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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-30
WORLDS WHEAT HARVEST.
Tho Annual Hungarian Estimate saSs That 70
IL Remarkably Light.
Special cable Despatch 10 The srs.

Special Gable Despafch 10 THE srS.
BUDAPEST. Aug, 29.-The Ministry OF AEri'
culture has published the customary yearly -.
innate OF the worlds harvest. the quantities
being given in hundred weights. The total
yield of wheat Is estimated nj 573, 700, 900. To
requirements for one year are estimated 40
6o5,l5o.0oo The estimated shortage FOR ne
coming year is 30. 500. 900. Tho stocks remI,g'
ing from 1896 re estimated al c,wccu, r, "n1'
600 and 10000, 900. and the total rlINrt ,uT 10
Year at from 10000. 900 IN 81 5.uOO,uub.
The report describes the worlds hhrvr>. as rI'
traordinHrily light.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-30
NO CHEAP FARES.
An IElsh Hack Owners EIoauenes Settles the
Q1estI0n.

Queotlon.
The Public Hack Owners Union had q meet
Ing late last night in McGarry's Hall, Thirty
second street and Lexington avenue, to discuss
reducing fares from so cents to % cents a mile
and to arrange for fighting a proposed city ordi-
nance restraining the public hack owners from
soliciting custom In front Of hotels. where tho
trade 10 presmpted by the livery stable keepers.
The first matter was easily disposed OF. A
driver OF Hibernian extraction said:
"Supposin' tho shnow was on tho ground.
wud yez dhriye from the Batthery to Harlem at
twinty-tiye cints a mile ."
No! nor was the reply.
d. Hs11ppoSin' tho sun was shinin'. wud yeE
mo! mol" shouted the others.
concluded the speaker.
1t was decided not to reduce fares for tho
present. A committee was appointed to attend
Ihe meeting Of the Board Of Aldermen on Tues
Gay, when, the question Of the proposed now or.
dinance will come up.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-30
sheehan says There VIII he No Conference
In Saratoga.

SARATOGA. Aug. 29.-Leader John C. Sheehan
OF Tammnny. when interviewed at the Grand
Union Hotel this evening. asserted that all
rumors of IA Democratic conference to be held
here were entirely without foundation. He says
his mission In Saratoga is simply a social and a
ference to be held here now or later. lie re-
marked. that a man could not confer with him.
Of the Tammany lights now here on political
maIIera-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-30
THE PRICE OF BREAD.
Socialists Favor Cooperative Bake Shops and
Other Novelties.
Special Gable Despatch to rur Sun.

Special Gable Despatch to The Sun.
ROME, Aug. 29.-At a meeting held here to.
day q resolution WAS adopted approving the In.
s~titution OF cooperative mills. bake houses, and
bake shops. the municipal ownership OF wheat.
and tho abolition OF the duty ON that cereal.
Tho Socialists who addressed the meeting
made violent speeches, hut no arrests were
made. The meeting was called for the purpose
Of taking action in view OF the advance in The
prices Of wheat. flour, aud bread.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-30
Fatal Result or a Lamp E~.pro.,on.

Mrs. Mary EckwOrth OF o. Jerome street,
Brooklyn. whose clothing caught fire from an
exploding lamp while she was visiting her sister
NJ 07 stanton street. on Aug. q. died In Gouver-
neur Hospital last evening.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-30

BOwden LlthiR Water for uric acid troubles, only 40
cents per gallon. l3I W. Ara, near Bfoadway.-Adp
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27
MORE DIALECT FROM S. R. CROCKETT.

accident. Whether the popular one subse-
quently turns out to be possessed OF brains
above the ordinary is left 10 the mercy Of Prov
idence. And il all depends upon the quality
of the inte lect with which Providence has
furnished him at birth whether he remains
popular or not after the first blush of novelty
which CHANGED TO fall upon him at maturity
has faded from his tender countenance and
the capricious part of the world, which be-
slows the popularity, has tired OF him as q
fad
Crockett may enjoy basking in the popular
ity which his remarkable dialect sheds
upon him, but unless he seizes the opportun-
ity which Dame Chance and Editor Nichols
have dropped before him and proceeds very
shortly 10 do some enduring work he will
have very little TO sustain him in mis- old
age, when popularity tires of propping him
up. This Lads Love- sort of twaddle will
live just as long il is being read, and it Will
be read very briefly. II Mr.. Crockett can write
good English and has c.ever Imagination let
him write stories for educated men and
women. We are willing to Judge him on those
lines. On any other lines we m ost disresp ect-
fully decline to examine him. We refuse to
read Lads Love" further than the fifth
page. c.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27

S. R. Crockett has written in Lads Love"
what might nave been a readable story if he
had abstained from his inyeterate habit of
getting drunk on the unholy music of dialect
Whenever he gets his ear within hearing dis
tance OF the hand that he is a Scotch author
with he tnvacia bly, goes wrong. Intoxication
claims him Tor its own, hls gentlemanly parts
are dulled by the alluring flow of native YER
nacular and the man who in drawing-ro5ms
makes himself understood cTeditably in Eng
lish is for the nOnce clodhOpper in fore ign
land summing his in a ray of rural dia-
leet from home"
The infusion OF dialect" fiction has made
many modern writer popular. One would
suppose that the winning OF popularity would
serve to discourage rather than promote
the practice where by that dangerous
attention had been attracted, inasmuch
as popularity merely leads TO an
ultimate advertisement of the popular ones
inevitable deficiencies and is never lasting
assurance that he does good work. Popularity ty
does not always denote ability-it not infre-
Queatly denotes the lack Of it, and never by
any chance signifies that the person affl cted
with it ever got famous by any more creditable
means than accident. Popularity, indeed, is
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27
HOW TO STUDY FICTION.

There has been good deal printed in the
editorial columns of our newspapers and liter
airy periodicals about the taste Tor fiction and
how il can be raised. The controversy over
the exclusion OF certain works of fiction from
the Carnegie Library at Allegheny, Pa, has
given new life to the discussion. The follow
ing very sensible aud practical article from
the Literary News will be of particular interest
al this time:
Slowly but surely fiction in the form of
novels has made for itself place in literature
has been recognized as an art to be studied as
music, painting, sculpture and architecture
are studied II has now been conceded
that the finest essence of literary ability
is to be found in our novels, and
no one can now lay claim TO a lib
ersI education who has not read Thaekeray.
Dickens, Scott, Reade, Kingsley aud George
Eliot, not TO speak of the living noyelists
whose masterpieces do not yield in rank even
TO those OF the greatest masters.
"Critlcaliy considered, the writing of novels
now is what the writing of plays was in the
age of Elizabeth, and while there is not much
prospect for another Shakespeare or ano ther
Ben Jonson, there is no reason why the
noble art which they created and developed
should he belitt!ed as it is, since its chief OBJ
iect, which was TO hold the mirror up to
nature, remains, and always must remain,
what 1t was. The aim of the Vic
toriau novelist should not be less than
the aim of the E liza ethan dramRtist, which
was to delineate the hearts and souls, the
emotions and conduct OF men and women.
The drama was the novel in action, the novel
is the drama in narration.
''The modern novel has had to outgrow the
disrepute into which it had fallen. 1t is not
so very long ago when to read a novel was
thought frivolous waste OF time, and 10 read
the bulk OF the novels now published would
still be u frivolous waste of time. But in
fictitious form our great writers are now
teaching history, biography, social science,
psychology, and all that makes for human
progress and happiness and there is need that
the line should be sharply drawn between the
novels that waste time and eneryate the read
er, and the novels that teach, ins pire and
strengthen.
"The question so often discussed. whe ther
purpose has place in fiction. does not enter
here. The fact is established that all the prob
lens OF our day are brought before US in the
form Of fiction, and il has become necessary to
seek direction and study The aim, the cause
and the effect of the novels we are reading.
MANY have begun to realize this. For two
seasons the study OF fiction has been q course
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27
STRANGE, SAD AND PLEASING.

MERE sENTIMENT-By a. J. Dawson. London
and New Ork: John Lane, the Bodley Head.
For sale In this City by William Eoxey, Palace
HoteI. Price 81 %
Very poetic. and mysterious and sad are
these stories OF Australian bush life. Some of
them read as If written by some madmsn with
wonderful method in his madness. One of
them, called "Wattle Worship" IS wildly
imaginative. 1t tells of man whose passion
for natures beauty manifested in the
spring-time glory OF the WOODS. fwhen thick,
luscious grasses strangle each other in Tumal,
the dreary hum of lazy insects and the love-
birds throbbing cry f. the place of the sad
hush OF the wilderness" passes from loving
reverence into a Ioye like passion for woman
and thence to q sort of madness. Those who
joy the fascination of the odd when it is
Joined with poetic beauty will appreciate these
sh Ort stories
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27

debtors in prison, the poor in the workhouse,
the boy in the boarding school, the ragged boy
in the streets, he working-man and the work
ing-woman, then Dickens star will set and
not till then.
After reading Mr.. Thompson's article wrote
several letters Of inquiry. one to A. R. Spot
ford, Librarian of Congress. This is his
answer:
Il nave your inquiry, and in reply, have to
assure you that so far as the popularity of the
novels of Dickens being on the wAne, the ex-
perience of this library at least attests the
contrary. His books are read here in greater
proportion than those of Scott, Bulwer, Thack-
cray or any other novelist. This conclusion
is confirmed by the ever-increasing reprints of
his works. both here and in England"
This was the answer from the AstOr Library,
New York City:
1--WE estimate the relative use of the authors
you mention as follows Dickens Scott, Thack-
cray"
If therefore. Dickens is already gone, these
public libraries are not yet aware of it. In his
last VIII and testament Dickens says: "I rest
my claims to remem brauce upon my published
works" 1t is now twenty-six years since Dick
ems died, and at present, at least, these claims,
so far as this country is concerned, have not
been disappointed.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27

in the curriculum of Yale University. Under
the direction of competent professor
such s study is full OF possibilities, and 1t is
with regret we office that it is TO be given up.
Taste in fiction needs training. 1t can be cul-
uyated only by reading and re-reading the
works of the great masters. Such training
will determine whether fiction shall be dis
sipation or mental and moral food.
The practical problem is to fnd modes of
studying fiction which can fl themselves into
the routine of ordinary busy life. Some ex-
cellent suggestions in this direction are given
in -Four Years of Novel Reading; an account
OF an experiment in popularlzing the study of
fiction, edited with an introduction by
Richard G. Moulton, professor of litera-
ture in English in the University of
Chicago. Some hard work is called for
by Professor Moulton, but his ideas,
carried out under intelligent guidance, would
educate the readers of novels in systematic
thinking, and open I'D to them a view of life
that would widen their sympathies and in
crease their personal influence and usefulness.
The only way to getrid of the trashy fiction
is TO cultivate the minds and hearts of readers
until it becomes an abOmination to them.
Taste in music, in painting, in sculpture.
is cultivated by constantly hearing and
seeing what is good. Why should this
not hold good in the art OF literature?
NAAO
critical faculty. Trained readers of fiction
will be an inestimable benefit to authors,
many of whom are now content to furnish
only what large proportion of their readers
are satisfied with-ialse pictures OF false life,
excitement and enervating reaction.
Homer, Virgil, the Parab,es OF the Bible,
what are they but fiction? Tennyson, Brown
ing, William Morris have presented US sys-
| TENS of philosophy in fictitious setting.
In other arts we have been taught to
study the old. Why not apply the same
rule in literature. Training in fiction
does not mean to be able to discuss glibly
| the latest novel, but 10 have so read the mas
ters that you know at glance where the
author has found his subj CT, and just how
much OF him he has put into his art.
The technique of fiction and poetry is al
most perfect in the hands OF literary artists,
and we have a right to demand soul and a
message as well as correct literary form. But
we must be taught to look for it. The earnest
study OF fiction to-day is really study of life.
Men and women may see the life they are
leading and may reflect upon the conditions
of society which they are helping to bring
about. 1t is an open question whether the
earnest study of life is not about as good q
study as any college can take up
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27
A CONVICT'S REFORM.

DERELICTS-By William J. Locke. London and
New ork: John Lane, the Bodley Head.
For sale in this City by William Doxey, Palace
Hotel Price 81 70.
The terrible difficulties with which ex-con-
viets have to intend is made plain in this
story of Joyce, who, getting in debt when a
young man, misappropriated some trust funds
and was sentenced TO two years in the peni-
tentiary. The term OF imprisonment was d
light pain compared to the long agony of
despair that followed. when all men summed
him and he found himself ostracised. His
gloom is somewhat ligntened by the friend.
ship Of a woman he had known I'm the days of
his prosperity, and through her influence he
at last comes back 20 happiness.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27
STORY OF ADVENTURES.

FOR LIFE A ND LOVELY Richard Henry Saw
age. New York: Rand, McNally & co, Price
20 cents.
The plains of Texas and the banks of the
Rio Grande are the scene of the adventures of
q young civil engineer and his Texas sweet
heart. There is a study OF border character
81 Leevenworth, a man true as steel TO his
friends, but of terrible and unforgiving tenn
per, who reigns as sort of King on the bor-
der. Dangers and escapes, love and jealousy,
scheming greed and plots TO rob the Govern
ments of Mexico and the United States, form
the material Of the tale
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27
TALES OF THE EAST.

KAKEMONOS - BY w. Carleton Dave. New
York: John Lane, the BOdley Head. For sale
in this City by William Doxey, Palace Hotel.
Price 81 25.
Nine short stories OF the far East, telling oi
such adventures as are always to the adven-
turous. There is one quite graphically writ
ten called "His Japanese Wife," which points
a moral with considerable emphasis The
white man, Cuthbertson, who marries a jap
anese girl, persuaded himself he was doing a
noble deed of justice, when other men would
merely have betrayed; but, as the writer says
Nobility is a transceudent virtue, but in Cuth-
bertson's case it was deplorable vice. The
preacher will tell US all men are brothers; he
knows very we'll that we are nothing of the
kind" The strong condemnation, however,
does not reach 10 the core Of Cuthbertson's
error, and in this story and some of the others
there is tone that tries 10 give to adventur-
Gus vice seeming less foul than true art
should impaTt 10 il.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27
GOOD SHORT STORIES.

sYMPHoNIES-By George Egerton. New York :
John Lane. the Bodley Head. For saie in this
City by William Doxey, Palace Hotel. Price
81 25.
The author of these symphonies says as &
sort of motto for his book: "Our best stories
are ever untold like to think of them tored
away in some monster aerial library of the un-
written works of human fancy-dream stories
that unfold in the darkness" II he has any
stories so stored away that are much better
than those he has here told al. readers will wish
he could find some way 10 reduce his fancies
to expression, for what he has put in print are
so admirable that to excel them would furnish
a rare treat indeed.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27
SHORT STORIES.

THE MERRY MAID OF Already. AND 9TH
FR STOKIhS-By Mrs. Burton Harrison New
York. Boston and Londoi: LRmson. Wolfe q
Co. For sale in this Ci.y by William Doxey
Palace Potel. Price 81 80.
Mrs. Burton Harrison's reputation. for sue
cessful storytelling is likely 10 be well sus-
tanned by these reproductions from the Ladies'
Home Journal 1.-THE Merry Maid of Already"
which gives title to the volume is the study
OF the character of an old maid who, though
reduced TO poverty, keeps the sweetpe SIS OF her
dispositi throughout a long trial of hal O.
ships.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27
BRIEF HISTORIES.

GERMANY-By Kate Freilgrath KroekeE ENG
LAND-By Frances +. Cooke. New York: ID.
Appleton d Co. For sale in this City bv William
DoXey, Palace Hotel Price, each so cents.
Two little volumes of a series of histories for
young readers, one of England and the other
OF Germany, are just out in such attractive
form as to greatly encourage young people 10
begin the study OF history. They cover the
histories OF the TWO countries from shortly be-
fore the Christian era down to about 1870, and
each is condensed into about $50 pages. The
piaE is an admirable one of giving many OF
the most notable events in such condensed
shape as not to weary youthful readers
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27
AERONAUnCAL PROBLEMS.

THE AERONAUTICAL ANNUAL - Boston
Mass. W. B. CLARKE & Co. Price ST.
This journal, which is devoted to the en-
couragement of experiment with aerial ma
chimes and to the advancement of the science
OF serodynamics, states that the progress made
toward the solution of the problem of man
flight in the past twelve months was greater
than that of any previous year. 1t contains
records OF recent experiments in gliding
flight, aerodromes, screw propellers, ETC., and
has an interesting chapter on ''the way OF an
eagle III the air.u
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27
MICROSCOPIC LIFE.

IN BROOK AND BAYoU-By Clara Kern Bay
liss New York: d. Appleton u Co For sale
in this City by iIliam Doxey, Palace Hotel
Price 60 cents
study of the queer forms OF minute life
which exist in the wayside pools. 1t con tains
q mum Der of curious illustrations. 1t is said
there are more kinds OF life in a little stag
nanr pond that can be seen with g microscope
than all the strange people and animals to be
found without it in all the countries of the
globe. The book is written in q style designed
to interest children
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27
A WAR STORY.

THE SUN OF SARATOGA-By Joseph A. Alt
sheler. New York: ~ Appleton & Co. For
sale in this City by William Doxey, Palace
II oteL Price so cents.
This romance of General Burgoynes surren-
der tells of the arduous and exciting life oi
a Continental soldier. 1t is we'll told, and the
little details OF soldier life are given a lively
turn. We are taught not to scorn a skirmish,
for it may contain more heat to the square
yard than great battle with 10000 men en-
gagged.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27
ABSTRUSE.

GODS AND THEIR MAKERS-By Laurence
Houseman. New York and London: John
Lane, the Bodley Head. For sale in This City
by William Dexey, Palace hoiel. Price 81 IS.
A queer story is this, with probably much
alegoricsl intent, too obscErely intimated.
1t tells of a young savage, Peeu, and his
woman, Aystah, and how they made for them
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27
IN BURMA.

SIR GALAHAD OF THE CREEKS j BY s.
Leve:t-YeaIs New Y ork: ID. Appleton q Co.
For sale in this City by " illiam Doxey, Palace
Hotel Price SO cents
young Enelishmsn in this tale goes out to
the East Indian service with stout heart
and pure morals 70 battle with the disheGrt-
ening problem of trying 10 improve q race, and
with the temptations TO sink from life OF
pure ideals into one of sioth and sensuaiity.
There is a certain type of missionary a. which
the author aims good deal OF sly sarcasm.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27
S. R. CROCKETT.

selves images of gods and worshiped them
Peeu says to Aystah concerning her god,
"Hoosh you-the worst of you. Our gods
are ourselves-the greedy parts of US, the lust,
the cruelty, the love of evil" The book has
all the imagination and the lack OF pertinency
I of a dream
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27

AS time passes the acknowledgment OF
George Meredith's literary power wakes all the
greater. The Messrs. Scribner's Sons are pub
fishing a sumptuous and CONF plete edition OF
this authors works 1.-The Ordeal of Richard
Fevere," EVAN Harrington" "Sandra Bel
loni," and "Vittoria" have already appeared.
and "The Adventures of Harry Richmond
will follow,
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27
HERE AND HERE.

"The Private Life OF the Queen" is the title
of new book by a member of the royal house.
hold, which will be published immed lately by
ID. AppIeton & Co
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27

zola has lost Lis suit for infringement OIL
conyrieht against the bookseller Laporte'
WHO had printed a selection OF tie most ultra
realistic passages in his works IN pam phiel
as'Iad s.zo,a Against Zola," which was to be
,,sod az an argument against the novelists
admfssion TO the ACE sdemy. The court, how
ever. expressed its disapprobation OF IL. La
porte's proceeding.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27

The American Publishing Company of Hart
ford will publish shortly new book of Mark
Twain's relating to his trip around the world
The work is TO be handsomely illustrated.
Evening star., 1897-01-30
Exploring the Lung. and p1eur..

ExpIortns the Lungs and PIeura.
Paris Letter In the New York Medical Record
An extremely interesting clinical applica-
tion has been made by Prof. Bouchard With
the famous Roentgen rays. He has shown
US series of photographic proofs that in
their way surpass anything; that has yet
been done with the rays, at Least in SO far
as the practice Of medicine is concerned.
The proofs Of the first series give perfectly
delineated images of a pleuritic effusIon
at the different stages Of Its resorption
In one OF them, In which the pleurisy Is
complicated with an intercurrert complica-
tion. the induration at the summit of the
lung Is distinctly and clearly marked.
The proofs of the second series have ref
erence to tuberculosis giving the photo
graphs OF the thoracic cages of a number
OF patients affected with pulmonary. ;uber-
culosts. The presence of two oaverns dag
nosed by auscultation and percussion Is
confirmed In most remarkable manner,
as are also other lessons
Enough has been said in this brief note
OF Prof. Bouchard'S valuable and new con-
tribution to science to show from clinical
standpoint what immense services the x
rays are destined to render in confirming
the diagnosis made by auscultat.on and
but also In pulmonary tuberculosis and
pneumonia. more especially in the stage OF
hepatization. n ii
We may look for still further interesting
results shortly in this field. as Prof. Bou-
chard assures us that he, intends to prose-
cute his studies with the radiograph In
other diseases as well. --