The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-22

this dinner. This Is the opportunity to study the American millionaire"
 At this point the speaker fixed his glance on George w. Perkins of the New York Life Insurance company, who had spent the previous week explaining to the
 insurance Investigating committee his gradual advance in salary from sl5 q month to a larger-mucE larger-sum
 There were half dozen bankers present. Tt must be a source of great pride to
 be an American millionaire with control
 over the destinies of so many" continued
 the speaker, but the position Of states
 man is higher position that has enabled
 your chief executive to stand higher than
 any crowned head in the world. But l
 wouldn't give up being a novelist to be either a millionaire or a president
 'I think that when the great American
 novel comes 1t must deal with power and position as well as wealth. If l ever at tempt to treat the problem of wealth it
 shall be only from the point of view of my tiny island.
 But" concluded MT. Caine, taking a
 final survey of the assembled millionares,
 when you see thing in little you see 1t | wildly you see 1t close"
 | Houghton, Mifflin 6 Go. published on Saturday, September 30. the following: | A monumental large paper edition of "The English Works of George Herbert
 fin six volumes, limited to 150 numbered
 sets, printed directly from type and edited
 with notes and critical essays by Profess
 sor George Herbert Palmer: an illustrated
 book of travel by MT. c. William Beebe | of the New York Geological Park. entitled
 Two Bird-I4overs in Mexico:" The Coun-
 sells of a Worldly Godmother," by Persis Mather; "The Green Shay" by George | S. Wasson a story of decadent New Eng
 landers; Arthur Stringer's story of real | live boy, Lonely O'Malley;" ''The Star | Jewels and Other Wonders" by Abbie
 FarwelI Brown; and "The Immanence of | God" by Prof Borden P. Browne of Bos-
 ton University.
 Arthur Stringer, the author of Lonely O'Malley," spends his summers laboring
 on his Lake Erie fruit farm, and his winters in literary work either in New York or abroad Not long ago he was
 asked which afforded him the keener l pleasure, the growing of grapes and | peaches or the writing of books and
 short stories. "The peaches and grapes. | of course" was the answer; when you I get up at five, and work fer twelve hours | a day for six months, and then along | comes q fine black frost and takes every | thing in one night, or along come two l hundred distant relatives and genially consume everything in one morning, or l a freshly iced refrigerator car that takes l everything in one afternoon, you have got | to find a little fun in the work itself, or | there's nothing left for you But, MT. ] Stringer, do you never really make any ! money out of all these fruit trees?" the
 author was asked. ''Oh. yes, once." was l the triumphant reply. An automobile
 broke through my front fence. two years | ago, and ran over three young Greensboro i peach trees grafted on plum stock. They | were something new l had brought up l from North Carolina and was introducing | in this section. When the driver of the machine had backed off into the road | again. he threw my hired man forty ! cents in small change and said he guessed that would cover all the damage. And I'd kept bon fires around those trees at
 night for week, just to keep off early | frosts!"
 | The Kings brother-in-law, the Duke of | Argyll, won considerable literary fame during his famous fathers lifetime. He was at that time the Marquis of Lorne, | and his work on the Limited States After the War" published in 1885, brought him prominently before American readers. Af- ter serving as governor-general of Can- /, ada he wrote his Canadian Pictures" a l book of great interest and value It is, 1 however as a poet that the Marquis won ] his best reputation. We learn that the Duke Is once more entering the literary verse of the Lewis Carroll and Lear or
 der. His first venture in this line is a long ballad which will appear in the