The San Francisco call., 1905-05-07
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ledNS I01S country 10 WHICH Hc Ids Oc-
come much attached. One chapter from
his forthcoming book was included in
the April number of Fox, Dufheld &
Co.'S International Quarterly under the
piquant title Of The Cup of Human
ity."
The Game: A Transcript from Life
is the title of the novel by Jack Lon
don which the Macmillan Company
will publish in May. 1t is said to re-
semble The Call of the Wild" in the
unity and rapidity of it's action. in its
singieness of purpose. and in the
impression of power and of the in
evitable which it conveys.
Cleveland Democrats. under the sup
posed leadership, of Tom L. Johnson.
have started a boom in favor of Brand
Whitlock of Toledo for Governor of
Ohio. Not only is Whitlock a friend OF
Johnson, but he was an even better
friend of Golden Rule" Jones. whose
famous Letters of Love and Labor he
has edited for early publication. More
over Mrs. Whitlock's uncle was Senator
John NJ. Palmer, the Gold Democrat
candidate for Vice President. So it is
supposed that Whitlock would unite
the radical and conservative wings OF
the party. If he should be elected we
should see the remarkable spectacle of
an American Governor who writes
! novels in a literary style as chaste as
HowelIs,.
An unusual degree of interest IN
American politics is shown in Paris by
the translation into French and the
specialization in La Vie Illustre of AL
| fred Henry Lewis notable story OF
New York politics, The Boss" which
has been satisfactorily arranged by A.
s. Barnes & Co. 1t is probable that
the French translation of The Boss
will be brought out in book form also
in Paris.
| Nothing is so characteristic Of Amer
lea as the suburbanite that Mary
Stewart Cutting portrays with humor-
Gus and pathetic touch in her Little
/ Stories Of Courtship-" Scarcely any
large town in this country is without
its group Of outlying townIets. inhabit-
ed by people living on moderate in
comes, and regulating their existence
by railway schedules. Mrs. Cutting
was the first y see the literary op-
portunities in this typical phase of ex-
| istence; and her Little Stories of Mar
ried Life were the first in field which
has. proven rich. To Little Stories of
M4fried Life" came the popularity that
was due them as clever pioneers.
Little Stories of Courtship. improv-
ing the same field. are marked for even
easier success
A Dinner with BaIzac in a Lunatic
Asylum forms an unusual subject for
an article recorded in a French physi-
clans diary, and translated by Max
Tirand in the May Critic. The out
lines of the story are true and the
names correct. DR.. Blanche, a cele-
brated alienist, once attempted to Sc
lect the insane man who he was told
had sat by two normal guests at an
asylum table with him. Noticing that
a vehement stout gentleman became
much disturbed whenever the CONVEX
sation turned toward Napoleon, the
doctor made his choice in that direc-
ton. only to find that he had named
Honore de Balzac!
Fifteen years ago the students Of
Johns Hopkins Medical School listened
| to the lecture of a new professor. Cos
sip had it that he was a Canadian, had
studied and taught at McGill, had
drifted southwark to the University OF
Pennsylvania, thence to Baltimore.
They knew also that he had an nj. ID.
from Edinburgh, and was a graduate
at Berlin and Vienna Eying him as
he stepped upon the rostrum and be-
gan his address, they saw a man of
slight figure whose jet-black. hair and
eyes intensified the paleness of his fea-
| lures, while the long, dropping mus
tache brought to mind the old engrav-
ings of the Druids. Year after year
DIR. William Osler went through the
daily routine of the educator and his
private practice. Then Oxford called
him TO it's chair of medicine and he
said farewell-Day Allen Wiley in the
May Critic.
Does 1t Pay to be Literary wo-
man?'' by Jeanette L. Glider, is the
title of the leading article in Leslies
Monthly Magazine for May. Miss Gil
der not only speaks for herself, but
introduces letters from other literary
women. lne cOnSSuSuS SccIuS 10 Oc
that it pays not necessarily in dollars
and cents, but In the satisfaction one
gets from the work
The Bank of England has been called
the "impregnable old lady Of Thread
needle Street" But the. title hardly
seems fair when we consider that it
wasn't so many years ago that the
Bidwen brothers swindled the bank out
| of $4,000, 900, and were only run to earth
when the Pinkertons took the case in
hand. A full account of this remark
able swindle is found in Leslie's Month
r ly Magazine for May.
woman is eating oysters in a Ham
burg restaurant. She bites an oyster
and finds a pearl Her escort takes 1t
to a jeweler. who offers $500 for it.
Offer declined. Jeweler follows escort
. to restaurant; raises bid to $3.50. restau-
rant-keeper overhears, claims the
pearI Sneak SOlOmOuf Whose should