The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-29
REALM OF BOOKS
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RY PAUL PRY.

Vice President Brown of the New York Central who is a great admirer of Ade. As soon as he found this town was to be formed hear the great humorists prop erty he issued orders that 1t should be named after him.
 The Rev. Washington Gladden., whose book, The New Idolatry,' recently pub lished, contains his famous utteranee on tainted money, has been an appreciative reader Of Peter Roseggers book IL \. R. IA Prisoners Story of the Cross"
 Rosegger. although hls fafne as a writer has spread all over Germany and Aus ltria, prefers to remain in Syria, his ma tive state, living part Of the time In Graz ana part of the time in KrIeglach. near his native town, Alpl. He is now 63 years old, and leads arretired and quiet life, spending most of h.s time editing a paper called Heimgarten (IIomegarden). Contrary to what his free handling and popularization of the gospels would sug- gest, he Is a Roman Catholic remaining so out of reverence for his parents, but he has built a Protestant church near Krieglach, where his children have been baptized Protestants One of his sons is a doctor, and one a lawyer. Rosegger is beloved by his countrymen, especially by the citizens of his native town, Alpl, to whom he has given a school, which he furnishes with schoolmaster that the children shall not have to suffer as he did for the want of learning.
 Little, Brown & Co.,, the Boston pub fishers, announce that by special arrange ment with MT. Jeremiah Curtis, who has received from Henryk Sienlxiewcz the ex- elusive right of translating all that au- thor's works into English, they published Ia of great power and interest, entitled On the Field of Glory.n
 This important work is the only one written by this renowned author since the year 1900, when he completed Knights of the Cross" The scenes are laid in Poland and the period Is the reign of the famous King John Sobiesli, just be- fore the Turkish invasion in 16S2 to l6s3. SlenlSlewicz has woven @ wonderful TO- nance of great brilliancy and strong char aeter drawing, and in no book by the au- thor of Quo Vadish-a story whose sale has not been equalled by any modern work of fiction-has he displayed his great genius more strikingly.
 MT. Sienkiewicz has recently been awarded the Nobel literary prize of nearly $40,O00.
 Theatregoers who are fond of Barrie have been amused at Captain Graham's tilts against him in More AIisrepresenta- tive Men" As Miss Ethel Barrymore, Captain Graham's fianoe is now appear ing in Barrie's play, Alice -Sit-by-the- Fire" and Maude Adams in Peter Pan," the following stanzas are especially to the point
 70 tinest of tiny men
 So wise, so whimsical, so witty Whose magic little fairy pen Is steped in human pity;
 Whose humor plays so quaint a tune, From Peter Pan to Pantaloon! | And modern matrons who can find 1 So little leisure for the Nurs'ry,
 Whose interest In babyldnd
 Is emlnently cursry,
 New views on Motherhood acquire
 From Alice Sitting-by-the-F -Fire!'
 Dr. S. Weir MitchelE whose Hugh ] Wynne,' 'The Adventures of Francois"
 and Constance Treseot' are read wher-
 ever American literature is known, has written new novel. It is called "A Dip lomatie Adventure and the first chapters
 appear In the February Century. The i opening statements, quoted from advance l sheets, give an idea of scene and setting NO man 1ldS ever Deen dDl6 to WTlLe i the history of the greater years of a na- | ton so as to include the minor incidents
 of interest. They pass unnoted, although | in some cases they may have had values | influential in determining the course of | events. It chanced that l myself was an actor in one of these lesser incidents, ] when second secretary to our legation in
 France, during the summer of 1862. i may possibly Overes innate the ultimate m of m d. l ams, our minister at the court of St. 1 James, seems to have failed to record 1t, | or at least, there Is no allusion to 1t in l his biography. In the perplexing tangle 1 of the diplomacy of the darker days of our civil war, many strange stories must
 have passed unrecorded but surely none | of those remembered and written were more singular than the occurrences which
 disturbed the quiet of my uneventful life | in the autumn of lS62.,'
 Dr. Mitchell has wide circle of read 1 CTS who will welcome his latest tale. | In his "Recollections of Thirteen Presi- dents," which Doubleday, Page & Co. will 1 publish February b, Capt. John S. Wise
 records remarkable acquaintance with
 the chief executives of the United States ranging from Taylor to Roosevelt Cap | tain Wise is a son of the Hon. Henry I Wise, the famous war governor of Vir- | ginia. has the unique distinction of hav- | ing been a republican congressman from
 his native state of Virginia and is a wide 1 ly known wit. lawyer and raconteur. His new book will be adequately illustrated. Those who are following Mrs. Humph- | rey Wards "Fenwick's Career in the | Century will earn much of Madame de | Pastourelles in the February number, the l tragedy of her marriage, her romantic friendship with Welby, her unusual in
 tellectual life. the charm and beauty of l her character These chapters, too, will l tell of Fenwick's growing intimacy with l Madame de Pastourelles and of her part l in his first success.
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 Figures That Staeqer.