The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-31
NEW BOOKS AND VIEWS.

ALincoln Steffens is still on the trail of the "Enemies of the Republic" He is now making study of politics and gov erhment in Wisconsin, having recently completed a study of Illinois, which ap- pears in the August McClure's.
 An interesting story of the discovery of one rising young author is told in con- nection with the appearance of a short story by James Hopper, In the August McCIure's. One of the members of Me- Clures staff, while in San Francisco, was told by an instructor in the University of California of young man who had done wonderful work in English in the insti- tuition, who was then teaching in the Philippines. A letter to MT. Hopper was productive of several stories which were at once accepted. MT. Hopper then re- turned to this country and has been writ Ing successfully ever since.
 Alice Brown contributes a charming New England love story to the McClures midsummer fiction number. Miss Browns home is in Boston and she knows her New England thoroughly, drawing her scenes and characters at first hand. As a result they are real people doing real things.
 That most successful of children's books, Little Lord Fauntleroy," is brought to mind by the August McClure's, which has new story of childhood by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and another story illus trated by Reginald Birch, who won fame as the Illustrator of "Fauntleroy." To this new story Mrs. Burnett has brought all the charm of her earlier success.
 A. B. Frost returns to nature and offers the first pen and ink work he has done in years to the August McClure's. He illus trates Red Saunders story by Henry Wallace Phillips, with a series of the most ripping and humorous sketches ever. MT. Frosts portraits of the hero, the accurate cue to the humor of MT. Phil lips story
 Colin Mckay, whose stories of the sea have attracted attention from time to time in the magazines, is a professional seaman who sails for a living as well as pleasure. His home is at St. Johns. New Brunswick, and his thrilling stories have, for the most part, been drawn from per- sonal experiences in the northern waters. In the August McClure's Mir Mckay has a rattling tale of shipwreck that is full of spirit and hazardous event
 Dr. Emil Reich, author of Success Among Nations is married to a charm Ing little French lady, and has a London home that Is renowned for it's hospitality. He himself Is described as "a smooth faced, handsome. middle-aged Hunea- rian savant, who has the gift of speech to an almost miraculous degree" He Is said to lecture on the most erudite subjects entirely without the use of notes. Besides eloquence. Dr. Reich possesses a gift of engaging candor, by the use of which he can tell an audience of English women. without arousing their wrath, that he thinks them rather a tame lot, not comparable to French women. His not altogether iattering comm ments on American women. and their influence as factors in the success of America are not the least interesting feature of his book.
 The Harpers are printing still another edition of Robert W. Chambers latest book. "Tn Search of the Unknown" Mir, Chambers is spending the summer in his country home at Broadalbin New York, in hunting. fishing. trampIng and liter ary work. Interviewers occasionally go up to see him, but as rule they let him