The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-24
Some of the New Books.
BY PAUL PRY.

| summer. It is entitled. "The One wo- man"
 Two stirring stories are "Richard Ros- n.y." by Maxwell Gray, the author of The Silence of Dean Maitland" and For a Maiden Brave" by Chauncey c. Hotchkiss, author of "A Colonial Free Lance"
 Charles soribner's Sons will publish the last of May. Gordon Keith" the new novel by Thomas Nelson Page, with sev- en illustrations; F. Hopkinson Smiths new book, "The Under Dog" and "'rhe Life and Letters of Charles Butler" by Francis Honey Stoddard, professor of the English language and literature in New York University.
 Speaking of the newly published vol- ume. Lyrics of Love and Laughter" by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Professor Harry Thurston Peck says in a recent review: "'They are African through and through; and when one comes to them from the exaggerated caricature of the typical coon song, manufactured by white men, the difference is strilUngly perceptible. It is the same difference that one notices between the singing voice of the white man and the negro. The latters always has just a strain of wildness in it's melo- dy which can probably be traced back to | a far-off barbarism, but which haunts the ear with certain cadences that can be found in the song of no other people,"
 Touching upon the free irresponsible nature of the African, which he traces in these lyric verses, Professor Peck writes: ''As you read, it affects you with a cer- tain sympathy that you too feel as though, after all happiness was very simple thing, and that no man ought to ask more than r.1 .IaI- 1.a twickle of light music, note of care less laughter a hum of the bees in the air. and a happy absence of anything to think about"
 How primitive and simple and sweet it all sounds, but 1t is to be feared that the Angle-Saxon race will never be able again to approach nature so closely, and there forget all the worries and cares of life.
 Some interesting new books that will appear from the press this month are Owen Wister's 'Philosophy Four" de- scribed as deliciously funny story of Harvard student life F. Marion Craw- ford's Man Overboard;" Gertrude Ath- erton's Mrs Pendleton's Four-in- Hand;" Winston Churchills "Atr. Keegans 8 Elopement. all by popular and we'll known authors. "The Kempton- Wace Letters an anymous contribution Is said to be a book almost sure to provoke discussion, in which the views of two men. one a poet and idealist. the other a scientific materialist, are given. Kempton is poet and writes from England to Herbert Wace, an instructor in economies at a western university Kempton believes that love is life while the other maintains that 1t is a conven- l tion The progress of the book consists of series of love letters. in which is de- veloped the third side of the question the womans.
 How to Keep We'll" by Dr. Floyd M l Crandell, is found among the hygienic l books on sports and outdoor life. Dr. Crandall writes a book of common sense, advice about preventing sickness He tells how to work and how to know when to stop, how to treat ones health with i intelligent care.
 MT. Kipling's new volume of poems vii appear in the autumn instead of the spring, as was at first announced. He re- turns to England in June, and there Is