The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-25
BY PAUL PRY.

BY Pa
s'Essays on Men. Things and Events
by Savoyard. Published by The Neale
Publishing Co.
Savoyards essays, historical, political
and personal, supply needed place In
the historical literature of the United
States. Mr.. Eugene Newman, who
writes under the pen name of Savoy
ard" Is one of the very best informed
correspondents, and in the present vol
ume has collected his best work, cover
ing a period of nearly forty years of
newspaper experience and published 1t In
the present volume.
In his dedication the author writes
that the book is published for the ben
eft of intelligent boys my object is to
impart 10 them, so far as | am able, a
taste for reading and a thirst for knowl-
edge, There is no more desired blessing
than the reading habit "
The essays relate mostly to those
statesmen prominent from fifty to TWEEN
ty-fve years ago and who took part in
that crucial period of the nations his
tory. Among them we find such names
as Roscoe Conkling, John j. Ingalls, OIL
yer p. Morton. L. @. C. Lamar, Stephen
A Douglas, Marcus A. Hanna, Thomas
i. Reed and many otners
Savoyards most notable quality as a
writer is his wide and intimate acquaint-
nnce with men and events of later Amer
lean history. So that while his volume
u or peculiar value to the young man
who would know something of the
makers of history. 1t is of great value
also to the mature and thoughtful stu
dent, for the authors most distinctive
feature in his writing is his ability to
portray and analyze the character of
public men of whom he writes In his
chapter devoted to Hanna, which is one
OF the very best I'm the volume, the au-
thor proves especially the astonishing
range of his general information and the
1orcefulness of his power in pointing to
precedents, to heroes and their achieve
ments' ancient and modern and in COM
PARSONS to illustrate the subject under
discussion. The author is evidently a
close observer and a thoughtful observer
as we'll The book is most charmingly
written and should be in the hands of
every one who is in any way interested
about ancient political history.
Lutte Citizens, by Myra Kelly Pub
lished by Mcclure. Phillips e. Co
These Little Citizens" are the children
attending a big public school In New
York's polyglot Eastsde," Jews chiefly,
with a sprinklng of Irish and Italians
They are outlandish in their ideas and
their manners, and their dialect is GER
tainly the most original ever put down
in a book.
In the opening lines of the book the
author says that -Four weeks of teach
ing In lower East Side school has de-
prlVed constance Bailey Of many of the
Ideals In Education which during four
years at college she had trustingly ac-
CURED" And after a few pages are
scanned the reader Is not surprised at
tho destruction of ideals for the "realitv,'
which the teacher there experienced 10
certainly unique and nothing but the en-
thusiastic appreciation of the quaiatness
and humor In the actors and the events
could possibly save the situation either
I the teacher or the reader. Anyone suf-
fering with ennulJ or in search of the
weirdly novel should turn to Little cit
liens"
oh, teacher. teacherr she walled,
Sadie makes on me such a snoot | got
q scare over It.
Miss Bailey turned to the so lately
placid face of Sadie in search of the de-
vastating snoot,' but met only a serene
glance of conscious guilelessness and the
assurance: No ma am, don't makes no
snoot on nobody. | get killed as any
thing off my mamma sooner l mares a
snoot. II amt polite This with a
reassuring smile and direct and candid
gaze Teacher, yiss ma'am, she makes
ali times snoot on me, cried the now
weeping Eva, all times. She turns her
nose around, and makes go away her
eyes, and comes her tongue out long
on'y I dassent to fight wit her while I'm
cousins wit her. And over cousins you
got all times kind feelings
We'll, Sadie" teacher questioned,
what have you to say?'
The dark eyes met teachers with no
shadow in their depths.
81 never in my world done no snoot' .
: The descriptions are extraordinary and
give one a most original point OF view
As bit of realism the book is wonderful.
1.-THE Bachelor Girls Colonial Bean" by
Anne. Published by the Neale Publish
ing CO.
1.-THE Bachelor Girls Colonial Beau" is
a demure little storiette attractively
bound in blue and white. 1t is a quiet
little account written In the form of a
dairy giving an insight into the romantic
longings of a business woman.
Our Bachelor GILL VINO candidly adj
mits her forty summers, lives In our gay
capital city of Washington and includes
in her reveries some of the interesting
social functions of recent times. Her
attendance Upon the Colonial Ball -
arrayed in the pink brocade gown of her
great-great grand mother, gives rise to
her quantity imagined conceit about her
"colonial beau" Altogether It Is a
pleasant little story, out Of the ordi-
nary but unpretenticus in flight of fam
cy and the length of the book
THE True Henry Clay" by Joseph M.
Rogers. Published by the j. P. LIP
pencott Co.
THE True Henry Clay is the latest
addition to THE True" series which was
fnaugurated by Paul Leicester Ford s
;f'The True George Washington" Since
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