The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-19

Orthodoxy" The book will shortly APP
pear from the press of the Putnams Sons.
William lie Queux's new novel, "If Sim
ners Entice Thee" will shortly be publish
ed in this country.
Readers of Robert Bars interesting
books will be surprised to learn, possibly
that he began life as a teacher, and for
time was the head master of the public
school at Windsor, Ontario, where his pa
rents still reside. Mr.. Barr claims to have
inaugurated the system of supplementary
reading in schools twenty years ago, when
head master of Windsor school.
HIS innovation was met by a strong pro-
test from the mayor and the clergymen,
but he persisted and packed away many of
the ordinary school books and introduced
good literature. Mr.. Barr found that the
two favorite novelists with his scholars
during his term as teacher were Mark
Twain and Charles Dickens.
During Mr. Bars recent visit to America
he was most interested in the flourishing
condition of American schools. He was
also much amused while visiting one of our
schools to find the pupils studying a story
of his which had been published in Nc
Clures Magazine. The pupils were requir-
ed to write out the story from memory and
rious to see them, and pronounced them
not only well done, but quite improved
versions l assure you" By the way the
first story that Mr. Barr ever wrote was
published in The Youths Companion. Mr..
Bars latest success, "Tekla," was one of
the most popular sellers of the winter.
The demand for "Aylwin is Increasing.
and the book is already in its tenth edition.
Word comes that Mr.. Theodore Watts
Dunton has been encouraged by the recep-
ton of his work, and is preparing for the
press another novel written some time ago.
new edition of Mr. Hamlin Garland's
Main Travelled Roads is to be brought
out in April by the Macmillan company,
with additional stories and ten of his most
popular dialect poems
Richard Harding Davis volume, 1.-THE
Cuban and Puerto Rican Campaigns" pub
lished few weeks ago, has been brought
out by Heinemann in London, and is al
ready in it's tenth thousand over there.
The latter part Of this month Lppincott
company will publish 1.-The Daughters of
Babylon" by Wilson Barrett and Robert
Hichens, based upon Mr.. Barrett's play of
the same name. Mr.. Barrett met with I'M
usual success in his book, 1.-THE Sign of
the Cross" while Robert Hichens had
equal success with 1.-THE Green Carnation."
This combination of authors should re-
suit in a powerful and imaginative story
A recent reviewer in a well-known jour-
nal remarks that 1.-THE Open Question"
which will be published this month by Har-
per, is novel which it is impossible to
ignore. For good or evil, he says, for
praise or for blame, it is one of those books
about whicH tyeryscritic inteFesses-in the
fiction Of the precent day must have
definite opinion.
1.-THE Open Question" Is by G. e. Raj
mond, whom 1t Is now established beyond
question is Miss Elizabeth Robins, the Ib-
sen actress. As was said some weeks ago,
this clever work piqued curiosity, and upon
inquiry the London Daily Chronicle dis
covered the authoress and wrote a long
article about her. Miss Robins replied in
an equally lengthy article scoring them for
revealing her identity. She claims that 1t
will now be impossible to have her books
criticized without reference to the influence
Of Ibsen.
A certain publisher il, this country has
given in book form the play with which
John Oliver Hobbies has achieved dramatic