The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-08
BY PAIL PRr.

L PRY.
 House of Representatives of the United States and governor of Virginia.
 The book is most delightfully."- written in easy, flowing style and richly inter- spersed with humorous incidents, novel situations and thrilling accounts of hls- toric events, distinctive feature Is his mention from personal acquaintance of many of the leaders of the war period and later about Bryan, Cleveland, Mo- Kinley, Reed and others. Tn writing about the second battle of Bull Run Col. O'Ferrall tells of his visit to the cyclo- rama of this battle exhibited in Wash ington. Among other humorous exper- fences he tells the following of an old lady visitor from the north who drew Into conversation Confederate officer. She said: This must have been ter rible battlep
 Yes. ma'am, it was just awful. there was a heap of men killed and heap of blood split
 I thought, sir, this was a Confed- crate victory, and our men retreated.' Well, ma'am we did win, and the union army did retreat It don't look now like our men were going to retreat, they are standing up to 1t mighty we'll, she said. He replied: You came a little too early it Is only o'clock, you wait until about 6 o'clock and you will see your men git up and git and make tracks as fast as greyhounds toward Washington
 The record begins with the raid of John Brown at Harpers ferry and continues until the last few years when the author left his active political life. Such a vol ume is interesting to all readers, but es- pecially profitable to the young reader who would gain an intimate acquaint- ance of events and personages of this period that is scarcely to be gained from the pages of actual history
 Rolfe's Shakespeare Revised edition.
 Published by The American Book com
 pany.
 AS You Like It." "King Henry the Fifth" ''King Lear" "King Richard. the Third" Romeo and Juliet,'' and Twelfth Night have now been added to the list of Rolfe's Revised Shakespeare.
 The volumes have been entirely reset, and the topography is much improved, the illustrations too are valued addition. They are issued in small, handy volumes convenient for pocket use. A concise &C., count of Shakespeares meter has been inserted in each volume, and the changes and Improvements embodied in this re- vision will tend to maintain this as the standard annotated American edition. "A Galaxy of Southern Heroes and 9th
 CT Poems" by O. T. Dozier. Published
 by Dispatch Printing Company
 Dr. O. T. Dozier, whose dainty songs and musings are familiar to Alabama readers, has just issued from the press a new volume entitled "A Galaxy of Southern Heroes" a compilation of many hitherto unpublished effusions of the au- thor and a number O. others which have appeared from time to time. In the pre- face the author writes: ''Whatever att tempts I have made In this line have been. for the most part, to while away some leisure moments, or to comply with some friendly request, or else to eulogize our Confederate heroes, whose unequaled glory has always been to me a theme of inspiration. and has impeled me to at- tempt in poetic lines to give vent to those sentiments and emotions which, yelling up in my heart, seemed too sacred for common prose to express" On the front page is "The Stars and Bars" in oolors and the couplet from the poem:
 I've loved It's holy mission.
 Every hope that I. inspired,
 And we honor every martyr
 Who, beneath its folds, expired"
 The volume i- dedicated to the United Sons" and 'UAtted Daughters" of-the Confederacy. and every poem which bears upon the Host cause" is filled with tender sentiment and dainty imagery One of the best is entitled "A Dream-City Dream" and was inspired by the sweet strains of Dixie" at the Columbian fair. The concluding verses are:
 "But hark! A change: my sleep is broke,
 My Southern heart was fired
 By strains the grandest, sweetest yet
 That ever Go- inspired.
 Twas Dixie Land that on my ear
 In thrilling raptures fell.
 I sprang to feet, threw hat in air,
 And yelled rebel yell
 "Three cheers! I cried, for Dixie Land,
 The land that gave me birth. Three cheers, and then a tiger, too.'
 For grandest land on earth.
 What reckon then of thousands there
 Who gazed with scornful eye? When grand old Dixie smote my ear
 had to yell or oie."
 The volume contains many beautiful poems and proves the author to possess unusual talent and of whom Birming- ham is justly proud.
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 Grounds" by Bill Bat. Published by
 Neale Publishing Company.