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like a counting house. and here his sew
eral copyists wrote out the illustrative
Messages from the various authorities
which Johnson himself had marked with
lead pencil. At times. but not often, ne
walked in the garden. "a plot OF delVed
ground no longer than bed quilt"
But the house has other association
than that OF the Dictionary. Johnson
here began both the "Ramber" and the
"Idler"; and here he was living when
his tragedy of Irene" now little read.
was produced by Garrick. Here also
his wife died. In 1850, when Johnson
had been in Gough-square seven years;
the great Dictionary was published, ana
the author delivered that smashing blow
10 the patronage of literature from when
II has never recovered.
Seven years, my lord" he wrote 10
Chesterfield, his would-be patron. nave
now passed since | waited IN your out
ward rooms, or was repulsed from your
door. The notice which you nave
been pleased to take Of my labors, hau
II been early. had been kind; but IL
has been delayed till I am Indifferent
and cannot enjoy it.; till ana solitary
and cannot impart It: till / am known,
and do not want it, When the house
becomes national property. those scatn-
ing sentences should be inscribed In let
ters Of gold upon its walls.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-29
FICTION
A Batch of New Novels for the
Spring.
HATRED IN THE HOUSE.
THE VALLEY CAPTIVES. BY r. Ma
aulay. l2mo PIP. 335. Henry Holt & Z

THE VALLEY CAPTIvES. BY r. Mac
aulay. limo, PIP. 335. Henry Holt & Co.
The valley is in Wales; the home or
slackness and hatred might have the
green shutters through which. some years
ago. we peeked out the dark side OF the
idyllic kailyard, but, unfortunately, the
human nature It shelters Is not or
merely local significance. This new au-
thor has talent, there can be no DOUBT
of that and a pen already admlrapiy
trained for its work; still, in the end one
doubts whether the easy adjective pow
erfur" applies to this bitterly unpleasant
chronicle. The announcement on the
slip cover Of the book invites COMPARE
son with the greatest of surviving Brit
| ish novelists. The invitation. overlooks
| the consideration that even In his GRIM
NEST and most discouraging MOOD
Thomas Hardy does not lack humor,
though It be but the humor Of despair
ing Weltanschauung. Mr.. Macauiay
handles his Leading characters with as
sured consistency Not an incongruous
touch, not false line, can be found IN
these five portraits. Of father VINO
follows the line of least resistance IN MS
philosophy Of life as In his conducc OF
It: of his son, born artist, but con-
demned to agriculture because that is
less bother; of his daughter. silent de-
termined; and Of their stepmother's TWO
children, who COW the boy and tyran-
nize over the girl until hatred broods
in the house and shoulders toward an
outbreak
Gray is the atmosphere Of this Welsh
valley-unrelieved. depressing gray. II
spreads from the protagonists TO the
minor characters with hardly q ray OF
weakest watery sunshine; 1t envelops all
these Welsh men and women in the val
ley beyond the reach Of the modern
world. The author has no doubt as much
warrant for his view OF Welsh life ana
character as had the author of the
Green Shutters" for his revelation OF the.
Scots. 1t all depends upon the point OF
view. Others have already told us or the
sunny side Of Wales.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-29
WOMAN,S SHARE.
THE HEART OF THE BUSH. A Love
Story Of To-day. BY Edith Searle
Grossman. Colored frontispiece. l2mo,
PIP. 1884, The John Lane Company.

THE HEART OF THE BUSH. A Love
Story Of To-day BY Edith Searle
Grossman. Coored frontispiece. l2mo,
PIP. 1884. The John Lane Company
This story Of life on New Zealand
sheep range is Of genuine interest on &C.
count of its understanding picture of the
hardship Of a woman educated in Eng
land who weds a rude frontiersman.
She loves him and admires his pioneer
strength, his mastery Of his environment,
but yet for all his alteration, there lies
between them the chasm Of manners
and social usages, OF cultured existence
and its amenities, its incessant little
acts of sophisticated chivalry. She is
his woman, in the primitive sense Of the
word to whom he comes, for instance, In
all good faith, fresh from killing sheep,
with their blood still upon his clothes
The business of earning livelihood, Of
striving onward materially, is the first
preoccupation Of his life. After the man.
ner Of his kind, he takes her for granted.
The author provides a happy ending,
even as she prefaces an idyllic honey
moon with a rude, awkward, masterful
wooing. clumsy, self-assertive, yet timid.
but the significance Of the story lies In
her discerning picture Of differences be-
tween which an average can only be
struck by many surrenders on the wom-
ans part.
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THE FIRST BORN.

THE VERY LITTLE PERSON BY Mary
Heaton Worse. Illustrations by Rose
O'Neil 16mo. PIP. 1Gi. The Houghton
Micln Company.
Every American father will recognize
something Of himself in this book. and so
will every American mother and grand
mother, not To mention many American
nurses And Americans who are not
fathers or mothers or grandmothers will
recognize those among their friends and
acquaintsnces that are. and they all to-
gether will recognize the baby. which is
a typical American baby, because the
whole family existence is made 10 centre
In II and turn around IL from the mo-
ment OF its birth. We are the nation OF
baby worshippers par crccllenco. even
though. or perhaps because. we are as
yet fond and indulgent rather than wise
and wisely trained parents. There is
this particular very little persons"
method OF getting It's own way. for in
stance. Mrs. Worse does not lack the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-29
MODE RNISM.

THE PRIEST. Tale OF ModernisM ~
New England. BY the author or Le, I.
tiers to His Holiness Pope Plus ~.
Emo. pp. 263. Boston: Sherman Frehch
e. Co.
To follow in the footsteps of Antonio
Fogazzaro is a natural ambition, but
whereas the Italian novelist was mas
ter of his craft. the present author Is
mere beginner. whose first attempt at
fiction with a purpose shows, moreover
no marked aptitude for this form OF con-
troversial literature. The book Is, II
anything. far too smoothly planned
There is no conflict of Wills, Of the tradi-
tional and the scientific authority. The
surrender is sudden, both In theology
and in an ultimate ending that, one
would think. is not wisely chosen, be-
cause It goes 30 unnecessarily far ana
introduces an entirely irrelevant, II very
human, motive. The authors choice Oh
New England factory town for the
sake of vivid contrasts Is we'll seen, but
he has failed to make the best use OF the
opportunity thus created. The story Is
told from the outside.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-29
DR.. JOHNSON'S HOUSE.
To Be Presented to the British Nation
as a Memorial.
From The Pall Mail Gazette.

From The Pail Mall Gazette.
Dr. JOhnsOns house i'm Cough square.
Fleot-street. ii is reported. has been pur-
chased by Mr. Cecil Harmsworth. and
in short time 1t will be presented bv
him TO the nation. Even Fleet street.
which is singularly Unconditional. NAV
feel touch of satisfaction in the fact
that the house Of the great lexicog-
rapher" where he lived for ten years.
is not to go the way of his other resi-
dences, and fall beneath the hammer of
the house breaker Johnson lived in
many places in London, but this stout
old-fashioned, oak-balustraded house"
az Carlyle found II. is perhaps most rep
resentative Of his character and his
work
II is a solid eighteenth century build
ing, where Johnson lebored for the
busiest decade Of his life. Hitler he
came a year after he had begun his
Dictionary. He had an upper room fitted
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-29
HOLBEIN'S ORGAN SHUTTERS
From The Athenaum

FIOITl TIC AITtIId'UHI,
Iiobeins organ shutters, painted for
the Cathedral at Basic, but removed
thence i'm 11S5. have, after some vicissi-
tudes, found a permanent home in the
Basic Museum. ON the initiative OF Dr.
CAM they have been carefully restored
Holben's sketch for these panels is also
preserved at Basic. In the Kunstsamm-
lung.
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saving sense Of humor. There Is a
twinkle in her eye as she holds up the
mirror to American parental and Ameri-
can infantile human nature.
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BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-29
Eugene Field in England.

The complete edition Of Eugene Fields
poems is coming out in England. This IL
the edition Of the Chicago writer's work
which has been issued in this country by
the Scribners.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-29

By Fannie Heaslip Lea.
illustrations by Clinton palmer. Emo,
PIP S3l. The Sturgis & Walton Com
pany.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-29
1.-THE Celestial Omnibus"

Under this curious title has just been
published I'm London a volume of ran
tastes by Mr.. E. NJ. Forster, author OF
the novel, "Howard's End" Mr. Roger
Fry has made the decorations for this
volume.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-29

The lately published biography OF Wis
count Goschen shows that. like many
other men Of large public affairs. he was
devoted reader Of novels. II is said
that ION ono of his long Continental
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-05
THE MINE RESCUE STATION
By ETHEL ARsIEs Author of Story and in

Out in a corner of West End, just where Poplar street winds up at the Alabama Great Southern railroad tracks, there is little brand new red brick building, put up by the United States government for the Birmingham district.
 It Is the mine rescue station ''No. e. of the United States Bureau of Mines, The government foreman in charge Is q local man, Angus K. Brown. bat during his absence at the Pittsburgh meet the station Is under the direction of James Hillhouse, former chief mine Inspector of the state. 12aks
 This Birmingham mine accident ,nves- tigation station-for that Is the Nhme proper-is the sixth and latest one of the group built by the government bureau in certain of the great mining centers of the United States. The other five are located at Pfttsburg, Pa, on the grounds of the Alleghany arsenal; at Urbana, Ill. Knox vile, Tenn, Seattle, Wash, and McAlis- ter, Okla. Seven mine rescue cars, also owned and operated by the Bureau Of Mines of the Department of the Interior. are stationed at various localities, where the demand is most urgent No mining center except the Pittsburg district has both car and station permanently main- tained.
 The whole mine rescue business first aid work, accident prevention and safety work now so scientifically organized and
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meet, together with Vice President r. IT.. Crockard of the Tennessee company.
 Inaccessible Location

meet, together with Vice President r. IT. Crockard of the Tennessee company.
 Inaccessible Location
 Had the location of the station been at Wylam or rNNorth Birmingham it would have greatly facilitated the work, for there's no denying the fact that the place is inaccessible and out of the way of the mining men and of the coal mines. The railroad tracks there are clogged with freight cars and just how the helmets and breathing apparatus shall be shipped to the scene of an explosion in time is a matter of conjecture. To get to almost any of the coal mines from that point is to go around Robin Hoods barn, "and then some," as one of the engineers said. However the rescue station, built and equipped as 1t is is q great asset to the Birmingham district and 1t is appreciated. Its value and importance here cannot be overestimated Just as soon as all of the representative local companies avail themselves of it's advantages. as the Woodward Iron company has done, the practical side of the rescue station will be fully demonstrated.
 The general appearance Of the station ;s interesting The lot on which it is built borders the Alabama Great Southern right of way and is 100x215 feet deep. It was donated by the Woodward Iron company. He west lluu IlDrdry, SCHOOL house ana fire department are within few blocks, and the next door neighbors" of he station are d few section houses. Across the track is wide swath of pasture, a cattle range, rolling up to the foothills of Red mountain.
 Neat but Not Gaudy
 While the station is by no means pre- tentious looking building, being plain and trim, 1t is very solidly built. It's founda- tions of concrete 13 inches thick are six feet deep with 24x24 inch piers up the cen ter clear up to the second story. In the fresh, clean cellar there is a new model furnace, a low pressure steam heater tightly hooded with asbestos, about the first of it's type here, and it renders the buildin absolutely fireproof. Then on the first story. the office. apparatus room lavatory and observation room, whore the lectures, experiments and practice work take place; on the second, a dorlui- tory and shower baths. A gas room is about to be constructed directly back of the observation room. This will be the practical rescue room, air tight. full of poisonous gases, wherein the safety lamps will be tested and every novitiate be required to do a ertain amount of
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and called at once on the Geological Sur vey himself.
 The director of the Survey stated to Mir Underwood his willingness to estan- fish such q station at Biriningham pro- viding he could secure the necessary ap- populations. That was not such an easy matter The chairman of the appropria- tons committed MT. TaWney was decid- edly averse to any expenditure by the government for such purposes. When the sundry civil bill came up MT. Underwood promised to make an endeavor to secure increased appropriation. and being dubious as to the outcome of this he intended to try and get 1t inserted on tho floor of the House. l.
 Just then came tie disaster ut Palos and again Captain Allen wrote MT. un- derwood. Whenever MT. Underwood goes after anything he generally gets It.
 The increased appropriation was inolud- ed in the bill in question for the Bureau of Mines and for tho mine rescue sta- tons.
 Up to the Senate
 Then Captain Allen enlisted tho intersst and influence of tho Alabama aenato-E. Johnston and BaniShead. who did noI need. any more urging than did our earnest and ca pable congressman Captain Allen wrote Senator Johnston in behalf of tho opera tors June 3 19l0.. Said he: Recent ocr currences at Mulga and Palos accentuate the necessity for some such establish ment where the men can be trained m
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THE ARABS TAKE NEW YORK
A Band of Twenty Five Will Appear
 in "Fhe Garden of Allah"

From the New York Mail.
 Twenty five Moors, here to appear in the caravan scene in "The Garden of Allah" started to see New York on their Arabian steeds the other day. When they reached Central park such . crowd of motorists and small boys rof- lowed at their heels that the mounted police made them get permits for pa rade from the park authorities before they were allowed to proceed. After they had obtained the permits they ran amuck of the police again for racing heir horses on the bridle path.
 In the party are Muley Hamid Aga rorl. the shereef of Morocco, which amounts to being chief of police to tho sultan; Ayashi Wadrassi, who has been Raisulis faithful lieutenant, acting as night clerk in his mountain resort; ths three Chiva brothers, who own more camels, horses and asses than any other sheiks in Morocco; and Abdusolam Ben Nuzair. an --rabian trooper combating his great great ancestor, Gen. Ben Nu- zair, who led the Moorish troops in their conquest of Spain.
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work. One week is generally considered sufficient for a man 10 become familiar with the apparatus and main points of tho rescue methods
 The whole interior of the station, clean, white ealcimined walls with doors, wains. coting. all woodwork, a neat oak finish, and wide windows. plenty of light and fresh air gives from the first a pleasant impression.
 The observation room, 10 feet long, win skylights and sloping windows. fairly scintillates with light. 'But get in there with the helmet on," said one of the Sloss men, and that 40 pound Draeger appa- ratus on your back and be set to climbing over boxes. slanting boards, places to simulate manways upsets. break throughs and IS degree slopes. and see how lively you can step! You have to lift mans weight over all. besides your own. so it takes some muscle and you're liable to get ratted about your oxygen tank. It's a test all right.'
 The next subject In this series will treat of the first aid work in detail and will appear in The Age-Herald November ls.
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maintained by the government is dis tinctly new movement in the United States and one in which Birmingham may be regarded as an initiative factor.
 Origin of Movement in Local Circles
 First aid work in this district was off cially taken up in June of 1909, by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad com- pany, when pr. M. J. Shields of Scran- ton was employed to organize first aid corps at each one of the coal mining camps of the company-Pratt No. 1, Blue Creek. Blocton, Blossburg and Whitxejl up in Tennessee. Two years previous to this offiical organization, In March, 1907. first aid corps had been organized at Pratt No. 2 division by pr. W. S. Roun- tree, and carried on very quietly and ef- Actively among the men themselves at Vivian. Enthusiasm and interest in the work were instilled among the coal miners and their sons, and much good was ac- complished-the ground made ready for the planting.
 Tt was the plan of the company to build a mine rescue station at some central point, when in the spring of 1910, May g. to be precise, the Alabama Coal Opera tors association, learning of the establish ment by the United States Geological Sur vey, at Knoxville, Tenn, and other points, wrote to Hon. oscar W. Underwood, eX- pressing the desire of the association as whole to have such a station located in Birmingham and stating that all the coal companies would cooperate with the government in every way possible to se- cure it. Mir. Underwood lost no time in taking up the matter. He. had already sent to A. H. Woodward, a day or two before, full and complete statement as to the cost of the establishment of a res cue station. its maintenance and equip mont, also blue prints of the Construction generally prevalent He referred Mir. J. V. Allen. secretary Of the Alabama Coal Operators association. to these documents
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the use of life saving devices in times Of disaster. and instructed In methods nec- essary to avoid such occurrences"
 Tho movement received new impetus. Early in July letters were received by Erskine Ramsay, vice president and chief engineer of the Pratt Consolidated Coal company, and by ID. II. Coxe. general su- perintendent of coal mines of the T. c: l., from I. J. Rutledge, mining engineer of the newly created United States Bu- reau of Mines, stating that H. M. Wilson, the teehnologist of the bureau, would visit Birmingham for the purpose Of es- tablshing q rescue station. MT. Wilson came. The location waaN then the ono rolnt at issue. There was Il six months pause.
 No one concerned was marking -ime however, least of all MT. Underwood JaGuary 14, t911 he answered Captain Aliens letter: 'I am urging them to push the matter as rapidly as possible he said, "and hope before many months we will have the system inaugurated" And he enclosed letter from Van H. Man ning, then acting director Of the Bureau of Mines, explaining the delay, due to changes in the specifications and plans for the Birmingham station and to the necessity of sending a representative of the bureau to Europe to purchase the equipment.
 Temporary quarters in the old Potter
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qualify for the certificate of mine rescue training Is @ foregone conclusion, and al- though the station is only few weeks old to date, a number of certificates have already heen awarded.
 Up to the Companies
 The first man In Birmingham to com plete the course was Fl. H. Hamilton of the Dupont Powder company. The Wood ward company paid the expenses of ten of their men at the station, all of whom completed the training with credit. While there Is no charge for training. as stated, or for dormitory at the station, the weeks board and keep, outside of the miners and engineers who enroll, has to be considered. Tho other local coal and iron companies are beginning to pick out stated numbers of thoir best men to send to the station at tho company expense. "That training isn't any oinch. said William Hausman, chief mechanical en- Gineer of the SloSs-Shefreld Steel and Iron company. 'Tt's hard work and mighty uncomfortable"
 ! By December all promises to be In fuil swing,
 Angus R, Brown. the foreman of tho rescue sstaLion, is | young Scotchmau, & former ompleye of the T. C. l. He was raised in the coal mines. and his father and grandfather before him. Born in 1S7S in Ayrshire. Scotland. the son of Robert Brown, he was brought over to America when child; to Pratt City, where in the arIy eighties his father worked for tho
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the Wylam First Aid Corps when Dr.. Rountree organized it, and is with them today. He was foremost iii the rescue party at the disasters at Mulga, Palos, Banner and Short Creek. In the first aid competition of the T. c. l., May 21, !9lo. Mir. Brown received the American Red Cross medal. With him on the team re- gently in Pittsburgh were the following men: Hugh Lynch, James Brown. A. II. Virshott. Francis Brawly, Will Flynn,
 James Barr, and Sandy Reid. Manager of Coal Mines E. IT. Coxe and pr. w. g..
 Rountree were also prominent at the
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building were then leased and A R. Brown placed in charge as government erected. Disagreements us to the access- bility of the location selected were si- fenced. as the matter had not been easy to put through anyhow. and 1t was feared that the appropriation might fall through altogether if it cropped up too many times.
 Mine Rescue Stations Abroad
 In most of the European countries the maintenance of mine rescue stations is required by law. They are established in Great Britain, France. Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria and Russia. In addi- ton to the government work in Germany the German coal operators and associe- tions of operators do an immense amount or individual work voluntarily and they find it pays.
 Not until the end of the year 1908 vas any noticeable progress made in the United States in this feature of the min ing business. Up in Canada. in British Columbia, the government requires mod ern breathing apparatus to be kept st coal mines. but in this country not until the last two years was there hardly a set from the AIleghanies to the Rockies.
 The movement is now receiving splendid cooperation on the part of progressive American coal operators in general, and has become firmly rooted-is now an American institution. ,.,
 Not only are lives saved property res cued. mine fires fought effectively and mines enabled to be explored after ex- plosions. but first and last, accident pre- vention is taught, is the keynote indeed of the entire movement.
 All citizens of the Birmingham district are entitled to the training course at the local station. for which there is no charge. That theS state and company mine in- spectors superintendents. mining engin- eers, mine foremen and fire bosses will
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T. t. 1. Young Brown was with the Battelle Coal and Coke company, tho Short Creek Coal and Coke company of
 West Virginia; outside foreman at Vir- ginia mines of the Southern Steel com pany; then again with the T. C. I. in Pratt mines. Out of his 34 years, 24 have been spent in the coal mines. He was in