specializes accordingly in the latest artistic ideas covering that broad field, a field that is readily responsive and appreciative of the uplifting translation into a new realm of productiveness through the touch of the brush and pencil. There are ample samples of this uplifting work in folders and other ideas to illustrate the new era that is dawning on the decorative features of commercial art.

As usual with each issue the magazine offers numbers of beautifully colored prints, posters and cover designs by members of the Society of Modern Art. Some of the most striking are by Carter Housh, Hans Flato, Frederick F. Crouse, Jacob Asanger and Fritz Winold Reiss.

Price, $1. Published by Modern Art Collector, New York.

"Songs of the Son of Isai: A Metrical Arrangement of the Psalms," by Helen Hughes Heilscher.

According to the author, this metrical arrangement of the Psalms is far from being a complete reproduction of all their beauty and spirit, but as a light wind, blowing over a garden of roses. may carry to the traveler a breath of fragrance that may cause him to lift his eyes to the beauty of the whole garden, so these simple verses may awaken interest in the breasts of the lovers of the beautiful and true, and bring them into more intimate relation with the Psalms themselves.

$1.50 net. Sherman, French & Company, Boston.

"The Rudder," by Mary S. Watts, au

thor of "Nathan Burke," "The Legacy," "The Rise of Jennie Cushing," etc.

Mrs. Watts has set this new novel in the Middle West, the country so thoroughly familiar to her in either its highways or its low ways, its rich folk or poor folk. She is deeply interested in the people it has bred or adopted, and seems as much at home with the man who has made his pile, in this special case an "ice king," with

NCLUDED in this issue of the Overland Monthly is an articleseries-that

will call to the attention of the world the fact that the Western mines have contributed precious metals to an amount that more than once concluded the campaign of vital interest. to the government.

However, it is admitted that those mines that yielded their output to strengthen a waivering government treasury largely owe their existence and their present prosperity to an agency that permitted of their development through the development of public confidence in the mining industry.

In San Francisco, in the "Bonanza Days," this agency was the San Francisco Stock and Exchange Board. It is now the San Francisco Stock Exchange, the oldest organization of its kind in the United States, and it will continue to exercise its influence in the

contest to keep "California's Leading Industry"-mining-in its enviable

position.

There is no institution in this State whose activities are more interlocked with the prosperity of California and with the upbuilding of its great estates than the San Francisco Stock Exchange.

This exchange was organized on September 11, 1862, following the discovery of the great silver and gold veins of the Comstock Lode, now in Nevada, then within the boundaries of the Territory of Utah.

The greatest burden that has faced a stock exchange in this country fell upon the San Francisco Stock Exchange during the progress of the Civil War. The government had stopped specie payments and issued

currency, which was a legal tender throughout the Union.

California and the other Pacific States, however, adhered to the gold basis, and continued to do so up to the resumption of the specie payments by the government on January 1, 1879, and notes and drafts were made payable in United States gold coin.

This was only rendered possible, however, by reason of the fact that the mines of California and Nevada had supplied to the government the necessary precious metals.

These mines, however, were only enabled to extract their contents through the operation of the members of the Exchange and the various banks that had become confident of fortunes to be made through the operations of the exchange. Then the foundations were laid for the greatest individual fortunes of the West.

San Francisco, from a rambling seaport town, came into being as a metropolis. The fortunes of Sharon, Flood, O'Brien, Haggin, Mackay, Morrow, Keene, Ralston and Hayward went to build the new city.

The profits from the mines went to construct the great business district of San Francisco and to crown Nob Hill, with its streets of palaces. Since the decline of the Comstock the great discoveries at Tonopah and Goldfield have added their millions to Western Wealth.

Now the attention of speculators and investors is turned to Rochester in Nevada, and to Oatman in Arizona.

Experts say that through discoveries in these camps the boom days of the pioneers will return, and the world will learn the fact through the agency of the San Francisco Stock Exchange, which through its more than half a century of activity has been the guide.