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The San Francisco call., 1899-10-08

Upon such mysteries he looks as little as
possible. 'When we are asked what will
finally be done with the heather who nave
neither accepted nor rejected Christ, be-
cause they never heard Of him, we need
not hesitate to say. We do not know
What will finally be Gone with those
about us who are not totally nor IRE
claimably bad and yet who die and give
no sign of evangelical repentance and con-
version? We do not know Why should
we know?'
DR. Brown. it will be seen. is conserva-
tive. A Calvinist would say we do know
because Gods revealed plan of salvation
admits Of but one answer. A thorough
going application of Dr. Browns 5 M thod
IN similar cases would reply that Gods
love and justice admit of but one answer.
The answers would be opposite, ana DR..
Browns attitude is a rebuke to over
eagerness either way. Obviously book
in such temper Is addressed to evan.
gelical believers who have difficulties.
and who wish them solved by orthodoxy.
For religious minds who feel the oppres-
sion of some traditiora2 views of Chris
comfort It's honesty and courage. its
frankness and sympathy, must command
respect from all, whether they need its
meSS3g or not.
The book is wisely addressed not to
logic, but to n prevailing sentiment or
way of thinking. Logic has but little to
say on such questions. 1t is fortunate for
the world that there are clergy who
preach in such temper. BY their agency
the Inevitable advance of science and
speculative philosophy may be assimilated
modifying it, but in no sense destroying
or diminishing the religious feeling ex-
pressed through it.
The Main Points''-by G. R. Brown.
s. Is. Al''A'' y nay ~ san N''''9'O'
A second edition of Captain Mahan's
Life of Nelson" has just been published.
The author has amplifed his treatment
of some disputed points and added some
curious information but he has left the
second edition substantially the same as
the first. 1t would be impertinent' to write
at length of this already celebrated book.
The reader does not know at which to
feel the greatest surprise: the literary
faculty of so accomplished a naval tao
tician, or the technical thoroughness with
which so sympathetic and sFillful writer
treats naval questions. Nelson's career
had the unity and intensity Of a great
drama; but the treatment of the great
mass of records in which Miltons life lay
buried in such a manner as to reveal this
unity and intensity required literary art
of no mean order. The American navy,
distinguished alike for scientific attain
ments in peace and for valor and skill in
war, has received new honor from Cap
tain Mahan's books The Life of Mel
son" is one of several important biograph-
and cheaper editions-Mrs. Browning's
Letters" and McCarthy's Gladstone"
for INSTANCE. The first edition of the
The Life of Nelson"-by Captain 4. T.
Mahan, U. S. N. Second edition, revised.
Little, Brown & Co., Boston. So.
the Jewish community Is the publication Of
the American Jewish Year Book for the
year "5660," containing an ecclesiastical
calendar, q brief review Of the state Of
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Such ...e 81 d tragedy; is death and
memory Better?
Ii may DC said. probably with truth,
that. such books are not healthy. Certain
y life contains sadness enough without
the aid Of art Give Us happy endngs, and
simple characters. And yet-'we judge,
cut knowing, without understanding,
proud Of our codes. sure Of our laws.
Ih3t which helps US to understand makes
us kinder and therefore wiser. May not
such books, profoundly sad. profoundly
tender, help us to understand?
Mr.. Harding exhibits in many places the
translator's tact and a fine sensitireness
to style. Ii IS the greater pity that he
should be insure Of his ru1IDlentS. We
may charge "a harvest of flowers that
laGened the air heavily with their per-
Mr.. Harding must bear the blame for
'ancnt and like l do'-bunders which
are the more offensive where the most
exquisite refinement of expression IS re-
CURED. slight, a Very Slight touch of
French idiom may even serve to accent
the delicate precision of style; but there
IS no excuse Tor translating really" by
IN effect, or for calling a thing already
done the accomplished act" 1t would
DC interesting to guess at the meaning
OF "Goethioiatnatcs, The tenebrous-
words OF deep meaning and endless re
percussion. We are promised more
translation by Mr.. Harding. Let us hope
he Will write as plaane English as ony
av thi1n.' The Sacrifice of Silence" BY
Edward Rod; translated by John w.
Harding. q. W. Dillingham; company,
New York Price 81 90.
Among the books sent to this office for
review IS one OF those paper-coVered nov
els of MIR Neely's, which are specially de-
signed to be sold on railroad trains Its
title is The Puppet Show" and it is a
smart and workmanlil1e job OF it's kind.
The story turns on the good natured plot
ting OF society man, Mr.; Beverly Win
throp. TO get for friend, struggling
artist, James Lee, commission for the
portrait OF reigning beauty ,esMiss Ire
Yer. Feeling sure that the painter is i'm
pervious to the charms of woman. Win
throp lures Miss Trever into a wager that
she will make the painter fall in love with
her, and thus gets for Lee the oppor-
tunity. to paint her portrait. Out of this
situation the story develops.
There are TWO questions which have in
duced the ascetic recluse who writes these
reviews in his cell IN a monastery to make
resented as a singularly attractive young
woman, leader of the highest society.
Do such ladies ask gentlemen if they re-
member that awful Nelsin girl" and
show them pictures cut from comic pa
pers TO know II one of the girls in them
is not the image of the fair Miss Mel
sin?' And is it consistent with the ideal
of gracious and well schooled femininity
for a woman to bet silver bracelet that
she will make man fall in love with
her? Ladies In these paper-covered books
queer to us unsophisticated lower classes.
The story runs along briskly, and is not
unpleasant. OF course II need not be said
that between you and me there is pre-
It's chief virtue "The Puppet Show" By
Leonidas Westervelt. F. Tennyson Nicely
New York
"The Day Of Temptation" by William
lie Queux. is the story Of mysterious
mystery OF very mysterious nature It
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Boothby. D. Appleton & Co.. New York.
Price, 81.
Equality" by Edward Bella1ny. D.
Appleton & Co., New York. Price, 80 cents.
THE Game and the Candle" by Rhoda
Broughton. D. Appleton & Co., New
York. Price, 81.
The Kingdom of Hate" by T. Gallon.
D. Appleton & Co., New York Price. 81.
Snow on the Headlight" by Cy War
man D. Appleton Co., New York.
Price, 81 %.
The Strange Story of Hester wynne."
by G. COlmore. D. Appleton & Co, New
York Price 81.
lin Matthews D. Appleton & Co, New
York. Price, rs cents
Uncle Sans Soldiers" by Oscar Phelps
Austin: D. Appleton & Co., New York.
Price, rs cents.
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THE HALLWAY OF 5ARA1 RENNHAFe0TJ FoFlE

How beautiful, yet how like the
Commonplace" woman that she had
scorned to become! The wife of the
glovemaker cherishing a baby shoe it
is easy to imagine, but who would have
suspected this simple sentiment in
Sarah Bernhardt! My heart warmed
toward her after this confession and
felt her very approachable. After all
this great genius, this Phaedre, this
Camille, this Hamlet. whose applause
could be heard around the world, was
yet a woman with woman's heartI
What are your impressions of
Paris? ?" she asked me, and then the
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'Ts she?" I said, not meaning to con-
vey a doubt in the Interrogation. but
which the old lady half interpreted in
that way yes, indeed, she is" she
said, emphatically. There are many
people who criticise her, but they are
all fools-they presume to judge a great
genius according to the little laws that
are made for ordinary people. The
shackles of conventionality would be
death to Sarah Bernhardt!"
Yes, I understand 1t is hard to put
an eagle into the cage of a canary"
GENEVIEVE GREEN.
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listment cf troops to the end Of the cam
history of The war with Spain. It is very
skillfully illustrated and well indexed.
Mr.. Matthews gives brief history OF the
main phases of the development of naval
warfare in that time. But the facts most
impressive to The reader are the I'M
provements In weapons and the conse-
Quent changes in methods.
Mr. Austin's work on the army is the
skllful performance Of a difficult task.
He has 10 brirS together a vast mass of
information into compact form. Ills plan
Of putting COY through the whole eX
peIienc" was good one; but it is a pity
the boy is SO docile. so disciplined, so much
IKE Relic. Perhaps he would not other
wise have served the purpose. Mr..
Matthews history of the navy contains
3 record Of heroic deeds which, however
familiar they may be, cannot be thought
OF by az American without a stirring of
the heart
Our Navy in Time of War'-By
Franklin Matthews. d. Appleton & Co.,
Uncle SANS soldiers"-By Oscar
Phelps Austin D. Appleton &c Co., New
York. 70 cents.
The Rev. C. r. Brown, pastor of the
First congregational Church, Oakland,
has recently published q book entitled
THE Main Points /. e., OF the Christian
religion. The book. which is q very short
one, is q revision OF ten addresses on such
themes as: The Divinity Of Jesus
Christ, The Atonement," The Philoso
ply OF Prayer "a ne Hope of immortal
ity, The Last Judgment" DR.. Browns
purpose is to give to some of the cardinal
beliefs OF Christianity a statement con-
sonant with modern habits of thought.
lie olscialms any pretense to originality
OF substance and puts his book forward
simply as brief popular exposition, ad-
dressed to busy people, of the ideas con-
tanned in some of the profounder theo>
logical works of the time.
In ha tctn of
two tendencies are constantly at work.
one saying: This is just it must be Gods
will" the other This is Gods will; it
must be just" One is the voice of con-
hdence IN the reasonableness of Gods
world, the other the expression of the
sense of its mystery. One looks toward
science, the other toward revelation.
1t is in this second spirit that the ira
antism was built up. Accepting certain
dogmas as divinely taught this theology
rigfdly deduced their logical conclusions.
The result was philosophy of life the
which have given It power which fas
cinates and controls the mind Cold,
calm, logical attacked as mechanical,
cruel and even devilish, this theology
Where the Calvinist elaborates a system
DR.. Brown refuses to take a step beyond
the plain. words, Of Scripture. Where
doctrine Is taught he interprets it in its
seem to depart from orthodoxy as it is
conceived Of in evangelical churches. He
believes in the divinity of Christ, in an
atonement by him, in the propriety OF
praying for some temporal goods, in ir-
remediable moral degradation, and hence
in an everlasting state of lostness for
some sinners: But his doctrine, is at low
mankind to Justify Gods ways. He must
sometimes take refuge in referring mys-
tsries TO Gods Will, yet he does 30 seldom.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-08
Quaint Marriooe Verses.

In a select magazine very popular IN
New York City when the present century
was young and unsophisticated, in thn
column devoted to the marriage notices
ana headed Hymeneal' appear the fol-
lowing:
Mr.. Henry M. Locke to Miss Catherine
storms
Who bares his bosom u resistless Storms:
And like the tabled heather god who chain'd
And in a cave the rowing winds restrain'd
So Henry bids the very name to cease
Secured by Locke, the Storms now sn1ile In
peace. ~
Mr.. Thomas Lemoine to Mrs Susan Stone.
The widow saw it was not good
For her to dwell alone
And 80 the heart she gave to Wood
Was hardened to a Stone.
Mr.. Harry Miller to Miss Magdalene Wolf,
Wolves sometimes take our sheen bv n,gb+
And Milers take our grain
And when these two their trades unite.
Where Is our safety then?
gleam OF hope springs Ger my brow
IN this dark, dismal gulf;
For the Wolf has caught the Miller now
The Miller stole the Wolf
Mr.. Alyah Finch to Miss Harriet Weed.
A Gold-Ffach late in search NJ seada
Explored a rural bower
And found amidst luxuriant Weeds
A modest little flower.
Mr.. David H. Cook to Miss Louise ,,.-,-
Mariner unfolds the chart
By storms of love o'ertoolC
Fearful of shoals-with beating beor.
Calls on the faithful Cook
commands thus given, ne scorns delay.
And crowds each swelling sail
And onward steers to Hynen's bsv
To shelter from the gale
But much retarded by the wind
He calls the chaDIains aid:
And quickly leaves the storm hebi,d
The destined port is made
Let those who sail lifes brook
Neer shrink nor be dismayed:
But like the Mariner and Cook
Call in the chaulain's aid
Such f1attering tributes as tho foro,
were doubtless received by the hrideSs sung
grooms OF that time, if not with actuni s,mI
pleasure, pleas, t at least with fortitude; but but
to-day who found their marTiaon TouPIe p6., OF
accompanied f,ce1p by the mildest of the o'e9e efs
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-08
j|Rl VISITS SARAH BERN4ARDT AT HER F1ONIE.
Makes Pets of Tigers and
Sleek Yellow Wild Cats.

conversation turned into other channels
although 1 was much more Interested
in her allusions to herself.
Il was dying to ask her about tho the
coffin" I said to Nine. Gerard, as we
were on our way home, but 1 was
afraid that it would be indelicate. How
ever, it exists, you have seen 1t your
self, have your"
Yes. many time. 1t isn't much IKE
a coffin. 1t seems more like beaut1ful
little bed. The cushions are all Of white
silk and are padded with love letters
and faded bouquets. Sarah proposes TO
be laid to rest among the souvenirs OF
those she loves The lid of the coffin
hears her monogram and a tragic mask
in silver with the inscription 'quandi
meme. Sarah thinks a great deal
about death and yet she is not at all
morbid. She knows that it must come
and prepares for it after her own pc
culiar fashion. You know she Is really
very good"
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existence of an ordinary married
woman was even then repugnant to
me. I thought it was my vocation to
enter a convent, but now 1 know that
1t was only my artistic temperament
asserting itself. The ecstatic life of
nun would have accorded much better
with my peculiar disposition than
commonplace life in the, world. My
mother was Jewess, but L was
brought up Catholic and at one time
was excessively devout. I had little
statue of the Virgin Mary that | car
ried with me everywhere. l considered
it a sort of porte borheur. At last. to
my great grief, it was broken. and
thought that all my good fortune had
left me. Now I have another porte
bonheur that happily is not breakable.
1t is little shoe, the first one worn by
my son Maurice. l have carried it
with me all over the world, and every
night I put it on the table beside me.
where it greets me the first thing in
the morning."
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-08

the Jews in Europe and the United States,
directories of national and local organiza-
tions. list of Jewish periodicals pub
liShed in this country, Jewish statistics
and list of the leading events interest
ing to lsraeliteS in the year '5G59, Of
course, such book is mainly valuable to
Hebrews, but it contains some matter of
interest to Gentiles. Chief in this is the
attention paid to the Dreyfus case. In
the list of important events every step in
this case is noted: June S-Colonel G.
Picquart released from prison. June 10
Captain Alfred Dreyfus leaves Devils ISL
and for France" In Joseph Jacobs able
Introductory article on the Jews in
Europe the significance of the persecution
of Dreyfus is justly insisted on. OF Drey-
fus himself he says: This typical traitor
is turning out one of the most remark
able characters history has revealed. He
has borne his martyrdom with the pa
tience of a saint and the heroism of SOL
dier. The seVerest tortureS of body and
spirit have not soured him. He appears
almost the only Dreyfusard who does not
clamor for revenge. The anti-Sernites
have chosen their type; the Jews might
very we'll accept it" Most Americans
have had their attention fixed upon what
the DreyfuS case meant for France. 1t
is well to be reminded that the cause of
human freedom has found Its embodiment
in the person of Jew This is not by
any means the first time Israel has CON
tributed its share to a victory won by de-
feat.
American Jewish Year Book. edited by
Cyrus Adler The Jewish Publication So
ciety of America, Philadelphia Is cents.
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most every language and in the
remctest quarters Of the earth, who is
fascinating in her ecCenTicities and
UNIQUE in her destinations, who sleeps
with her coffin at the foot of her bed
and whose pets are tigers and sleek yell
low wild cats. 1 have visited intime
in her marveIousiy luxurious home.
Luxurious, I have said. yet the word IS
yvc-efully weak for the home Of Sarah
Bernhard 1t may fittingly be used to
describe the palace of king or the col
lected comforts of a Croesus, but alone
1t gives no idea Of the indefnable at
mosphere" that pervades these superb
apartments.
Mere luxury may be bought with
money, but here the charm is the per
sonality of the occupant that is stamp
ed on every tapestry, on every carved
ivory, on every rug and on every pic
ture As I think of it now 1t all seems
TO me like an indescribabIe chaos of
art Of light and of color an orgy,
might say, of the Orient and the Occi-
dent, Of antiquity and modern times.
Japanese Buddhas and Chinese mon
sterS, enameIs, worries miniatures,
swords and lanCes and rare terra cOttas
are all pen nell in my mind with Greek
masQues and Mexican headSear, with
Venetian glass and curious old lamps.
But one corner stands out in minute
detail-it is the favoTite corner of Nine.
Bernhard, and the most characteristic.
Here is located her famous divan. an
immense affair made Of the skins Gf
many beasts. of white bears, Of tigers,
Of Jaguars, CT buffaloes and of croco-
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Why She Was Hannv

Yes, her hat was certainly lovely
tnough II mad cost but eighteen dollars
and thirty cents-quite as lovely as that
Smith Woman's. which had cost neariV Iva q
NJ the Smiths are able to own a mor~
falteTed her husband We Cd o.
We'll, they can't come in any later than
we can, she exclaimed. radiantly.-De-
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-08
Books Re eceiVed.

1.-THE Life of Nelson" by Captain A. T.
Mahan, L. S. n. Second edition. revised.
Little, Brown & Co., Boston. Price, $3
American Jewish Year Book edited
by Cyrus Adler The Jewish Publication
Society of America, Philadelphia Price,
rs cents.
1.-The Puppet Show" by Leonidas Wes-
tervelt. F. Tennyson Neely, New York
THE Naked Truth" by Albert Ross G.
w. Dillingham; & Co., New York. Price 81.
The Day Of Temptation" by William
lie Queux. G. w. Dillingham; & Co.. New
York.
Hats OFF," by Arthur Henry veysey.
G. w Dillingham; & Co., New York.
Price, 81 25.
THE Sacrifice of Silence" by Edouard
Rod, translated by John w. Harding. G.
w. Dillingham; & Co., New York. Price.
81 80.
1.-The Slave Of the Lamp" by Henry
Seton Merriman, new issue. G. W. Dill
lingham & Co., New York. Price 81 90
THE Main Points by Charles Rey
nolds Brown. The Whitaker & Ray Com
pany, San Francisco. Price, 81 25.
THE Algebraic Solution of Equations
of Any Degree" by l.. A. Buchanan, M.
E., and j. Lewis Andre. The Whitaker &
Ray Company, San Francisco, Price, 80
cents.
Alaska and the Klondike." by Angelo
Heilprin. D. Appleton & Co.. New York.
Price, 81 rs.
"a Cosmopolitan Comedy" by Anna
Robson Brown. D. Appleton & Co., New
York. Price, 81
"Dr. Nikola'a Experiment" BY Guy
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-08

n ARAH BERNHARDT. the triple
" genius, actress, painter and
2 sculptor, the woman who is talk
- ed about and written about in al
Arizona republican., 1899-06-08

young man. I'm going to stay too.'
 The mans companions advised him to "do up'' Willard, and the man struck Willard, who struck back so hard that he knocked the fellow down. Then all three of the men piled on Willard and knocked him down. Miss Willard began to shout for help then and the three rowdies ran away in different directions.
 Willard chased his original assail- ant, and catching up with him, punch ed him every few steps until he fi- naily knocked him down. Policeman TTeanor, who had heard Miss Will lard's cries, ran up and took the man to the West Sixty-eighth street police station. He described himself as Michael Newstadt, p years old, a surface car conductor of 321 Eas5 Seventy-second street. He was locked up. His two companions escaped.
Arizona republican., 1899-06-08

today. Mrs. Stol5ment will spend sev- era1 days in Tempe and then return to | her old home in Illinois. Walter H. Wilbur will spend the day i in Phoenix.
 Prof. J. D. Loper will leave next week for his old home in the east.
 Henry Rogers came up from Lehi today.
 R. E. Fisher will leave for Mineral Creek on Friday. MT. Fisher is en- ployed at the Rey mine and says the camp is very lively. Talma Pomeroy returned from Globe today, where he has been in the interest of the. New York Life insur- ance company.
 MT Golf of the firm of Golf & Galpin spent the day in surveying the school grounds yesterday.
 Mir. George Dobson $ quite ill
 Sam Johnson says he has made rich strike near the Four Peaks. The ore carries free gold
 LeBaron Bros will make sh pment of Indian baskets to Texas on Wed nesday They also have six large Gila monsters they will send to the same parties
 Mrs A. B. Pritchard's apricot or chard will yield about 60, 900 pounds of green fruit This fruit is being dried and it is estimated that it will yield about five tons.
 The work on the new school house is being pushed as rapidly as possible, tn order to have it in readiness for the opening of school on the first Monday in September. The board of trustees, Messrs. Mcdonald Newell and Pome- roy are sparing no effort or expense to make it thoroughly substantial and complete II it's equipment. The parti- Iions are to be a double wall of brick. This was done to add to it's stability. Any of the patrons wishing to look over plans or specifications may do so by calling on the clerk. MT. Mcdonald.
 Arrivals at the Kimball house are: George Lufkin, Miss A. Conley, Ana Da:by. Tucson; W. H. K9bbey, HeI- vetia mine.
 Arrivals at the Alhambra: T. J. Meehan. Thomas Williams, Phoenix; Frank Wilson, Mesa; George Hamu- ton, A Taylor. James Tate. Jerome.
Arizona republican., 1899-06-08

[ ly active general demand for cattle, and prices were steady until late, when some concessions Of 10 cents were made Fancy cattle, $5.50@5.60; good to choice. 5.S05@5.45; commoner, $4. .35@5; feeding cattle, S3.75@5.15; bulls, cows and heifers, $2@5: western steers, S4.60@5. .35: calves, $4.50@710.
 Sheep were again dull and prices showed no improvement Inferior to prime sheep, $2.5O@485; light feeders. S3.75; clipped lambs. $3.75@5.50: wooIed Colorado lambs. $5.60@5.85; spring lambs, s4.50@6.50.
 Receipts Cattle, 13,000; sheep, g GOO