The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-20
REALM or COOKS

BY PAUL PRY.

1.-The Scholars Daughter" by Beatrice
Harraden. Published by Dodd, Mead
& Co., 1906.
Few stories of recent years enjoyed
more immediate or extended popularity
than Ships that Pass in the Night" by
Beatrice Harraden, the well-known young
English writer. She has not written
great number of books since her first
success, but each has been clever
and well written. Her latest story, just
published, is entitled THE Scholars
Daughter" The scene is laid in England
and more particularly in the quaint old
manor house of the Tudor times. ''Yew
House." away out in the cool. secluded
depths of Englands beautiful rural dis
trct.
The story Is quite above the ordinary
and is entirely apart from the usual hack
neyed lines. And in its originality and
uncommonness it is crisp, fresh and
breezy. There are very few characters
concerned in the plot. and each of these
Is drawn in really individual manner
by few broad strokes 1t may appear
an extraordinary statement to make that
the central human interest clusters around
the making of a dictionary and yet
such Is the case.
Prof. Grant, with his three unique old
secretaries, are at work upon the die
tionary at Yew House. and the only one
capable of interfering with this mo-.
nentous task is '"The Scholars Daugh-
ter when she arrives home and whisks
off an three secretaries a'fishing. Miss
Geraldine, after the dictionary, occupies
the center of the stage and is most win
some and charming. The plot is most i'm
1Nn1.I to- 1,a.. Ila
author Is made to seem most plausible.
and the events unfold in a very orderly
sequence, which holds the readers in
terest along every line until the old-fash
toned climax is reached, when all ends
merrily. The decorations by John Roe,
are most artistic and beautiful.
Books and My Food" by Elizabeth
Luther Cary and Annie NJ. Jones Pub
lshed by Moffat, Yard & Co., 1906.
In the preface to this attractive little
volume. Books and My Food Miss
Cary writes: 1T is impossible to read
English novels without realizing how inn
portant part food plays in the mental
as in the physical life of the English
man. The sentimental Anglo-Saxon soul
goes out to it's roast beef and pudding
to it's port and ale. with much the same
greeting it gives to its blue aviolets and
Devon comslips." So the author makes
a somewhat whimsical effort to combine
intellectual and bodily sustenance in her
little volume on cookery She gives
quotation, chiefly from English novelists
and poets and with 1t recipe which she
declares is not to provide Bohemian fare
for the reader, but something most edible
when properly prepared. One culled at
random is the following: THAT gentle
man had in his hand cabbage. He was
proving to the farmer that his plant is
more nutritious than the potato
Charles Reade Clouds and Sunshine). If
the gentleman had argued thus of eau
lifiower. which has been called cabbage
with a college education, he would have
been quite correct. for in cultivation
the caulihower has gained in nutritive
Importance. Boil in sailed hot water
until tender, but not soft. Divide the
FLOWER" put in a buttered dish layer
of the caulfiower seasoned with salt.
pepper and butter, then a sprinklng of
grated cheese and of bread crumbs.
Moisten with milk each layer, and with
layer of dry bread-crumbs literally
dotted with butter. Cover and bake for
half an hour then remove the cover and
brown" The recipes are arranged one
for every day in the year.
"Allon of Somasco,' by Harold Bindloss.
Published by Frederick A. Stokes Co.
Gallon of Somasco' is a romance of
the wilderness breakers and is filled with
strong passion. In writing or the lie OF
the forest in the great northwest. Mr..
Bindloss opens up territory little known
TO readers of fiction, and he not only
knows the region but breathes it's very
spirit. Dominating the book is the figure
of Henry Allon of Somasco Ranch a
character that arouses interest and adj
miration and strangely personifies the
temper of the west.
among the Meadows by Frances AL
leh Harris. The Meade Publishing Co.
In the present story the author has
taken up the plain narrative of every
day people and renders faithful report
Of that life as IT is lived by the general
run of humanity. The eight or nine Ken
lucky people whose development Mrs.
Harris traces are in no way remarkable.
but IN the authors fidelity to the little