The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-16

Pass Mir. Whites account is as fol- lows: "The first day of our third at tempt we made the foot of the noun tain; the next day over the summit and as far down as the slope on the other side extended. There the country dropped off in a sheer precipice. We camped on hillside so steep that we had to dig out places to cook and sleep in We found that the only way down was a little ledge in the side of the sheer prec- ipice. and about half way down this ledge vanished for twelve feet. We dragged a log about a quarter of mile, hftched the rope to either end, sus- pended the log against the side of the cliff. and Mrs White crawled across. Lost a shovel over at this point, and never even heard 1t hit bottom. Have named the pass Elizabeth Pass" It is . about eleven thousand feet In altitude, and crosses a spur of the Great Western Divide.
 The announcement that "Brewster's Millions" by Richard Greaves. was really written by George Barr McCutcheon. throws an interesting light upon the methods of publishers and the taste of the public. At the time of it's publication, the book was exploited as the work of an unknown author, and his photographs were printed in the literary columns of newspapers all over the country. As they represented a kind of matinee girls idol. they probably helped to give the book | start. Details of the career of this ina g. mary author were also printed until the public began to grow interested in the new celebrity. With this kind of aid, but without tho help of the reputation of its real author, the book sold on Its merits, and justified MT CcCutcheon's opinion that popularity lay in the quality of the work itself rather than in the fame of the writer. The story was the outcome of an idea suggested to MT McCutheon by his brother Ben as a theme for a short story. In discussing it with his publish CT. Mir. Stone thought the scheme large enough for a novel, and wanted 1t work ed up for immediate publication. But as another new novel by MT. McCutcheon had already been announced and adver- tised 1t was decided to publish Brew ster'' anonymously and see if the public really liked the work as well as it liked the author. As a result MT. McCutheon wrote the book in six weeks and publish- ed 1t under the nom de plume of Rich ard Greaves. Its success has been not able enough to justify the belief that merit will be discovered even when 1t wears a disguise.
 An Australian critic in a recent review of ''The Boss" by Alfred Henry Lewis
 
 makes it the text for a warning to those opposed to the reign of labor in Austra- lia, although he adds that the sackening of immigration makes the danger distant
 This critic also quotes from a corres- pendent in Sicily, who describes the ab- iect povery of the peoply They earn only four S. week. working twelve hours day, but get broth of big beans every night, stewed with water and to find their own breakfast. If they can find it. or else they simply starve"
 The Australia critics comment is that you can't turn such men into free Amer jeans in two or three years without giv- ing the boss and his associates show"
 The personal appearance of Charles Wagner, the apostle of the simple life who is now featuring in America. has agreeably surprised those people have known him only by his photographs The picture most commonly seen of him has shown him with a very severe. rather forbidding countenance. The real man is quite the opposite Though heavy in features. he is always smiling. cheerful and bright-eyed New editions. to fill the demand created by MT. Wagner's lec- lures in America. have been printed of his three books, By the Preside" The Simple Life' and '"rhe Better Way"
 It is striking illustration of the im- presslon made by the late Auguste Saba tier, author of Religions of Authority" upon the minds of his countrymeD and the permanence of that impression that now. more than three years after his death, the Revue Chretienne Is pub