The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-20
The Bibliophile


 Mot since Lily Bart made the ac- quaintance of Gotham society has so much been said about a book as is now being exploited about MT. Robert Her rick's s Together" Even MT. Upton Sin clair with "The Metropolis" failed to have such maledictions brought upon his complex cranium. The two Frenchmen, Monsieur Vaucaire, who in "Mademoislle Pip'' has chosen the American girl as his heroine, and Hughes Le Reux in his Love in the United States" must bow to the upheaval of criticism which MT. Herrick's book has engendered.
 From well known critic in a Balti- more newspaper comes this information: Robert Herrick's novel "Together,' with its scathing criticisms of New York women-and the modern woman general ly-is arousing something of a small tenn pest in colonies where the book has pene- trated-as well as among womanhood in New York city. MT. Herrick goes so far as to call the social body rotten with intellectual egotism,'' and the quality of his upbraidings, when it comes to the feminine sex, is rather violent than other
 
 viewed on the subject said
 ''Is he an American?' then as quickly answered her own question: But there, I know he isn't. No American alive would even think, let alone write, such things of an American woman.
 ''He may have been born here. and of American parents. I don't care where his birthplace was or who his parents were. All I know is that no real Ameri- can could write book like this one. don't know where he ever got that idea of American women. He must have had some lovely feminine acquaintances.'
 And another serious-minded one adds:
 All good women through the coun- try should arise against him, and all good men, too, for his book criticises American men as severely as it does the women.
 ''of course, it all depends on the kind of women with whom he associated. It only depicts his own life and nature if his friends are of that class"
 There is no doubt about it, after this book has percolated fairly through Amer ican society, there will be but one of two resources left to MT. Robert Herrick- to enter monastery and never come out or to join northwest passage expe- dition-and never come back.
 May Sinclair is dramatizing her novel which has appeared serially as "The Im- mortal Moment" under the title of Kitty Tailleur.''
  Swinburne, contains dedicatory poem to Charles Lamb:
 names
 Whose glory shone round Shake
 peare's bright as now,
 One eye beheld their light shine full as
 fame's,
 One hand unveiled it; this did none but
 thou.
 A wit suggests that ''the quatrain might be improved if the Victorian poet had enlightened the humble minded on the subject of what Mir Lambs other eye and hand were occupied with at the time mentioned.
 To Julian Harris, the son of the most beloved writer of the southland, Joel f1dfflS, SalQ III regard 10 the editorship of the Uncle Remus-Home
 Keep it wholesome and fresh with the best and simplest in life, a motto which marked the career of this simple 'teller of tales and sweet human interest
 A forthcoming book, from the pen of Mary Fenolossh, will be received with much pleasure by the many admirers of nj nln ha Is nt in the south of France preparing it.
 Katherine Prescott Wormeley, whose. death recently occurred, will always hold a warm place in the hearts of lovers of Balzac, by her scholarly translations of the great Frenchman's works. Besides Balzac, she did some translations of Moliere and also wrote "A Life of Bal zac."
 Elizabeth Robins, whose "A Dark Lan- tern and "The Open Question: aroused such enthusiasm in the literary world, an- nounces a new novel, entitled "The Mills of the Gods" which will appear in the early fall.
 The popularity of Mrs. Deland's book. ''The Awakening of Helena Rchie,' could not be more emphasized than by it's ar rangement into a book for the blind. By the way, Margaret Anglin will appear Tn a dramatization of it the coming season.
 
 The bronze medallion in historic old St. Giles Cathedral Edinburgh, which was unveiled recently by MT. J. M. Barrie was a beautiful tribute to Mrs. Oliphant On 1t was inscribed:
 Margaret O.. W. Oliphant, born 4th April, 1928; died 26th June, 1897. That we may remember her genius and power as novelist, biographer, essayist and his torian."
 Lord Dunedin, in accepting the monu- ment on behalf of the cathedral board characterized Mrs. Oliphant as the great