The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-23
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, cal Color" in which he sets forth his own personal way of recording the facts which | later on go to make up the background | of his tales. The camera. with him, takes | first place as a recorder of impressions. | and it is from his photographic notes, in | France, in Scotland or in Spain, that he manages to recreate for us, as he has done in "The Adventurer in Spain'' the very spirit of that country
 Happy is the author who is able to illus | trate his letters-especially when written | to his publishers-and happy example l of the combination of writer and artist is shown in Gelett Burgess MT Burgess l "Goops," a manual manners Tor polite infants, has gone into many tnousands or | American and British families, and has played its part in guiding the behavior of l the rising generation. It's success has been so great that "A Second Book of 1 Goops" is in preparation, and It Is rom one of MT. Burgess letters to his publish CTS relative to the new book that we are | able to reproduce some characteristic "goops" drawn on the typewriter sheet by way of suggestion. MT. Burgess has an entirely new plan for the forthcoming volume, which will combine the features | of the first book with the advantages of storytelling.
 No apology Is needed for new edltloh l of Bayard Taylors Story of Kennett, which has continued fayorite since It's original publication nearly forty years ago. It will be pleasant for readers to turn back from the rushing, crowded pages of modern fiction to this tale of village life which has delighted a gener- ation.
 The book is now presented in attract i've form with appropriate photographs Illustrating the scenes of the story in I the old Pennsylvania town of Kennett Square.
 Miss Abbott is well known for her popular little volume Trolley Trips, de- scribing the old New England neighbor- hoods that may be reached by electric i car Her new book, Old Paths and Le- gends of New England has grown out of the earlier work and tells, as its subtitle indicates, of "saunterings over historic roads, with glimpses of picturesque helds and old homesteads, in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire" Miss Abbott has utilized her fund of material to draw a delightful picture of the quaint byways of New England. But in this book her wanderngs are not restricted by daylight, or carfares, or gaps in the trolley circuit. Historic spots of nation 1 al interest, curious and charming out-of- 1 the-way places, Indian legends, and Yan- 1 kee folklore are given their full place in these entertaining pages. The book is a true interpretation of the spirit of old New England.
 "Limanora,' by Godfrey Sweven, is l a sequel to "Riallaro," which was pub lished year or two ago, and, like Ri allaro," it is at once both a satire and an allegory. "Riallaro" describes a Darwinian experiment in artificial selec- l ton on a southern Pacific archipelago, which is sealed from intercourse with the rest or the world by an atoll reef and ring of mist. The criminals and all per- sons morally diseased are placed ac- cordng to type upon the smaller islands while the central and largest island Is reserved for normal healthy individuals l The author studies the life in these diff ferent imaginary communities.
 In "Limanora" the author has fulfilled his promise of describing the scientific advance af the community left on the central island after the complete expul- sion of what to Its inhabitants seemed the clogging elements.
 Robert IIichens. the author of ''Fe- lix" is thirty-eight years old, and has l been writing books for about nine years. He has published nine since "The Green Carnation." He is the son of Canon Kitchens of Canterbury in Kent, and for London, in which city he has laid the scene of many of his stories notably of Flames" and The Slave.' Of late l years, however, he has spent a great deal of his time in travelling abroad, and has made seven expeditions to North Af- rica visiting Egypt, Tunisia. Morocco and Algeria. He has taken some trips in the Sahara desert and has also visited the West Indies. as well as Spain, Sicily and many European countries. This summer he Is living in Italy, where he is writing a book which will be published in> the late autumn of 1904 MT. Hichens has coilaborated in two plays, "The Medicine Man." produced by Sir Henry Irving at the Lyceum theatre, and writ | ten with the late Doctor II. D. Traill, and Becky Sharp" an adaptation of Vanity Fair" written with MT. Cosmo Gordon Lennox, and produced at the Prince of Wales theater, London, with Miss Marie Tempest in the chief part He has recently completed a modern comedy commissioned by MT. George l Alexander, of the St. James theater, London. His novel, "The Londoners," has been adapted for the stage by Mr. l Henry Whitestone and produced at the | Apollo theater, London. Mir Kitchens | was at one time musical critic of the London World, but he resigned the post some time ago in order to be able to travel more freely and to spend his wln- | ters abroad.
 1 Ample evidence that many of the | scenes in 'The Sacrifice of Shannon" were not oyerdrawn was given in the l Strait of Northumberland last March. l One of the gigantic ice crushers of the Canadian government was fast in the ice for five weeks; another, the Minota, in endeavoring to free her, carried away the blades of her propeller.
 It may be of interest to know that the studio suite at IS bis Impasse du Maine, described in "The Garden of Lies" was at one time the home of the author, MT. Justus Miles Forman. Tie old Convent Garden on the Boulevard Raspail and the Cafe D'Alencon are very real places, as any one who knows the Montparnasse 1 quarter could say. It Is even hinted | that the ex-soldier of fortune, the ab- 1 sinthe-drinking, cafe-lounging and alto 1 gether lovable vagabond, Denis Mallory
 was not a character of fiction but of real life. He would be worth knowing l Miss Beatrice Hanscom, whose dainty volume of verse, Love. Laurels and l I toI,fa faf.ts Iou