The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07

'The Unknown-Prevision of the Future" Ca
mile Flammarion; Despair" poem, Eleanor
Ford; concerning q National University"
Ex-Governor John w. Hoyt, Ii. /; ''Wilfrid
Laurier," character sketch, ]. w. Russell;
New Experiments in Sheathing the Hulls of
Ships" George Ethelbert Walsh; "Falling
Prices" Dean Gordon: "Maceo's DEATH"
poem, A. E. Ball; "The Foundation of Colony
OF self-supporting Artists" Appeal; "The Ar
menian Refugees" NJ. H. Gulesian; "Compul-
sorry Arbitration" Professor Frank Parsons;
"Democracy-1ts Origin and Prospects," John
Clark Ridpath, LID; can Olive Branch OF
the Civil War;" story, La. Sale Corbell
Pickett.
The editor of the Review OF Reviews com.
ments in the March number on the Spanish
programme OF reforms in Cuba, the United
States Senate's attitude toward the arbitration
treaty with England, the immigration bill, the
proposed International monetary conference,
President elect McKinley's Cabinet selections
the recent Senatorial elections, the New York
trust investigation, the famine situation in
India, the affair of the Greeks in Crete the
foreign policy of Russia, the position OF Eng
land, France ana the other great powers, and
many other matters of current interest An
Englishman's study of the longest reign in
British history is contri buted to the Review
Queen Victoria's rule by w. I. Stead, who
traces the growth of imperial dominion and
the influence OF the royal family from the
point OF view of the typical British subject.
The article is illustrated with large number
OF portraits OF the Queen and of members of
her family circle. Many of these portraits are
rare, and are now published for the first time
in America.
The "Critic's" Lounger gives new view of
the publishing business in couple of para
graphs on ''The Book of Wealth"-a Sub
scription book" of which the ordinary edition
is to be sold at$1OO0, and the limited edition
at $2500. This book will chronicle the accom-
pltshments of wealth from the earliest days to
the present day, in all countries He gives us
incidentally description of the canvassers
who sell these books Theirs is not the drudg-
cry commonly associated with that profession:
There are not more than half dozen
men in the whole United States who
can sell these expe nsive books, and they
sell nothing else. Their season is short, but
their harvest is large. They live in the most
expensive hotels. and, instead of trudging
wearily from door to door, drive about in their
broughams, accompanied by q man servant
who carries the book. The latter Il not
brought into the house until the possible
purchaser expresses wish to seeit. One of the
most successful of these agents told me re-
Gently that his season in New York did not be-
gin till the Horse Show, and that it was over
by the first of June" Who would not be a
book canvasser under such conditions? The
Lounger adds that this particular book has
been subscribed for by more than half the
crowned heads of Europe.
Meesrs. D. Appleton & Co. announce for
early publication "Pioneers of Evolution"
from Thales to Huxley, by Edward Clodd;
memoirs of Marshal Oudinot Due de
Reggio," compiled from the unpublished
papers of the Duchesse de Reggie; "Some
Masters of Lithography," by Atherton
Curtis: 1.-THE Aurora Borealis," by AL
fred Angot; "The Beautiful Miss Brooke
by az. IT,; "Tatterley, the Story
of Dead Man." by T. Gallon; "a Pinchbeck
Goddess" by Mrs. Fleming (Beatrice Kipling);
"a Spotless Reputation" by D. Gerard, and
Perfection City," story OF Kansas, by Mrs.
Orpen, together with new editions of "Dy-
manic Sociology" by Lester F. Ward; "sight,"
by Professor Joseph LIE Conte; "History OF
Bimetall in the United States," by Profess
sor ]. L. Laughlin, and "Actual Africa" by
Frank Vincent. The same firm will pub
lish shortly memoirs of Marshal Oudi-
not, Duo de Reggio," compiled from the
hitherto unpu ublished souvenirs of the Duch-
esse de Reggie. The marshaps wife was much
with her husband in the field, accompanying
him, for instance, during the retreat from
Moscow Of that she gives very graphic de-
scription; and, indeed, she draws vivid PIC
lures of all that stirring epoch. The book
takes in the revolution, the directory, Napo.
Icons ascendency, the restoration, and comes
up to about 1880. 1t has photographs of the
marshal and his wife, who in the end of course
threw in their lot with the Bourbons.
The opening pages of the North American
Review ior March are devoted TO timely and
elaborate paper from the pen of Sir Edwin
Arnold on "The Famine in India" The prob
lem of prison Labor" is tnoughtfully con-
sidered by Carroll d. Wright, United States
commissioner of Labor, and in "The History
of a POEM Edmund Gosse recounts the cir
cumstances connected with the production of
the late Coventry Patmore's work, 1.-THE Angel
in the House." "How to Reform Business
Corporations" is discussed by V. H. Lockwood,
and NJ Georges Clemenceau contributes the
second and concluding portion of his paper on
1.-THE French Navy" writer under the sig.
nature of "a London Police Magistrate" gives
a descr iption of "Drink and Drunkenness
in London" dwelling especially on the class
known as habitual drunkards. Under the
captain of "The Railway Problem" are treated
two distinct and vital aspects OF this great
question, the Hon. Lloyd Bryce considering
| sThe Legislative Solution" and James ]. Wait
giving "a Mercantile View" The Hon. Edwin
TaVlOr appealS 10 the country dL large III De-
tense of Kansas" and progressive religious
thought has its champion in Professor C. A.
Briggs, D. D., who furnishes q brilliant paper
| on "Works of the Imagination in the Old Tes-
lament" Other topics dealt with are: "When
| Congress Should Convene" by the Hon. ]. F.
Shatroth; .'The Question OF Ships" by VIM
| throp L. Marvin; amenities OF Philology,"
| by Professor E. w. Bowen, and COLLECTIONS to
| Children's Curfew," BY Winitred Buck.
Dr. Nansen's "Farthest North was pub
| lished ip England on Tuesday, February 16,
| and on the same day the Messrs. Harper made
| formal publication of the book in this coan-
| try. To do this they had to make almost SUI
| perhuman efforts The book is in two VOL
| umes, octave and covers 1900 pages. Rough
! proofs were received from London and
| the matter was at once put into type.
It took tremendous force of printers
| to accomplish this by the desired
| time. Then the revised proofs were sent over
! from London, and the first American proofs
! corrected by them. Though they worked as
printers have seldom worked before, it was
| impossible to publish more than sufficient
! nun ber of copies by the 18th to meet the re-
| ouirements of the international copyright
| law The regular publication of the book
here will not be until some time in March,
It will have 120 full-page and numerous
| text illustrations, and sixteen colored
plates in fac-simile from DR.. Nansen's
| own sketches besides photogravure portraits
| and four maps. Notwithstanding the enor-