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A HISTORICAL ROMANCE.

QUO vADIs. A Narrative Of Rome OF the Time
Nero nd hensy so- e h AasnoT OF
Michael" etc. Translated from the Polish by
Jeremiah curtin. Crown, Svo. Cloth. 81. Lit
tie, Brown u Co., Boston
This is q beautifully written historical ro-
nance, which brings viyidly before the readers
Imagination the cruel days of old Rome and
the terrible ordeals triumphantly borne to
which the early Chris tians were subjected.
The chief interest of the story lies in the grad
ual conversion of Vicinius, a luxurious and
probigate Roman, to the new faith. Through the
instrumentality OF his ardent love for Lygia
Christian girl of such fresh loveliness that "be-
meath statue of this maiden one might write
Spring" +" he is drawn to the love and accept
ance of Christ. Lygia is the daughter of the
King of the Suevi, and had been sent to Rome
hostage. Vicinius attempted to get pos
session of her by force, but Is baffied IN this
method and compelled to WOO her like
Christian should. He is dangerously wounded
and nursed back to lie by the faithful tend
ance of the woman he wishes. Surrounded by
Christians be begins TO admire the magma
nimity which forgave his attempted wrong in
seeking to snatch instead of pleading
for his desire. His love for Lygia grew with
the difficulty of gaining her. From his sick
bed 'he looked at her profile, at her dropping
lashes, at her hands lying on her knees; and
in his pagan head the idea began to hatch
with QlIuculIy, tHdb dt luo sluc Oh nAkeQ
beauty, confident, and proud OF Greek and
Roman symmetry, there is another in the
world, new, immensely pure. in which soul
resides"
Saint Peter and Paul of Tarsus are intro
duced into the narrative. and in an interview
with them Vicinius says "your virtue and
your religion, though do not profess it, have
changed something in my soul, so that do
not venture on violence. Give Lygia TO me as
wife, and swear that not only will not for
bid her to profess Christ, but will begin N.Y.
self to learn his religion" He learns and
wins At the end of the story letter to
friend tells that he is sitting in the shade of an
almond tree with his wife beside him spinning
wool.
There is long and fine description of the
con fiagration of Rome when it seemed to vi
cinius that not the city only but the whole
world was burning.
Among the books attractions is a sermon by
St. Peter. There is q lesson in loving in the
letter of Petronius TO his friend Vicinius. The
character of Nero is finely drawn, and one of
fine touch is where Poppoea's management of
the 'tyrantis partly accounted for, because she
knew "that Nero may be blamed on condition
that to q small criticism q great fiattsry be
added"
The end is dramatic description of the
death of the cruel and cowardly Emperor
Those readers who have enjoyed Canon Far
rar's Darkness and Dawn will find q similar
pleasure in this tale of gleam of light in the
darkness
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A NEW LOVE STORY.

WON UNDER PROTEST. BY Celia E. Gardner
New ork: G. W Dillingham; Company For
sale by the San Francisco News Company, Post
street; price 81 so.
This is story as far removed from the sensa-
tional as possible, yet in matter as well as
style possesses a fascination which will recon-
mend it to the general noyel-reader.
1t has no mission save to amuse; processes
to be nothing more than a simple love story;
is in fact not much more than study of a
woman's beart-that of one who having loved
in her early womanhood with the love of a
lifetime, and been disappointed, has fought
herself into calmness; the bitter experience
leaving, however, so lasting an impression as
to make her resolve never again to give her
happiness and peace of mind into the keep
ing OF any man.
After lapse of ten years, her home being
broken up by the death OF her mother, she
goes to a distant town to reside with only
sister, where, to her annoyance and conster-
nation. she finds her old love, who has mar
ried Immediately after the broken engage
ment, established with his wife as the near
neighbor and il innate friend of the family
with whom she has come to dwell. The strug-
gle to live her life in constant association with
those who have done so much to wreck its
happiness, and keep her heart free from the
old thralldom, both before and after the wife
obligingly takes her departure to another
world, forms the subject of the story.
When in due time her hand is sought in
marriage by her old lover, she is still so re-
luctant to put herself in the bondage of pas
sion, while confessing her ability to love him.
and only him, and so assured that a marriage
between them would not result in happiness
for either, that she gives him his congo in a
letter that is perhaps the finest bit in the book
This, however, he refuses TO accept as final,
and after a years probation she is at last in
r1sco os,-s,x
Protest"
is high and pure, the Characterization goo J.,
the dialogue bright and natural; and thoug h !,
if it were true, such revela ton of the work
ings of woman's heart might be in question
able taste, it being in all probability merely
fiction, will escape that form OF criticism.
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authors first step toward fame. One of the
best passages describes the love of dress of
Fancy Day and her wish to be thought beau
Iiful by the young men. This offends Dick
Dewy, who is engaged to her, Tor it appears to
him that she loves dress and the admiration of
other men better than she loves him. He goes
one afternoon to ask her to make his half-holi-
day happy in nutting expedition. She is
too busy fixing an unnecessary new dress
to go. Dick goes off alone disgusted.
but in the evening she meets him and
very cleverly sets things to rights with
Dick by declaring she will wear her old
dress the next Sunday. Dicks courtship is
another good passage. There are some very
odd characte1s-among them an old, shoe
maker who claims that he can trace relation
ships and tell the qualities OF mems hearts by
the look OF their feet.
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WEALTH RENoUNcED FOR ART.

LIMITATIoNS-By (. F. Benson. Harper
d Brothers. Trice ST. 25. For sale by A. NJ.
Robertson, Post street, City.
This is the story of the son of a wealthy man
who, renouncing the prospects of fine bust
ness career gave up all his energies to the
study OF Greek art. He executes a work too
exquisitely fine to suit the popular demand OF
the time and is compelled to abandon his am
bition. His father becomes impoverished,
and, with his aspirations crushed, the young
artist, with wife and child on his hands. has
to fight poverty in a cheap fiat. The story is q
stronger one than the famous "Dodo." In q
talk about the temptations of college life Tom
Carlingford, the hero, declares that there are
no temptations in college life except to sleep
late in the morning. One of the fine passages
is where Toms father tells him that leaving
religion altogether out of the question immor-
ality is the most supreme folly. The story is
not very cheerfui one, as it calls attention
to the grinding of circumstances which COM
pei men often to give up their ideals.
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present sketches, says the is a book-lover,
he is young, he is a philosopher, he is very
learned and he knows men. There were never
qualities more difficult to reunite in one per-
son; there was never an artist more skill
full at using their com mbination than Anatole
France. In this book, a cycle of human
progress is inclosed. There are in it the end
OF paganism and the end of the monarchy in
France. There are in it the naive ways of the
saints of the Golden Legend and those of the
reyolu tionists at the end of the eighteenth
century. There are in it tolerance, sympathy,
intelligence and faultiess artifice." All of
which may be true, but the sketches appear to
have rather thatquaIity of making themselves
acceptable to the Partisan feuilleton devourer
than to the average American reader of short
stories. That, however, is not the fault of the
translator, who appears to have performed
dificult task in creditable manner.
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And God, who gave the gracious gift, he takes 1t
never away.
SUSAN COOLIDGE. in sunday-school Times.
A Trooper Rode at Midnight Hour

4 trooper rode the mountain down,
And quaffed bowl in glee:
There was blood on his hand,
And blood on his crown.
and blood where the rein hung free.
81 come" cried he, from the battlefield
"I come" cried he, ''from the battlefield
And tell OF victory"
The trooper rode to his lady IS bower,
And doffed his cloven casque,
40, my own true love,
o, my own fair flower.
L have done thy grewsome task.
.sI come" cried he. from the battlefield
''I come" cried he, 'from the battlefield,
And tell of victory"
The trooper swayed as he sat his horse,
For the easement opened not:
And his face pale a souiess corpie.
When ne heard he forgot.
al come" gasped he, .'from the battlefield
"I come" gasped he, from the battlefield,
And go to death, so TO death, for thee, for
thee"
The trooper rides al the midnight hour,
His bones with his horse keep time.
And ever he stops at his lady's bower,
And moaneth with the chime
II come" moaned he, from the yawning field
al come" moaned he, .'from the yawning fed
And tell thy fa'sity."
CHARLES McILvAINE. In Philadelphia Press.
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Once and Forever.

Our own and our own forever. God taketh not
back his gift;
They may pass beyond our vision, but our souls
shall find them out
When the waiting is all accomplished and the
deathly shadows lift,
And glory is given for grieving and the surety of
God for doubt.
We may find the waiting bitter and count the
silence long:
God knoweth we are dust, and he pitieth our
pain;
And when faith has grown to fullness and the
silence changed 10 song
We snail eat the fruit of patience and shall
hunger not again.
So. sorrowing hearts, who dumbiy in darkness and
all alone
Sit, missing dear lost presence and the Joy of a
vanished day,
Be comforted with this message, that our own are
forever own,
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BY A CALIFORNIA WRITER

THE CAT AND THE CHERUB AND OTHER
STORIES by Chester Bailey Fernald. New
York: The Century Company. For sale at the
bookstores; price 81 DO.
Mr.. Fernald's friends In California will well
come this volume OF sketches. HIS wide ac-
quaintance with the Chinese and his apprecia-
tion OF their quaint characteristics are in am
pie evidence. Six of the stories have to do
with the Mongolian, including "The Cruel
Thousand Years." "The Gentleman in the
Barrel' and "The Pot OF Frightful Doom" Bnt
Mr.. Fernald is not limited to single field
Some of the best of his stories are those in
which he depicts New England character.
There are five of these tales, including "a Lit
tie Liberal" 1.-THE Tragedy of the Comedy"
"Enter the Earl of Tyne" and 1.-THE Parlous
Wholeness of Ephraim." Some of the tales in
the book never have been published pre-
yiously.
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A MAN WHO WAS LIKED TOO MUCH

THE OTHER HOUSE-By Henry James. The
Macmillan Company, New York. Price 81 5O
For sale by William Doxey, Palace Hotel.
This is a fine story of English life 1t con-
sists almost entirely of clever Conversations
and those readers who prefer having charac-
ters reveal themselves by what they say rather
than by what the author says about them will
be much pleased with the style of this work
AS usual, Mr.. James gives us some fine bits of
description. Here is a brief one of Jean
Mantle: "a slim, fair girl who struck her as
light sketch for something larger, a cluster of
happy hints with nothing yet quite put in.n
Another glimpse of girl is this: "This mes
sage was simply Rose Armiger's whole face,
exquisite and tragic in its appeal, stamped
with sensibility that was almost abject, a
that was more than eager"
Aside from its character studies, Mr.. James
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The awakening.

Behold, she is risen who lay asleep so long,
Our England. our Beloved! We have seen
The swelling of the waters, we have heard
The laundering cataracts call. Behold, she Is
risen,
Lovelier in resurrection than the face
OF vale or mountain, when, with storming tears,
Spring
We watched her sleeping. Day and night We
strove
With the dread spell that drowsed her heart. AnC
thrice
In the unrest of her sick dreams she stirred.
Half raised herself, half oped her lips and lids,
And thrice the evil charm prevailed, and thrice
She fell back forceless. But behold she is risen,
The hope Of the World is risen, is risen anew
o Englandl Beloved! o Reborn!
Look that thou fall not upon sleep again,
The sleep that is another's death and doomi
Thou art star among the nations yet;
Be thou a light of succor unto them
That else are lost IN blind and whelming seas.
Around them is the tempest: over them
Cold splendors OF the inhospitabie night
Augusty unregardful; thou alone
Art still the North Star to the laboring ship,
In friendless ocean the befriending orb,
And II thou shine not, whittier is she steeredf
shine in thy glory, shine on her despair,
Shine les. she perish-lest OF her no Ioore
Than some Iorn fiotsam of mortality
Remain to catch the first auroral gleam,
When, in the East, flames the reluctant dawn.
WILLIAM WATSON in the London Chronicle.
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MATED WITH A PRsSIMIsT.

ANDREA-By Percy White George n. Rich
mond & Co.. New York. For sale by William
Doxey, Palace Hotel.
TIL is is book full of unusually bright dia-
logue, aud the reader is not apt to find page
in il he will want to skip. The heroine is
Andrea beautiful girl, who is studying art,
and so fascinates the artist, Peter Bent, that
he persuades himself as we'll as her that she
has promising talent. She is undeceived by
the frank criticism of an author named Otway.
She learns that this man is right by his select
ing for praise some pictures which he sup
posed were her work. She thanks him for hav.
ing led her out of fools paradise and mar
ries him. The brilliant author killed an ar st
and gained wife by his faithful and unfiat-
tering criticism. Marriage for Andrea was
but one step from one iooPs paradise into an
other. for her life proved unhappy with the
author. His views Of life became darker till
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ANOTHER DETECTIVE STORY.

THE BETRAYAL OF JOHN FORDHAM. BY
b. L. Farjeon. New York; r. f. Fenno q Co.
publishers: price, so cents.
This is q detective story in which deep
murder mystery is cleyerly unraveled. John
Fordham awakens one day as from night
mare dream to see before him the damning
evidence of horrible crime. He is led to ac-
cuse himself, but he cannot tell how the deed
came to be done or whether or not it was in
self-defense. His mind is tortured; he cannot
sleep; he is willing to suffer the dread penalty
of his awful act. The work of the detective
lifting the black veil from Fordham's life re-
veals the latter innocent OF the crime charged
against him and the law is avenged when the
man who had posed as Fordham's betrayer is
himself shown to be the guilty one and brought
IN ir1stiaa
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ANGLo.sAxoN UNITY DESIRED.

WHY AMERICANS DISLIKE ENGLAND
BY George Burton Adams. Philadelphia: Henry
Altemus, publisher: price 80 cents.
This essay is the expansion of an article
which appeared in the New York Independent
of January 2, 1896. The reason given for the
dislike is the popular belief in America that
in every emergency with which the United
States has been confronted the British Gov
ernment has been our enemy. 1t rests largely
With England to remove the grounds of such
belief Gas for ourselves, in the narrower
sense" concludes the author, sit is no doubt
true that in any possible future, our position
is far more secure than that of England, and
vet it is certain that our own best and highest
interests, and those of all men everywhere,
demand the unity and common action of the
Anplo-Saxon race"
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BRITTANY AND THE HEBRIDEs.

GREEN FIRE-By Fiona Macleod Harper d
Brothers. Price 81 % For sale by A. NJ. Rob-
ertson, Post street, City.
This is a mystic story, embellished with
glowing descriptions Of woodland scenery, and
is full of strange legends and superstitions.
The hero, Alan de kerival, is in love with
his cousin, Ynys de Kerival, and she loves him.
The twin sister of Ynys, Annaik. also loves
him. There is opposition to the marriage of
the lovers, and they have to run away to the
Hebrides. Annaik is compared to Ynys as
darkness to light. When Alan comes it is
heaven to Ynys. while Annaik, in Jealousy,
says 1t is her hell.
Annaik marries woodsman, Judlk Kerbas-
tiou, and is killed by him after the birth of
her child-because the child "had nothing of
the gypsy eyes and swarthy darkness of Judik
Kerbastiou, but was fair and with skin as
white and eyes as blue as those of Alan de
Keriyal.n
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A FINE CHEAP EDITION.

FATHER STAFFORD. By Anthony Hone.
New York. +. Tennyson Neely, publisher For
stle by Emporium Book Department; cloth
price rs cents.
The appearance on the local stage with at
tendant success of the dramatized version of
''The Prisoner of Zenda" has served to create
livelier interest in the writings of Anthony
Hope. The edition of that masterful authors
late book, "Father Stafford" now at hand, is
at the same time cheap and elegant The
story, 1t need hardly be repeated, is one of
Mr.. Hopes strongest, vividly portraying the
strife between the obligation of VOW of
celibacy and the promptings of true love.
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SOME TRlFLING SKETCHES

THE EPISTOLARY FLIRT. IN FOUR Ex-
POSURES. By Esmerie Amory. Chicago
Way & Williams. For sale In this City by VIII
liam Doxey; price 81.
A series of four sketches written in play
form, wherein three characters take part:
Ernestine, q woman who writes verses; Irwin,
a man who writes verses, and Philip, man
who writes poetry. These characters indulge
in morsels Of wit, epigrammatic and other
wise, at each others expense, and write letters
one to another in equally brilliant style. The
book is a pleasant trifle, scarce worthy OF hay
ing more than few idle minutes devoted to it.
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TALES FROM THE FRENCH.

TALES FROM A MOTHER Of PEARL
CASKET. BY AnatoIe France. George Rich
mond q Co., New York. For sale at all BOOK
stores Price 81.
This is collection of short stories by Ana
tole France, translated by Henri Pene du Bois
NJ. France was for some years a journalist en-
gagged in contributing critical articles TO La
Vie Litteraire, LIE Globe, Les Debats and lie
Temps. he is mainly recognized, however,
by his novel, published in 1881, en- titled lie
Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard."
N. du Bois, speaking OF the author OF the
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A Slave.

Somebody touched me as the crowd thronged by:
A half-averted face, flashing eye,
An unframed word OF bidding, and knew
The thing the plotting stars ordained is true
L am a slave!
am a slavei yet would not sell my chain
For all the gold of Africa or spain.
1 stand, a watcher, by that power held:
lurk, shadow, by tha. will compelled,
Scanning the multitude with eager eye.
Seeking my master where the crowd throngs by!
CATHARINE YOU'VE GLEN, in New York Sun.
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AN OLD FAvORITE.

UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE By
Thomas Hardy. New edition. Harper d Bros /,
New York. Price 81 so. For sale py A. NJ
Rober son, Post ireet, City.
This story derives its interest from its fine
descriptions OF quaint, old-fashioned English
peasant Life. 1t is an old faYorite, and was the
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BARR'S SHORT STORIES

REVENGE BY Robert Barr. New York: Fred
erick A. Stokes Company, 1928 West Twenty
third street For sale In this City by William
Doxey: price 81 %.
This is a collection of short stories by Robert
Barr con tributed by him to various maga
zines Mr.. Barr is one of the newer generation
of authors, who has done some good work
in periodicals both in England and in this
country. The present issue contains tales
hlnging upon revenge as a motive for dark
and bloody deeds The covers are deliberately
ornamented with revolvers, cutlasses and q
skull, which, In themselves. suggest the char
aeters of the stories therein contained.
Richard Kendall Munkittrick's humorous
verses have long been familiar to readers of
Puck, Judge Life, Truth and other periodicals..
The best of these have now been collected un-
der the felicitous title. "The Acrobatic Muse, /"
and win be published in November by Way &
Williams.
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he finally destroyed his fame by writing
morbidly bitter book.
The tale ends happily, for Otway dies, leay-
ing Andrea wealthy and youthful and free TO
marry the man she had once rejected but now
loves.
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brilliant way of saying things makes the book
worth the perusal for the sake OF the many
sentences of wit and beauty.
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Jules Verne has been sued by a man who
claims $4,000 damages for being introduced
as one of the characters in his new novel.
Cape COD folks, as a rule, will sympathizs
with him
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list of the private libraries in the world,
with description of their contents, is about
to be published in Leipzig. The first part de-
scribes over 500 libraries in the United States
and Canada; the second part will take up the
private libraries OF Great Britain.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15

William Allen Whites book of Kansas stor-
les, " The Real Issue," is announced for pub
ication by Way & Williams ON November Is.
Mr.. Whites editorial, "Whats Wrong With
Kansas?" which was reprinted from his paper,
the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette, and used as
campaign document, has already introduced
him to a large circle of readers. His stories
are original and sincere and interesting
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-13

What Must Society do to be sayeds MT Mills answers this noon at Grand opera house.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-13
The City Guard srasauerade.

At tine medarng of the anuan gements committee of the City Guard magquer- ade ball, the various subcommittee re- ponted progress. Everything indicated a most successful bali. The costume committee. consisting of Captain A. F. L.audensack and Lieuteaant H. A. Ka- pftzke, (aIave returned from New York, where they ssledted ithe costumes to be worn by the floor committee, which were the best that M. Raaf, tine cele- braaed coAtumer of tine city, could furnish. They wIfl be without aTly doubt the fiTssit costumes ever worm by a committee in this city. One-haIf of the suits will be the dress of Spanish Dongolars while the other half is that of Hungarian princes
 The floor manager will be clothed as the king of the Spanish DGngogars, which 4s quite an elaborate costume. Dfreotlr F,iehta of the Second Regi- ment band has assured the committee that the concert and dance music will be the baAt tts city has heard for some time.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-13

ulatlon in the shares of gold mining companies, and the market in which dealings in these shares is centered is now called the "Katllr Circus" The fact that South Africa is now producing two and a half million ounces Of gold per annum at a gross profit of three millions sterling has fired the imagina~ tlon and stirred the cupidity of hun dreds of thousands of people who have not taken the trouble to Inquire what 1t all means. It took the British pub lie some time to realize that there is gold in South, Africa, and for long time the Speculative investor" of the stock markets fought shy of African ventures, but when he did go in he went In with rush which has become madder and madder. The climax or madness was reached in the present year.-Chambers' Journal.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-13

What Must Society do to be savede Answer this noon at Grand opera house