Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-01

author writes most entertainingly, of
the California songsters, and does not
for a minute usurp prerogatives of the
ornithologists. The next time anyone
dares say word against the tuneful-
ness of the feathered folk get down the
"Gardon Book and quote him this
about the meadow lark
TT is an inspiration to see the lark
prepare himself to fill the air with
melody. AS 1 am crossing the mesa
in the early morning 1 often see one
come up out of the soft grass near my
path. He tips his head and sizes me
up his bright eyes twinkle and he
seems to say: I think tune would
cheer her up and give her something
to think about. He walks back and
forth moment, just a little nervous,
like the professional tenor, until he
has chosen from his great repertoire;
then, as If to attract my attention, he
filters up and down, up and down,
into the air, until his plump little body
is full of the ecstasy of motion, and
soaring about my head for a moment
he cries out, Sweet, sweet, sweet and
then as I answer, Yes, / know it is
sweet-sing for me sweet his throat
trembles and then comes forth the flood
of melody, hymning and praising, and
love notes and joy-just joy-joy-joy-
of living in this Land of Hearts De-
sire.'". .
The book is beautifully illustrated
and shows some of the most exquisite
gardens in California. Taken all in all
it is indispensable to all who love the
| land of sunshine.
The Garden Book of California, by
Belle Sumner Angler San Francisco:
| Paul Elder & Co. Los Angeles; Cum
ningham, Curtiss & Welsh company.
The true story of the bad man" of
the American plains, COW camps and
mines, with fair, unprejudiced esti-
mates of Americas most notorious des-
peradoes has never been written here
tofore. In his book, "The Story of the
Outlaw" Emerson Hough tells of both
the men who defed the law and the
men who brought the law to the from
tier.
1t is a volume which is as important
historically as it is thrilling in the tell
ing; better than novel because it is
as true as history and better than dry
history because it is interesting as a
novel A chapter on the California
vigilantes is especially interesting here.
The Story of the Outlaw. By Emerson
Hough. New York: Outing Publishing
company.
1.-THE House of the Hundred Doors"
by Will NJ. Clemens, is an argument
against vivisection in the form of a
story, written entirely from the animal
istic point of view. While cleverly told
and an interesting tale, it yet fails to
convince one that science is wrong in
pursuing its course of subJecting ami
mails to necessary experiments for the
good of man.
The House of the Hundred Doors BY
| Will NJ Clemens. New York: The Haw-
thorne Press.
"In the Days of Goldsmith" is an
other volume in Tudor jerks series,
Lives of Great Writer'S the others
| treated of being Chaucer, Milton,
! Shakespeare and Scott The attempt
is to give life picture not only of the
man, but of his times, and Mr. jerks
has met with a large measure of sue
cess.
In the Days of Goldsmith. BY Tudor
jerks. New York: A. S. Barnes & Co.
The underlying principle of Lewis H.
Morgan's book, ancient Society,"" is
the law of historical materialism fa-
miliar to International Socialists,
namely, that always and everywhere
the way people have supplied them
selves with food and the other neces-
stiles of life has determined their way
of living and their way of thinking
| Recognizing this principle Morgan di-
Vides the various stages of human de-
velopment, according to the develop
ment reached in Industrial arts, into
saVagery, barbarism and civilization.
Again he subdivides savagery into it's
lower, middle and upper status, and
divides the period of barbarism in the
same manner. The ilrst part of the
book is taken up with this classical
tion. and with study of the arts OF
life as developed in the various social
stages. The subsequent portions trace
civilization along the same lines.
Ancient Society. BY Lewis II. Nor
gan. Chicago; Charles II. Kerr & Co.
without a doubt the foremost Marx
ist of today is sarl Kautsky, the edi-
tor of the Neue Zeit, the German So
cialst scientific weekly. His book,
Ethics of the Materialistic Conception
of History" is an evolutionary material
Iistic explanation of the various ethical
epoehs. The first chapter deals mainly
with the Greeian philosophers. From
here the author takes up the ethic of
the Renaissance when ethics took Sec
ondary place to natural science. AS
this class grew in power, the transeen-
dentalism of Kant gained the ascend
ancy over the former materialism. The
next step was the coming of ~arwin and
his discovery of biologic evolution.
Here, too, was introduced that idea of
the uniVersality OF law through the ami
NAL kingdom which did much to do
laWay with the old idea OF super