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The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
MARION CRAWFORD'S LATEST.

ROSE OF YESTERDAY-By F. Marion
Crawford. New York: The Macmillan COM
pany. Price 81 20.
Without any abatement of the power which
has given him well-earned fame, Marion
Crawford adds this noyrl TO the long list of
clever books his prolific pen has produced. 1t
tells of a struggle between love and duty so
well sustained that in the end the author in
Inmates his heroine is more of an ideal than a
character accordant with life's realities. Then
in his wonted forceful and beautiful language
he justifies himself for doing this, and claims
that it is legitimate art to create these ideal
beings, to show Characters occasionally which
are more in conformity with human espita-
tions than with human acts. But notwith-
standing his calling Helen Harmon an ideal,
many readers will consider her perfectly true
to life and think of women they have known
who could be Just faithful TO what they
deemed their duty, even when duty was al
ordeal of heart-bre aking severity.
"You are fresh as q rose," said Helen Har-
mons son TO her after she had bravely en-
dured twenty years of suffering caused by
brute of husband. "a OF Yesterday"
said Helen Harmon, and thus comes the title
of the story. strong feature of the book is
the description of this son, who is a grown
young man, but with brain undeveloped be-
cause OF his fathers brutal beatings when he
child When the question of forgiving
the husband and the duty of living with him
comes up, the existence of this boy greatly
cOmplicates the problem, which was also
made puzzling by Helen's affection for
man who had Lowell her with chivalrous faith
fulness and purity for twenty years.
The novel is q study of the increasing ten
dency of modern times to seek relief from
marital troubl by divorce. The question
can hardly be said to be treated in partisan
way, for the pros and cons are given with an
effectiveness of appeal that might well satisfy
an advocate of either easy divorce or un-
breakable marriage bonds
The solution, however, is not left to the
reader as is the case in so many novels, and
Crawiord's appeal is to hold to the sacredness
of the marriage VOW even when so doing in
wolves a terrible self-sacrifce. Differ from
him as widely as they may on the specific
question of divorce all readers will doubtless
admire the earnestness of the plea he puts In
for the development of Spartan strength OF
character. Speaking OF the tendency to shirk
duty when duty is hard he says: "We are
cowardlv generation, and men shrink from
suffering now their fathers shrank from
dishonor in rougher times. Soft-hearted and
weak-nerved people ask why humanity should
suffer al all Why should we be uncomfort-
able even for an hour when a dose of poison
can create lazy oblivion? That is the drunk
ards reasoning, the opium-eater's defense"
To CRAWFORD divorce is even such frailty as
the dTunkard's and the opium eaters.
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ABOUT AMEIiE RIVES.

The Princess Troubetskoy. Amelie Rives, has
entirely recovered from the nervous attack
which prostrated her some time ago. She has
recently returned to her home, Castle Hill,
Va, and is now hard at work upon new
novel, which, she hopes, will surpass any
thing she has ever attempted.
While she was hard at work finishing book
in the latter part OF last May the Prime cess was
removed to q santarium in Philadelphia for
treatment Her collapse was attributed pri-
marily to hard work during the winter and
spring in writing and finishing the novel, but
her ill-health was indirectly traceable TO 2
nervous affection which had its origin in the
violent discussion and personal abuse that
followed the publication OF "The Quick or the
Dead2"
1t is said that at that time, though she was
only % years of age and personally ignorant
OF the world and It's ways, she received over
1000 scurrilous letters, commenting in the
most indelicate manner upon the book and its
author. She fell very i'll and was confined to
her bed for weeks.
Soon after her recovery and when her liter
ary success was assured beyond a doubt, she
met and became engaged to John Armstrong
Chanler, a great-grandson OF the original
John Jacob Astor
Her friends declare that within three
months after her marriage to this gentleman
she knew that she had made mis- take, but
she lived with him for four years. Mr.. Chan
Ter, becoming aware of his wife's feeling
toward him, took the steps necessary for a
divorce.
During all this time Amelie Rives' health
was not particularly good, and her removal
TO Paris did not benefit it. Although there
was never breath of scandal about the
matter, she met Prince Troubetzkoy a year
before she was divorced. They were not in
any way associated with each other up to th at
time, but were married shortly afterward
The Princess declares that her happiness was
completed then, but she worked very hard AL
last winter and she has not until now fairly
recovered from her prostration over her first
successfui book
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LETTER OF BLACKMORE'S.

Writing to an American friend (who has
published the letter in the Boston Literary
World) Mr. Blackmore alludes to his new
novel, "Ddriel," and observes that he is sorry
the publishers intend to illustrate it. ''Never
yet saw I any iliustr ations," he says, "that
helped to tell my stories" Mr.. Blackmore
denies the reports of his i'll health-he never
felt better, he assures his correspondent-and
10 judge from the vivacity of his letter he
must certainly be in fine condition in his
Eeventy-second year.
Mr.. Blackmore is forcible on the subject OF
fiction. mine people out of ten." he declares,
"speak with happy contempt of a novel as a
trumpery concoction. Some man, the other
day-a leading interviewer-said 10 me: 'Oh,
I never care to review a novel; work of his
tory has some interest. Facts. facts are the
things to deal with ] asked him if
there was any occurrence, or any
character in so-called history, about
which opinions dismetrically opposite
were not held by inquirers of equal intelli-
gence, and told him that hao been an eye
witness Of two incidents, reported the very
next day in the papers, and that / could
hardly recognize either as meant for an ac-
count of what / had seen. What, then, of mar
ratives centuries after the events ana gen.
orally from pens made to fit into some pocket?
But for generations yet to come fiction will be
looked upon as dolly for an infant"
ASK to see Edition de Luxe Balzac at
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THE INEVITABLE, "THE MARIAN"

THE MARTIAN - BY George du Maurier
New York: Harper d Brother pu hlishers
For sale in this City ut all Uoosstores price
81 rs.
Having the advantage to be dead, George du
Maurier is to-day spared the pain of witness
ing the end that was inevitably to overtake
MIN in his literary plunge. The end would
have been the same had he lived, since in the
dark scheme out of which "The Marian"
grew he had no thought OF leaving the world
TO escape its conseq uences His exit was not
part of the undertaking, 1t was accidental
and, as has been intimated, a saving interven-
ton against the inevitable loss of reputation
which "The Marian" was destined 10 cover
him with II it caught him smiling in the flesh
at his authorship of it.
''The Martian" is not, of course what the
author hoped without reason il would be in
point OF effect but it is what good many OBJ
serving mortals unhandicapped by the blind
ing glare of personal authorship expected ii
TO be, TO wit, an unsuccessful effort TO repeat
the success OF "Trilby." 1t was not written
because Mr.. du Maurier had q story 10 tell-it
was written because Mr.. du Maurier had
written "Trilby," and his publishers were
proVidently aware that any other book by the
author of "Trilby" would be read, albeit no
more than one other would be, since The
author OF ''Trilby'' had necessarily TO become
the author of "the other one" and the other
one is likely to discourage further pursuit OF
him.
Any subsequent work of an author suddenly
famed by freak OF success has one chance IL
a hundred to be good-the chance that the
author will forget that he has written the
freak success and will actually try to write q
book unhampered by forced dependence on
an accidentally successful predecessor. And
the author rarely iorgets. Fame and fortune
are the rewards he works for, and having in
one dazzling bewlldered fash attained them
he neglects TO uuders land that the contempt
of the few beings who admire merit and ridi-
cule preten Sc will greet any attempt on his
part to perpetuste his sudden distinction by
turning it into a permanent profession
and making a living out OF it in
the future. The chap who wins sudden
fame by freak catch of popularity-tnat
most treacherous of mistresses-commonly
neglects to earn his right to it by writing a
book that sensible persons can read with
composure. His consciousness of self and
OF what he imagines is expected Of him as
the author of the thing which has made his
self portentous to him is too heavy.
This affair called ''The Marian" is a bit too
prodgious for even compulsory perus al. AS
an entertainment it is beyond consideration.
Those whom it might by any possibility satisfy
are those who read it because the author of
"Trilby" wrote it, and they are fit auditors of
a man who wrote this book because he wrote
that one. Independently it will evoke no
satisfaction at all. The writing is not pleas
ing, the plot is extrayagant without being in
gepious the construction is complex, the
characters are indistinguishable, the whole is
as difficult to follow as Professor Ho,den's
HHistory of the Moon"
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A REPRINT.

BETWEEN TWO WoRLDS-By Mrs. Calvin
Kryder Reifsnider ST. Louis: The Anna c.
Reifsnider Book Company Price 81 25
quotation from Bulwer is used to explain
this novel: at is a romance, and it is not a
romance 1t is a truth for those who can COM
prehend 1T, and an extravaganza for those
who cannot" The story has appeared before
as serial in the Arena magazine. 1t tells Of
renowned teacher of oratory who is training
very ambitious girl for the stage and young
infdel for the bar and lecture platform. The
writes great play after the death of her
Instructor, which was mysteriously prompted
by him. Religious views are hung upon a
slim thread of fiction, and these are antago-
nistic to the dogmas of orthodoxy. The book
is written with good purpose, but as a novel
is ex xtremely crude.
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GEORGE DU NAURIER:

South, told in dialect with considerable talent
for pathos and humor. One of the best is
called 1.-The Unlived Life of Little Mary Ellen"
which tells the pathetic story OF young girl
who was Tilted at the al tar and lost her mind
in consequence. She awakcs from swoon
fancying that she is married, and later takes
loving possession of large wax doll, believing
it Is her baby. The tender respect with which
the villagers treat this vagary is we'll de-
scrlbed
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
MORSE MYTHS.

THE STORY OF THE RHINEGoLD - Rv
Anna Alice Chaplin. New York. Harper d
Brothers. Price 81 20.
The story of the NiDelungenlied is here told
in condensed and simplified way principally
for young people. The obje ct is to give clear
and accurate account of the complicated series
oil Morse legends from which Wagner made his
operas. Some OF the music of the operas is in
terwoyen with the story, and part of the de-
sign OF the work is to enable the reader to un-
derstand the various motifs OF the great
musical genius compositions. The volume Ia
beautifully illustrated.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25

those who have religion, but feel antipathy to
hestrict dogmas of sectarianism. The preacher
is of the Congregational church, but he says
that the theology of to-day is not chiefly oc-
cupied with speculations concerning the per-
son of Christ. It is more anxious to know
what he taught than what he was.
He says that the theology OF to-
day is incapable of strict defni-
tion, since it has almost as many forms as
there are thinkers, and thai this is as 1t should
be, because the Spirit in his operations always
recognized individuality
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
STORIES OF MOUNTAINEERS.

HE'LL FOR SARTAIN, AND OTHER
STORIES-By John Fox Jr New York Har-
per Il Brothers For sale In this City by A. NJ
Robertson, Post street. Price 81.
These short stories of mountaineers are told
in dialect, and deal with the manners and
customs OF the ignorant classes of the noun
famous parts in West Virginia and Kentucky,
They are humorous, and one called .'Preachin'
on Kingdom me" tells in rough mountain
eloquence OF the reconciliation of men who
had long been at deadly feud. The stories
were originally published in some of the lead
ing magazines.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25

THE GROWING REVELATION - BY Amory
h. Bradford. New York: The Macmillan Com
pany rice 81 so.
This collection of sermons. through which
the thought of a growing revelation runs as
of paramount importance, is extremely lib
eral. They will be read with pleasure by
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
RELIGIOUS.

BOOK OF DAILY FAMILY PRAYER Bv
Madeline II. Lissak. For sale at the principal
bookstores Of the Ciy.
lady OF San Francisco has composed this
little pamphlet of daily prayers for family use.
She has found them so satisfactory in her
household that she publishes them in the be.
lief that they will benefit others. Each prayer
has prefaced to 1t q selected text from the
Bible. briei sentence designed to be commit
ted TO memory and repeated often during the
day.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
THE VENDETTA.

MR.. PETERS BY Riccardo stephens New
York: Harper e. Brothers For sale In this
City by a. NJ. Robertson, Post street. Price
81 80.
A story of vendetta in which the long-de.
iayed vengeance is made to fall in most
dramatic way upon an honored Judge. and is
so executed that by no human justice could
the avenger ever be punished. Mr.. Peters is
the son OF an Italian who was lynched In a
Western town by mistake. The Italians
widow taught the boy to wait patiently for re-
venge. Many of the scenes are well describe
and of thrilling nature.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25

Unfortunate was the youth who volunteered
to give the parentage of Trojan Ganymede.
"He was" said he, "the son of Mount Olympus
and an eagle" Some doubt being expressed
as to the exactness OF this biological state
ment he proved his faith in authorship and
shocked q drowsy room into clamorous ap-
plause BY reading triumphantiy from the
preface to his "Oyid": "And Ganymede was
oorne to Mount Olympus by an eagle."-Yale
Yarns, in Scribners.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25

IN SIMPKINsvILLE BY Ruth McEnerv
stuart New York; Harper d Brothers. Price
81 25.
A collection Of character tales about the
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
MINGLED PATHOS AND HUMOR.

THE Lark Is Dead; Long Live th
Lark" Inquire at Doxey's. n
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25

DoxEy's Guide to San Francisco just
published.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25

Jules Verne is busy with new series: OF
stories, whose scenes are laid in various lands
He says that the plot is always the last thing
he thinks of, letting it form itself in his mind
while he studies geographical, historical and
scientific books on the particular country he
jpta IN inf
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25

Alexander Gardener of London has just pull
lished american Humorists, Recent and Lily
ing by Robert Ford
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
PERSONALS.

Bran stoker, Henry Irving's manager, has
written another novel. 1t is called Ora
cula'
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
LITERARY NOTES.

The publication in England is announced of
Sir Walter Besants "a Fortune Sealed" and
of DR.. George MacDonald's new novel, "sslted
With Fire"
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
SERMONS.

ASK to see Edition de Luxe Balzac a
Dcxey's
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25

Go to Doxey's for the best books.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25

Rudyard Kipling's American novel, "Cap
tains Courageous" will be published by tn,
Century Company in October
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25

Du MAURIER, the Marian, at Doxey's.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25

william lie Queux, whose novel, Devils
Dice" has just come out. is at present living
in Nice, where be is writing a new story of
mystery for serial purposes. The scenes will
? be laid in England and at Monte Carlo, and
it will PROBABLY appear under the biblical
title of .'If Sinners Eutice Thee" 1t is under
stood that the story will be entirely English
in character although its climax occurs on
the Mediterranean shore.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25

SIENKIEwIcz' Quo Vadis. Complete
stock at Do1ey'L
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25

JUsr published, missions of Califor-
MIA" at Doxey's.
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HERE AND THERE.

"Ouids's" test book is said to deal with the
problem of social equality. 1t is entitled "The
Altruistn
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25

Henry Frowde of the Oxford University
Press New York; announces that he is about
to publish for the Egyp exploration fund
part Of papyrus book OF the sayings of Christ
found at Behnesa, the ancient Orynxhynchas,
some 120 miles south of Cairo on the edge of
the Libyan desert. by Bernard P. Grenfell of
Queens College and A. 8. Hunt of Magdalen
College, Oxford. There will be much contro-
versy as to the antiquity of the logia, but Ii is
not improba Bile that the collection was made
at the beginning of the second century of the
present era or even earlier, and the writing of
the sentences may date from the second CEN
tury. The sayings are detached. without con-
text, and each begins with the words Jesus
saith" These are preserved on q page OF
papyrus 5H inches by 81 inches, the writ
ings-uncia ls-being very clear. In addition
to reproducing the leaf by collotype process,
1t has been decided to print cheaper edition
for few cents, so that the treasure may be
broug ht within the reach of every one.
JUST published, missions of Califor-
nia," at Doxey's.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-01-08
Should Make Reports.

School district treasurers should
bear in mind that the state law COM
pels them to publish their annual
statements. Last year only four of
the school treasurers complied with
the law. Section III of the code of
this state will give school trelsurers
an idea of their duty relating to these
annual statements. The penalty for
not making these reports is defined in
Sec. BOG of the code, which is as fol-
lows:
Z 306. Penalty, Any county, city,
village, civil township. school town
ship or school district officer, who is
required by law to make an official
report to any other count! city, vii
lage. civil township, schod township
or school district officer, board, trib-
uaai or state officer, and who willfully
neg]ects to make such a report. or
fails to perform such official duties,
shall forfeit end pay to the state q
penalty of not less than ten nor more
than two hundred dollars. to be- re-
covered from such delinquent officer,
or from him and and the snreties
upon his official bond, in a civil ac-,
tion to be brought by the states at
torncy in any court of record having
jurisdiction.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-01-08
An Old Country Superstition.

In some Of the southern counties of
England queer superstitions are current
about eating blaokberries after Michael
mas day. The country people say that
OIL Michaelmas eve the old gentleman
''plants his cloven FOOT OH all tho
blackberries as yet ungathered. After
this date, Sept. 80, it is unlucky to
pick or eat the fruit.
The date upon which the devil "puts
his foot down" against blackberry eat
ing varies in different districts In
some it is as late as Oct. 10, by which
time ono would naturally suppose there
wero no blackberries left to stamp out.
But the story Of his prohibition is told
in many places. Great misfortune, sick
ness or death will surely follow disobe-
dience to his orders.
But why his satanic majesty should
concern himself SO particularly about
blackberries, when so many greater mat
ters might be said to claim his atten-
tion, none of the stories states 1t may
be that he considers blackberries too
healthy and wishes to limit the consump-
tiOn.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-01-08
The white Trout Legend.

In county Tipperary. Ireland, there
IL holy we'll in which swims q white
trout with red spot OH its side. Lady
Wilde, mother of the poet, tells the fol-
lowing legend of how this strange fish
originated: When Cromwcll's army was
passing through Ireland, it bivouacked
In the neighborhood of this we'll. A sol.
dier, hearing Of the splendid white
trout in it, swore he would have it for
his next meal. With IL scoop net he
managed to capture the fish, and when
he reached home laid it in the frying
pan. Immediately it leaped ont on the
floor. Several times this was repeated.
Finally the soldier put the lid OH the
pan aud ~ great stone upon it to hold it
down. When he thought the fish cook
cd, he transferred it to a plate The
moment. however, he stuck his fork in
to it there was u great shrek, the trout
leapca to the floor, and there instead of
q fish lay beautiful young girl with
blood streaming from her side where
the fork had entered. The girl reproach-
ed thu soldier with his cruelty and com.
manoed him to put her in tho we'll,
where she was obliged to stay until the
last day under the spell Of cnchantment.
This the soldier did, andthe enchanted
one is still there, in the form of a white
trout, with q blood rcd mark upon Its
side. The legend docs not tell what be.
came of tho soldier
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-01-08

Mrs. Rorer's magazine, House
hold News, has been absorbed by
The Ladies Home Journal in
order to make it possible for
Mrs. Rorer to form an exclusive
editorial connection with the lat
ter magazine. All of Mrs.
Rorer's literary work will here
after appear exclusively in the
Journal, of whose domestic de-
partment she will have entire
charge. Several pages Of the
magazine will be given her each
month, and in these she will be-
gin by giving a new series of
simple cooking lessons, be fol-
lowed by domestic lessons treat
ing separately the care and ar
rangement of each room in the
house.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-01-08

Gov. Bradley, Of Kentucky,
has said that he intends to re-
sign his Office on account of the
breaking down of his health.
just as the lieutenant-governor
of the Mountain Dew state had
ordered his new suit preparato-
ry to being elevated to the gov
ernor's S chair. Mr.. Bradley sends
out another section of his resig-
nation letter and says that his re
signation will not go into effect
until next December. The willy
governor will risk his health un-
til that time. The trouble is Mr.:
Bradley is suffering with the
senatorial itch, which is damag-
ing his good health more than the
arduous duties Of the governor S
Office.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1897-01-08
Useful Member of a Family.

The Portuguese say that 10 man can
be a good husband who does not eat a
good breakfast. which leads the Water
bury American to say this is mean
way of throwing upon the wife all the
responsibility for the husbands good.
ness, for without q good wife there can
be no good breakfast for him to eat.
That may be right in theory, but it is
wrong in practice. We know man
who has cooked breakfast the greater
part of the time for tho past Is years
for his family. And we violate 10 con
1dence when we say it is a good break
fast too. He is man who loves good
living, and he knows how to prepare a
meal with the best Of women. Yet he
is q workingman who puts in from 10
to Is hours a day Of hard work and the
kind OF work that is exhausting.-
sonia (Conn. Sentinel.