The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-07

kirk, editor of the humorists column in the Boston Post. The publishers. H. M caldwell company, of Boston. are to be congratuiated on the volume, nothing iunnier than which has greeted the book tired pubic In many q day. It is bright, cIeVer ana witty from dedication to ap- pendiX, and the quality of humor in if Is subtle and keen. Tracks in the Snow" two-page map of a misguided home hunter IS only one of the books master pieces of fun, and in itself Is a story not to be missed. The Tracks tell the sto- ry and there are many other illustrations by Wallace Goldsmith. The book is unI- form In size and style, with "The Log of the Water Wagon" and "Renections of the Morning After both of which have had such tremendous sales
 Mark Twain in his 'Autobiography." now being published serially in the North American Review, gives little glimpse of Robert Louis Stevenson;
 But 1t was on a bench in Washinaton Square that I saw tho most of Louis Ste venson. It was an outing that lasted an hour or more, and was very pleasant and sociable l had come with him from his house, where I had been paying my re- spects to his family. His business in the square was to absorb the sunshine. He was most scantily furnished with flesh his clothes seemed to fall into hollows as If there might be nothing inside but the frame for a sculptor's statue His long face and lank hair and dark complexion and musing and melancholy expression seemed to fit these details justly and ha1e moniously. and the altogether of it seem- ed especially planned to gather the rays of your observa ton and foealize them up on Stevenson's specalS distinction and commanding feature. his splendid eyes. They burned with a smouldering rich fire under the penthouse of his brows, and thoy made him beautiful"
 To write a romance based on our pres ent social discontent and make it neither sombre nor prosy Is q serious task for an author, In The Silent War" which is Just coming from the press MT. Mitchell telis tragic story based on the contest between the masses and the mll!ionaires, but succeeds in doing it without sacrifice Ing any of the lightness of style and deli. Gacy or touch which made his Amos Juud Pines of Lory" and "Gloria Vlc- us such agreeable reading Through the DOCK runs an unusual love story. and poth American millonaires and American worklhgmen are depicted in a new guise Ia I@ailhIully, but from a novel point of view. The illustrations are by Balfour Ker
 
 James Montgomery Flagg, who wrote
 Manners one or the most mirthful of last years collectlons Of nonsense, has broken loose again with Why They Married"
 Ine whole world has repeatedly asked Why They Married" Nobody seemed to know. "
 It Is about time some truthful and dis. cerning person stepped up and told.
 Ihere are one-half a hundred real req sons in this little book, every one done in verse so polished one can see ones face m It, together with faithfully unhatterns portraits of the persons talked about.
 The book is the right size for pocket when Gwendolyn says in whitening tones wonder what he eyer saw in herr llash the volume on her and turn to the rlght page and there's the answer pain- iuliy simple but blindingly truel
 mere IS no one too dignified. too high m social or official circles, to come under one Of those fifty fatal facts. There they are nailed. Like a collection of butter hles or beetles. they are impaled for your amusement