The San Francisco call., 1908-07-05
Gossip Of Beoss and PsoVI, Who Make Them

The list Of six Best Sellers" from
the June Bookman is as follows:
THE Barrier" Beach (Harpers).
2-"The Black Bag" Vance (Bobbs-
Merril).
s-"The Shuttle" Burnett (stokes).
4-"Old Wives for New Phillips
(Appletons).
5-The Coast Of Chance" Chamber
lain (Bobbs-Merrill).
6-"The Lady OF the Decoration
Little Century.
1t is very gratifying to Californians
to find the Chamberlain sisters in this
list. for they are comparatively un-
known, except by their short stories.
Their publishers are to be congratu-
lated also, for they have two books in
the list this month
President Roosevelt and his admirers
will doubtless welcome the little book
which the MacmiLans have just pub
Nshed under the title THE Problems
and Perils of Socialism" The author
is J. St L. Strachey. editor OF the
Spectator, and probably the most in
fuential defender of Roosevelts poll
cies. The book Is fittingly dedicated
to President Roosevelt, not because OF
personal friendship or out of private
regard, though these would have been
reasons amply sufficient" but because
he regards the president as one OF the
most convinced and powerful oppOn-
ents of socialism The volume Is a re-
print OF series OF Letters to Work
ingman." which appeared IN the Spec
tator, and which embody the authors
view that socialism would imperil the
safety Of the state by breaking down
the character Of the citizens and by
drying up the sources OF national
wealth.
C. F. G. Masterman. author OF In
Peril of Change" a series OF notable
essays on social, religious. literary and
economic subjects. is now a member OF
the British cabinet He is only 35 years
old. but has long been prominent in
English politics and letters He is a
fellow Of Cambridge university and lit
erary editor OF the London Daily News
Professor Charles ZuebIin, who has
been in the department Of sociology at
the University of Chicago for a number
of years, has left the institution and
will live IN Boston. He will now de-
vote most of his time to independent
lecturing. His latest book, The Re-
ngion Of a Democrat" deals with the
question Of state church and with an
analysis of the relations Of the indi-
vidual TO the state. as well as a forecast
of their devlopment.
At the recent banquet OF the Ameri-
can Booksellers association held in New
York the speakers included Mark Twain
and VIII Irwin One OF the souvenirs
distributed TO the guests. who repre-
sented the book trade OF the United
States, was Mr.. Irwin's The City That
Was" which remains the most enduring
memento of the old San Francisco. A
new edition of the book is in prepara-
tion.
Amelfe Rives has always possessed
the gift of poetic phrasing. and in her
latest work she has added 70 this GER
tain ripeness OF criticism. especially to-
ward the dreams of life, that pleases
the practical man. while it jOlts the
dreamer. The visionary Meraud. the
heroine in The Golden Rose" fancies
that a man can thrive in the tenuous
atmosphere OF a love that is refused
the physical. Amelie Rives cOndenses
the opposite philosophy into a single
sentence: "One may nee into the desert
and save ones soul alone. I think, but
hardly tXO-hardly two"