The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-23

l ican artist recently returned from Europe, has just completed for the Stokes compa- ny series of twelve sketches in color showing the American girl of today. Un- like certain very popular artists of the hour, MT. Underwood does not repeat the same type indefinitely, but shows many styles of Amefican beauty in his clever | work.
 The Girl with Collie" is one of the new series which is reproduced in black-and- white.
 The success of ''The God Yutzo," and Son" by Lord Gilhooley, has induced him to write a companion volume entitled Dennis Foggarty," which is announced for immediate publication.
 An unexpected chain of circumstances took Lord Gilhooley to the heart of Ire land, where he met Dennis Foggarty. one-time soldier, whose experience ex- tended to many climes and who was hu- morous and wise philosopher in his way a sort of Irish 'Yutzo'
 Every night Foggarty and Mrs. Foggar- ty exchange their ideas of men, women and events, much to the delight of Lord Gilhooley, who has embodied in his work some of their quaint philosophy and wit. It has frequently been stated that D. W. Hornung, whose masterpiece. Denis Dent,' Is now running serially in Leslie's | Monthly, is an Australian by birth. This Is an error caused by the great familiarity | with Australia shown in MT Hornung's | various writings
 He Is, however. an Englishman, born in- Middesboro in 1866. He did not go to Australia until he was eighteen years old, and he remained there only two years, a fact that probably accounts for the vivid- ness and correctness of his impressions. His work has been growing steadily in the esteem of the American and English literary world ever since the publication of his first story, "A Bride from the | Bush"
 "Denis Dent is to be published in book form late in the present year or early in 1904
 The announcement of "The Twentieth Century Atlas of Popular Astronomy is reminder of the remarkable progress of this science during the century recently closed. The discovery of the spectroscope and the application of photography to as- tronomical research has opened up new and interesting branches of the science, while the older department has been no less vigorously pushed forward.
 To meet the demand for work written In popular way and fully and clearly H. lustrated this new Atlas" has been pre- pared by Thomas Heath. of the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh, and is so sim pie and clear in its arrangement and in the wording of It's text that those taking up the subject for the first time will have no difficulty in understanding it.
 When Robert Barr, the author of "The Victors'" resumed the editorshlp of the ldler magazine, which he had started in England ten or twelve years ago, he re- solved to sell his country place in Surrey with the house he had built upon it and remove to London. When he sold his share In the Idler in 1896, he invested the pro- ceeds In ten acres of land seventeen miles south of the metropolis and built house: now, when he acquired the magazine again, he thought 1t well to part with the property 1t had produced. As 1t turned out later, he concluded not to get rid of his residence, but took rooms in town in- stead. While the place was in the market one prospective customer thought he price asked excessive and wrote MT. Barr the following sarcastic letter:
 Dear Sir: Are you sure you were not thinking of American or Dominion of Can ida currency rather than of English money? l understand you have lived in those countries.
 Yours, etc,
 To which MT. Barr replied:
 Dear Sir: I was not thinking of Domin- ion' Danish, American, Swiss or Swedish currency; but if you will place dash be- tween the first two initials and use the last three in their order as one word won will learn what think of you
 Yours.
 ROBERT BARR. A volume of epigrams. with clever satir- l ical illustrations. U had 1oe under the title of "Crankisms' and proved to be a success.
 Its author, Lisle de Vaux Matthewman. has prepared little book called ''Rips and Raps." which is to be published in September.
 It is said to contain many snap shots of human nature from the standpoint of an independent observer. Its satire is at times biting, but never unkindly and while 1t smiles at human frailties it does not sheer at them. Its bitterness is healthy, and It's sermons are usually lev eled at the other fellow and are, there- fore, acceptable
 Marie Ahnighito Peary, the little hero- inc of Mrs. Pearys charming book en- titled "The Snow Baby" Is herself at an early age writing a book for children
 Five years ago. after christening the great meteorite and seeing it safely at the Brooklyn navy yard the story came to an end. Now, "a great big girl of nine years" the Snow Baby herself, Is able to tell the story of her further Arctic ex- periences and her acquaintance with the fur-clad children of the Ice, and her book is to be published in the autumn under the title of Children of the Arctic"
 Since her return to this country after the first year of her life spent in the Arc tic, she has again visited the icebergs, the ice-fields, the glaciers. polar bears the walrus, the deer, the musk-oxen and the birds. but this time she has seen them with eyes that counld understand them a little. Again she has played with the Esk- imo children, this time with feet and hands and eyes and head and body that enabled her to take part in anything that was going on.
 What her life experiences seem to her she is to tell in her own way, with an oc casional word of help or expression from her mother.
 As was the case with ''The Snow Baby" the book is to be profusely illustrated from photographs taken by Commander Peary and Mrs Peary. giving special at- tention to the children.
 A most important series of serious and, semi-educational nature, while at the same time intended for popular reading. is announced, with Dr. Scott Keltie>of the Royal Geographical society, as it's editor The series is to be called "phe Story of Elaboration" and Is to set forth inc his