The San Francisco call., 1906-03-25

winning fifty-dollar prize offered by
the San Francisco Call for the best short
/ story.
At the Mechanics Library for the week
ending Christmas day 1.-The Leyantine
Log Book held fifth place on the list of
| favorites; December 80 1t was fourth of
| the weeks lendings; the first week in
| January 1t was fourth and was only sur
passed in popularity by the three re-
markably fine successes, The Conquest
| of Canaan" 1.-THE Gambler and ''The
House of Mirth." January q Jerome
| Harris book was again fourth and for the
weeks ending February and II it still
held that high place. For several weeks
at the Public Library 1.-THE Levantine
Log Book stood from fourth to fifth in
demand. The Bookman, summing up for
the first month in the year, gives among
the best sellers" in San Francisco the
sixth place to "The Levantine Log-Book"
Charles Tenney Jackson's book had an
opening career equally brilliant, and in
some of the library heats Losers Luck"
outran 1.-THE Levantine Log-BoOk." In
the race of the months sales 1t held fifth
place. Any one who reviewed the story
might safely have prophesied a good run
for the book just as soon as his eye
glanced over that verveful page which
describes the burst-aWay as the pirati-
cally stolen yacht scudded out of San
Francisco Bay under the command of the
beautiful descendant of the Montezumas.
Dolores Delgardo. Gee! but it does you
something of the same kind of good as
watching a horserace to recall just
fragment of the pen-picture of the way
the white-winged ''Itaca" sped through
the Golden Gate and defied the pursuit
of the swiftly following United States
cruiser under full steam: From the deck
came cries, the rattle of hawsers, the
raaYf Yf1lr haFrC 0f fha Of
the yachts bows as her great boom swung
to port. She gathered herself; she leapt
from the anchorage; there came the smart
spatter Of waves against her steel plates"
Even as 1t is true that all the world
loves a lover, so all the world cheers
succeeder. Some successes we love to
witness more than others, and one Of the
causes that puts the plus to our enthusi-
astic congratulations is to know that the
winner when aforetime he had met the
fate of being loser was absolutely game
under his losers luck. Such loser was
once young Charles Tenney Jackson. Such
a winner let us hope he will many times
be-one to whom our natural enthusiasm
for winners goes out with a plus some
thing that is as deeply felt as it is diff
cult to express. Here's luck to his
Losers Luck''-and to his career in
whatever other race wherein we find his
name among the entries!
Otto Pfeiderer, the German phil
osopher and theologian, whose work on
Christian Origins has just been is
sued simultaneously in London and
New York, visited this country in Sep
tember, 1904. and delivered an address
before the department of philosophy
at the Congress of Arts and Sciences
held in the Louisiana Purchase Worlds
Fair grounds. He. is ranked as among
the greatest living theologians. The
subject of his address was The Rela-
tion of the Philosophy of Religion to
the Other Sciences" The following is
an extract from his address on that oc-
casion:
1T becomes the task of the phil
osopfer of religion to examine whether
this correspondence of religion and
morality recognized in history is al
ways found in the very nature of
morality and religion. This question,
in the main, is answered without doubt
in the affirmative, for it is clear that
the feeling of dependence upon one
all-ruling power is we'll adapted, not
only to make keen the moral conscious
ness of obligation and to deepen the
feeling of responsibility, but also to
endow moral courage with powen and
to strengthen the hope of the solution
of moral purposes. The more |
and greater its aims, the more it recog-
nizes its great task to care for the well /!
fare, not only of the individual. but of
all, to cooperate in the development of |
the welfare of all forms of society, the |
more earnestly will the moral mind |
need sincere faith that this il Gods !
world, that above all the changes of |
time an eternal law is on the throne. |
whose all-wise guidance causes every |
in IN he 10 Ia N xvh 10
love him."
Miss Frances Powell, the author OF |
'The House on the Hudson" and of |
"The Prisoner of Ornith Farm" does |
not live on the banks of the Hudson |
River. as has been generally supposed. |
She lives in a quiet little hamlet on |
Long Island. but she was born on the /
banks of the HUDSON and has a thor
ough knowledge of that region. Fran |
ces Powell is only part of the authors |
real name. Shyness prevented her de- /
claring herself with her first novel, but |
her friends soon guessed the authorship |
of the book. as the concealment was I
very slight.-New York Herald.
The death of DR.. John Williamson Pal |
mer. the distinguished Southern poet. /
editor and novelist at his home in Bal |
TlmOre, on eOLudiy 90 IStdnS the TACT
that he was the pioneer in writing !
stories of old California life. in which !
Bret Harte afterward won world
wide fame. DIR. Palmer went to the Pa
cific Coast in 1S49, and was the City
Physician of San Francisco in 1850. a /
position which gave him a splendid op-
portunity to study the strange and ro-
mantle scenes and characters which I
made the stories so picturesque and 4
realistic that he contributed to Put
MANS Monthly, after his return from
California in 1853. Before returning to |