NEW BOOKS.Twenty thousand dollars is the tidy

> littlesum that the Century has paid Mrs.Humphry Ward for a new novel, and sheretains the right to publish the fiction inbook form.

"Literature of Decadence" is the an-nouncement of a startling poster in one ofPoxey's windows. Under this title arearranged the works of Ibsen, Nordau, JohnOliver Hobbes, l'aul Yerlaiae, Richard LeGallienne, Phil ZUJghels, sketches by Au-brey Beardsley, John Sloan, HazenplugPissaro and others of that school, and suchtip-to-date producers as the Echo, Mcods,the Lark, the Philistine, the Evergreen,Bibelot and the Chap Book. While theseworkers in the field of modern thoughtmay he justly considered end of the cen-tury representatives it is not fair to classthem all with the decadence group led byIbsen and Nordau. Quite a majority ofthese young people have healthy brains intheir skulls and healthy thoughts in theirbrains.

Annie Laurie's book, "The Little BoyWho Lived on the Hill,"is almost readyfor publication. Itwillbe illustrated bySwinnerton.

John Burroughs says some excellent•words in Stone & Kimball:s last ChicagoChap Book.

The difference between a precious stone anda common strut' is not an essentin.l difference

—not a difference <>f substance, but of arrange-ment 01 the particles— the crystallization, says

Mr.Burroughs. Insubstance the charcoal andthe diamond are one, but informand effect howwidely they differ. The pearl contains nothingthat is not .found in the coarsest oyster shell.Two mi'n have the same thoughts; they useabout the same words in expressing them ;yetwith one the product is real literature, withthe other it isa platitude. The difference is allin the presentation; a liner and more com-pendious process has pone on in the one casethan in the other. Tne elements are betterfused and knitted together; they are in someway heightened and intensiiied. Is not here aclew to what we mean by style? Style trans-forms common quartz "into an JEgyptianpfhble. We are apt to think ofstyle as something external, that can be putoii, something inand of itself. But it is not;it is in the inmost texture of the substance it-self. I'oiish, choice words, faultless rhetoricare only the accidents of style. Indeed, perfectworkmanship is one thing; style, as the greatwriters have it, isquite another. Itmay, andoften does, go with faulty workmanship. Itisthe use of words ina fresh and vitalway, so astogive us a vividsense o£ a new spiritual forceand personality. Inthe best work the style isfound and hidden in the matter.

• * *One

fault that Ilind with our youngerand more promising school of novelistsis that their aim is too literary; wefeel that they are striving mainly for artisticeffect. * * *

Their seriousness ismainly an»rustic seriousness. It is not so much "thatthe}- have something to say as that they aretilled with a desire to say something. Nearlyall our magazine poets "seem tilled with theFame desire. What labor, what art and tech-nique, but what a dearth of feeling and spon-taneity! Iread a few lines or stanzas ar.<lthen stop. Isee it is only deft handicraft,and that the heart and soul are not init. Oneday my boy killed what an old hunter toldhim was a mock dock. Itlooked like a duck,itacted like a duck, it quacked like a duel;,but when it came upon the table— it mockedus. These mock poems of the magazines re-mind me of it.

INDEPENDENT PAMPHLETEERING.At no time in the literary history of the

century has there been such a tendencyupon the part of young writers to rashinto print independently of the establishedavenues of literary publicity.Itwould seem as though America had

periodicals in abundance to minister tothe mental requirements of the public, oreven to furnish an outlet for the energiesof those afflicted with scribenditis. Ap-parently, however, we have not, for neariyevery month sees the advent of a new yen-

ture in this line. Itre not alone that wehave Moods, Chips, The Chap Book, TheBibelot, The Philistine, Keynotes, TheEvergreen and The Lark, but we are being

flooded of late withnickel publications ofevery sort, homeopathic doses of thought,

done up inartistic sbape and printed onthe best of hand-made paper, with allthe accessories of line and rubricknown to the printing trade, buthomeopathic doses nevertheless, and themost of them, itis to be confessed, dear at

the nickel or the dime that are the regula-tion price for them. We seem to be enter-ingupon an era of independent pamphlet-eering, wherein every man, woman andchild having something to say puts itforthwith into a thin little volume andsends itforth to find an audience with ihepublic.Itis a question whether these thin little

volumes do find an audience. Book-buy-ers, as a rule, do not care for these littlebooks. They desire volumes that have, soto speak, "a presence" —books which theycan arrange upon their library shelves,and to which they can point with pride, asit were, as evidences of literary taste.They want books to possess weight andproportion in the tangible and realisticas well as the figurative sense. Only thefew fittd mental pabulum in the workofthe independent pamphleteer, who is

usually such because, as hinted above, heis denied transportation along the recog-,nized highways of literature.

But itis to be feared that there is gener-ally some reason for this denial. Candorcompels the admission that the pretty lit-tle pamphlets of individual expression arefor the most part thin in contents, as wellas in proportion. The keynote of the ageis expression, an eminently useful word inits way, but by no means equal to the tasklately putupon itof bearing the vagariesof a generation. The tendency of the ageis to come before the world with itsthoughts, or, lacking these, with its feel-ings. This is eminently true of ouryounger writers, who are "mainly responsi-ble for the all-pervading pamphlet. Theburden of this sort of literature is woe, woe,and yet more woe. Our young friendsfling their intellectual anatomy about witha recklessness that would be amazing wereit not so readily understandable. Itismerely a part of the general desire of theego of the age to make itself known, togive itself expression. Like most neuroses,this condition brings melancholy, the sureprerogative of youth and inexperience,and the corresponding misapprehensionthat individual emotion is of interest tothe world at large. Our young writerswho run to pamphlets have a grievanceagainst the publishing part of the world.They believe there is a "conspiracy ofsilence" against them, and thej' are fainto scale the battlements and storm thecastle of Public Opinion unaided andalone. A characteristic of the group is anevident and painful lack of reading, ofstudy, of coherent and consecutivethought. They have no mental back-ground, everything they write is in theforeground. They are contemporaneous toa degree, and correspondingly impatient ofthat which has gone before them.

Thus it comes about that we have ar-rived at what may be called a neuroticscnool of literature, whose aim itis to pro-duce the outre, the bizarre, the quaint, butwhich only succeeds, as a rule, in giving usihe overstrained, the ill-digested and theunspeakably melancholy. "Expression forexpression's sake" is its watchword, awatchword as false as is that other cry ofcertain schools, '"art for art's sake."

A mental colic, according to this school'sreasoning, is as legitimate a subject forexpression as are any of the higher pro-cesses of mentality; and, judging from thepublished matter of our pamphleteers, isfar more frequent. One hesitates to beharsh, but the thought thrusts itself uponthe mind that what most of these youngwriters need is not publishers, but pep-permints.

THE GENESIS OF CALIFORNIA'S FIRSTCONSTITUTION.

This is a monograph in the series ofJohns Hopkins University studies inpolit-ical science. Itis a stud3 rin constitution-making by Professor Rockwell D. Hunt ofthe University of the Pacific. Itis an in-telligent study of a subject of great inter-est. The dramatic events of the history ofCalifornia prior to the American conquestare first briefly sketched.

The political and constitutional as wellas the social conditions of territorial Cali-fornia were unique. Never were law andadministration more needed ;seldom has an

enlightened community endured so inade-quate a legal system and so precarious anadministration. The early Californianleaders (Castro, Vallejo and Pico) were toodiscreet to attempt an expulsion of theAmericans after the conquest; and theAmericans were not permitted to throw offthe unsavory Mexican law. The persistentdesire for admission into the FederalUnion was itself doubtless a bar to themuch-needed local organization. The pro-found National significance of this new ac-quisition at a time when there was but onequestion in American politics is the keythat must oe constantly in the hand of thestudent who would gain a comprehensiveview of the local distracted situation.Slave extension created California: Cali-fornia effectually checked slave extension.

The American population of Californiaduring 184<i and 1847 was very small,widely scattered, and altogether in aposition extremely disadvantageous foredicient, united political action of anykind. But it had become evidentto the settlers that the coun-try was destined to be permanentlyAmerican; and it is not surprising that aclamor began to arise tor American lawsand institutions, and that expressions ofdissatisfaction with the impotent MexicanGovernment and seemingly harsn militaryrule grew louder and louder. It cannotbe charged to the discredit of the earlysettlers that they thus manifested dissat-isfaction with the existing order of things,and evinced an earnest and persistent de-sire for organized government. They were,

for the most part, honest, energetic andintelligent pioneers who had been accus-tomed to law and order. California being nolonger under the corrupt and despotic ruleof Mexico, they were not unreasonable inexpecting better things from the UnitedStates. But their greatest grievance wasthe very want of law adequate to the pro-tection of life and property, ana to thecomplete administration of justice. As ttiepopulation increased, causes for disaffec-tion multiplied. Those Americans whohad lived under the Mexican regime hadlearned to accommodate themselves meas-urably to the existing conditions and tothe use of the Spanish language; but inproportion as the American population in-creased after the conquest, and graduallygained the ascendency of numbers, it wasunreasonable to expect the new comers toadapt themselves to the effete Mexicanlaws, at best only partially perpetuatedand imperfectly administered, and labor-iously to acquire mastery of a languageplainly and speedily being superseded bytheir own English."

"While awaiting news of the close of thewar withMexico and a scheme for civilgovernment from Washington came thediscovery of gold. The news was beingdisseminated, the tide of immigration hadbegun. The already growing desire fororganized government was greatly accel-erated. The need was almost infinitely in-creased and better administration of jus-tice seemed to be absolutely imperative.Could honest Americans hope longer forthe promised civil organization fromWashington, or should they themselvestake the initiative?

In the spring of 1849 General Hileysuperseded Colonel Mason as de facto Gov-ernor of California. He recognized thegrave difficultyof undertaking to admin-ister the civil affairs in a province whichwas neither a State nor an organized Ter-ritory; he desired to keep the military au-thority, so intolerable to the people, asperfectly hid from view as possible.While the undisputed fact of his military

authority was itself offensive to leadingsettlers, they denied that he possessed any-civilauthority whatever. But as chief ex-ecutive of the province, he must needs actincivil capacity; hence arose the contro-versial conflict between de facto (or ex-officio) Governor and people. While Gen-eral Riley awaited the liual news fromCongress, the people of the several districtsproceeded, with characteristic Americanregularity, in their arrangements for acivil government proceeding from theirown initiative.

Immediately on learning that Congresshad the third time failed to make provision

for the government of California, GeneralRiley asserted his civilauthority ina most

emphatic manner by issuing a call for ageneral constitutional convention, and byproclaiming the so-called legislative As-sembly of San Francisco, the head andfront of the settlers' movement, to be anillegal and unauthorized body. The As-sembly, on its part, prGte-ted againstRilev's intervention, and reasserted whatit believed to be its undoubted right—viz.,the right of self-government, in default ofsuitable government by the United States.The issue was sharply defined; bin thecitizens were too much in earnest in theirdesire for efficient government to allowthemselves haughtily to stand out againstthe de facto Governor and hold themselvesaloof from his really practicable measuresjust announced; therefore, they were notlong in acceding to his time and place forthe convention.

The convention met September 1, lS4f>, inColton Hull, Monterey, and concluded itslabors October 13. The author sketches in-detail the salient features of the conven-tion, and adds that a hish order of skillwas required to bring to completion a sat-isfactory constitution for a commonweal tliwhose history was absolutely unique andwhose early admission into the Union wasseen to be extremely doubtful. Itwas for-tunate that the convention was ruled by

no demagogue, no faction, no party. Themixed character of ttie personnel proved asafeguard. The claimsof Northern senti-ment and Southern chivalry had to be re-garded ; ardent Americans fresh from "theStates" were tempered by older pioneersand Hispano-Californians; all were com-pelled to subn'it to repeated compromise,and t bus a moderate, judicial and workableconstitution was created.

The achievement illustrates the greatcapacity of the American people for self-government. The' constitution offered tothe .citizens of California for their con-sideration and their votes sprang imme-diately into great favor, and the membersof the convention were warmly praised forhaving done their work faithfully and "ad-journed withunimpaired goodwill." The

document received the highest commenda-tions from all sources, as the "embodimentof the American mind, throwing its con-victions, impulses and aspirations into atangible, permanent shape."Itmade California a free State. Itwas

advanced, liberal, and thoroughly demo-cratic; founded upon social and politicalequality, it was enlightened in its pro-visions for education and catholic in itsguaranty of religious freedom. Allpoliticalpower was declared to he inherentin the people, and all officers of the Gov-ernment were made elective. Althoughthe achievement of an assembly extremelyheterogeneous and in the main unused tolaw-making, it embodied the principles ofthe best political and jurisprudentialphilosophers; and, contrary to the ex-pectations of some of its framers, it en-dured for thirty years as the fundamentallaw of the empire State of the Pacific.

EDITH; A STORY OF CHINATOWN.

This is a little tale written with theavowed purpose of enabling San Franciscoto "see herself as others see her." Theauthor, Harry M. Johnson, declares that"ifthe residents of the larger Pacific Slopecities could be brought to realize theshocking condition of the moral atmos-phere of their communities, they wouldnot be slow in mending the existing stateof affairs, which has been of such longstanding that, through its very familiarity,ithas lost its hideousness to native-bornCalifornians and oldresidents." The pecu-liar evils to which he alludes are certainIconditions that in times past have pre-vailed on the outskirts of Chinatown.

Mr.Johnson's effort for the purificationof the Pacific Coast is well-meaning, butcuriously unintelligent. His littlebook iswritten out of a fullness of ignorance of avery great subject. There are thousandsofresidents of the Pacific Slope who couldcap his story with others far more heart-rending, of far less fortunate sequence, andwho coultl assure him that the people ofSan Francisco are very much alive to theplague spot that exists in the City's heart,and would like nothing better than, un-hindered by Eastern legislation and senti-mentalism, to wipe it out of existence.But while Mr. Johnson talks about China-town his story deah merely with a blockor two of Dupont street. A young girlleaves a happy home in company with avillain,and when he is wearied of her shedrifts into Dupont street, where she is dis-covered and rescued. The story is in itselfhighly improbable; the conception of such

a girl in such a situation is wholly illogi-cal. Mr. Johnson allows his romanticfancy to run away with his common-sense,so far as his portrayal of Edith is con-cerned. As a consequence his story is initself so absurd as todefeat its own entirelylaudable end, namely, castigation of theback of evil. Ifthe author willvisit SanFrancisco again the management of TheCall will undertake to see that he isafforded ample opportunity to investigateChinatown from the inside, and that he isgiven an insight into the Chinese questionin all its bearings. Once in a position tospeak intelligently it is only fair to supposehe will modify his assertion that Cali-fornia's citizens are ignorant of orcalloused

to the e7il that exists in our midst. [Bos-ton: The Arena Publishing Company.Price 75 cents. J

A GALLOWAY HERD.In that set of young Scotch novelists

which now forms so brilliant a galaxy inthe literature of the day there isnone wiio rose more rapidly to fame oracauiretl more promptly a wide circle ofreaders tban S. K. Crockett, the author of"The Stickit Minister" and "The Raiders."The publication of his new novel, "AGalloway Herd," willtherefore be regardedas one of the literary events of the season.Itis one of the longest stories he has yetwritten, and will take rank among his

more ambitious works. It will not, how-ever, add much to his fame or give en-couragement to those who have looked toBee him crow into a really great novelistand do for thid generation what Dickens,Thacueray and George Eliot did for theone just passed.

It would appear from this story thatCrockett's talent does not go much furtherttian to enable him to depict the humorousside of Scotch character. This, oicourse,is a talent not to he scorned. A newhumorist whose genial eyes see the lov-able aspects of human nature, even in theroughest guise, and who teaches us tolaugh with sympathy and not with de-rision at mankind, will never be withouthonor in this melancholy world, wherelaughter is needed as a medicine, andwhere it is too often furnished by thosewho make ita mockery instead of genuinedelight.

Inthe characters of "AGalloway Herd"we have the true humor that pleases anddoes not hurt. The Scotch farmers ofDumfries will not resent this picture oftheir homes, their deacons and their fam-ilies. Itis the story of a quiet, well-orderedfarm into whose household there has beenintroduced by the accidents of lifea motherand a baby boy involved in the meshes ofa London tragedy. Around these two arecentered the main incidents of the story,but they are by no means the most inter-esting. In fact the tragic element is theweak part of the book. The real charmlies in the stories of the ordinary farm life,the frolics of the boys and the courtship of

one of them. Itis these sketches thatcarry the interest of the reader along untilthe plot of the tale is played out, the vil-lain killed and the heroine happily mar-ried. ["A Galloway Herd," by S. R.Crockett, 12 mo., 208 pages, cloth $1. K..Fenno &Co., 122 Fifth avenue, New York.]

ZANGWILL'S LATEBT THOUGHTS.I. Zangwill is writing for the Chicago

Chap Book his impressions of the Englishelections, but, of course, finds a chance fora great many other items that interestAmericans more than British politics evercan hope to do. Here are some selectionsfrom his latest utterances:

A country has the politicians itdeserves. Ihave heard the most ignorant girls rage againstMr. Gladstone; damsels in tneir teens whoknew nothingof lifeor its problems, nor couldhave studied any question for themselves;pretty girls withal, but who at the mention ofthe veteran statesman took on the avengingaspect of the Eumenides.Itwas a girlof quite another temper who re-

plied to me "when, talking over old times andold discussions, IRaid Ihad not yet become asocialist: "Idon't think you ever knew whatyou were." Iwinced as at a just reproach, yetwhen Ihad left her the retort occurred to me(as retorts will,when too late) that there wasno particular merit in being a "what"; thatImen were not necessarily "Tiats" or '"ites;"

that thoughts did not fitinto pigeonnoies, andthat ifthere was any merit in the matter itcon-sisted rather in preserving free play and elas-ticity of mind. Because certain men had putcertain ideas into the world it did not followthat every other man had definitely toacceptor reject each and allof them, and to becomean

"'ite" or an "anti-'ite" inso doing. Plague

take great menl What righthad they to forceone into the jury-box? Still less was itcom-pulsory to return a verdict if,as the vulgarwere apt to think, the acceptance of any one'"ism" precluded the acceptance of another, sothat to be an Ibsenite was synonymous withdetesting the dramas of Sardou, and to be aWagnerite involved a horror of Mendelssohn.Itwas only the uncultured who held their artis-tic and political creeds with the narrownessof Little Bethel, importing into thought andesthetics the zealotry they had lost inreligion.The book of experience, thought I,is noi anencyclopedia, with every possible topicneatly ranged in alphabetical order; it isno A B C time-table, with the trains dock-eted for the enlightenment of the simple;'tis rather an encyclopedia torn intoa millionmillion fragments by kittens and pasted to-gether again by infants, so that all possiblethings are inextricably interfused, every onewith every other; 'tis a Bradshaw edited by amaniac, where the trains that start hut don'tarrive are not even distinguished from thetrains that arrive but don't start. Whereverpersons are conscious of the inhnite complexi-ties of things they willbe found cautious ofcreed and timid of assertion. You have prob-ablynoted that at Waterloo station, in London,no porter willever bind himself to a definitestatement concerning any train. Itis only theartistic who hold that black is black and whiteis white, unconditionally, irretrievably.

SIOO FOR A NAME.

The Authors' Publishing Company, 1293Broadway, New York, will give $100 cash tothe person who shall send the most appropriatetitle for the followingNational poem, which isto constitute the opening page of the forth-coming 2d American edition of Foster's poems,a130-page volume, to be published the firstweek inDecember.

The title willbe passed uponby three compe-tent, disinterested judges, and the name of theBuccessful competitor and the title chosen bythe judges as being the most appropriate forthe poem, willbe announced inthe New Yorknewspapers on Sunday, December 1, 1895, un-der the head of New Publications:

BY ARDKNSE3 FOSTER.White child of Briton's womb, Columbia!Famed New World sovereign, and the world thy

guest,Nor walls but walls ofPeace to sentry thee.Nor jeweled crown more mighty than thy crest.

Nerved, steel-winged eagle, and Invincible,To emblem thee at thy majestic shrineOf Science, sweeping ken. enlightenment,Where Libertyand Progress intertwine.

Columbia! recurrent pregnant maid,And bosom throbbing withripe harvest-heat,Tillmultitudes from "thy flush garners feed,And on thy shores Creation's races meet.

Grand nations pay thee homage: 'tis their will,Whose ]>eople» knock ai thybroad harbor-gates,As ships of might come in, saluting thee;And writin water are the racial hates.

Puissant kings disarm before thydoors,Nor war-dipped javelins touch thy Pllgrlm-womb:Whence came the sonsof Human-Brotherhood,And laid the vanquished war-god inhis tomb.

Once-blood-wet-battle-fields take seed, conceive,And burst withrank on rani; of festal-grain.Inwoven tillthy brow is garlauded •May poets share the laurel in tny reign?

Queen, chaplet-crownea, bright gem of hemis-pheres,

Prond victorInthe world's momentous wars,That tribes of Clod might rally withtiiy sons.And know tue franchise of thy stripes and stars.

BEADRIFT.

A dainty little booklet of verse by Her-bert Bashford, bearing the name of Bea-drift,comes to us from the press of theCommercial Printine Company of Tacoma,and the contents show, within a limitedrange, a true poetic sentiment and no in-considerable skill in the accomplishmentof verse. None of the poems are lone,

several are only quatrains, and they dealmainly with minor emotions or descrip-tions of certain poetic aspects of sky andsea around Puget Sound. A good exampleof the more serious moods of the author,as well as an illustration of his ability tohandle the sonnet form of verse, is foundin this:

TF SHK SIIOI'LD BIT!.

Ifshe should die— the thought of utter gloomAucl uiiidlilgriff thronKliallmy yenrs is this.1 shudder, Hod !Whut loneliness lomiss

Her loving presence from our cozy room.Andknow withina damp and darkened tomb

There lies the heart 1draw inrapturous bliss'(Jainsi. my own. the tender cheek 1 kiss.

Whereon a crimson flower is vow inbloom.Kach bird would follow In her spirit's Hitfht,

At break ofdawn the rose shed tears of woe,Its tremblinglipsheld upward to the sky,A star inheaven shine withsuch a light,

'Twonld be a-marvel to the world belowIfshe should die—ifmy loved one should die.

THE JONESES AND THE ASTEBICKS.

Of the writingof satires on society therewill never be an end. In that brilliantworld where the passions, hopes and fearsof human hearts are confined within thelimits of conventional respectability andwhere even the truest have to be more orless hypocritical, there are ever arising oc-casions to exercise the skill of those whodelight in shooting folly as itHies. One ofthe lighter forms of this satire is found inthe "Joneses and the Astericks" by GeraldCampbell, which has evidently been pub-lished for society people themselves, as itappears inall the luxury of heavy paper,broad margins, attractive illustrations andhandsome binding. Itcontains the lovestory of the daughter of an ambitiousmother and is told in a series of mono-logues, each chapter being made up of thetalk of some one of the principal charac-ters. Itaims to be no more than lightreading for leisure moments and willservewell for that purpose, inasmuch as there isnothing initthat can be called heavy oreven serious. While not witty it is notdull. The characters though commonplaceenough in London society are not prosyand the story ends happily for everybodyconcerned. [The "Joneses and the Aster-icks," by Gerald Campbell. London, JohnLane; New York, the Merriam Company;201 pages, 12 mo., price $125.]

PAMPHLETS CONCERNING ARGENTINEREPUBLIC.

Senor Juan A. Alsina, General Commis-sioner of the department of Immigrationof Argentine Republic, is doing good workfor his country in sending out broadcastpamphlets relating to the resources of thevarious provinces. They are published forfree distribution and are printed in Eng-lish, Spanish, German and Italian. Theycontain just the information desired byprospective immigrants or capitalists seek-ing for favorable investments. From twopublications at hand it is learned that theprovinces of Snlta and La Rioja are amongthe richest in minerals, of most fertile soiland containing forests of valuable timber.The climate is described as extremelymild, with rare frosts. Oranges, olives,figs, grapes and many fruits familiar toCalifornians are here produced. Wine-making is extensively carried on, but themethods are exceedingly primitive, theold system of treading the grapes beingfollowed. Women do this work and get60 cents a day.

The naturalization laws of Argentine areinteresting. Besides the usual method ofsecuring citizenship by two years' resi-dence foreigners whohave rendered serviceas follows may become naturalized :

Having served in the army or navy, or as-sisted ina militaryengagement in defense ofthe nation.

Having established a new industry in thecountry or introduced a new invention.

Being contractor for or constructor of rail-ways inany of the provinces.Forming part of the colonies now established,

or which may be established in future, be theyinthe national or provincial territories, pro-vided that such person possess real propertyinthem.

Inhabiting or poDulating national territoryon the frontier lines or outside of these.

Having married an Argentine woman inanyof the provinces.

Exercising the callingof professor or teacherinany branch of education or industry.

These books may be obtained by ad-dressing the Commissioner of Immigrationat Buenos Ayres.

AMERICAN STUDENTS HONORED.

As is its annual custom, the "Annals ofthe American Academy" contains a listof the students inAmerican colleges whohave obtained during the past year thedegree of Ph.D. for work in political andsocial science, economics or history, to-gether witha list of the appointments for

the coming year to fellowships and post-graduate scholarships in the above sub-jects. From these lists we see that forty-one students receiveu the degree of Ph.D.from fourteen universities. Johns Hop-kins conferred this degree on twelve stu-dents; Columbia, Cornell and Yale eachon four students; universities of Chicago,Pennsylvania and Wisconsin each onthree students; University of Worcesteron two students, and the universities ofBrown, Harvard, Lombard. Michigan,Washington and Lee and Western Re-serve on one student each. Atnine uni-versities fifty-nine students have been ap-pointed to fellowships and post-graduatescholarships for the coming year inpoliti-cal and social science, economics or history.Tne University of Chicago has appointedtwenty-two students; Columbia, Harvard,Johns Hopkins aod University of Wiscon-sin, each seven; Cornell, five; Universityof Indiana, two; and BrynMawr and Uni-versity of Mississippi, each one student.

CAPTAIN MANDEVILLE.Those who like their sensational litera-

ture after the recipe for ladies' toddy,"hot, strong and plenty of it," willlintttheir tasto exactly suited in this story byJohn R. McMahon. Mutiny on the highseas, robbery, the marooning of a sea cap-tain on a coral reef in midocean, elevenmurders and a perfect charnel-house ofcorrelated horrors are a few of the minorincidents that make up the narrative. Thestory is interesting as evidencing the au-thor's curious familiarity with a widerange of rather extraordinary subjects.One is continually moved to wonder, read-ing his book, how Mr. McMahon couldknow so much and make such unprofit-able use of his knowledge. The ability toconstruct so good a story, in certain re-spects, as "Captain Mandeville," shouldproduce something much superior to thesort of thing this is. [New York: G. W.Dillingham. Price 50 cents.]THE TEMPLE SHAKESPEARE

-"KING

RICHARD III"AND "KINGHENRY V."

Here are two more volumes of the con-venient edition of the great author nowbeing issued by the Aldine house, Lon-don. The edition is extremely artistic,each volume containing one tine etching,and the typography is superb. There areabundant notes, perhaps not so numerousas in Rolfe, but sufficient for allpurposes,and there is a summarized bibliography ofhistory and criticism bearing on each play.[Macmillan &Co., London and New York.For sale by William Doxey.]

INEZ-A TALE OF THE ALAMO.

This is a reprint in popular paper-coveredform of one of Augusta J. Evans' novels.The tale possesses the usual attributes ofthat author's fiction, but has never ac-quired the popularity of "St. Elmo" and"Beulah" and some* of her other books.Because itis a tale of the Alamo, of senti-ment groping about the scene of that hor-rid butchery, it will always be readwhrrever burn the fires of American pa-triotism. [Published by G. W. Dilling-ham, New York: For sale by the SanFrancisco News Company.]

A START IN LIFE.

"AStart inLife,"by Hcnore de Balzac,is the beginning of a series of republica-tions by Roberts Brothers of Boston.The present edition is in library binding,with led top. The familiar dedicationappears.

TO I,AI7RK.

Let the brilliant and modest mind that gave methe subject of this scene have the honor of it.Her brother. Dm Balzac.

The entire catalogue of Balzac's novelswillbe reproduced in this manner. Thepresent volume contains 421 pages. [Forsaie by Roberts Brothers, Boston, and byall booksellers; ?150.]

THE BIBELOT.

The September number of this attractivebooklet contains that charming story ofthe poet Dante Rossetti, "Hand and Soul,"'a reprint that all admirers of the best in

literature willappreciate. It is the onlytale that this much-admired poet everwrote, or at least the only one which itisknown that he ever completed. Its deli-cate imagery, its masterful language, allgive the suggestion that the mind now for-ever silent might have accomplished muchfor our prose literature had itbeen so di-rected. [Published by Thomas B.Mosher,Portland, Me.]

HISTORY OF PRINTING.

Pietro Rossi appears to have been one ofthe fortunates who made money at thelate Midwinter Exposition, for he has re-turned to this City for the purpose ofestablishing a depot for the sale of artisticItalian, Venetian, French and Englishrare publications, originals and reproduc-tion-'. One of the publications just issuedby Signor Rossi is a 'History of the Artof Printing During the Renaissance inItaly," bearing evidence of the effect ofthe artistic hanil of1Idas Manutius in thedevelopment of the Art Preservative. Forsale by Pietro Rossi, 120 Sutter street, SanFrancisco.

READINGS AND RECITATIONS FOR JEW-ISH HOMES AND SCHOOLS.

This is a volume of selections compiledby Isabel E. Cohen, designed for the pur-pose stated in the title. The object is forpotn entertainment and instruction, anditwould appear that the computer has wellfulfilledher purpose. There are selectionsfrom Scott. Longfellow, Bryant, Moore,Addison, Whittier and others, as well asfrom the works of leading Jewish writers,including Disraeli and Emma Lazarus.[The Jewish Publication Society of Amer-ica, Philadelphia.]

COT'XT LEO TOL-STOI.

Author of ".Master andMvii,"etc.

I.OUTS rot*PERL'S,Author of ••Kline Wre,"

"Koot3teDs of Fate,""Majesty," etc.

HERMAN'?? SUDER-MANN,

Author or 'Tha Wish,"etc.

TARMA,Atitliorof "NotCounting

tlieCost," etc.

MISS L.DOUG ALL,

Author of "The Met*-mall." "Tlim Zeit-geist," "Beggars All,"etc.

MISS F. F. MOXTRE-.SOR, \u25a0

Author of "Into theII tgit waya amiIIedges."

Opie Bead.

JOHN H. HOLMES, EDITOR OF THE BOSTON HERALD ANDPRESIDENT OF THE NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATED PRESS.

[From the JVeiv York Fourth Estate.]

Mr.Zang-will.[Drawn by Fred Richardson for the Chap Book.]

Hon. Ig-natius Donnelly.

SUICIDE OR ACCIDENT.The Remains of F. J. Griffitha,,a Young

CivilEngineer, Found in

the Kay.

The remains of F. J. Griffiths, a civilengineer aged 19 years, were recoveredfrom the bay yesterday morning. -William.Conlon, who lives at the corner of Twenty-third and Point Lobos avenues, was walk-ing along the beaoh near Fort Point, whenbe saw the remains and notified the police.The body was removed to the Morgue.

Yonnc Griffiths lived with his parents at2507 Larkin street. .His father,- ApthonyJ. Griffiths, is a claim-adjuster for theMarket-street Railroad Company. Ac-cording to him the yonne man was meas-uring,some lilling-in work that had beencompleted near Meiggs wharf, and acci-dentally fellin and was drowned. He alsoinsists that the son had a happy home,and that there could consequently be nooccasion for suicide.

The boatmen and others who frequentSection Bof the seawall- say that, yonngGriffiths deliberately jumped into the bay.A fisherman who was sailing past in hissmack attempted to save him by throwinga rope. The young man refused to takethe rope, and waved the boat away. Aboat was put out from the Merchants'Exchange landing, but when it got withintwo feet of urillilhs he sank and did notcome up again.It is said that there was a loveaffair in

the case. The young man's passion wasnot reciprocated, and he grew despondent.Hl3 family and relatives deny the story,and say there is absolutely no foundationfor it. An inquest willbe held by CoronerHawkins, when all the facts in the casewillbe brought out.

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•New Corporations.

The Pacific Coast Bicycle Company whb in-

corporated yesterday. On a $100,000 capitalstock, $00,000 has been subscribed as follows:J. R. Cole, $27,500; C. P. Johnson, $27,500;Thomas R. Knox, J. T. Morrison, \V. L. liel-dert, Samuel 0. Foltz and J. W. Young, $1000each.

The Jackson Gate GoM MiningCompany hasbeen incorporated by Frederick C. Sieb'i andothers, with $2500 subscribed on a $200,000capital stock. •—*—•

Tbe real and personal property in thiscountry is assessed at $17,139,903,495.

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1895. 17

ARE YOU A FAMILY MAN?If you are, this is the time of the year

when you should be more careful of the healthof your wife and children than at any otherseason. And you must not neglect yourselfeither. If any one of the household is a littleunder the weather, it is your bounden rduty toattend to the matter at once. Times aren't verygood, and you needn't incur a doctor's bill.Just take time by the forelock and order a caseof Dr. Henley's Celery, Beef and Iron, and haveitin the house, even if no one : is sick at thismoment. It stops chills and ' colds, promotesproper circulation, and is invaluable to keep youhealthy when you are well. It contains Celery \u0084

for the nerves, Beef to sustain the system andIron to purify and enrich the blood.

You have a duty

to perform. See

to it now orprepare to

repent

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And you don't want to "let matters run" •

.•V.until they get so serious that life itself is in• danger. At the slightest sign of a cold take theremedy as directed on the bottle. Half a wine-

\u25a0i glass or a third forchildren. Dyspepsia, nervoustroubles, general debility and insomnia fly be-fore this grand tonic, system builder, nervineand blood purifier, as mist does before the morn-ing sun. DO YOUR DUTY LIKEA MAN.

Henley's, Remember —No Substitute.