The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
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'The Public Life and Diplomatic Corre-
 spondence of James NJ Mason by Vlr-
 ginia Mason. The Neale Publishing Go.
 Hon. John II. Reagan, postmaster-gen- eral of the Confectionery, writes of this book: T have carefully read the volume through with great interest and with in- structon on a number of questions. 1 knew Senator Mason well, and his great ability, steadfast politica. principles and his great devotion to the cause of the south entitled him then and now to the admiration and respect of the southern people The publishers add this note: .'To complete the records of the civil war period it was necessary that this life be written In this loving, intelligent, just and candid biography by his daughter. this necessity has been most nobly met. .In Pastures New" by George Ade. Pub
 lished by Mcclure, Phillips &s Co.
 Many of the letters appearing in this volume, says the author, were printed in a syndicate of newspapers early in the months of 1906. These letters are upon foreign travel and on the initial page the author writes: 'The American must go to England in order to learn for dead certainty that he does not speak the English language" His readers who have visited the old country will, l am sure, bear him out in the truthfulness of his remarks. Referring to the, Englishman MT. Ade writes: If the Englshman dressed for travel is the most sloppy of all civilized beings, so the Englishman ia his night regalia is the most correct ana ;rreproaehable of mortals. He can wear evening clothes without being conscious of the fact that he is dressed up.' The trouble with the ordinary American who owns an open-faced suit is that he wears jt only about once a month. For two days before assuming the splendor Of full dress he broods over the approaching ordeal # Here was Mir Beasley in London desirous of cutting wide gash, as he very prettily termed it, plenty of good money from Iowa burning in his pocket, and he could not get out and associate because of a mere deficiency fin clothing At the first-class theatres his sbowler' hat condemned him and he was sent into the gallery. When he walked into a restaurant the head waiter would give him one quick and searching glance and then put him off in some corner, be- hind a palm. < We suggested to MT. Peasley that he wear a placard read ing. T have some. clothes, but my trunk is in Hamburg.
 "Rosemary in Search Of a tather, by
 c. U. and A. M. Williamson. Published
 by Mcclure, Phillips x Go.
 ..Rosemafy'' is dainty piece of fiction with a really exquisite setting, the decor ations being by Thomas M. Cleland and the illustrations, which are exceptionally good full page wash-drawings, are by William Hatherell. The scene of the TO- nance opens at Monte Carlo, amidst all its great beauty and attractiveness and subtle evil and tragedies of human in terest. Rosemary is exceedingly well adapted for a gift-book.
 s'Foster's Skat Manual" by R. F. Eos
 ter. author of Fosters Complete 1 Bridge" Fosters Whist Manual Re
 ceived from Mcclure, Phillips X Co s'Poems," by Charles ". Hubner. Re-
 ceived from the Neale Publishing Go. s'Gates of Flame" by Roe R. Hobbs. Re-
 ceived from the Neale Publishing Co. s.Farces: The Dictator, The Galloper.
 and Miss Civilizaton,'' by Richard 1 Harding Davis. Published by Charles
 Scribner's Sons.
 ..The Dictator" is here given in book Frohman at the Criterion theatre, New York, in 1904. "The Galloper," as pre- eented in January. 1906 at the Garden theatre, New York. by Henry w Savage. And Miss Civilization" as it was pro nuced on January 26. 1906, at the Broad