Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-21
ABOUT BOOKS AND AUTHORS

HUUUI Uuuh0 hlIU huIlIUllu v The Italian crown prince is novelist, but writes undsr a nom de plume.
 R. D. Blackmore offered his famous novel. Lorna Doone," to nineteen pub fishers before it was accepted
 
 MeCIures Magazine for March will contain full-page portraits from recent photographs of Presid@nt-elect Mckinley and his mother.
 James Barrie is said to consider "The Man Who Would Be King" by Rudyard Kipling, the best short story in the Eng fish language.
 An article by ". D. Howells on Rud- yard Kipling as poet will be one ot tne interesting features of MeClure's Maga- zine for March. Aaron by Joel Chandler Harris, is to be followed by a sequel, which will, like his former works, be a picture life or that inexhaustible subject the Georgia pegro.
 Cowan Doyle will contribute to the March McClures an account of his own adventures and experiences as surgeon on a Greenland whaler. The paper will
  Arctic sealing and whaling
 of the poems of Paul Laurence Dun bar, William Dsan Howells says He is the only negro that has felt the negro life aesthetically and expressed 1t lyric ally.
 At Columbia Collage there is to be awarded each year, in memory of Henry c. Burner gold medal to the writer of hnct nn a SIIbipQt chosen from American literature.
 Among the short articles in the North American Review for February are: Winterburn; "The Menace of Pseudo Patriotism" by Edward Mortimer Chap man, and Cures Little Thought Of by Eugene Coleman Savidge.
 Fife Adelaide Rowlands is favorably known to American readers as the author of My Pretty Jane," and other tender love tales. Hence her latest book CLip- pincotO, entitled "The Fault of One, will likely find an interested audience on this side of the salt.
 Mrs. Humphrey Ward is a grand daughter of Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, and a niece of Matthew Arnold. Her father, Thomas Arnold, became a Roman Catho- lic at the time of Newman's secession, and was for time a professor in the lat ter's oratory at Birmingham, England.
 It will doubtless interest many to know that Mark Hanna has no fancy whatever for poetry but is exceedingly fond of the theater and good novels. Chan.es Dick ems is his especial favorite. and next to his novels comes Victor Hugo's Les MiserableS.
 To the grown up'' people of today who have not forgotten, nor out-lived, their love for Miss Alcott's novels in their younger days, as well as to the still know that in response to the question, What author is most called for by your juvenile readers?' the librarians of one hundred and fifty-two libraries give ans wers which show that the one who gave to the world Little Men" and Little Women" is still the general favorite that she was years ago.
 Miss Victorice Thomas Artz, of Chi cago, has, given to the Boston public li- brary the sum of $1O,000, to establish Longfellow memorial. The books in the collection are not to be limited to those by Longfelow, as it is intended merely as a honor to his name, and the income will be spent in obtaining rare editions and manuscripts.
 Under the caption of "The Cuba of the Far East" the Hon. John Barrett, United States minister to Spain, contributes a timely article to the North American Re- view. It is a graphic description of the Philippine Islands, now the theater of rebellion against the domination of Spain, together with a vivid portrayal of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of the richest archipelago in the world. thrilling chapter of secret war history will be related in McClure's Magazine for March by Gen. John M. Thayer, formerly United States senator from Nebraska. It is an account of a night he passed alone with Secretary Stanton in the war office when the latter was expecting that President Johnson would attempt to dis possess him of his office by force of arms A pretty poem from Harper's Bazar is:
 A LITTLE GRAVE. Dark are the mounds where the snow
 blast is sweeping.
 Wild is the cry of the wind on it's flight, Cold is the dlift that the north wind is
 heapng
 Over the nursling alone in the night! Alone in the night and the dark, that
 went creeping
 Out of her arms but a daybreak ago, Anguish with sorrow, her watch she is
 keeping,
 Far would she follow through storm
 and through snow.
 Nay, tender mother, have done with your
 weeping.
 Not in the night and the dark has he
 pant
 His all of bright heaven save when he is
 sleeping
 And dreaming of heaven, warm. warm
 in your heart,
 The departments which have been strong features in Godey's during the past year or more will be continued. They are: Successful Women"-inter- views with women who have made suc- cess in some profession or art, and whose experience should be useful to others. Music In America"-giving each month description of the work of some living American composer, together with his portrait and some of his previously un- published music. Fashion, Fact and Fancy"-giving the latest fashions in dress, the latest fads and fancies, and thousand and one things which are in teresting, instructive and helpful to wo- men.
 writer in the February number of the North Amaripan Review who SioDS hiro-