The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31

REALM OF BOOKS
BY PAUL PRY.

I of the notable books of -the year in 1 which it appeared Her second book | was The Folly of Others, u golume of
 short stories, one of which, "A Prevalent 1 Woman stimulated a good deal of at | tention and discussion in Il rlodest wuy. | Mrs. Hapgooi's husband him jelf an au- 1 thor, is brother of Norman lIa3good of | Golfers Weekly.
 The new British government contains at | least two eminent literary men-James Bryce, author of "The American Com | monwealth,' and Honest John" Morley author of 'rhe Life of William Ewart Gladstone MT. Winston Spencer Church. i'll, author of the forthcoming life of the late Lord Randolph Churchill, has been appointed under secretary of state for foreign affairs.
 Mrs. c. N. Williamson nas finished her short visit to this country and has sailed for England. Shortly after her arrival there she will start with her husband in their motor car for their villa at Cap St. Martin in the Riviera. where she will set | to work the book about which she has been conferring with her publishers. The object of her trip to this country was twofold; most of her time she spent in Cleveland seeing her mother again after long absence; but during the few days she was in New York she attested her energy by handing to her publishers not only the complete manuscript of the story Lady Betty" which is running in con densed form in the Ladies' Home Journal. but also a good part of the Motor Boat novel on which she and her husband are now engaged.
 MT. and Mrs Williamson will be re- called as the joint authors of those very delightful romanees, "The Lightning Con ductor" My Friend, the Chauffeur" etc.
 Comment is frequently made that it was mighty luck A. B. Frost happened along just in time to illustrate Joel Chandler Harris negro tales of animals. Certainly Mr. Frost is remarkably felici- tous in his rendering of the semi human characters of Brer Fox. Brer Lion, Sis Cow and the rest; and MT. Harris stories. amusing as they are, gain great deal of humor through MT. Frosts illustration of them The sympathy between writer and artist has now a strong friendship for basis, and Mir. Harris has recently shown his esteem of his friends in a preface to a book of Frost drawings. The latest example of Frost-Harris collaboration Is a new series of negro folklore stories,
 Told by Uncle Remus.' In addition to MT. Frosts drawings. the volume con- tains pictures by Gustaye Verbeck and J. M. Condo, who have also been remark ably successful in their presentation of MT Harris humor
 Peter Rosegger, the Styrian peasant writer whose story of the Christ ''1 N. R. I' has recently been published in America by Mcclure Phillips, is the nat ional poet of his native country. His first productions, written in his early youth, when he had little or no education, were folk poems characterized by same naive simplicity that Is the most attractive quality in his Christ story. The quality of his genius as poet is well indicated by the following little poem taken from his very first volume, Either and Cym- bal"
 THREE LITTLE LIGHTS.
 In going from home to 3 foreign land There fell three tear-drops on my hand, My friends my sweethearts my moth
 CTS tear
 They burned like lights, all golden clear. The first meant: Gateful in need am I. The second: l will be true till I die. The third one burned pure and mild; It meant: Thou art my own dear child. And when a year it's course had run Two of the lights were entirely gone And only one burned pure and mild
 1t meant: Thou art my own dear child.
 Miss Olive Green, the author of the neat little singham- bound cook book What to Have for Breakfast, has a companion volume on the press of G. r. PiHnams Sons with the title Everyday Luncheons. Mis- Greens friends tell the story that she was recently trapped into studio party where every one was eN- peeted to do parlor tricks Miss Green happened to see a cha afingrdish. and caught at it like the proverbial straw.