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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-27
MISS COoLBRITH'S POEMS.
Songs From the Golden Gate" the Prom
nent Book of the Week.

Songs From the Golden Gate" the Promi.
nent Book of the Week.
1t was wise determination on the part
of the California Guild of Letters to I'M
dertake as its first work the publication of
the poems of Ina Coolbrith, and the asso-
citation may well be congratulated on the
successful accomplishment of the task
The volume. which bears the title
"Songs From the Golden Gate" and is
illustrated by William Keith, has just
been issued from the Riverside Press,
Cambridge, and is in every respect most
excellent piece of bookmaking. 1t can
hardly fail to attract the attention of Gull
tured people to the work undertaken by
the Guild and ought to materially increase
the support and cooperation given to it.
Miss Coolbrith is one of those upon
whose work depends the repute of Cali
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-27
PAINS AND ACHES.

Cold produces pains; carelessness, scanty
clothing and draughts bring on colds
avoid them.
pain in the back means a disordered
kidney, often produced by cold.
~
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~
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GATE ,.

The mighty waters Of the sunset lie
In all their Oh angling opaescence; here
The prooding melancholy OF the sere
Dun autumn WOODS; the laughing eafery
OF budding boughs blending each tender dye
With the lush green of the awakening year.
This is not painted canvas-this is life,
Creation. earth, in all her varying moodsl
These fields athriil with motion and with light,
These forest ways with dream and my stery rife,
Here natures heart throbs through the soli-
tudes,
Here natures soul looks from the mystic height
Three poems in the volume stand out
distinct from the others, both in nature
and in mode of treatment. These are
"California," 1.-THE Captive of the White
City" and the Memorial Poem" written
for the Grand Army OF the Republic and
read on Decoration day, 1881. Poems writ
ten for special occasions are rarely of much
merit. The memorial ode of Miss Cool
BIRTH is one of the few that has outlived
the day for which it was written. 1t
abounds with strong lines giving noble e1-
preston to noble thoughts. Among the
passages are many which will furnish fit
quotations for memorial orators to adorn
their prose with as long as the observance
of that sacred day shall be honored among
US. 1t is, indeed, one of the classic memo
rial odes of the Nation, and will be per-
petuated in memory of the heroic dead, of
whom it finely sings:
They have not died in vain.
Through them she lives with head no longer bowed
Among the nations, but erect and proud;
Washed clean of wrong and shame,
Her freedom never more empty name
And all her scattered again.
The california" though not the longest
is the most notable poem in the volume,
and exhibits the powers of the author at
her BEST California sits by the Golden
Gate and complains that none have fifty
sung of her glory
All, what indeed is this
Old land beyond the seas that ye should miss
For her the grace and majesty of mine?
Are not the fruit and vine
Fair my hills and in my wales the rose?
When to her coast the white man came
so full of vigor and with so much of pur-
pose in his eyes, California laughed and
sang because she thought II shall be
known, l shall not sit alone, but reach my
hands unto my sister lands" This expecta-
ton, however, has not been fulfilled. Cali
fornia remains unsung. ''All my lays and
legends fade away from lake ard mountain
to the farther hem of sea and there be none
to gather them" Thus California still
waits the coming of the singer, ''him of
diviner speech" and of him she says:
My iaurels lend the glory OF their boughs
To crown no narrower brows.
For on his lips must wisdom sit with youth
And in his eyes, and on the lids thereof
The light OF a great love
And on his forehead truth.
In the voice of the lofty lament which
Miss Coolbrith has put into the mouth of
California there is something of prophecy.
The glory of this golden land will yet be
as sweetly and as nobly sung as that OF
any land on earth. Our bards sublime
will come when the heart of the people
and the culture of the State has been pre-
r.
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DICKS AND JACKS ADVENTURES on
SABLE ISLAND.

The story of two boys adventures, after
being cast away on Sable Island, that terri
BILE graveyard of the Atlantic that
stretches its menacing, serpent-like length
across the pathway of ships, hundred
miles or so off the coast of Nova Scotia.
To most boy readers Sable Island will be
terra incognita, and this story, by B. Free
man Ashley, is one that can be heartily
recommended for their perusal. 1t is gem
uine and unaffected in tone, and while the
boys are hardy, manly fellows, genuinely
boys and irrepressible, they are true
hearted, lovable chaps. whom to know will
do all boys good. fChicago: Laird & Lee.
Cloth, limo. Price 75c.
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BEETZEN MANOR.

A translation, by Elsie Lathrop, from
the German of w. Heimburg, popular
writer of the romantic school. "Beetzen
Manor is a pitiful story of the conven-
tionalities that hedge in the life and op-
portunities of the highbred German
woman, even IN these progressive DAYS.
Convention, bigotry, the narrow rules.
relics of feudal days, pursue Heimburg's
heroine from the cradle to the untimely
grave to which they eventually hound her.
The story is powerful one, which the
as the text sto tor sermon er and even the
translator's work, which is hopelessly bad,
is not sufficient to destroy its interest.
New York, London AND Berlin: The In
ternational News Company. Price so
cents.
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A TUNBFUL SON OF THE SOUTH.

sam Minturn Peck's dainty volumes
OF verse are among the most popular in the
country to-day. 1t is about ten years since
his lyrics and songs began to appear in the
news papers, and were quickly copied from
one end of the country to the other. His
rep utatlon as poet was fully gained be-
tore he thought of publishing volume
says the Philadelphia Press, and when he
ala seek publisher he found that his
wares were welcome
TUSCALOOSA, where he lives in the old
1amny homestead, is the university town
OF Alabama. The new movement has
scarcely struck the place as yet. though
mere are signs that it will do so ere long.
The village is at the head of the Warrior
River, which flows into the Tombigbee and
SO on down to the Gulf
Mr.. Peck has described his home in one
OF his tavorite poems:
AN ALABAMA GARDEN.
Along the pine-clad hill It lies
oerlooXed by limpid Southern skies,
spot TO feast fairy's eyes,
nook for happy fancies.
me wild bees mellow monotone
Here blends with bird-notes zephyr blown
And many an insect voice unknown
The harmony enhances.
The roses shattered spleneor fees
With lavish grace on every breeze
And lilies sway with flexible ease
Like dryads snowy crested;
And where gardenias browse between
Rich curving leaves of glossy green
The cricket strikes his tam BOURNE
Amid the MOSES nestled.
He was brought UP in this environ.
ment by his father sometime Chief Justice
of Alabama, and took his course at the
university.
When not occupied with man aging his
estate, cotton plantation, he tried his
hand at verse-making. Some of his poems
We're copied out by friend and were sent
to the New York Evening Post and indie
pendent. They met with such favorable
reception that he took up the writing of
poetry seriously. Two books of his poems
Cap and Bells" and Rings and Love,
Knots" have gone through several edi-
tons, and third volume, Rhymes and
Roses, will appear this fall.
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SKIN DISEASES.

CASTLE soap and warm water used night
and morning will dry up pimples and
blackheads.
Don't pick pimples with your nails.
~
Ulcers, body Sores scrofula and eczema
disappear with the use of joys Vegetable
Sarsa parlla.
Sweaty hands and feet should be washed
daily with cold salt water.
*.*
If you have skin disease don't eat fats
or take mineral drugs. Use joys Vegeta-
BILE Sarsaparilla; it is made of herbs.
~
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drying and scaling. Use cold water in the
morning and rub the head thoroughly.
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use joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla. You can
then put the body in good health.
~
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dyspepsia. If you use joys Vegetable
Sarsaparilla the burning will cease.
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hands, face. neck, loins and back are the
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and they will disappear.
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and use joys Vegetable Sarsapariila.
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fornia literature in circles best fitted to
Judge it. The publication of the present
volume is, therefore, to us matter of
more than ordinary literary importance.
1t gives to California new hearing before
the tribunal of highest criticism and justi-
ties her in demanding something more
than passing notice of her accomplish
ments in the domain of letters. In this
small volume there is much which will
take its place in the permanent literature
of America, and will be accounted excel
lent not only for the sentiment which
animates it but for the art which has en-
bodied it in forms of beauty and endowed
it with the harmonious cad ences of a true
music.
Miss Coolbrith has not undertaken a
wide range of work. With three excep-
tons the contents of the present volume
might be divided into poems OF descrip-
ton and poems of moods. 1t is the latter
class that predominates and gives coloring
to the whole. In a short poem, entitled
"To-day's Singing" occur the lines:
Weave rhyme to-day.
No pleasant roundelay,
But some vag ue, restless yearning Of the heart.
Shaped with but little art
To broken numbers, that shall flow
Most dreamily and slow.
think no merry fancy should belong
To this days song.
1t is in the mood thus expressed that
Miss Coolbrith has done most of her sing
ing. but she has shown how to carry that
mood through thousand varieties, and
the vague, restless yearning of the heart
has not always been revealed lightly and
with little art, put at times deeply and
seriously, with the finest and truest
artistic elaboration. 1t is worth noting that
the moods are never morbid. Always
healthful and pure, they are associated
with sentiments of wholesome cheerful
ness and lofty faith, so that we may say
in these verses are realized Swinburnes
dream of fair passions and bountiful
pities and lovesA ithout STAIN"
A helpful and cheering philosophy IN
derlies all these "Songs From the Golden
Gate" The winds that come in from the
ocean are not more free from depressing
influences. They give bright glimpses of
earth they help to solve problems of pain
and sorrow; they make life pleasanter as
well as more earnest for all who read them.
In all this sweetness and cheerfulness,
however, there is no trace OF superficial
eayety or an absence of knowledge of "the
mystery and the burden of the intolerable
world" There is, on the other hand, an
evident will-power exerted to master the
mystery by faith and to bear the burden
bravely with strong heart. In the poem
"Marah' occurs protest against the de-
mand that all songs should be gay, and
while for the right enjoyment OF it the
whole should be read it will suffice to show
the argument and the answer to quote here
the first verse and the last:
The song were sweeter and better
If only the thought were glad.
Be hidden the chafe of the fetter,
The of the wound you have had;
Be silent of strife and endeavor,
But shout of the victory won.
You may sit in the shadow forever
If only you'll sing of the sum-
To the weary in life's wildernesses
The soul OF the singer belongs;
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ney on the ice up the Yukon and across
the Chilcoot Mountains; arrive. half
starved and half frozen, at John Muir's
deserted hut on the banks of the Muir
Glacier, and are finally picked up by a
United States revenue cutter and taken to
Sitka, where Phil at last finds his father.
into an '. unknown owns r r and viii nraye
both instructive and profitable reading for
our young people. New York: Harper
4 Bros. For sale by Cunningham, Curtiss
& WEIGH, San Francisco
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-27
HEALTH LA VS.
NERVOUSNESS.

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When nervous and restless take moder-
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The heart, lungs and stomach are gov
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and these nerves are quieted by what you
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~
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Two Californians appear in the field Of
literature this week.
Miss Ina Coolbrith bestows volume of
rare poesv. She is a singer of whom the
Occident is justly proud.
Taylor Rogers adds TO the world s
knowledge of financial questions by book
called Scientific Money" He will be
read for the earnestness of his words, his
clearness of thought and facility of ex-
preston.
Other fields of literature are also well
represented in the weeks publications.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-27
COLEMAN'S WILL.
An Estate of $4,000 Left in Trust
for the Testator's Young

for the TestatOr's Young
Son.
Carlton G. Colemans will was filed for
probate yesterday by the Union Trust
Company, which is nominated as executor.
The estate is valued at $4,000.
Mr.. Coleman bequeathed the property to
the Union Trust Company for William
Tell Coleman, the son of the testator. If
the son should die before the age of 80
years, the trust is to be closed and all the
estate given to Robert L. Coleman, the
testator's brother, and in any event the
son is to have only. the income until he is
so years old.
The will was signed on February Is,
1894. William Tell Coleman, the son, is
Ii years old.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-27

has collected her literary productions under
the title of "Under the Pines and Other
Verses" and will soon have them pub
lished IN book form by Way Williams of
Chicago.
Mrs. Catherine Brooks Yale, widow of
the artist and inventor and long known
to her intimate friends as charming
story-teller, is soon to have a collection OF
her chlldren's stories published in book
form under the title of ''Nim and Cum and
the Wonder-head Stories" The book in
its quaint humor and its insights into ami
| NAL life, may interest older persons than
those for whom it is primarily intended.
Way 81 Williams of Chicago are the pub
fishers.
"Runic Rocks recent novel by Will
liam Jansen, is one of the first of this we'll
known German authors works to appear
in an English translation. The scene is
laid in a lonely little island off the Tristan
Coast, and the time of Napoleon and the
momentous events of his career form the
bold discussions of the characters in the
! story that Is made contemporaneous with
the life of the great Bonaparte. Pub
lished by Frederick A. Stokes Company
"The Little ROOM story by Mrs.
Madeleine Yale Wyne, that appeared in
last months Harper's, will soon be pub
lished in book form by Way & Williams
of Chicago. The author has made very
entertaining volume by adding five other
stories, among which is a sequel explain
| ing the mystery of 1.-THE Little Room"
J. 7. Trowbridge's story of 1.-THE Lottery
Ticket" that appeared as serial in the
Youths Companion has been enlarged
and revised and published in book form
with eight full-page illustrations. The
story is full of dramatic interest, while
| through it all there is an undercurrent of
| elevating influence that must leave some
effect upon all its readers. Lee & Shep-
ard, Boston; 81.
"The Christian Consciousness" in its re-
| lation to evolution in morals and in doc
| trine is treated by the Rev. J. S. Black
| with an unshrinking freedom and liberal
| ity that takes nothing for granted in an at
| tempt to solve problems that have puzzled
| the world since the flood. Lee & Shepard,
Boston; cloth, 81 %.
| Samuel Adams Drake has made a valu-
| able addition to the record of decisive
events in American history in a carefully
compiled story entitled 1.-The Campaign of
Trenton, 1776-T." Lee Il Shepard, Bos-
ton; cloth, so cents.
John La Fargo will publish at once
through Macmillan & Co. book made up
of the lectures given in the year 1893 at
the Metropolitan Museum of New York
under the title of considerations on
Painting"
''Fort Frayne," which is, perhaps, Cap
tain Charles Kings best book, still has
large sale. Five editions have been sold
in three months, and the sixth edition is
in press.
Miss Margaret Lees American story, is.
sued by Tillotson's New York Agency,
will be entitled "a Broken EnpapemeutD
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-27
"a STUDY OF DEATH

The mysterious relations between good
and evil and life and death offer to the in
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-27

Mrs. Lydia Avery Coonley, president OF
the Womans Club of Chicago, and author
of many CHEEKY little verses published
from time to time in different periodicals,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-27
We
Want to
Tell You
We Sell Crockery
And Sell It Awful Cheap.

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Crystal Glass sugar Bowl 10
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-27

Miss Margaret Lees American story, is
sued by Tillotson's New York Agency,
will be entitled "a Broken Engagement"
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''Fort Frayne," which is, perhaps, Cap
tain Charles Kings best book, still has
large sale. Five editions have been sold
in three months, and the sixth edition is
in press
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-27

John La Fargo will publish at once
through Macmillan & Co. book made up
of the lectures given in the year 1898 at
the Metropolitan Museum of New York
under the title of considerations on
Painting.'
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-27

has collected her literary productions under
the title of tUnder the Pines and Other
Verses" and will soon have them pub
lished IN book form by Way e. Williams OF
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-27
LITERARY NOTES.

CaIItu HeTe highways OIOSs, anu IS
by ]. S. Fletcher, the author of "When
Charles the First Was King"
''The Death wake, or Lunacy," will
soon be published jointly by Way g. Will
liams, Chicago, and John Lane London.
1t is necromaunt in three chime7as, by
Thomas T. Stoddart; but the original
"Death-wake" is the strange poetic con-
ception OF youth. and in its best pas.
sages there are strangely musical touches
and distinct and original accent.
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Samuel Adams Drake has made a valu-
able addition to the record of decisive
events in American history in a carefully
compiled story entitled 1.-The Campaign of
Trenton, 1776-T." Lee & Shepard, Bos-
ton cloth 20 cents
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lation to evolution in morals and in doc
trine is treated by the Rev. J. S. Black
with an unshrinking freedom and liberal
ity that takes nothing for granted in an at
tempt to solve problems that have puzzled
the world since the flood. Lee & Shepard,
Boston cloth, 81 %.
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Here, vast and awful, the Sierras rear
Their everlasting SUBMITS TO the sky,