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

printed on India tinted paper. with page decorations designed by T. B. Hapgood' illustrated by l. B. Hazleton, and cover
 design by Adrian 1orio. A beautiful
 story and a beautiful gift. The booh will be published by Herbert B. Turner
 & Co., of Boston.
 The lovers of mystery and detection ! will find a story of exceptional interest | in the House of Merrilees' by Archl-
 bald ...arshall, soon to be pupnshed by Herbert B. Turner & 70. of Boston
 It deals with the strange happenings at
 a mysterious but beautiful estate situ-
 ated in the picturesque lake district Of | England The plot Is well knit with | plenty of action, yet never bordering | upon the improbable. Altogether 1t IS very interesting novel.
 | One of the unusual books of the season l is 'I N K. L." by Peter Rosegger, | German peasant author, who has for | number of years been stirring the ter
 man reading public with his writings. | This latest story, translated and brought | out in this country by Mcclure Phillips, | is a l,fe of ~Arist. sort of modern | Evangel such as Matthew, or Mark, l or Luke might have produced had ne | lived today and been imbued with mod | ern thought It Is supposed to be writ | ten by a poor carpenter who In nt l
 crime for which he Is in prison under
 sentence ol death. He writes in order | to comfort his soul by contemplating the | compassion of Jesus and the beauty or | His life and expresses his memory or It | in homely and intimate words. The DOCK | i sillustrated wl..- an interesting series or l color pictures painted by Corwin Knapp I Linson in the Holy Land.
 1 In .s country. where Silas Laphams are rising every day, the story of the social progress of family suddenly De- 1 come prominent Is of never-failing inter est. There are so many climbers, In ! the language of MT. Fitchs clever piay' | mat .4e game is fairly familiar to aii' | and for that very reason striking pie 1 ture of 1t makes a genuine appeal. David | Graham Phillips in his new novel, "The | Social Secretary" coming from the Bobbs- l Merrill company lays bare the process | by which the Burkes, hitherto obscure | westerners, achieve a first place in Wash- ington society. The secretary Is MISS Au- gusta Talltowers, through whose tact, per | severance and personal charm the difficult 1 feat is accomplished. Incidentally Miss l Talltowers falls In love, which adds to the 1 interest of the story.
 ' notable book by Margaret F. Sang l ster. entitled "The Story Bible" Is an- nounced for immediate publication by Moffat Yard & Co. Apart from the charm with which Mrs Sangster, in this books, retells for children the beautiful | old tales of the Bible, the book has an ] importance not realized in the past by | books of Just its kind. that of covering | the entire Scripture consecutively from | Genesis to Exodus within the compass Of | a childs interest and patience while carrying from chapter to chapter, from | one story to another. the related and | cumulative significance of the Bible as 1 a whole.
 | Written in deep reverence, the tone Of | the book Is sweet and lofty. Mrs. Sang l ster has long contemplated such an appeal l to children, as a part of her life work | feeling the need of an interpretation of , the whole Bible to the young which would 1 have the basis of living interest that the l Great Original Itself possesses to the ma turer mind. She has preserved much of the actual Scripture phrase.
 1 The book is of 522 pages. beautifully ] hand set in an appropriate type, bound in | green and gold and illustrated with
 twelve full page drawings in colors.
 At large dinner given by J. H. Sears, president of D. Appleton & Co.,. a day | or two ago at the Union club, New York, Hall Caine, the great English novelist, made a speech in which he explained l how much he did not know about the | American millionaire. MT. Caine was en- | gagged in denying that he had run across l to write the great American novel, of which a millionaire was to be the hero. | T now sec" said the Manx novelist, MT. Sears dark design in giving me