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PRACTICAL CHRISTIAN SOCIOLOGY.

Earnest Christian workers will appre-
ciate this new work. 1t contains the very
latest thoughts on this subject. DR.. Will
bur F. Crafts is an acknowledged authority
on any subject to which he gives his mind.
The volume before us discusses present
problems on the basis of the latest facts
and figures. The first part of the book is
mostly occupied with the lectures which
the author delivered in February of this
year before Princeton Theological Semi
nary on invitation of the faculty, whose
unqualified Endorsement of the fairness,
thoroughness and ability shown in the
lectures is given in the form of introduce
tory letters. These lectures discuss tenn
perance, Sabbath reform, gam bling, purity,
civil service, ballot reform. municipal re-
form, education, immigration, divorce,
woman suffrage and all the other social
problems, not separately but in their rela-
tions to each other as parts of one great
problem, which is presented from the
standpoints, first, Of the church; second,
of the family and education; third, of
capital and labor; and fourth, of citizen
ship. These lectures are illustrated.
One of the valuable features of the book
is the abundant indexes, including Bible
index, an index of modern authors quoted.
an index of places sociologieally considered,
and a very full topical index which is both
alphabetical and analytical.
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few months under the caption of "Stories
of the Town." Mr.. Jerome portrays we'll
known types or characters IN these stories,
the first of which he calls "Blase Billy"
The series is interesting from the fact
that it constitutes the first short stories
that Mr.. Jerome has ever written directly
for an American periodical.
Mr.. George Saintsbury, formerly of Mer-
ton College, Oxford, who has just been
nominated by the crown to the chair of
rhetoric and English literature in the Uni
versity of Edinburgh, made vacant by the
resignation of Professor David Mason,
has completed his volume on Nineteenth
Century Literature" which contains some
of his most brilliant work. The difficult
ties, not alone of generalization and classi-
fication, but also of selection and proper
tionment. are infinitely greater in the case
of writer's of our own century than in that
OF earlier writer's; yet Mr.. Saintsbury has
emerged very successfully from his diff
cult task, and has produced work we'll
fitted to uphold its authors rank among
the greatest of living critics.
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AMONG THE PUEBLO INDIANS.

This is an exceedingly handsome vol
ume of travel sketches among very in
teresting people. The travellers and writer's,
Carl and Lillian Westcott Eickmeyer, are
evidently people of culture and also capi-
tai amateur photographers. The book is
profuseIy illustrated from photographs
taken by the authors and the pictures are
for the most part we'll reproduced. They
constitute, however, the chief interest of
the book. OF the three travellers, the Elck-
meyers and the camera, the latter seems
to have been by far the best observer. At
all events it has recorded it's observa-
tions in a far more entertaining way
than either of it's human companions
has succeeded in doing. 1t is rath-
er a curious circumstance that two
bright young people travelling by prairie
schooner through a comparatively un-
known and genuinely romantic region
should have produced so commonplace a
record of their journey. Their work reads
like a guide-book with none of the pleas
ant experienced touches that even guide
book literature sometimes manages to ex-
exhibit. One feels an entire absence of
human sympathy between the writers and
their surroundings and turns ever with re-
lief from the dull, statistical pages to the
speaking pictures. which really make the
book New York: The Merriam Com
pany. For sale at the Popular bookstore,
San Francisco. Price ST. T5,1
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DOLLY DiLLnABECk.

The title of James L. Ford's latest novel
is rather misleading. Dolly Dillenbeck is
the hero and not the heroine of the ro-
nance. There is forcibe lesson con-
tanned in the record of Dolly's career, but
that is about all. AS novel it falls short
of the standard of literary excellence es-
tablished by Mr.. Ford's former works,
and it Is lacking in moving interest,
but in the study of character development
the author has shown his power. Dolly is
the son of a wealthy New York business
man. His mother has notions pc
culiarly her own about the training
of their only child, and in conse-
quence he is kept in ignorance
of that worlds knowledge which consti-
tutes the average schoolboy's stock in
trade at Is. When Dolly is IS he is as
ignorant as most boys half his age, and on
the death of his father and mother few
years later he is wholly unqualified for the
position he is called OH to fill as the sole
heir to large estate. The consequences
may be foreseen. AS the natural result of
his mothers early and misguided training
he becomes the prey OF unscrupulous men,
who help him to dissipate his fortune and
give him in exchange what Holmes says is
far more valuable than the 'cackles of
that old hen eXperience"-her real eggs
But ruin followed inevitably on the heels
of excess. the story leaves a bad taste
George n. Richmond d Co., publishers,
New York
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THE HAND OF FATE.

This is Kate Lilly Blues first attempt at
book aking. AS the author in her pre-
face says she has two brothers in our army a
critic takes up the volume with some trepi-
dation for fear of the personal consequences.
But really Lilly Blue ought to have some
body tell her for the sake of her second at
tempt that such gems as "a sneer frozen on
his mustached lips look Of strong surprise
fixed forever on his features" do not
move in the first literary society. There
is IN fact great deal too much of that
heavy mustache in the book. 1t penetrates
everywhere. coupled often with young
women in Nile green MULE and pink and
gray tea gowns. The tale has large per-
centage of tragedy in it and is Of the gen.
eral style of the to-be-continued-i incur
nexe yarns that appear in flash weekly
journals. The author should remember
tnat in the picturing of living flesh and
blood people, with all their hopes and
fears. it is not absolutely necessary at i'm
portant crises to note that the heroine
wore crimson tea gown trimmed with
black fur. 1t is a Navy romance, so the
author says. 1t certainly will give theme
for gossip in the idling moments of ward
room sociability. Charles H. Kerr & Co.,
Chicago. For sale by the San Francisco
News Com pany.
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THE LEGEND OF AILUS.

Mr.. Doxey is to be congratulated upon
the exceeding beauty of form in which he
has put out this little volume of poems by
Flora Macdonald Shearer. In point of
fact it is one of the most beautiful books of
the season. The printing is by Murdoch,
from type procured by Doxey expressly
for this work, and the title page is an ex-
ceedingly artistic design by Gelett Bur-
CESS. The book is tastefully bound in one
of the new English cloths SO popular this
season, with full gilt side and back in
original and appropriate design.
This much for the architectural features
of this venture from a Californian pub
Usher. OF Miss Shearer's verse, it may be
said that it is worthy of its environment
The basis for ''The Legend of Aulus" is to
be found in the Gesta Romanorum, from
which so many of our English poets have
drawn themes and inspiration, and Miss
Shearer has given us the tradition in easy,
stately and often picturesque, albeit some
what bookish verse. Her song has, in
fact, to a marked degree this bookish note.
Her lines are classical, correct and pleas
ing, even when one detects in them a
slight reminder of the midnight oil, strange
and not unwelcome amid the wayward
pipings of our more untrammeled bards
There is great beauty in many OF her con-
ceptions, as in the stately sonnet, wake
Not the Gods:
Wake not the dreadful gods: we say their sleep
Will last unbroken through the centuries:
But should we err, assuredly for these
Our halcyon days we shall be IN ade to reap
bitter harvest. Over us shall sweep
The wrath which no oblatiOn may appease,
Since it mislikes them that their slaves should
seize
One hour wherein they may forget to weep.
For this, for this the gods are envious,
unforeseen
The uncertain rapture which must have an end,
Yet, while it lasts, umes the world for us,
When soul draws nigh to SOUL and friend meets
friend
In "Vale Atque Vale" we get bit of the
singers philosophy, which, however,
strikes hopeless note that is not always
present in her song:
For me, never knew the way
10 gain the crowns OF life
chance spectator of the fray,
A watcher of the strife.
And so it is not hard for
With naught to lose or win
To mark the setting OF the sun
And see the night begin.
One turns from this with feeling of re-
lief to the rather stern admonition to Cali
fornia that closes her fine sonnet TO the
Golden State:
And yet, beware! much gold can dull the brain,
Gan clog the springs OF fancy ana destroy
The soul wi h SOW and subtle alchemy
A baser race may rise TO live for gain:
Pitful duar Is may thy spoils enjoy,
And thou, thySelf, be but mockery.
In all there are less than score of
poems in the volume, but they are full of
promise. We may yet look for greater
things from the writer of the beautiful
poem, "To Robert Louis Stevenson"
which. more than any of the others, rises
to the heights of life itself-which is even
greater than art. San Francisco: Will
liam Doxey, publisher. For sale at the
bookstores
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The COMEDY OF SENTIMENT.

The old saying, Nothing succeeds like
success" receives new illustrations every
day. Even bygone failures are not infre-
quently clothed with an appearance of
having deserved to succeed, when seen
through the light cast by some notable
success of him who made the failure. DR..
Max Nordau is the latest writer to furnish
examples of this familiar truth. He had
written several books before his work on
Degeneration" appeared, and now that 1t
has attracted the attention of the world,
his early efforts are being republished,
translated and put forward to share in
the sudden interest awakened in the works
of the author.
One of these early works translated and
recently issued in this country IS 1.-The
Comedy of Sentiment" story of an ad-
ventures who seeks to dupe into marriage
a good-hearted and learned but not very
strong or clear-headed professor. The ad-
ventures, who is living on the edges OF
society and is in imminent danger OF be-
ing pushed out by reason of her free and
easy conduct, has little difficulty In en-
gaging the professor in an intrigue and
getting him SO involved with her that he
finds it no easy task to extricate himself
The book is about as degenerate as
any of those which Nordau has made his
lame Dy ueuOuDClHP. Inc WpIldH lS
vicious the man is fool; her passion is
vile and his is morbid. Realism might be
the justification of such a study were it
not that realism itself is sacrificed in the
end in order to satisfy conventional mo-
raiity by saving the weak man from the
wiles of the wicked woman. If the other
early works of the author are like this,
Nordau will profit nothing by having
them republished. At best they can be
sold only on the reputation he has made
by his famous book on Degeneration"
and they will detract from that reputation
in the minds of all who read them.
In 1.-The Comedy of Sentiment there is.
in fact hardly genuinely artistic feature.
There is neither wit, pathoS nor passion,
and il there was any charm of literary
style in the original, 1t has been lost in the
translation. From beginning to end it is
but little more than police court record
of the attempt of an adventures to en-
trap respecta bic citizen, though of course
it is written with more ella boration than is
usually given 10 accounts of such attempts.
Like all realistic stories it claims to teach
q moral, but as in this case the moral is
the old familiar one ''avoid bad company"
it was hardly necessary to write disagree
able novel to inculcate it. "Thc Comedy
of Sentiment" DIR. Max Nordau. New
York and Chicago: F. Tennyson NeeIy.
Price 81 80
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EUNICE OUNCE.

A prettier piece of pure old-fashioned
realism was never contributed to Ameri-
can literature than 'Eunice Ounce" by
Danl Conyngham. 1t is a New England
romance. The scene is not laid in the lat
ter part of the last century or the early
part of this; that field has been overwell
titled. While being old-fashioned the
story is of the present day, and the inter-
est. therefore, is less of the epitaphic than
the living character. Queenston, small
village not far from Boston, settled in the
latter part of the seventeenth century and
INT little changed in size and general ap-
nearance since it's birth, is the theater of
the leading events in the narrative. 1t is
one of those old-fashioned namlets of
which there are many to be found to-day,
not only in New England but in New
York. Pennsylvania and Ohio and some of
the Southern States. The inhabitants
were born and reared there as their fathers
and grandfathers before them. While the
world outside has undergone many trans
formations Queenston remains unchanged.
A picture of one of these old towns is
readily suggested to the minds eye. The
stirring events of the year are limited TO
nm occasional marriage, birth or death,
and when a new family takes up its abode
within the quiet precincts something ike
a gcnuine sensation ensues. To many the
memory of such an old town causes
moisture of the eye and hutter OF the
heart. -
Eunice Ounce, the heroine of the story.
is a typical New England maid of the gen.
teel class. She has had course at one OF
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LITERARY NOTES.

The second number of the Zenda Series
of stirring fiction is now issued by J. Selwin
TAFT & Sons. 1t is by David Malcolm,
author of ga Fiend Incarnate," and is
entitled "Fifty Thousand Dollars Ran
son." 1t tells of the amazing adventures
of John Granger, New York merchant,
and holds the attention of the reader from
the first paragraph to the last
Anson D. F. Randolph & Co. will soon
publish new book of travel under the
title of ALGERIAN Memoirs" by Fanny
Bullock Workman and William Hunter
Workman. 1t is an interesting account of
a bicycle tour in the spring of 1894. extend
ing the entire length of Algeria, from Oran
and Plemcen on the west TO the Tunisian
frontier on the east, and south over the
mountains to the desert.
1.-THE Invisible Playmate; A story of
the Unseen" by William Canton. is Just
issued by ]. Selwin TAFT & Sons. This is a
story which will touch the neart of every
reader, for there is no one so far removed
from superstition but has some chord in
his nature which will respond to it. The
book has made great sensation in Lon
don, and Andrew Lang says it is one OF
the most remarkable books which he has
ever read.
Jerome K. Jerome has written series ot
short stories for the Ladies Home Journal
They will be published during the ensuing
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

| PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY
OF SCIENCES, second series, volume V, part
1, issued Novembe 1S, 1895.
| CRICKET, CHILD's STORY, by Elizabeth
Westyn Timlow, illustrated by Harriet R.
Richards. Cloth, 16mo, 323 pages, price
81. Estes & Lauriat, Boston, publishers.
EUNIcE OUNCE, New England romance,
by Dane Conyngham. Cloth, 362 pages,
81 25. Lowell, Coryel & Co., New York,
publishers.
THE MINUTE MAN ON THE FRONTIER, by
the Rev. w. G. Puddefoot, AM, field Sec
retary of the Home Missionary Society.
Cloth, 12mo, 326 pages. illustrated, 81 25.
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., publishers, New
York and Boston.
BULLETIN DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, by Car
roll D. Wright. Issued from Government
Printing Office; Ito pages.
PooR's DIRECTORY OF RAILWAY OFFICIALS
OF THE UNITED STATES; 620 pages.
DOLLY DILLENBECK, by James l.. Ford.
Published by George 81. Richmond. II
East Fifteenth street, New York; 16mo,
392 pages; illustrated; 81.
ELFIE AND THE KATyDID, by Frances v.
and Edward J. Austin. Published by the
Merriam Company, 81 Fifth avenue. New
York. For sale by Johnson e. Emigh.
DESSERTS FOR EvERYBoDY's TABLE;
| pamphlet, 80 pages. Dodge Book and
Stationery Company, 107 Montgomery
street, San Francisco.
Boys LIFE OF GENERAL GRANT, by Thomas
W. Knox. New York: The Merriam Com
| pany; 81 so.
SEVEN LECTURES ON PROPHECY, by II.
Farnsworth.
THE BIG Bow MYSTERY, by I. Zangwill.
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co.; so cents.
NURSERY ETHICS, by Florence Hull Win
terburn. New York: The Merriam Com
pany; 81.
TARrAR1N OF TARAscoN by Daudet. New
York: T. Y. Crowell e. Co.; 81.
CHICAGO PUBLIC WoRKs-Report of the
chief engineer, with the Mayors message.
TOPICAL OUTLINE OF HISTORY OF THE
UNITED STATES, by Elizabeth T. Mills of
Martinez CAL Published by the author;
paper, 25 cents.
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one has, moreover. an uncomfortable sense
of the probable feelings of 'Sister LOU" a
worthy Belgravian matron, called upon to
introduce her quaint little sister-in-law to
her dear 500 friends. However, Mr..
Holland does not really make US
follow his japanese wife into the
London fog. He only shows US a part
receding shores Of Japan from the deck
of the outgoing steamer. and asking her
English husband IF England is like
Japan" We are left quite free to believe
that Mousme died on the voyage home;
that her fiower-like spirit fiuttered back to
her own lovely land, and that ''the butter
fiy with heart never lived to be impaled
upon any long pin of British propriety,
there to writhe and die piecemeal. The
little volume is gotten up in style as dainty
as its contents, but the publishers have
spoiled pretty effect By placing their i'm
Rr,ns NIKE ons the rail Of the oan
Japanese balcony that adorns the front
cover. New York: Macmillan & Co. For
sale at the Popular Bookstore, San Fran
cisco. Price, 75 cents.
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PATRICIA.

Marie St. Felix has followed her story
1.-TWO Bad Brown Eyes," with a sequel
Patricia. and the sequel, like the first
story, deals with the shady side of life
Between the two there is, however, this
difference. In Two Bad Brown Eyes
we are told of wicked woman's plan
to avenge herself on her seducer by
bringing about the ruin of his daughter
In the sequel we have story of the
woman's repentance and her effort to
atone for it. She succeeds in getting the
deceived girl safely married to the man
who had ruined her, but the result is by
no means satisfactory, and after short
married life. full of disappointment, the
poor girl commits suicide, and so ends the
tale. 1t is not pleasant story, nor a
strong one, and will be pleasing only to
those who like their light literature to be
very light indeed.
G"Patricia," Marie ST. Felix. New York
The Merriam Company. Price in paper
covers 20 re MS
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SHOULD WOMEN VOTE?

There have been many novels of late
dealing with inte irrational marriages, and
now new one appears discussing that
subject in connection with the question OF
female suffrage. The book bears as a title
the question, "Shall Women Vote?'' and
purports to be written by ga Bachelor -
The general method of treatment is satiri-
cal, but there are many passages Of more
serious and earnest nature. The scenes OF
the story are laid in. Newport, Vassar,
Rome and the Santa Cruz Mountains.
The incidents are few and simple. An
Italian nobleman named "Prince Co
lombo" makes visit to Newport for
the purpose OF winning the hand of an
American heiress, and there is very nearly
duped into marriage with Boston girl j.,
Miss Sorosis Blackstone, who passes for a
rich woman, by paying the newspapers to
advertise her as such in their social
columns. Escaping from this woman, the
Prince meets California girl, 4 graduate
OF Vassar, and marries her. The couple
live in Rome for time, but the Prince
soon develops into drunkard and gam
bier, and the Princess, in order to save
herself from his bad treatment, takes
her child and returns to America to
claim the protection of her father. The
author argument is that American women
are SO fond of titles they are not fit to vote
in a republic. The story is merely a
sketch, and while there are some clever
things in it, there is very little of force or
vivacity either in the characters or in the
pictures of society.
l''Should Women Vote?' BY A Bache-
lor. New York: Paul Morse, publisher.
Price, cloth covers, rs cents.
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FROEBEI'S MOTHER PLAY"

Kindergartners and those having in
charge the education and training of chill
dren will welcome this translation in Ap-
pleton's International Education Series of
the notices and commentaries of Fried
rich Froebeps "Mother Play" A mum Der
of the poems in the book have been trans
lated by Emily Huntington Miller and
new music has been composed for them by
noted English composers. The quaint
supervision, have been reproduced from
the beautiful edition of Wichard Lange,
now out of print and not easy to obtain.
The mother communings and notices
have been rendered into English verse by
Henrietta r. Eliot, while the prose trans
lations are by Susan e. Blow, who also
on the philosophy OF Froebel. New York !:
D. Appleton d Co. For sale by Doxey,
San Francisco. Price, 81 90.
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MAGAZINES.
Tile Land of Sunshine.

The December number of Charles F.
Lummis' Southwestern magazine, The
Land of Sunshine, will contain q charac-
teristic and charming chapter of reminis-
cences by Jessie Benton Fremont, besides
contributions by Grace Ellery Charming,
Joaquin Miller, Charlotte Perkins Stetson
and others. A paper on Coahuila dances
and folk-songs with the music) by d. P.
Barrows, one by the editor on some of the
curiosities of our word-adoptions fro m
Spanish America and description by Ed
mund d. Sturtevant OF the Aristolochia
gigas Sturtevantii, or pelican flower "a
blossom foot wide and eighteen inches
long), with illustrations never before pub
lished, are among the other attractions.
The contents of the magazine will be, as
always, purely Southwestern in topic, and
the illustrations unusually lavish and
handsome.
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back as 1888 Master Philip Stubbes, in his
"Anatomie Abuses" was as bitter in his
denunciation of the game as any modern
diatribist. 1t will be news to most that
ancient legend speaks of Joan of Arc as a
tennis player and that women prize
fighters are not fin de steele institution.
There is a readable essay on golf and its
traditions, and another on transportation,
beginning with the first transport of which
we have any record, and which was
called Noah's ark. Boatraces. tobacco,
coffee, Mayday, Good Friday and the Fifth
of Novem Der are some of the other
essays. and the closing one, on Christmas
day, gives great deal of interesting in
fcNnation concerning this most popular
of holidays. New York: Harper & Bros.
Price rs cents
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UNDER A MYSTIC SPELL.

A collection of short stories by Harold
Leslie, published in Gritfith's West Coast
Literature series. This is an occasional
issue of booklets, edited by Lorenzo Sosso
and Frederick L. Griffith. There are five
tales in the book, none of them more than
mediocre, and all dealing the mysterious.
Under Mystic Spelr' is rather silly
none of the stories appear to have any
particular motif beyond the authors in
terest in, and rather superficial knowledge
of, Eastern mysticism. [San Francisco:
Griffith Publishing Company, 1895 Howard
street. Price so cents. For sale by Payot,
Upham e. Co..