The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-16


 was to have been brought out in the near future by G. P. Putnams Sons in their Story of the Nations Series, has been de- layed by the death of the author on July r il last Dr. Shuckburgh died suddenly in the train while on his way 10 London. He was in his 63d year. A considerable list of books bears witness 10 his at- tainments as a classical scholar trans lator. and a historian of Greece and Rome. Dr. Chuckburgh was librarian of Emanuel College. Cambridge. His death is loss to English scholarship and Eng fish letters. It is to be hoped that the second volume of the history of Greese which he had almost finished al the time of his death may receive the finishing touches from other hands and be pub llshed in due time.
 In The Power to Regulate Corporations and Commerce, which Frank Hendrick, the author of Railway Control by Com mission, has written and which G. P. Put nams Sons will shortly publish. states men, politicians and lawyers should all i find lucidly ordered set of facts and suggestive thought upon questions that are now clamoring for present attention. | MT. Hendricks book is an attempt to de- ] fine the limits within which the gov ernment of the several states of the Uni- ted States may secure freedom of trade oy control of the persons and things en- gagged therein, and to indicate the respec- tive powers of the three departments of government in the exercise of such con- trol The relation of the three depart ments of the government of the United States to one another and to those of the state governments in the control of ln- , terstate commerce and of corporations is set forth with reference to over two thou sand cases involving questions of consti- tutional law.
 Francis Nathan Peloubet who wrote the Select notes on the International Sun day School Lessons" of which over a million copies have been sold Is probably one of the most widely read and known authors in the world. He has written a book which has just been published called | "Studies in the Book of Job" which will be of the greatest value and interest to high schools colleges, Sunday schools and i for all people interested in this subject The book is clearly and interestingly , written and throws much new light on the Book of Job It gives readings in , character, blackboard diagrams refer ences for Bible study points of contact 1 with daily life, literature and history and notes on difficult passages.
 i A. T. Quiller- Couch, whose new book, l sir John Constantine," has just been | published is an ardent yaehtsman and
 
 tie town of Fowey where he lives and writes is on the Cornish coast and has an excellent harbor well known to yachts men. This Is the town he has celebrated under the name of Troy so often Not , long ago MT. Couch was presenting certih- cates to members of an ambulance class at Fowey Years ago." he said. Ian old Cornish fisherman at a similar class was asked how he would treat the appar- entity drowned" Well" he replied. "the first thing we always did was to empty the mans pockets"
 Little, Brown & Co. announce third prlntings of "The District Attorney" by , William Sage. and "The Wire Tappers," 1 by Arthur Strlnger; sixth printing of "'rhe Sage Brush Parson" A. B. Wards 1 Nevada novel, also a fourteenth printing of "The Wood-carver of Lympus," M. E. Walters popular Vermont story.
 The uncollected poems of Sarah c. Woolsey, better known by her pen name | of Susan Coolidge. who died in April. 1905 have been collected by her sister, Mrs. Daniel c. Gilman, and will be pub lshed in the autumn by Little. Brown & 1 Co. Mrs. Gilman has prefaced the volume with an appreciation of Susan Coolidge's life and work. The book will be uniform with "Verses' and More Verses by the same author.
 An unusual volume of Chinese stories by the late Lafcadio Hearn entitled Some | Chinese Ghosts" originally published in 1SS7 has been so much sought for of late that Little, Brown & Go. will bring out new edition of the book in the au- tumn MT. Hearn stated in the original preface that In preparing the legends he sought especially for weird beauty" and that he had culled from "the vast and mysterious pleasure grounds of Chi nese fancy a few of the marvellous flow CTS there grownig" Some Chinese Ghosts" contains six exquisite stories.
 It is the issue, not the can didate. Shall the anti-boycott law he ranaaled2 Rlackhnrn