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The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27

Use SPECIFIC No. 3 for Testhins,
Colic, Crying, Wakefulness of Infants.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-27

You have tried ''77'' for Grip and Colds,
now try No. 10 for Dyspepsia.
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INTERESTING MEMOIRS.

RECoLLECTIONS OF AUBREY DE WERE
New YORK: Edward Arnold Price 81.
AS stated in the preface to this volume,
"recollections" and "autobiograpnies" are
very different things. This book belongs to
the former class, but is none the less interest
ing on this account. Born in 1914, Aubrey de
We're in his long life met most of the men and
women who have been famous in Great
Britain during the last fifty years. In his boy
hood, the greater part OF which was spent in
Ireland. he watched the great fight made for
Catholic emancipation, and in 1895 was still
active in his endeavors TO bring about better
conditions for his country. OF those early
years, and OF the state of Ireland then, he
speaks eloquently in this book. They were the
days OF stage-coaches, dueling and hard
drinking, OF oppression and political corrup-
tlon, sil oil which are made subjects for rich
anecdotes. The period OF his early manhood
is especially full of incident. He met and
knew O'Connell, Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt
Mrs. Felicia Hemans Miss Fenwick 1.-THE dear
friend OF Wordsworth's later years. Col
eridge was OF his earlier). John Henry, later
Cardinal Newman, Carlyle and hosts of others
known in the literary. scientific and political
world. Long before he met these people he
was writing poetry and preparing himself to
occupy the high niche that has since been ac-
corded him. His recollecuons of the great
famine in Ireland, and his comments thereon
form one of the most interesting chapters in
the book to readers of to-day. Then, again,
the thousands OF people who admire and love
Newman, one of the greatest men of the GEN.
tury, will appreciate the light he throws on
his character and his secession from the
Church of England to that of Rome. Another
chapter of interest is that wherein the author
sets forth his own reasons for becoming
Catholic which he did in 1850, five years
later than Newman. He Travelled through
Switzerland, Italy, Scotland. England and Ire
land, and of each place he visited has some
interesting remarks to make These take up
over $40 pages, not one of which contains so
much as paragraph that will be passed over
unread.
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pirant for literary fame will be deferred
from rushing into print by these sage
warnings, but at any rate. he will, if he is
wise, learn from this book ell about the COM
mercial aspect of the pu blishing trade, and
Will know what to expect when he endeavors
to place his creations on the market A COM
piete description of publishing methods and
arrangements is given, well as direc tions
for preparing MS. for the press. Further,
there are instructions in oof-reaoing, speci-
mems OF typography and mass of useful in
form alton regarding the United States and in
ternationai copyright laws. All this, as we'll
as great many more things which we have
not space 10 enumerate, is set forth in hand
somely printed and bound volume OF some
800 pages. Every intending author hould
have the book on his shelves, and its value is
sufficiently indicated by the fact that it has
already run through seven editions, the pres
ent issue being rewritten and much additional
matter furnished.
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MARIE CORELLI AGAIN.

We had supposed the fad of exploiting the
reputation of certain modern authors during
their lifetime by volumes OF selections fro m
their writings, as to mention only few
"Lovely Moralities," from Lewis Morris; 'Ex-
alted Am guities." from William Watson, to
say nothing of "Year- Books" DAILY DIa-
monds" and so on, as past; but we were mis-
taken, 1t seems, for there has just been pub
lished in England Beauties OF Marie Corelli,"
young person of whom we only know that
she has written a number of novels, or ro-
mances. which are repuled to have large
sales-to be read by high personages, and to
be translated ito the languages and dialects
OF foreign and remote lands and peoples.
We have not yet seen this book, or booklet,
which is edited by Miss Annie Mackay but we
think we can divine its probable contents
from the following extracts which we cull-a
pret'ier word to use in the case of lady than
the more brutal one, cut-from notice OF the
Mackay-Corelli Beauties" in an English
journal They are briet-but we suppose,
characteristic of her writings:
"Methinks those who are best beloved of the
gods are chosen first to die."-From "Ardath." {"
"The heart-whole appreciation OF the mil
lion is by no means so vulgar as it is fire.
quently considered" Ibid.
1--WE are never grateful enough to the can
did persons who wake US from our dreams."-
From "Vendetta"
"Who can adequately describe the thrilling
excitement attending an aristocratic crush q"
From "Thelma."
"Gentus is big thing; lido not assume to
possess it."-From "The Murder of Delicia"
"Great heavens Prom 'Ziska"
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A STUDY IN CURRENT SLANGUAGE.

The Italian method of prefxing an to q
word to give il a damaging significance can be
employed with good effect in christening that
wayward and degenerate offspring of English
known as slang. In its present state slanguage
has attained to such a luxurious com pie eteness
that 1t warrants serious treatment. So copious
and comprehensive has it become that there is
hardly human want, feeling, or emotion of
the heart that cannot DE translated into this
vernacular OF the bootblack. In studying tn
philosophy OF slang, the first natural query is,
How did il originate2
To the first question one might give. with
certain notifications, the same answer that
would be given to the question, Why do peo-
pie swear? The human animal like loco
motive, seems to require escape valves for oc.
caslons when there is too much steam in the
boiler When man is overlooking with ad.
mirauon, anger or wonder, the ordinary ad.
1ectives do not Tor he thinks they do not) meet
the emergency. They do not relieve his pent-
up fullness any more than q sip from a dew
drop would quench mans thirst The natu-
raj man and the natural woman sometimes
find relief under strong emotion in explosive
utterances. In the case of anger the escape
valve expletive is an oath, unless the man In
question happens to be gentleman, and
sometimes, though very rarely, when he is.
1t will thus be seen that slang, being of emo
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HE WAS NOT INTERVIEWED.

Daily Telegraph interviewer received a
dispatch the other day, so the Tribune says,
ordering him to go to rockingham and inter-
view Mr.. Kipling. He went. AS he entered
the village in wagonette he saw his prey
mounting bicycle. He jumped down and
chased him, and overlook the bicyclist at the
foot of a slope.
"What do you want?' asked Kipliug.
al want to catch my BREATH" replied his
pursuer.
Kipling waited grimly.
Then the pursuer stated his errand. The
good-natured twinkle faded instantly from his
eyes; the square jaws suddenly became set. 1t
was not necessary for him to speak for me to
perceive that nothing short of wild horses
would be required to drag any ything worth re-
cording from the author of "Soldiers Three -
"Interview mer' exclaimed Kipling "No!
have never been interviewed in my life
Pm OFF, And grasping the handles of his
bicycle ''of'' he certainly was.
The.interviewer was discouraged but per-
severing. He hurried after his disappearing
quarry.
"Did L understand you to say that you re-
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STUDIES IN CHARACTER,
OLD EBENEZER-By opie Read. Chicago
Laird & Lee.

OLD EBENEZER-By opie Read Chicago:
Laird & Lee.
Studies in character always furnish restful
reading, especially when portrayed by a writer
like Opie Read "Old Ebenezer'' is town in
one of the Southwestern States, where the lead
ing lawyer paid his rent by contributing to the
newspaper, and the editor discharged like
obligations by supporting the landlord for
Congress. or the sleepy Inhabitants of this
place and of their daily doings, Opie Read
tells in manner peculiarly simple vet fasci-
mating. The hero of the romance stands I'D
before one as though he were painted on can
vas, and the story of his struggles for literary
honors and his final success is most naturally
told. Strange as it may sound, this young
man is married by mistake to u girl whom he
does not know, and who has never met him
prior to the night OF the marriage After the
ceremony is performed they are separated, and
it is fully six months before they finally come
together and find they love one another very
much indeed. The plot is peculiar one, but
that is one of its chief charms, and the book
reads like chapter from real life. All the
characters are well drawn, and their dialogue
is often full of a delicate humor and keen
satire
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\ THE LATE ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.

tombstone he told, for an example, a story
| of its earlier inhabitants
| Years after 1t CHANGED that was one day d.
verting myself with q Waverley novel when
what should come upon but the identical
narrative of my green-coated gentleman upon
the moOrs. In a moment the scene the tones
OF his voice, his northern accent, and the yery
aspect of the earth and sky and temperate re
of the weather, flashed back into my mind
with the reality OF dreams. The unknown
In the green coat had been the Great Un-
known. had met Scott; l should have been
able 10 write, to claim acquaintance, to tell
hin that his legend still tingled in my ears
But the discovery came too late, and the great
man had already succum bed under the load
of his honors and misfortunes
We must refer the reader who desires to fol-
low the devious wandering and harbreadth
scapes OF St. Ives IN the English counties to
the volume itself. Suffice it TO say that he
gains his granduncle's seat in Bedlordshire
and is formally accepted as heir, to the utter
discontinue of another cousin, VIII o forthwith
sets to work to wreck ST. Ives prospects All
this, though it takes many pages in the tell
ing, S most in nteresting reading and by and by
we hnd the hero, in Fl of romantic obsti-
macy, seeking out his lady love, the lair Flora
IN the very hornets nest of Edinb boro' town.
OF the girl herse I see but little She is
merely outlined as of beauty and grace enough
TO eaptlvate 81. Ives, and S.evenson's women.
toIk are not, in any case, his strong point.
1t was while his hero was Drawing military
law IN Edinboro', and running imminent
danger OF arrest and execution, that the
master hand laid down the pen. With chapter
80 steyenson's possibility for the book
ends 1t was written at Vailima, at intervals,
during two years, under circumstances as we
know from the Vailima letters, which would
have crushed many stronger frame than
that Of the delicate litterateur. Fortunately
the novel shows but little trace of its broken
conception, for Mrs. Strong, in constant mental
association with the writer. knew the re-
mainder of his creation, end TO Mr.. QuIller
Couch, one OF the first short story writers of
the day, the delicate task OF completing the
volume was inirusted. Mr.. Quilier Couch has
done his work well; SO closely has he follow ed
Stevensons style that the break in the con-
tinuity of authorship will be noticeable only
TO the literary expert In continuing and
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OF INTEREST TO GIRLS.

MISS NINA BARROW-By Frances Courtenay
Baylor New York: The Century Company.
Price 81 25.
Frances Courtenay Baylor is one of the best
known contributors to 81. Nicholas, and her
stories have won friends for her thr oughout
the country. The present book deals with
little girl who is very wealthy and who is
brought up by fond grandmother, having
lost both parents. The girl is very mucn
spoiled, but, thanks to the loving care OF
charming cousin, she is broken OF her bad
habits and finally becomes las good girl as
any," Miss Nina makes trip abroad and her
experiences are well described and very in
teresting. Finally she loses her money, but
she bears the affi lction brave and goes to tn e
front rank in kindergarten work.
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author to introduce one of the strongest
most grimly suggestive, dramatic scenes in the
book. For sheer forcefll horror the duel in
the prison shed, at the dead of night in the
midst of inky bIackness-silent comrades
sworn to secrecy. standing around-without
the measured tramp of the prison guard has
rarely been excelIed. even BIZ Stevenson him
self. The weapons are primitive, the blades
OF a pair of scissors fas tened to wands and
. more by good luck than swordsmanship ST.
Ives disables his opponent al the first pass
The duel leads to many mplications which
space forbids our detailing, but eventually our
hero escapes and begins the remark able series
OF wsnderings in hostile country which fill
the remainder of the volume with adventure
Though captured while in the service of the
Corsican usurper st. Ives is really scion OF
one OF the oldest Legitimist families and has
granduncle, an emigre, who has in some
mysterious manner become Anglicized in to
a wealthy landowner. In search of this uncle
st. Ives begins his pilgrimage under the guild
ance OF a pair of cattle-drovers, whose peculi-
arities are outlined in n frolcksome vein OF
hnmor rarely to be found in Stevenson's writ
1ngs Here and there, too, is a touch of the
Plekwickian style, strangely reminiscent of
Dickens, as for instance, the following utter
ance OF an oddity, Burche ell Fem en- eountered
during the journey:
(which you do favor him iii you'n excuse
me being so bold as TO mention it, exactly -
said he. al should have known you any
where May l offer you pot Of home brewed
ale, sir2 By your leave. This way, if you
Please. lam earthly gratefuI-eartiIy pleased
TO be of any service to gentleman like you,
sir which is related 70 the Viscount, and
really family OF which you might well be
proud. Take care of the step, sir. You have
fs0od news of lis 'ealth trust, as well as that
< mounseer, the CountY'
incidentally, also, Sir Walter Scott is en-
co4nieFed on this remarkable journey, and,
with loving appreciation, Stevenson puts a
brief sketch of the gifted writer into the
mouth of his hero:
"Our encounter was OF tall, stoutIsh.
elderly gentleman, a little grizzled and of a
<theerful aud engaging countenance. He sat
IN hill pony, wrapped in a plaid over his
green coat, and was accompanied by a horse
woman, his daughter, young lady of the
most Charming appearance"
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THE BOOK OF THE WEEK.
Steyenson's Last Novel.

ST. IVES, BEING THE ADVENTURES OF A
FRENCH PRISONER N. ENGLAND-B
Scribner's sons. For sale in this city by William
Doxey, Palace Hotel
There is always something touching about
the posthumous work OF great writer, more
especially when the author is one who like
Stevenson, has brought himself into such in
innate personal sympa thy with his readers.
The delicacy of style, the broad yet refined
manner Of treatment which characterize all
Stevenson's handicraft, are as strongly evil
denced in this, his last book, as in any other
OF the many volumes he has issued. But
there is something more in st. Ives. 1t reads
like the authors farewell to his loving pub
lie; it reads as if, by some TRANCE clairvoyant
! instinct, he knew that this was TO be his last
Istory, and, knowing this, had put as much as
1 possible of his own strongly marked personal
~ into the character of the hero.
There is no mistaking the fact that st. Ives,
or to give him for once his full name, NJ
le Vicomte Anne de Keroual de St. Ives, has
much of the fanc1ful enthusiasm, the light
hearted mpressionabillty, which buoyed Ste
venson up during the many trials of his earlier
career. He laughs and sings and dances, plays
wild pranks and dilates upon them with
boyish persiflage that ever and anon recalls
passages in the Vailims letters; his gay
single-hearted trust in his own luck never
leaves him, and, alter the good old conven-
tional style, he departs happily at the end of
the play, smiling, beautiful bride on his
arm Still, the finale is the only conventional
feature OF the story. As hero of chivalrous
romance St Ives is magnificent; as a prisoner
OF war in this civilized nineteenth century he
is impossible almost to the verge OF the ludi-
crous. 1t is not the man, but the milieu
which gives one this sense of incongruity, and
one cannot help suspecting that Stevenson, in
spirit OF sly humor, is all along burlesquing
the errant knights OF medieval lore For
even the knight OF La Mancha never did such
wildly chivalrous deeds as this imprisoned
soldier OF Bonaparte. At the very outset
when st. Ives is still held as prisoner OF war
in Edinboro' Castle, he weayes a romance
around the fair purchaser of some OF his
prison made toys, and his love, as yet un-
avowed and unre turned, leads HIM into a duel
with rude whiskerando who has dared
TO speak slightingly OF the lady. Trivial
as the incident seems, 1t enables the
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OUR COLORED CITIZENS.

THE NEGRO AND THE WHITE MAN-By
Bishop w. j. Gaines, D D. Philadelphia: A.
M. l. Publishing house.
Bishop Gaines, one of the leading lights in
Afro-American circles, is well known here
and abroad as writer on the subject of the
possibilities of the negro. In his latest book
he makes an impassioned plea Tor justice
toward his own race, showing their many vir-
tues and their capacity for higher educa-
ton. Bishop Gaines was a slave himself until
liberated after the Civil War. By his own
example he proves that the negro is capable
of attaining TO high position and winning for
himself the respect of his white brother. The
remarks in the present volume on amalgama-
ton and the colored mans place in politics
will furnish in interesting reading for all
thoughtful people, whether they agree with
the writer's conclusions or not.
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After talking a while to the drovers Sir
Walter turns to St Ives. "Wen, sir, under
stand you are taking a tramp through our
forest here for the pleasure OF the thing"
"Why, yes sir; and 1 must say 1 am very
well entertained"
81 envy you" said he. "Ihave logged many
miles OF 1T myself when I was younger. Ny
youth lies buried about here under every
heather bush, like the soul OF the licentiate
Lucius But you should have a guide. The
pleasure of this country is much in the
legends. which grow as plentiful as black
berries" And directing my attention to q
little fragment OF broken wall no greater than
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-31
IN Defense OF THE PUBLISHER.

AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS; A Manual OF
Suggestio ms for Beginners In LiteratuIe-Bv G.
Il. r. and J. B. p New YORK: q. b. Putnam's
Sons.
Ever since the days of DR.. Johnson the pub
Usher has been the object of calumny by the
writer. and, as rule, the more unsuccessful
the author the greater the contempt for the
publisher who declines to lose money by hand
ling his unsslable wares. 1t is a pity that
this state of affairs should exist and the object
of Messrs- Putnams book is to explain away
many misconceptions about the publishing
trade into which writers have fallen. The au-
thors also furnish handy and reasonable
guide for the use of beginners in literature,
including very useful lists of ''don'ts." 1t
is too much to expect that the as
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THE WORLDS FAMOUS PLACES.

JOHN L. STODDARD'S LECTURES - New
York Chicago and London: Belford, Mddlebrook
& Co.
People who travel may roughly be divide
into two classes - those who travel to be
seen and those who travel to see Mr.. Stod-
dard belongs TO the latter class, and the result
of his wanderings set forth IN these ten
volumes will be appreciated by thousands OF
people unable to follow in his footsteps. Mr..
Stoddard has visited every civilized country
In the world, and has something new and
original to say of each Each volume is hand
somely and profusely illustrated, and the set
will form a most desirable addi tlon 10 the
library.
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ABOUT OTHER WORLDS.

URANIA-By Camille FIammarion. New York :
F. Tennyson Neely. Price 5O cents.
When a leading astronomer writes novel,
some thing out of the ordinary may be ex-
pected. 'Urania" is decidedly so, and will be
read with interest by all who find pleasure in
speculating on worlds and conditions un-
known. Much valuable astronomical data is
also i'm parted, and. so that the plot be not too
heavy, love is also introduced into the ro-
nance. The translation, which is by Augusta
Rice Stetson, is all that could be desired.
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bringing to a termination the extraordinary
adventures OF St. Ives he has certainly used
his Imagination well, perhaps only too WELL
for the Muuchausen-like escape of St Ives in
balloon, which carries him from Scotland to
the English Channel. is too incredible for
romance, even though it be tie romance of
this wildly eXtravagant character
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FOR LOVERS OF THE UNCANNY.

DEsMONDE, MD.-By Hugh Wakefield. New
York: 6. W. Dillingham; & Co. Price so
cents.
This is a strange story setting FOR tn the pos
sibI!ities of hypnotism, astral and physical
projection and though t-reading. The theory
therein expounded that a criminal is sus-
ceptble to reformation by medical treatmen t
of the brain may be true or it may not at
any rate, the story itself is in teresting and
well told and will find many friends
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fused to -" he observed, but he was cut
short
absolutely" said Kipling.
And then, gentle reader, what did this bril-
liant interviewer do? He filed one of the
long columns of the Daily Telegraph and q
little over with an account of his adyeuturel
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-31

E. r Dutton Co. will publish S. Barring
Gould's "Perpetua-A Tale of Mines, A D.
213." The same firm announces Baby Days
Book of Records in Baby's Life"
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"a Life OF Ernest Renan," by Nine. Mary
Darmesteter, is to be published this fall by
Messrs. Methuen & Co, Nine. Psichari, who
is Renan's s daughter, has revised the proofs.
This assures the accuracy of the biography.
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window has been put up in the church of
Pallas, or Pallasmore, in County Longford.
Ireland, where good Oliver Goldsmith was
born. and the year OF that event was 1928.
There is to be a monumental brass affixed to
the church.
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NJ. Zola will not come to America to lecture,
at least not yet-and never to reply to NJ.
Bruuetiere's criticisms. He holds out the
hope that he may come at some distant day,
and tell US how the nations love one another
a subject that suggests a wide field for sarcas-
tic treatment