While he excels in teaching, he is no less distinguished as an author and composer. His first book, Singing School Tribute, was published in 1880. Since then he has brought out sixtyeight others, or an average of nearly three a year. These have reached an aggregate sale of nearly two million copies. They are as follows: Singing School Tribute; Hours of Singing; Showalter's Harmony and Composition; Temple of Song; Good Tidings; Good Tidings, No. 2; Good Tidings, Combined; National Singer; Work and Worship; Glad Evangel; Showalter's New Method; Rudiments of Music; Class, Choir and Congregation; Showalter's Theory of Music; True Method for the Reed Organ; Hymns, Tunes and Gospel Songs; New Voice of Praise; Showalter's Select Songs; Glad Evangel, No. 2; People's Anthems; The Singer's Ideal; Perennial Songs; New Rudiments of Music; Practical Voice Culture, (Associate Author); Blessing and Glory; Blossoms of Song; Revival Choir, Rudiments and Notation; Song Land Messenger, (Associate Author); Harp of the South; Showalter's Quartet and Chorus Book for Men's Voices; Showalter's New Harmony and Composition, Part One; Showalter's New Harmony and Composition, Part Second; Showalter's New Harmony and Composition, Complete; Showalter's Normal Chorus Book; Class, Choir and Congregation, No. 2; Sunlight Songs; Complete Rudiments; Revival Choir, No. 2; Coronation Songs; Bright Beams; Lamp and Light; Song-Land Messenger, No. 2; Showalter's Gospel Songs, No. 1; Highway to Heaven; Songs and Hymns of the Sanctuary; Our Thankful Songs; Gospel Praise; Showalter's Gospel Songs, No. 2; Standard Church Music; Singing for Joy; Men's Treasury of Song; Showalter's New Songs, No. 1; Hymns of Glory; Showalter's Anthems, Vol. I; Glad News; Salvation's River; Praise and Rejoicing; Best Gospel Songs; Soul Stirring Melodies; Peans of Praise; Songs of Light; The Feast of Song; The Song Temple; Church Re

vival Songs; Showalter's Practical Harmony; Showalter's Practical Harmony Tablet; Selected Songs and Anthems; and Sweeteat Praise.

No other musician in America of Professor Showalter's age has composed so many separate works, while in the South he holds th* record regardless of age.

In 1887 and 1888 he wrote and published eight books, the sales of which reached nearly a million copies, and that without the backing of any great evangelist or denominational publishing house. The music and the refrain of the great gospel song "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms" are from his pen—a song which has been translated into many languages, published in hundreds of books, and sung in every country of the world where the story of Jesus has been told.

In 1905, Professor Sbowalter was called on to direct the "all day singing," a feature of the State Fair held at Atlanta on October 13th. A chorus of four thousand voices responded to his call, and the day was made memorable by the effective rendering of the old gospel songs.

While writing and teaching music might be called the life work of Professor Showalter, he is also a successful business man with diversified interests.

In 1884, he moved to Dalton. Realizing the advantages of being able to publish his own productions, he established what has developed into The A. J. Showalter Company, the largest music publishing house south of Cincinnati. He is also editor and publisher of The Music Teacher and Home Magazine, which has a circulation of many thousands. Professor Showalter is also President of The Showalter-Patton Company, a similar establishment at Dallas, Tex., and Vice-President of the Cherokee Lumber Company, of Dalton.

He finds recreation in and secures profit from his farm and extensive peach and apple orchards near Dalton.

He carries into his religious life the same enthusiasm which characterizes his professional and business life. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and stands high in the councils of his denomination. He was the first ruling elder to act as Moderator of the Cherokee Presbytery, and the first President of the Y. M. C. A. at Dalton.

He is a Mason. In politics he has been a lifelong Democrat. Apart from his professional and scientific reading, he prefers history and biography, and considers his private study of these two branches of literature, especially biography, as the strongest influence upon his own success. Another important factor has been contact with the foremost men of the day at home and abroad.

To the young, he says: "Make the most of opportunities for a general education, choose a calling or profession in which you can work with the heartiest pleasure, seek to learn all that may be learned of that calling or profession and then stick to it, doing your best always, ever remembering that he who is most useful in his day and generation is most successful."

Professor Showalter was married to Miss Callie Walser, of Texas, on November 13, 1881. Seven children have been born

to them, all of whom are living.

A. B. CALDWELL.

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Marion Luther Brittain.

ARION LUTHER BRITTAIN was born in Oglethorpe county, Ga., on November 11, 1865, near the

town of Lexington. His father, Dr. J. M. Brittain, is a minister of the Baptist denomination and has held successful pastorates in Covington, Barnesville, Eatonton, and other cities of the State. His mother, Ida Callaway, is from the well known Wilkes county family of that name, and she was born on land which has been in possession of her people for more than a hundred years ever since it was settled by her ancestor, Col. John S. Callaway, to whom it was granted for services rendered during the Revolution.

The two families are English and Welsh and first settled in Virginia, but near the close of the eighteenth century joined several others who left the Old Dominion for the pioneer regions of Georgia. One of the Callaway brothers left the rest of the party in North Carolina and accompanied Daniel Boone to the still more unsettled lands of Kentucky, where, as the early chronicles of the country show, he did good service in the wars with the Indians.

M. L., or Luther as he is widely known, like most preachers' sons, was brought up all over the State, obtaining his early education in various towns where his father was stationed during his youth. He worked one year on the farm and one in a store, his parents taking this means of delaying his entrance into college for which he was prepared at the age of fourteen.

He entered the Freshman class at Emory College and four years later graduated from this institution with the Greek medal

and the English Professor's testimonial that he was "the best student in that department Emory College has had in ten years."

Later he did graduate work at the University of Chicago and, after a year's work in order to secure the necessary funds, rounded up his career as a student by a trip to Europe, where he spent several months during the year 1888.

His life-work has been teaching, and he began in the country school, at "the Ryals Institute," Gordon county. After one year's labor in the mountains school he was elected to a position in the Atlanta system. He taught two years as principal of the Crew Street grammar school and was then transferred to the Boys' High School. He was promoted from grade to grade until he was made head of the Department of Languages, including Greek, Latin, and Spanish. After thirteen years of service in the city system he was, through the advice of Governor Northen, elected Superintendent of the Fulton county schools which position he now holds. For several years past in connection with this work he has been one of the lecturers at Cox College, having in charge the work in Pedagogy.

His work in Fulton county has been particularly fruitful. When he assumed charge the free school term lasted only five months in the year and the entire amount annually paid to the teachers was less than eleven thousand dollars. He conducted two campaigns to remedy this by local taxation. Alone and practically unaided he went to every school house and church in the county to arouse the people on this subject and was fortunate enough to secure a complete victory. To-day as a consequence every child in Fulton county may have nine months of public school training and the teachers' pay roll has more than trebled in amount, being thirty-two thousand dollars for 1907.

In addition he has initiated and superintended the erection of twelve new school houses, costing thirty thousand dollars,