The San Francisco call., 1898-05-29

participle, blippen or blap. The principal parts of ''plop' are the same e. his Iicentious use of words, and then, strangely enough. 1t is for a compard- lively small offense.
 .The Founding steamed toward Cuba with it's crew in a sling, if one may be al lowed to speak in that way.
 Surely lone may be allowed" a trihe like this after he has blipped and plopped.
 Nevertheless, and in spite of 1t all. whether the picture it paints be true or not "The Open Boat" Is well worth reau- ing By degrees that
 Sure said the oiler.
 becomes fixed upon ones mental retlna till he can feel the utter eXhausuon. Sae Gie this epic of effort. The book leaves you you with a sort of impressionist sKetch, ora"Il ,I II
 with bold, quick strokes, or the peru Pddor o1 the means, you'll acknowledge the IoIce of the end and agree that when the Wino il brought the sound of the great sea vqice to the men on shore, they feIt that they could then be interpreters
 " VERY story written about the Jews is bound to remind one or Zang- H will According to the degree in which this resemblance IS marked
 0 may be measured the ability Of the
 author Not that it is necessary to initiate the artist whose strength lies in his treatment of Jewish history ana fiction to attain success; but that the held has been so covered by the author or
 "Dreamers of the Ghetto as to almost preclude the possibility of finding new material
 "Meir Ezofovitch'' Is not new story. It Is merely another phase of the Mes siah movement Zangwfu mas snoWn us III III so many phases. An earthly Messlah IS Meir EZofovitch who dreams Of leading his people only to earthly peace ana happI- ness and freedom of thought and of ac-
 ton. It's an old story, but. every eye rId oIiEs . interest in the old. This Polsh author
 whose book Is translated by lza 4opng, has written very interesting tn story 0G some ne | of them glow with life. The Rapol IodIos ! might pose for intolerance and plgotry and asceticism and mn SoppenShIv human materials is he made. The great family of the EZofovtehes Is a fine pie
 ture of the patriarchal oId isIaeiiT9 ra' Sai a
 a pathetically artistic touch in the old
 grandmother-despite the species or ml-
 raee in the last h speech TsTeas Gf 'ht the hid ing place of the writings of Meir's great ancestor-in the. beautiful
 reverence paid to her and in her silence broken only to murmur lovingly to her favorite great-grandchild, the intellectual heir of her husband and also or her ances- tor, the original great iconocleSt. Excel lent dramatic incidents there are in th1s book. and capital situations, which would fit it for the stage. The love story or Me1r and Golda is truly tragic idyl.
 It depends upon how you read Wa lewska" If it is to be judged as grown up literature, you're apt to smile at it's pathos and sigh at the funny picture Ma poleon presents as the villain still pursu-
 ing the Polish heroine. But But if you d know tno'S that the author is a girl or eighteen,
 whose youthful chivalry has been stirred
 by the accounts of the beautiful Polish
 woman whom Napoleon loved ana who 70 desires to re-establisn the fair fame of the Countess Walewska, it may make you look upon the book as the author herself is likely to, in time to come-should she develop the capacity she shows and over- come her delight in descriptions of per sonaI beauty, among other things.as a crude but not unpromising beginning. Lima Bartlett Ditson Is a relative of that Washington Bartlett who was once Mayor of San Francisco. The book is dedicated to Henry Clay Barnabee of the BostonianS.
 There's something sane and simple and
 quietly oldfashioned about Tourgee's s
 short stories, of which the first and long
 est gives title to his latest book; good,