The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04

v cover variety of subjects ranging from a number of comparatively new and un- hackneyed examples of Gibson. through the dainty drawings of Hut. Bayard Jones. Read Foster. Blashted and Han ma, down to outright fun of kemble and Montgomery Fiagg. The book is of quarto size, handsomely bound in green cloth, with a special design by Blashteld, and is d companion volume to "The So- cial Comedy which is now in its fourth edition.
 "Hedda Gabler9 and "The Master Build er' are the two plays in the latest vol tune of the new edition of the complete works of Henrik Ibsen, edited by William Archer. The translations in this volume are by Edmund Gosse and William Archer and the introduction by William Archer. This is the ninth volume in this edition and there are still two more to come. The London Notes and Queries said recently of this set "So far as the edition has been carried out it is ideal in all respects That il will be continued on a like scale of excellence is not to be doubted and the appearance Of the com plete edition is an event to be eagerly anticipated by lovers of drama
 Messrs. Mcclure. Phillips & Co. have been obliged to postpone until the fall the publication of the following books: Poems of Wordsworth" selected by Stopford A. Brooke: Dutch and Flemish Furniture' by Esther Singleton, the elab- crate preparation of which has caused delay; The Wagner Stories" by Ftlson Young-in view of the promise of great CT season of German opera this book Is to be brought out in more elaborate form and .Pinatore Palace an anthology Of children's nursery rhymes edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin.
 pr Alexander Graham Bell, the inven- tor of the telephone, states in his contri- button to Navigating the Ar the re- cent publication issued by Doubleday, Page &z Co.,, that in the year lS96 he be came convinced that sthe age of the flying machine Was at hand pr. Bell began at once his investigation in the science of aerial navigation. The result of his ex- perimeuts ne has described in the afore- mentioned book.
 Richard Harding Davis has been so suc- cessfully occupied with writing plays and librettos for light opera and assisting at their production that it is nearly six year since he has published book of fic- tion. Captain Macl1lin, his last novel, was d story of adventure and fighting. the scene of which was laid in Central America. "'rhe Scarlet Car" which has just been published, is a tale of automo- bile adventure and romance and the scene is laid in New York or on the roads near it. The girl. the football player the chauffeur, the brother and the yellow re- porter are lively and highly entertain ing people of the day. Mir Davis Is now in this country, having recently returned from abroad.
 Professor George P. Baker of Harvard has made q scientific contribution to the study of Shakespeare in his work on "The Development of Shakespeare as a Dramatist" Although Shakespeare was primarily a writer for the stage, he has been much more thoroughly studied from the literary than from the dramatic point of view. Professor Baker has traced the development of his genius as master ot stagecraft. showing the influences by which it was brought SO near perfection and defining the characteristics elements in the poets stage technique. The book includes also a careful study of the stage in Shakespeare's time, and view of the Elizbethan school of dramatists.
 Among well known artists who will illustrate Doubleday, Page X Co.'S 1908 publications are Anna Whelan Betts, Wal ter little. Siguard Schou, Laurence Mag zanowich Arthur Rackham, Blanche OS- tertag. Thenas Fogarty, George L. Tobin, Albert Lowering, C. D. and G. A. Will Hams. Robert Goodwin, Harold Heart
  ter one t) this firm in the way of illus trdtions.N
 NIessrs Duffield X Co.,, New York, an- nounce that they have purchased from Messrs. Maynard X Co., Boston, the late Richard Hoveys books, "Along the Trail The Birth of Gaahad," ''The Marriage of Guenevere," "The Quest of Merlin" and "Taliesin" In addition to these dramas Messrs. Duffeld will bring out shortly "The Holy Grail and Other Fragments with an introduction and notes by Mrs. Hovey and a preface by Bliss Carman. The volume will con tain MT. HoVey's outline, never before published of the entire nine volumes of the Launcelot and Gueneyere Series as he had projected it; also certain perfected parts of the unfinished plays. The work. long advertised as in preparation, will help the reader to answer many of the questions in his mind after reading the four completed volumes of the series "Launcelot and Guenevere; a Poem in Drama"
 Several other posthuinous volumes by MT Hovey. including a new book of ly- rical verse, are said to be in prospect.
 Thomas Nelson Page, featuring iD Phil adelphia recently. characterized as scan d,lous the indifference of American peo- .ic to the history of the south. Up to VCrN recently no real JuStlHcdllOn or the south was undertaken and our children were led to believe, MT. Page suggests, that that section had intentionally blocked the way td all progress and civ liization with its slavery.
 MT Page wants a new history of the United States prepared, one that will give due credit to the south for what it was and what it stood for, and for the important part 1t played In the early his tory of the country. He believes a for tune awaits the man who will write it.
 Meanwhile, until this true and ade- uuate history shall appear, very good study of the civil war period in the south. and the times that immediately preceded and followed it, may be gased from those volumes in the American Crisis Biographies (published by George w. Jacobs X Co) dealing with the well known southern leaders. The life of Judah F. Benjamin has already appeared in this series of biographies. and will shortly be followed by those of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and John c. Cal houn. all written by southern men and while aiming to be impartial trsatins their subjects from the southern ssand- | point.
 Brown, Langham & Co, of London. have secured from Moffat Yard X Co. of | New York. the British rights to George | Sylvester Viereclxs "Nineveh and Other | Poems" which is making so great sen- | sation in this country and will publish | an English edition in the early autumn. | A German edition 1t will be ren;em-