The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-21

cred the promise in this gifted singer and
gave him his chance; he was attached to
the stan of that newspaper. During three
years of his connection with the Observer
Mr.. Mcneil gave to the world almost all
his best work; he won the Patterson cup
a magnificent trophy, as an incentive
to the development of literary talent in
North Carolina--in 1906 q
But suddenly, without almost warning
acute nephritis attacked him, and he died
on October II, 1907.
There are so many really beautiful ly-
RIGS in this volume it is difficult to quote
anywhere, but the first verses, amusing
and so true to our southern life, par
tcularly political, entitled, Mr. Niger"
must be selected from. The fiji st and third
stances are selected as follows:
How could we do without you,
MIR. Niger?
Could we not talk about you,
Mr. Niger.
Wed have to quit our politics,
'Twould put our papers In a fix,
We'd have to start and learn new tricks,
Mr.. Niger.
II cannot see, if you were dead.
Mr.. Niger,
How orators could earn their bread,
Mr.. Niger;
For they could never hold the crowd
Save they abused you long and loud
As being dark and threatening cloud,
Mr.. Niger.
Lyrics From Cotton Land is beauty
from every viewpoint.
Man Building" A Treatise on Human
Life and Its Forces. BY Lewis Ransom
Fiske, L. d. CThe Science Press)
This valuable book was originally
brought out in 1901. an edition of 1000
copies being printed at the time After
receiving marked attention in the limited
circle in which it became known Man
Building was for time lost sight Of
But now all over the country there is,
as never before. a tendency on the part
of men and women to study themselves;
to search out the causes of growth, ply
steal and mental to discover the fountains
of power which should bring success and
happiness.
This awakened interest of the public
in the subjects which Manipulating
covers quite admirably; has led to a pop
ulal demand for It,
There are many builders in the world
builders of buildings, of books, of pic
lures, of businesses; but the greatest of
all builders is the man-builder The in
dustry of Matchmaking should head the
list of all industries-but does it? Echo?
We need surely, then a book ON man
building. Everybody is in the man build
ing industry: the mother with her child !;
the teacher with her pupil; the business
man with his employe and every man
with himself
Then, there must necessarily be a sci
ence of manipulating.
DR.. Fiske names and analyzes the laws
which control the symmetrical growth
of men and women In body, mind and
character and he does so in such a clear,
specific style that one can hardly fail to
understand these laws, In the first place,
or fail to see how to apply them in the
second place.
Manipulating is practical; worthy,
strong, valuable book
Strictly Business BY o. Henry. Dou-
bleday, Page & Coz
This Is another welcome volume of O..
Henry's (Sidney Porter amusing stories.
The stories in Strictly Business are
really more of 1.-The Four Million Stories
and you recall what they were.
There are % stories in this volume
every one good: every one has good
laugh in it for somebody
In Babes In the Jungle Mr.. Por-
bricks at New York he often does that.
1--WE been studying this town. says
Silver, ''and reading the papers every
day and I know it as well as the cat in
the city hall knows an O'Sullivan. People
here lie down on the floor and scream
and kick when you are bit slow about
taking money from them.
There's more ways of getting money from
these metropolitan hayseeds than there
is of cooking rice in Charleston, 8. c.
They'll bite at anything The brains OF
most OF them commute l tell
you / feel like slapping the people here
because they don't send me all their
money in laundry baskets with germicide
sprinkled over It, / hate to go down
on the street to get it. Who wears dia-
monds in this town? Why, Winnie, the
wiretappers wife and Bella, the bunko
steerers bride. New Workers can be
worked easier than blue rose on a
tidy. Why. there are people living in four
blocks of Broadway who never saw any
kim of building except skyscraper in
their lives!' and so on.
You can hardly make a mistake in buy
ing o. Henry's stories, no matter where
the scenes are laid, whether in Central
America Arizona. New Orleans, New
York, Chicago or any old place.
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