The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-05-22
Los ANGELES HERAIDs SUNDAY MORNING, MAY r. 1898

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the child as q witness in the courts, etc.
The concluding chapters of the work are
OF surprising Importance, since the whole
social problem is opened in them. These
chapters are entitled: 1.-The Childs De-
velopment as a Factor, in Producing the
Genius of the Detective, institutional
Life" and 1.-The Profession of Maternity"
This last chapter is exceedingly interest
ing. 1t treats of the whole question of
motherhood, not even avoiding the DELI
cate problems of the employment question
and of woman's new efforts for political
equality. The author says: Enthusiastically,
the barriers which separated the sexes
have been assiduously assailed until there
is now no real line at which one may say
that a mans work ends and woman's
begins.i' The subject Is treated very fair
ly, but plainly. The strain and stress Of
life in this age will account for much of
the change in occupation now going on.
Too little regard is paid to what can best be
done by the woman. 1.-THE great idea seems
to be that she must do something, must
earn money, must go out into the world
and grapple with its harsh conditions"
There is much unnatural competition.
Marriage ought to become easier, its dis
abilities lighter, and it's reasons stronger.
Woman asks for and should find high
grade of usefulness and the chance of a
career that by right belongs to her. "Such
an ambition, capable of all nobility, striv-
ing and self-sacrificing, can never be graft
flied under the conditions Of our present
education" There should be an uplifting
of the standards of physical, mental and
spiritual existence. and then there would
be no limit to the useful work that woman
could do in the world. Says our author:
mot the least among the advancing steps
Of the age will be the recognition Of the
duties, emoluments and the comparative
value of maternity, and when the prepara-
lions for 1t assumes the dignity of the pro-
fessional training and the fulfllment Of its
obligations and possibilities, the best iueal
of fine career. the world must see that 1t
has taken great stride along the path Of
its natural evolution"
This volume can hardly be too highly
commended. 1t breaches the true and
wholesome gospel of life in all its rela-
lions to the care and development Of chill
dren. and there is no mission higher than
this.
THE CONTINENTAL DRAGON.
BY r. N. Stephens, author Of IAN
Enemy to the Sting" sc. Price, $l.3,5.
l.. C. Page & Co., Boston.
They who have read IAN Enemy to the
Sting" not long ago reviewed here, and
which has had its dramatic version and
been produced by Mr.. Sothern throughout
the country, will readily and cordially en-
dorse Mr.. Stephens a. Q writer capable Of
writing brilliant romantic novel, and will
turn to this new story with avidity.
1t Is a love story. set Off with many an
adventure that stirs the blood to read
about, the scenes are laid in and about
New York in the blood-scourged year of
177S-old New York, which was then
packed snugly into the southern angle
of the island of Manhattan like a gift in
the toe of Christmas stocking"
1t is full of spirit and dash and Is mere
ly enough correct as to facts to entitle 1t
to be classed as historical novel. 1t
is trimming with action and incident. Not
even "St. Iris" has moro happenings in the
same space of time than are recounted in
the last chapter entitled 1.-The Broken
Sword"
HERO-CHUMS, by VIII Allen Dromgoole.
author of 1.-THE Heart Of Old Hickory"
1.-THE Valley Path" etc. Illustrated.
Estes & Lauriat Boston.
Only little while ago 1.-THE Valley
Path" was reviewed in these columns, and
a just tribute paid to this new writer from
the south. Hero Chums" is a very touch
ing story that has to do with Slipup,
noisy little iron town on the west bank of
the Tennessee. 1t has new name now.
but it was Slipup In the old days. The
chums were poor old man, an ex-convict
and the crippled son of the superintend-
ent of the iron works, an odd couple and
strange friendship, everybody said-soot
black and lily white, the old wives called
them. The volume is classed as juvenile,
but 1t is fine wholesome reading for all
ages and all places.
What Froude Thought Of Cuba
From a book of travels by Froude, writ
ten just after the ten years struggle
against Spain, he has these things to say OF
Cuba:
1.-THE magnitude of Havana an dthe full
ness of life which was going on there en-
tirely surprised me. had thought of Cuba
as a decrepit state, bankrupt or finance ex-
hausted by civil wars. and on the edge of
social dissolution, and I found Havana at
least a grand, imposing city-a city which
might compare for beauty with any in the
world. The sanitary condition is as bad as
negligence can make it-so bad that Span.
ish gentleman told me that if 1t were not
for the natural purity of the air they would
have been all dead like flies long ago. The
tideless harbor is foul with the accumula-
tons Of 800 years. The administration is
more good-for-nothing than In Spain itself.
If, In spite of this, Havana still sits like a
queen upon the waters, there are some
qualities to be found among her people
which belonged to the countrymen and sub.
jects of Ferdinand the Catholic.
The rebellion had been an effort of the
Cuban Spaniards. precisely analogous to
the revolt of our own North American COL
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