The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31

When her time came, she proposed mak- ing pork chops with spaghetti sauce. One
 of the men was despatched for the chops, and Miss Greens turn was pronounced l the star act of the evening.
 Not a one-purpose literary man, aid,
 to be frank, not a competitive farmer. but 1 a home-maker. a landscape gardener l then only we see MT. Mitchell when we
 see him in the light. says January Coun- try Life in America. He has devoted ! fifty years of life to inhabiting and personalising Edgewood-an act of con- 1 tinuous creation. So, many of his books are listed on their title page as by no
 one else than "by the author of My Farm l of Edgewood " That is the idea of his l life His books are as intimately related l to the days work as the logbook of ! first mate. Edgewood is not the country ] house of literary man. 1t Is the life work of a landscape gardener. This is | the man who charted out East Rock park, the pride of New Haven and the l lines laid down by him in 1881 have been | followed out with almost imperceptible variation.
 Miss Alice French, whose pen name Is l Octave Thanet, took certain instances in l the life of her own brother as the raw | material for her new novel, '"rhe Man of l the Hour" This brother, since dead, was I a Harvard graduate who, after leaving l college, put on overalls and went from 1 a o'clock breakfast to learn the ma chinists's trade in his fathers iron mills. ] President Roosevelt, that excellent judge | of literature, is a great admirer of Miss | French's fiction. During his trip through l the south he made frequent reference to l 'The Man of the Hour" On one occa- sion, meeting Colonel Nutting of Daven- ! Il. | in the dee-lighted fashion, exclaiming: Hello, colonel, glad to see youl How are all my old friends in Davenport and how is Miss French? You tell her read all she writes. Do you know that woman knows as much about factories and the ] machine business as man?' Bandmaster John s. Duss. whose lavish "Venee," of two seasons at Madison Square Garden, set music-loving New York agGS, is soon to be given the op- portunity to explain on the witness stand the manner in which the eighty accumu- lated millions of the little commune at
 Economy Pennsylvania, came under his control.
 This rather sensational announcement,
 which has been going the rounds of the
 papers. is curiously enough connected
 with a recent novel, Hearts Haven,'
 story of peculiarly gentle and unsensa-
 tional type The plaintiffs in the suit against the bandmaster are three descen-
 dants of Father George Rapp, who founded the strange celbate community, first at Harmony. Pennsylvania. then at
 New Harmony, Indiana, and finally at Economy. Pennsylvania Hearts Haven deals with the fortunes of the society
 during its Indian period. It's author, Mrs Katherine Evans Blake, spent years in the study of the historical aspects of her story.
 Life and Religion, by Max Muller, which Doubleday, Page & Co. have just published, contains some of the great German scholars most impressive phrases Some of them are:
 If you want to be at peace with your self, do not mind being at war with the world"
 Human nature is divine nature modi- fled"
 "Faith is that organ of knowledge by which we apprehend the infinite
 '.AIl knowledge must pass through two eates-the gate of the senses and of req son.
 Religion is growth never finished
 Grief is a sweet remembrance of hap piness that was
 The first novel of 1906 will be Miss Ellen Glasgows "The Wheel of Life" which Doubleday, Page & Co. will bring out oni January r. The publication of new story by Miss Glasgow is an important literary event It's interests will be heightened by the fact that after winning brilliant success as an interpreter of Vir~ ginia life she shifts the scene of her new novel to New York City. The hero is literary man. It is the largest and most ambitious novel So far by the author of ..The Deliverance."
 Oliver Bronson Capen in his book, Country Homes of Famous Americans" tells an interesting storyof Daniel Web- ster. Mir Capen says Webster often worked out his .speec when he was fishing. In 1895, the " before he was to deliver the addres; welcome to Gen