The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-21
IN THE LITERARY WORLD.
BY PAUL PRY.

ship games at Bay Ridge last year made bigger crowd than any country even knew even in the days when tennis was a fad Tennis is coming into its own It costs less than many games; 1t takes less time; 1t requires few players; there Is no danger In 1t; 1t exercises the whole body thoroughly, not partially or spas medically; both sexes can play it, and finally, its whole moral tone is clear and gentlemanly.
 Henry Norman, M. P. In "The World s Work' writes Interestingly of the motor bicycle and says nobody need hesitate to buy motor bicycle of a good make today on the ground that it Is not yet perfect It Is sufficiently near to perfection to be a marvellous means of locomoton of the greatest utility. and affording a splendid pastime. You i'll up your machine with gasoline and look to your fabrication and accumulators, and jump on. In three quarters of an hour you are at your goal ten miles away; In an hour and a quar- ter twenty miles away; in three hours fifty miles and a hundred miles in a day leaves you plenty of time to do some work before you start and either work or play after you arrive. Although the ex- ercise in the fresh air must be health- giv- ing and exhilaratihg to the initiated the uuiuTtu IIlilc udS0 SOunQS as 1T u would demand and the play afterward. Ae recent reviewer says: "If you should see a novel called "The Main Chance,'' written by Meredith Nicholson, buy bor- row, beg or steal 1t. It has all the ele- ments of twentieth century greatness ]"
 'The Song of the Cardinal" by Gene Stratton-Port Is said to be romance of red birds passion. as thrilling as any human love story.
 Tn '"rhe Black Lion Inn by MT Alfred Henry Lewis of "Wolfyllle' fame. the author tells some graphic tales of pie turesque haracters-cowboys, plainmen miners, half-breeds. eac.. and 1t is a tpye of Western life that is fast passing away.
 To many readers and admirerers of William Dean Howell's 1t will seem odd to speak of him as a writer of ghost stor- les. However in his latest volume Questioned Shapes" there is fiction of very ghostly character. But Is not the quiet realism which characterizes the work of Mir. Howells the very quality necessary to the perfect and persuasive ghost story? It Is said that these tales are told with such perfect art. such pho tographic reality that the reader feels he Is living with the characters through their queer adventures. They will spec ially interest the student of psychic phe- nomena.
 The first edition of 10000 of Thomas Nelson Pages new novel "Gordon Keith was exhausted so quickly that the second edition was on the press about the time the book was published. It is said that one big firm sent in it's second order for 5000 copies three days after the novel was published.
 
 Word comes from England that Maurice Hewlett has begun in the Pall Mall Mag azine romance of which the Queen of scots IS to the heroine. It Is entitled The Queen Quair."
 Those who remember the Little Novels of Italy" and Richard, Yea and Nay'' and Forest Lovers" will await with pleasure the publication of the new story In this country. Many say 1t promises to be Mir. Hewlett's best work