The San Francisco call., 1908-09-13
''True Story of Swiftwaler Bill Gates
By his mother ia law, Mrs. lola
Huhllshal hN .-H.hnr

By his mother in law. Mrs. lola Beebe.
Published by aEthOr.
II the true life story of saltwater
Bill Gates is IN reality true life
story he is an even more extraordinary
character than the newspapers have
told us. One grows so accustomed to
saying and hearing that all sensational
stories that appear in the papers are
gross exaggeratiOns that now when we
read the true life story we wonder at
the mildness of the published reports.
The book is poorly written and evil
IDENTIFY by no practiced hand. but the
incidents are of great interest. Accord
ing to this account saltwater" did
not marry Gussie Lamore. She is sup
posed TO have Tilted him in San Fran
cisco. and he. to get even with her and
punish her. married her sister Grace.
She did not live with him three weeks.
and shortly after that Gates meets the
Beebe family in Seattle and after SONS
lively skirmishes he marries the
daughter. Bera. and they have two chill
dren- After deserting this wife he elopes
with his niece. Kitty Brandon, and after
an exciting time of several years he
persuades his wife. Bera. to secure a
divorce and allow him to marry Kitty.
The love making and wife deserving
have been sensational enough. but it
must be said that the most exciting and
interesting part of this curious mans
ing it," He seems only to have to walk
into a gold district and the most phe-
nomenal strike of the times is made by
him. Something magnetic or hypnotic
there must be about the man. for COM
mon and fl1iterats as he is he succeeds
In attracting always the interest. and
sometimes more than that. OF women
much above himself socially.
The mother in law, who writes this
book, does ii to gain few dollars to
aid her in supporting the children which
saltwater has deserted 1t is cheap
and melodramatic. but the author ap-
pears to be trying to be as 1enient
possible in her statements and writes
quite without malice
Notes
Mrs Maud Howe Elliott Is completing
q book on Spain
A new edition OF Little Women" is
TO be issued by Little. Brown & Co..
Boston
r. Hopkinson Smith has started on
his twenty-frst annual sketching trip
to Europe.
Charles Ram Kennedy has in hand
a series of seven dramas in which the
central themes are the conception OF
brotherly living. the destructive force
that comes from the lie. the woman
question. the child OF influence. the con-
f1ict of races and the ideals of free
dom. The first of these plays is out
lasting all others in New York. while
the book made from the play. The
Servant in the House" is selling so
rapidly that 1t has exhausted two edi-
tions. All Of which attests that alle-
CORY and symbolism still have power
-
tieth century public.
Miss Anna Mcclure ShoIl. whose third
novel, The Greater Love- has just
been published. is a niece OF the dis
tinguished Browning scholar and friend
of Browning. DIR. Hiram Corson. who
for over so years flled the chair OF
English literature in Cornell univer-
sity. Miss Sholi resides In New York
city. but was born in Philadelphia. and
comes on her mothers side of a
Quaker family OF French h-Huguenot
origin She Is an essayist as well
novelist and contributed many bio
graphical essays to Charles Dudley
Warmers Library of the Worlds Best
Literature"
Omar Fitzgerald was born on
March Is. 1909. and already there are
signs that on that date next year there
admirer has emerged into print anx-
iously to ask if something can not be
done to erect memorial to the noted
man Of letters A tablet or some such
modest tribute is conceivable. but the
idea OF a solemn monument to Fitz-
gerald somehow seems absurd
The Masquerade" Katherine Cecil
Thurston's sensational novel. has had a
romantic career. 1t is running again
as serial. this time in a magazine
for the blind. known as "Hora Jocunda.'
embossed at the Royal blind asylum Ia
Edinburgh. Scotland. IT is said to DO
unusual for a magazine for the blind
to contain any fiction
The Social Duty Of Our Daughters
Is the title of a little book by Mrs.
Adolphe Hoffman. Christian mother in
Geneva who is prominent in European
reform work. 1t is most helpful and
suggestive message to mothers. and
their grown daughters on the dignity
and privilege of wifehood and mother
hood. (vir publishing company. PhiIz-
delphia. Price 80 cents.l
Gustave F'laubert whose two MASTER
pieces. Madame BOvaryT and ~Salamns-
bo.' the l. c. Page company have just
included in their French classics serisa,
was no mean writer. 1t is interesting
to know what writer's he himself stud
led The men I read habitually. my
pillow books he wrote. .'are Montaigne.
Rabelais. .Regnier. lie Bruyere and Ls
Sage I avow that I adore the prose
OF Voltaire. Now I am rereading
Tacitus. Some time when I feel better
I will take again my Homer and
Shakespeare Homer and Shakespeare
-aIl Is there. The other poets, even
the greatest seenn Ifffla bezida thar,