The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-21
LITERARY NOTES.


.sThe Banner of Blue by the author
Of THE sticket Muster" VIII be welcom-
ed by many readers. It comes from the
press Of Mcclure. Phillips & Co.. New
York. and the price Of the book is $50.
Mr.. Crockett presents again a tale Of
parish life, and this time the scene is laid
by Cover Water in Scotland. His mas
terry of Scottish ways and customs is as
evident as his siillful handling Of the
Scottish dialect In Kate Rupert and
John Giendonwyn the sufferings and
trials of the earnest life Of Scotland are
faithfully presented. and no admirer of
Mr.. Crockett or lover of old seobia Will
find fault with "The Banner of Blue"
The story of the prodigal son IS retold
and the trials and scenes in the period
when church and state were separated
are presented in living colors.
Mcclure, Phillips & Co. also published
1.-The Ragged Edge" by John T. Nc
Intyre. price $3.50 This is a story of city
life In America, with no small dash of
city politics. The story centers around
Larry Murphy and Maggie Dwyer Spleen
did, capable Maggie, who had been made
a teacher in a public school. 1t is a
story without dull pages. and all through
the pages run the cosmopolitan life Of
Yiddish and dozen other languages are
equally at home.
The sealfeid Publishing company Of
Akron, o., have printed THE Blue Badge
of Courage" by Henry H. Hadley, the
well known reformer of drunkards. The
price of the book Is s1.25. It is the story
Of Colonel Hadley's efforts In organizing
rescue missions and the like, together
with accounts of the various happenings
of an eventful life. The book reads like
fiction, but every narration Is based on
actual occurrences. Colonel Tiadley hopes
In fact that he has not made the book
too respectable.
POGO A POGO is the odd title of q
book published by the Sealfeld Publishing
company, price $50. The author is viii
liam Franklin johnson. and the Illus
trations are by w. II. Fry. 1t is the
story of a newspaper man in Washing
ton-Pennington, the city editor-of a
millionaire senator and his family. and of
various other characters that are in
termingled in the national capital. Out
of such material Mr.. Johnson has woven
a story full Of interest.
John Howe. a rolling stone, brings into
the story the syndicate features of Amer
lean life. and altogether the story Is one
of American life of the present day of
the fairest and noblest city of the
world
''Nove1ists." says the Mobile Register,
''can take their scenes from any quarter
of the world they please As a rule they
select scenes with which they are famil-
lar; Craddock's people live in the East
Tennessee mountains; Cables in New
Orleans; Cooper's in the woods of north
ern New York and western Pennsylva-
MIA, and so on. There is nothing to limit
the novelist's range, however; and we
wonder how 1t happens that while eight
novelsts lay scenes in Louisiana, not
one has selected Texas. Mississippi is
the scene of but one great work of flc-
ton. that of Longfellow's. Alabama is
credited upon the fiction map with but
one author (Mrs. Wilson,, whose char
actere use Alabama as their stage Ten
nessee. with all her variety of local color,
both in scenery and inhabitants, has but
one
The Scribners announce new book Of
great Importance by DIR. Charles Angus
| tus Briggs of Union seminary. 1t is en-
titled 1.-THE Incarnation of the Lord, and
| consists of a series of ten discourses
which give the entire New Testament
teaching upon the great subject of the
| title. The arrangement is in the order
of development, the object being to ex-
plain the doctrine in a plain and popular
way so that any intelligent person may
understand it. All the difficulties that
confront the modern mind In connection
with such topics as Son of Man, Son of
| God, Kenosis. Virgin Birth, Immaculate
Conception Pre-existence, and the Divin-
ity of Christ are frankly faced and thor
oughly considered with as little technical
material as possible. The relations of