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ros vlngeles Sunbay (time BUND AY, JANUARY 1, 1800. 3 Anthem, tenor solo and chorus, "'Shout tii Glad Tldlng3" (Brewer.) Offertory, duet, "Tho Advent" (Rub-lnntcln) Mr. und Mrs. Chick. "March aux Flambeaux" (Stetson Clark.) eutfli-taiiifid visiting KoUers from Los AiiKftlcK ypstprtlay.

A New Yeuv'a party was greatly enjoyed by tho guests of tho hotel evening. dames followed by a rie-llghtful challiiK dish nuppor nerved as a plonsant farewell to tho old year. H. 13. AiiiHWOith Is expected to 'return from Ills holiday visit to Portland tomorrow.

references to her grand form and her eyes and her height and so forth; whereas, I do know Innumerable things of that kind in books of imagination done by women. And I have not the faintest doubt that a woman described her being shut cut into the street by her husband, and conceived and executed the whole Idea of her following of that clergyman. If I be wrong In this, then I protest thnt a woman's mind 'has got into some man's body bv a mistake that ought Immediately to be corrected," FRESH LITERATURE. Reviews by The Times Reviewer. dith's "The Egotist," will shortly make its appearance In London, written by the author.

Tho library of the late Gleeson White Is to be sold In London In aid of the widow. Sadl, tho greatest of Persian poets, wrote his "Bustan" and "Gullstan," the latter his most widely known work, after he had passed his seventieth year. Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus" reached Its apotheosis last year, when four firms issued an edition. Now we are to have, for the first time, this work illustrated, "St. Elmo," published by G.

W. Dillingham Company, has passed through so many editions that the publishers have been obliged to prepare a new set of plates for it. In "The Last Link," a monograph recently published in England, Dr. Haeckel claims to complete the argument in favor of the descent of man immediately from the ape. H.

G. Wells has at last finished his long-expected story, which will appear during the coming: year In Harper's Weekly, under the title of "When the Sleeper Awakes." Robert Buchanan's new novel, entitled, provisionally, the "New Don Quixote," will be published about March next by John Long. His "Father Anthony" la already in its third edition. A new novel by Miss L. Douglass is announced for early publication by D.

Appleton It is entitled "The Mormon Prophet," the leading character in the story being Joseph Smith, the founder of the sect of Latter Day Saints. Louis Ernault, a French romance writer, Is nearly IOC years old, and has written almost as many novels as he has lived years. Ernault was born at Isigny in 1792. He writes staadlly, and declares his purpose of bringing out a new novel to commemorate his one hundred and sixth birthday. The series of papers on the principles of taxation, by the late David A.

Wells, whose publication in the Popular Science Monthly, was interrupted by the death cf the author, is now to be finished in two or three articles, the manuscript of which was found practically complete among Wells's papers. Mr. Heinemann, the London publisher of Walter Armstrong's "Gainsborough," has written to the Daily Chronicle to say that he has succeeded in making arrangements with Mr. Armstrong to write a companion volume on Sir Joshua Reynolds, which he hopes to publish not later than the end of 1900. Statues are to be erected in Paris in 1900 to the memory of some twenty French men of letters.

These statues will stand in various public places throughout the city. Among the men to be thus commemorated are Voltaire, Rousseau, Hugo, Baudelaire, Balzao, Lamartine, Gautier, Daudet, and Ver-laine. In the preface to his promised volume mm Bargains In Pianos. When you can save from a quarter to a half the price of an article that's a bargain, When you can save that por tion of the price ofa piano that is so much found. These special piano bargains we are now offering can not be surpassed anywhere.

Splendid instruments in every particular. Cash or monthly payments. Southern California Music Co. 216-218 West Third iioture A. E.

NICHOLS, Los Angeles. Dec 22, 'M Prof. Joseph Fandrey, 642 S. Main St. Dear Sir I voluntarily pive you this testimonial of your wonderful cure of my rupture.

After seven years of attempt to get relief from other sources, I came to you, and in a few months of treatment under your natural method, without injection, operation or detention, from my business, I am entirely cured and will gladly answer any inquiries of fellow-sufferers. A. E. NICHOLS, 348 San Pedro St. Hay and Grain Dealer.

nay Lovers. If you are in need of Hay Covers jj it will pay you to borrow money i to get them at my special prices, Write me sizes you want and I will furnish you an estimate. Tents, Ore Sacks, Wagon Covers, Sriay Covers, Awnings. J. H.

MASTERS, Maker. Jobber, Retailer, 15 COMMERCIAL STREET. Phone M. 1512, Los Angeles. PROPOSALS FOR DORMITORY AND water and sower systems.

Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Washington, D. Dec. 20, 189S. Sealed proposals, indorsed: "Proposal for Dormitory or Water and Sewer System. Phoenix," as the case may be.

and addressed to the Commissioner of Indian Aflairs, Washington, D. will be received at the Indian Office until one o'clock p.m. of Wednesday, January 25, for furnishing all the necessary materials and labor required in the construction and completion of one brick dormitory and of one water and sewer system at the U. S. Indian School, Phoenix, A.

in strict accordance with the plans and specifications and instructions to bidders which may be examined at tho Indian Office, Washington, D. the offices of the "Arizona Republican," of Phoenix, A. the "New Mexican." of Santa Fe, N. M. the "Times" of Los Angeles.

the Builders' and Traders' Exchange, Omaha, at the U. S. Indian Warehouse. 1602 State Chicago, 111., and at the above-named school. For any further information application should be made to S.

M. MeCowan, Superintendent of Indian School, Phoenix, A. T. V. A.

JONES, Commissioner. New Book, 24S Pages, invaluable to invalids. My the KOO VIG Kit II 903 South Olive street, Los Angeles, Cal. Dr. T.

Foo Yuen. Dr, Li Wins. Diagnosis and Examination Free. Facial Treatment. The skin is, from the aspect of beauty, the most important organ of mankind: yet so few people know that it is an attribute of gocd looks.

I treat the skin by the use of electricity and other common-sense methods, removing entirely all facial blemishes. MRS. SHINNICK, Electrolysist and Complexion Specialist, 323. S. Broadway.

Will Remove Jan. t. 219 S. Sprine St. DON'T NKULKCT YOUR TKKTH.

Painless till In and ex-triu'tintr. Modern dentistry ut rvuhonahlo prices. Dr. C. Stevens, 107 N.

Spring St. Edward M. Boggs CIVIL AND HYDRAULIC ENGINE KR, 633 StimaoB Block. lorn Anaele III ipffafl mm mmm MM ured UtAlUtOAH KKCUUUj JJE.Vni OF A. 31.

RICE. I.Uilt Haili'oart Trudio Monday Holiday Xottts. Monday will bo a holiday with the rai lroad boys. Sunday hours will be th full extent to which any offlje will be When the Los Angeles Theater opeTis txt.week, tho audience neecPriot te to laarn a bit of railroad Daniel Sully will simply begin id extension of the Terminal to S.ilt Lake. Coming events cast their shadows.

before. Stranger things have happened. Huell 11. RIpp has tlplrntad Willing-, Waterhouse of Pasadena, in He will sail on China next Satur day rrom Han Francisco. Z.

T. Geofere. fitpnoorrfiilior. tn at. Walker, chief clerk the Santa Fe, has been at Santa Clara lor some days.

Mrs. George Is a daughter of the late Mr. Arguello, ono of the old-tlnie nnnnle nf Snnta ri and one of the best-known Spanish lunmieg oi tne state. Mr. Arguello died the other day at his home, the well- lviown Arc-uello nniARtpnfl nt Santo Clara, and Mr.

and Mrs. George went io me mnerai. A. M. Rl('f.

Snntn VS 1 v- on the overland between this city and Needles, died at that place yesterday aays llme3s of pneumonia. xne movement or produce from this tate is verv He-ht Inot at tjvT the end Of next Wpplr npansras mll.l up moving more freely. Ti. 7 nt t-h minal telegraphs New Year's greetings to Manager Hynes and all others connected with the company, and Mr. Hynes conveys the greeting to the officers a.nd employes In these words: "It Is with musii pleasure that I am able to tender you the appreciation of the owners of the property for the faithful service you have given, and thereby contributed to he good results attained during the year 1838.

Your con- unuea naeiity ana devotion to the interests of the comyany cannot but bring the desired results in tho nam i ri.tr vear." GOLF TOUBWAMEUT. Mrs. Hush VnH Wln the Lndtea' ChamplonHhln. A members' tournament was held yesterday at the golf links of the Los Angeles Country Club. The ladies' handicap was finished and the men's handicap begun.

Mrs. Hugh Vail, playing scratch, won the club ladies' championship, score, 121, for the eighteen-foole course. Mrs. Jc'hn D. Foster, with a handicap of 6, made a gross score of 126, which gave her the handicap victory, her net score being 120.

"Miss Gertrude won the driving contest, sending the golf ball 130 yards. Among other contestants in the ladies' handicap match were Mmes. J. F. Sartori, Edward Silent, Charles Monroe, A.

C. Balch, J. O. Keepfli and Pierre Severance. About twenty-five men 'took part in the men's over thirty-six holes.

At the end nf rhf dnv "Waiter Cosby was in line for the champion- v.r.i:p. ria.ynig as a scratcn man, hus score was 173. Monday an open tournament will be held on the club links. A number of good players are expected from Ava-lon, Redonda and elsewhere. NEW TRACTION- LINE.

Free Rides to the Public to the Formal On Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock there wiai be a formal opening of the Traction Company's new line from Western avenue to Evergreen Cemetery. There will be a band of music at Hollenbeck Park, and the Mayor, City Council and city officials will be invited guests. For the afternoon the cars on that particular line will be free to the public for a ride 'to the park and back. This Fourth-street line of street railroad was much desired by residents on the East Side, and William H-Workman, with other leading citizens, worked long and eaanestly for it. Now the line of road is equipped and ready for traffic.

It has been open as single track for nearly a moni'Jh, but the viaduct over the nver was not completed until last week. This viaduct, which has been constructed by Sawyer Arthur, is 1900 feet in length. Altogether this new consists of ''iphr. and a half miles of substantial double track, penetrating in large measure a new district and opening up a desirable residential! section of the city. Ornitholo.fclfits In Spnalon.

The annual banquet of the southern division of the Cooper Ornithological Club of California was held Thursday evening at the Saddlerock. A large number of members and others were present. Papers on bird life were read and discussed between the courses. Now officers were elected as President. A.

I. MeCorvmick; vice-president, F. S. Daggett; secretary, Howard Robertson; treasurer, H. S.

Swarth. The club is a State organization, whicTi, since its birth In 1893, has grown to a membership of 100. There are two divisions, northern and southern, at whose meetings ornithological papers are read and discussed. Any California ornithologist over 16 years of age is eligible to membership. Gibbon's Gall.

H. Gibbon was before Justice Owens yesterday for sentence foi petty larceny. He will exert his muscle for the benefit of the city for the next sixty days unless some good Samaritan drops $60 Into his hat with which to secure his liberty. Last May E. II.

Freeman, the Job printer, the lower half of whose body has been helplessly paralyzed for some time, Gave Gibbon, who worked for him, a ring to pawn for $1. Gibbon pawned the ring, returning to Freeman with the dollar. A few days agterward Gibbon, without Freeman's knowledge, redeemed the ring, taking it. to another place and selling it for $3, which he appropriated to his own use. Engineers' Officers.

The National Association of Stationary Engineers has elected officers as follows: President, C. J. Dahl; vice-president, W. E. Kfcnmel; recording secretary, Henry corresponding secretary, W.

T. W. Curl; financial secretary. Robert Vivian; treasurer, Fred J. Fischer; conductor, T.

J. Royer; D. Samuel Potts; trustees. E. P.

Carr, Berr Howe, F. M. Hamilton. The Price of Milk. The Dairyman's Association met last wock and decided not to raise the urlces of iilk this month, although the cost of feed has increased "and is stUl going up.

The December rates will be maintained as P.nt, cuit. 52-cO; three pints, $3.75 per month. LODGE KOTiCE. The ladles of the Durtlrtt-Logan Corpj are requisted to meet et tho residence of Mr. M.

Pcrrot. No. KM West Twenty-second street, nt 10 u.u., January 2. to attend the funwal of cur la to sitter, LJla Scrrot. til ordsr of tlio LI DA CLASH, Secretary.

proverbially etup-ld elk to dive from a high platform into the water, i feat which goes very much against the ani mal's grain, apparently. More "Uoops" appear in tne January St. Nicholas, and the sad story of thd disobedient George Adolphus is Mr. Burgess's theme, Edwin Wildman tens about the cats and dogs that are Mark Twain's pets, and article shows some charming views of the humorist's country home, "Quarry Farm," where those pets are domiciled. Carolyn Wells begins a new serial story, and there are two chapters of Mr.

Henty's story, together with, numerous short tales by well-known writers for chil dren. A schoolmate of Kipling's asserts that Kipling himself is the "Beetle" of hl3 boy stories, now appearing in Mc-Clure's. This fact lends additional interest to these absorbing adventures of the three friends, whose fertile Imaginations afforded them so much delight, while getting them into a multitude of unfortunate scrapes. Mr. Kipling tells this month of "An Unsavory Interlude" in the history of Stalky Co.

The Becond of Capt. Mahan's striking naval artieles and another installment of Ida M. Tarbell's Lincoln papers are the weightier features of the month, and the excellence' of the fiction is attested to by the signatures of Stephen Bonsai, Hemlln Garland and Miss Nesbit. Stephen Crane 13 out of his usual line in a vivid and interesting description of "The Scotch Express," a subject which any one else might, have made dry-George Somes Iaya.rd, in the January Pall Mall discusses the irresistible attraction of "Suppressed Plates," which are to tHe book collector "what the fortydden fruit was to our mother Eve." He reproduces the suppressed woodcut of the Marquis of Steyne, which was to have appeared in "Vanity Fair." and identifies Thackeray's marquis with the third Marquis of Hertford. Some extracts from a British officer's diary give a history of the fall of Khartoum, whe nthe barbarous and fanatical followers of the Khalifa were so signally crushed.

Horace An- nesley Vachell describes with much zest the 1oys ol "Qail Shooting In Southern California," and the pictorial features for the month are of their usual ex cellent character. The Wide World Magazine confesses to have been hoaxed by the clever and Inventive De Konumont, whose un heard-of experiences on a cannibal island, set all London and the rest of the world agog a few months ago; but it continues to publish his narrative, with the apology that if he is not a speaker of the truth he is at least a master of fiction "who has had no eaual in our language since Defoe. Herbert Vivian tells of the almost in credible hardships voluntarily under gone by the Trappist monks at thair monastery of eternal silence, ana a set of photographs shows various phases of the daily life of these fanatical be lievers. Eustace Macdonald displays a set of Klondike pictures illustrating the dangers and the attractions of the famous trip to the gold fields, and writes a brief description of the various scenes pictured. Theire are other articles of curious interest, too numerous to mention.

The holiday number of Cassell's Macrazine is rich in famous names Max Pemberton begins a serial story of the siege of Strasburg; Ouida has one of her charming tales of child life; Anthony Hope writes a modern story which he has called "The Gray Frock," a.nd Robert Barr. Le Queux and Guy Borthby are also represented in fiction. Mme. Sara 5ernnarat is not trenorally known as a sculptor, but Sarah A. Tooley gives an interest'ng glimpse of her Paris studio, where the famous tragedienne has done some artistic work of undoubted strength and merit.

B. Fletcher Robinson con tributes some farcical verse, and an article on "The Guards of Jerome K. Jerome has a characteristic story in the January New Illus trated, describing the humors of an exchange, wherein a baby and a bull dog were badly mixed. Robert Barr, Maarten Maartens, Katherine Tynan and the much-talked-of "Zack" are other story writers in this number. Fiona Macleod has an illustrated poem and John Foster Fraser, the bieyd-3 traveler, tells "Where the Wicked Chinee Goes To," with native drawings illustrating the horrors to come.

In doubtful taste as to title is D. Woolmer's article on "Lady Doctcrs in Heathen Lands." in the holiday number of the Quiver. Women physicians and missionaries have worked hand in hand in Oriental counfries, and this brief history gives an id.a of what has been accomplished by them. A treatise on "The Art of Reading," by the Ven. Archdeacon Diggles, is a wel come commentary on an accomplish ment that is rarely to be found well developed nowadays.

A paper on "Midget Churches," by J. A. Reid, furnishes an opportunity for some quaint illustrations, and there are numerous other attractions of fiction, essay and description. The work of Herbert J. Draper is the subject of the leading paper in the Magazine of Art for January.

A. L. Baldry Is the critic of Mr. Draper's work, striking examples of which are reproduced in illustatiom Also notable is a discussion of the etchings of Herr Max Klinger, by the late Gleeson White. The chapter devoted to "Co incidences and Resemblances in Works of Art.

is full of curious comparisons, making a valuable' study to the att lover. One of Harper's New Year features is the first chapters of a novel by D. Howells. It is full of the small realisms of thought, and feelins: and action that are inseparable from the author style, and sketches the Ameri can man and the American woman with all the abundance of detail that Mr Howells knows so well how to emnlov, S. A.

Staunton leads off the number with his account of "The Naval Cam paign of 1898 in the West Indies." He records the preparations made by Admiral Sampson for the meeting with tnen spantsn squadron, the bombard ment of San Juan, and the' blockade of Santiago, with the resulting capture ana demolition or cerveras squadron A great deal or new and curious infor mation Is to be gathered from "A (ilimpse at Nubia," In which Cant. C. S. Speedy describes the people and customs of the territory usually, but mistakenly, according to Capt. Sneedv, called the Soudan.

There is the usual feast, of fiction, including stories by ttuin ajcunei-y otuart ana Margaret Iceland. Literary Comment. Georg-e Eliot's Women. MR. BLACKWOOD was sure that the writer of "Scenes From Clerl- cal Life" was a man, hut quite early In- George Eliot's career, Dickens detected that this hand of genius was tho hand of a woman, and in a let ter replying to Blackwood he points out "all the references to children, and such marvels et description as Mrs.

Barton sitting up in bed to mend the children clothes. The selfish young fellow with the heart disease in Mr. Gllfll's Love Story' is plainly taken from a woman's point of view. Indeed. I observe ull the women in the book ore more alive than the men, and more Informed from within.

As to Janet, in last tale. I know nothing in litera ture done py a man like the frequent Sen Stories. MORE CARGOES. By W. W.

Jacobs. rNew York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. For snlo by C. C.

Parker. SEA tales have a zest of their own, the manner of which Is shared by no other form of romancing. But to be honestly enjoyable they must be inspired by the instinct of the seaman, for your landlubber who attempts the task, soon falls into a pit of blunders from wMch there Is no extricating himself. Such an Instinct is to be realized in every llnu of the excellent ntoric3 of W. W.

Jacobs, to which have so recently been added the collection called "Mure Cargoes." These are rollicking with humor, full of the pranks which 'longshoremen play upon each other, and altogether worthy of their clever author. Mr. Jacobs deals with the sailors who follow the coastwise trade 'of England honest, wholesome and hearty men, who are long enough on land 'to keep their little homes together, yet whose characteristics are mainly of the sea. The last of the stories, "The Lost Ship," sounds the only note of pathos In the book; the others are full of the most delightful humor and furnish fit refreshment for minds sated with modern fantasies. Another Sea Talc.

JOHN SHIP, MARINER. By Knarf Ellvas. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. For Sale by C.

C. Parker. John, Ship, Mariner, tells in the first person the story of hi3 adventures' at sea with the famous Capt. John Haw kins, and of raids upon the rich fleets of the Spanish main, as well as those other adventures against the empire of Spain which have come down to us as history. The narrative is well told in the English of the period with a love tale underlying all the adventure, and rivalling it in interest.

First Steps in History. FIRST STEPS IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY. By W. A. Mowry and Arthur May Mowry.

Chicago Silver, Burdett and Company. A history that is up of bio graphical sketches is a new idea in text books, and; as is proved, an idea that is likely to meet with the favor of the young people for whom It is designee. The Professors Mowry, father and son, have begun with Columbus in their story of, America, and from the great discoverer have passed on to the other epoch, making names of our country's history- with Clara mrton ana Thomas A. Edison, the authors bring theiir history up to the most recent years of our country's development with their wonders of scientific dis covery, and of merciful care for the suffering ana unfortunate. The method of the authors makes it possible to show the country's many-sidedness and its rapid development alonir many lines, so srlving the child a much more complete historical view than any purely political outline, with its overload of dates coma give.

An Illinois Story. A YANKEE FROM THE WEST. By Opie Read. Chicago: Rand, Mc-Na'lly. Opie Read's latest novel is entirely -1 mitna'a nAt.ljliQrL lane kl tire ties.

Short, jerky sentences and a hu mar that is too foroed to be pleasant, mark his stories a3 crude ajid inartistic. It is unfortunate, too, that the author has not a happier mode of expression, for he is possessed of real wit, and an occasional bit of good description shows him to be capable of something better than the average of his work would indicate. The Yankee of this story is net a type nor are his Westerners peculiar to tne region in tvViiph ht has nlaced them, but rather, slangily, underbred people who would be uninteresting anywnere. Magazines of the Month. SCRIBNER'S begins the new year with Theodore Roosevelt's story of the Rough Riders.

Col. Roosevelt's accounVof the organization and personnel of this unique, and now famous regiment is of absorbing interest, not only because of the unusual character of the organization, but because its commanders are men of such vigorous and striking personality. Richard Harding Davis has a story founded upon incidents of the war, and Dr. Charles R. Gill tells of "A Ride Into Cuba for the Red Cross." George W.

Cable returns to old manner in his story of "The Entomologist," the opening chapters of which appear in this number. A few of the "Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson," selected by Sidney Colvin for the "Life and Letters," which he has in preparation, are to appear in advance in Scribner's. Those published this month are descriptive of Stevenson's travels in 1868-69, and are letters written to his parents at home. They are bright, breezy and entertaining, and frequently very boyish. Soaie striking colored supplements accompany the December number of the Studio, and there are also some delightful designs illustrating the advance of art in current designing.

Examples of the work of Christopher Dresser are shown ia designs for cretonnes and household utensils. Among the artists discussed are F. W. Pomeroy, whose work in sculpture in the subject of comment by A. L.

Baldry, and the Roumanian painter, Nichulae Ion Grigoresco, of whom William Ritter writes an appreciation. The popularity of stained glass and the great artistic advance made in producing this decorative material, have led to an interest in the process by which picture windows are produced. An on the subject is contributed to the January Cosmopolitan by Theodore Dreiser, who describes in dtail the workings of a modern factory-Sidney Howe Short devotes an article to the consideration of "The Coming Street Railroad." Mr. Short professes great faith the probability that electricity will entirely supercede steam as a motive power, even on the large trunk line railways. In keeping with the cosmopolitan character of the magazine, there are articles upon Egypt, Hawaii, characteristic of the Irish, the Jew3 of Jerusalem, the Philippines and a description of "A Curious Indian Burial Place." Alice Barker Stephens has designed the dainty and attractive cover for the January Ladies' Home Journal and a score of famous contributors represented within its pages.

The new' series of designs for the housa practical, as weil as beautiful, promise to be full of artistic suggestion, and the prize pictures of bedrooms for girls are another feature of much interest to the housekeeper who love3 beauty In her surroundings. Stuart dilingwood in the Strand Magazine has gathered together a few of the childish drawings of Lewis Carroll, which show the early vagariea of that author's extravagant liumw. Lewis Carr.ill was a leader among his playmates. In devising games and amusements for them, and these amusing sketches show him to been Ciuite as fertile in invention then, as in Htcr years. A unique article by James Writer Smith, describes Wleliczka, the Polish "city of salt." The photographs reproduced in this article give an idea of tho wonders that have been wrought In this city of the salt' mines, whose building lw3 extended over a thousand vearp.

Emory James tells how an enterprising showman hns trained the Riverside. JOHN B. Wood is back from an eastern trip. Mrs. Budhigton.

oC Ontario has been visiting friends here the past week. William Harvey of San Francisco has been a guest the past week of W. M. Dickie. H.

W. Morgan of Berkeley is a guest of J. V. McNab. Miss Lonainle Hicks Is back from the East.

Miss Effle Gardner of Los Angeles is Visiting Miss Clara Smith. Miss Phenla Foss and Eugene G. G. Smith were married Wednesday evening at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. J.

D. Foss on Twelfth street. Rev. B. C.

Cory officiated. Miss Lambert of Los Angeles Is visiting at the home of D. N. Flndlay. Sin THE announcement of the engagement of Miss Minnie Edna Murray of this city to John Paul Cornelius Veenhuyzen.

of Roosendaal, Holland, was celebrated at the country residence of Mrs. George K. Porter at San Fernando on Christmas day. The decorations' were in holly-red and were very elaborate. 1 Dinner was followed by an enjoyable evening of muslo.

NEW YEAR'S MUSIC. Programme! to Be Presented at the Chnrcliea Today. ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. (Corner Adams and Figueroa streets.) Morning: Organ prelude, "Cantique de Noel" (Adam.) Processional, "Onward, Christian Soldiers' (Sullivan.

"Kyrie;" "Gloria "Credo" Tours In C. Hymn "And Now, Father" (Monk.) "Gloria Patrl" (Stainer.) Offertoiy Bruce Steane. "Sursum Corda;" "Sanctus;" "Bene-dictus;" "Agrxs Die," Tours In C. "Gloria in Excelsis" (Gregoriian.) "Nuc Dimittis" (Barnby.) Recessional "The Son of God Goes Forth to Waf," (Cutler.) Organ postlude "Gloria" from Twelfth Mass (Mozart.) Evening: Organ prelude, from "The Messiah" (Handel.) Processional "Praise My Soul the King of Heaven" (Haydn.) Choral service, Fallis in F. Psalter, Anglican Chants.

"Magnificat" (Henley.) "Nunc Dimittis" (Barnby.) Hymns, "Our Blest Redeemer" (Dykesi) "Jesus Lover of My Soul" (Dykes.) Recessional "Sweet Savior, Bless Us" (Monk.) Organ postlude "Improvisation" W. F. Chase. CHRIST CHURCH, EPISCOPAL. (Corner Flower and Pico streets.) Matins and Celebration at 11.

Processional "Go' Forward, Christian Soldier" (Smart.) Deum and Jubilate In (Sullivan.) Anthem "The" Marvelous Work" (Haydn's Recessional "Jesus, I Give to Thee" (Merrick.) Evensong at 7:30: Processional "Thy Kingdom Come, God" (Hayne.) Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in (Maunder.) Collect anthem "But Will God" (Nay- Offertory anthem "Praise Ye the Father" (Gounod.) Recessional "Onward, Christian Soldiers" (Fuller.) FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. (Corner Twentieth and Figueroa street.) Organ Voluntary, selected. Anthem Sing Unto the Lord' (Macfarren.) Response "Lead Us to Heaven" (Har rison.) "Gloria" (Spohr.) Offertory anthem "Guide Me, Thou ureat Jehovah (Bruche.) Soprano solo Miss Metcalf. Evening service: Organ voluntary, selected. Anthem 'Incline Thine Ear" (Jones.) Offertory, anthem with baritone solo.

"Not a Sparrow Falleth" (Sudds.) IMMANUEL CHURCH. Morning: "Jubilath Deo" (Lansing.) "Gloria Patrl" response (Foote.) Offertory solo "Praise Ye the Lord" U. H. Barnhart (Ayers.) Evening: Antheme "God is Love" (Shelley. Offertory duo "Voice Divine" Miss Winston and Mr.

Miller (Gabriel.) Anthem "My Faith Looks Up to Thee" (Lachner-Bassford.) UNITY CHURCH. Morning: Prelude "Fantasia" (Rink.) Anthem "Te Deum" (Shelley.) Offertory duet "Why Art Thom Cast Down" Mmes. Wuerker and La Sage iscnnecKer.i Postlude "Wedding March" (Wely.) Prelude "Longing" (Jungman.) Anthem "The Throne of Grace' (Shelley.) Offertory solo, selected Mr. Butler. Postlude, March (Flagler.) PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

(Corner of Hill and Sixteenth streets.) i Morning: "Communion in flat "Gloria" Mot-nine anthem (Shelley.) Quartette "Hear Our Prayer." Offertory "Cantitene" (Salome.) Choir, "Sing Ye to the Lord" (Arthur W. Marchant.) Tenor solo "Sunny Land" Mr. Baird (Gilbert.) Postlude in flat (Rlnck.) Evening: Prelude "Barcarolle" (Hofmann.) Quartette "Evening Prayer" (Moin.) orrertory in Hi (Kincici Hymn "Jesus, Lover of 'My Soul" (U Williams.) Love Divine" Miss Letitla Wil- liamn (Nevin.) PoRliudii "March Solennolle" (Gou nod.) FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. By request a part of the Christmas music will be repented. Morning: andante, "La Colombe" (Gounod) W.

W. Ellia. soprano nolo and chorus, "3Uig Unto the Lord's--(Blurnenschein.) Mrs. Chick ar.d choir. Offertory, "The Jiirthday of a Kins" (NeMlingcr) Mr.

Chick and choir. l'5tludo, "March in (C. G. f-pross.) Kveniwg: Orgnn, invocation, O.e. Oln-eaux" (Georges Attaches) Mr.

Not Canon, but t'oiiun. The London Academy is responsible for the following story: "The mother superior-of a convent In a little Irish town bought at the local bookseller's a volume which, being somewhat shortsighted, she thought was written by Canon Doyle, and ror the edification of the community it was read aloud at meal times. The novices were thrilled with the freedom with whljh love-maklnsr was alluded to. Well, said the mother superior, the dear canon is preparing us for a miracle of grace. The frivolous flirt, by the mercy of heaven, no doubt, ends by taktnr the veil-' Presently, however, some one looked at the title page, and discovered that the word Conan and not Canon stood printed there.

'Well, said the mother superior, 'the bookseller Is a pious man, and now tharwe have nald for it. we should be wasteful not to read The story is good enough to be true." Poetical eTV England. James Whitcomb Riley, on a recent visit to Boston, expressed surprise at the high quality of verse found in th? newspapers there. He said: I have been looking over some of the verses published in your daily papers here. This is real poetry all of It.

Some of it is very good. It Is verse that would undoubtedly cause Longfellow and Holmes to institute inquiries as to the writers' identity. Most of it is anonymous. I should judge that it was written largely of people living in the country, who have had time to thik deeply and the ability to put their thoughts into verse." The Boston Journal acknowledges the compliment, and avers that the New England mind is normally in a poetic mood: "Mr. Riley has on a sub- 1ect that seldom draws out publb comment, and rarley the comment of one so distinguished in the profession of literature.

Yet, somehow, perhaps through the occult influence of the great poets who have sung in our cities and among our hills, versifying is a com mon avoc.3ition cr recreation in New England. The fact is, from days immemorial New Englanders have been accustomed to think for themselves, to delve among the ever-changing glories with which nature has so prodigially supplied our territory. In New England the brain rests the body. It is custccr tradition, inheritance, all in one. It is the same influence or impulse that in the West, produced a Jame3 Whit comb Riley; that here, right out of the plain people, built a Ralph Waldo Em erson and a John Greenleaf Whittier.

"It is the Lincolnllan literature, by the people, of the people, and for the people, and like unto the trees, among which much of it is written, its spirit is ever green. The "Whole Truth" Abont Grent AVrlters. A Viit T1 Cii il lopffMlrVi haa ro. nentr tal-on nrw tho iiapimalnn nf tVjo public's right to a great writer's let ters, or to tne manuscript inai ne has cast aside as unworthy of the best that is in him. Mr.

Quiller-Couch sums up the argument as follows: But, says tne puDiic in an tnese na.coa inA icrrim i no tpl Mpt 1TJ hflVP and we have a right to To this I answer, You cannot possioiy nave tne whole truth; and if you could, you have not the shadow cf a right to The whole truth' my dear sirs, what Is the whole truth about any man? And can any other man get at it? vnn mnet if vnu hut. ask vourselves. know perfectly well that happily for each or you tne tning is lmpussioie; and that a portrait composed on any fraction of the truth may be falser than one composed on complete ignorance. But suppose it to be possible, what narthlv rifrht. have von.

when Shakespeare has closed the door, to be prying in at nis parior or ni uramura window? You know what would hap-if woi-a pmierht doing this to A or or C. 'But Shakespeare is not A or or tsnaicespeare ueiuiiBs iu the nation, to the Indeed! ckotocnoai'p rprnenize this to the UlX 1. 1 1' extent (for instance) ot washing him self in public. W.eauy, yi exaggerate the world's indelicacy by giving it the lengths to which the members of some Browning societies are prepared to go. Nay, yourself cannot be quite so indelicate as your contention implies.

Let me test you by a simple instancing one by one the details of a great man's private life into which you claim to poke your nose. At some point I must pay you the compliment to asert you will be compelled to cry Let us. pray, have done with this canting phrave, 'the whole truth' There is no question of the whole truth, for there is no possibility of getting c.t it. But there is a question of how far the inquisitiveness of some men may be allowea to go, and how far it will' go. before other men a sense of decency awakes to the pertinacity and moral obtuseness of the offenders, and substitutes for hints a few stringent" and salutary laws.

The I'scs of Books. The London Library, which allows members to take cooks Opened its doors under happy auspices not long ago. The prea-. anva literature. made the eulogy of the library and i surroundings in pleasant terms, duel -ing especially on the advantsn'ffl of is Tamos nauai'e.

amid situation in fi- "Bishops and banners and ter thing that the mind of man revered," and doubtless Mr. Stephen was thinking Of that ioounau 1 quoted and approveu uy ium.i. shall have ull that's rich and rare, And the best ot silks and satins to wear, And drive abroad in a coach and pair, And live hi a housa in St. James's Square. It was curious to note how the vary nt nnd libraries im pressed the various speakers.

Lord Woolsley told a story of his visiting Abraham Hayward and finding, to his rwilnhlo lnfk Ot bOOkSl "You forget," said Hayward, there is such a thing aa tne ionuon iiuiary. I had a large collection when I was a young man. ana nougnt uouk-o; nun tn wi-lto nn n. criven sub- ject, I send to the London Library for all the Lijoks mat, i wain, uuu, uutm thnm Kpml them back." One hopes that all the members live up to Mr. Hay ward's severe standard of honesty.

But Lord Woolesley, speaking for his own part, frankly avowed a liking ror tne dkks ol uuur.h, nn- overHstpa of Bfltinterinar past the shelves, of glancing now into one volume, now into another: while Mr. Lecky. preaching on the text that the only good education is self-educa- H.n.uH rn tho mlvamiiQ'PS of .1 library into which a man might be "turned loose' to pick up nis Knowledge ns he liked, without let or r.r o-nWlririnp. Thp binhon of London, again, suggested that if peo ple WOU1U CUJ OOOha as uuuoruuiu anA inn-nw from the llhrarv the volumes which they wished to use, two systems would oe nappuy eomomen; nnri PniirtMin Riivls anlfl a. few words in behalf of the nec- essarv hiue dock.

Literary Notes, THE statue of Thomas Hughes, the author of "Tom Brown's School Days," will be erected early next year at Rugby. A dramatic version of George Mere of verse, Thomas Hardy says: "Of the miscellaneous collection of verse that follows, only four pieces have been published, though many were written long ago, and others partly written. In some few cases the verses turned fnto prose and printed as such, it having been unanticipated at that time that they miht see the light. The Times-Democrat of New Orleans announces that the manuscript history of the Choctaws, by Dominique Rou quette, has been, with other manuscripts by that author, deposited for safe-keeping with the Howard Memo rial Library In New, Orleans. It has been feared that this invaluable contribution to the history of one of the most interesting of the Indian, tribes had been destroyed by fire.

Not only among the artificers of verse have there been remarkable instances of laborious composition. Buffon wrote his "Epoques de la Nature" eighteen times before he allowed them to appear in print. Gibbon wrote his memoir six times over and left it a fragment at the last. Almost all of Sismondi's historical works, until his later years, used to be written three times before they were given to the public. A little-known novel by Charles Lever Is soon to be brought out by Messrs.

Downey of London. It was originally written as a serial for the Dublin Uni versity Magazine, but. was not republished in book form during the author's life, and is only very briefly referred to in his biography. The title of the book is "Gerald Fitzgerald," and it ought to hit the present popular taste as it is a novel of adventure with the son of Prince Charles Edward for its hero. According to the London Chronicle, an English friend who recently visited Tolstoi, reports him to be deeply engrossed in his new novel.

He was dealing with the proofs of it, but the members of the family still contemplated the possibility of more corrections. Tolstoi revises his work again and again, wth a faithfulness which would amaze some writers. The proceeds of the novel are to go to the fund to help the Doukhobortsi. Otherwise, the story would certainly not have been published at the present time. The Anglo-Saxon poet, Caedmon, is to have a memorial at Whitby, where he lived opd died.

"The English have been a little slow," remarks the Boston Transcript, "in getting ready this monument to the first of English posts. Nobody can deny that a thousand years is a good while to wait for monumental enthusiasm. Yet now when 300 years more than a thousand have gone by, Caedmon is to have placed in his honor at Whitby a cross twenty feet high, with a dedication and probably a poem by the laureate of England." Harry Thurston Peck, in The Bookman, claims that tho English tongue possesses one great advantage over every other modern language spoken in the Occident in the very sharp line which it draws between the vocab ulary of Us prose. It may even be said to possess a third group of words which ere used chiefly in the colloquial intercourse of ordinary life. The fact that there are thousands of words which we meet familiarly in poetry, but would stare at somewhat strangely in prose, proves at least that the language Is amazingly rich in synonyms.

The following apology appeared in Literature last month, addressed to the editor: "Sir: An unhappy coincidence is annoying R. H. Vincent, the physiological psychologist. To my shame I must confess that I did not know of his work until quite recently. AnQ before that knowledge came to mo there appeared a story by me in the Strand Magazine, a story about 'spirits' and things, suggested by Mrs.

Piper's performances, in which a psvcholosjlst 'named Vincent takes a prominent part. If I had known there was a psychologist of that name I should not have done such a thing of course. People are bothering Mr. Vincent to know if there Is 'anything in and whether the story is based on something he has communicated to me. I can only offer him my slncerest apologies.

Of course there is nothing in it. H. G. WELLS." A new edition of "Aurora Lee" is made from the following preface by A. C.

Swinburne: "No English contemporary poet by profession has left us work so full of living fire. Fire is the element in which her genius lives and breathes: it has less hold on earth than Tennyson's or Browning's or Miss Ingelow's. and less aerial impulse, less fantastic or spiritual aspiration, than Miss Rossettt's. But all these noble poets seem to play with life and passion like actors or like students, if compared with her.".