The San Francisco call., 1904-06-11
THE SUNDAY CALL.


by Ezra S. Brudno, which, notwithstanding the
title is nowise sensational meodramatc in either
plot or treatment. On the contrary it is simple d
and sincere 9s all the narratives of men who
have suffered long severely and learned the-ways
of the world through hard bitter experience, and who
therefore write of the things that they know, and not
merely the things they imagine
Without doubt it is for this that "The Fug
tive, which fresh from the author to the pub
fishers only three months ago, and which is said to be
frank expose of the writets own life is already at
tracing wide and critical attention. not only in America
but in Europe as we'll Indeed, notwithstanding it has
little advertised, the leading booksellers of San
Francisco in particular already declare it will be one
of the popular novels of the year.
In new way depicts the life of the Jews, both in
Russia and America describing, not much as may
be supposed from the title of the book their fanatca
persecution under the rule of the Gar the merely
humorous feature of their life in the Ghetto of New
York. their hopes and fears their regon their
family customs their ambitions the secret OF their law
of nermarrage and the that have led the race
be the fugitive of the world wherever they may turn
In tis sense it is a remarkable book. truly powerful
series of word pictures that nger in the memory of
the reader long book itself has been put aside
Even TO those who know the Cars domains and the
social and political conditions than passing well
The Fugitive will be revelation, while it departs Mar
from the popular traditions of the Ghetto in the final
scenes that laid in this seethng section of New
York.
1t will be published complete in FIVE instaments, and
in order make its appearance all the more notable
Mr. Bert Levy who is just arrived from Australia has
been specially commissioned remain San Francisco
and illustrate from beginning end in his best style
exclusively for The Sunday Call.
Mr. Levy who is himself Jew, is one of the best
known artists in the Antipodes. Thus under The Sum
day Calls liberal and progressive literary policy of Civ
ing its readers the latest hghclass literature by
the most notable authors in the world, there has been
secured not only the novel of the hour by writer of
unquesoned ability but the work of an able artist
from another far distant quarter of the globe. both
brought together for the first time edition to
picture the sorrows sufcrngs the ideals and the
history of their own race
But apart from the first instalment of The Fugitive
The Sunday Call Tomorrow will contain many other
interesting and important features. notably the first
photograph yet presented of the men of the nations
whom the Mkado seeks to keep off the firing line; the
photographs of the first Esquimaux school in the
shadow of the North Pole the ARTS and Crafts Move
ment America written by Gustav Stickley, editor
of The Craftsman; tine Right and Wrong Time to
Punish Children by William ]. Shearer; Our Desc
Grated Flag" timely treatise by Nellie Blessing
Eyser, illustrated with striking picture of the
Francis Scott Key monument The Child Model of the
Studios" with full page of photographs the
TO questions of what Women Want to Know, by
Madge Moore "Wagneristic Stage Manners humor-
ously dsseSted by Jerome K Jerome; Sankey's Double
Header exciting half humorous, but at times wholly
pathetic railroad story, by Frank H. Spearman; The
Second Violin by Otto B. Senga; the multiple
color music page; the full page picture from life OF
Driving in the Park and many other articles which
space will not permit enumeratng