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"The Raven"

By George Hazelton. Published by d. Annie.
ton & Co., New York Price 81 so
Biographers have taken such a deal
Of pains to straighten out the tangIe
Of the life of Edgar Allan Poe that II
is distinctly discouraging to read a
novel like The Raven" which pur-
ports to be The Love Story of Edgar
Allan Poe" cTwixt Fact and Fanevl
The author has taken what facts he
could use and woven into and around
them such fiction as seemed good tn
him.
In this story Poe falls in love with
his cousin, Virginia GLENN. Roscoe
Pelham. who is. the secretary of Mr.
Allan, Poe's foster father, and who Is
also Poe's rival in love, poisons Mr..
Allan's mind against Poe and he is
driven from his happy home. Virginia
elects TO go with him. The pictures of
the sufferings and misery of Poe and
his delicate wife are heartrending. and
finally death takes her from him. Helen
Whitman and Virginia Poe were so
alike in appearance that Poe was de-
ceived, when he was about to commit
suicide one night on the grave of his
wife, by Helen's sudden appearance.
Poe thinks 1t the apparitIon of his
wife and is quite hysterical. Shortly
afterward his engagement to Miss
to Baltimore for no apparent reason.
Some cheap politicians drug him and
vote him fraudulentIy at the polls. and
Poe is picked up in the street by a
former slave and taken to his dingv
garnet. There Helen Whitman finds
him. and in the midst of a gloomy
thunder storm a most theatrical death
scene is pictured. Poe recites a stanza
of The Raven" and then says:
'Nevermore. Nevermorel Never
more" and Helen says, as he dies: "I
understand it now. 1t is the memory
he loved. not me-"
OF course, there is a bit OF mystery
about Poe's death. but the majority of
biographers agree that he died in a
hospital. Also, he had several other
love affairs and was not so senti-
mentally true to the memory of his
lost Lenore (Virginia).
1t is perhaps permissible to depart
from the truth in a book which is
frankly fiction. but for so many years
Poe's name has been surrounded by
obscurity and mystery that 1t seems a
pity to invent some new fiction about
him. The story is fairly well written
and entertaining, If one can remember
il is fiction, not fact.
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, "The Magnate'
= RnLert -

Br Robert Elson Published by Brentano's.
New York. Price Sl5e-
A very fat book from a well known
publisher bearing the name Of a bran
new author attracts attention at once.
such is THE Magnate." a book OF 1856
long pages. closely printed and with
narrow margins. a tremendous under
taking for a new writer. The book IS
frankly a love story and deals with
= phase OF marriage not often dis
cussed in novels It is hardly a prob
lem, for the conditions Of the story
are rare. one imagines. in life.
A poor but very proud young girl
occupies. the position of lady help.
one rather common in England. in an
exceedingly vulgar plebeian family
Janet Nicholson IS described as ra-
diant beauty and has never been able
TO keep q place very long, for some
male member of the family is sure
10 make love TO her. This condition
the author describes as the CLAWS OF
the Beast" or the Look OF the Beast, .
and Janet, who is the acme Of modesty
itself and only q. seems TO know
what this Look" always spelled with
a capitaD means
one day at the seaside, where she
is staying with her employers, COM
monplace, middle aged man meets her
by accident and Is able to help her and
some other people out of a disagree
able situation. This man is John
Holden. the magnate, and he falls in
love with her at once. She has never
heard Of him and is not particularly
interested. but after several meetings
she agrees to marry him If he viii
make no demands upon her whatever.
There is q lot Of very plain language
here and one is not left in much doubt
OF what she means. They marry and
she acts like a fool. She hirts with
any and every man she meets and is
dnsulted when they try TO take ad-
vantage Of her coquetting- No living
and breathing man, no flesh and blood
creation would stand the treatment
which Janet gave TO John Holden, but
he IS the only living angel, so he
stood il and won out in the end of
course. Some readers will sympathize
with Janet, and much Of her story is
30 doubtless true TO life, but the sex
discussion is too undisguised for pur-
poses Of fiction. It is hardly vulgar.
D.: but il is very jarring-
The story IS not well written; the
author does not succeed in deciding
3 which tense to write in until the book
Is finished, but he has ideas and ability
and does not deserve an unqualified
roast. II is a tremendous piece Of work
FOR first novel. and criticism untinged
bv malice is the best thing for the
author.
The book is much too long. q fault
easily avoided in future. but there are
Few pages which DO not contain some-
thing Of inte.est. The author knows
how to tell a story. an accomplishment
given 10 few
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STORAGE FOR SUB
MARINES

HE system of what may be called
| hot storage for running steam en-
gines without fuel is now suggested
for submarines. These are now gem
orally run by electric storage batteries.
which give out disagreeable and even
dangerous acid fumes. In the hot
steam storage system boiler of excep-
tional strength is filled almost full of
water, which is heated under pressure
far above the ordinary boiling point.
After the source of heat is cut off. the
boiler will give off steam for some tima
at pressure sufficient to run an engine
Such freless boilers have been known
and used long time. They are chiefly
employed nowadays on some small rail-
ways, in mines and in other nlaces
where gaseous products of combustion
are Objectionable. 1t is thought that
they will be great Improvement over
existing methods of driving subma-
rines. which will have under the new
system much greater radius of ac-
tion when totally submerged, while at
the same time furnishing more agree
able and healthful living quarters for
the crew
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-25
"The Bomb"
By frank Harris;

Rv frank Harris Published by Mitchell
Kennerley Now York. Price $l.50
The Bomb" Is a tale Of the horrible
IIaynlar rket riots OF Chicago OF 1885
or 1886. but il is a very biased version
Of the real facts OF the case. In a
foreword which the author writes for
the American edition he says: The
reports that reached US in London from
American newspapers were all bitter
liz one sided they read as If some
enraged capitalist had dictated them;
but after the bomb was thrown and
the labor leaders were brought to trial
little islets Of facts began TO emerge
from the sea Of lies. In 1907
i paid a visit to America and spent
some time in Chicago visiting the va
rfous scenes and studying the contem-
porarv newspaper accounts OF the
tragedy. ! came to the conclusion that
six out of seven men punished in Chi
4 cago We're as innocent as j was. and
that four OF them had been murdered
according TO law"
such a statement If read by one
biased against socialism would stop
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excellency, the editor of what is much
widely read New York newspaper" He
is a 35 year old Japanese schoolboy
and is engaged in learning everything
which comes his way in San Francisco
Like Dooley, he is vastly interested
in every phase Of American life, par
ticularly in our recreations and our
political institutions, neither of which
can he understand.
Thirty-nine of these letters have been
gathered for this volume, of which a
few of the best are: Lady Suffergettes
and How They DO It" "A Third Term
for Our Emperor" "Flighty Navigation
of Air." "Can Africa Wait Till March
4th?" Americas Base Game OF Ball, :"
Olympus Games and International
Cement" and The Servant Problemb.
We of California, who have seen so
much of the Jap. can, perhaps better
than other Americans, appreciate the
excellence OF weird Japanese dialect.
Mr. Irwin has studied this quite as
carefully as he did the hoodlum dialect
which brought him fame in q moment
several years ago.
These letters, while humorous, con-
tain many clever hits at our political
situation, at society. and at people in
the public eye.
The book is a close second to
Dooley and may beat him out The
book is filled with clever illustrations
by Rollin Kirby.
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New Books Briefly Noted

In .Modern Constitutions" by Walter
FairIeigh Dodd we have one of the
most useful publications OF the year.
1t is not a constitutional treatise, but
is rather a reference book for the his
torian or a text book for the student.
It is the only book of it's kind and is
brought up to the date Of its publica-
tion, January of this year. The book
is a collection of the fundamental laws
of 23 of the most important countries
of the world, with historical and bib
biographical notes Turkey Is not in
cIuded, nor is Persia, but these coun-
tries are and have been in such state
of unrest and change that definite and
permanent data could not be secured.
The necessity of the book is apparent.
for nowhere else can these laws be
found so gathered and so carefully ar
ranged. 1t is a book of facts and not
of comment, and no student of his
tory will wish to be without it. 1.-TWO
vols. University Of Chicago press. pub
fishers. $1,000
"The Portland Cement Industry From
a Financial Standpoint" Is a little
book by Edwin c. Eckel, in which he
discusses, certain features connected
with the financial side Of the indus
try He says he hopes that 1t will
prove of service both to the banker,
who is invited TO aid In Notation of
cement securities, and to the investor,
who is invited to buy them" He goes
on to tell about the industry and how
fine an investment 1T is IL honestly
handled, but says that competition Is
so keen now that dishonest and fraud
ulent concerns will soon be pushed to
the wall. Maps showing locations OF
plants are given and other interest
ing diagrams. (Moody's Magazine. New
York;
The Whittier Boys and Girls Maya
zine is a magazine issued bimonthly
from the State Industrial School for
Boys and Girls at Whittier. Cal The
January-February number Is a very
creditable one. The young people have
taken especial pains with it, An excel
lent photogravure of Lincoln is used as
frontispiece; a fine picture Of Presi-
dent Taft follows, and a photograph of
Governor Gillett and party is given for
good measure. Items of interest to the
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-25
Gossip of Books and Writers

The desk at the White House at
which the president does most OF his
writing is a very interesting piece OF
furniture. 1t was made from the TIM
bers of the Resolute. the vessel which
was sent in search OF Sir John Frank
lin The ship was caught in the ice
and had to be abandoned. Some years
later, however, II was discovered by
an American whaler and extricated. and
it was subsequently purchased by the
then president and people OF the United
States and sent TO Queen Victoria as
token of good will and friendship. In
an English dockyard the ship was
broken up. and from it's timbers a
desk was made. which was forwarded
by the queen to the American preSt-
dent "as memorial to the courtesy
and loving kindness which dictated the
offer OF the gift OF the Resolute."
The announcement that the Nobel
prize in literature has gone 10 Prof.
Rudolph Eucken has stimulated in
terest in an author who Is known
chiefly as a philosopher. Although
Professor Eucken's works have not yet
appeared in complete form in English.
he is known to every student OF
philosophy in America. particularly as
he has been the teacher OF a great
many of the prominent professors in
American Institutions. One of his Eng
lish disciples, W. B. Boyce-Gibson,
has written a study entitled Rudolph
Eucken's, Philosophy OF Life" which
has been published In this country by
the Macmillans.
Charles Wellington FurIong. artist
explorer and writer OF many articles on
the results OF his explorations, has
been made a fellow OF the Royal Geo
graphical society. 1t will be remem-
bered that 1t was Mr. Furlong who dis
covered in Tripoli harbor. in 1904. the
wreck OF the United States frigate
Philadelphia. which was sunk by De-
catur in 1904. The original fame OF
Mr.. Furlong, however. was not gained
as writer or as a traveller, but as an
artist He has been an exhibitor at
various academies, and an illustrator
for the magazines and was pupil
OF Bouguereau during his study abroad.
where his work won several prizes.
w. W. Jacobs. whose book. "Salthaven."
Is one OF the successes of the season
just passed, is fond of taking walking
trips through the south coast district of
England. where most OF the types which
appear In his stories are found VIII
owen, his artist collaboration, generally
accompanies him on these adventures.
The Kinneys. who have recently been
doing considerable amount OF book H.
luStrating, have sailed for Bermuda for
the purpose of getting local color for
DR.. Cyrus Townsend Brady's new novel
The Island of Regeneration to be
published IN the autumn by Dodd. Mead
& Co.
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of endurance under the strain of inces-
SAINT demand placed upon it. In the
decade elapsed since then there has
been only decline--deciine almost uni
versal and astounding in its extent.
In many places the sturgeon is prac-
tically extinct. and in others where once
important fisheries were prosecuted the
industry is nearly abandoned.
This amazing depletion of a fish once
''marvelously abundant" must be re-
garded as a natural or at least inevi-
table outcome of the character of the
fishery itself. The object of the fishing
has always been to obtain the roe for
caviar. Hence the spawning time was
the most favorable for profitable opera
tion, and the fishermen, with their char
acteristic disregard for the future, by
incessant fishing practically eliminated
natural reproduction.
The high value of the hard ova to the
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-25
Black Cross"

By Olive NJ. Briggs. Published by Mofat,
Yard & Co.. New York. Price 81 80.
The title of this story is taken from
the name of secret revolutionary and
terrorist club in st. Petersburg The
book is the veriest melodrama. but 1t
is so convincingly done that one grows
unconsciously more and more inter-
ested as the plot is unfoSled
Belasco, the young hero. fs IS great
virtuoso as Sarasati, and as great
an artist as Joachim but notwith-
standing that handicap he proves a
very human lover well worthy of the
charming and gifted Countess Kaya
She, too. is musician of rare ability,
with almost genius for getting her
self and her lover into tight places
The woman is charged with the
assassination of great Russian
official, and on being arrested is
She and Belasco escape together
and only the hero and heroine
of lurid melodrama could have
withstood the rigors OF the fright
full Russian winter. They were in
gypsy boys clothes and made a living
for a time as travelling musicians
Every sort OF trouble comes upon them:
The countess can not bear to marry
Belasco because of the crime she thinks
she has committed and after the cere-
mony, which is matter of form in or
der to get passports, she repudiates the
marriage. The part of the story dealing
with music and the stage is very well
done, showing the authors familiarity
with that life. The book throughout.
while utterly improbable, holds ones
interest to the exciting and satisfactory
climax. Sigismund de Ivanowski has
painted a very striking frontispiece
of the heroine in her stage costume. 1t
is reproduced in color and is very ef-
fectiye.
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fishermen and their inability to use the
soft or ripe ova in caviar have meant
the most vigorous efforts to secure the
roe before 1t becomes soft. The United
States fish commission and the states of
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware
have repeatedly tried sturgeon Matching
individually and in cooperation, but
the difficulty experienced in securing
ripe spawn and milt at the same time
has brought failure. The fact is. in the
Delaware district at least, the species is
SO nearly extinct and males so scarce
that even when ripe ova are secured a
male may not be taken for several davsI
or too late to be of any use. 1t is hard
to see how this condition can be easily
remedied With artificial propagation
more or less impracticable and natural
reproduction reduced to an absolute
minimum, the fate of the sturgeon is
obvious.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-25
The Passing of the Sturgeon

(From the Popular Science Monthly.)
DY 1897 the sturgeon fishery attained
ID the highest point of its commercial
value. over 100000, while at the same
time it appears to have reached its limit
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-25
r. sTEREfcRE | ENTERTAiH llM 10
BEER -czsErlONT AT SALCcN or
Rcs STNNSt Ky. IRISH PArwoor .
"a. irom LETTERS or a JApANg,
ne ScHocL eoY
''In the Valley of the Shadows

BY Thomas Lee Woolwne. Published by
Doubleday Page & Co.. New York Price ST.
The people of California have heard
much of Thomas Lee Woolwine AS
prosecuting attorney of Los Angeles he
made many bitter enemies and more
ardent friends and admirers by his Wig
orous enforcement, against the most
violent opposition, of the liquor laws.
When 1t was announced that he had
written novel, people who knew him
only as a fighting attorney were curl
Gus to see what sort of book he
would turn out. 1t is complete, sur
prise. It is a love story, almost idyllic
in its treatment The characters are
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-25

school are contained IN the opening ar
ticle. two poems and an article on san
Nicolas island. by Blanche Trask, fol-
low; report of a speech to the scholars
by Jacob Riis and an account of a min
strel show given by the students NIL the
book. 1t is well printed and shows the
working of the institution in an inter-
esting fashion
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-25
Letters of a Japanese SCHOOL,
boy"

By Wallace Irwin, author Of The Love Son
nets OF a Hoodlum'' etc. Published by
Doubleday. Page & Co.. New York. Price
$l.5O
Articles which are frankly humorous
when published separately lose much
when collected in book form on ac-
count of the sameness of the humor.
but Hashimura Togo is so real ere
alton now that 1t is necessity to
rescue his letters from the Oblivion
of a newspaper for the benefit of pos
terity Do not read the book through
at sitting; read letter every even
ing.
The letters originally appeared
anonymously in Golfers Weekly and
purported to be written by one Hashi-
mura Togo and addressed to Esteemed
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BOOKS REVIEWED

THE Eternal Boy" by Owen johnson
Letters of Japanese schooIboy." by Wallace
Irwin
THE Magnate" by Robert EIson
The Bomb" by Frank Harris
"The Raven" by George HazeIton
I'm the Valley of the Shadows" by Thomas Lee
WoOIwine
THE Black Cross" by Olive NJ. Briggs
The Ring and the Man." by Cyrus Townsend
Brady
The Pulse of Life" by Mrs BeIIoc Lowndes
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1909-11-04
NORTH DAKOTA
LARGEST SHIP
Latest Addition 90 Uncle Sans Fight
ing Force Built AT Cost OF TO-
100000 Dollars.

BOSTON. MASS Special Ready
for the test which viii qualify her 10
become Uncle Sans biggest peace
maker. the battleship North Dakota
steamed out from the Fore River
works Thursday morning for Province
town. Built at cost OF $IO.O0O.OOO
by the Fore River Shipbuidine Com
pany. IL is expected that her two Cur
us reversible turbines. with their %
600 horsepower. viii drive her 10000
tons through the waves az q twenty
one knot speed.
After running a few times over the
mile course at PrOvincetown for her
builders trials, the ship will head for
Boston and drop anchor off the
Charlestown navy yard at 10 o'clock
Friday morning. If all goes well.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1909-11-04
WILL REBUILD
TIE 0RPHkNkGE
LYNcuu-RG. EA Snec.al - "a

LlNlHH. Ra. Vas Special - Wrl
Do. MOST influential business mon n.-
.. II. .Irl. .e mn.. ODD lu tI. ....
..... tu r.-I.r. llc burned cutrt-.
t.H lr.-.l ..r.Hu .'rUnaulre Iar-.r
Iut better cham .rt.r. and Oh pur rn.
..r-.
a meeting ot the Board of Trustees
Was called and steps were taken to
rebuild. Tor Do is necessary to have tle
building as soon as possible
ae twenty -four girls are being
cared Cor iu the administration build
in-. a temporary dining room and
Ntcten have been installed in the
boys home
The -.r.- who were rescued from
the ure generally have severe colds.
out no serious illness ls expected nos,
Alrs. PRIEST the cook. who lII .l.I
heroic rescue work is improving
l.. ...."Hl nt tue u.. Victims rlIlI
1hr place tomorrow. and Do b. ur.b-
n.. taal -he services nu be very
br.el.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1909-11-04
COURTlkG SEASORTO
CLOSE At II O'CLOCK

RIG II MOND. VA Snecial -
Before he adjourned court this
morning Justice John arose 90 a Ques-
uon OF personal privilege. lie said
mat when he said ia court yesterday
ln a certain case that 10 O'Clock was
late enough for young people 20 be
up. he DID n0t know what was ia
store for him.
" hen / was a young man." he said
Ihat was long time ago" re-
marked Sergeant Mathews.
Well, anyhow. when L was young
man. 10 o'clock was the hour We had
10 put on our hats and get out. But
1 md that the habit and custom have
changed. II seems that Il O'Clock Is
now Jhe hour. When that publica-
ton was made yesterday IN The Jour
nal every young person In town must
nave read IL, FOR from early In the
afternoon 20 late at night and again
this morning 1 have received notes.
letters and phone messages OF pro
test from young ladies and young men,
and last night "A large party OF young
sters serenaded me and kept the mid
night air lurid.
Il wish 10 amend my remark and
say that IL O'Clock is the time TO start
10 go home now. These latter day
customs are SO different from what
they were seventy-flve years ago"
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1909-11-04
CRAVE CHARGES
AGAINST JUDGES
Ant-SalOOn League Ask Removal Of
Judges Who Participated In Re
cent Election mt Roanoke.
N. ". a. C~re- Above Troubles, Also
Eexema and Rheunsti-..

ROANOKE. Va Special Charges
I'm general have been preferred by the
Anu-Saloon League against many OF
the recently appointed judges OF the
election who served in the local Op-
ton election oi September Goth. Cen
eral misconduct on the part of the
Judges is charged. The grave charges
are against the Judges who served bon
kimhau Ward. where election Judge
W. j. Camper was arrested.
The Anu-Saloou League is asking
for the renewal of the judges
The electoral board has not given
out any Information regarding what
the charges are specifically. but 60 is
understood that nearly 100 persons.
mostly negroes. We're assisted by the
Judges in the mar.>inE of their ball
lets. contrary Co law. and that clerks
and others than Judges did Illegally
participate bon the count OF the ballots.
II is alsa charged that the ballots We're
not care uiIy counted. as tho law di-
reefs. before the opening of the polls.
and that the Judges did NOT canvass
and count the ballots ami ascertain
whether the number OF ballots cast
agreed with the number of names ou
the poll books.