The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
BY PAUL PRY.

look upon their trees in a dry season. But no dingness of travel or shabbiness of attire could tarnish the splendor that radlated from his youth and strength. The old man upon whose temper his re- marks were doing such deadly work was combed and curried to a finish, a bride groom swept and garnlshed but alas for age! Had I been the bride, I should have taken the giant, dust and all" The entire story bustles with spirited mar rative and incidents containing the purest dramatic, spicy flavor The love story is full of tenderness and grace, for the typi- cal cow-puncher though a hord fighter held within his breast a heart that was filled with sentiment and tenderness In Molly Wood the conventionalities and stif restraints present our regulars in their daily work in the west, with all the vividness and "color" to be found on the Arizona desert. Who could have been found more peculiarly fitted to write the preface than Mir. Mister and in addition to his fitness for the subject he writes an unusually attractive preface "a difficult thing to do as it is a sort of heart to heart talk, as it were.
 MT Mister says it was time that an artist arose who could paint the Ameri- can soldier as he really exists for the beneht of coming generations. Our gen. erals, he says, will sit for their portraits as Washington and William Penn sat for theirs, but never until this day have we possessed a recorder who could give also to posterity the enlisted man to be put alongside with the captain who led him into battle. And finally he points out that Remington has not forgotten herself, the mystery of the untouched plains and the awe of the unscaled mountain heights having been set down by him mot only truthfully. but with potent feel ing and imagination"
 The Princess of Glenndale" is the first story of a new southern writer and an Alabamian. The author, Miss Maia Pettus Is quite young, but has already achieved some notable success as a journalist, having taken thorough course to fit her for her chosen profess sion. In addition she has had experience in actual work, besides contributing to the press in Alabama, Miss Pettus has been for some years the correspondent of several foreign journals Her now work Is novel telling of the sublime suffering and heroic conduct of the South ern women during the civil war. The scene is In Alabama, the Tennessee river forming the dividing lines between the contending armies. The heroine beau tiful Elsie Glenn, Princess Sunshine. D as she was called even in childhood grew up some what of queen on the old plan tation, with two hundred slaves as sub ?eets' Ihere are excellent pictures drawn 1t Is said of Forest and other southarn generals and the confederate soldiers 1n- troduced are types of the southern cav alier. Miss Pettus' friends wish her con tinued success in her literary career.
 Another edition of Will N. Harben's story, "Abner Daniel" Is being publish ed by Harper and Brothers. MT. Har- pen aitnough for many years a success full story-writer Is now sharing with Ioo, Chandler Harris the honor of being the representative writer of the Georgia sec tion. ~
 It Is said that 1t was through the ad- vice of MT. Howells that Harben concen- trateo ms attention on his own native region of northern Georgia.