The San Francisco call., 1897-06-20

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amended them.
They talk in England of the peculiar head
/ lines in American newspapers. Here is one
/ taken from the London Westminster Gazette:
LICKING" LICK AND CREATION.
FIRST USE OF THE YERKEs TELESCOPE.
This must be joke: Somebody advertises
/ in an English paper for man TO write "a his
! tory of California from information to be
gathered from the reading-room of the British
| Museum. The length of the publication is TO
be 100000 words" The remuneration Of
fered for this task is 91O or sixpence per 1000
words.
(! The "Leafy Devon" which even Herrick
, gladly deserted for London, is good enough
/ for Mr.. Rudyard Kipling says the Daily
Chronicle. Despite more than usually wet
season he has found the neighborhood of Tor
| quay sufficiently agreeable place OF residence
to decide him to return to it again next
winter
The New Haven Evening Register tells of
! the things found in books coming from the
/ pubic library. They consisted of hairpins,
hatplns, postal cards, letters, scissors, photo
/ graphs There were sometimes keys. real
estate mortgage and an insurance policy have
! been found and any number of bills, receipted
and unrece1pted.
| movement has been set on foot by the
writer's of the Isaac Pitman system of short
hand in the United States 10 suitably CON-
memorate the services of the inventor of the
system, who died recently. A general COM
mittee OF one hundred has been formed and
subscriptions are solicited. These may be
sent TO the editor of the Photographic World,
New York City.
! The English Bookman has had another SYM
! postum, this time in order to ascertain the
| views of publishers as to the best season for
| the publication OF a book. The reply of the
Macmillans is brief but conclusive, and we
| wonder it did not occur to the editor himself.
| ''In our opinion" observe the writers of the
note, sit makes no difference, if a book be
good one, whether it is published in the spring
or autumn"
! "Ouida" evidently has somewhat hazy idea
| of the mysteries OF smithing. In her article
in this months Fortnightly Review on the
| Twentieth Italian Parliament" she is regret
! ting the failure of Rudini and others to have
| seized upon a fine opportunity for action
/ which offered itself last spring. and she goes
| on: "The time for such action has now
| passed; the anvil is now cold-when it YVES hot
no one was strong enough to lift the hammer
| and strike Probably ''0uida" was thinking
of the old saw about striking the iron while it
| is hot. The idea of heating an anvil is de-
| lightfu!.
Rumors OF Mark Twains precsrious health
and impoverished condition have again
reached this country from London. As q
matter of fact, Mr.. Clemens is IN good health
again, and living in pleasant apartment in
| Chelsea HIS book has been finished and he
| intends to spend the summer in Austria with
his family. On May 27 Mr.. Clemens dtned
| with few friends, including Mr.. Nelson,
| editor of Harper's Weekly, and the London
correspondent OF the Associated Press. His
hair is almost white, but his face has a good
color, his eyes are bright and his figure is up
| right and alert. He talked entertaining gly all
the evening about his travels, his book and
| his experiences IN London"
The Bailies and Town Councillors of the
! Scottish capital cannot even in their most
/ generous moments be accused OF the vice of
| prodigality. While desirous of displaying
/ their loyalty in the most approved fashion,
| they are fully alive to the desirability of
| avoiding any unnecessary banging of sax
/ pences. Bonfres are TO be lit on the various
/ hills in and around the city on the occasion of
| the forthcoming eele bration, and the follow
ing advertisement has been published in the
| local newspapers:
| NITY OF EDIN URGH
CELEBRATION OF THE COMPLETION
! JESTN'S RkI0N.
The MAGISTRATES and COUNCIL will be
| glad TO accept GIFTS Of OLD MATERIAL L suit
able for Bonfires Parties willing 10 supply the
same viii please communicate with the Burgh
! Engineer, Parliament square.
Clearly, though, on pleasure bent, Edin-
| burgh, ike Mrs. Gilpin, has frugal mind
The fact that Anthony Hope has in prepara-
Iion a sequel to THE Prisoner of Zenda" has
| not unnaturally provoked considerable head
/ iCha L on two
! thereupon lifts up his voice and observes:
| Go to. Have there not been good sequels be-
| fore? Have not Dumas and Lewis Carroll and
| Daudet and others written good sequels?"
! This is a speeious retort. Not one of the
authors named ever proved that sequel was
really good thing and Daudet who came
near to making his second Tartarin volume as
! good as the first, went TO pieces utterly when
he wrote Port Tarascon." Besides we have
not heard that Mr. Hope with.au his talent is
either Dumas or Carroll or Daudet We
sympathlze with those bigoted and misguided
| persons who wish that "The Prisoner OF
Zsnda" were to be left in isolation. After
having seen how many of his followers have
| faileo Mr.. Hope ought to pause before taking
to imitation himself.
! The Chap Book very properly comments.
and sharply, on such narrow fault-fndfne as
| is expressed in the Freeman and the Chris
! llAu ION moHWeRAu FelaLlVe 10 NAnsen's
'Farthest North" The distasteiui quotation
reads: ain all the hundreds of pages of
| Farthest North God is shut out! DR., Nausan
| is full OF admiration of nature and some of
his descriptions of the scenery OF the polar
realm are majestic in their dietion and poetic
| in their style. Only once is God alluded To
| That is something, of course, better than abso-
lutte atheism, but no Christian can read the
book without consciousness that the writer
| II no pardla Of
! well as of a creation. Indeed there are evil
| dences that he does not really believe in
! personal deity or in any spiritual immortal.
/ ity, for he calls eternity the great Ntrvapaf
This is just how tneosophist or a Buddh
! would write" Evidently religion or faith In
God is 70 be expressed, according TO these cler.
ical critics, in the style of the Salvation Army
with cornet-a-piston and big drum.
'iCan man make living by writing hc
| tionF was asked the other day for perbans
! the hve thousandth time in the course of the
last i've years, says Lounger in the Critic
To this question there is but one reply: at
| depends upon the man. 1t depends also. I
might add. somewhat upon the definition OF
"a living. What one man might call a liy.
ing. another would call absolute want What
would satisfy Miss wilkins, perhaps. would
not satisfy Mr.. Richard Harding Davis. Miss
| wilkins lives q simple life in quiet New Eng
land village, while Mr.. Davis lives the luxur-
| ious life of aNewYork rk bachelor and man about
town. What he would regard as the mere
neeessaries of life Hiss wilkins would prob