The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-23
NIGHT LETTERS BY WIRE
 ABOUT SOME NEW BOOKS

The Unknown Lady" by Justus Miles
 Forman. 0Iarpers. New Yorko. $50.
 pleasing story of life in the Latin quarter. Pleasant records of happy fan CUTS wasting many golden hours, each set with 60 diamond minutes) wandering ways of Paris"
 story of joyous life of artists in a studio in Rue d Assas, whence reached garden where grew lindens and lilacs, fleur de lis and locusts. The story of an idealist who sought an ideal dream face and found fame and love and. the ideal become real-only to learn that such hap piness may not be looked upon-and lived in. Only in the Elysian Fields, with soul tempered by death. may one enjoy bliss.
 Unfortunately for the author the book makes the reader remember ''Trilby." and to remember ''Triby'' is to know that no other book shines with just that glamor that glows through DuMaurier's master piece-not here "tbe glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome. Yet "an excellent piece of summer read ing.
 Mary Cary,'' by Kate Langley Bosher
 QIarpers, New York), s15o.
 A dear book. A book that nestles near in memory. A book of mere delight.
 If the book is child's book all the grown-ups will read it with thankful ness If the book is grown folks novels all the children will nevertheless just take it joyfully for their own.
 Tar Heel Tales" by H. F. c. Bryant Red Buck" (Stone & Barringer Co, | Charlotte, N. CD | Newspaper men make the best sort Of story tellers when they make start that
 way Mir. Bryant has long been staff cor respondent of the Charlotte Observer. The stories are quito as good as those of | the late Joel Chandler Harris They have tang about them as truly southern as | the taste of November persimmon, or | a Christmas 'possun. They are rich and l just right. Every man who halls from
 the Old North State ought to have among
 his treasures one of these little volumes with the branch of green pine and brown cones across it's checllered cover. There
 is pathos in Uncle Bens Last Fox 1 1dte. lilert SOOu pOflllCS III f orty l Acres and a Mule" There is true dog
 nature in the story of the Spaniel and | the Cops" Any man who has ever run
 to the music. of the pack will read and re- | read 'The Hound of the Old Stock" Mir. | Bryant is so popular in North Carolina | that there Is in that state a Red Buck brand of whisky, Red Buck cigar | though the man for whom these are | named neither drinks nor smokes There is also a Red Buck mule, a Red Buck pig and a Red Buck rooster.
 | The book is illustrated with excellent
 photographs of good old colored folk.
 -'The Passing of the Confederate" by
 York, 50 cents.
 l '' 'Tis true. 'tls pity, and pity 'tis tis
 true that the man who wore the gray
 and who so gallantly unfurled the flag of | the Lost. Cause are now few in num- ! Der and their ranks are depleted year by year. The questions which so stirred
 their blood and kindled their ardor were
 long since lifted out of the heat and jargon of debate into the trial by arms In this struggle these old heroes played a grand part and history will so record i it. We can never honor them too highly nor remember them too lovingly That
 this poem is tribute of honor to the Con- | federate soldier is its chief merit Ii
 was inspired, the author tells us, by the
 decrepid appearance of the Confederate te
 veterans as they marched through the
 streets of Lumberton, N. O., at the un.
 yelling of a monument erected to the
 memory of the Confederate dead of Robe
 son county.
 l It is not well to always be Hooking backward" 1t is better to let the "dead bury the dead,' but the story of the deeds
 of the Confederate soldier is part of the
 past that should ever be remembered. II
 is well for poet and orator and scholar tc