The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-13
BY PAUL PRY.

bee. While Buster seemed able to at tend to his work it was evident that he was getting to be the proprietor or a thirst which would have been a credit to bee twice his weight. Each day he wanted more whisNey and water. Fi- hally he fell from grace.
 The accompanying illustrations or
 pee-jag" are most humorous.
 The Flight of a Moth" by Emily Post.
 Published by Dodd, Mead & Company
 The Flight of a Moth" is very delightful little romance told in the form of letters The first letter is dated Newport" and is written by trace Trevis "a young and beautiful american widow, confidentially to her friend Louise Mrs. Trevis has just laid aside mourning for her husband and feels Tree and reckless in her enthusiastic pleasure-loving temperament. She writes
 T feel as though the whole earth were spread out before me. just for my pleas ure, and have an idea that 1t Is going To be glorious! think of 1t To be young, free to go where I please, to do what 1 please, to be responsible to no one but myself to have no one in the world with the power to say don't ap- prove i"
 This exhut erant and effervescing young woman is going abroad for an indefinite stay. Her short experience none too happy. as a married woman, mas given ner some queer and pronounce ed ideas of life which are not overcome until the last eliminating events of the story; when she learns as many others nave done that-amor vincit omina mundi
 The next letter Is written aboard the
 Deutschland" and is very chatty and clever. She writes: We do nothing but have meals all day. and they make each one last as long as possible They Iced us on the Wagnerian principle-a motif for each course. The band strikes up and soup rolls in to the overture from Faust Fish is made to swim in to the Blue Danube The roast IS coaxed in, and in its turn, by 'Viens Ponpoule, ctc.-a course to a tune. If you miss the tune you miss the course, and you have no hope of soup if the hand Is playing God Save the Queen or Die Yacht am Rhein,' as those airs are inseparable from coffee and cigar cites.
 The other letters are written from dif- ferent interesting places in Europe. The things Mrs. Trevis does and sees and thinks, and her great social success and what happens to her in the end, make up the plot of the play.
 In the current issue of the Bookman, Gen. Joseph Wheeler reviews the book of Captain Robert F. Lee, entitled Rec olleetions and Letters of General Rob- ert 10. Lee" He says:
 Thrty-four years ago, October 12, 1S70 in the city of Lexington, Virginia occurred a death which will never be forgotten. The calm. resigned face upon which the watchless looked was that of one of the grandest and greatest of men-the face of Robert Edmund Lee As an exemplar whether in peace or war, history will place General Lee upon the brightest niche of fame. He was superb in strategy. wise In conception, and bold, determined and reslstless in execution.
 My personal knowledge of Gen Lee commenced fifty years ago last June, when armed with a warrant as a cadet l and an order to report to the superinten- dent of the military academy I landed at West Point and was ushered into the | presence of Colonel Robert E. Lee I have never seen another face or form 1 which so impressed me-"