The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-19
REALM OF BOOKS

BY PAUL PRY.

"A DAUHGTER OF THE SOUTH" By
 George Cary Eggleston. Published by
 Lathrop, Lee x Shepard Company.
 George Cary Eggleston, though native of Indiana, studied at the University of Virginia and later practieed law in Rich mond. To this fact, no doubt, is due the ultra southern sentiments expressed in his latest piece of fiction, "A Daughter or the South" Not only is the author an evident admirer of the south and in sym pathy with her sentiments and tradi- tions, but in this romance of the vars end period he expresses some very sane and healthy opinions on the subject of war in general which is worthy of com ment He puts into the heart of his young hero the following expressions; That is war. he said with intenses feeling, war in its civilized form, as men say, pretending that savagery might be worse. There is nothing worse War is saw agery It is utterly devilish. It is hell broken loose. Yet history and poetry and all the arts have loved to celebrate it as a manifestation of the higher quail ties of manhood. It is nothing of the sort 1t is brutality pure and simple, and the man who make the most brutish brute of himself is the one most ap- plauded. The one thing most highly ex- alted by the poet and the historian IS courage of the physical sort. tell you, Miss Latour, the world IS still essentially savage. What we boast of as our civilization Is nothing more than veneer" These are strong sentiments, but they are only in accord wit the most advanced thinkers of the day-men or higher spiritual thought where baser feelings, which only could resort to war and it's kindred horrors, cannot enter lnto their calculations. Since Mir. Eggleston became journalist in New York city he has written a number of clever stories, and none of them exceed "A Daughter or the South" in genuine interest and clever ness, or beauty of thought and style While it's scenes are laid during the latter days of the civil strife, 1t is in no way concerned with the momentous events or that period, but is love story, pure and simple, and deals only with the events which immediately concern the very charming characters which the author has placed in the center of his stage. "HowDY, HONEY, HOwDY." By Paul
 Laurence Dunbar. Published by Dodd,
 Meade &s Go.
 Few books are more superbly published than this volume of poems by the negro poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, just from the press. The decorations, which are especially artistic, are by Will Jenkins. and the illustrations are from photographs by Leigh Richmond Miner. They are exceptionally realistic and add immensely to the genuineness and verity of the text. The title of the book is taken from the initial poem, and is one of the cleverest in the collection:
 Do a standin on jar. fiah, a-shinn'
 thoo.
 or folks drowsin 'roun' de place wide
 awake Is Lou,
 Wen I tap, she answah, an I see huh
 'mence to grin,
 Howdy. honey, honey, won't you step
 right in?'
 Den step erpon de log layin' at dc do, Bless de Lawd. huh mammy an huh
 paps done 'menced to sno'; Now's do time. eff evah. ef Is gwine to
 try an win,
 .Howdy. honey. howdy. won't you step
 right in?'
 THE LYNcHING OF JESUS" By E.