The San Francisco call., 1898-06-12

s+a+as should be an object lesson of suo- l cessful government by autocratlc and l oligarchical methods? Is 1t not remark 1 ahie that 100000 citizens should rest con- 1 tent under conditions which elsewhere would be condemned as unamerican and | unrepublican? Here, indeed, we
 find find an ideal government. Should we,
 however carry its principles to their log 1 ical conclusion and adapt them to the en- thinking men, for the people, of the | United States are fostering, at the very i heart of the republic, ideas, which, exen- plihed in a nation instead or commu-
 nity. would lead inevitably to the estab- nshment of a monarch upon the throne'
 According to the Atlantic, Newspapers conducted by lost souls that make mer-
 ohandise of all things that inflame men's
 worst passions, Congress with no at | tractive political programme for the next
 election, and a spirit of unrest among 1 wholly recovered from the riot in false
 hopes that inspired the motley following
 of Mr Bryan in lS96-these and more | rising excitement.
 But all these together could not have driven us to war if we had not been will l ing to be driven. In addition to the war 1 topics there is an animated, altogether
 delightful sketch of Montana life in this
 number.
 | larly interesting article on Manila and the Philippines by Arthur Tappan Marvin It Is admirably illustrated and gives 8
 
 ties and possibilities of the islands. The l Overland announces that with the July | number 1t will celebrate its thirtieth
 birthday. It reprints Bret Harte's an-
 nouncement, published in 1868, with It's
 glorifcation of San Francisco, Oakland
 anu Virginia Cityl
 Land of Sunshine about the Ideals of | Stanford" Like everything Jordan
 writes, it Is marked by individuality and
 moral earnestness, and with that special | fn Of ha OIo. 1 every subject his pen touches
 The Trans Mississippi and Information
 Godey's leading article for June | Frank Leslies tells of torpedoes and
 Volume XXI of Outing, from October l to March 1898 has been issued.
 The Review of Reviews makes & strik | ing aSsemblage of cartoons, frustrating | the war question. The reproductions of | Spanish, Cuban and Mexican cartoons ara | especially interesting. Winston Churchill. | the author of 'The Celebrity" tells ina | story of our new hero's. Dewey's. bow | hood in Vermont and his schooling at
 Annapolis, of which Churchill himself Ia l a graduate.
 Senator John T. Morgan, the apostle of
 annexation, contributes the leading arti- l cle to the North American Review this
 month. Any one who knows Senator Morgan's strong prepossession toward ex- 1 tension of territory can imagine the an- | swer he gives to his own query, What l Shall We Do With the Conquered Isl- | ands?"
 The complete novel in this months is-
 sue of the Lippincott's Is Mere Folly 1 by Maria Louise Pool, whose recent death
 has been respectfully chronicled.
 Richard Le Gallienne's poetic estimate | of Gladstone is published in Golfers | Weekly. He was
 man that meant a nation. whose strong word
 swayed the weak will of peoples and was heard
 Like a gods voice decreeing. whose strong hand
 Caught the stern reins of empire in command, I.And plotted for the good of humankind l As men scheme its evil | The Cosmopolitan prints a number of | clever short stories which tell of love and
 war. Charles Tripler's experiments with l liquid air and the curiously interesting
 pictures of the process General Greelys | doleful story of military expeditions to
 tropical countries anl the alleged autobio- l graphy of Napoleon make this months number an unusually good one. Kenyon Cox has designed special cov- | CT for the special war number of Mo l Clure's this month. Both General Miles l and General Lee are contributors and 1 Henry Newbolt's War Hymn Is feature.