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The San Francisco call., 1910-11-06
." A Reconstructed Marriage"
By Amelia Z. Barr. Published by Do

By Amelia Z. Barr. Published by Dodd,
Mead Co, New York. Price S1.25.
1t is many a long day since a tale
so old fashioned in its treatment has
come to the reviewers notice. Mrs
Amelia E. Barr has been writing love
stories for her young readers for more
than a generation and some of them
have been almost best sellers This
tale, "A Reconstructed Maria ge," is
not destined for any such place as that,
but will still be read by some on ac-
count Of the authors name.
Most Of the tale is told in Scotland
An extraordinary family is described;
selfish. narrow, absolutely lacking in
humOr and completely dominated by
the most unnatural mother ever de-
scribed in fiction. There are two
daughters and son. the daughters
are close to the age of "old maids"
when suddenly the son surprises and
shocks his family and friends by an
nouncing his intention to marry an
English woman. That is not the worst
Of her offense; she is a daughter of an
Episcopalian minister, and, awful to
think of. she has taught school and
written some school books. It is a hard
blow for the family, but they must ac-
cept it. so the. son marries and brings
his wife home. The descriptions which
follow, telling of the persecution Of
the lovely woman by this beastly
family, especially the mother, read like
the middle ages It is unbelieva Bile
that anything like it could have oc-
CURED IN real life in any country.
Finally the wife can stand no more and
runs away, with her father and mother
and her small son. to America. to a
beautiful suburb 10 miles from San
Francisco. How the marriage is re-
constructed the reader must discover.
but it takes a long and dreary time
and ones patience is nearly exhausted.
There is always much religion in Mrs.
Barr's works, but this one seems to
have more than any before it-over
much for the modern taste. It is sim
ply written and makes it's appeal to
young readers more than to those of
mature judgment and taste Well
.printed and daintily bound.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-06
"His Hour


By Elinor GIyn Published by u. Appleton
& Co., New York. Price S1.5o-
Elinor Glyn has broken loose again,
but the time limit is much shorter for
this outbreak than for the last. She
crowds it all into His Hour and the
Three Weeks" episode is now forgot
ten and out of date. The character of
this tale is quite different from that
one, too, and though containing much
brutality, is on the whole more con-
vincing.
The heroine is a young widow of %.
English supposedly. but when we are
half through the book, a yelled hint
shows where the trace of unconven-
tionai blood in her came from She is
in Egypt with a friend and decides to
go out and visit the sphinx alone in
the middle of the night. Of course,
she has an adventure, but it is rather
tame. She makes the acquaintance of
a strange young man, who also wishes
to see the sphinx without being
bothered by tourists. He has a very
magnetic personality and his casual
conversation makes the girls heart
beat faster, so the reader begins to
look for trouble.
The next day she and her friend
leave Egypt, but find on board the
young man. Events march quickly.
They meet often and when the young
widow is restless after settling down
in England we are not surprised. In
a day or two she receives a letter from
her Russian godmother asking her to
pay a visit. The invitation is accepted
and in less than week she is in Rus
Sia. The godmother proves to be an
old friend of the prinA's; Oh, yes. he
is prince. And now Begins the WOO
ing, a most improper word for the pas
sionate outbursts to which the prince
treats his lady love, and incidentally
the readers.
To cap the climax he entertains a
house party at his country place near
Moscow and all are driving home again
in several different equipages. OF
course, the prince and Tamara, the
widow are alone in one sleigh and he
has arranged with his servant to drive
them to one of his hunting lodges for
the night, supposedly to take refuge
from the storm Here he has the lady
at his mercy and frightens her nearly
to death. She does become unconscious
and when she awakes imagines that
she is forever disgraced. She loves
him all the same, but will not tell him
that. The next day he proposes for
mally for her hand and she thinks he
is trying to make honorable repara-
tion for his treatment of her and she
accepts in the same formal fashion.
She is quite miserable and unhappy,
but they are married in two weeks ana
not till then does he tell her that she
was quite safe with him-that he had
only hoped to tame her, that he had
thought she was flirting with him, ETC.,
etc, and then after the novel is finished
comes His Hour
This tale is very slight and has no
particular reason for being except that
a few Russian customs are described
in rather an interesting fashion. 1t
is not written as well as previous
works from this authors pen and one
has the feeling that 1T is the work of
an amateur. There are places in the
book where the writing is positively
schoolgirlish. We still are of the
opinion that her early work, The
Visits of Elizabeth, is decidedly her
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tes and Gossip of Books and Their Authors

Pleasant Pages" written by Arthur
Guiterman and composed and manu-
factured under the direction of ]. H.
Nash, typographer, was issued by Paul
Elder & Co, November l. 1t is to be
a catalogue of the books and cards
suitable for the Christmas holidays and
other loving time days throughout the
year. that are issued by these western
publishers" but they announce that the
same care and thought have been given
to its preparation as to the most choice
of their publications. 1t will consi st
of 64 pages of text written in an origi-
nal and interesting manner with a com
plete cross reference of contents and
index to all the articles enumerated
model of catalogue arrangement
These and the four cover pages will be
printed from hand set type composed in
panels of hand mitered>brass ru1es-an
example of Typography that will in
terest all lovers of good printing. There
will be Is full page Illustrations and
various displays of selections and liter
ary matter that will add to the "un-
commercial interest of the booklet
Robert Kitchens new short novel,
which is to appear in the Century be-
ginning with November. was first called
Deep waters" but the name has been
changed to The Dweler on the
threshold" 1t is a psychical story.
Zane Grey. who wrote the new novel
of the southwest called The Heritage
of the Desert" is man of many ex-
periences Besides his numerous ad :
ventures in hunting and exploration he
was at one time baseball player.
Apropros of this part of his career
he tells this story: II lost close and
exciting game between Harvard and
Pennsylvania in most unusual man
ner Along the left field foul line
was a track used by runners and jump
ers The ground keeper had neglected
to fill up the hole dug by the spiked
shoes&of these track athletes. I was
playing left field for Pennsylvania. In
the ninth inning with score tied, Har-
ward at bat. and bases full, Scannel hit
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-06
"Tf David Knew"

BY Frances Aymer Matthews. Published by
G. W. Dillingham; Co., New York; price
$1.50D
If David Knew" is a horrible story
It gives the life history of a woman
who has the morphine habit. The drug
has been carelessly given to her as a
schooIgirI and she has not been able
to shake off the habit. Her mother Ga
villain who does not appreciate the
depths of her own wrong doing) man
ages to engineer a rich marriage for
the girl and then the troubles crowd
thick and fast on every one. The
father and mother and brother of the
bride all live with her and the terror
"If David Knew hangs over the house,
hold every moment.
The book shows something of what
the horrors of the morphine habit are;
but its big object is to show how terri
Bile is the power of an unscrupulous
physician. The foolish exaggera ton
in description of the home lives of
the very rich takes away much of
value in the book. The writing
throughout is careless and Indifferent
about on a par with that-found ip the
usual shilling shocker. The author
has ideas, however. and plenty Of judi
cious blue penciling would make the
story of value to read and perhaps a
real lesson. 1t may, as 1t is. open the
eyes of people to the physicians place
in the community his tremendous
power through drugs and the reason
for carefully watching the moral char
acter of men who take up this pro-
feSsiOn
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-06

and playwright and has written half a
hundred works of all sorts.
Harry Peyton Steger of Doubleday.
Page & Co. is the literary executor Of
w. S. Porter 20. Henry. He would
like to have copies of any letters or
documents from the short story writer.
Also he would like to hear from any
body who is interested In a biography
of 90 Henry" Communications should
be addressed to Mr.. Steger in care of
Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City.
n. Y.
Lillian Whiting, has returned to Bos-
ton from her annual pilgrimage to
Italy and France In addition TO the
important work Louise Chandler
Moulton, Poet and Friend" which she
has been preparing for autumn pub1i-
cation, Miss Whiting is completing an
other volume along the Line of her
popular World BeautifuT' SERIES to
be called Life Transhgured."
Thomas Nelson Pages story, THE
Bigot," in the November Scribner, is a
profound and pathetic study OF religi-
Gus prejudice and of its results.
One of the most interesting of the
many trips into the wilderness made
by Ernest Thompson Seton was a
canoe journey of 500 miles into the
practically unknown country of the
great Arctic prairies. In the November
Scribner he describes his frst hunting
I'm The Land of the Buffalo," 1t was
the prospect of experiencing TODAY
some of the romance and glamor of
the old wild west days that attracted
him to a country where buffalo may
still be found
Mary Synon is new name to most
magazine readers. She has written
remarkably fine story in The Boy
Who Went Back to the Bush' that
appears in the November Scribner
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-06

a high fly to left field. The Pennsyl-
vania adherents expected sure out.
But just as I looked up to catch the
ball stepped into the hole. The ball
hit me upon the head. bounced clear
into the bleachers, and all the runners
scored"
When Phoebe and Ernest" was ap-
pearing in the pages of the American
Magazine, 1t became evident that Mrs.
Inez Haynes Gilmore had created a
young brother and sister with a very
wide human appeal, and that many a
reader was living over again his or her
youth in their experiences, as numerous
letters received by the editors testified
This rejuvenating story was published
the latter part OF October by Henry
Holt & Co., who retained in the
book Mr.. Schabelitz's striking line
drawings that proved SO popular n the
magazine.
Herbert w. Fisher. author of MAX
ing Life Worth While" which has just
been published by Doubleday. Page &
Co, is a lawyer by profession and is
now practicing in New York city. He
is a brother of Irving Fisher. professor
Of political economy in Yale ,univer-
sity.
AT the last dinner of the American
book sellers association one of the
souvenirs was paper weight which
contained this rubricated text: TO
write a book is an easy task: 1t re-
quires only pen and ink and some pa
tient paper. To print a book is slight
ly more difficult. because genius often
expresses itself in illegible manuscript.
To read book Is still more difficult,
as one must struggle against sleep.
But the most difficult task that any
one may attempt is to sell a book .
The Harpers presented the paper
weights, but the sentiment belongs
to one of the most prolific of modern
writer's, Felix Dahn, man who, more
over, never sold book in his life. He
is a German novelist, historian. jurist
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-06

By A. L. Quiller-Couch. author of "True
Tilda,'' etc. Published by Charles Serb
ner's Sons. New York Price S1.20.
Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch gives US
in Lady Good for Nothing" d sample
of his work in an entirely different
vein from anything he has done before.
The scene of this charming early
eighteenth century romance is laid in
and around Boston in the dreadful
strait laced colonial times. The author
with a few deft touches gives us the
life of the heroine up to the time the
tale opens when she is a handmade in
the Bowling Green inn at Port Nassau.
The next day she is discovered by the
hero. being scourged through the
streets for a trifiing offence of Sab
bath breaking. The hero, a customs
officer. is an Englishman of high rank
and up to this time in his life has
lived as the young gallants Of the
day were permitted, in loose and
prof1igate manner This young girl
shows that she will be a great beauty;
for that first, is Sir Oliver attracted to
her. but after he has rescued her from
her humiliating position and talked
with her, he becomes really interested
and offers to take her away and edu-
cate her. Of course his motives are
m understood, but he proves that his
intentions are honest by placing the
SlrI with "a woman companion at a
house near Boston and never going to
see her at all. At the end of two years
he asks her to marry him and she con-
sents. though in humility. for she has
worshiped him as a dog does its mas
ter, and thinks he is condescending.
The life story of this extraordinary
girl is brought out with much skill by
the author, and one is scarcely aware
that there is a most careful character
study being developed along with the
love story. The honeymoon lodge in
the woods is one of the most idyllic
conceptions imaginable and the slow
development OF the girls character
with her changing experience is more
like life than fiction. Ruth goes to
Portugal and is there at the time Of
the Lisbon earthquake, the scenes read
ing very like some of our own expert
ences in San Francisco. Many of the
important events of the story hang
upon religion, but the author has so
managed that no reader can be Of
Tended
The tale is the history OF a pure
woman, but one who was condemned
by almost all of her acquaintances
without investigation. 1t is written
in a style quite above criticism; all
this authors work being not only con-
scientious but of the first literary
quality. The book will make discus
sion. 1t is well worth reading.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-06

These very interesting creators ask
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-06
"The Mistress of Shenstone"
Rr Elnrence L Rarelav author OF -

By Florence L. Barclay. suthor OF The
Rosary etc. Published by G. z. Put
sI85. " 80 anu 'l-'' '''e
Readers who enjoyed 1.-THE Rosary
VIII be glad to meet again Myra. the
mistress OF Shenstone, and Jane, the
splendid, the strong minded. There are
other old friends. too. but the story is
not a sequel in any sense of that first
so popular book. This is a love story,
pure and simple. and a pleasure for
readers of all ages.
Myra, the mistress of Shenstone, has
been married TO Lord Michael Ingelby
when she was a child. She had feel
ing OF affection and respect for him.
but had no idea .of love. He is a deep
student. a scientist, and has spent most
OF his time in his laboratories making
experiments. When war breaks out he
takes a new explosive which he has
perfected for experiment, and by the
carelessness. nervousness or accident
OF some one I'm making signals Lord
Ingelby is himself killed. When the
news is brought to Lady Ingelby she is
asked IL she wishes TO know the name
of the man responsible, and she very
sensibly declines
Then the very pretty love story hap
pens. She has been sent to a quiet sea-
side place incognito for a rest. A man
is also there incognito, resting too and
working on some writing. They fall in
love and the tale is a real idyl When
their play days are over the man dis
covers the identity of his loved one and
the shock nearly kills him. A mutual
friend tells Lady Ingelby at once what
the secret is. In the midst of all this
comes the report of Lord Ingelbys
death being mistake.
Terrible complications arise and it
requires much talk to straighten out all
of these difficulties. but in the end the
path is made smooth for them. The
story is consistent and the character
studies are well done. The love story is
sweet and simple and the book as
whole is well written. Miss Barclays
work is deserving of all praise.
The San Francisco call., 1910-11-06

themselves and each other the question
Of marriage, but the answers are far
from satisfactory, nor do all the char
acters follow the advice given. The
problem is too complicated and takes a
lifetime in which to work it out. The
story is modern to the last words; Au-
gust, 1910. is the last day mentioned.
and the author may al some later day
round out the unfinished lives of some
of her chara cters. The book is de-
cidedly the biggest and most important
work FROM Miss Sinclairs pen, but it
is to beAquestioned if the great public
will be as interested in the tale as in
its predecessors. Literary folk are sure
TO read it and discuss the pros and cons
of its problem, but it may not be so
vital to others. It is strongly written
and deserves attention
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-01
OYEZ! OYEZ! OYEZ!
BAILIFF LOSES HIS
NOTED PALASAN CANE

Hear ye. Hear vel" Bailiff Ralph
DOminguez has lost his Palasan cane,
that cracked the skull of bolo man in
the Philippines; saved tho life of "A
soldier of fortune and Travelled with
President Taft when he was n member
of the Philippine commission on his trip
10 the islands.
The cane was formerly the property
of Captain Robert Won Zaudt, former
German army officer and soldier of for
tune under many flags, who brought 1t
into play on the head of native of
the islands when he was about TO be
bolOed.
Dominguezs brother, Frank Domin-
guez, the attorney, obtained the cane
while on a trip with President Taft. He
gave it so the bailiff, who has never
been without IL. II is made Of the royal
PalasBn wood in the earlier days ma
terial for canes carried only by the
nobility
How Dominguez lost his cane he does
not know. Daily he used 1t to thump
the opening of the district and circuit
courts and h much affected at its loss.
He refuses TO be COnsOled by the pur-
chase of another and declares he will
use his fist as "A prelude to bis Hear
ye! Hear yer every morning.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-01
OFFICE BUILDING
PLANNED BY CLUB
Members of Sierra Madre Start
Movement to Erect Finest
Home in the West
GREAT ENTHUSIASM IS SHOWN
Directors Are Requested to Take
Steps Towards Securing
Suitable Location
GREAT ENTHUSIASM IS SHOWN

Plans for the erection of one of the
finest clubhouses in the west were
started at a dinner of the members of
the Sierra Madre club in the club
rooms in the Colonial Trust building
last night. To further the movement
a number of those pledged themselves
to secure 1O2 new members within
ninety days.
There were eighty-five club members
at the dinner, which was held for the
purpose of considering the advance
ment and enlargement of the club.
Much enthusiasm was shown and the
movement was heartily received and
advanced to d greater extent than was
anticipated.
At the conclusion it was resolved
that the directors be requested to take
steps toward securing u suitable loca-
tion in the central part of the business
district of the city and the erection
of an office building. 1t is the pur-
pose of the club to use the upper floor
for club purposes and the remaining
floors for Office and other commercial
uses, 1t is the intention to gather In
to such an extent as would be prac-
ticaI the various mining and oil in
terests of Los Angeles.
The matter of building a. larger and
more commodious house or securing
larger quarters has been under con
sideration by the Sierra Madre club
for some months past. The mem
bership has grown to such proportions
that the old rooms have become
cramped. There are now more than
$50 members in the organization.
Among those who spoke advocating
the building of a new central office
and club structure were Timothy
SpelIacy. Dick Ferris, Donzel Stoney,
Seeley W. Mudd, c. S. Long, Sidney
Norman, w. r. Wharton, c. K. Doug
las. T. J. Carrigan, J. D. Thomson,
w. c. Hill, T. NJ. Townsend and c.
3. Guthrie.
E A. Montgomery is president of
the club and Tim Spellacy is vice pres
jdent. The secretary is Sidney Nor
man. L. c. Haynes is treasurer.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-01
AIRMEN PROMISE
GOOD LOCAL MEET
Arch Hoxsey Tells Story of His
Thrilling Flight Backward
for 20 Miles

'My best thriller? My one best bet
said Arch Hoxsey. member of the
Wright brothers team of Brookins and
Hoxsey, airmen, last evening in the
Van Nuys lobby.
well, it is easy to pick my prize
experience-easy because there never
was another like it. 1t was riding
backwards in the air"
Sounds funny, doesn't it?" con-
tinued Mr.. Hoxsey, noting the aston
ishment on the faces of his auditors.
Sounds almost like a fish story-but
can assure you there was nothing
funny about it. In fact 1t was almost
uncanny-and an experience, which,
while I do not fear it, I am not par
ticular about going through again.
1T happened while I was flying at
Belmont park, New York You know,
it is unpleasant to ride backwards on
land or on water-in fact some people
cannot stand it at all. 1t makes them
ill. Riding backwards in the air is no
more pleasant. It's the wrong way to
ride. and the rider can't help dislik-
ing it.
'On the day on which my backward
ride took place the wind was blowing
a gale I got up speed. Then turned
my machine into the wind and one
grand battle began-a fight between
a gasoline propelled air craft and the
elements 1t was a good fight and
fierce one, but the elements won.
"When started against the wind
I was travelling about forty-five miles
an hour After one hour and a quar-
ter, fighting it with the machine going
at that pace, l landed twenty-five
miles in one hour and a quarter AS
far as 1 have been able to discover,
that is the longest backward ride in
the air on record.
'I had to stay where I landed all
night and fly back to the park the
following day. That's my one best
bet in the flying line"
Both Hoxsey and Walter Brookins,
his flying partner, are in Los Angeles
awaiting the settlement of the aviation
problems which local promoters are
facing. They arrived here yesterday
and have their flying craft with them.
They are guests at the Alexandria.
do you expect to fly here?" was
asked.
That's up to the manager. Roy
Knabenshue," said Hoxsey. HE ar
ranges all that, and We just fly. I can
say, however, that if the proper
grounds are secured we can give Los
Angeles a good, If not the greatest,
aviation meets ever held in the world.