The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-27

receive without making any return. fof
one thing, they like flattery: and love is the
soul of fattery. Ethel was in warmest
truth woman. Therefore, she scanned
Roberts face, as sailors sean the sky, to
discover what storms or Gains of senti-
ment his bosom Gagged Love Is difficult
to hide as smoke and that Robert had
not betrayed himself sooner. not only to
Ethel. but to Aunt Tilda and the Pro-
fessor. speaks tones in favor of his
genius for concealment."
The story is very prettily illustrated
by n. c. Wyeth.
Saints in Society" by Margaret
Bailie- Saunders. has been published by
the Putnams. This story won the prize
offered by Mr. r. Fisher Irwin for the
best novel by an author who bad never
before had a work of fiction published,
and was selected from a mountainous
mass of manuscripts that contained in the
aggregate 20,0000O0 words The author is
the wife of the Rev f. Baillie- Saunders.
chaplain of the Marleybone Old Paris
chapel, and. has given herself seriously
to the study of the social problems with
which London is confronted.
The Baker & Taylor company have just
published Josiah Strongs Social Prog
ress, 1906. Ii is a yearly record of So
Geological work throughout the world.
Mr.. Bliss Perry the editor of the At
lantic Monthly and author of THE ANA
teur Spirit" "A Study in Prose Fiction"
etc, has been appointed professor of
English literature at Harvard university
from March J. 1907. This professorship
has been vacant for twenty years. and
was formerly held by George Ticknor,
Longfelow and Lowell Mr.. Perry will
continue the edtorship of the Atlantic
Monthly, which he has held since 1899.
by Loves Sweet Rule" BY Gabrielle f.
Jackson. The John c. Winston Com
pany
The John C. Winston company has just
published by Loves Sweet Rule" a new
story for girls. which is of unusual value
in its exhibition of deep sympathy and
understanding of girl nature. lie author.
Gabrielle Jackson, will be remembered as
the author also of Denise and Ned
Toodles.' Caps and Capers." and other
popular stories. In all her work the
author has avoided trashy sensationalism.
and many a valuable lesson for both
mother and daughter may be cleaned
from her gentle philosophy of love, All
the characters are engaging and prettily
Sketcneu ana lne story Is interesting
as well as practical and stimulating.
Houghton, Mffin & Co. report the fol-
lowing new printings: One hundred and
eighty-ifth thousand of "kebecca of Sun
nybrook Farm" by Kate Douglass Wig
gin; fourth edition of How to Tell
Stories" by Sara Cone Bryant; and third
edition of THE Chief American Poets"
edited by c. II. Page
Three men have become famous as
sea anglers in America ex-President
Grover Cleveland, the late Joseph Jeffer
son and Charles Frederick Holder The
latter's Log of a Sea Angler" covering
forty years of angling, has just been
published by Houghton. Miffiin e. Co.
and a more exciting and astonishing Sc
ries of fishing adventures 1t would be
impossible to imagine. But when 1t is
learned that the author spent five or six
years. winter and summer, on the Florida
reef. 1t can be seen that he had an I'M
usual opportunity, and he made the most
of It, No one will gainsay Mr. Holder
proved that tuna fishing was possible
The first big tuna he took with rod and
reel towed his boat twelve miles
1.-THE Invisible Bond by Eleanor Talbot
Kinkead Published by Moffat Yard &
Co 1906
In Eleanor Talbot Kinkead's novel re-
Gently published, 1.-The Invisible Bond"
two women are depicted around whom