The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-21
REALM or COOKS

BY PAUL PRY.

profession must thereby be cruel to his
dog as a sort of safety valve for his in
herent cruelty is one of the most extra
ordinary theories ever conceived. OF
course, such an Idea is of the earth
earthly and only views things from the
human standpoint. bearing out entirely
the spiritual.
The Fortunes of tho Landrays,' by
Vaughan kester. Mcclure, Phillips &
Co.. 1905
The Fortunes of the Landrays'' por-
trays a page of life as 1t might have
occurred to any family under similar con-
didons The canvass is q broad one and
presents a panorama more far-reaching
and inclusive than is ordinarily depict
ed in a piece of fietion. Yet so real are
the descriptions and so imbued with ac-
tuality that they sometimes seem 10 the
reader to be biographical.
The story includes the first fifty or
sixty years of the settlement and growth
of the Mississippi valley, and the charac-
tiers are participants in the most vital
and stirring incidents of our eountry's
history. The picturesque period which de-
scribes the rush of gold seekers across
the plains In '49, the settlement of Utah
and the subsequent boom town periods is
we'll depicted. The character work is ex-
ceptionally fine, and the human interest
story of great tenderness and pathos.
The late Henry Harland was as far
as possible from being a snob, but he
made a quiet claim to being as good as
the best of the English nobility In fact,
as most of his closer intimates knew.
he insisted that he had a right to sign
himself to be a dormant baronet Of the
United Kingdom In direct descent from
a son of Admiral Sir Robert Harland,
who emigrated to America about ITO
The family acquired large estates In
Connecticut, but when the baronetcy was
supposed to expire in 1S4S they did not
claim 1T, for by the laws of the state of
Connecticut then existent, to have done
so would have meant a sacrifice of
large proportion of their land. The Har-
land claim to the baronetcy is now en-
tirely extinct, for Mr.. Harland himself
was an only child and he leaves no
children.
Several books dealing with the much de-
bated topic of the Federal regulation of
railroad freight rates have already been
published, and Little, Brown & Co. who
brought out Judge Walter C. Noyes,
American Railroad Rates" announce an
other by Prof. Frank Parsons on the
same subject for early publication. OF
those already issued The Outlook, New
York, says: I'VE know of no book which
will give the lay reader so clear and so
authoritative statement of the funda-
mental legal principles which must
govern in the determination of the pend
ing question concerning the government
regulation of railway rates as Judge
NoyeS' volume.
Clement Vaughn. the hero of a new
western story by A. B. Ward, entitled
The Sage Brush Parson' is made to
undergo every one of the temptations
which beset the hardened sinners in his
flock in the Nevada mining town where
the scene of the story is laid. He is
tempted by drink, by the unlawful love
of woman, by the desire to kill. In
the light of his experiences he learns how
fiimsy a weapon mere eloquence must be
measured against the evil forces with,
which he has to deal. 1.-The Sage Brush
Parson" will be published by Little,
Brown Sc Co., January 81.
Maude Howe (Mrs. John Elliott) the
author of Two In Italy, and Roma
Beata' has sailed with her husband, John
Elliott, the artist, for Spain, where they
will spend the next two years.