The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-17

potts; Sporting Sketches" by Edwyn sanays; new and cheaper edition or .Old English Love Songs" edited py | Hamilton w. Mabie illustrated by George Wharton Edwards; and a new edition in one volume of Sir George Tressady'
 by Mrs. Humphry Ward.
 A new edition of ''The Life and Writ ings of Benjamin Franklin" is in prepara- ton by The Macmillan company, who announce the first volume for Issue in Oe- tober. This limited library edition has been prepared by Prof. Albert H. sIny th of Philadelphia, and will be, il is sald' by Tar the most complete and inelusiVe'
 The volume entitled "G. F. Watts: Reminiscences'' bids fair to be good deal l more interesting than most biographies | Mrs. Russell Harrington, it's author, whose house and studio were next to Watts | saw him almost daily for twenty or thirty | years, and came to know In the most | intimate way his motives and ambitions and his aims in the construction of many | of his finest pictures For the very reason | that she is not trammeled by the neces- | sity of making a detailed and full ac- count of the incidents of Watts life, she deVotes herself whole-heartedly to inter- preting to use the man and the painter. This is one of the happiest and most delightful of recent biographies; eat the
  | Tightening and instructive.
 | The action of MT. Emerson Hough' s | new novel takes place in a little noun tain town in New Mexico, in the days when that country was Land Before the Law The characters of Hearts De- sire" are men, grave, bearded, sufficient men, each with a gun on his hip, as evil dence to the world that all is we'll. Nico Jungman, whose books on "Hol- land" and Normandy" will be remem- bered, has made forty paintings of scenes in Normandy, which have been repro duced in colors for volume shortly to be published by The Macmillan company Miss G. E.. Milton who was one of Sir Walter Besant's collaborators in his great work on London, is the author Of the volume, in which author and artist have i devoted themselves to expressing by brush and pen the soul of the country The H. lustrations, it is said, are notable among those In the color books published by The Macmillan company for their strength and defniteness.
 Nearly all novel readers will remember in James Lane Aliens book of three or four years ago. 'The Reign of Law" David, the young divinity student who found it impossible to keep his faith in the old dogmatic creeds after he had come in touch with the modern philoso- phers. For this character the suggestion was offered to MT. Allen by friend and college mate, William B. Smith, whose name has now become prominent in con nection with h2 remarkable volume ex- pressing the southerner's and the scien- l, lists view of the race problem. ''The Color Line" (McClurePh Phillps) Prof. Smith now holds the chair of mathemat- les at Tulane university, though his first love. as with David was divinity. An innate interest in all science and philoso- phy in a degree weaned him from this first love to the study of such truly mod ern branches as anthropology, biology sociology and ethnology, pure science rep resented in mathematics, and the modern German philosophers. It is to this wide sweep of scientific interest that he owes the breadth of his treatment of the race problem.
 The literary geography of the Hardy Country" with which Thomas Hardy's | map of Wessex has familiarized his read CTS, has now found pictorial parallel in the literary landscape" To Walter 1 Tyndale belong all the honors of the pio- neer in this field, and the success of his experiment. leads one to anticipate that | before long other landscape painters and water colorists will follow his example. l l the Leicester gallery, London, collec- ton of Water Colors of Wessex. .sThomas Hardy's Country, in which he has ad- | mrably illustrated the novelist's verbal description of the beautiful Wessex coun- try that forms the scene of nearly all of ! IIardys novels The artist has worked in singularly rare accord with the au- thor, who, in a letter which serves as preface to the catalogue of the pictures | tpgtimnnW their In | form and color"
 Women are reading William Dean How ells novels with increased avidity. Since the publication of his latest novel, Miss l Richards Inspiration" they are begin
 ming to suspect that this gifted analys of the feminine heart has sometimes a
 bit of a laugh at their expense. Wher
 questioned about his theories and belief. regarding womankind, the other day at
 Kittery, MT Howells skilfully evaded hi, feminine nIuisitor
 At least" he said, smiling, "womer
 are not boosters. They do not go abou
 telling the world how clever they are and
 the great things they propose to do. What
 a certain lady said to her husband could
 never have been truthfully said by he
 husband to her. This young couple hat an only child-a baby four months old
 One evening, when the young man re ] turned home from work his wife said tt
 him:
 !" Oh. Elmer. the baby is beginning tt
 take after your
 "'After me?" said the young man
 much pleased. Tn what way?
 Tiles beginning to crow. l"
 Though but four installments of 'Th
 Conquest of Canaan" Booth Parking
 tons new serial have appeared in liar
 per's Magazine, the story is already be ginning to be pointed .out as far an, away the best that this author has ye
 done. This story gives promise of bein, 1 by all odds the amthnr,s best work ? ga "