The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-05
LITERARY NOTES

LITERARY NOTES 'The Last word" Alice MacGowan, L. c. Page & Co.,. Boston. Cloth. 12mo. Illustrated, s.5o.
 This book tells of the modern woman; 1t voices her beliefs and creeds in this fashion:
 T would rather any time be a first rate human being than a poor, seeond- rate goddess"
 "As for aimiess walks, women take most of them. There are other methods of relief in action open to men"
 q sighed impatientiy. I wished he al i'd go away and find the girl who eorresponded with this description. for surely it was not L"
 'Tf it's all the same to the rest of man kind. have no use. Tn the business of my daily life, for an aureole or pedes- tai; they both are troublesome to tote around.'
 tI have an ever present and crushing belief that I am on error, mistake; nay, even woIse-possibly crime! feel apologetie all the time. have oe, veioped from depreeatory Into ao1ec''
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 sIt is generally the miserable woman who may not go forth to accost fate, who must sit at homo ti1 the event | comes battering az her door with US 1 great brutal bludgeon, who haunts case 1nents who goes from one sill to anoth- CT and gazes drearily forth to behold, I If she may, the solution of her dilema l approaching.P
 tours is the case ofAany animal thrown unrrepared amid new and unfavoring conditions. It must, if it is to persist, .leyolop. we will say longer snoht, a 1 hieher ratG of speed, or grow new set of legs outright, in order to cope witl the difficulties of its new environment" Being Q love story. the author natur- ally considers the questions of love and marriage, and of them she says; Mutual freedom, mutual help, this Is the only basis of happiness In marriage.
  Love is a great big, heavenly thing. It is not so small that it can only hold two people,
 'There is only one eternal, unanswer- able explanation and Justification for love-we love because
  q believe the mother attitude is the loving woman's attitude toward all man. kind-including her father and her grand father"
 That ideal partnership of sweet equal ity, whose bondage Is freedom, whose allegiance is voluntary, it's vows re- newed every hour from an overhowing heart"
 1 "We will have only love and trust in our lives. There will be no room for hatred, or jealousy or for even the poor ghost forgiveness"
 That liberty which two people very much in love will so seldom grant each other-to have, to pursue and enjoy, those two blessings in life. love and labour. "NVhen told my mother that I should have no secrets from Dick; that my ev- cry thought should be his, and that I expected a like confidence in return she said to me that this would be very mon- otonous. She laughed at me a little, and added that nobody ever did it, but that if they did, it would be disastrously silly
 A strong brave, beautiful story, this Hast Word" is a book which pleads to review itself, and I have let 1t do so. by selecting here and there bits Of wis dom philosophy which seemed related to each other The author in the com pass of her four hundred and forty pages considers most of the problems which be set the woman of today, and if these samples of it's merit do not make ycu want to read the entire book-why then you do not like what I like.
 If sheer merit can win. If the public wants the best, why then think the fu- af a iG
 
 "The Invisibles," published by the Saalfeld Publishing company of Akron, Caprice. $150-is a story of American life, largely .n the central western val leys in which New Orleans and it's great annual celebration has part. John Val demere, ever present In the story, Is a | disciple of the occult sciences-of mes- nerism, hypnotism and kindred phen- omena. But apart from its occult inter- est the story is full of living interest and living personalities.
 Sir Henry M. Stanley will write about the discoveries that are still to be made in Africa, in the November Success Sam Lloyd, the great puzzle expert has been engaged by Success to fur nish its readers throughout \e winter months, with new and interesting series of puzzles, based on Chinese Tangrams. It is said that Marie Corelli comes in for some amusing parodying in Zut- Ski" one of the condensed novels by Bret Harte in his last volume of trav- esties, to be brought out October by | Houghton, M1fflin & Go. T, Edgar Penn berton is writing the official biography of MT, Harte.
 A new edition of Robert Louis Steven sons An Inland Voyage" illustrated with photographs, taken for the purpose by James B. Darlington, of scenes along the way and mentioned in the text, is announced by Charles Scribner's Sons. The book will be printed from a new setting by De Vinne.
 "The Bible in Brazil" by the Rev. H. c. Tucker is to be brought out soon by the Fleming H. Reveil Company The book Is a collection of colporteurs' stories. Brazilian, Indian, colonist; steam CT life. boat tent, and hut life; priest, merchant, laborer, all sorts and condi- ! tioDs of experience are said to De told in the volume.
 A seventh revised edition has just been published of "A Century of American Dl- | plomacy" by the Hon. John W. Foster 1. Mir Fosters diplomatic career is riyaled as to length of service only by that of John Quincy Adams and by none in va- riety. Since his appointment as minister to Mexico in 1879 he has been engaged t4..t. .r1w fr1 1t,Ia