and girls.
1t is interesting to note the changes that
have of late years taken place in this class
Of literature. Among the new juvenile
books there is a noticeable lack OF the
once popular stuff written down" to the
comprehension of children. Likewise the
pedant has disappeared from the pages of
children's books. The order OF writers
represented by aunt Louisa" at one ex-
treme and the author of 1.-THE Rollo
Books at the other no longer constitute
the sole caterers 10 youthful taste. We
seem, too, to have hidden permanent fare
well to those insufferable little prigs,
Harry and Lucy" and Stanford and
Merton" whom we of the present genera
ton hold in common memory as the
mentors and exemplars of our. childhood.
For the modern boy in particular fine
class of literature is now provided. Most
of the latter-day fiction written for him is
of high order. Travel, adventure, poll
tics and the ranges of classic literature
have been attractlyely opened up before
subjects and applied mechanics that have
recently been adapted to his wants are OF a
sort to stimulate and assist, without In
sulting his mental powers. For lnforma-
ton upon any subject under the sun, from
balancing the tail OF kite to constructing
an electric motor. the boy OF to-day may
turn TO his own library shelves roierably
certain of finding what he wants. The en-
tire range of human activities is at his
hand in the best of his own literature, and
so extensive is his choice that only excep-
tional stupidity or exceptional viciousness
neeo prompt his choice OF silly or vicious
books.
With girls, unfortunately, the case is
other than this. While in all things per-
tanning to their education and develop
ment the training and education OF girls
is proceeding along lines almost wholly
new, the books written especially for them
seem to run in the same old grooves IN
which ''books for girls" have always run.
The principal changes, indeed, seem to be,
mainly lii the styles OF garments worn in
the illustrations. The modern girl of II is
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The St. Nicholas.

AS the holidays approach brighter
sparkle comes into the eyes of the little
folks at the mention of est. Nicholas'-the
magazine. They in their simple and abid-
ing trust in its editor reason with unerring
accuracy that their beloved periodical
must contain stories and sketches W hich
will intensity their anticipation of the
Christmas season and give them hap ply
tn oughts in sincere accord with the time
of temporal and spiritual rejoicing. The
November number OF ''St. Nicholas" is no
exception to the custom followed for so
many years. 1t is veritable treasure
house for the little readers. The stories
are carefully selected and not one is to
be found therein that will not go to the
hearts of the child readers. "Long live st.
Nick!n say the little folks
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MUSIC OF THE MODERNS.

The first number of a to-be twenty-four
volume musical publication, called The
Music of the Modern World, has just
been issued by D. Appleton G. Co., New
York. Anton Seidl is the editor in-chief
OF this beautiful work. 1t is printed on
heavy cream paper, twelve pages to the
number, and besides containing several
weIl-written sketches of noted musicians
and composers, has a number of fine en-
cravings and two or three musical selec-
tons. In its entirety it is a work of high
Co., New York: Dorvil1e Libby, manager
for the Pacific Coast.1
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MY SISTER HENRIETTA.

This is translation by Walter J. G.
6ussenrode of Ernest Remains tribute to
his sister. who died in 1861. Renan him
self said of her that this sister twas the
person who had the greatest influence
over his life" He loved her very tenderly
and wrote this memoir the year following
her death. Only one hundred copies of it
were printed and circulated among friends,
and 1t now appears as ,postnumous work
OF the great Frenchman. 1t is mainly of
value as throwing strong personal light
upon the novelist New York: J. S.
Ogllvle, publisher. Price % cents.
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California State Mining Bureau. The
author has endeavored to furnish some
thing that should be of practical benefit to
actual working millmen, who might not
nave access to expensive works on the sub
Ject, rather than a further contribution to
the literature of gold mining. The book is
intended for free distribution in this State,
and any citizen of California may obtain a
copy free by sending Scent stamp to pre-
pay postage. The price to those outside
the State is 80 cents. [San Francisco: Cali
1ornla State Mining Bureau, "a Fourth
street
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ond Jungle Book has all of the qualities
that marked the first one. The unique
and favorite characters reappear, from
Mowgli and the Wolf Pack to Baloo the
bear, Bagheera the panther, HATH the
elephant, and Kaa the python. Each
tale is prefaced with a little mblematic
verse and is followed by ballad. Mr..
Kipling's father has drawn a number of
head and tail pieces, initials and decora-
tions that are in full accord with the text.
[''The Second Jungle Book" by Rudyard
Kipling, decorated by J. L. Kipling;
12mo, 1874 pages. The Century Company,
New York. 81 10 I
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Lippincott.s Magazine.

The November number of Lippincott
contains stirring tale of Washington life
by Harriet Riddle Davis, entitled "In
Sight of the Goddess" Among the other
articles are many from the pens of we'll
known writer's. The short novels which
appear in Lippincott's Magazine every
month continue in their popularity, and
the present number is no exception as to
the quality and interesting character OF
the routine contributions. The names OF
some of our best-known writer's are found
in the index of contents
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KIPLING'S SECOND JUNGLE BOOK.

Another jungle-book has appeared. It
is printed in fine style by the Century
Company. Rudyard Kipling's first
Jungle Book" has already become a
classic in Juvenile literature, and it may
be doubted whether the larger part of the
authors fame will not rest upon his work
in this field. Mr.. Kipling addresses him
self to children, but the 'grown-ups''
claim an equal interest in the stories with
their juniors. 1t is generally regarded as
perilous venture to attempt sequel to
successful work of fiction, but "The Sec