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The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17
New Books Briefly Nofe1

Lieutenant II. G. Dinger u. S. n. has
prepared fine manual. which will be
of interest TO all mechanics. 1t is en-
titled Handbook for the Care and
Operation of Naval Machinery Cd. Van
sNostrand company, New York;, and the
explanations are so clear and the deinf-
tions so plain that 1t almost seems a
. layman could understand machinery
after studying this book. The book
gives the layman an interesting picture
of the requirements of naval engineer
today and is filed with useful informa-
tion.
A timely publication is The Amer
lean Battleship and Life in the Navy"
by Thomas Boyer. a bluejacket (Laird
& Lee, Chicago), who has received the
Endorsement of Dewey and Evans and
the navy department The book gives
all the information a layman can want
about the navy, including the duties OF
every man. as we'll as his amusements.
A deserip ton is given of the trip from
Hampton roads to Magdalena bay.
which is called the greatest naval feat
ever recorded in history" 1t Is filed
with interesting Illustrations.
Floyd B. Wilson has a new book on
the market in the same vein as his pre-
vious works. 1t is entitled The Dis
covery Of the Soul" His foreword
says: AN attempt is made herein to
reveal the plane progressive man has
obtained on his ascent toward freedom
and to throw light on the path leading
through mysticism to the discovery of
those unused powers within the soul
which, duly appropriated, give express
sion. to the divine in man" That may
be obscure to some people, but the
author is certainly an optimist and
therefore helpful. OR. +. Fenno & Co.
New York. SD
Elizabeth M. Wheelock, in Stories OF
Wagner Operas Told for Children" (The
Bobbs-Merrill company. IndianapoIis)
has written book essentially for chill
dren, but it will interest old and young
alike In 1t she tells the stories in a
simple, conversational way, OF THE
Master Singers OF Nuremberg" The
Flying Dutchman." ''Lohengrfn," The
Rheingold." The WaIkyrie," "Sieg-
fried" and The Dusk of the Gods" 1t
is of great advantage for children to
know the stories of these operas before
they see them. and this book tells the
story better than ever before
Mamie Wolters," by Mrs. Allie
Sloper (P. W.-M) (J. S. Ogilvie COM
pany. New York, 25 cents), is a novel
with purpose. Freemasonry should
take an interest in the story, for in IT
a petition is made to the Order OF the
Eastern Star that the ritualistic cere-
MONIES be so amended as to permit
candidates of the Jewish faith to con
sistently subscribe to the obligations Of
the order.
Terrible Teddy and Peaceful Bill. or,
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17
'LOve SOnnets Of a Car Conductor"
By wallace Irwin. author

By Wallace Irwin, author of Love sonnets
OF Hoodium.' etc. Published by Paul
Elder & Co. Price so cents.
Whoever is responsible for the intro
duction to Wallace Trwin's "Sonnets."
signed "Wolfgang Copernicus Addle-
burger" deserves some of the praise
which would go to the author of the
DOCK. 1t reads much as If 1t might
be the work of the clever authors
clever brother, Will Irwin In the
Love Sonnets of Hoodlum" Wallace
Irwin was not restricted to any partic-
ular sort of slang; he used all the argot
OF the day, and nothing better has ever
been done of its kind, for he kent
strictly to the form OF his verse
throughout, but scarcely one line Of it
was In pure English
In this book he uses great dear of
slang which is not particularly the car
conductors own, but might belong to
any walk of life. One must confess to
some amusement in reading the SON
nets. but they do not approach the
'HoodlUm'' sonnets
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17
"The Bond"

BY Meth Boyce Mrs. Hutchins Hapgoodl
author OF The Eternal Spring, "The
Forcrunner," tThe Folly OF Others Pulb
IIshed by Dufdeld & Co.. New York. Price
$3.50.
The publishers announced this book
rs a novel on modern marriage it's
title. The Bond having the double
Significance of union and yoke.
The remarkable thing about this an
nouncement is that 1t covers the book
exactly. The tale is so true a pho
tograph of many modern marriages
that in reading it one unconsciously
fits the events into the lives of ones
friends and acquaintances.
Two young people have been mar
ried year when the story opens. They
belong TO what may be called a rather
smart bohemian set: the man is an
artist, rather a mediocre one; the
woman, too is an artist: she models
small things, paper weights in bronze,
knife handles in silver, etc. They each
have small incomes aside from what
they may earn and are quite content
with their lot in life. He is painting
portrait of society woman when
the story opens. This woman is very
rich. unhappily married. bored and
dissatisfied with everything-herseIf
included; SO she makes love to the
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17

handsome young artist. He permits ii.
because she is an attractive woman.
but has no thoHght OF unfaithfulness
10 his wife. The whole book hinges
on that point. the different standard
which society ard men have set for
man and women. rhe husband and
wife quarrel and make up every few
days. Finally a child comes and they
are supremely happy for another while.
The wife has many men friends to
whom she is devoted, always loving
the husband best of all. but each fails
to understand quite the attitude Of
the other,
After one of their worst disagree
ments the wife goes to Europe to be
away quietly for awhile and to try
TO recover her poise. She is sure sne
can never forgive her husband and yet
she can't bear to think their separa-
tion is final While she is in EL. ope
she meets a man she had known
slightly in New York and finds him
very interesting and enjoys his COM
panionship very much She is even
pleased to have him fail in love with
her, but when he proposes that she run
away with him she realizes that ne
is nothing TO her and can never take
her husbands place--so she goes
home. The same old life begins again.
quarrels and jealousy-even when she
tells him the whole story of the man
in Europe he can't understand. The
point made is that there are some
things about men which women can
never understand and some things
about women which men can never un-
derstand, and the only thing to do IL
to overlook them and take the good
the gods provide and be thankful and
say nothing about the rest.
In its faithful delineation of charac-
ter and its real pictures OF life as life
really is. the work is wonderful. and
up to certain point it is interesting.
too; but somehow it leaves one too
much up in the air at the end. One
has feeling of unrest. Of dissatis-
faction. that takes away all the pleas
ure of the book.
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gagged when they are children and
faithfully keep their promise. TO each
other through all sorts OF vicissitudes
1t may interest the curious to know
that Mr.. Maxwell is the son OF NJ e.
Braddcn, we'll known as a novelist for
many years, both In England and
America.
The book cannot De laid aside with
out a word as to the Illustrations. They
arc among the worse seen In any novel
for many years. III this day, when there
are hundreds of good artists really suf-
fering for something to do, 1t Is GRIM
inal and an insult to the irte'lieence
and good taste of the public TO force 1t
to look on such poor work. They are
by H. B. Matthews.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17
Socialists at Work"

By Robert Hunter. author of Poverty" etc.
Published By the Macmillan company. New
York. Price 81 so.
To people who have remained in
different to the fact that socialism Is
an important world movement. Robert
Hunters new book, Socialists at
Work" viii come as an unpleasant
surprise. America has been slower
than any other civilized nation to grasp
the significance of this movement. In
England, as is well known. II has as
sumed such proportions that its or-
ponents are calling on all parties to
unite against the common danger. In
Germany the socialist party commands
millions of votes and wields a tre-
mendous political influence. The move
ment is by no means confined to
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17
''Iesa IaWaeS Rousseau"

b. Jules LemaItre Published by the Mcclure
company. New York. Price $3.50.
One might read everything ever
written by Jean Jacques Rousseau
and all the books about him and study
the literature OF his day and for the
last 200 years and not get so clear
and intelligent an idea OF the man as
can be gained from this one book
Il is not a little book. 1t is a big.
rat book but ii covers the. ground
completely. The book is translated
by Jeanne Mairet CMadame Charles
Bigot). and she deserves special praise
for the grace Of her Interpretation.
Lemaitre's words TO the reader are:
First-i may have been mistaken to certain
facts. This il not a critical biography" Of
Rousseau. my chief object has been the history
Sacond-Ilose are but lectures In them
have, above all. enoeaTored 10 be simple and
clear, a'a rllr tone is generally that OF soim'-
what careful conversation.
In the first chapter he says:
! therefore think that study Of Jean Jacques
Rousseau might be continual biography. where
IN the story If lis hooks would Intimately in.
terningle with the analysis Of his Confession"
Lemaitre accomplishes what he at
tempts. There is nothing stilted or
heavy about the lectures; they are
clear and simple and one encourages
you TO read on the next. There are
pages at g time OF quotations from
ANpAeebaA Illustrating LemaltreS IN
terpretation OF him and il is all so un-
affected and gay in tone that one feels
Lemaitre himself is talking and we
are listening.
Cne passage from the first chapter
seems 70 DE put there for the express
purpose ot explaining to the reader
WHY Rousseau is worth all this study
ard co -iment and criticism He saws:
AIS WAS SO siagrlar q case. lie is uuIQue
even ln our ItcrafurC, and, ! believe 10 the
literature q the world
THIS vagrnut, this sluggard, this seIf-taueht
MAJ who. after 80 years of idle musings, dropped
nue u@y into the midst Of the brilliant Paris n
the eighleenfh ceuturr where he seemed a
fefltallie savage. lfHt rcei s1EarP very ,luei,
more Interesting than the one Volfalre Dasnted. +.
Wls ieean 70 publish toward his fortiefh venr.
Tria j. the space ef ten years In fte midst ~
ain - incessaut physical suffering wrote three
~ fnnr bocz6-uhlcl are not particularly strong
fsre as 10 Thought bat 90. Il r.r a.
~ thinking and sort Of vibration unknown tfIi
thens who then sank into a slow kind OF mad
caused after bis death. literature and history
10 be transformed and the life Of a pa,,ple 10
whom te did not belong. 70 deviate-vrhaf a
pr0digious feat to accomplish!
Lemaitre shows singular moderation
IN ali his statements Of Rousseau. He
tries and succeeds, too, to be perfectly
fair and just in every way. He calls
attention 70 the truths and errors and
the vices and virtues OF his hero. but
not with the air OF a hero worshiper
at all; nothing is said In extenuation
OF faults-one feels truly that 81 is
not the personal opinion which we are
reading, but bits Of actual history
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17
"WlIIiam Jordan Iunior''

BIZ j C. Snaith Published BIZ Moffat Yard
& Co., New York. Price s1.50
William Jordan Junior Is introduced
to the reader as a rrail, tinid bow of
IL. with the vocabulary of a phiiolo-
gist and diction OF incredible POM
posity Not being particularly happy
at school kept by a wise old gentle
man of "a he asks his parent casually.
rs it our own incontinence, my father.
that makes our fear so great? There
seem to be two opinions among these
authors"
This and other pedantic expressions
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which he has CLEANED and condensed so
delightfully."- for our benefit. 1t is a
book to recommend to all serious read
ers, and will hold the attention and
command the respect of the deep stu
dent as well as the casual reader.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17
"HiA RiSe"

BY W. =. MAXWELL author Of s'Tha Guarded
Flame. etc. Published by the Emnire
book company. New York
This tale is of life in England among
some fairly interesting middle class
people. 1t is not problem novel. and
Tor so much the author has our graft
tude, but II has a strong flavor of re-
form, sometimes tiresome. The author
seems TO think 1t necessary to instruct
the reader down to the minutest details
OF life among the people he Is depict
ing. The school life of tho children.
the work of the laboring man, the dull
social intercourse of the growing boys
and girls cannot but bore the reader.
The hero and heroine become en-
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17

Dufield & Co.. publishers of ..Tnras
weeks, have acquired the American
publishing rights OF EIinor Clvn's
carrier writsngs. Over $4,000 copie4
OF Three Weeks" have been sold since
Its publication last fall Mrs. Cslvn's
latest work. Elizabeth Visits America
Is to be brought out in September.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17

1t is now an open secret that James
s Metcalfe Of Life" is the author OF
Another Three Weeks. Not by EI-n-r
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17

The Hans Christian Andersen house
at Odense, recently arranged to contain
memorials OF the great writer. was
opened to the public on April ,, his
birthday
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17
BOOKS REVIEWED

Into the Primitive by Robert Amcs Bcnnct.
Jean jacques Rousseau" By Jules Lemdihe.
Katherine TrepaIyGn." By Louise NJ Field.
FOLDS Bach Home" BY Eugene Wood
Socialists at Work" BY Robert Hunter
Love Sonnets Of Car Conductor" BY Wal
lace Lrwin
Hill RISE" BY w. B. MaxpelL
Architectural Composition. By John Beverley
Robinson.
William Jordan Junior. BY J. c. Snaidh.
The Bond" BY Meth BOpcc (Nrs. Hutchns
H0pgoo0.
mrs. Eddy" an account Of The late suit in
equity. bu Michael Mechdn.
Il Modern Prometheus." By Martha Gilbert
Dickinson Bionchi
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17

General Charles King has written a
new story with a young cadet hero.
called ITO the Front" which has Just
been published by Harper & Brothers.
General King at the present time Is
residing in Milwaukee.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17

Roy Norton. author of The Vanish
ing Fleets" has joined the colony OF
American authors in Europe, where he
will spend a vacation OF two or three
months before starting for Peru to
gather material for his next long story.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17

Miss Ellen Thornycroft F-ovlar 4.
writing new novel which is to hear
the title of Miss FallowfleIds For
tune"
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17

Christian BrintOn. whose Modern
Artists" has just been published. has
gone to Mexico on a yachting trip. Carl
Melchers, native cOlorist to whom Mr..
Brinton has devoted a chapter In his
book, is now painting a portrait OF
president Roosevelt. Mr.. Melches is a
Holland
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17

Mr.. Hillaire Belloc has ideas on everv
subject under heaven. and is an inex-
haustible fount OF information. COM
ment. revelation and prophecy. He ba.
written so much on so many topics that
he is now forced to the issue OF a
book entitled "On Nothing and kindred
Subjects. Here is a topic which even
MI Hillaire BeIlOc will hardly be abIs
to exhaust.
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-17

BY John Beverley Robinson Published by D.
Van Nostrand company, New York. Price
$3.50.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-14
HEARST STANDS PAT ON
BRYAN'S TRADE" OFFER
Issues Statement ReteIling the
Story in Detail of Peerless
Ones ATTEMPTED Deal

ATLANTA, Ca. Sept. 13.-W. r.
Hearst of New York tonight made an
official statement in reference to the
published denial by W. ]. Bryan OF the
statement made by Hearst in his speech
at the formal notification of John Tenn
pie Graves OF the nomination for the
vice presidency by the independence
party. The statement follows:
or course Bryan not deny being at my
house. for Mr.. chanler in his suit made affidavit
that he saw him there. OF course be can not
deny that be met me at the dinner at Or. Cox's
house at which I found Mr. Bryan. I would
not have mentioned Dr. Gox's name. but Mr..
Bryan has seen Mt 70 do 90. Therefore the
whole truth might well come out. After the
dinner Mr.. Bryan drew aside in the hall
while Dr. Cox politely entertained the other
gentlemen
Mr. Bryan said: Think I can say positively
that 1 will be the next democratic nominee
and I believe will be elected Ny position
In history is secure. I intend to serve only
term. IL you support the democratic ticket
you Will naturally be the nominee next time and
il you support the nominee this campaign
will. OF course. support you next campaign"
II this statement Is susceptible OF any other
construction than the one put on it then
should apologize TO Mr. Bryan. and II IL Is not
susceptible al any other construction then Ar.
Bryan should apologize TO me.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-14
ARTIFICIAL LIMBS
IN AFFINITY CASE
Woman Who Lost Leg and Mar
ried Man Similarly Afflict-
ed Is Arrested
Companion Joined in Misde-
meanOr Charge Also Walks
With Wooden Peg
SPECIAL DISPATCH 10 THE CALI

SAN JOSE, Sept 13.-Mrs. Mary W
Bull John. H Bull and, Frank H
Fleming will appear tomorrow morn
ing in an Oakland police court and
the fact that they have only three
natural lower limbs among them will
furnish the foundation for the story
to be told to the justice.
Mrs Bull. together with her
year old daughter and her latest af-
hnity, Frank Fleming. We're arrested
in San Jose tonight on a misdemeanor
warrant sworn TO by John Bull. the
husband, who is now in Oakland
The story on which the entanglement
is founded began two years ago when
Mrs. Bull, then a Miss Brown OF Oak
land lost a leg in a car accident
She went 10 Bull. himself a one
legged man and also a manufacturer OF
artificial limbs. He fitted q peg for
her and their relations, due perhaps 10
sympathy for each other in their mu-
tuaI a1fiiction. in time assumed a na-
ture not wholly platonic Miss Brown
brought suit for breach OF promise.
which ended in their marriage.
Divorce proceedings are now pend
ing A week ago last Thursday the
wife left Oakland with Fleming, an
other one legged man. and her daUgh-
ter and drove to this city in pony rig.
They went to Monterey and then re-
turned to this city, where the outfit was
sold.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-14
MRS. NJ. SHATTUCk
CALLED BY DEATH
Richest Woman in Alameda
County Passes Away After
Stroke of Paralysis
PI1ilanthrOpic Woman Leaves
S2,0O0,0O0 Estate to Be
Divided by Relatives

BERKELEY. Sept i3.-3iT=. Rose NJ
Shattuck. relict OF Francis X Shat
tuck. passed away at her home on Shat
tuck avenue this evening after re
naming four days in q comatose condi-
ton from the effects OF d stroke OF
paralysis.
Mrs. shattuck was without question
the wealthiest woman IN Alameda coun-
~, her estate being valued at s2.000.00O.
She was born in Essex county. New
York. and came 20 California with her
husband in 1852 In that year Shat
tuck took up thousands OF acres OF
land adjacent TO san Francisco bay
and that was the basis of the fortune
which he left when he died, 10 years
ago.
Since her husbands death Mrs. Shat
tuck has devoted her time 20 philan-
thropic work and short time before
her death offered the most desirable
site in Berkeley. on Shattuck avenue
near Allston way. for the erection OF
a 100000 tourist hotel. She was also
the donor Of the site where the Car
negie free library now stands and Of
fered q site 10 the Berkeley y n. c. A
Mrs. Shattuck leaves no children, her
nearest relative being q niece. Mrs. ".
Z. Woolsey, 10 whom the major pOr-
ton Of the estate viii go
Francis X Shattuck was one of the
founders OF the First National bank of
Oakland. the Central Bank of Oakland,
the Berkeley Bank Of Savings and the
Oakland street railway and water
system.
Mrs. Shattucks funeral viii be held
Tuesday afternoon at ? o'clock from
her late residence. Interment will be
in Mountain View cemetery.
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-14
PROPERTY OWNERS
TOLL IN STREET
Residents of Twenty-ninth and
Castro Spend Day Working
TO Clear Roadway
Donate Labor in Order to Afford
Better Fire Protection
for District

Fifteen tons of solidly imbedded
rock, which formed an obstacle in
Castro street above Twenty ninth,
We're removed yesterday by 45 prop
erty owners Of the, district known as
Twenty ninth and Castro street.
! ]. Heffernan was in charge of the
work When a member of the party
called him foreman he resented the
title. declaring that all the residents
worked alike and with the same end in
view.
"A few more weeks and we will have
a road as good as any rock road in
the community" said Heffernan- we
are anxious TO complete the highway
because it means that our homes on the
hillside will have better fire protection.
Under present conditions fire engine
would not be able to come within two
blocks Of Twenty ninth and Castro
streets.
There still remains a great deal of
rock to be removed and weeks will
probably elapse before the pile dis
appears. The whole district, however,
is imbued with the desire TO complete
the work and il necessary the women.
who took an active part in the COM
mencement of operations a week ago.
will handle pick and shovel again
The San Francisco call., 1908-09-14
ABOLISH STRIPES
IN STATE PRISONS
Comprehensive Scheme of Re-
form Mapped Out for Cali
fornia Penitentiaries
Convicts to Be Segregated Into
Three Classes, Good, Bad
and Hopeless

The adjustment Of stripes on the
garb. of a certain class of convicts is
one of the features of a comprehensive
plan of prison reform mapped out for
the penitentiaries of California
Improvement on far broader scope
than has ever been known in this state
since the establishment OF it's two
penal institutions has been planned
by the state board of prison directors
and will soon be in evidence at San
Quentin. In the way of actual work
foundations for buildings 10 contain
500 new steel cells have been laid at
San Quentin and Folsom prisons. The
work has been in progress for several
weeks at Folsom.
In maintaining its far reaching pol
icy of prison reformation the board OF
directors has formulated a plan to seq
regate prisoners into three different
classes, adding a few hereafter un-
known liberties to the first class men,
Prison garb in the first class will be
abolished.
The scheme of reformation is some
what unique and has been adopted in
many respects from successful~systems
in vogue in many United States pri-
sons The first class prisoners will be
the youngest and best deported con-
victs in the prison. Convict stripes.
shorn heads and faces will be unknown
to the members of this class Every
avenue for reform will be opened to
the willing prisoners.
Prisoners taken 10 the penitentiary
for the first time will be placed in the
second class. Whether they advance
to the first class or sink into the third
or hopeless class, depends upon their
conduct. II it be good they will go
into the first class. and il troublesome
or unmanageable they will be segre-
gated in the third class. Behavior and
youth win constitute the essential pre-
requisites of promotionA
AT both prisons the plan will go into
effect Immediately after the compile
tion of the buildings and yards At
San Quentin the cells will be ready
for occupants in a few months and a
few weeks later Folsoms improve
ments will have been completed The
segregation of prisoners will require
at least two months.
The total cost Of the improvements
will reach about 100000. Appropria-
tisns for the work were made by the
legislature several years ago.
The completion of the new additions
will mean that 500 brand new cells will
be provided at each penitentiary.