The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-22
REALN OF BOOKS


tion among its choice works of English
 literature.
 Miss Greene is principal of the Capitol
 Hill city school, and Miss Kirk is q
 teacher In the Girls high school. The
 young ladies are cousins and have had
 an intimtae association through life The
 style of the composition of the several
 stories in their collaborated work is so
 uniform that the incest discrimination
 would fail to reveal difference. The ancestors of Miss Greene have been in America over three hundred years
 and were prominent In Virginia and Caro-
 line In colonial times. Her paternal side
 includes the Freenes and Finleys; and
 the maternal side, the Gran, Owens,
 Richardson Sylvester, Keeling, Nimmo, Valentine and Wodehouse families. In the
 Keeling and Wodehouse branches were several Scotch knights and lords. Miss Kirk Is a granddaughter of
 Marmaduke Williams and Agnes Payne. who was first cousin of Dolly Payne
 Madison. Colonel Williams was long
 member of Congress from North Caro- I lina and also a member of the first con stitutional convention of Alabama Among her ancestors was sir Thomas Fleming of Virginia, Scottish knight descended from that famous king and knight Robert Bruce. It Is but another evidence of the | trend of heredity that Miss Kirk should | find chivalry congenial theme for her | pen.
 -..abamians will feel an especial interest | in the success of work which evidences | Alabama talent
 John Hendricks Bangs. who for some years has been dividing his time between Yonkers and New York, is soon to become 8 countryman again. ''I have blue
 penciled city life" he said recently. My eye is on a farm In New England, where l hope before long to be able to provide ! an apprecative public with limited edi-
 tons of squab- chickens, large paper tur-
 keys, and deckle-edged eggs. And he added, slyly, mo item in either class will | go out without my signature" Meanwhile MT. Bangs has leased a large estate at Rye, New York. and, what is especially
 interesting, will make his home there, temporarily, with Simeon Ford, the arch joker and after-dinner speaker. Since re- signing the editorship of Puck, MT. Bangs has devoted himself to the writing of plays and books of humor, and his latest volume Mrs. Raffles," a witty parody has just been published through the Harpers.
 ! It is good news that MT. Hewlett is to be honored by inclusion in the series of beautiful limited editions in which Tenny- son, Arnold, Pater and Fitzgerald have | already been pritned by The Macmillan | company The first volume of his "com- 1 plete works" has just been issued in all | the panoply of fine paper, presswork and l binding. The custom of printing the works of living authors in this fashion is happily increasing in favor.
 The Macmillan company announce for publication during the autumn The | Biology of the Frog" by Professor S. J.. 1 Holmes of the University of Wisconsin. | The aim of this book Is to give a fairly complete idea of the whole life history of a single animal. Ihe anatomy of the frog 1 is treated fully and considerable space Is given to the description of the functions ] of the varioas organs. The habits and , natural history of the frog are treated at ] length. and special attention is paid to l the subject of refiexes and instincts and the general adaptation of the animal to | It's conditions of existence.
 l Back to Already" by Frank Waller 1 Allen, Is the title of an exquisite Ken
 lucky pastoral love story told in much the same style as Ike Marvels "Reveries | of a Bachelor and George William | Curtis "Prue and r.. It's beauty and its l delicate touches will long remain en-
 shrined in the readers memory.
 The volume will be sumntpoualy madA