The age-herald., 1900-07-01
Books B.! !.!: o!! -Read R; cad; s>-eBY PAUL N SS%>S4A

Readers of "Aylwin" will be glad to learn that Mir Theodore Watts puntous Rem iniscences" will g on be published. Since the appearance of "Aylwin' the reading public has been eagerly awaiting the ad- vent of this autobiographical sketch book from the pen of a man who was an intimate friend of Swinburne, Rosetti. Ten nyson and the whole group of later Vic torian poets and writers.
 Jane Barlow, who will be remembered as the author of Irish Idylls'' and "Bogland Studies" has written volume of short stories which will be published under the title of Another Greet of Irish Stories" Miss Barlow, whose inimitable tales of the peasant classes have won distinction for her, is, with Mrs Seumas MacManus per haps considered the best-known delineator of Irish life and character of the present time.
 A book of travel that combines amuse- ment and information is well worth having Such book is Miss Lillian Tells As Seen by Me" It contains the au,nors observa- tions and experiences during her two years wandering about the continent and else- where. While her book is of special value to the inexperinced traveller, it is full of humor and makes delightful reading for the stay-at-home. Miss Bell, who is a Chicagoan, will be remembered as the very delightful author of "The Love Affairs of an Old Maid.'
 Miss Jeanette L. Glider the co-editor of the Critic and a literary woman of note, has dramatized Quo Vadis" a version which possesses certain literary qualities which caused the critics to place it above nf ,lxia ,;,,,,se terpiece. Report says that now Miss Gill der has approached the publishers of Black Rock" with a view to staging Ralph Connors story, and it is probable that the stage version will be ready for the fall. Of Black Rock it has been said that the author has shifted Satan's throne of royal state from Milton's hell to mountain throne in the Rockies"
 
 One of the peculiar and most distressing features of the war in the Transvaal is the number of war correspondents who have met death or serious injury during its course. It is well known that the corre- spondents lot is at best a hazardous one, but the statement that hardly one of all the men who went to the front in Africa to gather news will return safe and sound is unusually depressing It is said that since the beginning of the conflict a single London paper, the Daily Mail, has had ten men incapacitated in one way or an- other. One of the Saddest deaths, though, among the company of correspondents was that of George w. Stevens, the brilliant young jornalist, who passed safely through most of the campaign for the relief of Ladysmith to fall a victim to the Cape fever. His is a lonely grave in a strange land-the goal of many a brilliant and fearless writer
 Robert Loveman, the Southern Sweet Singer, has just published another volume of his lyrics entitled "A Book of Verse;" Since MT. Lovemans work first attracted attention several years ago he has steadily increased in power and in favor, until to- day he enjoys wide popularity and ap- preciation. Although MT. Loveman was born in Cleveland, O., his family moved South just after his birth and so the South claims him for her own. With the excep- tion of three years passed in reading law in Tuscaloosa, MT. Loveman has made Dal- ton, Ga, his home Even critics have the kindest praise for MT Loveman's verses While the reading public hold his work in tender and affectionate esteem.
 Two of the most delightful and alto- gether charming volumes are by Ebert Hubbard, a litterateur of East Aurora New York, and editor of "The Philistine" and are entitled Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women," and Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great" In the latter volume among delightful little Journeys to various homes is one to Ha- warden. The author, with several other Americans, enjoyed an interview with the Grand Old Man and statesman Gladstone During the conversation the author assured MT. Gladstone that Americans held him in great esteem and added that they only re- gretted that fate had not decreed that he should nave been born in the United States To which MT. Gladstone replied. "Fate is o1ten unkind." After the interview the nVe Americans adjourned to a side room to talk 1t over and tell of the things they Intended to say, but didn't
 TOW TOW limiting 1 was that gray suit!'
 Yes, the sleeves were too long,"
 Did you notice the absence of the fore hnger of his left hand-shot off in 1S45 while hunting, they say''
 But how strong his voice isv'
 He looks like a farmer..'
 'Eighty-five years of age! Think of 1t. and how vigorous!'
 Then the preacher spoke and his voice was sorrowful: "Oh, but I made botch of twas it sarcasm or was it not?'
 What was Sarcasm?"
 When MT. Gladstone said that fate was unkind in not having been born in the United States"
 And we were all silent. There Boots came in and we put the question to Boots and Boots decided that it was not sarcasm And the next day, when we went away we
 
 'The Optmist and Other Verses" by Hilda Johnson Wise, were written with no intention on the authors part of their be- ing published, though they are now given to the public through the press. The poems will appeal to many who are fond of unpretentious verse Here is one entitled "Manana," dated July, 1855:
 Old Spain, procrastnation's prey, Sees all too late, with bitter sorrow, Her empire wane, her powers decay, Cursed by the fatal word tomorrow But we who clutch times forelock grey, The presidential proverb borrow, To Santiago press, and say, With courage and with hope, "tomorrow!"
 Some of the poems are personal. Here Is the last stanza of one addressed to Carolyn Wells in which the poet bewails the fact that she and her friend have not the genius of two well-known authors: