The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-10

having been published during the last decade Last year he published a vol ume of humorous and society verse that met with a large vogue, especially among the younger generation of readers. The new book is largely prose, but contains few of his best and latest things in verse.
 Mir Masson's satirical comments on na- tional and social foibles are well known, and the delicious manner in which he has heid up to scorn some of our public men has never been equalled Latterly his work has taken higher turn and his short stories, both humorous and sa- tirical, have been widely sought after.
 His new book will show him at his best as a really new humorist of the first rank. It will contain over $50 pages The cover IS from a drawing by Charles Dana Gibson.
 A limited large paper edition of '"The Works of Maurice Hewlett Is in active preparation by the McMlllan company. who proIL,se the first volume, "The For est Lovers," for issue this month. The five hundred sets of ten volumes each will be uniform with the de luxe edition Of the works of Walter Pater. Richard Yea-and- Nay" will be published in the set in October, and Little Novels of Italy in November. "The Fool Errant." by the way, MT. Hewletts new novel
 that appeared in July, has called forth
 more general praise than any of his | previous books.
 The following new novels are an- | nounced by the McMllan company for
 issue this fall: "Coniston," by Winston
 Churchill Fair Margaret, Portrait | by r. Marion Crawford; "The Fair Maid | T%4- | Hearts Desire," by Emerson Hough:
 ''Yolanda," by Charles Major; "The Road | Builders" by Samuel Merwin; 'Helian-
 thus" by "Ouida;" "The Jungle" by | Upton Sinclair and Lady Baltimore" 1 by Owen Mister.
 Miss Olive Green gives some sage ad- I vice in the introduction to What to Have for Breakfast" announced by the | Putnams. For one thing, she says that
 every household shoNld adopt the rule ! of discussing differences of opinion only
 after dinner, "since at no time of day Is | man in a more reasonable mood" She | suggests Truce of God" after the | manner of the ancient Britons from dawn until after dinner. "What to Have for Breakfast contains, besides the recipes, | 805 breakfast menus, one for every day in the year. each one different, and all l together utilizing every recipe in the book.
 l Dr. William EIenry Drummond, whose latest volume of French-Canadian poems, ''The Voyageur." Is on the Putnams' fall | list, has gained his intimate knowledge | of French Canada from actual experi- | ence. As lad many of his holidays | were spent at Bord a Plouffe. a quaint | village situated on the beautiful Riviere ! des Prairies, near Montreal. This place was then the resort of raftsmen and shantymen, descendants of the old voy- ageurs and coureurs de bois, on their way down to Quebec with their drives of logs. The free life of these men, with their oddities and quaint customs, capti- vated the roys imagination, to be repro
 duccd later in his poems
 MT. Oscar Terry Crosby the author of
 'Tibet and Turkestan." which is going through the press of the Putnams, has just returned from Paris. He left New York a month ago, and his publishers have in the meantime completed the type setting of the book. MT. Crosby is now reading the proof of the lost pages. The volume will be out this month. The res ignation of Lord Curzon gives an added interest to this work, for MT. Crosby discus. es in no uncertain though non- pn, tisan terms what he refers to as ''the British attack on Tibet'
 The personality of an author who has been able to make you laugh is always interesting. We all remember the pie ture of the meager little man who killed the three bears single handed. We were all disappointed not to sec c magnificent,