The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-15


 like to live with seven days out of the week-every year, including the leap years? Certainly not, and so long as such amendments have not as yet been added to the Prohibition Law'-we are safe for the nonce.
 Anne of Green Gables" is good book of its kind.
 "stories of Persian Heroes,n by E. M
 Wilmot Buxton, (T '. Crowell
 Company.
 These pleasing legends or myths are founded on Persian book called "Epic of the Kings although the real hero is Rustem. who performs marvel ous feats and who enjoys brilliant ad- ventures with his horse Rakush. There is something suggestive of the labors of Hercules in the seven tasks that 1 this hero undertakes and there is such strong resemblance in this book to many Greek stories that 1t substan- tiates the well founded theory that the l people of old and present times had a common source for the material upon which they founded their folklore l tales.
 1 The Stories of Persian Heroes" will be found very interesting, particularly l to young people, and the older reader as well. A very interesting portion of l the book deals with the poet from whose work the material for these l stories were taken. He was Firdusi, born about the beginning of the 11th century. The Persian King scorned the poet and his work and drove him frome the court. Later the King found on lis windowpane these lines, written with a diamond;
 "The happy court of Mahmoud is a sea, A sea of endless waves without a coast, In my unlucky star the fault must be If who plunged for pearls in it am lost"
 The King was so impressed by this that he made inquiries which showed the poet to be worthy of esteem and friendship and attempted to find him i that he might heap upon him all man. ner of honor. but the King found the poet dead from want and neglect. His work was done; the palace of kings
 Fade in long rows and in loud earth quakes fall
 The poem that godlike poet sings"
 Well. we know what happens to poets and what they write, if they get it published
 "Stories of Persian Heroes" is a very worthy production of it's kind
 As a general proposition. as Mir. F. Opper says, Now wouldn't 1t jar you?' if you had read Miss Tarbells History of the Standard oil Company" and other such books on the Rockefeller corporation and MT J. D. himself to read in the November issue of "World's Work" in MT. John D. Rock efeller's "Reminiscences" from a man who has spent 50-odd years, more or less, doing absolutely nothing but raking in the dollars, be the obstacle, human or divine, what it may, the fol- lowing
 "I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than man who devotes all the waking hours of the day to making money for the moneys sake.'
 Now really doesn't that give you the feeling that should require Floods Sar- saparilla?" Sure! Doesn't 1t make you weary to read these kind of "Reminis- cences" from men who know that they have gotten all they want-or can't get any more-for physical or mental reasons, send out such pluperfect rot?
 And did you ever hear of the Hearst stolen letters-the Archbold letters? List en at this from MT. John D. in November Worlds Work"
 Speaking of Mir Archbold: ''He has al- ways well developed sense of humor.
 can never cease to wonder al his capacity for hard work. I do not often see him now for he has great af- fairs on his hands. ." Sure, he has great affairs on his hands Did you read those stolen letters?
 But honestly now, doesn't it make you tired to read that kind of thing from men who now retired. having done all legged all sorts of dubious things and now set themselves up to tell us of the Gold en Rule, which if certain writers tell the truth, was never included in tlteir bag gage? Like Andrew Carnegie Che, too has just written, or at least his name is on the title page of a book) whc tells us he wants to die poor? Now, all Joking aside-what do you think about 1t?
 It has been amusing to read accounts ir certain newspapers of the suppression oi the December edition of the Century Mag azine which is said to have contained certain startling interviews with the Ger man Emperor. Some of the aforesaid pa pers speak of the interviewer as an ''ob- scure magazine writer" As 1t happens the interviewer was Dr. William Bayard Hale who Is anything but 'obscure,' as he occupies at the present time the posi- ton as editor of the New York Times Sat lrday Review of Books-and has written several worthy volumes, one recently re- viewed in this paper "A Week in the White House With Theodore Roosevelt. 7 With that as a starter in this direction he was doing Bill Hohenzollern, now Emperor of the Germans. when the for eign office of Germany, heafing of cer- tain things in this interview lpretty sure to d{sturb the amity of natiofs, succeed ed it getting the Century Magazine not