The San Francisco call., 1906-07-15

the -Burnham plans for a new city"
Speaking of the spirit with which
the people met their misfortunes Mr..
Strother says
"A liveryman who drove me about
the city tried to explain this jubilant
acceptance of misfortune. San Fran
cisco was the gayest city IN the world
he said. and il is hard for these people
to take trouble seriously But the
explanation lay deeper San Francisco
had always been a generously hOspit-
able city and an open-handed friend Of
others in distress. And intuitively San
Franciscans knew thai their misfor-
tune instantly became a common mis-
fortune to all the world In fact they
suffered less, emotionally, than those
who sympathized while they aided. In
Fresno. two hundred miles away, and
uninjured, strong practical men told =
me that when they saw the ruins they
broke down and cried 1t was our
city, was their explanation"
brotherhood.
God. what a world,-if men in street
and mart
Felt that same kinship of the human
/ heart
Which makes them. in the face OF
/ flame and flood.
Rise to the meaning of true brother
hood
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in Everybody's
Magazine for July.
| Charles Dormon Robinson whose. IL
/ Illustrations Zone of them reproduced
in color from the original pasteD of
the San Francisco fire will appear in
the August Century. has seen his home
city burn four times. He was in the
| fires of 1851, 1853 and 1854, as well
i IN fho -. -
1906. Mr.. Robinson succeeded In max
ing a painting Of the recent fire when
/ Ii was at it's greatest height, on Thurs
day night from IL to in the morn
ing. He painted thirteen pastels also.
several of which the August Century
will reproduce.
The true hero of a good story died
recently in the person OF "Edgewood
Cold Steel" Richard Harding Davis
famous bull terrier. The Bar Sinis-
ter" one of the best OF all dog sto-
ries. was really the story OF the rise
4 of Edgewood Cold Steel from Obscur-
/ ity to the position of one of the great
est of prize winners. The dog justified
his success in the story by actually
winning some forty prizes at leading
bench shows throughout the country
until he was as well known to lovers Of .
good dogs as his story was TO lovers
/
Registration of Book Titles.
The coming publication of Mrs. De-
lands novel. The Awakening Of
Helena Richie" again brings up the
question as to whether il would not
be well to have law providing for !
/ the registration of book titles. As the
observant reader doubtless noticed, the
first installments of the serial in Har-
/ per's Magazine were published under
4 - -
At that time novel appeared bearing
this title. and to avoid confusion 1T
was deemed advisable to adopt the
longer form. Another case in point Is
Mrs. Thurston's novel. The Masque-
rader," which was brought out in Eng
i, land as John ChileOte. NJ p" the
| former title having been pre-empted
l there; and still another instance is Rex
Beach's The Spoilers" which had TO
be issued in England as The Spoilers
/ of the North" as Edwin Pugh. the
English author, published a novel
The Spoilers" at about the time that
Mr. Beachs novel appeared in book
form in America. 1t would be COM
/ paratively simple matter TO register
/ all titles, and IL would simplify the
work of author, in search OF
name for his book. to know what ,
Literary Gossip.
Probably but few of the readers who
have noted Justin Huntly McCarthy's /
statement that in his latest novel.
: The Flower of France" (Harpers6 he +
/ has departed somewhat from the au-
/ thentfc version of the career Of Joan :
/ of Arc know that there exists sworn !
narrative of the private and public
life of the maid Of DOmremy. Twenty .
years after the burning at the stake, ;
King Charles VII, at the instigatiop I
OF his advisers, ordered an investiga-
/ ton TO be made. The leading lawyers
/ declared the trial of the martyr void.
but on account OF the opposition OF the
clergy no judgment was pronounced
Two years later, Joan's mother ap-
pealed to the Pope The case dragged
along until 1885, when an exhaustive
/ inquiry was held. More than hun
dred witnesses were examined at DOM
remy. yaucoleurs, Orleans, Paris and
Rouen. resulting in a Sentence OF Re-
habilitation being pronounced This Is
most remarkable document IL
purges Joan and her relatives of any 3
mark or stigma of Infamy," and de-
clareS the original proceedings fuli /
of cozenage. iniquity, inconsequences.
and manifest errors In fact as well as
in law" With solemn religious cere-
monies this new sentence was pro- 2
claimed all over the country; then for 7
1 nearly 400 years the record of the trial
was buried in the official archives or
France The story had come to be
regarded as legend rather than his
| tory when Quicherat. about 1850. dug
up the treasure and gave 1t TO the
world In Ave volumes OF modern
French The substance of this touch /
| ing human narrative has been done
/ into English, but to the world at large
/ n is still unknown and unheard Of
| Harper's Literary Gossip
uooxs RECEIVED.