The San Francisco call., 1898-03-20

and with sincere hearts the light comes al last, and with it peace and work and love. The contrast between these earnest souls and those of the mad anarchists the proflgate rich, the lying journalists the self-seeking statesmen, the devouring courtesans, the almost equally vicious women of the circles where money rules and licentiousness affords the chief amusement of tedious lives, is vividly and impressively brought out in a multitude Of scenes of dramatic intensity. Through all there runs the one thought the one lesson. N ide apart as are the different characters of the story, and diverse as are their fortunes and their ambitions, the unity of the drama is never broken. The fate of Salvat, the anarchist, is linked with the political for tunes of the statesmen, and on them in turn depends the outcome of Sylvaine' s desire to be admitted to the Comedie Francaise. The life of each affects the lives of all the others, and every incident has a bearing on the fortunes of all. Never has the constructive skill of Zola been better displayed than in the man agement of this complex drama. and if the movement of the play were not so hindered by the mass of didactic dis course the story would rank a s one of the most intense and dramatic he has ever written.
 In the closing chapter Zola sums up the substance of his philosophy and breaches the moral of his tale. Out of the seeth- ing vat good is to come. What matters all the wrongs and sins and miseries of the time, since humanity always ad- vances. Liberty sprang forth from the vat to wing her flight throughout the world. And why in her turn should not justice spring from it?" It is by science the revolution is to be achieved. Now that science has destroyed that false idea of heaven, and shown what dupery lies in reliance on the morrow of death, the slave, the workman, weary of dying for happiness sake, demands that happiness and justice shall find place on earth. Therein lies the new hope. Justice after eighteen hundred years of impotent char ity."
 This, then, is the philosophy of Zola, the lesson he has drawn from his life and labor and love in Paris, and which he has chosen to teach to the world in the form of study of the city from which he mas drawn so much inspiration and so much hope. The book closes with triumphal burst of word music. The city glows 1n the light of the declining sun. The beau tiful Marie calls the attention of her hus- band to the glory of the scene: Look look" she exclaimed, Paris is all golden covered with a harvest of gold.'' Zola adds: And Paris fared-Paris; which the divine sun had sown with hght, ano where in glory waved the great future harvest of truth and justice"
 So runs the philosophy. the dream, the the romance of ideas wilder than any romance of action. And now for reality: At the very time this exuberant prophecy of the coming of better faith than Christian ity, and a better practice than charity was passing through the press Paris wa: in an uproar. A man who asked for jus tice was being haled through the street: while an angry mob followed bowling a his heels The prisoner was the author of this prophecy of the new religion O. Paris and the cry of the Parisians was ''Conspuez Zola!'
 JOHN McNAUGHT.
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 HOW I PAINT A HEAD. By Mazda M
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